Dublin, with its broad streets and noble approaches, lends itself
admirably to a great pageant such as that of Wednes- day, and the police had not the slightest difficulty in preserv- ing order during the procession, which passed off without the slightest friction or mishap. The tact and sympathy shown by the Queen were equalled by the cordiality of her hosts. At no point of the procession did the temper of the populace fall below the level of respectful curiosity. The threatened " monster procession" of the Extremists in the evening nei-ded very little interference to secure its dispersal, the illuminations were witnessed by a dense but good-humoured crowd, and in spite of Mr. W. B. Yeats's appeal to the people to remember Mirabeau and abstain from cheering the Queen, they preferred to act in the spirit of the lines of another Irish poet who sang :—
" Blest for ever was she who relied
On Erin's honour and Erin's pride."
On Thursday the Queen spent a quiet day at the Viceregal Lodge, but her thought for "her Irish people" found wel- come expression in the new Army order for the formation of an Irish regiment of Foot Guards to be called the "Irish Guards."
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