Australian loyalty is clearly genuine, for it stands the money
test in its most extreme form. The Melbourne Argus, a most respectable paper, the first in Victoria, announces that the Duke of Edinburgh's club bill for cigars and wine being left unpaid, was discharged by a colonist, while his bill from the furrier and jeweller for presents to his friends being also left, was paid out of funds voted by the Colonial Parliament. Moreover, a motion is to be made in the Legislature to repay to Great Britain the sum of £3,400 voted in the estimates of this year for the presents dis- tributed by the Prince, and a return asked for of the more valuable presents made to him. The colonists are not kind in the com- ments they make on the Prince's forgetfulness, but still they cash up, and clearly that is with royalty, as with commonalty, the main point. " 0 peuple Francais !" said the elder Mirabeau, " corv6able et taillable iL misericorde."
