er of bright and better days
for our country, which your majesty must be aware is passing through a
fearful ordeal.

We know that your majesty deeply sympathises in the sufferings and
privations which your people have undergone, and are still going
through; and we are convinced that nothing would afford a higher
gratification to your royal breast than to mitigate and relieve
those sufferings, and to raise the moral and social condition of
your majesty's much and long enduring, but patient and faithful Irish
subjects.

We trust that your royal advent here will lay the foundation of a
better order of things than lias hitherto existed; be the means of fully
developing the great and varied natural resources of our beautiful and
fertile country; and that its prosperity, and the consequent comfort,
happiness, and contentment of its people, will be the glorious and
blessed results of your auspicious visit.

That your majesty may enjoy a long and prosperous reign over a united,
happy, and contented people, and that you, your royal consort and
family, may possess every happiness that this world can afford, is
the ardent and sincere prayer of your loyal and attached subjects, the
council and citizens of Cork.

Her majesty's sail down the Lee was even more picturesque than her
voyage up; and her departure from Cove was such a scene as, no doubt,
the royal lady, as well as her subjects of the south, will long
and vividly remember. Her majesty's yacht tarried the next night at
Waterford harbour, but she did not visit the city.

On Sunday, the 5th, her majesty was expected to arrive at Kingstown,
and the people of the metropolis, and the surrounding country for many a
mile, poured multitudinously along the beautiful shores of Kingstown and
Killany. When in the evening the squadron approached, the enthusiasm
of the people was boundless. At twenty minutes past seven, the squadron
dropped anchor in the deep clear waters of Kingstown harbour, and
every token of cordial greeting that a people could express, or a queen
receive, indicated the popular spirit. The sea was crowded with barques,
the shore with people. The former were gaily decked, the latter in
elegant attire; and over sea and shore rang the loud cheers of a vast
and excited multitude. Few sights were ever presented to her
majesty equal in scenic effect. She appeared on deck, and bowed in
acknowledgment of the cheers of her people. Prince Albert next presented
himself, a