NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Roverric counts among its privileges that of sut,o.gesting im- mense exaggerations as to the effect of all connected with it ; but in spite of the legal maxim, " nullum tempus occurrit regi," the practical refutation must come, and royalty cannot pretend to pat it off. A London journalist reads about the excited fervour of the Queen's reception in Ireland, and at once assumes that dis- affection is gone for ever ; and he has scarcely written the words before we have new signs of turbulence and discord. "Hencefor- ward," writes the Times, " it will be impossible for a minority ridi- culous 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 mer- chants, all that was respectable among the clergy of the three de- nominations, 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 Ire- land." 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 eame.en shore, and we may assume that it is always so I "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 extend- mg "the influence of our holy religion." The Northern Whig, 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 ca- pital, a member sarcastically asked whether they were not still under a coercion act 7 And the Council has notice of a squabble about rescinding the address of sympathy with the French Revo- lution, set down in the records of the corporation. Religious dis- sension and foreign sympathizing reengage 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 as a dead leaf. But indeed, Sir George Grey is far too much advanced in useful knowledge to share the impudent servility of Canute's courtiers, and he an- nounced the Queen's approach to Scotland with the salvo of " weather permitting." The weather did permit at last ; and 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.
