From The Otago Daily Times.

Otago Witness, Issue 2106, 5 July 1894, Page 3

From The Otago Daily Times.

The same day wh'ch saw tne unholy ass issina-

tion c£ the French President X liojal brought to lig'i*< the young Quai tctlc. piii'f''* who rwxy pouio d*y be kingaucUmperjr. fc'e'domhas any country seeu tour occupants or possiule occupants in direct succession to Ibe throne alive at the same time. Suuh a sight was seen in Germany a few years sioce, but it is rare. The chances are greatly agi-i"st these four persons occupying the throne in direct succession. It has only once happened that the Crown ot England passed directly from parent to child for more than three generations ; on that occasion — i.e., from John through Henky lll.Edwabd I, and Edward II to Edward 111, it held the direct and uninterrupted line for five generations. The other occasion of its so passirg for three generations was Hbnby VII, Henry VIII, and Edwabd VI. In each of these cases the lucky founder virtually usurped the throne. Though succession to the throne of England has often been interrupted and turned a6ide it always ended in being restored to the heirs of Egbert, the founder of the kingdom, until the present Royal house came to reign. The idea of divine right has long been given up in favour of parliamentary settlement. Nearly every Catholip prince and princess in Europe now has a better heritable title to the Crown of England than Queen VICTORIA — i c , they are all descended either from Charles I or from the elder daughters of James I, whilo the Queen traces her parliamentary title from Sophia, the youngest daughter of the former Sovereign. The small group of rather modern Jacobites and th« Bavarian princess who claims to be, through the house of 3avoy-Modena, the heir to the throne, are alike unknown to most Englishmen, though it is said that in Scotland there dlways has been a set of people who persistently adhered to the ancient line. The republics of the modern world have not been enviably free from great political crimes. In less than thirty years three Presidents have been murdered in the two great republics, while the numerous monarchies of Europe have witnessed the assassination of an Emperor and a Sovereign Prince.

Sir John Gobht's statement that nonunion'sta are five times as Unionists in numerous as unionists is England. out by recent statistics. Unionists in the United

Kingdom numbered 1,091,860 in 1890, and these numbers appear to have slightly increased in 1593. The percentage of union to non-union workers over 20 years, o: a^e was tl.oii 18 per cent. This proportion vpri^.s grt;"I ' in different trades. In the shipljuildu'c;, =..- jineering, &c. trades

| it is 52 Jn tiiis c<i»o only it is equal to \ half tho'vuit-fcr^--excapiiDg in the small trade eof jute voik^i-s, —sinking to 0 - 8 per cent, in

agriculture. When the whole number of persons occupied is consideied the percentage becomes very small, as the greater figure is then swelled by counting women and children ; it then equals about 1 in 16. The population of the United Kingdom then comes out thus : Grand total of occupied persons, 1b',822,165 ; unoccupied, 20,910,757 ;— total population, 37,732,922. Males over 20 years, occupied, 9,242,935 ; trades unionistp, 1,109,014.