2 AUGUST 1873, Page 2

On Thursday, accordingly, Mr. Taylor moved the rejection of the

Bill, and made one perfectly true point, that the Unreformed Parliament was less sycophantic to the Court than the Reformed one. Certainly, because the Unreformed Parliament was aristo- cratic and disliked the Crown, while the Reformed Parliament is bourgeois, and worships the Crown as long as it does not move off its easy chair. Mr. Bouverie made another point when he showed that the stinginess of Parliament to the children of George III. had debarred many of them from marriage ; but the best point was made by Mr. Gladstone, who, in answer to a half ashamed suggestion of Mr. Taylor that the bride was the richest heiress in Europe—absurdly untrue, though she is rich—asked him if he dared stand up in the face of his own constituents and ask the Emperor of Russia to accept a poor English Prince because his daughter had so much. That brought down the House, but twenty members still opposed the grant, which was voted by 170, tellers included. If the Royal Family are wise, they will draw up a plan for the final settlement of this matter, based on the idea of letting part of their allowances accumulate for younger sons and daughters. It would be just like England to quarrel with them about money, as she used to do when the money was voted in assignments.