The annoyance of the people at the Queen's long seclusion
has of late been somewhat freely manifested, and we are happy to perceive that Her Majesty has so far suppressed her feelings as to appear occasionally in public. On Wednesday the Queen visited the Horticultural Gardens, where about 3,000 visitors were collected; on the 6th of April a reception will be given to all the diplomatic body, and on the 13th a Court will be held for" a limited number of distinguished parsons." There has been a great deal of recrimination in the papers as to the propriety of mentioning the irritation of the Londoners at the absence of their Sovereign, but it seems a little absurd. It is certainly no ill compliment to tell the Queen that her people wish to see her among them, the insult would lie in affirming just the reverse. There is a disposition among the press just now to affect a worship of the Court which will before long produce a dangerous reaction. The penny press in particular indulges in language which must be as sickening to the Palace as it is to all people who remember that England remains still, in theory at least, a constitutional monarchy. The nation respects itself in respecting its present Sovereign, but there is a line be- tween respect and adulation, and it is overstepped when Her Majesty is told that a tree will grow the faster because planted by Royal hands.
