Public Ledger

Royal Etiquette.

A correspondent of the New York Tribune, writing from London, under date of March 3, giving an account of the Royal Albert Hall, which was attended by the royal family, with an immense escort of spectators, after noticing the appearance of the Queen, says:

"The Princess of Wales is pretty and popular, but to-day most eyes are turned on a figure that follows, all clad in white silk, with a veil and bonnet of white, and a wreath of orange blossoms about her forehead. It is the bride of last week, the Princess Louise, Marchioness of Lorne, by whose side walks her brother, Prince Arthur, and not her husband. For to marry a Princess does not make a man a Prince, and royal etiquette thinks nothing of putting asunder bride and bridegroom. The Marquis, looking more boyish than ever, walks some ranks behind his wife, stands apart from her when they have reached the dais, and afterward, when the whole party go up to their boxes, can not sit even in the same box with her. Nobody seems to be troubled about it, yet there in the Cabinet box is that proud Duke of Argyle looking down on the curious scene, and one would really like to know what he thinks of the social law that ranges his son so far below his son's wife."