1911-06-17 — Page 19

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY JUNE 17 1911.

The King's Porozatives Many of these prerogatives sonce is needed for the purpose of When those had passed through that time the Cullinan stones) tanic Majesty is so near at hand af ant religion. Furthermore it was and several lesser jewels have glance at the method of selecting insisted that he should join in "The prerogative of the Crown," have been curtailed by Act of giving royal assent to the bills to closed them again. Another boon added. The actual market a king will not come amiss. the Communion of the Establish says Dicey, an authority on the Parliament, and the chief right which custom practically forbids party of hunters, with the King valuo of tho famous South Afri-

The Wise Mon

ed Church, and sign a declara-subject, is nothing else than the of the king is to call or dissolvo him to voto. As Prince of Wales, this time among them, olamoured can stones is probably to-day

In Saxon times the King was tion against the doctrine of residue of discretionary or arbit Parliament, to appoint ministers, King George occasionally occupi- at the gates. But the collector not short of £2,000,000 storling, elected from, in nearly every in- transubstantiation.

rary authority, which at any given to create peers, appoint bishops, od the seat over the clock in the thought the King of England had so that the total price that would stance, the royal family by the Though the Wilonagomote had time is legally left in the honde colonial governors and judges. Poors' Gallery, whence he could already passed through nad was have to be paid for the regalia Witenagemoto or "gathering of the power of deposing kings of the Crown." So any act which Nevertheless the exercise of this listen to the debates of the Lower not inclined to tender royal pri-:- to-day if it were bought in the the wise men," though, oven thon, this power soems to have com- the executivo can perform with power cannot be as capricious as Chambor. is father whon vileges to all his courtiers. "I've ordinary way of business would little regard was paid to the strict plotely disappeared, for now there out the sanction of Parliament is it was in former times and oven-Prince of Wales was even more lot King George through, God without doubt exceed a total of right of primogeniture. This is no constitutional method of an exercise of royal prerogative. tnally it depended on the will of frequent in his attendance there. bless him! ho protested, and £5,000,000 sterling. Taking into system was admirable in several deposing a king without his con- Really the king is the human the people for ultimate sanction. But King Edward never was pre- I know no other King in England. account the value of the robes, ways, for the people were in many sent.

factor in the state, for the state is To tako a specific instance, a sont in the House of Commons If you have brought out the King strictly impersonal, and he alone king can appoint a minister but after ho had mounted the throne of France, hang me if I let him coronets, jewels, and uniforms instances able to choose a king.

The King's Title. of the whole resplendent throng whose elovation to the supreme

can temper the dispassionate oven here his choice na boon King George will imitato his through without this blunt.?! in the abbay, the following es rank was often very popular.. "George V. By the grace of justice of the state, by the exorcise somewhat limited by the will of father, as the latter imitated his

An Apology, timate would be a reasonable This style of king-making oxisted God the United Kingdom of Great of clemency to those who have the people, for custom has enjoin-mother, Queen Victoria, in obey

Then, to his dismay, he caught till the reign of Edward the Britain and Ireland and of the brokon the laws of the com-ed it upon the monarch to choose ing a tacit prohibition.

sight of King George himself.. a manfrom a party in the majority ...・・ Breach of Order. Royal regalia £6,000,000, Confessor and a reign did not British Dominions beyond the munity.

Humbly apologizing, ho. row in the House of Commons. Even Posressos' jewels 44,000,000, commence till a king had been Seas King, Defender of the Faith, The Quality of Mercy.

In both houses it is a breach of open the gates. Tho deer, how- Posra' and Pearessos robes and elected by the nobles and confirm Emperor of India."

But in addition to the exercise when he is appointed constitu- order to mention the name of the ever, was lost through the dolny. coroasts £95,000, Royal persons, od by the clergy and the people That is now the full style of His of the royal quality of mercy the tional practice requires timt sovereign with a view to affecting in great wrath, George dispatch- jewellery, drossoa, and robes, at his coronation. It will be ro £1,000,000, "Uniforms" £215-mom bored that the shoat of Majesty the King, though in King has vested in him many minister, who has boon ecusurod by logislation. So far back as Doc, ed an attendant back to demand

which, however, the House, should resign.

000:-

dresses £500,000. Total 10,810,- | 000.

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HOW THE KING IS CHOSEN.

The Settling of Succession-

been the wont of man to choose a

Act of Settlement.

In the Country's Defence. Undor the common law any subject may leave the kingdom

at

any time and for any reason ho

a

ploases. But undor statute law

Westminster Abboy at the time ditions till the full title was aslong flot save perhaps that of grant declare war but the faithful con- rosolved that to report any spin- The latter pleaded that he thought of the crowning of William the as it was ponderous. Amonging or witholding assent to the mons holding the purse can stop ion or pretended opinion of his tho King himself had passed in Conqueror was responsible for those additions that have now measures passed by both Houses supplies if they do not approve of Majesty upon any bill or other with the first party, and that it proceeding depending in either was the custom for the royal re- the unfortunato slaying ofn large boca lost is the title of "King of of Parliament, Though it has the proceeding.

Severely Restricted

house of Parliament, with a viow tainers to pay for themselves, number of persons by the Nor-France." If over a claim to a title not been done since the reign of

Queen Anne the sovereign has the So generally speaking savo in to influence the votes of members, Satisfied with this explanation, man soldiery whe thought that caused any misery that one did constitutional right of refusing the granting of honours, and even isabigh crime and misdemeanour, King George directed that toll the noise belokened an attack on Claimed originally by Edward his assent to any bill and that this is on the strong alvice of the derogatory to the honour of the should be paid for forty of his their leader inside the venerable in 1338 it was the beginning alone is sufficient to prevent it ministers, the monarch's rights in crown, a branch of the fundaman-attendants. Driving across the From time immemorial it has pile.

of that period of warfare with| France that lasted for one becoming law. It would be England have been through the tal privileges of Parliament, and bridge a few days later, he let loader; one whom he may look Edward 1st roigned from the hundred years. Though this war strange to find such a thing hap-course of time severely restricted subversive of the constitution of down his carriage, window and up to for guidance in war and date of his election but his suc- was absolutely abortive in the poning in the present day, for the He can only express his will under the country." In 1808, Tierney hailed the well collector witli i peace. At one time it was cus cossor of the same name roigned end, the English Kings included king signs his name at the advice the groat seal and that is hold by was called to order for assorting hearty laugh. No danger of the tomary for the various little tribes from the date of his predecessor's this coveted and unattained ad- of his ministers, the very men who the ministers on whose advice he that Canning had "forfaited the King of Franco passing here to

would introduce à bill into the must net.

good opinion of the country, of day," he cried. of which oven the mightiest of donth. Since then however dress in their titles for many years House of Commons, save in the case

the House, and as, I believe, of nations were formed to select some Parliament has intervened and after and it was not till 1800 lat

It must not be thought for one his sovereign," the Speaker re of a private measurė.. one of their nunibor to rule not as solled the question of the it was finally dropped. In fact

instant that the King is thus reminding Mr. Tierney that he had The Divine Right. -

duced to a mero figure-head. Ho always as one of wonderful pro-succossion before a vacancy on the "Fleur de Lys" the national

The Tudorsund Stuarts claimed wess in war, but sometimes as one ours. This of course las altered emblem of France, was included

al opinion of the sovereign into own statocraft and knowledge of who was most capable of main-the old system of election by the in the quarterings of the English further prorogatives than those at hans an opportunity of showing his at right to introduce the person

debate,

the King has power to prevent taining a productive pouce at people alone and the succession Monarch for the greater portion of prosont held by monarche, but the his country, though that chance Tudors were in their time more comes but rarely. In fact we cannot

Exempt from Taxation. the departure and enforce the ro- home. Naturally these coremon would now seem to be a question mediaoval history.

justified than the succeeding off-han I call to mind any parti

The King of England is ex-turn of any subject on the plea ies of selection were most impres- to be settled as between the sive and it was only in the nature king and the people, both parties conferred upon the much married was by right of conquest and finding that the government does theory, as formerly in fact, the defend the King and his realm." It was Popo Leo, X who family was much as their monarchy cular instance of where a king empt from taxation boonso, in that it is the subject's duty" to of things that the nation's religion consenting. Nevertheless Par: Henry VIII the title of Defon-consequently they were the not express the true wishes of the viously it would be useless and can he compel a subject to lonve revenue of the realm is his. Ob- Under no circumstances, however, should take a prominent part, liamont has altered or controlled]der of the Faitli. This was position of directors. With the

History has been replete with the succo.sion on many occasions, a reward for the reply this mon- Stuarts, who preached the "Divine people, has acted on his own ridiculous for him to tax himself. the realm, disability that doos the taloa of the choosing of kings Lle most striking instance arch is supposed to have written Right of Kings," much more was and that fact would seem to make initiative. However, he can do so from the time when chieftainship being the Act of 1537, when to the attacks upon the Roman added to the royal powers. They the words "Appeal unto Caesar" was the only logical reward of the power was given to Henry Catholic Church by Martin Luther claimed, among other things, the valour, when the mighty man was VIII to nominate any one he who was at that time sowing the right to add to the number of still a phrase full of significance raised aloft on the tortoise shell of might, please to succeed to good that blossomed forth in the constituencies returning repre-

these present days, ahiolds, to tlio time when a Parlia-the throne. By the Act of severance of England from the sentatives to the House of Com- ment arbitrarily deposed one Settlement of 1700 it was declar-spiritual suzerainity of the Popes, mons, and consequently to control monarch and with the gonoraled that no future king of Eng- Kings of England were not the personnel of the lower logis consent of the people raised an- land should boa Papist or should called Emperor of India till the lative assembly, to constitute a other to reign in his stond marry one of that faith, and it year 1876 when noting under the chamber such as the Star Cham- Practically every history in the won rendered obligatory for the advice of Benjamin Disraeli, ber, to maintain a standing army, world has shown the same evola- new king to take an oath, to Queen Victoria nssumed the title to remove judges and pardon under tion and at such a time as this govern the country according to for the first time in English the great seal those who had been rogative of opening sud prorogu- King! The King!" was raised in execution in civil action with- when the coronation of his Brit-law, and to minintain the Protest-j history...

successfully impeached.

ing Parliament or when his pre-f by the vanguard of the hunters. out permission first being obtain-

in

Tolk

not censo ovon in timo of war. For the same reason ho is Although it be the duty of every oxempt from toll. In the roiga able-bodied man to assist in the of George III. toll was exacted at defence of his country, no subject Hampton Bridge. One day dur-can be forced to leave the king-

· The King and Parliament.

ing a royal hunt on Hounslowdom even to carry on a necessary present at every eitting of Parlin- river and its pursuers made for

Constructively the King is Heath a stag swam across the war. ment. Yet he cannot appear the bridge. Unware that the King No member of the King's house- there in the body save when he was with them, the toll collector hold, no monial officer or sorvant comes in state to the House of closed the gates, but opened them employed in attendance upon the Lords for the exercise of his pre- immediately when the cry: The King, may be arrested or taken

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