6 FEBRUARY 1858, Page 6

IRELAND. At a banquet given by the Lord Mayor of

Dublin on Thursday, Lord Carlisle made a direct allusion to the rumours in circulation respecting the abolition of the Viceroyalty— "As we have seen it announcedof late in several quarters, and with ri certain appearance of gravity, that it has been in the contemplation of the

Government to put an extinguisher at once upon an office so elevated and upon a person so humble, I can only say that such a project is without my privity, as on my part it clearly would be without my sympathy."