New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-06-14

gloomy budget for the current year.
What connexion, it may be asked has the Prus-isn
Prince with the English Minister Of Finance. Wb.,
has ms nsion OF love, or at any rate of marriage
10 90 with the other mans mission Of money! A
great deal, indeed. The Prince is said TO expectn.
oeed, 10 have even been promised-a richly-dowered
onoe With him, in tina: case Ito repeat the old Joe
hlherpm), nafrmoDy Is matter-ofInoney as well a.
OF iove end 1t probable that when the wears rev.
enue IN England is declared by Sir G. C. Lewis TO bs
some Seven millions sterling 1885 900 OOO less than the
estimated expeDditure-when Five millions sterling
nave bad to be borrowed TO meet present expenses-
when Two millions sterling OF additional Excheuuer
bius are TO be issued at once-when the war tares
are TO be continued until ls60-when the present and
pro1imate cost of the War amounts TO One Hundred
Millions sterling, simply that England might blockade
the Baltic lose the -four of her army in the Crimes
and help France TO capture the Malakoff redoubt
blow up South Sevsstopol, and make peace which
causes general discomfort in Englsnd-when all these
untowad circumstances combine with whist Lord
Castereagh used to call "John Bulls ignoran. i'm
patience Of taxation, ia not very likely that even
PalmerstoD, who does the most inpudent things with
the jauntea air and in the most POGO curonte manner
can have the face TO ask Parliamentary rather Her
Mojesty's most faithful Commons who hold the
purse strpg--to vote an immense and wholly IN
precedented life allowance, by way Of dOwfy, 10 the
eldest Of Queen Victoras many childIen.
In his Speech upon the Budget, no mention was
made by Sir G. Lewis Of any coming demand on
b. half Of the Princess Royal 1t s rather doubtful
whether with the National Treasury in state OF; col
lapse, any such demand will be made during the p-es.
ent SessiOn. To be sure, Joseph Hume aud Colonel
Sibthope, who reduced Prince Alberts proposed
Isge life annuity from $50 900 to $50 OOO are not
now alive, to protect the public purse in this case, but
the mere idea Of settling go 600 year upon a child
of lG, simply because her moheris Queen o. Eoglaod,
land most extravsgantly paid such,) is too absurd
TO be entertained
1t is not improbable, however, that this proportion
may be rsade within the next twelvemonth L.; it be
that Mr.. Robert.on Gladstone, three
months ago announced that this amount would be
asked for. To this hour his statement ha. no, been
denied las other statements touching money matters
have by or for the British Government. He il a
man VI station, standing and substance In his native
town of Liverpool He has there held the Office Of
Mayor. He is brother of William Ewart Gladstone,
an I.Cabinet Minister. He is President of the Liv
erIool Financial Reform Association and it was in
that capacity that he lately ADDRESSED letter to Messs
Hcrfefal g. Ewart the Parliamentary Representatives
Of Lverpool-which missve has already appeared in
in our columns-an the Government inter-
tion of asking for the Princess Royal dowry of
SO coo year, which, taking her longevity at fifty
years more, ard without estimating cent u inter-
est would involve total payment of SO, 500, 900 or
sI7, 500 geo on account of and for the benefit Of
Dung girl, whose sole Claim i, that she is Royal.
TIE Act of Settlement, passed in 1901, expressly
providing that the royal family of England shall mary
none but Protestants, aided by the Royal Marriage
Act of 1872 (which prohibited any English prince or
princess from marrying before the age of fve-and-
twenty without the consent Of the reigning monarch,
and after that time without leave from ParliamenD,
greatly narrows the circle in which British Royalty
may find husbands and wives. The result has been to
supply the demand from the petty and beggarly
% Grand Dutches Of Germany-such as Meek len
berg Sterlitz which gave wife to George III and
husband to Augusta Of Cambridge, his grand daughter;
Sake Gotha, whence came the mother of George Ill
which supplied spouse, but scarcely
il ate, TO George "; SAKE Cobourg, which provided
NOT OILY mother but husband to Qdeen Victoria;
Hesse from which came the wife Of the dinperpartak-
pg Duke Of Cambridge, Of money getting and german
dzing memory; and so on Accident having placed
Bernadotte one Of Napolt soldiers, on the we'd
i,h throne and policy having Induced him to become
Prot. stapt the royal family Of Sweden becomes ell
cibe for the marriage prizes OF British Royalty, and
we find that Prince Oscar is about espousng the fnn-
CO "a Mary of Cambridge who is fine, bouncing g'rl
Of three and-twenty, inclined to her fanys heredl'
tary pipguidety, and provided by Parliament with a
life allowance Of s., 900 year.
Prussia is decidedly Protestant country, and 1t 10
no. surprising that English Princess circunscHoed
rs tbe law has made her, should give glance, when
marriage is tpoken Of in that direction Already, IN
deed several alliances between the reignng houses OF
In pland and Prussia have taken place-though none
have been very fortunate. There was Sophia Doro
thea daughter Of George the First WHO married tue
6,., King of Prussia when be was only Elector OF
Brsndebburg, ard was perhaps, the most i'used ana
utbappy wife in Europe. Her niece, the Princess
An ella Sophie, narrowly and happily escaped the evil
chances Of a union with Frederick the Great, her
son while her nephew had married the Princess hoyai
~ Prussia There wss the Duke Of York, notorious
fr his mort dishonorable connection with Mary Anne
Clark who married later Princess Royal OF Prussia
end soon Disguised her by his profgacy, and aensted
hey affection by his neglect. Such Is the eatdogue
raisontf Of previous Prusso Anglican matrimonai
alliances, aid it is not pleasant one.
That the reigning King Of Prussia should be person
ay and politically unpopular 10 England, on account
Of his leaning to Russia during the late war, may De
assigned a. one reason why the projected marriage
should not be favorably considered by the bulk OF
Queen Victoria's Glowing subjects But Prince
Fr.dericks father is said to be differently inclined and
the yourg man himself is reported to be amiaoe and
well. disposed. The great objection will be the Pc
sunary grant.
All the precedents are dead against it. Sophia Dor
oihea the first Queen of Russia received yearly IN
come of only $500 from the father, George l.. pal
ont Of his own income AID not by the public. When