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LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1865.

After the ill-advised proceedings which have lately
brought so many enthusiastic llibernians into
trouble, it is refreshing to turn to the acount of
doings of a very different nature, which prove that
the prosperity of the sister-country is not altogether
hopeless, and that a cordial understanding and
mutual goodwill between landlord and tenant is by
no means so impossible as some persons would
endeavour to make out. The family of the BERES-
FORDS has, indeed, a traditional right to the loyalty
of their tenantry ; but the hearty sympathy and the
orderly and respectable conduct of the large num-
bers of persons present at the recent festivities at
Curraghmore show something more than a senti-
ment of the past ; they manifest the existence of
feelings belonging to the present which do honour
to both parties. The celebration of young Lord
TYRONE'S majority was something more than a mere
local incident, and occurring as it did jest at this
stage in the affairs of Ireland, it points the happiest
moral. A landlord, whose tenant guests, though
represented chiefly by deputations, number six
hundred, must certainly 'exercise no inconsiderable
influence over the fortunes"of his country, and when
these guests consist of so prosperous and orderly
a body of men as those assembled on Thursday
evening at Curraghmore the conclusion to be
drawn is eminently encouraging. The evening
before a great ball had been given to
the upper classes, the Marquis and Marchioness of
WATERFORD being apparently resolved that all
ranks should participate in their rejoicing. The
addresses delivered of ter the banquet to the tenantry
were more interesting than the usual complimen-
tary speeches on such an occasion. Among the
speakers were Lord CIIEL4SFORD, the Earl of
SHREWSBURY, and, as a matter of course, the Noble
Marquis himself. lle remarked that the landlords
and tenants on the Beresford estates had been
bound together not for a few years, not for a cen-
tury only, but for more than seven hundred years.
" The same tics," added his lordship, " had existed
from generation to generation. He saw men before
him 'whose family names were engraved upon the
oldest tombstones on his estates." As one of the
guestsobserved, a tenantry such as Lord WATERFORD
could boast of was the greatest boast a landlord
could make. The same sympathy so cordially shown
on this auspicious occasion was not very long ago
manifested with equal fervour at a very different ,

ceremony. Lord SHREWSBURY observed that on his
last visit to the Waterford estates the kindly feel-
ings which the peasantry felt for the BERESFORD
family were as strongly shown in the opposite
direction, for all ranks were alike lamenting the
premature death of the late Marquis. It was no
mere temporary desire to ingratiate themselveS with
the landlord which actuated the tenantry in the time
of rejoicing, since they were as quick to feel, and as
prompt to express their feelings in evil as in good
fortune. Not the least interesting address of the
evening was that of the Rev.TrmoTHY DOOLY, which
showed a tolerant spirit and kindly feeling that did
him honour. He had headed a deputation from
the tenantry of a distant part of the estates, and
very justly observed that it was difficult to estimate
the importance of such meetings, which brought
men together without distinction of class or creed
in a spirit of harmony. More especially is this true
at the present time ; and the evidence so powerfully
given at Curraghmore of the goodwill subsisting
between all parties on Lord WATERFORD'S vast
estates will not, we hope, be without its influence.
But it is necessary for landlords to identify them-
selves with the interests of their people, and to be
something more than a mere name among them if
they would attain or preserve any really prominent
influence among them. The shadow of a predeces-
sor's good deeds or popular qualities is not enough,
and Lord and Lady WATERFORD have exerted
themselves to discharge faitlafullythe duties and re-
sponsibilities of their high position. The young
heir of £BO,OOO has been taught that he has some-
thing else to do than to receive his rents through
his agents, and that if he would maintain the tra-
ditionary glory of the BERESFORDS, and preserve
the loyal affection of his people, he must act up to
the spirit as well as the letter of the old axiom, that
" Property has its duties as well as its rights."

MR. NEWDEGATE is one of those public men who
have a settled plan of their own, and are enabled
to keep it unmoved by changes of parties or confu-
sion of politics. He is very decided and determined
in his views, but people very often prefer the down-
right upholder of any view to the timid time-server
or ingenious placemonger whose principles are go-
verned by his interests, and who has no object more
cherished than the idea of pushing forward his own
good fortune. Last Friday a grand entertainment
was given in order to celebrate the return of Mr.
NEWDEGATE and Mr. VANSITTART BROMLEY for
the Northern Division of Warwickshire, and the
Chairman, in proposing the health of Mr. NEWDE-
GATE, was enabled to dilate upon the services that
had been rendered to them during the twenty years
which he had been their member. The constituency
of North Warwickshire is a very important one,
and, indeed, second to none in the kingdom for its
wealth and the varied interests which it contains.
It is, therefore, no mean thing to gain the goodwill
and retain the confidence of so large and influential
a body, and Mr. NEWDEGATE'S hearty reception
when he rose to speak was a sure testimony to the
truth of his friend's flattering assertions. lie com-
menced by an amusing allusion to the late Parlia-
mentary contest which they had passed through,
and declared that one of its most striking incidents,
as concerned themselves, was, that Birmingham
had aimed at having an aristocracy cf its own. But
" tell it not to Mr. Mama," he added, and the
endeavour would have no doubt succeeded had not
Mr. Muraz been followed by Mr. BROMLEY, who
came forward with a spirit worthy of one who bore
so time-honoured a parliamentary name. No new-
fangled notions suit the purpose of the downright
member for North Warwickshire. He owns him-
self a " Pittite," and declares that he upholds the
Conservatism of the Constitution, as founded in the
year 168 g, at the same time he is quite ready to
assist the constitutional Whig whenever the latter
desires his aid to revert to the true principles and
broad faith of the Constitution. This readiness to
co-operate with a political opponent for the interests
of their common country is creditable to the hon.
member, but, it must be confessed, the class of politi-
cians to whom herefers are waxing fewer and fainter,
and their visits to our political arena are quite angelic
in their rarity. The old-fashioned Whig has been
put aside for a new order of beings who make place
their idol, and think all things fair that conduces to
reinstate them in power. Very true are some of the
observations which are found in this speech, and
especially that in which the speaker defends the
doctrines of Conservatism from the charge of over
zeal and undue care for the preservation of what
is tolerably secure and safe from disturbance.
"It has been said that the Constitution
under which we live is so admired by all abroad
and recognised by every one at home as the source
of the many blessings which we enjoy that men
like myself are fretting ourselves in vain. My be-
lief is, that there are trials in prosperity as well as
in adversity, and as with individuals, so with na-
tions, there is no greater danger than that which
arises from over-confidence." Many all-wise and self-
sufficient politicians may take this advice to heart

with profit to themselves and benefit to the com-
munity, for it by no means follows that because we
are great and powerful, we may not be in danger ;
and, indeed, at the present moment there is reason

to fear that too much stress is laid upon material
welfare to the neglect of higher principles and the
attainment of the wiser and truer influences which
actuate and impel the inhabitants of a great and
highly favoured land. England has, indeed, no
reason to depart from the Constitution which has
so long withstood the dangers of democracy and the
perils of absolutism. As Mr. NEWDEGATE well re-
`minded his hearers, if we look to the nations of
Europe we shall find that, with the exception of
one or two, all have been plunged into confusion
and subject to " revolutionary action and internal
strife." Respecting the Fenian movement, Mr.
NEWDEGATE considers that the Government have
adopted a wise and prudent course, and certainly
he is borne up in his, assertion by the facts which
have recently come to light and the hints which
are given of more being shortly discovered of a sig-
nificant character. The hon. member briefly ad-
verted to the cattle plague, and strongly
advised his ' friends to avail themselves of the
opportunities presented to them in the Association
for Insurance, and observed that he had some
knowledge himself of the veterinary profession, as
he had been a governor for some years, and was
now the Chairman of the Royal Veterinary College.
The results of experience are not very consolatory,
however, for he declares that the chief reason why
he advocates the encouragement of the Insurance
Society is this,—" from eighty to ninety per cent. of

the cattle which are seized by the disease will die."
This is, indeed, a gloomy prospect ; but, as Mr.
NEWDEGATE remarked, the best way of meeting
the difficulty, and the only real chance which we
have of overcoming the calamity, will rest in preven-
tive measures, and these will never be generally or
willingly adopted unless the possessors of the
animals are insured because, naturally, they will
otherwise shrink from the loss that is always caused
by the adoption of sanitary measures and the sepa-
ration of the flocks and herds. Mr. BROMLEY'S
remarks were appropriate to the occasion, but did
he not attach much importance to the Fenian move-
ment, but thought that it had served its turn in
keeping up the interest of the public at so dull a