THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO IRELAND.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 469, 26 December 1849, Page 2

THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO IRELAND.

On the evening of the 10th August, Queen Victoria quitted the metropolis of her Irish dominions, under circumstances such as any monarch might feel proud of. The scene of her departure exceeded all the previous displays of popular affection. After a memorable visit to Carton, the seat of the Duke of Leinster, her Majesty and the Prince were escorted to the water's edge by a distinguished cortege who accompanied them in the royal special train to Kingstown. Her Majesty then proceeded to take a farewell of the distinguished group around her. In the first place, her Majesty bade a warm and affectionate adieu to the Lady Lieutenant ; she then took Lord Clarendon by the hand and bade him a cordial adieu, and to the venerable and gallant veteran Sir Edward Blakeney she extended a similar favor. But in parting with her princely cousin, Prince George of Cambridge, her Majesty bestowed on him a less formal and more familiar salute, which made the said Prince George the envied of many, which was ratified by the cheers of the thousands assembled in the vicinity. Amidst the pealing of cannon and the cheers of all, the Queen stepped on board, followed by the Prince, the Royal children and her suite. The Royal yacht then moved off, and her Majesty, accompanied by the Prince Consort and the children, proceeded aft to the elevated space near the taffrail, where she was in full

view of the people, and remained there as long as she could have a distinct view of the features of the people who stood on the pier at which she embarked. Her Majesty then paced the deck fora little time, and, on approaching the pier at the extremity of the lighthouse, where vast numbers of the people had congregated, she parted with the two ladies in waiting with whom she had been, up to this, in conversation, looked towards the crowd, ran along the deck with the sprightliness of a young girl and, with the agility of a sailor, ascended the paddle box, which, as our readers are aware, is a tolerable high one, and was aJU most at its top before she was observed by Prince Albert, who for some time previouslj had been standing on its summit viewing the surrounding' scenery. Her Majesty on reaching the platform was assisted by Prince Albert, and taking his arm she gracefully waved her right hand towards the people on the pier, and in return was greeted by the plaudits of thousands who crowded towards the extremity of the pier. ~" ' - -•"■" '-• ;, The Government Gazette published in Dublin on the 11th August, stated the Queen's intention to create the Prince of Wales Earl of Dublin, as a testimony and a record of the healthful satisfaction which her Majesty had derived from the loyal feeling and kindness with which she had been re* ceived by the inhabitants of that metropolis, and in order to establish a connexion between his Royal Highness and he.- Majesty's Irish subjects. After a run of ten hours from Kingston, the Royal squadron entered the waters of Belfast, and anchored soon after five o'clock, on the morning of the 11th of August, off Cragavad Roads. At half-past one o'clock the Queen, Prince Albert, and Sir George Grey, Earl Fortescue, and the Royal suite left the Victoria and Albert yacht in an open boat, and proceeded on board the Fairy, and steamed up to the Custom-house quay, where the Mayor and other corporate authorities were received on board. The Mayor of the industrial capital of Ireland presented an address of welcome, and her Majesty was pleased to confer on him the honor of knighthood. The Queen on landing passed through High-street, Castle- street, and Donegalstreet, accompanied by Sir G. Grey and the Royal suite, and preceded by the Mayor visited the Linen-hall, the, Deaf and Dumb Institution, the Zoological' Gardens..r,anthtb.es j Queen's College. Nothing could exceed the enthusiasm of the populace. All that affectionate loyalty or chivalrous devotion could suggest was maintained throughout the entire of the Royal progress. Her Majesty returned to the Custom-house and reembarked on board the Fairy at six o'clock. After a somewhat boisterous passage from Belfast, the Royal squadron anchored below Greenock. A short time before neon, on the 14th of August, her Majesty arrived at Glasgow, in the Fairy, with the Vivid in her train, after having been received in her passage up the C lyde, with the warmest demonstrations of hearty and delighted loyalty. The honours, affectionate addresses, and other loyal demonstrations of which her Majesty and the Prince Consort were the objects, during their short sojourn in Glasgow, filled nearly two columns of the Times. Before her departure from Glasgow, her Majesty and the Prince visited Faculty-hall, and then, taking their seats in a special train on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company's Perth line, reached the last mentioned city at half-past three in the afternoon of the 14th of August. Her Majesty only intended to sleep at Perth, and to start for Balmoral on the morning of the 15th ; but the shortness of her Majesty's visit did not prevent numerous loyal demonstrations by the inhabitants^of Pe~rth. Tsy special ar- " rangement, M. Julien's fine band were stationed at the railway terminus to await the Queen's arrival, but Her Majesty came in so much sooner than was expected that the band had only just time to strike up the National Anthem. When Jber Majesty stepped on the platform, she atlihee recognized the accomplished leader, and exclaimed " OH ! here's Julien." The Royal party were accompanied by Sir G. Grey, Sir J. Clark, Colonel Gordon, Lord Fortescue, Mr. Anson, and the two Ladies-in- Waiting — Lady Jocelyn and the Hon. Miss Dawson. The latest account left her Majesty at Castleton of Braemar, whence another stage' would conduct the Queen to her beautiful Highland retreat at Balmoral.

By tbe Johanna Sarkies, barque, news from India to the middle of September bad been received at Hobart Town. Moolraj's sentence had been commuted to imprisonment for life in tbe fortress of Chunan. Ghoolab Singh had possessed himself of 150 pieces of artillery, and a'tcrert conflict waaapprt-

bended before be would give tbem up. Sir Charles Napier was expected to leave for England in March — to be succeeded by Sir "W. Goram. Six months gratuity was to be granted to the troops who had served in Moultan and the Punjaub. The cholera had committed frightful ravages in Siam ; in three weeks, within an estimated radius of 25 or 30 miles, it bad carried off thirty thousand of the population. — New Zealander, Dec. 15.