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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XII, Issue 520, 21 October 1867, Page 3

Thu IvEro-nrs Expectant.— The Dune din News of the sth instant contains, as usual, a large share of Dunedin gossip, a paragraph from which about the Knights expectant is rather amusing:—“ It is quite evident to me that Hall, Stafford, Fitzherbert, and Hyde Harris, expect the honor of knighthood when the Puke of Edinburgh arrives. Two circumstances of the future will be almost certain of accomplishment in this connection ; and circumstance first refers to the probable fact that the four gentlemen named will not be knighted, and circumstance the second ref.-rs to the as ertion that the coming Duke has only the power to recommend for, not to create, knighthood. It is easier to ‘ get at ’ any article of household utility when a handle is thereto attached ; but any analogy derivable from this humble fact does not apply to knighthood conferred on the amiable legislative quartette I refer to. A hvndle to the names of the gentlemen mentioned, instead of making them more, would undoubtedly make them less accessible. Pride, far worse than that which made Lucifer descend—pride, far worse than that which apes humility—is the leading attribute of our legislators at present, and what they would be when endowed with a Sir —which would entitle their perpen-dicularly-striped costumed wives to Lady —God, and the author of ‘Da Brett’s Peerage, 5 only knows.” Royalty in Enolakd. —The London correspondent of the Melbourne Argus writes as follows : —‘ E Her Majesty continues in her disposition to withdraw herself from the sight of her subjects, and the comments upon this inf general society are not of a pleasant kiud. Since the excellent George the Last descended from

earth, I do not think Royalty was ever more in disfavor than it is now. The scandals grow bolder and plainer every day. To-day, it is of a young Prince, who, with a beautiful wife stricken down by sickness, is able to console himself with an opera singer—behaving, in fact, not so much as the heir of Kngland, but as the Prince of Lucca. As for his Royal Mother, her Majesty is said to ba engaged in building a new house for herself in the remoter Highlands, which is to be seven rnnes away from the nearest human habitation—a queer fancy for one who has the range of many palaces.”