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IRELAND.

DUBLIN, JULY 2.
OPENING OF THE GREAT SOUTHERN RAILWAY TO
LIMERICK.—The extension of the Great Southern Rail-
way from Ballybrophy to the point of junction with the
Waterford and Limerick line, at Tipperary, was opened
in the course of yesterday. A special train, for the
conveyance of the Lord-Lieutenant, the directors, and
their friends, left the terminus, King's-bridge, Dublin,
at half-past ten yesterday morning, with the intention
of visiting the city of Limerick, the extremity of the
present extension. In consequence of the frequent
stoppages to inspect the line, it was found necessary to
abandon the visit to Limerick, and it was accordingly
determined to proceed no further than Tipperary, from
whence the party returned to Dundrum, where a sump-
tuous dejeune was provided for the entertainment of his
Excellency and the other guests.
After ample justice had been done to the " good
things" provided for the company,
Mr. Certn, the Chairman of the Board of Directors,
proposed " The health of her gracious Majesty Queen
Victoria," which was drunk with the greatest enthu-
siam.

Air—" God save the Queen."
CHAIRMAN—The next toast on my list is one which I
have much pleasure in proposing, and which I am con-
vinced will be warmly responded to by this assembly. It
is " The health of the Lord-Lieutenant, who has honoured
us with his presence to-day ; and with him, the toast of
Prosperity togreland."—(Great cheering.)
The toast having been drunk with all the honours,
His EXCELLENCY rose to return thanks, and was re-
ceived with loud cheering. When the applause had sub-
sided, he spoke as follows :—My Lords and Gentlemen, I
can assure you, with perfect truth, and not as an ordinary
form of expression, that I feel great embarrassment in
returning to you my hearty thanks for the honour you
have done me in drinking my health, and the kind and
flattering manner in which you have responded to the
toast proposed by Mr. Carr. If it be not too great a
presumption on my part, I could beg to constitute my-
self the organ of this distinguished assembly, and to
express in their name the unmingled pleasure and
satisfaction which we have derived from this day's
excursion, and our warmest thanks for having been
invited to an entertainment so worthy of the event
which it is intended to cerebrate.—(Loud cheers.) Gen-
tlemen, admiring as we all must have done, the country
through which we have passed, the admirable speed at
which we have travelled, the order, the regularity, the
excellent arrangements that have everywhere prevailed,
I am sure we must all have felt that this is really a great
day for Ireland—(Loud cheers)—and that by connecting
the metropolis with the city of Limerick, by bringing,
if I may so speak, into juxtaposition the east and the
south-west of Ireland, an impulse will be given to Irish
progress and Irish prosperity of which it is impossible
to estimate the extent or exaggerate the importance.—
(Cheers.) It is impossible, I say, to exaggerate the
importance of it, because we know, from statistical in-
formation, that in the year 1847, a year of very great
and general depression, upwards of 60 millions of pas-
sengers, upwards of 20 millions tons of goods, and up-
wards of three millions of animals for human food were
conveyed on the railways of England and Scotland.
—(Hear, hear.) We know also that vast tracts
of land have been fertilized in consequence of the
cheap conveyance of manure, and we have ascertained
from statistical returns that an agricultural population
travels far more than the people of a manufacturing
district. I say, then, it is impossible to over-estimate
the importance of railway communication to a country
essentially agricultural as Ireland is, and not to regard
those who promote such undertakings, although labour-
ing, and I trust successfully labouring, for their own in-
terests, as great public benefactors.—(Hear, hear, and
cheers.) I have no doubt that the success of this line
will be as complete as it is well-merited; because rail-
ways, like great arteries, pass through a country, con-
veying, infusing vitality, dispensing health, im-
proving the surrounding districts, and filling the
people with that hope and contentment which
spring from progress and improvement. I say it
is impossible to over-estimate the importance of
railways to an agricultural population, because
we know from the best practical authorities that
an immense saving can be effected, by conveying cattle
upon railways, instead of driving them by the roads to
market. The farmer will be able, henceforth, to procure
that which the Irish tenant-farmer stands so much in
need of—the materials for draining his land, and for
improved farm cultivation. But I think there is one
branch of native industry to which more benefits will
accrue from the facilities afforded by railway communi-
cation than almost any other—l allude to the fisheries
of Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) That mine of wealth has
hitherto been unexplored for want of a market; but when
we call to mind that up to a few years ago the use of
fish, except as luxury, was unknown to the interior of
England, and that the annual amount now carried on the
railways alone, exceeds 30,000 tons, we must all rejoice
in feeling that bright days are about to dawn for the
Irish fisherman.—(Loud cheers.) In short, gentlemen,
so great is the variety of the benefits which Ireland
is so peculiarly adapted to receive from railway com-
munications, that every well-wisher of this country
must burn with impatience to see them brought to a
speedy completion. And although, for my own part, I
am well content to leave these matters entirely to pri-
vate enterprise, in England, where capital and confidence
and the spirit of association exist to a greater extent
than in any other country iu the world ; yet, looking at
the circumstances, unfortunately different, in Ireland, I
own myself—although I may sin against strict economic
principles in saying so—l own myself, under certain
limits, and upon certain conditions, an advocate for am-
ple public aid to railways in Ireland.—(Loud cheers.)
The embarrassed condition of our finances has unfortu-
nately retarded this experiment during this year ; but I
hope that better days are in store for us. When the
Chancellor of the Exchequer is a freer agent than at
present he unfortunately is, I shall hope for better things,
and, whether in office or out of office, I shall equally en-
deavour to promote assistance being given to railways in
Ireland.—(Great cheering.) Gentlemen, I will only,
before sitting down, beg to propose a toast, which I am
sure you will all drink with great pleasure—it is, " Mr.
Carr and the other Directors, and success and prosperity
to that real friend of Ireland, the Great Southern and
Western Railway."—(Loud applause.)
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fertility and natural advantages all you have seen, as
one country possibly could exceed another.—(Hear.)
And when you reflect that this railway connects the
metropolis of Ireland with such important cities as Cork
and Limerick—when you know the railway goes down
to the very water's edge of the noblest harbour in Eu-
rope, the Cove of Cork—when we consider all these
great advantages, I cannot but believe that every antici-
pation as to its success and prosperity must be amply ,
realised.—(Cheers.) It is certainly a melancholy reflec-
tion to think .;that this country is almost the last to
have had a great line of communication constructed
between its principal cities. The continent has had it
for some time. England has had it for a long time ; but
I do hope, as the Lord-Lieutenant has been pleased to
say, that better days are in store for our country. Let
us forget all religious distinctions, and remember only
that we are brethren, bound together by the holy tie of
Christian charity.—(Cheers.) Lot us bury in oblivion
all national jealousies and dissensions, recollecting only
that we are the subjects, the devoted subjects of a be-
loved Sovereign, QueenVictoria—(Cheers)—and, finally,
let us arouse and gird ourselves to the great and noble
task of bettering the condition of Ireland by our own
exertions.—(Loud cheers.) Let us depend on what is not
wanting in Ireland—talent, energy, industry, and all the
capabilities for being a great nation. With a soil of
remarkable fertility, with harbours of the finest descrip-
tion, and some of them not to be excelled in Europe,
with a genial climate and an industrious population, how
is it that this country is so backward? The answer is,
want confidence. Now confidence is based on se-
curity, end once that is established in Ireland capital
will flow in—we shall see our fields smiling, and our
rivers covered with shipping, our people employed, and
the whole nation prosperous.—(Cheers.) I don't pre-
tend to say that political ameliorations may not be re-
quired; but this much I will bo bold to assert, that a
prosperous, rich, and consequently a powerful nation, is
more likely to meet compliance with a just demand than
a distracted, feeble, and impoverished one.—(Hear,
hear.) Let us, then, make the great experiment.
We have tried every experiment to raise our country
but one. Let that one be once tried, and have
a fair trial—tranquillity.—(Hear, hear.) Let us see
what we can do for ourselves, and we will thus learn
the true secret of elevating our native country. I am
certain that this railway, which adds artificial advan-
tages to our great natural ones, will open the eyes of
many, and teach them that if we gird ourselves to the
fask we shall be able to restore happiness and prosperity
to Ireland. These are the great objects which all Irish-
men should have in view, and they are within our own
power. We do not require the assistance of any people,
for nature has given us the talent:and the capacity, if we
but avail ourselves of them. The Lord-Lieutenant was
pleased to say that this was a great day for Ireland. It
will be truly a great day, by giving a stimulus to na-
tional exertion, and teaching the people that, by our
own exertions alone, we may become great and rich,
and, consequently, prosperous—our population well fed
and well employed—and misery banished from our
shores for ever.—(Cheers.)
Several other toasts were proposed and responded to,
and at half-past ten the party arrived at the terminus,
King's-bridge, after spending A truly delightful day.

MORE EVICTIONS.

The Limerick Examiner of this day says every post,
every day, every hour, brings us accounts of evictions, of
the havoc of families turned out on the world to beg or
starve. In our last, the letter published from our special

correspondent told us sad and truthful tales of the deso-
lation of Clare, and the all but consummated destruction
of the rural population of the Kilrush Union. We can
to-day speak from documentary evidence of the sad ef-
fects of the clearance system in the parish of Killoscully,
near Newport. A family of the name of Humphrey,,
in comfortable circumstances, able to pay their rents up
to the day of their eviction, and willing to afford security
for the ensuing year's rent, have been recently turned
out by a landlord of the name of Philips, of Mount
Rivers. This Mr. Philips is the bosom friend of Mr.
Twiss, of Bird-hill, near the Stirabout Nursery.
We have been informed 100 families are shortly to be
evicted from the property of the ion. Mr. Ahare (such
is the name given us), near Ulla, and in the Tipperary
Union. We are not in a position now to state positively
whether the number will be so considerable, but we
give the intelligence as it has been communicated to us.