nd was received with an ardour as great as that which marked
the welcome of the queen. Her majesty and the prince having retired,
the people renewed their cheers, when the royal pair again came forward,
with their four children, and, amidst renewed demonstrations of welcome,
bowed to the people in the boats, and on the shore. The attempt at
illumination in Kingstown was a failure. It had been intended to light
bonfires on the Wicklow and Dublin mountains; this would have been a
picturesque and national welcome, but the scheme was not executed.

On Monday, the 6th, according to previous announcement, her majesty was
to land, and proceed by rail to Dublin, about six miles. The morning
broke over the beautiful bay and the bold hills of Wicklow in peculiar
loveliness. From Howth to Bray Head the mellow light of an autumn
morning shed its richness; the clear waters of the noble bay, the green
hills of Dublin, the majestic city, west and south the granite peak of
"the Sugar-loaf," and the broad forehead of Bray Head, glistened in
the glorious day. The very earth and heavens welcomed the Island Queen.
Amidst all the loveliness on which she looked, the fairest spot was that
which was washed by the waters of Killany Bay, where the soft sweet
vale of Shanganah, with its silver strand, its green bosom, and noble
background, stretched away between Bray Head and Kingstown. They were
scenes amidst which one of queenly taste might love to linger, and were
well calculated to impress her majesty and family with the beauty of the
fair but sorrowful land upon which she was about once more to tread.

At ten minutes to ten on Monday morning, her majesty, consort, and
children, came upon deck, and were received with acclamations. The
moment she set foot on Irish ground, the harbour master hoisted the
royal standard, and the cannon sent their thunders echoing over the bay,
and among the hills.

The royal suite proceeded by rail to Dublin, the line profusely
decorated, and the banks thronged with people, waving hats and
handkerchiefs, and filling the air with their hurrahs. At the
Sandy-Mount station the royal carriages were in waiting, and a grand
procession of the authorities and gentry of the county. Seated in open
carriages, the royal personages then drove, attended by a splendid
military escort, to the vice-regal Lodge, Phoenix Park. The route was
indeed triumphal, everywhere along the magnificent course which the
cortege pursued, the n