It is officially announced that the Prince of Wales is
going to India in November for a tour of a few months, attended by Sir Bartle Frere as cicerone. Some of our contemporaries are greatly exercised over this expedition, which is, after all, only an exten- sion of an ordinary tour ; but although natives will be pleased, and the Prince, we hope, amused, the visit can hardly produce great political consequences. The notion that the natives of India, the most satirical realists perhaps out of Paris, are always ready to go into fits of enthusiasm on behalf of an unseen Sovereign and her, children has, we suspect, very little foundation. Nevertheless, the visit will be acceptable to them, and the Prince will enjoy himself thoroughly in a totally new country, with a delicious climate and unequalled facilities for hunting big game. The Ministry should settle before the Prince goes what the etiquette is to be about "presents," what precedence is to be accorded to his Royal Highness in Native Courts, and whether England, India, or the Duchy of Cornwall is to pay the expenses of the trip. There can be no incognito for a Prince of Wales within his mother's dominions.
