Keeps His Politics A Secret

Of all tactful royal personages there is no one that shines more brilliantly in this particular than the prince öf Wales, whose unquestioned power and predominant influence in English society and over English life are entirely owing to the delicate tact with which they are exercised. How exquisite is this tact may be gathered, says a writer in the New York Tribune, from the circumstance that, although the prince is approaching his sixtieth year and has been tho most couspicuous public figure in English life for the past four decades - always in full glare of the prying gaze of the people, and without scarcely a day's privacy- yet up to the present moment no one, not even among his dearest friends, possesses any inkling as to the true character of his political sympathies. He is equally courteous and gracious to Lord Salisbury and to Mr. Gladstone. He has botii tory and liberal statesmen to stay with him in the country at Sandringham; he has even shown markeil civility to Irish home rulers, so much so, indeed that, there are some people on both sides of the Atlantic who fondly imagine that the prince is almost a fenian. No one, however, knows anything on the subject "for sure;" and henee, when the prinoe comes to the,throne, he may be expected to &gure as a model of all constitutional monarchs, holding1 an impartial balance between the two great political partias, and being absolutely free froca any suspicion of Inclining1 more to the one than to the other. And were the prlnce to die before succeeding to the throne he will be remembered both in England and on the continent as the man of the present era who was distinguished among all hls contemporaries for possesslng in the hüjhest degree that most indispensable of all virtues, namely, tact.