The Czar arrived in England on Wednesday evening. He was
to have arrived in the morning, but waiting a little too long at Flushing, the tide ran out too far, and his yacht grounded. The only effects of the mishap were the delay and the disappointment of the people of Gravesend, the yacht when it floated making for Dover instead, whence his Majesty proceeded to Windsor at once. He remains a week in this country, during which his entire time will be taken up by a series of fetes, which would bore anyone not a monarch into insanity, and an inspection of Woolwich, where he is expected to be interested in a new and Titanic hammer. We suppose he will be able during his visit, in concert with the Queen, to settle the dispute about his daughter's pre- cedence, which evidently exists, though it is studiously denied, the Times on Monday even affirming, without any authority from the Duke of Edinburgh, though, of course, not without authority of some high kind, that the absence of the Duchess from State ceremonials was due to pregnancy, and not to diffi- culties as to her rank at Court. So long as the Duchess does not take precedence of the Princess of Wales, the English people will accept any decision with profound indifference, and entire belief that everything is right.
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