The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-25 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY, &e.

TIIE QUEEN'S JOURNEY TO BALMORAL.
The royal train arrived at the General Station,
Perth, at 8.24 on Thursday morning, being one
minute before time. As usual, the royal party and
suite partook of breakfast in the apartments set
apart for that purpose by the General Station Joint
Committee. After a stoppage of an hour the train
proceeded on its j)urney northwards.
The train was timed to arrive at Bridge of
Dun at 10.36, and the station was reached by
die royal train exactly at time. The wind was
pretty strong, and as the day was dry, cold,
and dusty, travellers had no great comfort.
Still there was a good number of spectators. The
train did not come up to the usual place on the
platform, so that the crowd had to change position
hurriedly after its arrival. The Queen did not look
out, and was not visible till the train was leaving,
when she bowed to the spectators, but they replied
not save by waving of handkerchiefs. The halt
lasted for 10 minutes.

On the way from Aberdeen to Balmoral, Ferry-
den was reached at 11.51, exactly the hour the
royal train was timed to arrive. The windows of the
royal saloon were up when the train stopped, and
were not put down during the stoppage, which lasted
about four minutes. Her Majesty, however, sat
quite close to the window, and once or twice
stood up and looked out, acknowledging graciously
the welcome given her by the assemblage. As the
train aloud off on its way by the Deeside Railway
to Ballater, a hearty cheer was raised, which her
Majesty acknowledged by bowing once or twice.
Aboyne was reached after a pleasant run of fully
an hour. Here her Majesty left the train with the
Princess Louise and posted to Balmoral, as she
used to do before the railway was extended to
Ballater. The royal suite went on to Ballater with
the carriage, and thence posted to Balmoral, which
was reached about three o'clock. The day was
cold, with a north-easterly wind and slight showers
of hail and rain during the latter part of the
journey.

THE ARISTOCRACY IN THE HOUSE OF

COMMONS.

It is almost impossible without personal inquiry
to find out without a large debateable margin, who
is, and who is not, possessed of a landed estate. But
in the matter of the aristocratic interest inside the

House of Commons, Dad's "Parliamentary Guide"
furmishes the materials for a very adequate analysis.
According then to Dod, in the Parliament of August
1865 there were returned 71 baronets, 11 elder sons of
baronets, 19 younger sons of baronets, and 8 grand-
sons of baronets ; a total for the baronetage alone
of 110. There were also 37 peers, or elder sons of
peers, 61 younger sons of peers, and 15 grandsons
of peers ; a total of 116 members of Parliament for
the peerage, and for the peerage and baronetage
together a total of 226. Besides these there are one
hundred commoners sitting in Parliament who are
connected with the peerage by marriage or descent.
The aristocratic class, or element, in the House of
Commons has therefore a grand total of at least 320
members. And, unquestionably, this number would
be found, if an exhaustive search were made among
other sources of informafion, to be below the mark.
When it is remembered that in the fullest house on
record, namely, on the 58th April, 1866, those who
voted in the majority had only 320 votes, the num-
ber 326 as the symbol of caste in the House of Com-
mons is significant. But even leaving out of view
the remaining 120 or 130 members who substantially
belong to the same class, there are one or two more cal-
culations which confirm the results obtained in this
branch of the analysis. The existence of 326 mem-
bers representing one class in the House is only one
view of the case. These men are not mere separate
units, like insurance office directors ; they are not
a mere Venetian set of a few families, but, to re-
peat an expression already used, one vast cousin-
hood. It was lately said of Lord Granville, that
he represents the " cousins in Parliament." If b°
does, he may be congratulated on his poliitcal
power, for " the cousins" mean simply three-fourths
of the House of Commons, and the connection of
those three-fourths not only with one another,
but with the House of Lords. There are in the

House of Commons 79 members who represent the
alliance between peer and peer, 53 who represent
an alliance between a peer and a baronet, and 23
between baronet and baronet. Or taking anotker
view-117 members in the House represent one
peerage by marriage or descent, 67 members repre-
sent two peerages, 18 represent three peerages. Nor
is this confined to the aristocratic element. Soule
time ago an ex-governor of the Bank of Eng'

land in the House of Commons told one of the pro-
foundest political writers of the day that he himself
was related to 30 other members of Parliament, all
sitting with him at that time. And this view gives
us an insight into the extraordinary political soli-
darity of the upper classes. The Parliamentary
frame is kneaded together almost out of one class
it has the strength of a giant and the compactness
of a dwarf. For in this respect one Parliament 10
very much like another.—Mr. Bernard Crack oft 111
" Essays on Reform."

Mr. Clarkson ;.ilanfield will be buried at Kerisal-
green on Monday. The re will be a requiem for his soul
at the Roman Catholic Chapel, Hampstead, at half-past 10'
SPOILING OUR ROMANCE I—A writer in All the
Year Round thus relates, to our intense chagrin
and obstinate unbelief, what he calls "The Real Ride t°
York."—" Mr. Richard Turpin rode many miles from the
time he left the cradle till he reached the gibbet, but 11°
never rode from London to York, nor, in fact, did any one
ever accomplish that extraordinary ride. The myth is
however, founded on a real incident. In 1676, one Niche
a robber haunting the road between Chatham and Londoe
to rob sailors returning to town with their pan 11113
Kentish traders on their way to London, plundered 0
traveller at four o'clock in the morning on the slope Of
the spot immortalised by Shakspere, and for ever
associated with F alstaff's delightful poltroonery. 8ei13,5„, "
on a blood mare, a splendid bay, Nicks determined t
prove an alibii in case of danger. He rode off straight to
Gravesend ; there detained an hour for a boat, he Plll,-,
dently gaited; his horse ; then dashing across Essex, full
tilt to Chelmsford, rested half an hour, and gave his horse
some balls. Then he mounted and flashed on to Bea 93;
borough, Booking, and Wetherfield , fast across the &W.f.-
to Cambridge ; quick by by-roads and across country,
slipped past Godmanehester and Huntingdon to r°ll3/k
Stratford, where he baited the good mare and took pn'e--,1
half-hour's sleep. Then once more along the north roe('
till the cathedral grew up over the horizon larger-1911e:
,
and whiz--he darted through York gate. In a moment %-
had led the jaded mare into an inn stable, snapped up 0(11%
food, tossed off some generous life-giving wino, and in
fresh dress —say green velvet and gold lace strolled ou'l
gay and calm, to the Bowling-green, then full of cornfani,4l:
The lord mayor of the city happening to be there, Nit'';
sauntered up to him, and asked him the hour. ' A (0'114%
to eight." Your most obedient.' When Nicks Ng'
apprehended and tried for the Gadshill robbery, the Pr°sue;
cuter swore to the man, the place, and the hour;
Nicks brought the lord mayor of York to prove an ell
and the jury, disbelieving in Sir Boyle Roach's bird e: 4
anywhere out of Ireland, acquitted the resolute and 091
1,0
clone thief." [We greatly prefer Harrison AiussOrt
immortal version of it in " Lookwood," and (301.°
whether it be or be not apocryphal.] Tp
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