Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1860-10-26
LORD RENFREw's VISIT. .

Lord Renfrew. -ciGs, Prince Of Wales,
ala, Albert Edward. son of Victoria, Queen
Of England-took his departure from our
shores on the Goth inst lie left Portland
about half past 1 P. Nj. i'll the Majesty's
Steamship the Hero, three or four other
English Government Steamers completing
the squadron of escort. OF course there was
a great display, flag flying, yards manned,
and cannon booming from the British Squad
ron and the fort.
Well We arc glad he is gone, both for his
sake and our own For his sake, because he
needs chance to rest quietly for few days,
after being worried for so many weeks with
countless throngs of people who would not
let him eat drink or sleep, walk or ride, sit
down or get up. without crowding around
him almost to his suifocation. For our sake,
because it will give us a release from the
ocean OF double-distilled jenklnslsm which
has been pouring over the land in an unceas-
ing tide from the columns Of our larger city
papers, from the moment the Prince Of
Wales stepped on shore till the moment OF
his departure All the millinery and fancy
ware advertisements in the world put to-
gether could not begin to make up such
farrago of light stuff as has deluged the nation
in the accounts Of dresses. and operas, pro-
cessions, parades and presentations, bowings
and scrapings, dull complimentary speeches
and wearied replies, that have flooded the
country. There was no escaping it; drowned
we must be and with feeling as if drowned
in dish-Nater too.
That there should be hearty expression
of good will from our people towards the
young man, considering who and what he
is, the deep feeling Of personal respect which
is felt Tor his mother. Queen Victoria, in
this country, and in view Of what if he
survives her he must become, was natural,
slti cofumsndabie: but we can not avoid
thinking that if it had been shown with
mech less fuss, aud with more regard to his
personal comfort, it would have been every
way better This much must be said how
ever Bored as be must have been at times
almost beyond endurance wishing il his
heart. as he must have often, wished, that
PEOPLE would let him alone, that Re might
so where he liked and see and hear what he
might take an interest III without a throng
&C sta1ers around hin he Conducted him
self with marvellous proPriety foT such
youth and he & his attendants cannot but feel
that good feeling on the whole latter all
the uiere curiosity Is allowed for) lay al the
bottom # all that was said and done; to be
apr ciated and remembered fer its own sake
There must also be many separate incidents
and occurrences. which will long remain IS
pleasant pictures in his memory to recall and
t. converse about IL the intimacies of his
own home. lie will also have learned good
al. Of value to him hereafter, as enabling
bin to better understand this country, Its
people, It's Institutions, its prospects And
yet in his acquisitions. we think there will
be wanting some things which, if they had
come in his way, would have taught him
Lessons mere suggestive perhaps than all else
when he saw, For instance, it was all well
enough to take him for a fifteen minutes !
look at the Astor library, and for an hour of
listening to-and making speeches at the free
academy in New York. An very well. he |
woulllardly fail to think, for a new country, !
and o. fhaps in two or three hundred years
tbcy VIII come up TO something like what is
DOW found in my own country If however
b. could have spent half day alone and en-
trelv unknown to all around him, 50 that
his presence would have disturbed nothing.
in visiting one of the great ward schools In
that city, and have seen in the 500 to 200
children there gathered the rich mans child |
in his gay apparel side by side with the poor
mans child in plainest and cheapest dress,
the child of the man who rejoiced in his
descent from an old and honored name IN his
history and the child of him who
but short time before was a needy and des--
pissed denizen of the old world, all these on
terms of perfecte quality, all studying to
gether, all classed together, all taught to-
gether, all on the same footing for honor or
for dIshonor, for correction and reward as
their conduct and acquisitions might justify;
If he had learned that what he saw there
was but natural growth of the essential
'p,i. Oh the political, civil and religious in
'0''0nS 0Serspreading great part of our