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Show THE QUEEN'S VISIT. As we pointed out some time aeo. Queen Victoria has received a gracious and kindly welcome in Dublin, but there has been no' political advantage gained for the British government whatever. Catholic Ireland, instinctively, has treated a woman graciously, but there has not been the slightest sign of wavering wa-vering in their devotion to Home Rule on the part of the Irish people. Instead of a gain for the British government because of the queen's. visit, the net result re-sult apparent has rather been a loss for the Orange element of the Irish population, which has become fretful that- the queen did not visit them. The following dispatch will be interesting reading: ' Dublin. April 21. Queen Victoria's de, cision not to visit Belfast has caused the greatest disgust and indignation j among loyal Orangemen, who are in- ! tensely jealous that the queen should devote her whole visit to Dublin, a Nationalist Na-tionalist hotbed. Apart from the fact that the aueen is not personally interested in Belfast whereas she is enjoying her stay iri Dublin so keenly, her entourage are afraid that she may overexert herself She was advised that her presence iri Belfast was certain to provoke riots between be-tween Orangemen and Catholics. To allay Orange susceptibilities sflie gave a special audience to the Lord Mayor of Belfast, but the effect of this politic measure was completely oblit- erated by the queen having Cardinal Logue at her private dinner party the same evening. Orange bigotry in Uuster is so ferocious fero-cious that the idea of the queen sitting down with a Catholic Cardinal was sufficient suf-ficient to shake their loyalty to its foundations. Cardinal Logue, though a Nationalist, has never been a strong politician, but his obedience to the queen's demands, in view of the fact that Archbishop Walsh has remained away from Dublin expressly to avoid being mixed up with English royalty, has excited much adverse criticism among Catholic Nationalists against Logue. The attitude of the people here towards to-wards the queen, which she drives abroad, remains unchanged. It is or.e of respectful aloofness, tinged with curiosity. cu-riosity. Stories of cheering crowds are invented for English consumption only. The cheering comes from organized bands of Unionists. j Thursday the queen received fortv-two fortv-two addresses, of which only two were from popularly elected bodies, namely, the Belfast and Derry Corivora'tions, both of which have a permanent Orange Or-ange majority. That fact is the surest test of the popular attitude towards the visit. J |