- IRELAND.
There had been a rumour current in Dublin that the Viceregal Court was likely to be abolished. The Lord Mayor gave a banquet last week : the Lord-Lieutenant attended, and in the course of the evening referred to the alarming report that had so shocked the good people ofDublin " I .perceive, ' he said, "that there are quarters from which, I, in common, indeed, with all the past Lords-Lieutenant of Ireland, have been threatened with a deposition from my present viceregal seat. I certainly have received no official intimation on that subject. ("Hear, hear !" and cheers.) Our gracious Sovereign has not made me ,privy to any intention of depriving me of that delegated authority which r so unworthily' wield in her name—(Crics of "No, no !")—and I cannot pretend to say that I have read my doom in the countenances or demeanour of the Irish people, or even in that of this brilliant assembly ; and therefore we will only conclude that the question, in Parliamentary parlance, has been indefinitely adjourned." (Cheers and laughter.)
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