Lord Ripon and Mr. Morley were entertained at lunch by
the (acting) Lord Mayor of Dublin yesterday week, when the toast of "The Queen" was actually proposed, and drunk "with loud cheers," says the Times, by the majority of those present. Some of the guests, however, retained their seats, and did not join in the toast. We intimated last week our belief that if it were necessary to give dramatic effect to the compliment to Lord Ripon and Mr. Morley, Irishmen could easily swallow a little difficulty of this kind, though we hardly thought that under the actual circumstances they would make the effort. It does credit to the impression produced upon the Lord Mayor's guests by Lord Ripon and Mr. Morley, that the company were equal to the effort. Unquestionably it was not so much the Queen's health that was drunk, as the health of the Royal mistress whom Lord Ripon and Mr. Morley had both served.
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