NEWS OF THE WEEK. [From the Spectator, August 18.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 461, 2 January 1850, Page 4

NEWS OF THE WEEK. [From the Spectator, August 18.]

Royalty counts among its privileges that of suggesting immense exaggerations as to the effect of all connected with it ; hat in

spite of the legal maxim " nullum tempus occurrit regi," the practical refutation mast come, and royalty cannot pretend to put it off. A London journalist reads about the excited fervour of the Queen's reception in Ireland, and at once assumes that disaffection has gene for ever; aud he has scarcely written the words before we have new signs of turbulence and discord. " Henceforward," writes the Times, " it will be impossible for a minority ridiculous in numbers, contemptible, in talent, and of no character or moral weight in the Irish community, to blow up the ashes of civil discord, as in times past. We now find that the gentry, the merchants, all that was respectable among the clergy of the three denominations, the smaller tradesmen, and even the mob of the three most important cities in Ireland, have been on the side of order, civilization, and loyalty . . . For a deep conviction of the truth of what we now assert we are indebted to the Queen's visit to Ireland." By the same means we now learn, that in Ireland the wind always blows from the south, and that Kingstown pier is crowded with an immense concourse of finely dressed people ; at least it was so when Queen Victoria came on shore, and we may assume that it is always so ! "We now know our power, and will no longer consent to be at the mercy of a score or two of rogues or boobies." A satisfactory assurance as the sounds of turbulent discord, suspended while the Queen was present, are renewed on her departure ; for which, indeed, they Scarcely waited. Nay, some of the old quarrel is revived by the visit itself. The Dublin Evening "Mail solemnly complains of a report that the Queen spoke to the Roman Catholic Prelates about the duty of extending "the influence of our holy religion." The Northern Whiff, a discreet journal of Belfast, exults because the Queen declined to visit a sectarian school for deaf, dumb, and blind children, and did visit Queen's College — one of the "godless." An allusion having been made in the Dublin Town Council to the quiet of the capital, a member sarcastically asked whether they were not still under a coercion act? And the Council has notice of a squabble about rescinding the address of sympathy which the French Revolution, set down in the records of the corporation. Religious dissension and foreign sympathizing re-engage the heated heads of the Irish before the elements have effaced the foot-print of the Sovereign on the soil of Ireland. If the Queen had flatterers like Canute, they would have been set right by those elements, which showed no respect for'the Royal movements. The Ocean Queen we call her ; the waves knew her not, and to the winds she was a dead leaf. But indeed, Sir George Grey is far too much advanced in useful knowledge to share the impudent servility of CanuteVcourtiers, and he announced the Queen's approach to Scotland with the salvo of " weather permitting." The weather did permit at last ; and the Queen Victoria, after a glimpse of Glasgow, all too rapid for the wishes of the worthy citizens, and a hasty interview with Fair Perth, is safely housed at Balmoral.