26 AUGUST 1871, Page 2

The Marquis of Lorne and his wife the Princess Louise

are paying a visit to the Duke of Argyll's castle at Inverary. Conse- quently, the whole clan Campbell is out to welcome the chieftain's heir and his royal bride. That is all very proper, and so are the feastings, and games, and parades, and all the rest of it, but will it be believed that it actually pays the Daily News to telegraph entire columns of descriptions of all that ? On Friday the Daily News actually published nearly four hundred lines of telegram about the reception, the dresses, the guests, the upholstery, and the way the Highlanders got drunk. And then we call the Parisians a frivolous people, and wonder how our forefathers could relish long accounts of Court masques!