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

address tom the Lord Mayor and corporation, who'
were all clad 'n those Vme-honmarei costumes, which,
unhappily, do not convey any idea of &Reify except
to the wearer,. Her Majesty returrei the keys, wi.h
a moat graSoos answer, to their right honourable
custodian, whose earlier. have fallen in in its sp-
pointed place, the procession moved on as quickly as
was contattent with form and decorum, nerves Mer-
rion-equare. down Clare-street, Nassau-street,Graf on-
street, Colo ge-green, Westmoreland-street, Sackville
street, and onwards to its final dediaatirn. No par-
ticular feature marked its progress. Garlands, ban-
ners, and as much greenery as if " Birnam Wood"
had truly " come to Duneinane," caught the eye in
1;9, and dense sucteasion. The windows g'eamed
with bright eyes and gala costume, while below the
vast cr.rwd kept surging en, the awful hum of a hun-
drel human voices being cmtinually
heard, save when b'oken by the loud shout
of welcome as her Majes y became visible to swore-
sive portions of her great national body guard. The
military lined the streets at long irrervals, and so
orderly was the conduct of the pea,tle, that their
office was nearly a Meteor", sive when that mysteri-
ous dog who appears in all crowd., and frantically
rushes in to the reserved places, celled for some slieht
exorcise of their courage aed discipline. Theappear-
mos of Sackville-sheet I shall not soon forget. Its
lofty houses seem-d actually alive, so thickly packed
were the smiling faces at the windows and the vast
area below was completely filled with the people. I
am old enough to recallect the massage of George the
Fourth through this street, and could not he'p feeling
that the present event contrived meet favourably
with its predicessar. The reception of the King was
a mad phreney, the people flinging up their hats and
coats is Donnybrook fair fashion, and giving to the
strangers whom curiosity had attracted, a strong
impression that common sense did not form a
very large portion of the national character.
Oa the present occaaion the youth, sex, suture, and
gracious pres tiles of tie Royal visitor, seemed to
give rise to few ether and more dignified emotions.
One could not help feeling that the actions of the
people were rowed, aid that they chaste ned those
demonstrations, which amply made op in interns ty
and sincerity for the greater clamour of former times.
Besides, there was is my mind a certain ureleficed
impression that the sorrows of the last (cur years
were yet far from being healed. Tnis was
quite perceptible in Cork. and in Dublin. a
far more prosperous section of the kitg lom,
the depression is not entirely absent. I am thus
particular in giving my own impression of the cha-
racter of her Majesty's reception, because two local
papers of considerable influence, though of opposite
politics, labour continuously to prove that the Irish
people are not, or at least ought not to be, glad to see
their royal mistress. They are glad and must grati-
fied. They look upon it as the commencement of
" the good time coming." Of Ibis ti ey have had a
tangible proof already. I am informed by good
authority, that 60,000 hands, till thee idle, have been
fully employed at good wages during the last three
weeks; and the iecrireed circulation of money may
be educated fromthe fact, that on yesterday the re-
ceipts of the Kingstown Railway, a line only six
miles long, amounted to nearly 7001. I mentioned
in a preceding letter the time at which the royal
party reached the Viceregal Lodge, and have nothing
to add in the way cf incident except that, in Eccles-
strict, near the boundaries of the city, a dove de-
Breaded from one of the houses and alit in the royal
carriage. Her Majesty took it gently in her hand
and placed it beside her on the scat, an action thct
elicited a tremendous cheer from the crowd. I now
come to the