The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-13 00:00:00

VISIT TO

THE QUEEN'S

IRELAND.

Satuidty's Express announced the departure of the
Queen from Dublin and embarkation for Bedfast ;
but as the hen. se of the hour at which the despatches
were r ceived preclud.l our giving more than a brief
statement f these facts, we now give more detailed
accounts of her Majesty's progress, cminiencing with
the following letter from our Dublin correspondent :

DUBLIN, AUGUST 11, ATTEIMOON.
The town wears • moat deserted appearance after
the crowds of the week. All this morning the car-
riages with country folk were driving out of the
city, takirg their occupants home. And people,
after all the excitement of the last fetar days, wear an
air of lassitude.
The scene last night at the monumt of the Queen's
departure was perhaps more beautiful then any
part of the whole pageantry of the week.
The vessels of war lay at right angles to
the jetty, so that their yards were parallel to the
scectatoes= and when every yard was manned they
had a truly beautiful appearance, especially when the
war steamers began to move, for the tars on the
yards never quitted their re Hone standing,
but remained, hulding each others hands, firm
in their dizzy eminence. All the vessels sa-
luted, and the effect of the clouds of smoke rolling
to a indward gave a mezzotint effect to the whole
seen , breaking the straight lines of the rigging, and
giving effect and back-ground to the animated pic-
ture. The cheering from the thousands on the shore
was long protracted, and the gratification of the
people at seeing her Majesty was immense. The
Queen, ceming upon the large p'atfurm before the
multitude, bowed, to use a common phrase, almost to
the pound. She inclined her head lower than I ever
saw her do it to England. As was said of Charles
Kemble's inimitable bow, her Majesty's salutations
were " demoostr.if cc in the highest degree.* In
fact she could actively have hawed lower. The royal
children were in the Nmk-ground, and followed after-
wards, and intense gratification was felt at seeing
then all in a cluster, walking quietly, and dressed so
plainly, and without the pomp of guards.
Just as the Queen cleared out of the harbour, the
rain which had been lowering over the Dublin moon-
Mins, mane down, and the cry was Satire qui petit.
There was a general rush to the railway doors, and a
scene of ruffianism ensued, in which ladies were beaten
by police (!), end gentlemen and constables engaged in
a general meth. For four hours after the Queen's de-
wtore there was a scene at the terminus of the
Dublin and Kingstown Railway that brines all des-
criptiat. The rain best down in torrents, and a
crowd of respectable, were outside the doors jammed
together. Several people, in despair, though fur-
nished previously with tickets, got in outside cars
(fur there were none covered to be had), and faced the
road to Lublin in a heavy fall of rain.

The DIM* Evening Pad has the following.
With the sincerest pleasure we are enabled to announce
that it is the Queen's intention to create the Prince of
Wales Earl of Dublin, as a testimony and a rtcord of the
beartlelt sati•fectiim which her Majesty has derived from the
loyal (*slings and kindness with wirls she has been received
by the inhabitants of the metropolis, and in eider at once to
establish a eoneerion between his royal highness and her
majesty's Irish subjects.
The recollection that this title wee tome by the ills,-
Mous father of her Majesty, whose claims upon the grati-
tude of Inahown have been so appropriately acknowledged
since her Majesty came to this country, will render the
revival of the title in the penes rf his grandson a sown of
additional notification to the public.
The Trince of Watts is also the Duke of Cornwall he
tneiand, and of Rothmy, in 8c Aland ; and the title of Earl
of Dublin will, in like manner, always hereafter be borne by
gm heir apparent to the crown of these realms.

KINGSTOWN HARBOUR, FRIDAY Evestsio,
6 o'cl.oca.
The harbour presents a most animated scene. MI
the yachts are dressed with their Bags, and the most
astounding largo mobs of well-dressed people I ever
Jaw packed together in such a space are on the jetty,
and even the piers running such lengths into the sea
ass lined with long lines of people. the steamers are
pre,laring for starting, their funnels smoking, and the
stall getting up. As usual, it is Queen Victoria's
own weather. The ass is delightfully calm. Num-
bers capnot get down in time to witness the de-
parture. On arriving, at a little after 2 o'clock, at
the railway terminus, I found all the entrances
blacked up. I mounted on a car, and eame off hero
as fast u I could. The scene on the road down baffles
all description; it was really a perilous undertaking,
from the rushing of all kinds of vehicles, public and
private. I was often reminded of Lady Morgan's de-
scription of an Iris!: jaunting car, " a short proems to
diatom' ion "

The crow& are beyond all description. All Dub-
fin seem to base come down bete, and how we are
to get beck will puzzle us in a few bonne, so many
*ill try to get home .n order to be at the ball to-night.
The roads about are all crammed with C3lTiOrB of
all triode, drawn up in rows and filled with ladies.
The whole memo is gay, exhilarating, and Ih is joy

ARRIVAL AT THE TERMINUS, WESTLAND-ROW.
Prom so wily • period as tea o'c'oek there were crowds
treetrub:ed l this locality. The windows were filled with
fair occepinta, anxiously expecting • farewell look at the
lances. 1
A guard of himear of the 71st Regt , with band, trumpets, I
sad colours, and the band of the 48th Regt., was present to
native the royal party.
The Freenson'a Journal says; fa the earlier part of the
day our citizens, knowing that the Qum had travelled into
the nest county of Kildare, and would remain moil sown
time in the ahem gin at Carton, on her visit to the Duke of
Leiester, continued in the pursuit of their ordinary avoca-
'iona, not :caring to lose the business advantages alai&
the crow& now in Dahlia afforded ; but about two o'clock
the applicants foe this..as at the Westland row offices
bream more urgent, Crowds pretext in as each train
was about to start, till about the hour of three o'clock,
whin the pressure of people became so enormous par-
ticularly in the second-caw department, that it Income me.
menu to clue the office against further trocaiscuous intros.,
and to allow nnly so many is as It was calculated would fill
(melt succeeding train. Before this system, however, had
been carried into previa', and when the dcors were first shut,
sa hameasecrowd of persons, all of the more respectable class,
were, we must not say congregated, but crammed into the
space between the doors and we ticket offices inside. All
egress upwards was prevented by the closing cattle gates lead-
ing to droplet:ors stain, and all escape outwards was put rut
of the question by the pressure of the crowd within against
the doors leading to the lottest. All were jammed seainst
each other so closely that there was no room to move hand
or limb; the heat sudepressure became intense, the cries for
air, sir, and the shrieks of females eulogies' with the angry
adjurations of men suffering the aeo.t dreadful pressure to
order to save sisters, mothers, or wives, from what seemed to
he positive destruction. It was, in short, the black-hole of
Calcutta *mew/ at modifi 4. A cry arose that ladies were
SWOODinit, and the confusion and dismay was fearful, whilst
• hundred voices, husky wi h exhaustion, celled
kr "air, air." A gentleman near the window
at this juncture (we were toll a director of the company),
seeing tho ezhatrited and suffocating condition of the 'tit-
terers around him, deliberately disengaged his umbrella, and
with Sits ferule smashed every pane of glass in the window
fume, thus letting in a welcome current of fresh air oat the
saflocitirg crowd. He was thanked in many a grateful and
long-drawn breath by the sufferers. At length the bell rang
above, the gates leading to the pl rtforna were opeatd, and •
rash kook place in which sauce gds pad was the order of the
day.
At • few minutes before 6 o'clock the arrival of the Mar-
to s of Lensdowne, Lord and Lady Suirdale, and other dis-
tinguish, d persons, gave note of the apf roach of royalty,
and at 6 o'clock the royal corrdge arrived, with an escort of
the earalsineers and outriders.
Her Majesty, the Prince, and the rest of the royal family,
having entered the royal railway carriage, and the remainder
of the party the first-class carrilres allotted for their amnia-
mod Ition, the train, at 12 minutes past 6, left Westland-rum
te riotous.
The train proceeded at the ordinary pace, and ',try roof-
top, every wind ier of the houses on either side, added their
coutiogeats of expressive loyalty and attention.
Every hedge-row from which a glimpse could be caught
was rife with joy and animation. The walls of Beggar's-
bash Barracks iniVlel with additive waving their caps; the
stations on the line afforded an easy opportunity of seeing
the train, and advantage was most gladly seixed upon by
anxious ocespaats—asen, women, and childreo, to swell the
general enthusiasm. Indeed, the whole progria, might be
considered as if lined wish human beings, young and old,
rich a-cl ptar, ell maul estiog the one rneruns spontaneous
reeling of love and loyalty.
ARRIVAL AT KINGSTOWN.

When public interest was excited to the utmost, and the
vast crowds had been, through their anxiety, subjected to
several disappointment", the bud swell of numberless
voices at length proclaimed the fact that her gracious Ma-
jesty and her illustrious consort had reached the terminus.
As the royal train neared this point, the shouting of the
people extended along the line of railing opposite Rash-
borne's Hotel was most enthusiastic, end the tidings of the
Queen's arrival was heralded along the line with electric
rapidity.
The reception-room at the railway was most tastefully or-
namented with evergreens and shrubs from the gardens of the
Royal Dublin Society and the College Botanical Gardens;
but the grand coup &ail was that offered when the Queen
and Prince Albert, with the princes and princesses, advanced
upon the terrau, and gazed around upon the uplifted counte-
nances that far and near were directed to the one distinguish-
ing point. The eye of royalty rested on the distant east pier,
black with the congregated multitudes ; then on the splendid
array below and within the privileged barriers; and although
the weather was then lowering and dark, occasional breaks
in the clouds, revealing the blue above, brought out the
distsat landscape in clear relief, and Killiney Hill, Howth,
and the several datinguisLing characteristics of the bay
were sufiriently observable. The guard of honour consisted
of a company of each of the infantry regiments In garrison—
the lot Royals, 24 Queen's Own, the 40th, 48th, 65th,
60th Rifles, and 71st Highland Light Infantry. The em-
barkation took plane at twenty minutes to seven o'clock,
and it was a sight to be remembered for a life, the ardent
devotion manifested as the vessel was about to depart. It
was a scene to dwell upon in the memory rather than to
describe, and including in it many of those minute traits
which would lose hail of their charm and grace in the
narration.