le host raised their
voices and began the national anthem. For a few moments the effect was
sublime; it was, however, only during the first verse. The boys of the
Irish Roman Catholic schools burst the limitations of their orders, and
of their positions, and raised a tumultuous shout, which was caught
up in an instant by the other children, and almost as soon by the vast
multitudes who filled the park. The author of these pages has witnessed
many public entries of royal persons into great cities, and many,
especially, in the great metropolis of these islands, but never were
sounds or scenes presented to his senses so imposing and inspiring as on
that occasion. The queen was evidently much affected, and the great
Duke of Wellington, who was in her suite, and was an object of nearly as
hearty demonstrations as even her majesty, showed emotion, and was heard
to say that he had never witnessed so interesting a scene. The young
members of the royal household were naturally objects of intense
interest to the multitude of children, and they, by their greetings
and eager expression of countenance, showed how much they felt the
excitement which such a multitude of young persons was calculated to
inspire in princes and princesses of their own age. Probably, when many
more years have run their course, and some of these royal children shall
sit on thrones, they will remember a lesson profitable to royalty--the
loyal spirit of the juvenile population of Manchester, and of all that
population, in the year 1851. Doubtless the same virtues which, on
the part of their royal parents, commanded respect and affection, will
characterise those scions of the royal house of England, who already
tread with early, but no uncertain step, the path of honour and goodness
in which their queenly exemplar and teacher has conducted them. The
great Manchester demonstration was followed by illuminations so general
and so costly that her majesty and her suite were represented as taking
an interest in them, such as pyrotechnical displays did not usually
excite. From Worsley the queen and a portion of her suite proceeded to
Windsor.

On the 18th of November the court received, by electric telegraph,
intelligence of the death of the King of Hanover, her majesty's uncle,
in the 81st year of his age. He had never been regarded as kind to her
majesty when Princess Victoria; and had been by far the most unpopular
prince in the family of George III. A considerabl