The Queen and the Highland Festival.
A correspondent telegraphs from Dublin : —At a meeting of the Church of Ireland Temperance Society, in Dublin (Archbishop Lord Plunket presiding), the Rev. Canon Weldon, who has just received an English appointment, said he hoped that Her Majesty the Queen would find a more suitable way of honoring the memory of the late Prince Consort than by sending her sons and sons-in-law on the top of a Highland mountain in order to drink raw whisky. It was his lot to be present at the great Highland Festival this year. It was held in the presence of Her Majesty, and a more disgusting scene of revolting drunkenness he never saw in his life than that. Donnybrook, in its very worst traditions, could not equal the disgusting scenes he there saw with his own eyeß. For days after this festival took place he could trace the effects of it. He met men with sodden eyes and staggering gait, a condition of things which could not be witnessed in the village for the remainder of the year.
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Evening Star, Issue 7411, 5 January 1888, Page 3
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180The Queen and the Highland Festival. Evening Star, Issue 7411, 5 January 1888, Page 3
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