THE QUEEN’S VISIT TO THE CONTINENT.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 606, 29 May 1876, Page 4

THE QUEEN’S VISIT TO THE CONTINENT.

In a very special manner her Majesty continr '£ to engage the chief thoughts aad int- stt of her loyal subjects. The Queen arri ed at Baden-Baden on Wednesday (March 29; afternoon, not stopping tit Paris, en t mte from Cherbourg, any longer than was necessary for shifting the train cn to the Che. ’in de Fer de Cc-inture. during which proems Marshal MaoMabon’s c >ok opportune y arrived on the eeene in a brougham, conveying some newly-made bouillon as a delita’e attention bo the royal strangers. Her Majesty declined the toothsome olxe. ing with thanks, though it was accepted by some of the subordinate members of her suite. It would be inaccurate (:o say that the time which the Queen has selected for her continental trip is regarded with unalloyed satisfaction by her subjects. In the first place, it is questionable whether any precedent exists for the Sovereign leaving England while Parliament is in full session. Mr Disraeli did indeed say in the House of Commons on Tuesday night, in reply to a question from Mr Anderson, that a precedent for such a course occurred in 1872, adding, in the mocking and sarcastic manner which is now habitual with him, which only a Minister with an overpowering and mechanically faithful majority could venture to adopt, and at which the House of Commons seems always prepared to laugh, that there was no reason why members of Parliament should not have the same access as ever to the royal person, and that if they wished lo see the Queen, all they had to do was to take their tickets for Baden Baden. Inasmuch as the Prime Minister declined to say off-hand what the precedent to which he alluded of 1872 was, there are not wanting sceptical critics who only accept his assurance with the addition of a good many grains of salt,