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    842 THE LJBADER. [Saturday ,

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    THE QUEEN" IN IRELAND. The Queen's progr...

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    been tried and proved one of the best counteractives of an unreasonable fear . It was so in Ireland during the famine : those who diverted their thoughts from too conjstanfcly dwellipg upon the fate from which they could nq | s run / and to which the eyes could not be shut , retained health denied to others who in a" mistaken Solemnity , cultivated a constant recollection of the ghastly visitation .

    The attempt to conclude the American Fishery dispute appears to us to be delayed , perhaps , rather than expedited , by mixing it up with several other questions of American and colonial reciprocity . Nevertheless , the feeling with which these negotiations appear to be conducted is excellent , and is likely to have good fruits in itself , though the particular convention may to some extent be delayed .

    The one railway accident of the week , on the Great Northern line , is notable for its clear display of bad management , and for the social value of some of the persons nearly killed . An express train was sent on at usual speed when it should have been known that a pilot-engine , sent to clear the line of a chance obstruction , could not have

    finished its work . The inutility of the signal system is strikingly displayed . A danger-signal was shown a quarter of a mile in advance , and yet the express rushed on , dashing into the other engine . The Bishop of Lincoln and Sir James Duke were slightly injured ; the Lord Mayor of London and others , more seriously .

    Maidstone has refused a church-rate , after a severe contest at the poll , by a decided majority . We have heard that in other places the churchrate party have silently given way ; and it is clear that the old agitation is re-commencing , under the broad pennon of the recent decision in the House of Lords . Considering the internal state of the Church , the progress of Church-reform views , and general spread of liberalism in ecclesiastical matters , it is not at all unlikelv but that

    next session the church-rate question will be settled . The Bank has raised its rate of discount to four per cent , an awful fact , for which some journalists rail at the present Ministry and its finance , and others apologise . It is a simple business matter , which needs no apology . Money has greatly increased , but trade has increased still more ; and as everybody is better off , but all see excellent uses for more money , those who have money to let out on hire charce more for the accommodation :

    and the great dealer in cash for hire , the Bank , necessarily falls in with the general rule . Parliament has yielded up our public men to the country . Some are out on the Moors , some on the ocean , —few remain in the dreary street of Downing . Lord Palmerston has made Melbourne as famous as he has made Tiverton—Melbourne , a little country town in Derbyshire , which has no Member : but it has come into the hands of a

    landlord who will ably represent it . Lord Palmerstou laid the foundation-stone of the new AthcnuiUin with as much care and case as he employs in a Paliiimentary repartee , or , formerlj r , in si biting despatch . lie did more—he made a wise speech , and talked homely philosophy of a very sound kind to his brilliant , nnd his humble , audience . The advantage of infant training , the pleasure av . i benefit derived from intellectual

    exercise * . '«<> facile in an ace when knowledge is exercise * , .. o facile m an a »; e when knowledge ik open tr all , and the propriety of laying by in the hour of prosperity for the feeble years of old age : — AV these formed easy topics , and Lord Palmers '*< m treated them just as they should be treated on a popular occasion , —neither too far above , nor at all below , the capacities of his hearers . He

    did more : ho pointed out that although Melbourne had provided an infant-school , a mechanic ' s institute , and a savings-bank , it had not yet provided a girls ' -school . There was something more than numly gallantry '—there was good sense in his remarks on the importance of this institution . Depend upon it , educated wives arc the beat proventivew of blackguard huwbundu .

    Queen Victoria ' s visit to tfoe Dublin Exhibition is a national evgnt , more significant even than the great ceremony Jn Hyde Park , in 1851 , as a recognition pf industry . For w $ in England 4 * d not need $ hat a Queen should open our Exhibition tp show us that B r itish industry' had a possible future . The . Queen ' s visit to the Crystal Palace celebrated the peaceful comity of nations—it was international , and not purely British . But the Queen ' s visit to Dublin celebrated the

    resurrection of Irish industry , and has a purely Irish importance . Nor is it less significant , that her Majesty and Prince Albert should have called upon the generous author of the Exhibition , in his own home—the man who successively refused knighthood and a baronetage—William Dargan . We can easily forgive the Nation its rabid paragraph of Saturday last , anxious as it was , ex officio , to put down the expression of Irish loyalty ; but we refuse to understand the structure of that man ' s

    mind who cannot discriminate between a merely royal visit , and a noble act like that of " the English Queen , " who came , not to show herself off , and to receive homage from a fawning mob , but to crown a great work , and celebrate with gladness the revival of industry and art in Ireland . We are not accustomed to flatter royalty , as such , but we accept this Queenly act as the public recognition of the only true principles which can lead Ireland into the golden sunshine of prosperity —art , enterprise , industry .

    842 The Ljbader. [Saturday ,

    842 THE LJBADER . [ Saturday ,

    The Queen" In Ireland. The Queen's Progr...

    THE QUEEN" IN IRELAND . The Queen ' s progress has been pleasant and prosperous . Chequered by some rough breezes at sea , and a few rainy days , ' she has had , on the whole , weather favourable to the holiday displays . The enthusiasm of the Irish has been of the expected kind—made respectable by the justification for it in the spirit of the Royal visit , and in some personal courtesies happily shown by the Queen . We chronicle the whole progress from Osborne to Dublin , and the varied doings in that city .

    The Queen left Osborne at nine o ' clock on Saturday morning , her husband and her two eldest boys being with her . The weather was very rough , but the Queen , a good sailor , braved it , although the sea dashed over the very deck of the steamer . Declining to be " addressed" by the Southampton Mayor , her Majesty passed on by rail from Southampton , t ?\ ivelling at her usual rapid rate . Past " Basingstoke "—splendid in scarlet cloth , banners , laurels , and flowers ; changing carriages at "

    Leamington "—grand in gigantic arches , with more flowers , laurels , and banners ; lunching at Tamworth , amid banners , laurels , and flowers : and then passing all the other towns at great speed , dashing by loyal and noisy crowds at every station , and arriving- at Ilolyhead , gay with dressed ships and a triumphal arch , at a little after seven o ' clock . Her Majesty then went on board her yacht , and stayed there ¦ ull night and tho noxfc day . On Sunday evening she quietly visited the South Stack and the great harbour works .

    Rising early on Monday morning , at a quarter past three , the Queen started from Holyhead . The royal yacht led the way , and behind her came tho lictnshee , tho Terrible , and the Fairy . The Holyhead mail-boat , the Anc / lia , vexed Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence by sailing round the squadron , the royal yacht excepted—thus showing her superior ppced . At twenty minutes past eight the Queen arrived at Kingstown , surprising tho late Dublin people by this very early visit . The Lord Lieutenant was at breakfast when the guns told , him that bis Royal Mistress had landed . At this time Kingstown harbour was crowded with steamers , schooners , and yachts . When the squadron became visible in the oiling , these vessels wore all dressed with colours , thus wetting them oil"to the greatest advantage .

    About n quarter before eight tho fact of the arrival of . the squadron was made , as it were , officially known , by her Majesty ' s stemnor La Hague firing' h royal salute , which hud the effect of considerably quickening tho movements of tho people . The quiet streets- < lf Kingstown were ai once , and us if by mugie , filled with crowds o'f well-dressed people , rushing frantically down to the beach . About the name time a squadron of Iforno Artjllery galloped down to the sea wall , where they also fired u salute as the squadron entered the harbour- A little before eight o ' clock the OOth Regiment came down from Dublin and formed a guard of honour at the lididing ' -place . Large bodies of police were also in attendance . Tho people , after rushing hither and thither for some time , found at last the platibrniH and utiitioiu * that were allotted to them , nnd

    all became 3 till a ^ d hushed , in expectation of the roval landing . ' ^ The Queen landed at a quarter past ten . The peop ] cheered , guns thundered , flags waved , a stir of sight and sounds was inftdo \ and , standing upon a kind of bal cony st the railway station , overlooking the harbour " the Queen turned round , and stood for a few momenta looking at the lively scene .. $ he appeared much pleased She then went on by rail to Dublin , cheered by peon ] ' standing at the stations , who saw a white speck inside blue

    a carriage rushing past , and called it the Queen At Westland-row there was the inevitable Lord Mayor with several other gentlemen in crimson robes . TBev knelt down and gave up several large keys , the real keys of some imaginary lock and visionary gate in some sup . posed wall surrounding the city . But the Queen would not keep the keys , jand the Lord Mayor had to take them back . Then in an open carriage , with lancers before and behind , with people lining the streets , and soldiers at intervals , the Queen passed through Dublin - —past Merrion-square , through College-green ,

    Westmoreland-street , over Carlisle-bridge , through the wide avenue of Sackville-street , and in by the Circular-road to the Park . The decorations of the houses by the way were rather poor . Instead of the ornamenting flags hanging from every window which every dingy little continental town displays , and which makes even dirty Dieppe a picture for the Emperor and Empress , evergreens arranged on Saturday , and which forfeited their title by withering through the day and night , formed the principal decorations , with the doubtful and uncomfortable insecurity of balconies supported apparently by slender columns composed of laurelleaves and roses . The unsightliness of triumphal arches and platforms was rejected by the good taste of

    the citizens , but the public buildings were completely disfigured by monster alphabets and other preparations for the night . The royal cortege passed swiftly along the lines of soldiery , and the spectators were orderly , well-dresse 8 , and not too vociferous . Not the least pleasing part of the __ spectacle was the comfortable , well-to-do , Appearance of the people assembled . As to the ladies in the windows or on the platforms—more elegant dresses , and it may be added more beautiful faces , could hardly be congregated in any other capital in Europe ; but the common people in the streets seemed , from their condition , to be enjoying their fair sbare of that prosperity which is visiting the other parts of the country . There was a p lumpness and sleekness in the countenances both of men and women

    which contrasted cheerfully with the painful descriptions that were given at the time of her Majesty ' s lnst visit . The absence of intoxication was also a marked feature in the crowd .

    HER VISIT TO THE EXHIBITION . On Tuesday the Exhibition presented a scene of gay magnificence . A space along the grand central hall was bound by ropes of crimson and white in ft direct line with the dais . Along theso one of seats filled with fashionably dressed l adies ; behind thorn , and in every available space ,, a dense mass , some courageously mounting statues ; Baily ' s " graces" outnumbered the muses ,- " Apollo" was em braced by a clinging lady in a pink bonnet ; and the Roman Emperors were adorned with Paris silk hats . Even tho terra

    fountain , regardless of tho tender nature of ^ cottu , had its weight to bear ; tho " cent aur" was mounted unhesitatingly , and tabinct looms and fireengines were crowded by adventurous fair ones . | arches of tlio galleries of the central ball were fiUcjj by parties occupying tho reserved seats—ainongw 11 Mrs . Dargan . On ordinary occasions the building pr «' Rents a too uniform mass of blue , the white > i cantll " leaves of the columns , and the yellow , white , re of the ribbed roof ; banners , painted arms , and lubew the nations ami manufacturers not affording suflici «

    relief to produce lightness of effect . But on th « occasion the softly blending colours of the ladies are marked by the sober black worn by tho fi " ^ produced a picturesque pomp and p leasant & Z The- only marring effect to tho harmonious " ^ J , and unity of the place was a number of p (> l ' ^ occupying the plaeo of gentlemen H < ? j ,. ; Hi , keep guard over tho loyal intentions of t' » lC ^ ladies along the . line . When the Queen entered , imiii-H aumg uie . line . w nen uuu huvuu , lefe M

    ^ applause , was at first subdued—partly in <» o « ; j ^ her Majesty ' s known wishes as to the " priv acy o ^ viuifc—and partly beeauso tho ladies and P " fl ^ wore too fashionable to bo enthusiastic . _ J * llfc * ^ j advanced up tho avenue tho enthusiasm 5 » crWl ^ ' ,, u tho cheo ring ran along tho galleries with '" " g ,, y echo . The whole scone looked very well . j ^ ,, bordering of ladies ; the groups of earnest-eye ^ men , bending forward in black coats ; the R » ^^ i variety of tho objects of art around , and t »« *> ^ excitement and festive feeling of - « H < h ° "—jjewfl ^ up u pcciio and circuuiHtuucou of unusual h « l > P

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 3, 1853, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03091853/page/2/