We have said enough about the Royal grants elsewhere, but
we wish here to call attention to a curious social fact. The House of Commons is supposed to be entirely opposed to dis- tinctions between men and women in regard to their claim to property, and to dislike primogeniture chiefly because it is so rough on daughters. Nevertheless, neither the Ministers nor the Opposition nor the Radicals ever suggest that the allow- ances of Princes and Princesses should be equalised. The idea _current is that male Royalties should in future have 210,000 a -Year, and female Royalties E3,000. Why ? Because the Prince has his wife to maintain, while the Princess is main- tained, or ought to be, by her husband P Very true, and quite sufficient; but then, does not that answer admit a radical differencein the natural status of men and women ?
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