Does an Envoy Extraordinary represent the person of his Sove-
reign? Lord Napier thinks he does, the Prussian Chamberlain thinks he does not. Princess Alexandrine of Prussia was on the 12th inst. married to Prince Frederick William of Meck- lenburg-Schwerin. They are both unimportant individuals, but as the bride is a King's niece, a *grand ceremonial dinner was performed, one prince handing the soup and another the madeira. The Envoys of France and England demanded seats at the Royal table, but as they are not of the absolute first rank of full Ambassadors—we have only two, one in Constantinople, and one in Paris—the claim was refused, and Lord Napier and M. Benedetti, with their wives, went home. The probability is that the Prussian Chamberlain, who has to learn enough abost transparencies and serenities to bewilder a herald, and who has been studying ceremonial sillinesses all his life, knows his business, and is in the right. And, after all, we do not know that the Hohenzollern etiquette is much worse than that which keeps duchesses standing like parlour-maids behind the Queen at the opera, and will compel Mr. Bright if he takes office, to make himself look as like a footman as he can manage. Suppose the Prussian Envoy were to claim the right to dress like a gentleman at Court, where would the Constitution be ?
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