QUEEN VICTORIA'S WELCOME TO IRELAND. [From the Illustrated London News]

New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 407, 9 March 1850, Page 4

QUEEN VICTORIA'S WELCOME TO IRELAND. [From the Illustrated London News ]

Sad Erin! thy b.up lms boon silent too long ; Its stiings to thy touch throb icsponsivcno moic Thy voicr^onee attuned to the raptures of song, But iais.es a moan on thy desolate shore. Aiouse thoc, 0 Kiin ! look up through thy tears ; The Queen of the Isles in thy havens appears, With sisterly love, and all sympathies tiuo ;— Awaken thy harp— let it sound on her eais,— " Cead mile faille !—Erin aboo /' * The night of thy soirow shall melt in the mom ; Already the d'aikncss gives place to the day ;^ And thy child) en that sat on their thresholds forlorn, Look up to the sunshine that biightens the way. Kxult, then, 0 Eiin ! Victoui v shall bring, I'or the winter now passing, the gloiics of spring — For the dark- beating tempest, clear vistas of blue; — Andthemyiiadsnowwcepingshall smile as they sing — " Cead mile faille !— -Erin aboo !" As flow'is track'd the steps of the fairies of old, And lnlos encircled the spots where they stood, So Confidence, shewing its blessings around, Shall follow the steps of Victoria the good. Arouse thee, O Eiin ! with heart and with hand, She comes on an eirand of love to thy strand ; Look up, with thy sous, ever fervent and true, And let the glad chorus resound through the land — " Cead mWefailte !—Erin aboo !"

* Pionouncod lindemee lefalta! Erin a boo. "A hunched thousand welcomes ! Eiin for ever!"

The Rovai. Ci-meiery of Spain. — Lady Panshnwe thus describes the royal cemetery in the Chinch of the Escurial :■— " There I saw the most glorious jilace for the covering of the bones of the Kings of Spain that is po c sible to imagine. The descent is about thirty steps, allot" polished marble, arched and lined on all sides with polished jasper. On the left hand is a laifie vault in which the bodies of their kings, and of the queens that have been mothers of kings, lie in silver coffins for one year. On the opposite side lie the queens, who had no sons at their death, and all the children who did not inherit. At the bottom of the stairs is the Pantheon, eight feet square, and I should guess "bout sixty feet over. The whole lining is of JHsper, curiously carved in figures, flowers and imagery. A silver branch for foity lights, which is vasily lich, hangs from the top by a silver chain, wit'iin three ytids of the bottom, and is mnde with fjreut art : as is alfo a curious knot of jasper on the floor, in the reflection of which the branch and its lights are perfectly seen. The bodies lie in jasper stones, every coffin supported by four lions of jasper. There are si'ven arches supported by jasper pillars, with roofs curiously wrought. The one opposite the entrance contains a very curious altar and crucifix of jasper."