The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-10 00:00:00

LORD LBRINGTON.

His Excellency the LoriLieutcnant, in his late tour
through the west of Ireland, visited the great national
Fair of BAllinasloe, where he was warmly greeted by men
of all parties. An address, in which Whig, Tory, and
Radical concurred, was drawn up and numerothly
signed. The first signature is that of Lord Clancarty,
the principal Tory Lord in Connaught, and but a few
years ago a prominent character in every association or
movement hostile to the Liberal interest in Ireland.
The following is the address :

" TO HIS EXCELLENCY VISCOUNT EBRINGTON, LORD
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL AND GENERAL GOVERNOR
OF IRELAND.

May it please your Excellency,
" We, the undersigned, inhabitants of Ballinasloc and
its vicinity, beg leave to welcome your Excellency to
the great national fair, held at this town, which you are
so kind as to honour with your presence.
" While we gladly avail ourselves of the opportunity
afforded u; by your Excellency's visit to testify our
loyalty and devotion to our gracious Sovereign in the
homage we give to her representative, we rejoice that
we can, at the same time, feel towards the person of her
representative the respect due to virtue and upright-
ness ol character.
Impressed by the honour of your Excellency's
presence, with the belief that your Excellency takes a
lively interest in the agricultural prosperity of Ire-
land, we hope that your Excellency will derive greti•
fication from your visit to this great sheep and cattle
fair, exhibiting, as it does, the increasing productiveness
of Connaught ; and we trust that your Excellency will
see reason to lend the weight of your Excellency's re•
commendation to such measures as may tend to further
the improvement of this important branch of Irish
trade, by the introduction of greater facilities of inland
communication, and the restoration, under proper re-
gulation, of the encouragement formerly given by the
Government of the country to the improvement of farm-
ing stock and agriculture.
" The differences of opinion upon political subjects,
which, in a free country, must almost necessarily stand
in the way of an unanimous assent to the course of
policy adopted by any Government, forbids, on the
present occasion, any particular relerence to the
poli-
tical views of your Excellency's administration in this
country ; but we freely and unitedly tender to your
Excellency the respectful homage of our duty as faith-
ful and attached subjects of the Crown of the United
Kingdom, and to your Excellency personally we give
the tribute of a hearty welcome, and our gratitude for
the honour you have done us in visiting this town.

(Signed) " CLANCARTY, Chairman."
[Here follow the signatures.]
To this address, so excellent in spirit, and so strik-
ingly illustrative of a most salutary change in the state
of feeling amongst men of Lord Clancarty's school in
politics, the reply of the Lord-Lieutenant is as fol-
lows :

" My Lord Clancarty and Gentlemen—l return you
my sincere thanks for the cordial and flattering welcome
which the sentiments conveyed in your Address have
given to my arrival among you.
" Nothing can be more gratifying than the terms in
which you have been pleased to unite the expression of
your personal good-will towards myself with the homage
of your loyal devotion to our beloved Sovereign.
" Taking as I do the liveliest interest in the agricul-
tural prosperity of Ireland, I have gladly profited by the
agreeable opportunity which your Lordship's kind hospi-
tality has afforded me, of witnessing the great national
fair of Ballinasloe ; and, whilst I hail with much satis-
faction the testimony borne in your Address to the in-
creasing productiveness of your native province, in the
breed of sheep and cattle, you may rest assured that my
best attention shall be directed to any measures, if any
can be devised, that may, in my judgment, tend to
prove this important branch of Irish trade, and to de-

velope more fully the field which it holds out to Irish
enterprise and Irish industry.
• " affirences of opinion on political subjects are essen-
tial to the existence of constitutional liberty, and you
have satisfactorily shown me how consistent they may be
with mutual feelings of respect and esteem, whilst you
so candidly give to others the same credit for singleness
of purpose and uprightness of intention in the discharge
of their public duties as you justly claim for yourselves
in the free exercise of your several opinions on the ad-
ministration of the afftirs of your country."