The Prince of Wales has performed his first public act
by present- ing new colours to the 36th, a regiment of the brigade with which he has been doing duty at the Curragh. His stay there has been sufficient to give him: a fair insight into the working of a camp, though a thorongh military training is as unattainable as undesirable. The education of a Constitutional King should not be intended to make him either a general, or a savant, or even a very keen poli- tician,bnt simply an accomplished, and therefore tolerant, man of the world. This end seems to have been carefully kept in view by her Majesty's advisers, and the Prince, at twenty-one, will probably have seen more countries and occupied more varied positions than most men not born to a throne. A report that an. alliance had been sought for him in the person of a Danish Princess has been denied in Paris, and seems to rest on very slender foundations. Such reports will henceforward be very frequently spread, and will always be definite, from the fact that there are, from accident, law, and custom, exceed- ingly few ladies with whom an alliance would be possible. The choice is in fact, though not absolutely in law, limited to Princesses be- longing to a reigning Protestant House, and between sixteen and twenty-two years of age,—a very limited class.
