New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-05

pose the Queen ever does anything discOurteous or
ever thinks of her own pleasure when the pleas
ure of others is concerned, or the dispatch OF
public business. The convenience Of Balmoral
as royal residence during the session OF Para-
ment land the London season. is well known. by
travelling day and night and taking post-horses
after the railway is quilted, Minister or mes
senger can reach Balmora receive the royal COM
mands take horse and rail again, and be back once
more in London in less than three days IL business
is pressing. Minister has the govt, embarrass-
ments occur, but what are these in comparison TO
the qualification of Her Majesty and the preserva-
ton of the Royal health And are we to suppose
that the Emperor of Russia felt himself sighted. or
that the thought occurred to him that the Queen
might have delayed her journey a single dayf or
that he wondered how the Queen would like it If he
went off to Moscow the day before she was to leave
St. Petersburg for London The Emperor had, in
fact, accomplished the object Of his Journey The
great precedence question has been settled to his
and his daughters satisfaction The Duchess OF
Edinburgh takes her place next after the Princess
of Wales, and is described as Her Royal
and Imperial Highness, and further identified
as Grand Duchess Of Russia. am only sorry there
is not to be another Drawing Room. SO that we
might see whether it would be necessary again to
apologize for her absence account of the hopes OF
an addition to the already somewhat numerous
royal family. The popular belief is that the Ouch
ess would now find herself able to be present. The
country, says The Examiner, does not care hg
which of the royal ladies is entitled to exhibit her
back hair to less fortunate rival. But The Erdm-
liner is Radical journal, and permits itself tone OF
less perfect respect toward royal personages and
Court ceremonials than loyal subjects could desire,
and its testimony on this point must be received
with suspicion. My own belief is that the average
shopkeeper knows as much about the Duchesss back
hair as about the Black Sea Treaty and am certain
he would give you better account of the negotia-
tons respecting the former than of those respecting
the latter
On the whole, and putting the back hair question
ASIDE the Cars visit must be pronounced only
moderately successful if we take the popular view
of it. There has not been much popular enthusiasm
about him. Tn the papers there has been good
DEAL but that is not precisely the same thing fou
will find in The Pail Mall Gazette somewhat re-
markabe article in which that paper takes its CO.
temporares to task for their accounts of the various
ceremonies and displays in which the Emperor and
the public have borne part 1t declares that the
newspapers have disguised tho truth, and have dis
seminated utterly false ideas of the Emperors re-
cepton by the people of London. 1t charitably at
tributes this alteration from veracity to courtesy
but rebukes it with the severity we have grown ac-
customed to in this Cato among journals. 1.-THE truth
isl SAYS The Pail Mall Gazette that the Emperor OF
Russia was not warmly but coldly received by the
public The enthusiasm of which we have read had
no existence nor is there any excuse for asserting
that anything like enthusiasm was manifested
wherever he appeared There was good deal of
curiosity no doubt and London can ALWAYS furnish
thousands Of idlers ready to witness snowy specta-
Gle and to pay for it by the exhibition Of pleased
countenance. Nor can it be said, we are happy TO
saw that the public failed to exhibit on any occasion
the respect which is due to great man who Is the
guest of the nation But the curiosity was cold the
respect was cold and it would be fair account OF
the EmperOr's visit to say that he came ana
went amid silence" 1t imputes the GOODNESS to
popular resentment against the violation OF
the Black Sea Treaty and of the engagement about
Khiya, but here think The Pail Mall Gazette goes
too far A truer explanation might be found l
suspect the GOODNESS was due rather to indifference
than to aversion. The popular knowledge of the
Cars action about the Treaty and about khiva Is
much less accurate than that Of The Pail Mall Ga
sette and the popular view of his pertdy and of the
disgrace attaching to England from her acquies-
cence in his act, certainly much less strong Those
occurrences had their influence, doubtless but the
influence is a vague one, and even the memory OF
the Crimean war may be moro distinct than that OF
much more recent diplomatic difficulties. Whatever
be the cause agree with Cato about the fact so far
as the feeling of the multitude is concerned. In
niably liked. G. W. s.