Year: 1869




Young royalty is rowing just now. One


prince of the house of England is basking in


the luxurious airs of the South Pacific; has


just been getting smothered with flowers by the


maidens of the Sandwich Islands, and thus


already fower-clad takes his departure for the


flowery land of japan. So speeds 1t with the


sailor Alfred. Young Arthur, who Is just


from school, and has as yet adopted no profess


sion, though of course he is destined for


soldier, is on q visit to his excellent mothers


''New Dominion" with view Of studying the


social and political condition of that portion Of


an empire upon which it is said-boastfully,


and yet not untruthfully- sun never sets. 1t


may be necessary that these young men should
travel in order to learn something of the world
outside of the circumscribed limits Of their
home education. 1t is not to be supposed that
they can learn much in Buckingham Palace,


nor in Windsor Castle, nor even in Hampton
Court In Buckingham Palace they can be
educated in all the ceremonial of royalty, be-


cause it is familiar from the nursery to man


hood. In Windsor they may study, If they
will, those genial freaks of Shakspeare's


humor through which jolly old Jack Falstaff
| fourishes in Windsor Forest. At Hampton
Court they might linger forever upon the ex-
quislte creations Of Van Dyke and Rubens, of


Lawrence and Reynolds, and they might
dream their lives away in the shadow of the


trees which Wolsey planted when his palace
at Hampton was greater than the Kings and
before fortune changed with him and none
were found $50 poor to do him reverence" P"
But these young men are living in a time
| when sentiment is the mere shel! Of life snd
material results form the meat of the egg and
the substance.


Hence It is necessary that they should
see how the world works abroad and that they
should learn that the restricted experience
of their ancestors will make very small capital
for them in the combat for life which is before
them. Royal dynasties are not going to last
forever. The younger shoots, from whom
divine rights and immunities will assuredly
pass away, are, therefore, wisely preparing
themselves for the duties which they will have
to perform, in one capacity or another, by
acquiring knowledge of the world and its
progress Let us hope that they will apply 1t
intelligently.


The Prince of Wales was the first Of his
race who ever visited the Nile and looked upon
its mysterious waters, and he was the first
heir apparent to the throne of England who


set foot upon the free shores of the United
States If he has not learned anything from
that visit it cannot be charged to any want OF
facilities extended to him by the American
people, nor the dearth OF laudations lavished
upon him. 1t is worthy Of note that of the
two princes now on their travels Prince Alfred
seems to have made his headquarters in
Australia, taking in the Pacific as the circle OF


his visitings, while Prince Arthur appears to


be confined, ''by authority"-if we can
believe the story--to the New Dominion,
excluding the United States entirely from his
tour. Is it probable that the idea Of two new
British sovereignties is contemplated-one on
| the great insular Continent of Australia, and
another in the New Dominion of Canada
Should such be the case 1t is not very difficult
to divine what the result Of such an expert
ment would be.


City P0litics-The Duty Of the Tammany
Chief.