Should not the Lord Lieutenant (Lord Warwick) have notice?
Is the Mayor to accompany the Prince in the same carriage?91
The Mayor has no carriage.
No communication should be made to any party in Birmingham, except to the municipal authorities, notwithstanding their political bias and extreme opinions.
The late Mayor, Mr James, though a Radical, would have summoned the leading men of different parties.
Doubts as to whether the present Mayor would, or whether he would not, place the whole arrangement in the hands of the party with which he is connected.
This risk must be incurred, as communications to other parties would not be advisable.
Footnote 91: This was the course adopted.
The Earl of Aberdeen to Queen Victoria.
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