ROYALTY AND ELECTIONS.
[The usual absurdities have attended the Queen's journey. In the official report of the departure I read : ' ' Residents and officials in the dockyard were cautioned not to allow any of their family to take up positions at windows overlooking the royal yacht." What can such proceedings mean 7 Good gracious me, if a man can't look out of his own window because the Queen is about, this is a pretty specimen of a free country. If a cat may look at a king, surely a free-born Briton may look at the Queen he feeds and clothes and pays. The same impertinences werfe practised in France. At Cherbourg the' authorities, yielding to the royal demand, ordered all their people to keep indoors under pain of dismissal. The good-humoured Parisians have many jokes on the subject. Whoever advises her Majesty to treat her subjects and her foreign hosts so rudely advises her very badly. It is not by such means that the popularity of the English throne was built up.— Paris correspondent to an English paper.]
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Otago Witness, Issue 1502, 28 August 1880, Page 27
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