It was a rather happy coincidence that the visit of the Czar of Russia to Balmoral should have been so timed as to bring him there on the eve of this national display of loyalty. The Emperor has had no reason to complain of his reception on our northern shores. Although he is not making a State visit, the port of Leith at which he landed and the Scottish towns through which he passed, were most elaborately decorated; while the route by which he drove from Ballater to Balmoral would have been a blaze of splendour but for the rain which unfortunately fell continuously throughout his progress. But the rain gave the Czar and Czarina, as well as the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Connaught who accompanied them from Leith, an opportunity of displaying their kindly feeling and courtesy to the crowds which had assembled between Leith and Edinburgh in order to see and greet the most powerful sovereign in the world. The nations of the Continent are watching the incidents of the visit with the most absorbing interest, and in this country as troll as abroad Ehere are all sorts of epsou-Iations as. the effect which the visit may have towards a rapprochement between Great Britain and Russia. The idea, however, that Nicholas will be directly "tackled" by his uncle the Prince of Wales on the Armenian question is of course absurd, though it is not unreasonable to indulge in hopes of good results from his presence in this country during, the height of the Armenian agitation,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.