Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-27
IRELAND AND AN EMPRESS.
Has the Queen Of England Been Induced
by the Irish PrOtestants to Match
the Cork Affair.
Dublin Freeman Journal

Dublin Freeman's Journal.l
A curious story about the Empires
of Austria and her intended visit /
ireland is going the rounds of til
press. As our readers know, Summer
hill House, county Meath, the resi-
dence Of Lord Langford, was take
some short time since by order of he
majesty as a hunting lodge for the sea
son. The imperial hunting stud wa
sent across a few weeks ago, and w
believe hat next Wednesday had beer
fixed for the starting of the imperia
suit from Goedoello, where the i'm
perial family passed Christmas. He.
majesty was to follow on the 2,
of January. Now, five are to beliey,
the gossip, a hitch has occurred to ma
all the arrangements and put a stol
to the projected trip. 1t is said thar
during her hunting excursion in Eng.
land the empress received neither thai
attention from the queen nor that re.
spect from the a%ristocracy which sh,
might expect, and, indeed, courtesy
demanded. Her majesty carried away
with her, in consequence, an unfavor-
able impression of England, so great a,
to cause her to accept the suggestion
of choosing Ireland instead next time
as a huntingfeld with greater pleasure
aud alacrity. When the queen, how
ever, heard of the preparations
whether from herself or by the advice
of some n at court, she is said to
have charged Prince Teck, who is
married to the queens cousin, and
who was formerly an officer in the
Austrian service, with a mission to the
imperial family, to represent the in
convenience hat might arise from the
visit and dissuade the empress from
her journey. 1t is told that Prince
Teck was to impress upon the emperor
especially how demonstrative a people
the Catholic Irish are, and how they
would be likely to show their respect
for a Catholic sovereign ~ giving her
a very enthusiastic welcome. which
might be used for other purposes than
merely as an illustration Of Irish hos
pitality.
A ROYAL ROW.
The emperor, so the story goes,
comedies entirely with the queen
view, but the empress appears not to
see it at all, and is determined to have
her own way. So, as old Tom Carlyle
would put it, there is "a tongue and
eye skirmish" in the imperial circle
of domestic tea" The whole story is
probably the imaginative invention OF
a society journalist who finds himself
in the recess and out of the season
but 81 non e yero, e ben trOyato. 1t is
true that on whatsoever side the
cause lay the Empress of Austria alb
stained from connection with Windsor
or st. James during her time in Eng
land. 1t is also true that her oneness
of faith with the people here, who are
Catholic first that the history of her
court, where our Nugents aud our
NOlans found so generous a home
and so fair a field that our
soldier-lOvihg sympathy with the
gallant white-coated service. apart
from hospitality, our reputation for
which virtue, thank goodness, remains
untarnished, would insure to the
Empress Elizabeth from a chivalric
Celtic people not only welcome. but
warmth. But such an expression OF
natural good feeling and good taste
could not be construed or tortured
into political demonstration, and the
fear of a similar construction or mis-
construction might prevent our island
from ever being set foot on by man or
woman of distinction. 1t would be
an obstacle to General Grant who has
just left us, a Protestant, and been
feted by us, as it would be to the
Empress Elizabeth, who, we hope. will
not be deferred or prevented from
visiting US. But perhaps we are tax
ing the fable quite toomuch au serieux.
We hardly believe that the queen
would be 50 ill-adyised as to make the
stOried remonstrance. When her
majesty came herself she was Loyalty
and warmly received. 1t is only to be
regretted that she has not come again
and often.