The Queen's visit to Wales has been marked by very
great enthusiasm on the part of the inhabitants, but by little else that is noteworthy. On Monday she lunched with Sir Theodore Martin, and afterwards visited Llangollen, where, however, owing to previous delays, the bar of Welsh gold prepared as an offering by Mr. Pritchard Morgan was not presented to her. On. Wednesday evening her Majesty left the Prin- cipality for Scotland. The attempt to connect the visit with an anti-tithe demonstration proved a complete failure, and Mr. Gee was reduced to a curiously naive expression of his disgust at the whole proceedings, in which "the note of provinciality" is even more conspicuous than the bad taste. What an instruc- tive and amusing essay Mr. Matthew Arnold would have given us on the text supplied by the article in the Baner!
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