The Westminster Gazette once more revives the old question as
to the name of the English Royal house, asking whether it really ought to be changed with the accession of a Coburg Prince. The Atmanach de Gotha changes it, and it is certain that the change is in accordance with English custom since the Conquest. Though the line of our Sovereigns has been unbroken since the Conquest, and indeed since Cerdic, it has been the custom to call each dynasty by the family name of the man who married into it, that name in one memorable instance, that of the Tudors, not being even Royal. The far more dignified French practice of naming the dynasty from the country has never been adopted here, and cannot be adopted now. If the Sovereign were called Edward of England we should have Scotland and Ireland in arms, and a House of the United Kingdom would suggest false history. We are, therefore, according to our historic practice, living under the House of Coburg.
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