IRELAND.
it The Lord-Lieutenant returned last week from his visit to the South. On Tuesday he was gratified by the arrival of a large deputation of his Scotch tenants to present an address expressing their hearty congratulations in his appointment as Lord-Lieutenant. Lord Eglinton replied that he was not prepared for this unusual step, this increase to the claim his tenants have on his gratitude.
"It is, indeed, unusual, and I believe I may say unprecedented, that such a Cody of tenantry should, with great trouble and expense to them- selves, spontaneously leave their homes and their families for the sole pur- pose of paying a tribute of regard and attachment to their landlord; sad knowing, as I do, that you can be in no wav influenced by interested mo- tives—for your successful industry and long.leases render you in reality in- dependent of me—I think I am fully justified in saying that no man was ever laced in a more gratifying or a more honourable position." Aftterwards the tenants dined with their landlord in St. Patrick's Hall.
On Thursday, the Lord-Lieutenant started once more for the West. He was bound for Galway to take part in a banquet intended to mark the sailing of the second mail steamer from that port for America.
The Emperor of the French has, in a marked manner, extended his solicitude for the memory of Frenchmen to Ireland. Desirous of con- ferring " a signal mark of his favour on the Roman Catholics of Augh- rim," he has directed that a set of the richest sacerdotal vestments be forwarded from Paris, to be used from time to time—as our informant saith—in the chapel of Aughrim, at the celebration of mass for the re- pose of the soul of St. Ruth, a French general of historic fame who fell in the battle of Aughrim, July 12, 1691. What is the meaning of this military coquetry ?
The lst July did not pass over in the county of Down without some dis- turbances. Twenty-six Orangemen and sixteen Roman Catholics have been tried for breaking the peace. At the Londonderry Assizes Mr. Justice Christian severely lectured the Orangemen and sent them to prison for two months as the instigators of the fray. The Roman Catholics who yielded to provocation, he liberated on their own recognizances to come up for judg- ment when called upon.
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