New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-10-13


ness TIE gay bshbsrs .'nd brilliant uniform. o
the military needed no foil IN tue torn a0d nu''er
ing garments Of the negro that closed up tbs rear
That these sable followers were black all ove'
might safely have been left to the inag'a''on na'
TIE colors of their faces alone been Visible.
Have We not not done with complaints NO
quite. Though the femsnt of impersoDality at VII
mayoral djeuner may foiter u.s. and the want Of d
figment of decent clothing 10 camp: Followers may
pain, We should have reasonto rejoice If there were
nothing worse than the last, or if it were possible
10 delude Ourselves az to the character OF
come other iucideIts. Doubtless there is an eI-
slto,on Of enjoyment in the civil or the academic
mind wien allowed unrestrained freedom Of galop
or of speech in the presence Of Royalty, which 1t
would be almost cruelty to deny them. But when
Royalty is the guest, would it not be we'll to re-
member that some privilege of choice should be
accorded to q stranger hardly yet free from his
tutors, even if he were nota Prince! We defy our
worst enemy to impugn our patriotism; and there
fore We are free to say that are afraid there 70
not much worth seeing in this country to Eu-
rcpeap, aside from ts natural features and the EVIL
dences of the material growth of youDga vigorous
people, and not much else which youth ofl8years
on his first travels would care to see. 1t would be
well enough to take him to the top of Cooper In
sttute for good bifdseye of the city and to tel
him as be climbed up stairs that the respectable
building in which he then was was an educational
institution founded and endowed by the venerable
IL. VI. hu
GUS donation Of hundred thousand pounds ster-
ling, but which institution was ye: in its crude and
callow infancy; well enough to lead him ten
minutes walk through the Astor Library, also
endowed by private munifcence, but containing IS
yet only abeut as many volumes as there are books
of reference in the reading.room of the British
Museum; we'll enough to point out in passing
modest white building in University place which
We call University, but where, it might be added,
the edu .ation impaired TO boys is about the same
as that given at EtOn or at Harrow; but we
cannot help thinking that ai.fOur hours deten-
lion in the Library, a walk through the Gal
lery of the Cooper Institute, and the welcome
TO the "marble halls" of University place, must
have been rather an indication of our intellectual
poy erty than of our riches he was led to suppose
that these were Institutions to be boasted of rather
Iran what they are the germs of what we hope they
NAV be- If the Chancellor was 90 ast0nished" when
be recoupted the workings" of our educational
system-on the presumption, We suppose that they
had been in that state of fermentation which the
term implies we in our turn, may be permittedto
express our establishment that he did not then and
there present the Prince with copy OF the last
American Almanac, elegantly bound, wherewith to
verify his valuable statistics as to the number of
" schools of professional preparation" and some
other more reconcile work TO verify the fact that
Professor Draper made the first discovery of the
Daguerrean process. 1t was worth while to take
his Royal Highness to the Free Academy, II he
were informed that boys were well educated there
for the practical duties Of lie without charges and
it would have been equally well to have
taken him to the Free Schools of other
grades, and to have impressed it upon the
future ruler that this Republic cared
for the welfare of her future citizens. But what
was done was neither useful nor entertaining. 1t
gave him no insight inio the character OF our
people and Only exposed to him our infeIiOrity in
those institutions in his own country on which
ours are modelled. We do not doubt he enjoyed
bis drive and walk in the Centrs Park, nor that
the view of the High Bridge gave him pleasure,
or those are among the few sights We have which
may well interest stranger. Very likely, too, he
would be glad of q brisk gallOp over the hills of
Richmond County, and would look with delight
upon the magnificent views Of an Island more beau
timl even than the Isle of Wight so also, no
doubt, he would like to see the Cemetery of Green
wood; the number and the management of the
Street Railroads might interest him; on board
flst class clpper-ship he would acquire
some useful knowledge; it would do him
no harm 10 see our ferry boats, SO superior to
those of his own country; we are sure he would go
through carriage mandatory with pleasure; aud
if he could see trottOg match between the two
best horses to be found we are certain be would
be delighted. But he will see none OF these things,
and willgo away from New York, impressed with
the fact that-though he had brilliant and event
full ball at the Academy, and would have been
greeted by the largest crowd he saw in his life
ftte darkness had not prevented him--ofiicial stu
pidity is IS much a staple of this commercial
" emporium" as of any other place in the world.
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