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Show THE QTJEEIT'S VISIT TO IRELAND. Much speculation is indulged In over the country as to the coming visit of Queen Victoria to Ireland, Irishmen the world over, will r t be at a loss to adequately appreciate the motives which impeHed the visit at the present crisis in the prestige of England. Eng-land. ' ; England, just now, needs frienda ! everywhere. Her grasping bloody, unjustifiable un-justifiable war in South Africa has shown her to the world stripped of all pretense. Small wonder is it then that British statesmen would conciliate the Irish people. Hence, the vioit of the queen. But how little appreciation has England Eng-land for Ireland and the Irish people, if she fondly imagines that a ride through the streets of Dublin by Victoria Victo-ria will make the Irish people forget the wrong3 of centuries. Nowhere are there a more gentle, chivalrous people in the treatment cf women, than the Irish, and they will receive the Queen of England with a courtesy and dignity that will be a fitting fit-ting protest against the wrongs perpetrated perpe-trated by the government of which she is the head. This courtesy and dignity will be of sucb a solemn character that none can mistake its meaning. If the British cabinet attempts to misconstrue the reception which the Irish will be gracious enough to extend to the Queen it will arouse all the fierse resentment of the Irish nature, a resentment subdued sub-dued out of respect for woman kind, to euch a degree that England will regret the moment that a British minister conceived the idea of the Queen's going to Ireland. From it all, however, we look for good to Ireland and Irish aspirations. If I nothing else the condesention with 'which the Queen has deigned to visit Ireland will soften many a perversa English heart towards Ireland. Looking Look-ing at it from whatever point of view we may, the conclusion forces itself upon us that there are brighter days in store for Ireland in the near future. This visit of the Queen, which was primarily intended to benefit England eolely, will, in spite of the evil designs of British statesmen, be productive of far greater good to Ireland. This at least, is our hope, our prayer and our expectation, a |