The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-31 00:00:00

"TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT, &C.

" May it please your Royal Highness,—lmpressed
with feelings of the deepest respect for your Royal
Highness's exalted position, and greatly appreciating
the advantages which the country has derived from
your constant labours to promote its best interest,, we
offer you our cordial congratulations on your arrival in
the metropolis of Ireland.

"As President of the Exhibition of All Nations of
1851, your Royal Highness will doubtless regard with
pleasure a renewed effort to develope improvement in
the arts and manufactures of the united kingdom.
"In the rich and varied display of natural and arti-
ficial productions which our exertions have collected
together, your Royal Highness will observe many indi-
genous to our Irish soil, and others the results of Irish
hands and enterprise.
"Deeming it of paramount importance that this
interesting portion of her Majesty's empire should
keep pace with the industrial progress of the world, we
have not hesitated to invite the competition of wealthier
and more advanced communities to stimulate the
dormant capabilities we possess, and to improve the
taste and knowledge of our countrymen.
"The gracious patronage and presence of her Ma-
jesty and your Royal Highness cannot fail to aid.
materially these important objects, and demand what
we most respectfully tender—our grateful and dutiful
acknowledgments. We are deeply sensible of the con-
descension which has induced her Majesty and your.
Royal Highness to give so effective a proof of approba-
tion to our humble efforts for the improvement of
Ireland.
" We feel bound to attribute to an honoured and en-
terprising gentleman the merit of having enabled this
committee to co-operate with the Royal Dublin Society
in giving a character of more than usual prominence to
their triennial exhibition of manufactures, which was to
be held this year, and of having erected this temple of
industry, which her Majesty and. your Royal Highness
now grace by your presence.
" Of the practical value of exhibitions it is unnecessary
to dilate in the presence of your Royal Highness, who
has so ably advocated their public utility ; but we may
be allowed to direct your attention to a distinguishing
peculiarity of the Exhibition of 1853, which extends the
principle laid down by the Royal Commission of 1851,
so as to include painting, the highest order of the arts,
and also examples of the industrial and artistic products
of bygone ages, whereby their progressive advance can
be traced from the earliest times to the present.
" We fervently desire that her Majesty and your Royal
Highness may long and freAuently enjoy such displays
of peaceful industry as-are now presented ; and that each
repeated Royal visit may find Ireland improving in arts,
in agriculture, and manufactures, affording fresh sources
of gratification to her Majesty and your Royal Highness,
and additional bonds of gratitude and attachment to her
Majesty's person and throne."
To these addresses, and that of the corporation,

which will also be presented there, the Queen and
Prince will each make suitable replies, and they will
then visit the picture gallery and other attractive
parts of the building, thus affording to all present—
what of course is the principal object of such cere-
monials—a good opportunity of seeing the State
pageant. It is expected that upwards of 20,000
spectators, including all that is noble and distin-
guished in Ireland, will be assembled on this occasion.
The building and its contents are now not un-
worthy of a royal visit, and in both respects the
Exhibition has been greatly improved since its
opening in May. What was ill-arranged has been
redistributed with better effect ; omissions have
been supplied and blunders rectified—the whole
display becoming homogeneous and of one piece.
More than three months of exposure to dust and
sunlight still leaves the interior fresh and brilliant.
The Queen and the Prince will, therefore, see it in
its best colours. Her Majesty's first visit on ar-
riving in Dublin was intended to be paid to the
residence of Mr. Dargan, but a heavy shower of
rain prevented the fulfilment of this intention.
During the Royal progress through the city on
Monday the Exhibition was completely deserted,
but, subsequently, an unprecedented rush of visi-
tors took place, and as many as 18,416 persons
were admitted during the day.

VISIT TO THE EXHIBITION.—(YESTERDAY.)
The Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal chil-
dren, accompanied by the Lord-Lieutenant and a
brilliant cortege, paid a visit to the Exhibition
yesterday.
The interior of the building presented a magni-
ficent spectacle.
Every available corner was occupied from an
early hour in the morning, and at the time of her
Majesty's arrival not less than from 15,000 to
il
20,00 U persons of rank and fashion present.
The Queen's reception was most siastic.
The adiress of the corporation wa li
esented,. to
which her Majesty gave a most gracious reply.
Mr. Dargan having been introduced, her Ma-
jesty honoured him with a cordial shake of the
hand.

The Royal visit did not last more than an hour.
The review of the troops is fixed for three o'clock
to-day (Wednesday).
The weather was broken and unsettled.
Several individuals were admitted to the honour
of kissing hands, but tho most gracious reception
was given to Mr. Dargan.
To-morrow (Thursday) the Queen and Prince
proceed to Powerscourt, county Wicklow.
On Friday they will visit Howth Castle.

LYCEUM THEATRE.-Mr. Allcroft having finished his
three nights' season with Mr. Sims Reeves at this theatre,
has opened a second one of The same promised length,
with Mr. Augustus Braham, who has been singing pro-
fessionally in the United States. This gentleman ap-
peared last night for the first time on the English stage,
as Edgardo in the opera of Lucia di Lammermoor, being
the commencement of a series of three performances for
which Mr. Allcroft has engaged the son of our veteran
tenor. Mr. A. Braham's voice is very similar in quality
and character to that of his father, but it is not of like
strength and volume ; and is scarcely equal to the re-
quirements of dramatic passion in scenes such as the
malediction in the second act of Lucia: Mr. A. Braham,
however, though yet but young both in years and in
stage experience, evidently possesses the material to af-
ford, with cultivation and exercise, a welcome addition
to our limited list of stage tenors. Amongst his merits
may be specified his distinct enunciation—a rare quality
with English singers, and one which is peculiarly appre-
ciable in stage singing. The debutant was welcomed
enthusiastically, and called forward more than once to
receive the plaudits of a crowded house.

CREMORNE GARDENS.—Last night was the night of
the season, being set apart for the benefit of Mr. T. B.
Simpson, the proprietor. To all who know the liberal
and spirited manner in which he caters for the public
amusement, the fact of his benefit proving a bumper to
overflowing would cause no surprise. The weather was
everything that the warmest friend of the proprietor
could wish, and the attendance, notwithstanding the
advance-in the price of admission, was not only very
numerous, but embraced large numbers of the most re-
spectable and fashionable classes. The amusements
commenced at three o'clock, and from that time till long
after midnight there was an uninterrupted round of at-
tractive and varied entertainments. In addition to the
numerous daily performances, there was a repetition of
the Osborne sports as performed before the Queen and
Prince Albert at the Isle of Wight. - The Morris dance,
the Maypole dance, and "Pop Goes the Weasel" dance,
with the jingling match, and comic race between eight
pantomimic steeds, caused intense merriment. Shortly
after six o'clock two balloons were started in a novel
aerial race, each machine having one of the Italian
Brothers upon a trapeze beneath, performing the most
daring and astounding gymnastic evolutions. A very
exciting feature was added to the attractions by the pre-
sence of the Zulu Kafirs from the St. George's Gallery,
the Earthmen children from Regent-street, and the
Aztec Lilliputians from the Royal Marionette Theatre ;
all of whom, by the permission of their guardians, were
allowed to be present, and witness the balloon ascent.
The Zulus afterwards went through their clever repre-
sentations of Kafir life in the theatre. The gardens
were illuminated most brilliantly ; a new light, called
the prxclaro oxygenic light, throwing a radiance over all
the gardens ; in addition to which there were great num-
bers of variegated and kaleidescopic reflectors, and
myriads of Venetian and Chinese lanterns, besides the ordi-
nary and effective lighting of the grounds. Altogether
the fete was by far the most brilliant of the season. The
skilful aeronauts and daring gymnasts reached the gar-
dens before the termination of the amusements, after
making safe and easy descents.
DEATH OF A REMARKABLE CHARACTER.—Yesterday
Mr. William Carter held an inquest at the White
ll,rse Tavern, Cornwall-road, Lambeth, on the body
of George White, aged 31, of No. 8, Windmill-street,
New Cut. From the evidence it appeared that the de-
ceased, who was a man of colour, used to obtain a living
in the following manner :—On week days, in the morning,
he used to distribute bills opposite the General Post-
office, for a hair-dresser in the City ; of a night he used
to sell religious tracts and songs in the open streets ;
and of a Sunday he used to keep a street-crossing near
Chelsea Hospital. Last summer he performed a nigger
character at the Royal property, Vauxhall, and in seve-
ral singing-saloons in the east of London. Owing to
the numerous callings of deceased, he was enabled to
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collect a considerable amount per week from the cha-
ritably disposed, but he invariably spent the greater
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returned home either drunk or the worse for liquor.
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at Chelsea, and returned to a public-house in the
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New Cut, where he drank very freely, and he died
Sunday,iin
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suddenly during the night while in bed. There
was no doubt entertained
by the jury and coroner that
the free indulgence in the use of ardent spirits had
so affected the constitution of the deceased as to cause
the system to give way, and a verdict of "Natural
death" was returned,