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, DUBLIN giveeliaaewAkie to.the Prince of Wales; whose creation by patent to be--"-Earl of Dublin" was announced in Tuesday's Gazette. The title is conferred upon the boy Prince and his heirs Kings of thia United Kingdom; therefore it will henceforth go

with the Monarchy and not with i

the Princedom of Wales. It s strange that so shadowy a boon to Ireland should be expected to do some sort of good in that country—stranger still that it is likely enough to do some good. But the direct reciprocation even of a titular honour hetween the Queen's heir and Ireland's capital at least assures the impressible Irish that they are thought of in the highest quarters : to the sufferer sympathy is dearer even than help, but royal sympathy means help.

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