National Democrat

The English Royal Baby at Home Again.—The baby is home again to the delight, we presume, of all England, and certainly to the immense relief of all newspaper readers. The child landed at Hull, and its arrival produced an outburst of flunkeyism beyond even English precedent. The mayor actually went in his robes to visit a baby not twelve months old. The sheriff's wife gave him a fur rabbit, which, say the reporters, he "appeared to appreciate." A vast crowd assembled to see him pass, and "the cow which supplied the infant prince with milk during his passage from the Elbe to the Humber, was purchased by Mr. Alderman Abbey, of Hull," that dignitary obviously considering the animal to be historic. The Queen should put a stop to this kind of folly, which, if it continues, will lead to a sharp reaction against the worship now paid to the royal family. Already a journal which once declared that the winds would blow gently on a tree because the Queen had planted it, is indulging in pretty sharp ridicule; and aldermen who now buy cows because they feed royal babies will soon be ashamed of caring about the babies themselves. It will not do to let the English people raise their princes into idols. They always break them in the end.
[London Spectator.