Labouchere Kicks

Tho queen's generosity in providing palaces and other residences for foreign princes and princesses at the expense of the British taxpayer is again rousing tho ire of Radicáis, says a Loudou letter. The scandal has hardly snbsided over the thriity pensioners of her majesty, who have been turning flampton Court palace iuto a boarding house, whon dow it is announced that she has been pleased to graut the studhouse, also at Hampton Court, to Princess Frederica of Hauover and her husband, with the benefit of the survivorship. The princess is one of the wealthieat personages in Europe, and she only rarely comes to Englaud for a brief visit. It is announced that the studhouse is to be extensively repaired and improved for her occasional occupation. This moves Mr. Labouchere to reinark: ' 'If this arrangement bas really been made, it is a most moustrous job, and ono of a peculiarly objectionable kind, as during the reigns of George IV ana William IV parliament protested so strongly against such reversionary grants that they were altogether discontinued of late years. However, the queen has privately revived the system of giving royal residences with survivorship, and I am inf ormed that nearly every warrant which has recently been granted has contained the obnoxious reversionary clanse. The next sovereign of these roalms will have to live a long time before he has either houses or apartments to give away. "I believe in at least one case the queen has signod a warrant granting what really was an official residence to the wife of the present occupant in case she survives her husband. ' '