Daily Republican., 1882-08-07
letter from EnG land.
LONDON, july 25th. 'S3

| LONDON, July 18th, ".
In few DAYS the loug voyage, OF
rather the heightened travels of the
two sailot sons Of the PlinCo of Wales
will be ended. The "Bacchaute" will
soon be in English waters, after having
passed many months is traversing the
great oceans of the world and visiting
scenes of interest upon the mainlands
and islands of the two hemispheres.
Never could the youth of Princes be
more proftably spent than in travelling
tar into the world and viewing the
wonders and beauties which clothe its
surface. There is bo other way of Gull
tivating the spirit of Cosmopoiitanism
which the progress OF society makes
every day more. imperative condition
| OF great careers or of exalted stations
One glance al an ebony savage, mag
nitiCent in feathers and pettiCoat of
cOcoanut leaves is a larger social reve.
lation than is contained in many books.
There Ii much fine writing extaut, no.
tably of what is called the picturesque
school but no combination of all that
is eloquent, melodious, and suggestive
in words can eQual, as sketch Of a
scene, the description which that same
SCI ne prints upon the eye, no matter
he" Sitive may be the glance. The
sut,nenae ange of education the Princes
Iave 1tcn,ved by their voyage around
Z wu, id cannot be realized. They
nave viewed the performance of life on
d stage whose extent Is the surface OF
the globe. Humanity has acted its
manifold palts before them in all the
countless arrays in which vanity or
tradition forces it to clothe itself; and
the scenery of the vast drama has been
the shores, the cities, the forests,
islands ami mountains of the earth.
The play has taken many months to
act; but the fall of the curtain has left
a thousard d inspirations, and the two
august spectators have brought away
with them wisdom that should make
the knowledge Of manV an old man,
but a puerile toy in comparison. The
programme of the voyage could not
have been better devised.
All the races of the world, so to speak,
have come under the reviews of their
Royal Highnesses, and much of the in.
structlveness of the journey must have
been contained in this comparative in
spection. In the cities and towns of
Australia they would witness a form
of life purely English, structures which
would .emind them of London, str eets
aud districts with names pathetically
illustrative of the colonists' devotion to
there old-hOme traditions. Again, the
South Sea Islands would fascinate them
by the beauty of their coral strands,
their towering inland mountains, their
Pacific atmosphere fragrant " ith the
perfumes OF the vegetation Of a deli.
cious zone.
The passage of the Horn would be
pregnant with the memories OF the
early circumRavigators, and as their
fine ship labored in the heavy seas
which ceaslessly roll off the barren, iron
bound coast, they would recall the |
Of the primitive mariner in |
quest of new worlds, and realize the
grandeur of the courage and the hardi-
hood of tue spirit which made light of |
the frost and snow and surges of that
desolate region in vessels not very
much larger than the launch and pin.
nance of the "BaCcbaute. Indeed, of
the Princes it may literally be said that
they have surveyed mankind from
China 20 Peru, and perhaps of all the
scOnes they viewed. China diverted
and interested them most. There is,
indeed, something in the ways, habits
houses, and behavior of the populations
of the Celestial Empire that offers more
points for curiosity to catch hold of
han any other nation on the face OF
5he earth presents. s.