THE QUEEN NOT IN IRELAND.

Evening Post, Volume LII, Issue 155, 21 November 1896, Page 2

THE QUEEN NOT IN IRELAND.

Ireland is placed in a very peculiar position (says Truth) at a time when Great Britain is full of effuuve loyalty beoauue the Queen has beaten the reigning record of all other British Sovereigns. Only twleve days of the longest reign in English history have been spent in Ireland by tho Sovereign. Nearly thirty-five years have passed since her last visit to the country. The greater she is, and the more entirely worthy of the respect, affection, and praises of those over whom she reigns, the more poignant is the grievance that her Irish subjects have never been afforded the opportunity of knowing her. As if this were not enough, tho Irish are generally accused of disloyalty, because they do not break forth into loyal effusiveness, whioh could be nothing but hypooritical on their part, under the oircumstanr.es. Surely the heart most hardened to Irish grievances must admit that there is here a legitimate grievance. [

The persistence with which his Excellenoy Li Hung Chang asks people their agon in merely his observance of an invariable Ghiuese custom implying respect. To a lady he met the other day, he put three ijuestions in rapid succession. "How old are you?" "Are you married P" "Have you any children ?" When he learned that she had no children, he remarked, gravely, "Ah! onr women in China pray, for children if they have not auy." As a grand inquisitor, with sage reflection thrown in, hu Exotllmoy i§fycileprincejps.