The King and Queen have been spending a very busy
week in Scotland. On Wednesday their Majesties steamed slowly down the Clyde and inspected a number of ships, from super. Dreadnoughts to torpedo-boat destroyers, which are being built for the Navy. At the Fairfield Yard the King saw the first-class battleship Valiant,' which will be launched in September, and walked under the hull of the vessel, which has a breadth of 90i feet. Everywhere the Royal party seem to have been exceedingly well received. We do not doubt that the King's habit of visiting the indus- trial centres has a very excellent effect. It is good that the King should be more than a name to so large a part of the population, and it is also good that it should be possible, as it now certainly is, to say of the King that he knows his own country and the ways and works of men therein better than the best informed of his subjects.
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