NEWS OF VIE WEEK.
Q OCIETY " is greatly excited by the news that the Queen, 13 following the precedents of the Stuarts, the Tudors, and the Plantagenets, butbreaking the traditions of the House of Brunswick, has sanctioned the marriage of Princess Louise with the Marquis of Lorn. We believe the concession, for we suppose it is a con- cession, will be a popular one, though, as we have argued else- where, it may involve some odd consequences, and will diminish that charm of separateness from ordinary mankind which adheres to the Royal caste. We trust Parliament will show its approval of it by voting the Princess at least as large a dower as her sisters, the more so as the alliance will be a great political injury to the Marquis. The English people is the most unreasonable in the world. It decidedly approves the match,;but it will never after it allow Lord Lorn to obtain high office. His appointment here- after, say to the Indian Viceroyalty, would be instantly denounced as a "Court job."
