NEWS OF THE WEEK.
NoTirmo could he more perfectly smooth or successful than the Queen's visit to Ireland. The rough waves which buffeted her little yacht in setting out from her island home, were not more powerless to disturb her course, than the grim phantoms of Irish grievances and disaffections were to divert the Irish from their own suo- e,ess. They, the people of Dublin, cooperating with the promoters of Crystal Palace ideas in England and foreign parts, aided by the Lord-Lieutenant, Mr. William Dargan, and several of their own countrymen' have got up a great commercial fête ; its success was a question, but is now a fact. It only wanted one thing to com- plete the demonstration-4he presence of the Queen. The Queen has come. Don't be glad, wrote the organ of superannuated Young Ire- land, and don't show that you value the last and greatest import for your Exposition—the Court. The people are glad, and they have broken through viceroyal proclamations in order to testify their sense of the Queen's kindness in coming, by illuminating their houses. The visit was not to have been paid "in state," but the very magnitude of the popular recognition demanded that much of the Queen's public movements should be conducted in "half-state." And all passed off admirably : the Exposition looked well in eyes the most blasé ; the ladies looked as lovely as the countrywomen of Thomas Moore could desire ; the people were patterns of good order; the addresses read well; the half-ceremonious half-unceremonious visitings were accomplished without a hitch ; everybody, from Queen to the humblest of the humble' was delighted with every- body else. Nay, it is suspected that Young Ireland himself was there without his parents and guardians or tutor, shouting as lustily as any. In truth, the arrangements on all sides were cre- ditably designed and excellently fal6Iled ; and the result is the deposit of much reciprocal good feeling.
