NEWS OF THE WEEK.
ON Thursday night, the Queen left Osborne for Wales. The accounts of the journey and of her reception will not reach London in time for us to comment on their details, but there seems little doubt that she will be as heartily welcomed by Nonconformists as by Church people, in spite of Mr. Gee. Her Majesty's plans are to stop at Pale, the house lent to her during her visit by Mr. Robertson, and from there to make various excursions in the neighbourhood, including visits to Sir Theodore Martin and Sir Watkin Williams Wynn. To-day she is to enter Wrexham in " semi-state," and to listen to ten thousand children sing- ing " God Save the Queen " in Sir Robert Cunliffe's park. Though not a fiftieth-part of the population of Wales will see the Queen, the inhabitants of the Principality, eager as they are just now for special recognition, will, we suppose, feel gratified at the visit. Indeed, there seems a sort of feeling abroad that the Queen had a duty to perform in going to Wales. Yet there are plenty of English counties through which the Queen has, up till now, never even passed, and probably never will pass, which do not feel that they are, therefore the victims of oppression, or that they are sacrificed to Scotch or Welsh favouritism. Apparently the right to have grievances does not belong to that portion of Great Britain called England.
