10 SEPTEMBER 1853, Page 4

IRELAND.

The last days of the Queen's visit were well filled with incidents; her Majesty showing that activity which has become proverbial. On Thurs- day she visited the Exhibition betimes; and the carriages were ordered for Powerscourt, but the rain prevented the execution of the projected trip. On Friday the Exhibition was again visited ; Prince Albert reviewed the cavalry in Pineal' Park ; and the Prince of Wales presented a set of colours, given by the ladies of Dublin, to the boy-soldiers of the Royal Hibernian Military School. The Prince made a little speech on the occa- sion; telling the boys that they were soldiers' sons, and would know how to value the colours. In the course of the afternoon, the Queen planted two trees in the gardens of the Viceregal Lodge, as a memorial of her visit; and carried away a sod containing the national trefoil (the im- mortal " shamrock ") as a souvenir. Her Majesty and Prince Albert also visited the Earl and Countess of Howth at thew castle, which com- mands a noble prospect On Saturday the Queen visited Dublin Castle; and subsequently the National Schools. On her return from the latter visit, a man was seen to throw something into the Queen's carriage : he was instantly arrested: the people, under the impression that he had meditated an attack on the Queen's person, made a rush at him, but were kept off by the Police. The missile was only a petition, imploring her Majesty to grant him some means to recover the sum of 501. which he had lent to an officer, and which he could not get refunded.

In the afternoon of Saturday, Prince Albert inspected the model-farm at Glasnevin ; and soon after five o'clock the Queen's second visit to Ire- land terminated, by her embarkation in the Victoria and Albert yacht. It is reported that her Majesty dispensed with an armed escort in her drives the moment it was represented to her that such an escort might be thought to argue a want of confidence in the people.

Newspaper readers will augur, from the ecstatic reporte of our con- temporaries, that the Royal visit to Dublin has evoked a most tre- mendously enthusiastic demonstration. It has done nothing of the kind. It has been a flat failure. We cannot account for the re- ports which we have read, for to our own actual knowledge they are as like the truth as Hyperion to a Satyr. Ask any one who has been in Dublin during the past week, whether the streets were bursting with the throng—whether the welkin stormed with ap- plause—whether all Dublin swarmed forth in the Queen's train—and you shall be amazed. We have seen as great a crowd in our streets upon a Lord Mayor's day, and far more enthusiasm at a ward meeting The grand visit to the Exhibition was undeniably a magnificent display Ten thousand of the best-dressed people in Dublin make a pleasant spectacle, especially when two-thirds of the mob are in muslin. But is the truth to be told ? we fear that even among the season-tickets there was a great deal more of the spirit of eight-seeing than of unsophisticated loyalty. Certain it is that there was no spontaneous enthusiasm. Such a thing as a true Irish cheer Queen Victoria has not heard since she eame to Ireland. . . . . In fine, the "Queen's weather" has lost hi Ireland its proverbial signification. On Wednesday and Thursday the air was as cold as November, and the rain incessant Every relic of enthusiasm. thawed under that perpetual drizzle ; and the week of the Queen's visit is likely to be widely and particularly remembered in Ireland by catarrh and rheumatism, soaked hay, and lodged wheat. —Nation, Sept 3. There is a very large, and, we grieve to say, a very influential body of Irishmen, who held aloof from the national jubilee, and would have frozen her Majesty, if they could, by their frigid and uncheering aspect Every one of our readers will know at once that we mem the frequenters of the " hfedireval Court," who used to repair to that chamber as to a rookery. The floor was positively black with them ; but from the moment that the first gun was fired, announcing the approach of the British Queen to our shores, until the smoke of the receding yacht had disappeared from the horizon, that gorgeous collection of vestments and candlesticks seemed to have lost all its attractions A very considerable number of the fraternity had another, and what they of course deemeda higher service, to attend to. Their lord and master had summoned them to appear in his court at Thurles; and whilst the Queen of England was receiving the congratulations of her loyal subjects in Dublin, the Sovereign of Rome had assembled around the chair of one of his Satraps in Tipperary some of the most active and persevering foes to her authority.—.Dublin Evening ifail, Sept 5.

The Dublin Evening Past states that the Queen has granted a pension of 801. to the Reverend William Hickey, a Protestant clergyman, well known to the world as a writer on agriculture under the name of "Mar- tin Doyle."

Last week the Cork Reporter insinuated a charge against Mr. Maguire, the Member for Dungarvan, that he had offered his services to the Mi- nistry on condition that they prevailed on Mr. Edmond O'Flaherty to withdraw his petition against Mr. Maguire's return. Mr. Maguire re- torted that the charge was a "lie." Mr. Commissioner Murphy imme- diately wrote to Mr. Maguire, asking him, whether he did not request Mr. Murphy to wait on Mr. Hay-tar and the Duke of Newcastle to induce them to obtain the withdrawal of the petition : "What equivalent," Mr. Murphy asks, "had you to offer them for their interference?" Mr. Maguire replies, by admitting that he not only asked Mr. Murphy's as- sistance, but that Mr. Murphy volunteered it ; and that others had also been asked. "But" writes Mr. Maguire, "that I authorized any man to make a corrupt compact on my behalf, is a lie." Mr. Maguire con- siders that he has claims on a Liberal Ministry; for he was, is, and ever will be, a Liberal : and he says that although he sat with the independent Irish Members, he always deprecated a factious policy. (Mr. Murphy now states distinctly that Mr. Maguire did authorize him to say that "ho would not oppose the Government'] Another division of the tenantry of Lord Campbell assembled on festive occasion last week at Barrow; with Lord Campbell's son, Mr. W. Camp- bell, in the chair. The chiefspokesman was the Reverend Peter Daly, pariah priest; who repeated the sentiments conjointly expressed by Lord campbell and Mr. Kenny at Moycullen. He said— is Wide& ef the intercourse between a landlord and tenant is, that the former oughtto be the-temporary father of his tenantry, and that the tenant should be obedient to the landlord and punctual with him. That is the (latrine that would wish to-see sustained in the relations between landlord mid tenant, and which would, I am sure, be for the interest of both. And the priest should also exercise his influence to see that the landlord is dealt fairly with, and that the people are comfortable and happy." The " promise " supposed to have been given by Lord Campbell, that there shall be no more eviction; of course caused the liveliest satisfaction among the tenantry.

At the weekly meeting of the North Dublin Union the Guardians re- jected, by 21 votes to 12, a resolution proposing to disconnect the Union schools from the National Board of Education.

The latest accounts of the crops in Ireland are of a mixed character. The Dublin market was comparatively quiet on Tuesday, but there was a general tendency to "hold back." On the other hand, the potato crop is, by general consent, admitted to be unusually good : "we have had nothing like it since 1846," writes Mr. John Lamb, a well-known Quaker corre- spondent of the Northern Whig. On the same authority we learn, that there is a greater breadth of land under flax and green crops this year than there was last year, in the province of Ulster. The weather had improved.