If continental travel is good for the ordinary young English
gentleman, d fortiori must, it be good for a Prince of Wales. The country will, therefore, see with pleasure Albert Edward going abroad, even as far as Rome, and seeing with his own eyes what he has hitherto only read of in books. We need not fear for the effect of contrast upon his young mind. He has, been rocked in a constitutional cradle, and nurtured too long in
the free and life-siying political and social atmosphere of Eng- land, to sufferft the enervating influence of another atmo-
sphere o- sphere on e cont nt„ The relaxation from a high but severe discipline at home" should also have its good effect. The last act he performed before quitting the white cliffs of Britain, enabled him to make a felicitous first appearance in public life as a public speaker as well as doer. As we intimated some time since, Canada deserved the compliment which, in the per- sons of her sons, was paid to her at Shorncliffe. If a Prince of Wales cannot go to Canada, he can go to her representatives. The 100th Regiment will remember in the day of battle from Whom it received its colours.
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