New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-23
pupu.omaTIC DIVERSIONS.

of learning not uncomfortable, who would but for
want of a congenal subjecs, make handsome al
dtion 70 our stock of letters. While we recall
many topics awaiting philosophical treatment we
do not think of any book more needed than that
which might be intituled "The Young Diplomatists
Guide to Health and Happiness" Our position
affords us many opportunities for observing and
many occasions for lamenting the lack OF an or
thodox elementary manual of the kind reerred TO.
But We have little confidence in our own ability
VIGOROUSLY to grapple with the mighty theme, and
must modestly leave it to tho,e cooks talors, aud
dancing masters who are, by virtue OF their TO-
spectiye professions, its natural expositors.
And yet, although we know little of the mystic
ries of knee breeches, of the hice conduct OF
courtsword, or of those genuflexions which the
presencs of Royalty demands, we have sometimes
yentuIed to let fall few humble hints whenever an
American ambassador has so particularly distin-
puished himself as to become beacon to his breth-
rem. The exploits of the jOyal flanagan, the ur-
banities of the polished Dallas and the triumphs OF
the great Bowlin have been here recorded; nor
have many minor worthless been neglected. 1t
gives us pleasure to be able to add to our gallery
that eminent protocolist the Honorable james M.
Buchanan, who at this time cherishes the
American Eagle in the City of Copenhagen,
and does credit to the bright and venerable
name which he bears. His Excellency has
lust made a deep impression upon the Monarch
and upon the mob of Denmark. Some Ministers
startle by the rakehelly freedom of their conduct;
some by a sepulchral gravity and Grandisonian
sublimity of port; some by the sumptuousness OF
their furniture rome by living in garrets and re-
membering their beloved country only when they
make draft upon her Treasury; some by the Api-
clan elegance Of their own dinners, and some by
their faithful attendance at the banquets OF their
neghbors. The excellent James NJ Buchanan is
Terpschorean in his tastes being aided anu abetted
upon all light and fantastic occasions by Mrs.
Buchanan Sin rich lilac silk" and by William
JeffersOn Buchanan in short clothes
His Excellency, ii seems, fired cold Copenhagen
to fever, on the I'D ultimo, at nine o'clock p m,
by giving ball in honor Of the nativity of the great
Washington. Of this We should have known moth
ing if our enterprising contemporary The Hcratd)
had not received full and veracious account of the
Jolly solemnities. These, as we are told, were
"eotten up in style of surprising grandeur, and
were Ito use the language of this polished corre-
spOndent) {" characterized with ajudgmentbOd, and
demonstrative OF Americanisn" The dancers,
upon this important evening" felt it to be ga duty
"to difute happiness to others, each aiding tOmake
" one common glory;" and they difiused and aided
accordingly. "Cold and formal Europe" stood
astonished at Gan affair conducted in the Amer
s'ican style" and listened with enraptured
ears to those masterpieces of music, "Yankee
Doodle" "Hail Columbia" and " the Star
"Spargled Banner" The old settled ideas"
an equal number of cooked hats. Thousands
assembled in the great square; and well they might
do 20, when Mr.. James M. Buchanan and his ami
able lady, and his gifted son, Mr. William Jefferson
Buchanan, were about TO demonstrate, a, we are
told, that from infancy to old age tue career of
- man is not original, not inventive, but, on the
" contrary, initiatives" when Buchanan the Father
was all ready to spread out before them those
symbols of cur national glory that cheer and give
" new life to our people, whether trayersing the
icy regions Of the poles or the central zones that
- belt the earth"
What the "symbols" were, thus "spread OUT
by his Excelency, we are told in another part Of
the letter. The liquor, that nobest SYMBOL was
very free indeed. at was" says this writer, who
for once at least in his life appears to have had
enough" it was distributed in the greatest guam
"tities, and every one had an opportunity to test
~ the merits of the respective qualities. 1t has
"been said that there never was such pr )fusion
"Of beverage at an entertainment in this city be-
fore" We can confirm the truth of this asser-
ton; and We must add, as we are informed by a
private hand, that the Bird who figured that night
in stuffed efiey carried upon his scroll no such
stale legend as ''E Plurbas JnHm;" but in ts
place was blazoned in letters of gold that magic in
vitatiOn so dear to every American heart
that shbboeth of our own Giead-" LET'S
"LIQUoR!" And they did Her Royal High.
ness, the Princess Caroline Daughter Of the
late Frederick the Sixth, undoubtedly "tOOk
/" something" So did the Princess Char.
lotte. So did the Princess Augusta, that "nobe
specimen ofCiods best gift to man." whose actions
" through life have won the appreciation of the
"world." So did II. X. II. Prince Ferdinand.
So did Prince Christian. So did his Highness,
William, Landgraye of Hesse- Cassel. In the exult-
alton of the moment these august personages forgot
that they bore upon their left breasts the symbols
" of royalty" They forgot their regal rank; they
took heed only of the fact that they had "got into
"a good thing" and they pegged away at the
champagne like pebeians The effect of this pro
fusion of beverage" upon oil and singular, is
not related; unless il may be surmised that it