ROYAL VISITS TO IRELAND. {From the Illustrated London News.)

New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 398, 6 February 1850, Page 3

ROYAL VISITS TO IRELAND. {From the Illustrated London News.)

The following record of Royal Visits previoui to that of her present Majesty, is of timely interest : — October 18, 1171, Henry IT. arrived at Crook, near Waterford, in Ireland, with a large army, having wiled two days previously from Milford Haven, with a fleet of four hundred ships. He proceeded immediately to Walcrfoid, and from, thence t 0 Lismore, Cashel, and Carrick-on-Suir — receiving everywhere the submission o f the Kings and Chieftains of the country. He then marched with his army to Dublin, tmi kept the Christmas of 1171 there, with the greatest magnificence, entertaining ull the Irish Chiefs, whom he astonished by his state and numerous retinue.—Henry purposed to remain in Ireland during the ensuing lummer, to effect the subjugation of the more remote pjrts ; but, being summoned to Normandy to meet the Pope's Nuncios, who had arrived to enquire into the deithof üßecket, he left suJdenly, sailing from Wexford on Etuter Monday, April 12, and arrived the same day at Portfinnan in Wales. John was the next Monarch who visited Ireland. Having plundered the Jews and other wealthy merchants of England, of money, to meet the expenses of his trip, he sailed from Haverfordwest with a large army, on June 3, 1210, and after twelve days' passage landed near Waterford ; proccsding through Thomaatotvn and Kilkenny, he hastened to Dublin, where ho remained but two days, and then sat out for the North. On the 19th of July he icached Carickfergus, remaining there for ten days, lie then returned to Dublin, , through all the chief townt that lay in his route, and ! sailed from thence on the 24ih of August, ai riving s-ifdly, in two days, at Fisgard, iv Wales. Nearly 200 years elapsed before another Sovereign visited Ireland. Richard 11. arrive! there, July, 1394, with a large army ; and having held his Court in great style in Dublin for nine months, returned again to England. In 1399 this Monarch again went to Ireland with an immense army, accompanied by his uncles «nd Prince Henry, afterwards Henry Y. of England. After five monUu spent in useli'ss parade, he was suddenly summoned to England by the rebellion of Lancaster, by which event he lo^t his kingdom and hit life. la March, 168!), James 11. arrived fiom Fiance at Kinsale in the county of Cork, to make a last stanl for his kingdom. Proceeding to Dublin he held a Parliament, and remained there until June, 1690, when he led out his army to meet Wil'iim IN., who was rapidly advancing towards him. The battle of the Boyne decided h's fatt>, and be fled in huste to Waterioid, where he embarked, July 3rd, for France, leaving his kingdom to his victorious son-in-law. Wiilutn 111. arrived ritCarri-kfergus June l<>, 1690, and on the l«t July fought the b.iltle which decided the fate of Britain. After a nluit say he left to take possession of his English throne ; and it wns not until George the Fourth's visit m 1821, that Ireland wat honored again whh the presence of Royalty. July 31, 1821, the Kng siiled Irom Portsmouth in the Royal yacht, but owing to unfavorable weather dM not arrive in li eland until August 12. Here he remained until the O'th of September, when he em burked in state at Kingstown. Thu public demonstrations with which, it wa9 intended to receive the King were in some degree prevented by the Queen's death, which took place during his Majesty's voyage. It is curious that, during the greater number of Royal visits to Ireland, the weather Bhould have been unusually boisterous aud unpropitious. We have said nothing of Cromwell's invasion, becauso it cannot be looked upon as a royal ono ; besides it is remembered in Ireland only with horror, und would stir uP feelings there which had better be permitted to slumber. The Monarchs who visited Ireland previoui to their accession to the throne, we shall content ourselveu with naming — they were John, Edward 1., Henry V., HeuryVlll., and William IV.

Fashion a. Tyrant.— She makes people lit up at night, when they ought to be in bed, iind keeps them in bed in the morning whin they ought to be up and doing. She makes her votaiies viait when they would rather stay at home— eat wheu they are not hungry, and drink when they arc not thirsty, Sim invadei their pleasures, and interrupts their business ; hhe compels them to dress gaily, either upon their own property or that of otheis ; she makes them through I fe .seek rest on a couch or anxiety, and leaves thorn in the hour of desolation on a bod of thorns.— Eliza Cook's Journal. Wastb Nor, Want Nor. — A gen'loman who had put aside two bottles of cupital al°, to recreate sotn* Iriend, discovered juit befoie dinner (hat his servant—a country bumpkin— had emptied them both. " Scoundrel !" said his master, " what do you menu by this ?" " Why, sir, I saw plain enough by the clouds that it were going to thunder, so I drank up the yule at oucc, lest it should turn smr, for iheie'd nothing 1 do abominate like waste."