by their parents in a demonstration which will probably give a tone to their career hereafter; and seeds in the juvenile mind ever bear fruit in due season.  The presence of these shivering little ones gave a serious significance to the procession—­they were hostages to the party who had organized the demonstration.  Earnestness must indeed have been strong in the mind of the parent who directed his little son or daughter to walk in saturating rain and painful cold through five or six miles of mud and water, and all this merely to say “I and my children were there.”  It portends something more than sentiment.  It is national education with a vengeance.  Comment on this remarkable constituent was very frequent throughout the day, and when toward evening this band of boys sang out with lusty unanimity a popular Yankee air, spectators were satisfied of their culture and training.  After the children came about one hundred young women who had been unable to gain their proper position, and accepted the place which chance assigned them.  They were succeeded by a band dressed very respectably, with crape and green ribbons round their caps.  These were followed by a number of rather elderly men, probably the parents of the children far ahead.  At this portion of the procession, a mile from the point, they marched four deep, there having been a gradual decline from the front.  Next came the bricklayers’ band all dressed in green caps, a very superior-looking body of men.  Then followed a very imposing well-kept line, composed of young men of the better class, well attired and respectable looking.  These wore crape hat-bands, and green rosettes with harps in the centre.  Several had broad green body scarfs, with gold tinsel shamrocks and harps intertwined.  As this portion of the procession marched they attracted very considerable attention by their orderly, measured tread, and the almost soldierly precision with which they maintained the line.  They numbered about four or five thousand, and there were few who were not young, sinewy, stalwart fellows.  When they had reached the further end of Abbey-street, the ground about Beresford-place was gradually becoming clear, and the spectator had some opportunity afforded of glancing more closely at the component parts of the great crowd.  All round the Custom-house was still packed a dense throng, and large streams were flowing from the northern districts, Clontarf, the Strand, and the quays.  The shipping was gaily decorated, and many of the masts were filled with young tars, wearing green bands on their hats.  At half-past twelve o’clock, the most interesting portion of the procession left the Custom-house.  About two thousand young women, who in attire, demeanour, and general appearance, certainly justified their title to be called ladies walked in six-deep ranks.  The general public kept pace with them for a great distance.  The green was most demonstrative, every lady having shawl, bonnet, veil, dress, or mantle