The Lord Mayor has invited all who took a leading
part in collecting presents for the Royal wedding, which was to have come off on February 27th, to meet and discuss what is to be done with the money. A variety of suggestions have been offered, one, which seems to us dictated by singularly bad taste, being that the subscriptions should be collected into one sum to form a " dower " or " provision " for the Princess May. One would think the ill-fated lady had brought an action against Providence for breach of promise. She would reject the money ; and the other suggestions, which are, mainly, to "found " something or other of the charitable sort in honour of the Prince, will not command more general approbation. Let anything be founded that is wanted ; but the eager- ness of the charitable to steal money for charities they
approve does not illustrate the rigidity of their principles. The subscriptions ought to be returned to the donors, if that be possible, or, if it is not, should be employed in any memorial of the Prince which the Princess May, acting as far as possible on her own judgment, and without a quantity of " advice " which means pressure, thinks most fitting. She was intended to have a sentimental and joyous pleasure out of the money; let her have the sentimental and sad one which alone she can now enjoy.
