New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-17
THE ROYAL VISIT TO IRELAND.

The ocean telegraph plays sad havoc some
times with the eloquence of the foreign press.
We can no longer read the solemn and beau
tiful periods of The Times, or the irridescent
leaders of The Daily Telegraph, with the same
emotions az when the tri-weekly mail brought
us always the latest news from London. Alas
the thoughts of ten days ago are no longer as
the thoughts of this morning. TO us the
newly arrived Times, damp with the salt ar
used to be as fresh "a if it had just come
damp from the press. Now it is nothing but
an old newspaper, whose life went out the
week before last, and migrated into that portion
of TIE TRIBUNE devoted to foreign news by
telegraph. The world has rolled on pretty
fast since then, and ruthless fact has over
thrown q great deal of speculation and ruined
q great deal Of prophecy. Here, for instance,
are the London papers of the first few days in
August, all full of elegant descriptions Of the
Princely Progress in Ireland, and anticipations
of the new era of good feeling which was
destined never to begin. How beautiful every
thing appears in the eyes of the Special
Correspondents who follow in the royal
train! How delightful are these warm-hearted
Irish audiences, listening to the princely
speeches, and cheering, and waving handker-
chiefs How touching is the loyalty of the
ragged urchins of Dublin, who, in spite of
policemen, will come close to the royal car
riage! But all this is nothing to the
genteel cOmplacency and Sinking dignity
with which the ThunGerer himself condescends
to talk about the matter in the leading col
umns of The Times. "Royal visits to Ireland"
says that grand being have always been
successful. In that country, torn by faction,
"oursed by religious hatreds, drenched with
"the blood of the ruler and the rebel, of the
"landlord and the Ribandman, the Sovereigns
"Of England and their children have never
"set foot without being received with loyal
demonstrations of JOY :. With this proof
"Of the disposition of the Irish people we
"may wonder that 80 little has been done to
"call forth affections which are so readily be-
"stowed" And The Times foresees after
series of junkeGngs, reviews, balls, cattle
shows and public dinners, radical cure OF
Irish discomfort The Prince of Wales and
his brother will go everywhere, and conquer
the love of the nation "by the kindliness which
comes from a good natural disposition, and
the grace which is given by a training from
infancy in the highest station; while in the
dim distance Ireland appears as the permanent
residence of member of the reigning family
and the borrowed light of Yiceroyalty goes
out for ever. How fine Only before this
reaches us we know that the reigning family
has gone home in fright, with the Kisses of
the warm hearted Irish echoing in their ears ;
the loyalty has evaporated in a riOtous Fenan
meeting; the fireworks have failed; and
fruits at the Royal banquet were only apples
of SOdOm and nothing remains after the
spoiled pleasure-day but WEAKNESS and bad
temper. George w., fanatical believer in
the importance of the Protestant ascendency,
was welcomed in Ireland fifty years ago but
the son of Queen Victoria is received with
sulen discourtesy after all the most serious
Irish grievances, except the one grievance of
subsection, have been freely removed.
1t must be clear that the Irish after all are
not people to be
Pleased with a rattle, tickrd with a straw.
Their wounds are too deep to be cured by
princes plaster. 1t is little to them that the
Prince of Wales comes over to give them a
lesson in grace and kindness and good
natural disposition or that blazing train of
Royal Highnesses, and lords, and ladies, and
Special Correspondents moves through the
land with blare of trumpets and tiuttering of
silks, and the shouting of the little boys along
the highway. There is cause of discord
which pageants and compliments cannot touch,
and the experience of this Summer only proves
that it is stronger now than it was half a CEN
tury ago. II there remained any lurking hope
in the mind of the English people that they
could appease Ireland by giving her a per-
manent prince, the history of this preposterous
adventure of the Heir Apparent must have
dispelled it forever.