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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 constantly dwelling upon the fate from which they could nbt run , and to which the eyes could not be shut , retained health denied to others who in a mistaken solemnity , ' cultivated > a cbnsta " nt = recollection , tit 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 unlikely 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 charge more for the accommodation : and the great dealer in cash for hire , the Bank , necessarilv 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 Membor ; but it has come into the hands of a landlord who will ably represent it . Lord Palmerston laid the foundation-stone of the new
Athenaeum with as much care and case as he employs in a Parliamentary repartee , or , formerly , in a biting despatch . lie did more—lie msule a wise speech , and talked homely philosophy of a very sound kind to his brilliant , and his humble , audience . The advantage of infant training , the pleasure and benefit derived from inte llectual exercise , ao facile in an age when knowledge is open to all , : iml the propriety of laying by in the hour /> f prosperity for the feeble years of old age : — All these formed easy topics , and Lord
Palmerstem treated them just us they should be treated oh a popular occasion , —neither too far above , nor : it all below , the 'Capacities of his hearers . He did more : i-. 'he pointed out that although Melbourne liad provided an infant-school , n mechanic ' s institute , ami a savings-bank , it had not yet provided a f ^ irls ' -sehool . There was something more than manly gallantry——there was good sense in his remarks on the importance of this institution . Depend upon it , tulucnted wives awe the best provenliven of Wuokguard huubiuufo .
Queen Victories visit to the Dublin Exhibition is a national eY&tit , more significant even than the great ceremony in Hyde Park , in 1851 , as a recognition of industry . For we in England did not need that a Cjiieen should open our Exhibition to show u $ that British 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 qfficio , 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 .
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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 lias been of the expected kind—made respectable by the justification for it in the " spirit of the Royal visit , aud 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 , travelling at her usifal rapid rate . Past " Basingstcke" —splendid j n scarlet cloth , banners , laurels , and flowers ; changing carriages at " Learning
ton " - —grand in gigantic arches , with more flowers , laurels , and banners ; lunching at Tamworth , amid banners , laurels , and flowers : and then passing all tho other towns at great speed , dashing- by loyal and noisy crowds at every station , and arriving at Holyhead , gay with dressed ships and a triumphal arch , at a littlo after seven o ' clock . Her Majesty then wont on board her yacht , and stayed there all night and tho next 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 Holyhcad . Tho royal yacht led the way , and behind her came the liansJiee , tho Terrible , and tho . Fairy . Tho Holyhcad mail-boat , the Anglia , vexed Lord Adolplms Pit / . clureuce by sailing round the squadron , the royal yacht excopted—thus showing her superior tjpeed . At twenty minutes past eight the Queen arrived at Kingstown , surprising the late Dublin people by this very early visit . The Lord Lieutenant was at breakfast when tho gun . s told him that his . Royal Mistress had landed . At this time Kingstown harbour was crowded with steamers , schooners , and yachts . When tho squadron became visible in tho ofling , those vessels wore all dressed with colours , ilnifl Hotting them oil'to the greatest advantage .
About ; a quarter bofhro eight tho fact of tho arrival of tli (! squadron was made , an it wore , officially known , by her Majesty's steamer La Jfoguc firing a royal salute , which had tho elled ; of considerably quickening' tho movements of the people . Tho quiot streets of Kingstown were at once , and an if by magic , filled with crowds of well-dressed people , rushing frantically down to tho beach . About tho same time a squadron of Horse Artillery galloped down to tho sea wall , where they also iire < l a salute an the Hquudron entered the harbour . A lifXlo before eight o ' clock tho i ) 0 th Uogimenl ; oamo down from Dublin and formed u guard of honour at ; tho landing-place . Largo bodies of police were also in attendance . Tho people , alter rushing hither and thither for some time , found at lnst tho platfornw and stations that wore ullottod to them , and
all became still timl hushed , in expectation nf 4-v landing . . ot ™ eroy ai The Queen lancted at a quarter past ten . The cheered , guns thundered , flags waved , a stir of ^^ and sounds was inado , ' and , standing upon a kind of 1 cony at the railway station , overlooking the hart ' the Queen turned round , and stood for a few m 0 XXT > looking 1 at the . livel y scene . She appeared niucli ple ^ i * She then went on by rail to Dublin , cheered by D j " standing at the stations , who saw a white speck in ° - 1 a blue carriage rushing past , and called it the Q At Westland-row there was the inevitable Lord Ma
with several other gentlemen in crimson robes . Th knelt down and gave up several large keys , the real k ^ of some imaginary lock and visionary gate in some suf posed wall surrounding the city . But . the Queen would not keep the keys , and the Lord Mayor had to 11 them back . Then in an open carriage , with lance before and behind , with people-lining the streets and soldiers at intervals , the Queen passed through Dubli —past Merrion-square , through College-green , West
moreland-street , over Carhsle-bridgej through the wid 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 ornamentinoflags 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 ni » ht 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 completel y disfigured by monster alphabets and other preparations for the night . The royal cortege passed swiftly aloii " the lines of soldiery , and the spectators were orderly , well-dressed , 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 maybe added more beautiful faces , could hardly be congregated in any other capital in Europe ; but the common people in tbe streets seemed , from their condition , to be enjoying their fair share of that prosperity whicli is visiting the other parts of the country . There was a plumpness 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 lost visit . The absence of intoxication was also a marked feature in the ci'owd . HEE VISIT TO THE EXHIBITION . On Tuesday the Exhibition presented a scene of gay magnificence . A space along tho grand central hall wa . s bound by ropes of crimson ami white m a direct line with tho dais . Along theso one row of seats filled with fashionably dressed ladies ; bohmd them , and in every available space , a dense mass , some courageously mounting statues ; ttaily ' s " graces" outnumbered tho muses ; " Apollo" was embraced by ft clinging lady in a pink bonnet ; and the Koinnn hmpcrors were adorned with Paris silk hats . Even the fountain , regardless of tho tender nnture of ^ twra cotta , had its weight to bear ; tho " centaur" was mounted unhesitatingly , and tabinet looms and Urcengines wore crowded by adventurous fair onus , arches of tho galleries ' of tho central hull were ii leu by par ties occupying tho reserved seats—amoun t Mrs . Dargan . On ordinary occasions tho building F ' fionta a too uniform mam of blue , the white acantn leaves of tho columns , ami tho yellow , whito , and » ^ of the ribbed roo /; banners , painted arms , arid wj '; . fc the nations and manufacturers not affording »* . relief to produce lightness of effect . Hut on tbw o ^ fctiou the softly blending colours of the Indies < " <• ^ ' marked by the sober black worn by the K 011 " 0 ^ produced a picturesque pomp and p letisuiifc g ' Tho only marring effect , to the harmonious i ^ and unity of the place was a number ok V ^ ' j () occupying tho plaeo of gentlemen B < ov ^ ' j ^ h keep guard over tho loyal intentions o ( ' - » ° ^ Indies along the line . When the Queen "" J ?^ , („ applause was at first subdued—partly m . ,, flu'r her Majesty ' s known wishes as to the " privacy ^^ visit ;—and partly beonuno tho . ladies ^ and f ?« ^ ^ wore too ' fashionable-to bo enthusiastic . _ i "' ] » n < l advanced up the avenue , tho onthusiaflm " ^ '' "" ^ ny «" the cheering ran along the galleries with i ^ echo . Tho whole scene looked very well . ^ ^ bordering of ladies ; the groups of Olirll ( , luOf , y n" ( 1 men , bending forward in blue-lc coats ; the « ,,, .,, 1 variety of the objects of art ; around , uu < l ' < ' JI |( 1 , 1 « excitement and festive feeling of all '''" Y ^ inC ^ fluJ up a bccuo aud circuinstancoM of unusual wVV
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842 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 3, 1853, page 842, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2002/page/2/
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