determined to shine, and they advanced: a tall Highlander first, in
full costume, and blowing the pipes at his loudest; after him ten
others, in full Highland costume, with a banner--the Scottish Friends;
and about 200 with silk sashes, and walking three abreast. The
Catholic Irishmen followed, with a banner displaying a portrait of the
Pope and other Catholic emblems; and directly after came the
Protestant Irishmen, with their banners and music. Why will they not
associate thus in their own land? A very interesting portion of the
assembling was a party of about a thousand fine-looking, hardy men,
all remarkably clean, dressed in labourers' costume--blue blouses and
white trousers--headed by a band of music playing Irish popular tunes,
with a large banner of the stars and stripes, and the word 'Liberty,'
with the inscription--'The Irish Labourers. Under this we find
Protection for our Labour.'

The Park is an irregular square. On the north side, on the highest
point of the city, stands the State-House, where the legislature
meets. Near that is the house which was formerly inhabited by the
governor, at the time the British flag waved where there now fly,
glancing in the sun, the stars and stripes. As the president was
expected at the State-House, and the procession was to start from
thence, that was the point of attraction, where the spectators formed
into a vast, dense, and steady mass. We English are in the habit of
seeing the paraphernalia of courts, and are slow to disconnect the
ideas of pomp and state from the persons of those who hold power and
distinction; but the chief of this great nation, together with the
secretary of state, had arrived in town by railway in an ordinary
carriage, without the least parade, and the corporation had hired for
the occasion an open carriage-and-four--such an equipage as would have
passed quite unnoticed in an English provincial town. Let me here