Family Ties.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 9, 3 September 1874, Page 4

Family Ties.

A correspondent of the * New York Herald' writes as follows:— " Here is a good story which has riot yet found it's way into print, but for the truth of •which I can vouch* Lord George Gordon, a young man of four and twenty, wishing to marry a certain young lady, went quite recently to ask the permis-' -sion of his father the Duke of Argyle The Duke, a pompous little liian, replied in effect, ' My son, since our house has been honoured by being tiiiited with the royal family, I have thought it right to delegate a decision on all such matters to your elder brother, the Marquis of Lome. Go, therefore, and consult him.' The Marquis of Lome; on being applied to, said, ' My dear brother, in a case of importance like this I should think it right to ask. the decision of the Queen, the head of the royal family into which I have married.' The Queen, on the matter being laid before her, declared that since her terrible bereavement she had been in tbe habit of taking~no steps without consulting the Duke Of Saxe-Oobur'g, the brother of her deceased husband. To the Duke, then, the case was referred, and from him a letter was received telling* his dear sister-in-law that recent political events . had induced him to do nothing even as to the giving advice, without the express concurrence of the Emperor William j before whom he had laid the matter. The Emperor William, wrote a longletter, declaring that although he was surrounded by councillors there was only one whd had on all occasions proved himself correct, loyal, and faithful,- and without whose advice he (the Emperor), would give no decision. Therefore he had referred the matter to his Minister Prince Bismarck. And it is narrated that When Prince Bismarck was made acquainted with the subject he roared out * Gott in Himmel, what a fuss about nothing ! Let the boy marry whom he pleases, so long as she is young and pretty.' "