FAMILY TIES.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1736, 27 July 1874, Page 2

FAMILY TIES.

A correspondent of the New York Herald, writes as follows :—" Here is a good story which has not yet found its way into print, but for the truth of which I can vouch. Lord George Gordon, a young man of about four and twenty, wishing to marry a certain young lady, went quite recently to ask the permission of his father, the Duke of Argyle. The duke, a pompous little man, replied in effect, 'My son, since our house has .been honored by being united 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 arid 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 berearement: she had been in the habit of taking no steps Without consulting the Duke of SaxeCoburg, the brother of her deceased husband. To tho duke, then, the case was referred, and from him a letter was received telling his dear sister-in-law that recent political erents had induced him to do nothing even as to the giving advice, without the express concurrence of the Emperor William, before whom he had laid the matter. The Emperor William wrote a long letter, declaring that although he was surrounded by councillors tkera was one- only who 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 ifcisnarrated 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.'"