Happy as Queen Victoria has been in her public manifestations,
nothing that she has done has more thoroughly answered its ob- jects than the visit to Dublin and the Exposition of Industry there. Those who endeavoured to raise a cry against the Queen, • England, and the friendly impulses of the Irish themselves, have been obliged to break the fall of their own prophecy by asserting a general failure. There was nothing of the kind. The Queen's going to the Exhibition, with season-tickets for herself and her suite, her long stay, her minute examination, her purchases to the extent of thousands of pounds, delighted the Irish. The generally unpretending character of the whole visit—the absence of a guard —the fraternizing of the little Prince of Wales with the boys at the Royal Military Hibernian Hospital—made the Irish feel that the Queen and her family were their own; and her departure is followed by fond reports that she has looked out a future lodging for herself in "the Castle."
