Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-09-17
BOSTON TO BE "ENTHUsED."

The Prince of Wales will come to Boston
on the 18th day of October. 1t is said that he
and his suite feel great desire to visit Massa.
chusetts, and that they accepted the invitation
from Boston with especial satisfaction. This
of course, is not displeasing to our friends
of that city, whose pride it has considerably
warmed, and who are beginning to devise
means to entertain them in the most salts
factory way. The Gazette of Saturday
evening gives some account of what is to
be done. 1t is understand that the prince,
returning from the west, will leave the city
of Albany for Boston on the day above
named. The Gazette says :-"On his arrival
at the state line he will be met by one or more
OF the aids OF his excelency,-Gov Banks
having evinced the most willing disposition to
do all in his power to cooperate with the city
government in making the reception worthy of
the state and the city,-and the party will
reach Longwood station on the Mill-dam, in
the afternoon, where, no doubt, the patriotic
residents of that beautiful suburban plantation
will show by decoration and arches how much
they participate in the general spirit OF the oc-
casion. AT this point he will be met by the
mayor of Boston and the committee, and un-
der the escort of the First Battalion Of Light
Dragons"
1t Is added that the governor will call out
the first division of our volunteer militia, and
show the prince Massachusetts training, that
the school children will be formally exhibited in
the Music Hall, that grand ball will e given
at the Boston Thertre at the rate of $40 tick
ct, that Harvard University and the students
will be duly inspected by the visitors, and that
the closing ceremony will be grand banquet
at the Revere House. If the enthusiasm Of
our Boston friends is not overdone, it will be
likely to make satisfactory show but we
counsel them to remember the Dickens DEM
onstration and the Morphy dinner. Boston
can mistake and go astray Boston can be-
come SO uncomfortably superfine as to offend
good taste. Boston can lose that repose of
manner which is necessary to the highest style
of civility, and become stupidity snobbish over
its royal visitor, And, on the other hand,
Boston, which is capable of the noblest things,
can avoid stupidities, preserve selfrespect
and do what the occasion may require. We
shall see what happens.
This prince of Wales is not one of those
admirable persons who command respect and
admiration. Left entirely to his own powers
and resources, he would make a very poor fig
ure in life The family to which he belongs
has always been poorly endowed with intelIec-
tual gifts,-much more animal than intellec.
tual, and much below the average brightness
and power of the English race. The prince
is neither handsome, nor graceful, nor witty
and he is, moreover, not yet man. There is
something out of joint in human affairs, some
thing that very much needs mending when
person so poor in himself, and so incapable of
playing great part in life, is necessarily re-
ceived everywhere by superior people with
demonstrations of the highest respect and en-
thusiasm. Undoubtedly, many people will
run to see the prince because he is the son of
that respectable woman, queen Victoria, just
as they have RIM to see Paul Morphy because
he is wonderful chess-player. Beyond this,
there is among us a respect for the English
people whose government the prince of Wales
represents, and in this, if anywhere, must be
found a justification for any parade of respect
for him in this country.