The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-26 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Jan. 25.
A ceremony of a very novel character took place
in the Mansion-house yesterday. The Lord Mayor
received in State at the Mansion-house a deputation
from the tenants of Lord Aunaly, in the county of
Clare, who presented an address to his Lordship
and the Lady. Mayoress, with a beautiful and costly
service of plate, as an expression of their gratitude
for his conduct as Lord Annaly's agent, and his
efforts to promote their welfare in various ways, as
well as of their personal regard and esteem, and
their hearty congratulation on the high position to
which Mr. Lane Joynt had attained. The address
having been read by Mr. M. Kelly, the Rev. Mr.
Quaid, parish priest of O'Callaghan Mills, county
of Clare, who accompanied the deputation, said he
endorsed every word of the address, and paid a
high tribute to the public usefulness and private
worth of the Lord Mayor. His lordship delivered
a lengthened reply, which contained some fat `s
worthy of notice. He ascribed the chief merit of
what he had done to the landlord, who has extensive
estates in the counties of Clare, Limerick, Longford,
Meath, and Dublin. He declared that Lord Ann aly
never turned out a tenant, and that he wished every
farmer on his property should have an interest in
his holding, should be secure in his improvements,
and encourage I to increase the produce of the land,
so as to gratify the honest desire of every tenant to
be able to hand down to his children, with increased
value, the place where his children grew up around
him, which the dearest associations of youth and
manhood had hallowed,—the home to which he
clings with all the devotion of au Irish heart. The
Lord Mayor continued :
These aro noble and honest feelings. They are making

their way to the acceptance of all great thinkers and states-
men. The Legislature can no longer disregard them, the
statesmen whose ambition is to rule the country must recog-
nize and embody them in law; they are founded in justice,
they will be enforced by justice also; they are recommended
by the greatest living writers, they are recommended to the
plainest understandings of those who are associated, as I
am, with the working of the Irish land system. I do not be-
lieve in the proposed plans of buying up properties and sell-
ing them in small lots to tenant occupiers. I believe the
tenant-farmers of Ireland don't want that. Most, if not all,
prefer to got their land at a fair rent—for the value—to be
secured by a 31 years' lease ; and I belfeve with you, under
such circumstances, the value of the agricultural produce of
Ireland would be doubled even sooner than the period you
mention-20 years. Most farmers would expect from their
capital a greater return than 4 or 5 per cent., and most of
the good landlords of Ireland—and I believe they are more
numerous than is usually believed—can afford to purchase
lauds and let them far more moderately than the small class
of purchasers which the newspapers considered would re-
generate the country. Now, you know that the tenant.
farmers of Ireland fear no class so much as that of the smal
capitalist who buys a small lot of land, and as I have known
in many cases, trebles, nay, quadruples, on the occupying
tenant the rent before he has been bix mouths its owner.
I could quote instances of this in Clare, but I need not; you
are too familiar with them. I trust, therefore, in the inte-
rest of the landlords themselves, many of whom do not
know their true interest, a, bill may be prepared and brought
in during the coming session to settle the land question.
There is no insuperable difficulty about it, and if her Ma-
jesty's Government will not settle the question they must
give place to a Government who will. Gentlemen, you
have alluded to emigration. It is the hemorrhage which
drains the life-blood of Ireland away, and I deeply regret
that a noble lord of hereditary talents, of great parts and
accomplishments, should have re-animated the Sangrado
prescription of more bloodletting and hot water. Ireland
has too much of that already. I fear to face the future,
when ono half million of our population is to be reduced.
I fear to face the deep and untold misery to thousands - the
(paled fires, the household gods scattered, the trading
elaesee iu the towns still further reduced and ruined, and

the professional and middle classes feeling the want of ihat
life-blood which it is the duty of true statesmen to keep in
the b dy politic, and, above all, arrest its continual flow.
I rejoice to say that on Lord Anualy's estates I have never
evicted a tenant; that not one compulsory ejectment ever
drove a family from old Ireland ; that all the while Lord
Annaly's rents have been well paid, and his tenants daily
growing more prosperous and contented. Some are large
and prosperous farmers, occupying his lordship's lands and
enjoying their own fee simple estates; others are not so
affluent; but I rejoice to say his lordship has many small
tenant-farmers ; they pay their rents well, are industrious
and contented, and, above all, secure in their holdings. It
is a fatal folly to drive such men and their families from
Ireland—all the more fatal when men like the noble lord
I have referred to propound such theories.

The Lord Mayor entertained the members of the
deputation, with a number of ladies and gentlemen,
at dinner in the Oak-room in the evening.
The Lord-Lieutenant will be present at the in-
auguration dinner. The Marchioness of Abercorn
has also accepted the invitation of the Lord Mayor
and Lady Mayoress. About 200 ladies will be in-
vited on the occasion.

A public meeting was held at Cork on Wednes-
day, presided over by the Mayor, to petition for re-
form in the Irish railway system. The Mayor, Mr.
N. D. Murphy, M.P., Mr. J. N. Murphy, Alder-
man Scott, the City High Sheriff, Mr. W. J. Shaw,
and Mr. T. Mahony were among the speakers. Re-
solutions were passed unanimously in favour of a
general reduction of rates and fares on Irish lines,
the gresent charges being greatly in excess of those
on Continental railways. A resolution was also
adopted, Messrs. Mahony and Shaw dissenting, call-
ing on the Government to purchase and undertake
the management of the present lines, and to make
such extensions as should be considered necessary to
complete the railway system of the country. A petit
tion to the Government on the subject was adopted,
and a deputation, including the Mayor, High Sheriff,
and city members, appointed to present it.
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'Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Urgent, screw iron troopship, Capt. E. H.
Henderson, sailed from Portsmouth yesterday at
10 a.m. for China with a large number of naval
officers; seamen, and Marines on board, for service
in the gunboats and other of her Majesty's ships
now serving in the Chinese and Japanese seas. The
list of naval officers going out in the Urgent for
this service includes Capt. Hickley, R.N. ; Lieuts.
Cameron, Rose, Anson, Kent, Grenfell, Griffith,
Crosbie, and Broxham ; Master John Tulley, Pay-
master J. M. Blyth ; Second-Masters Hedden,
Packer, Fox, and Ridden ; Assist.- Surgs, H. It.
Ryall, R. Nelson, E. W. Lesly, H. Hansford,
Eugene Van Meru, and C. G. Wodeworth ; Chief
Engineer E. M. Avoy ; Engineers Young, Foster,
Coltam, Sanders, Murray, and Green ; 25 assistant-
engineers, 8 warrant officers, and upwards of 50
seamen and Marines. The Urgent will call in at
Plymouth Sound on her way down Channel ; and at
Loaudo, the Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, Singa-
pore, and Ceylon, during the outward voyage.
The machinery of the ship since her arrival at
Portsmouth from foreign service in August of last
year has undergone considerable repairs, and im-
portant modifications have been made in the over-
head arrangements of the boiler-room and stoke-
hole. The engines have had new condensers and
air-pump, and a general overhaul and repair of all
other parts. New boilers were also required, and
a set which had been lying in the dockyard for
some time, marked "Furious," were appropriated
for the purpose, the said Furious being now a coal
bulk converted from a once formidable paddle
steamer. In putting the new boilers on board the
Urgent, the Steam Factory engineer officers im-
proved upon the old arrangement with one funnel,
where the uptake covered in more than one-third
of the entire length of the boiler-room, substituting
two funnels placed athwartships, and each with its
own separate uptake from the boilers on that side
of the ship. By this new arrangement the ventila-
tion has been vutly improved, there being now a
free opening to the upper deck from the stokehole
throughout its entire length, much to the health and
comfort of the men in charge of the fires. On the
ship making her trial over the measured mile in
Stokes Bay, near Portsmouth, a few days since, six
thermometers were hung in the stokehole from for-
ward to aft, and between the sets of boilers, at
about the height of a man's shoulders, from which
readings of the temperature were taken each mile.
The temperatures on the second, fourth, and sixth
miles may be considered as most correctly represent-
ing the true heat of the stokehole at an exceptional
time, such as the trial of speed, when the furnaces
are made to burn all the coal they can, and on the
day of the Urgent's trial the returnsfrom her stoke-
hole thermometers were as follows, commencing
from forward, and ending aft :—Second mile-63,
48, 80 (middle of stokehole), 82, and 62 deg. ;
fourth mile-66, 52, 84 (middle of stokehole), 92,
and 74 deg. ; sixth mile-64, 52, 85 (middle of
stokehole), 95, and 75 deg. A special report on the
rearrangement of the Urgent's boiler-room, and the
results so far obtained, might possibly be valuable
even to "My Lords" for future reference and
guidance.

The Industry, screw storeship, Staff-Commander
Youell, arrived at Shithead early on Friday morn-
ing from Ascension, and sailed again in tha after-
noon for Woolwich. A few invalids brought home
by the Industry from Ascension were landed.at
Portsmouth.

The Speedy, screw gunboat, tender to the Dasher,
sailed from Portsmouth yesterday for the Channel
Islands.

The Tamar, screw iron troopship, Capt. Francis
W. Sullivan, C. 8., will sail from Portsmouth on
Monday for Kingstown, Ireland, with a detachment
of the 84th Regiment and a few naval supernu-
meraries. From Kingstown the Tamar will pro-
ceed to Malta with the 64th Regiment and the de-

tachment of the 84th, landing there the 64th, and
proceeding thence to Jamaica with the 84th
Regiment, which now forms part of Malta garrison.
From Jamaica the Tamar will return to Queens-

town, Ireland, with the 6th Regiment of Foot.
The Medusa, paddle steamer, Staff-Commander
Thos. Potter, sailed from Portsmouth yesterday for
Sheerness with supernumeraries for the unarmoured
screw line-of-battle ship Rodney,
now fitting as the
flagship of Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Henry Kep-

pel, K.C.8., the appointed successor of the presen

Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty's Fleets in
India, China, and Japan.

By the death of Gen. Sir J. Freeth, K.C.8.,
Lieut.- Gen. E. F. Gascoigne, Colonel of the 69th
Regiment, becomes full General ; Major-G-en. C. C.
Hay, Inspector-Gen. of Musketry, becomes a Lieut.-
Gen. ; and Col. H. Hope Graham, C. 8., Inspecting
Field Officer of the London Recruiting District, a

Major-General.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Lieut. G. B. Evans, to the St.
Vincent, additional for service in the Martin tender,
vice Fitzmaurice, promoted, the appointment of
Lieut. W. L. E. Walsh having been cancelled;
Lieut. Seymour Spencer Smith to be Flag-Lieut. to
Rear-Admiral Wellesley, C.B. ; Sub-Lieut. An-
thony Kingscote, Sub-Lieut. G. R. C. Eyres, Sub-
Lieut. John S. Halifax, and Sub-Lieut. Keppel
Garnier, to the Galatea ; 11. P. S. Dorrien, E.
J.
Fellowes, Hon. A. G. Curzon Howe and G. Neville,
midshipmen, to the Galatea ; 11. A. W. Onslow,
naval cadet, to the Galatea; R. 0. Bray, clerk,
additional, to the Itoyal Alfred.

The undermentioned gentlemen have been nomi-
nated naval cadets :—Patrick Black and Herbert
M. Ileathcote.

The Prince of Wales and Prince de Teck left
Sandringham on Thursday afternoon for a couple of days'
shooting at General Hall's box, Six Mile Bottom, near
Newmarket.

•
SOLUTION OF THE HUNGARIAN QUESTION.-
According to information, received from a source
which we have reason to regard as perfectly reliable, the
long-pending differences between Hungary and the Court
of Vienna have been satisfactorily adjusted. A separate
Hungarian Ministry has bawl conceded, and the nomina-
tion of its members is almost complete. The new Ministers
will enter upon their functions as soon as the RAiichsrath
Extraordinary is assembled. It will then depend on the
wisdom and moderation of that body and the Diet for
Hungary to make the understanding arrived at complete.
In view of this much-to-be-desired result it is of paramount
importance that the German party, as well as the Centralists,
should renounce their assumed attitude of opposition, and
resolve upon taking part in the election of rorresentatives
tv the koGuntly-wayvkod livich§ratla.