7 APRIL 1888, Page 3

This year is the hi-centenary of the English Revolution, and

it is proposed to celebrate it by holding an exhibition of pictures, statues, medals, and relics connected with the Stuart family. They are extremely numerous, and the exhibition will be interesting ; but how far is it proposed to go down P Every British Sovereign since James II., William III. in- cluded, has been a Stuart, and has had no other hereditary title to the Throne, or, indeed, any title, for Parliament picked out the Electress Sophia as the nearest Stuart still a Protestant. Indeed, we believe that by European, though not English etiquette, our reigning House should be called the House of Stuart.