EMBARKATION OF THE QUEEN AND PRINCE ALBERT FOR IRELAND AND THE ROYAL PROGRESS. [From the Morning Herald, August 2.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 454, 8 December 1849, Page 4

EMBARKATION OF THE QUEEN AND PRINCE ALBERT FOR IRELAND AND THE ROYAL PROGRESS. [From the Morning Herald, August 2.]

Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and suite, embarked yesterday on board the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, Captain Lord Adolpbue Fitzclarence, G. C. H., at half-past three o'clock in the afternoon ; and the different members of the Court and household, the «er-

vants, attendants, &c, having also embarked, the Victoria and Albert with the Royal standard at the main, proceeded, under a salute from Cowes Castle, en route to Cork, Dublin, Belfast and Greenock. With the Victoria and Albert were the following steam vessels, under the command of Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence : — The Stromboli, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Lord A. W. Beauclerpk; the.Sphinx, 6, steam sloop, Commander Hewlett ; the Black Eagle, Admiralty steam-yacht, Master Commander Cook; and the Vivid, steam-packet, Master Commander Smithett. One of the men-of-war sloops proceeded a-head of the Royal yacht, and the other followed astern, the smaller vessels being stationed on the quarters of the stately Victoria and Albert. The Royal squadron got into regular order soon after starting, and proceeded at a very good speed towards the Needles, betokening a fair, happy, and prosperous passage for our beloved Sovereign in this her Majesty's first visit to the Emerald Isle. It was arranged that the Royal squadron should bring up for the night yesterday, in the same beautiful locality in which the Royal squadron of 1847 anchored on her Majesty's visit to the Clyde, but the weather being so very fine it was not at all improbable that the Royal squadron would go on as far as Weymouth last night, and leaving that anchorage at daylight this morning and carrying the fine weather with them, go right on to Cork without stopping at any intermediate port. At Cove, the Commander-in-Chief, Rear Admiral Manley Dizon, has made his dispositions for receiving the Royal squadron. The \ Admiralty left it to the choice of the gallant and respected admiral to shift his flag from the Crocodile to any other ship that might be there ; and it was expected that his selection would fall upon the Ganges, 84, Captain Smith, C ; B. He would then have under his orders that ship and the Hogue, 60, screw two-decker, Captain Macdougall, and the Arrogant > 46, screw frigate, Captain Robert Fitzroy, if she should arrive in time from the Mediterranean, to fire Royal salutes on the arriral of the Victoria and Albert. We have already reported the arrival of her Majesty's screw yacht tender Fairy, Master , Commander Welsh, at Cove. That vessel, together with the Trident, 2, steam-vessel. Lieut. Commander Risk, the Lucifer, 2, Lieut. Commander £. A. T. Luyd, and the Banshee steam-vessel, Master Commander •W. Smithett, now assembled at Cove, will also be under the orders of Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, and form part of the Royal squadron on the coast of Ireland. The commander-in-chief at Cork will most likely attend on her Majesty in the royal visit to Cork, but he will not accompany the squadron on its departure from Cove for Dublin. The Royal squadron on leaving Cove will be composed of all the above named vessels, with the exception of the Ganges, the Hogue, and the Arrogant, being transferred to Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence's command. Commander Wolfe, who has been surveying at Valentia, has been recalled from his surveying duties, and is in readiness at Cove to pilot her Majesty in and out of Cork Harbour. It is not improbable that the Queen may visit Waterford en route from Cork to Dublin, either from choice or from stress of weather; and to provide for such a .casualty, Commander G-. A. Frazer, surveying on the south east coast, in the Sparrow, ketch, has been directed to hover near the Saltee, so as to be in readiness to pilot the Royal squadron into Waterford Harbour. Off Kingstown the Royal squadron will be received by the Dragon, 6, steam-frigate, Captain W. H. Hall, the gallant captain assisting to place and anchor the Royal vessels, the following then forming the Royal naval cortiga of steamers :— • Yatchts and Packets. — Victoria and Albert, Royal Yatcht, Captain Lord A. Fitzclarence ; Fairy screw-tender to ditto, Master Commander Welch : Bl^ck Eagle, Admiral yatcht, Master commander Cook ; Banshee, steam-packet, Master Commander W. Smithett; Vivid, steam-packet, Master Commander L. Smithett. Men-of- War Escort. — Hogue, 60 guns, 500 men, screw two-decker, Captain M'Dougall; Arrogant, 46 guns, 450 men, screw frigate, Captain ß. Fitzroy; Dragon, 8 guns, 200 men, frigate, Captain W. H. Hall ; Sphinx, 6 guns, 160 men, sloop, Commander Hewlett ; Stromboli, 6 guns, 160 men, sloop, Commander Lord A. Beauclerk ; Trident, 3 guns, 165 men, gun-vessel, Lieutenant Risk ; Lucifer, 2 guns, 55 men, gun-vessel, Lieutenant E. Lloyd. On the departure of the Royal squadron from Dublin, all the above-named vessels will proceed to some distance with her Majesty, when the Hogue, Arrogant, and Dragon will part .company with the Royal standard, and proceed to Dtvonport.

Royal Visit to the Hindostan. — The directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company were on Monday honoured by the presence of Her Majesty and Prince Albert on board the Hindoostan. This fine ship, which has lately been entirely refitted for the mail service in the Indian seas, has attracted public attention in no ordinary degree, and Her Majesty having been pleased to express a desire to inspect her, the vessel was accordingly sent down from Southampton, to the moorings of the RCyal yatcbt, off Osborne House. The day was remarkably fine and the sea without a ripple, and at three o'clock in the afternoon Her Majesty and Prince Albert embarked in the Royal barge, steered by Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence. As the Royal party neared the steamer, the yards were manned, and on Her Majesty stepping upon the gangway platform the band struck up the National Anthem. The directors of the company were in attendance at the gangway, and her Majesty took the arm of Sir John Pirie, and went through the ship, minutely inspecting the saloon and cabins for passengers, and the accommodation for the ship's company. Her Majesty was then conducted to the spar-deck, where several gentlemen connected with the company had the honour of being presented to her Majesty, viz. : — Mr. A. Anderson, M. P., for Orkney, Mr. Patrick D. Hadow, Mr. Richard Andrews, Mr. J. R. Engledue, and Mr. Andrew Lamb. His Royal Highness Prince Albert was pleased to take great interest in all the arrangements connected with the internal economy of, the vessel, and asked many questions on the subject of ventilation, with the best principles of which His Royal Highness appeared perfectly familiar. After passing some time in the engine-room, and afterwards in the holds and mail-rooms, the Prince returned to the deck, and the Royal party then left, after a stay of about an hour, Her Majesty and the Prince expressing to Sir John Pirie their gratification with the inspection of so fine a merchant steamer. In the Royal suite were the Honorable Colonel Phipps, Major-General Werayss, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, Colonel Seymour, Countess of Desart, and the Honourable Miss Stanley. As Her Majesty's barge left the Hindoostan's side, the yards were again manned, and three hearty cheers greeted the Royal patty, the band playing " Rule Britannia." — Nautical Standard, July 21. Marriage of Lola Montes (Countess de Landseeldt.) — This extraordinary lady, whose connection with late events in Bavaria will be fresh in the recollection of our readers, was married on Thursday, to George Stafford Heald, Esq., (of the 2nd Life Guards). The ceremony took place first at the French Catholic Chapel, in King Street, Portman-square, and afterwards at St. George's Church, Han-over-square. Mr. Heald is a very young man not having long attained his majority. He is, we believe, related to Mr. Heald, M. P. for Stockport, and possessed of a very large fortune. Mr. Justice Coltman, one of the puisne judges of the Court of Common Pleas, hai ving sat for two remarkably hot days, the 6th ' and 7th of July, in his crowded Court at the Old Bailey, during the trial of the Sicilian insurgents, was seized on the 9ih with symptoms of cholera, of which he died in ten hours. The City of London had determined to commence a plantation of Connaught, on similar principles to that of Ulster in the time 1 James I . An association for a similar purpose had also been formed iv Scotland. The Railway companies were continuing to make Hudson disgorge his ill-got gains, and the Times says the structure of his fortune seems destined to be as transitory as that of a Russian ice palace. The Misleaders of the Working Classes. — You have been led too easily, and given your confidence too readily. A class has risen up amongst you, who get their living by agitation and organization. They toil, not with their hands but with their tongues. The loom and the plough know them not ; yet they always affect to speak in the name of the working classes. They fawn on your worst faults, and yelp and snarl at all other classes, or at those of your own class who resist their dictation. They are fed by your enemies, or pretended friends, to make tools or fools of you for selfish purposes. I write no names under the picture, and am content to be called a dreamer if nobody knows anything j of the originals. Agitation, thus pursued, is not an honest trade. Experience has now shown that great care is necessary to prevent it becoming either useless or perilous. Meeting after meetings, and resolutions upon resolutions, pass by the ruling classes " like the idle wind whic ( h they regard not." You excite each other while society is contemptuously calm around you ; or only'in the timid it changes its calmness for alarm. And the honestly fervid and incautious are laid hold of, to expiate their rashness by enduring judgments due to criminality, while the crafty sti-

raulators skulk into darkness until circumstances are again favourable for following their avocation.