The Dublin Evening Post publishes an account of a remarkable
conversation at the Mime. Office, about the Queen's visit to Ireland. The Lord Mayor of Dublin came to town to present an address to the Queen, praying her Majesty to make the visit; and he had an interview with Sir James Graham on Monday. According to the report, the Minister's manner was very cordial and friendly; and he promised to learn her Majesty's pleasure as to the day when she would re- ceive the address on the throne. But he declared that, in spite of all rumours, the Queen's visit was a thing as yet unsettled—her Majesty. had never expressed such an intention to him. He then remarked on the way in which the rumours bad been received in Ireland. At first all was joy; and he could not see why that tone should have been altered by any speech of a Member in Parliament " He asked, how could it be expected that he would advise her Majesty. to proceed to Ireland, after it had been announced that the horses under the Royal carriage were to be affrighted in the streets of Dublin with the shouts of Repeal—that the sound was to force like a shot into the Royal Councils—that certain gentlemen were to ap- pear in their Repeal uniform of the Eighty-two Club at her Majesty's levee ? " And be looked significantly at the Lord Mayor. Alderman O'Brien deprecated judging Of the people by an article in a newspaper [the Nation]. Sir James retorted with the speeches and resolutions of Conciliation Hall. Then he passed to compliments on the Corporation and its address, and on the undoubted loyalty of the Irish people; and he closed the conversation by saying that he should probably learn the -Queen's pleasure on Saturday.
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