27 JULY 1872, Page 3

Lord Granard lies resigned the Lord-Lieutenancy of Leitrim, finding, as

he says, that he cannot modify the unfavourable opinion of Mr. Justice Keogh's Galway Judgment, which he prematurely expressed in a letter to a meeting held to denounce that judgment, and his resignation has been accepted. Lord Granard has acted honourably in tendering that resignation and the Govern- ment wisely in accepting it. It might be well,—we think it would, —that the Government should express the disapprobation which every sensible man feels of the fierce partisan tone of Mr. Justice Keogh's Galway Judgment; but it does not do to have Lord- Lieutenants of Irish counties leading the most violent popular attacks on an Irish Judge.