Universal pleasure has been caused by the birth of a
daughter, on Wednesday, to the Duke and Duchess of York. The new Princess is third in the line of succession to the Throne, coming after the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York. This is, of course, in accordance with the Act of Settlement under which an elder brother's daughter precedes a younger brother. The new Princess of York thus displaces Prince Henry and Prince George, just as in 1837 Princess Victoria of Kent displaced the Duke of Cumberland, the next surviving brother of King William IV. It will be very agreeable to the nation if the child is given a characteristically English name ; the marriage of the Duke of York to a British subject instead of to a foreign Princess has been as popular for the prin- ciple it embodies as Their Royal Highnesses are popular for themselves.
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