Monday last being the anniversary of the death of Mary
Queen of Scots, a number of neo-Jacobites arranged to visit her tomb in the Abbey, and lay upon it wreaths of flowers. About '250 Loyalists. assembled at Westminster for this purpose, but found to their astonishment that constables of the A Division. were stationed at the entrance to the chapel, and that they were refused admission, in spite of the fact that Monday was a free day. At this " an overflow of quiet indignation" is described as having taken place, and the elaborate wreath of exotics, with a martyr's crown above it, brought by the Marquis de Ruvigny, and bearing the inscription : " In memory of the martyrdom of Mary of England, Scotland, Ireland, and France, Queen, from the Legitimist Jacobite League," was hung on the gates of the chapel. The verger, with an appre- ciation of his post worthy of Dickens, thereupon requested "that that thing" might be removed. Like Bombastes' boots, however, it remained on the gates. At first the Loyalist mob had serious thoughts of going en mane to interview the Canon in residence. They were, however, dissuaded from this rash act by the Marquis de Ruvigny, to whom it had been suggested that they might lay themselves open to a charge of brawling. Finally, the assembly dispersed, " much disap- pointed." This feeble and fantastic recrudescence of Jacobite feeling is characteristically English. There is a certain type of Anglo-Saxon who is never satisfied unless he is nursing a historic grievance. Some day we shall have a Society for keeping alive the immortal memory of Perkin Warbeck.
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