The King and Queen left Dublin last Saturday, and paid
visits to Kilkenny and Waterford—where the King opened an agricultural show and bestowed a knighthood on the Mayor —spending the last couple of days of their sojourn in Ireland at Lismore and exploring the picturesque scenery in that neighbourhood. Of the speeches delivered by the King, the most important was that in reply to the various addresses presented at Waterford, in which, while welcoming the signs of an industrial revival, he laid stress on the need for Irishmen to cultivate that " spirit of toleration, concord, and self-reliance which is the surest guarantee of national prosperity." Speaking at Kilkenny, the King happily observed that if his visite to various parte of the country should make him better acquainted with the wants of his people, and give them stronger assurances of his kindly feeling for and his sympathy with. them, he would be
amply repaid. Leaving Ireland on Wednesday night, their. Majesties returned to Buckingham Palace on Thursday evening after a thoroughly successful visit, the most impressive feature in which appears to have been the extremely cordial and characteristically unconventional friendliness of the Irish crowds.
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