In the House of Commons, Sir Charles Dilke moved an
amendment to the motion for the Speaker's leaving the chair, asking for returns of the precedents of former reigns in the case of such family provisions, Sir Charles maintaining that there was no good precedent for asking for such provision for Royal Princes, when it was not obviously a provision for the succession to the Crown. Mr. Gladstone, however, showed that though this might be true, the position of the present Queen, who had been made dependent on her Civil List, and had no great private property on which she could rely for provision for her children, was quite different from that of former Monarchs, and Sir Charles Dilke's amendment was negatived, by a majority of 287,-320 against 33. Subsequently an addition of £10,000 a year was voted for the Duke of Connaught, making his income £25,000 a year in all, of which 16,000 a year was • to be settled on his wife, in case of her surviving him. These resolutions were passed without a division.
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