New-York tribune., 1878-11-20
but it has had an extremely unpleasant erect
upon the newspapers concerned in it.
ADVENTURES OF THE GUELPHs


The good people of Halifax are now split
ting hairs over points of etiquette in regard
to the comparative Importance OF the Marquis
of LOrne and the Princess Louise. The hat
has already gone forth that it Will be an act
of gross discOurtesy to offer glOved hand TO
the Queens daughter at any private reception;
but the question is still under dispute whether
anyone in leaving her presence shall bow ana
back out, as is the custom at the receptions
of the Queen and the Princess of Wales.
Inasmuch as the Governor-General is mem
ber of the Royal Family by marriage and not
by birth, it will not be necessary to remove
the glove before him, except at representative
receptions at the opening or prorogatlOn OF
the Dominion Parliament, when he will stand
in the place of the Queen, before whom both
hands are ungloved. 1t is plain that the offi-
cidl station of the man is OverShadOwed by the
social distinction of the woman.
The Hanover stock has always been a fruit
ful vine. The Queens family is large, and as
she has been dependent upon the civil list she
has been forced to ask the House of Commons
for special grants whenever she has married
off her children. 1t was only few months
ago that the Commons added $50, 900 to the
income of the Duke of COnnaught, raising 1T
to $125000, and settling $4,000 on his
bride, the daughter of Prince Frederick Charles
of Prussia and it was not many years ago
that there was a wrangle the same House
over the marriage settlement of the Duke OF
Edinburgh, who Is now awaiting the arrival
of his sister at Halifax. The English
are too sensible to tolerate anything like
shabbincss in the Royal Establishment, and as
the Queen was favored with family OF nine,
monarchy has been an expensive luxury. AL
though the Duke of Edinburgh is thorough
sailor, the Duke Of COnnaught tolerable SOL
dier and the Prince of Wales an admirable
Exhibition Commissioner, the Royal Family
has been ornamental rather than useful. For
the first time, one Of the Queens children Is to
be directly utilized in affording TO the colonies
Il scmblance of personal government. BY the
close connection of the GOyeTnOr-Teneraps
wife with the Crown the American Provinces
and the mother country are to be KNIT
together. The Marquis of LOrne merely as the
son of the Duke of Argyll, cannot be ex-
pcctcd to do better than his predecessor: but az
the husband of the Queens daughter he may
hope to quicken the devotion OF the Provinces
to the Crown. Since the acts of FEEDER
alton were passed. loyalty has increased
in proportion as Provincial Jealousy has
decreased, and doubtless if there shall be
war between Russia and Great Britain there
are entire Canadian regiments that will vol
untceT for foreign service. The presence OF
the Queens daughter will stimulate this feel
ing and render the Canadians more demOnStra-
tive in expressing it. The Marquis of Lorne
NAV have less tact and discretion than Lord
Duliern, and yet succeed in his mission, mas
much as that llustrous lady stands by his side.
While Princess Louise is reading her
husbands poetry on the seas and sailing
toward the harbOr where she Is to receive
right royal welcome, there is another member
of the House of Hanover whose luck has not
been so good. We refer to her second
cousin, the Duke of Cumberland, who, like
herself, is u great grandchild of George
III. The father, blind King George v, was
driven into exile In 1866, when Prussia
conquered and annexed the realm where
his family had reigned for more than 500
years and after squ1ndering his private for
tune in stock speculations, he died in Paris a
few months ago. The son. Ernest, Duke of
Cumberland, now has a mother and two sis
tcrs to provide for, and is anxious to marry
Princess Thyra of Denmark. who has no
money albeit she is connected with all the
great roya! houses in Europe. Now, when his
father lost the throne, the private estates
were alleuated, and some of the HOhenzol-
lerns, the Crown Prince for one, have fa-
vOrcd a partial compensation for the cOnis-
Gated property once belonging to the Guelpbs.
The Duke is as obstinate his father, and
will not resign his claims to the throne of
his realm or his estates are slender indeed. |
He is, however, next heir to the Duke of
Brunswick, and if that representative of one
Of the oldest lines on the Continent dies be-
times, and the German Government offers no
resistance, the Duke may be able to go TO |
housekeeping with Princess Thyra At pres
ent, he is wandering heir, and, like Henry |
V. and Napoleon ", is waiting for |
a general upheaval of society. Times have |
changed since the Four Georges dispatched |
their Governors to Hanover, just as the Queen |
is sending her daughters husband across the |
sea- 1t is only forty years since the crowns of |
Great Britain and Hanover were divided by |
the Sale Law; and now when the first cousin !
dies in exile there is scant mourning in the |
Queens household, and the second cousin is |
bluntly told to give up his claims to his throne |
and to drive as good bargain with the HOhen-
zollerns rs he can.
A Boston newspaper admits that Boston audi |
ences are sometimes "as uDdemonstrative as a |
,.,olor Indian What elicited this retnnr< yyos |