Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-10-27
THE PRINCE OF WALES.

Prince of Wales to sail At any rate, if it be not
his stay will be protracted but few days longer.
He will leave our shores after having seen what
Prince of Wales never saw before and what be could
see IN no other part of the world In Paris, else
where on the continent such crowds as he saw in
this country could not have been assembled without
a tumult and would not have been permitted by the
authorities to come together. In London, even,
such assemblages would have been watched by an
army of police and could hardly have been brought
together without'riot and loss of life. In America,
and in America only, vast crowds can gather to-
gether, enjoy the amusement or transact the bust
ness of the hour, and disperse without having dis
turbed the peace or rendered the presence of
single Waterman necessary. Could there be a bet
ter commentary upon republicanism as it exists in
America, upon the asseveration Of Thomas JEFF
ferson that this is the strongest Government in the
world?
The Prince, If he be man Of reflection, will have
received food for thought which may las. him for
the rest Of his life 1t is true that King of Eng
land is not governing King. But the first man
in the realm as the Executive of the nation. the
man who bears the sword and executes the laws, as
the fountain of homer from which flow all dgnities
and all rewards, the communicative chief Of the
army and navy, and as the head of the Church, his
position is most potential for good or evil From
the deSpotismS the continent he can learn MOTH
ing. There is no analogy between them and the
Governments of which he is the head But in this
country, he saw government Of the people in its
strlctest and most extensive sense. We do not be-
heve the British people will change their form
OF governmental least, such thing cannot take
place, in our opinion, in many centuries If Lord
Brougham is to be trusted they have a natural and
instructive love Of royalty, which will prevent Them
tor ages to come, at least from making greater
change in the Executive than consists in substitu-
ting one branch Of the royal family for another
Yet with the preservation, always, Of hereditary
chief magiStracv, il seems obvious to us that the
constitution Of Great Britain is becoming more Dem
ociasic every year Of its exstence-that the people
are every year acquiring importance and that the
arlStocracy are gradually losing their power. The
time will surely arrive when every man in England
will vote for his representative in the lower House
OF Parliament and when that time shall have come
England will cease to be governed by few great
families. as she always has been since the accession
OF the House Of Hanover. 1t is certain that even
before the reign Of the Prince should he live to be
King. shall have terminated great advances will
have been made in the direction Of popular influence.
In England revolution is perpetuallv IN progress
1t never sleeps from day to day. nor from year to
year. The strong. hard. everyday sense Of the ma
ton the possession of which renders the race from
which they are sprung a people distinct from all
Others the face of the globe preserves them from
the danger Of those sudden and violent explosions
which have proved disastrous to free government
on the continent Their revolution resembles the
encroachmeTt of river upon its banks Ii is grad
ual almost im?erceptibe. II never purSues fresh
advantage, until it has secured the one last obtained
1t undermincs an abuse thoroughly that when it
advances, it Is certain to fall. 1t is important for a
future King Of England thus situated to see how
safely the race one branch of which he will be
called 10 reign, may he entrusted with power limited
only by such laws as they themselves have made p
He may thus that his throne and his person NAV
be Sae in the milSt of the greatest freedom and it
may save him from many mistakes, into which he
might otherwise he liable to fall.
How the Prince was pleased with his reception it
is difficult to say. As man of sense we think he
ought to have been very well pleased He could not =.
avoid seeing, at any rate, that there was all
sides, an earnest desire to make his time pass as
agreeably as possible. Surely that is enough for
any man of candor and sound JUDI ment. Much has
been said of the vulgarity Of that curiosity with
which he was pursued wherever he went They
are but snobS who talk in this strain The curiosi-
ty was natural, and nothing which is natural is vu-
gar. Afectation, pretrn>ion, and assumption alone
are vulgar. The man who does the best he can in
the best way he knows. and without pretending to
be more than he is, cannot be vulgar let him be as
awkward as he may. In this sense neither the pub
lie curiosity nor The attempts to honor the Prince
had the slightest touch Of vulgarity about them
The first natural, and could not therefore, be
vulgar. The last had no pretenson in them, and
therefore, no vugarity. The people Of this country
had never seen Prince before Vas it not natural
that their curiosity should be aroused by the visit of
so great Prince as this is? Even il it sometimes
proved little annoying, it not the less compli-
mentary. Lord Nelson could not appear III the
streets Of London without being followed by ten
thousand boys and iders. who waited at the door
whenever he went into a shop. and huzzahed when
ever he came out. Such popularity must have be-
come very troublesome but it so we'll meant
that he would have been something very like a
brute not to have felt kindly disposed towards those
who sought to do him honor in this way.-Rich-
mOnd Dispatch.