of Wales is clearly and indisputably that of the first and highest of her Majesty's subjects."

It is obviously impossible, at the pres ent time, to furnish any thing worthy the name of a biography of the young Prince who occupies the exalted position above described. The materials which, in future days, will be at hand to enable a biographer to write a history, or part history of his life, are not yet to be found. The deeds of his youth and the achievements of his manhood and maturity are yet to be enacted. At this time we can only congratulate the young Prince upon the splendid prospect, and the wide field for good which it is his fortune to inherit; a field for which he has been most care fully prepared by the wise training he has received under the immediate care of his royal mother. If the inestimable example of good and virtuous actions in a parent is to have its accustomed influence, and if the watchful culture of religion and the better qualities of our nature yield but their average good, we may look for a worthy career in that of the Prince of Wales. That he may have a long, a happy, and a peaceful life, is the prayer of every English heart."

As already stated, the education of the Prince of Wales has been conducted under the immediate care of her Majesty the Queen. In the languages, classics, natural philosophy, mathematics, jurisprudence, and other branches of study, his Royal Highness has been assisted by private tutors selected expressly on account of their qualifications and ability to convey instruction. It is understood that the Prince will continue his education by a course of study both at Cambridge and Oxford.

On the ninth of November, 1858, the Prince of Wales, having on that day completed his seventeenth year, was appointed Colonel in the army. The Gazette of the following Friday contained the subjoined announcement: "The Queen, taking into her royal consideration that his Royal Highness Albert Edward Prince of Wales, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, and, by virtue of the statutes of the said Order, a constitueut member thereof, has not as yet assumed the stall assigned to the Prince of Wales in the Royal Chapel of St. George, at Windsor, and having, as sovereign of the said Order, the inherent

right of dispensing with all statutes, ordinances, and regulations in regard to installation, her Majesty has been pleased, by letters patent under her royal sign manual and the Great Seal of the Order, bearing date this day, to give and grant unto his Royal Highness Albert Edward Prince of Wales, full power and authority to wear and use the star, and also to wear and use the collar and all other ornaments belonging to the said most noble Order, and to sit in the stall assigned to the Prince of Wales, in our Royal Chapel of St. George, at Windsor, and to exercise all rights and privileges belonging to a Knight Companion of the said most noble Örder, in as full and ample manner as if his Royal Highness had been formally installed, any decree, rule, or usage, to the contrary notwithstanding."

Having thus fairly entered upon the duties of manhood, His Royal Highness determined upon pursuing his studies, for a time at least, at Rome. Accordingly after a brief visit to his illustrious sister at Berlin, the Princess Frederick William of Prussia, he proceeded on his journey to Italy. On his way thither he performed the first public act of his life, by presenting colors to the Hundredth, or Prince of Wales' Royal Canadian Regiment of Foot, then stationed at Shorncliffe, near Folkestone. His Royal Highness took occasion to make the following appropriate speech to the assembled officers and men:

"Lord Melville, Colonel de Rottenberg, and officers and soldiers of the Hundredth Regiment: It is most gratifying to me that, by the Queen's gracious permission, my first public act since I have had the honor of holding a commission in the British army should be the presentation of colors to a regiment which is the spontaneous offering of the loyal and spirited Canadian people, and with which, at their desire, my name has been specially associated. The ceremonial on which we are now engaged possesses a peculiar sig nificance and solemnity, because in confiding to you for the first time this emblem of military fidelity and valor I not only recognize emphatically your enrollment into our national force, but celebrate an act which proclaims and strengthens the unity of the various parts of this vast empire under the sway of our common sovereign. Although, owing to my youth and