Don Carlos landed at Folkestone Saturday, and was very ill
received, the Foresters and other bodies who had assembled on the pier to receive a deputation expected by the same boat hooting him somewhat savagely. The hooting was most unmannerly, as England affords asylum to all defeated politicians, from Kossuth down to Don Carlos, irrespective of opinions, but it has had one
good result. The demonstration has prevented the " flunkeys " among us from making a hero of a man who, whether he had a right to wage war in Spain or not, represents the ideas of abso- lutism, legitimitism, clerical ascendancy, and whatever else the English as a nation do not accept. A defeated Prince, like a defeated conspirator, who seeks asylum here should be content to remain quiet and in a certain degree obscure, happy to obtain a retreat where nothing will assail him except the climate. That is bad enough just now to make England a purgatory to a Southerner.
