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IRE LAND.

CATTLE SHOW.

DUBLIN, THURSDAY MORNING.
SPEECH OF THE LORD LIEUTENANT AT THE DERRY

The banquet given by the Royal Agricultural Society of
Ireland, at their annual show, took place yesterday at Lon-
donderry. Nearly five hundred noblemen and gentlemen
were present. As an indication of the increasing prosperity
of Ireland, this year's exhibition is very satisfactory. The
entries, in every department, except shorthorns, have been
more numerous than at any previous show, and iu the imple-
ment yard there is also an increase of competing articles.
At the conclusion of the banquet, the Earl of Eglinou ad-
dressed the company. It will be observed that in his allu-
sions to the sectarian animosities that divide the people of
Ireland be closely followed in the footsteps of his predeces-
sor, who never let an opportunity slip when ise could
nculcate peace and harmony.
His Excellency, after referring to the vast and
hadbeneficial
changes which the Royal Agricultural Society accormo-
plished In Ireland, changes affecting £31,000,
..of p -
petty, went on to say with more than his Finial ugour of
expression—There is nothing which has..g.averi merea.ter
gratification in the whole course of my. me than the im-
provement wbich I found in Ireland since I was last here.
The cloud that appeared at one time to have settled perma-
nently over her has been dispersed. Everything now shines
over the island. The science—net only the practice, but the
science—of agriculture is spreading throughout the country.
Your hills and yoar rich pastures are teeming with sheep;
your rents are paid with a punctuality not exceeded else-
where; your poor-houses are half empty; ycur labourers
are employed ; crime has decreased ; railways are extend-
ing their useful influence over the country; political
strife is, I may say, almost in abeyance, and civil and
religious liberty is established on so firm a basis that
the man who would advocate a return to bigotry would
be set down as insane. (Laud and continued cheer-
ing.) There is but one pieente snot left, and that I
trust has almost ceased to tester. Nothing but sectarian
animosity stands in the way of Ireland enjoying hap-
piness and prosperity unsurpassed by any nation on earth,
and for which her internal resources, her fertility, and the
genius of her people eminently qualify her. (Great cheer-
ing.) These animosities have, no doubt, to a great extent '
departed with customs and enactments, some of which
tended to foster them, and some of which ought, perhaps,
never to have existed. The bow of peace and safety seems
to have arched its fair circle before us, but as yet the form
of the rainbow is too harshly define 4 and the colours too
distinct. As the orange and green present too strong a
contrast to each other, so do these quarrels and heart-
burnings prevent that perfect union and brotherly love
which ought to exist among you, and I trust that they
will fade ere long, and that they will soon be blended
into the harmonious glow of a cloudless and meridian sky.
(Loud cheers) I hive on many public occasions, as on
this, expressed my opinion of the great improvement that has
taken place in Ireland. lam accused, by those who are not
intimately connected with the subject, of partiality in colt sr-
lag the subject too hiehly ; but I am not only sure that I am
correct in my estimate, but if you will for a few minutes
allow me to go into such dry matters as figures, I will prove
that lam correct. (Hear, bear.) I will not go to any dis-
tant period or to any exceptional cases to take my compari-
son with the present time. I will only go to the period
when I was here before in the year 1852. If I were to go
farther, no doubt the comparison might be more striking,
but it would not be so fair. I rejoice to say that the im-
provement Is not only progressive, but that it is rapidly on
the Increase. Of course not only by such a company as
this, but by Irishmen generally, it will be admitted that
agriculture is the main interest of Ireland, and I shall
therefore begin with it. There is no doubt that
the present improvement which has taken place in
that interest has been arrived at by great effort and
by very great individual suffering. For the latter lam not
answerable; for the former I take no credit to myself ; and
as regards my colleagues, they sincerely rejoice in the fact
that the prospects of Ireland are improved. (Hear.) Dur-
ing the period, not of a great many years, land of the value
sif twenty-one millions has changed hands ; and as new pos-
sessors are almost always improving, we may calculate that
more than 10 per cent. has been laid out upon land. We
may therefore calculate that considerably more than two
millions have been paid out in that way ; five millions
have been granted by Parliament for internal drainage,
improvement of rivers, and cther things of that sort, and
sixteen millions in the way of loan. It is only of late
years the results of those great efFsrts have begun to tell;
but they have begun to tell in a manner the most satisfac-
tory. (Hear, hear.) I have said that I would read for you
some figures; I have reduced them to so small a nuraber that I
think they will not weary you here. The first item which
I shall bring before you is the enormous increase of live
stock in Ireland since i 852. In round numbers there has been
an increase of 85,000 horses, 570,000 cattle, 730,000 sheep,
and 330,000 pigs. (Hear.) Calcula•ing them at the mode-
rate price of X,B each for hones, £6los. for cattle, 22e. for
sheep, and 255. for pigs, it makes in all the enormous
increase in the value of property in Ireland in live
stock alone of £5,716,000. (Cheers.) I shall now merely
state one fact as regards the increase of acreage that is
now under cultivation, notwithstanding the enormous
increase of pasture. In 1852, in round numbers the
acreaee under cultivation was 5,739,000, and in 1857 it
was 5,881,000, making an increase of 49,700. (Hear.)
There is another matter of the greatest possible importance
to Ireland, namely, the decrease of pauperism. I will state
a very few figures upon that point. The total nutnber of
paupers in 1852 was 590,775; in 1857 they were 190,823,
being a decrease of almost one-half. In the county Dert y
they were 4,699 in 1852, and they are now 3,269. (Cheers.)
The average of poor rates over land is ls. in the pound; in
England it is ls. 9 i.; and in Sc nlaed is. 4d. (Hear, hear.)
There is only one other item which I will bring before you,
and that is the enormous decrease of crime. The total num-

ber of offenees;e;e7tedlo'lheln:p. eTtor:GeneralinfBo2
was 7,824. In 1857 it was 4,032, being a decrease of nearly
one-half. (Hear.) Of the homicides there was a decrease
of about 30, in a similar period, from 16-2. Of crimes ea-
tirelv of an agrarian nature in 1852 there were 100 cases;
in 11357 only 23. (Hear, hear.) Of robberies and bur-
gle• ies there were, in 1852, 3,420 ; in 1857 there were 1,272.
As regards a most important item—namely, incendiary tires,
maiming of cattle, and other crimes of that sort, in
1852 there were 1,507 offences; in 1857 there wee only
75.5. Of threatening notices, in 18.52, there were 776; in
1857 only 271. I have only one other item of figures to
bring before you, which is, that in cases of ejection tore non-
payment of rent, in 1852 the number was 6,5.50; in 1857 it
was only 919. (Hear, bear, and cheers.) Gentlemen, I
trust I am not wearying you. (No, no, and cheers.) I
cannot but feel that, to go away f om figures, I have some
little reason to be proud, when talking of the improvements
in this country, that the two great events which have taken
place within the last few weeks have occurred during my
residence amongst you. I allude to the laying of the 1
Atlantic cable and the establishment of a transatlantic
packet station in Ireland. I think I am justified in saying that
the former is the most extraordinary instance in ancient or
modern enterprise--the most signal nierneh and the ereatest
wonder the world has ever seen. (Cheers.) Of the result ofthis
it is of course impossible to form a conjecture; but we know
this much, that it must be beneficial not only to this country
but to the whole human race. (hear.) Of the other—l
mean the steam communication beta een Gal Nay and America
—I feel the most confidant anticipation, and I am net too
sanguine in telling you that, ere long, Galway will be the
high-road of communication, for passengers and mails at
least, between England and America. (Prolonged cheering.)
And now, gentlemen, before I sit dowe, you must allow me
to say a few words with rospect to this old and interesting
city, in which I find myself. (Applause.) Coming here as
I did for the first time yesterday, I was net only struck with
the beauty of its position, but I could not help referring to
the interesting traditions and glorious memories which
are associated with it. (Enthusiastic cheers.) I could
not help going back to its earliest dates, and remem-
bering that in ages and ages long gone by, before the
Danes or the Saxons came amongst you, on the spot
where now stands 3 our commodious and beautiful city there
stood Daire Calgo'c-h, " the city of the fierce wart-into." I
fear the name was symbolic, not oely of the people then
existieg, but of the spirit winch, in comperative ly modern
times, gave Derry a world-e etc celebrity. (Hear, hear.)
Then it came, from Daire Caleoich, " the city of the fist ce
warriors," to be Derry C tlumbkill, " the c ty rf the pious
saint." Then, in after years, in the time of the first James,
it had prefixed to it the name of !he metropolis, and required
for itself that commercial character which has ever sirce
distinguished it; and I think I may note say that it is every
day snore and more reverting to its own originel Deity,
thereby showing that it requires no aid from warrior, saint,
or community, but that it can stand neon its own le-
sources, and rely upon tie energies of its own
people. As
regards the improeemeet of Itelanst, I may say,
with re-
spect to the spirit of the people of Londonderry, you have
shown more pubic spirit than any other town. As I said, I
think, before to-day, with the single exception of Belfat,
you have shown more public spirit and more self-reliance
than any town in Ireland. (Cheers.) I feel sure by what
I heard to-day that that public spirit, so far from dying
away, is only in its infancy, and if I may be allowed to go to '
another recollection of Londonderry, I feel some little
pride in remembering that I am not the first of my
family who has been here. I feel proud in remem-
bering that the first Protestant Bishop of Derry, a
predecessor of my right reverend friend and host, was
one of my own family. The first Protestant Bishop
of Derry was Doctor George Montgomery, who was closely
allied with my own family in Scotland, and a mother
of the firsi, Montgomery was ennobled in Ireland. I re-
joice to think that that name, although I cannot lay claim
to any affinity with the owner of it, is not now degenerate,
and that 1 believe a townsman of your own, at all
events one who was educated among you, Robert Mont-
gomery, is now one of the most disinguished officers in
India. (Cheers.) When I mention India, I am sure I
should not be pardoned if I did not advert to the fact that
the two great brothers, the Lawreecee, were also educated
here. (Applause.) One, unfortunately, lives no longer,
except io the grateful memory of his country. The other,
I trust, will live to see many years of honour, of credit to
himself, and utility to his country. (Hear, hear.) And
now, gentlemen, I cannot find myself in this city for the
first time without adverting to and expressing my admira-
tion of the defence of your city in the 17th century, and it
is a defence of which you hive every right to be proud—
(loud cheers)—which has been immortalised before, but
which bas been brought before you lately in still
brighter colours by the pen of Macaulay—(hear, hear)—
a defence which we cannot find paralleled in modern
times, except, perhaps, in the celebrated sieges of Kars and
Locknow. (Hear, bear.) I read that in the end of the last
century the ceremony of the opening of the gates of Derry
was celebrated with the greatest Pomp—that in the proces-
sion which then took place there were not only all the autho-
rities and dignitaries of the town, not only the Bishop of
Derry, but the Roman Catholic Bishop, attended by many of
his clergy. I read that er, theareeasien a sermon was preached
by a pious and distinguished townsman of your own, Dr
Vaughan Sampson, in which he inculcated humenity,and ma-
deration, and brotherly love. In the course of that sermon he
said, "If you will draw an example frora your forefathers,
a lesson suited to this solemn hour,
in you will be pious in
your courage, you will be moderate your opinions, you
will not only say in your hearts Glory to God in the
highest,' but you will also say, Peace on earth, good will
among men." (Hear, and applause.) There is no man who
admires nationality more than I do ; there is no man who
thinks more highly of patriotism ; and I believe that it is
from such feelings have sprung almost all the hiehe=t attri-
butesand the greatest ac
of humanity, I have alluded
and
which have ever
been performed. But all rejoicings, such as , bad
blood should be discontinued if they lead to s.rif, clvtoT,
blood ; and I cannot too strongly inculcate this upon ,
and not only on you, for I believe I am not speaking
to any one who does not agree with me— ( hear),—bn t to
thousaads of your fellow countrymen, who are proverbial
for their loyalty, and unimpeachable in their patriotisra,
but perhaps too uncompromising in their demonstra-
tions. (Laughter and applause.) Let the words which I have
just quoted sink deep into your minds, and while you take a
just pride in the courage, and zeal, and fidelity of your an-
cestors within their old walls, every stone of which tells
histories of their patriotism, romantic in their thrilling
interest, I pray you to abandon all emblems of party spirit,
which is no imager required as a triumph over your own
brethren—all symbols of sanguinary strife' which now lives
and which I trust, with Goe's
but in the page of history,
blessing, will never again be revived—(hear, hear)—and as
Nay Colunabkille succeeded DRlre cogoich so let the

ne.
spirit of Christianity and good-will remain. Let the demo
hen
of strife vanish for ever, and let Derry not only open
gates, but her heart, to all, both Celt and Saxon, whatever
may be their race or religious persuesion. His excellency
resumed his seat amidst enthusiastic and prolonged cheering.
His Excellency's historical investigations into the history
of the siege of Derry will be considered felicitous enough by
the " ap-prentice. boys ;" but after his reference to the reli-
gious difference° of the people of Ireland, it would have
been better had he not touched en such a tender topic.
Were the Earl cf Eglinton in Derry when the Orangemen
commemorate the " siege," to the great annoyance of the
Roman Catholic inhabitants, he would hardly have alluded
to it in a mixed assembly.
Amongst those present at the banquet were the Earl of
Erne, Lord Lifford, the Marquis of Abercorn, Lord Dunlo,
Lord Talbot de Matahide, Earl Berners the Bishop of
Derry, Sir Robert Bateson, Sir Robert Ferguson, Sir E.
Hayes, Col. Dunne, Col. Taylor, M.P.; Gen. Gough,
Admiral Hamilton, See., &c.
ADDRESS TO LORD PALMERSTON.
A special meeting of the town commissioners of Sligo was
held on Monday, to consider the propriety of presenting an
address to Lord Palmerston. Mr. W. C. Tute occupied the
chair.
Mr. MOSES MONDS, J. P., in an eloquent address,
said that there could be no second opinion as to the pro-
priety of presenting an address to Lord Palmerston on the
occasion of Ins visit here. As the town and harbour corn-
minioners represented, as a body, all classes in Sligo, he
thought the address could emanate from them. No
doubt there were differences of opinion betwixt the
members; some where Whigs, some were Radicals, and,
like himself, some were Conservatives; but he thought
they could all unite in admiration of his lordship's
abilities and indomitable courage, and for his hearty
love and regard for the interests and honour of this country.
They could also all fully appreciate and concur in respect for
his excellent character as a private gentleman and landlord.
He thought they might also be able to go a little further
unanimously and express their full concurrence in the voice
of the nation at a period if great difficulty in the history of
the country; and when misrule, mismanagement, and job-
bery reduced the nation to the great crisis in the Russian
war Lord Palmerston was the man called upon to conduct
it through that arduous struggle. So fir, they could all go
unanimously, whether they were Whigs or Conservatives.
He thought that the commissioners would be all happy to
convey their esteem and respect to the foremost man of the
age, whose word till yesterday might have stood against thee
world. He then moved that a committee be appointed t
prepare an address to his lordship.
Mr. ANDREW WALKER said that, as one of Lord
Palmerston's tenants, he coincided in every word that had
dropped from Mr. Mends, and therefore seconded the
motion, which was put to toe meeting and carried unani-
mously
The committee then retired to prepare the address, and
during their absence a message was sent to his lordship, in-
quiring whether he would be pleased to receive the address,
and if so, what hour would be most convenient for him ?
His Lordship' expressed his willingness to receive the
address, and fixed four o'clock fir its presentation.
At four o'clock the commissioners proceeded in a body to
his lordship's rent-office, where they were met by his lord-
ship.
Mr. WILLIAM C. TUTg, chairman, read the following
Address :
" To the Right Hon. the Viscount Palmerston.
" We, the commissioners of the town and harbour of
Sligo, including also the members of the municipal corpora-
tion, beg respectfully to address your lordship on the occa-
sion of your present visit.
" Respecting, as our body does, all classes in Sligo, and
consisting of men of different political opinions, we ad uuite
in expressing our high admiration of your lordship's public
and private character.
"Having responded to the call of the nation to guide its
affairs at a most critical period of its history, your lordship,
by indomitable energy and consummate ability, conducted
the arduous struggle to a successful issue, maintaining in
its integrity the honour, dignity, and independence of our
country.
" Feeling, as we know your lordship does, a deep interest
in the prosperity of this locality, you will be gratified to hear
that, although our progress is slow, the trade and commerce
of the town are steadily increasing. We have also made
considerable improvements in our harbour, unaided, so far,
by any public grant, and aro still devoting our limited in-
come to the same object, being encouraged to do so by the
knowledge of the fact that this port is capable of being made
the first on the west coast of Ireland, and at the present its
trade exceeds any other in the province.
" We are happy to have this opportunity of expressing to
your lordship the high esteem in which you are held as a
kind and generous landlord, and trust you may long be
spared to assist in the councils on the nation, and to preside
over year tenantry."
The address was signed by upwards of 20 commissioners.
His LORDSHIP then said—Gentlemen? I beg very sin-
cerely to thank you for this very kind and flattering mark
of your goodwill and esteem. It is the more gratifying
to me under the circumstances you mention that it proceeds
from a body representing all classes and all political opi-
nions. You are pleased to mention the manner in which
I and my colleagues of the late Government performed
those duties which we were severally called upon to dis-
charge. All that is a matter of history now, and we
may speak of it with more freedom. I was certainly
called upon by our Sovereign to form a Government,
under great difficulty, at a moment when other persons who
had, before that time, been the heads of Administration,
from various reasons declined or were unable to form a
Ministry. I felt that, eceepting, under these circum-
stances, the charge which my Sovereign was graciously
pleased to impose upon rne, I should be supported by the
generous confidence of the country. I called to act along
with me colleagues of ability and integrity in whom I had a
perfect confidence; and I atn glad to say that we were able
to bring to a successful termination the arduous war in
which we found the country involved—the arduous, just,
and necessary war. It was unanimously agreed to by the
country, and, acting in co-operation with the allies of our
Sovereign, we succeeded in bringing that war to a successful
and honourable termination—we succeeded in obtaining from
our enemy a peace entire and satisfactory, and on conditions
which no man would have deemed possible two years before
:hat peace was concluded. (Hear, hear.) We succeeded
in the very difficult negotiations which followed the con-
clusion of that peace in leading our opponent to a faithful
fu'filment of all its condition°, and I need not assure you
, that that was a task requiring perseverance. (Hear,
hear.) When that was concluded there came upon ui
that disastrous upheaviner in India which has attracted
the attention of the whole nation from that time to this.
We used every method of sending to our countrymen
there those military and naval resources which have
enabled them to suppress the rebellion, and re-establish the
authority of Greet Britain. We proposed to Parliament, much
anainst the forebodings of many, who thought our mea-
sure would not be carried, a bill transferring to the Crown
the government of these provinces—a measure, in my own
opinion, indispensably necessary as a foundation for the
future improvement and stability of India. That measure
was token up by our successors, with some alterations,
which I need not advert to, more or less in accordance with
its principles, and has passed into law, and will insure sta-
bility in our Indian empire. (Hear, hear, and applause.)
Gentlemen, I am glad to hear from you that the trade and
cr mtnerce of this port, which I will call a great Irish sea-
po-t, is improving. I am also glad to hear that you rely, I
would say that we rely—(applause)—upon our own re-
sources. (Hear, hear ) I am looking upon myself as one
of you in regard to these matters. (Applause.) I am
perfectly sure that no town has ever risen to great prosperity
that did not rely entirely upon its own resources. (Hear,
hear.) The habit of appealing to public revenue for doing
that which interests those who live on the spot, and
who shonld therefore put their shoulders to the wheel, is a
habit that engenders apathy and want of activity, and is sure
to produce obstructions to improvement. This town is des-
tined by its nature to he one of the chief seapotne in Ireland,
and Mr. Black would make it the Liverpool of Ireland. We
hare a long way to go b fore that, but depend upon it this
town must continue to proeper at d iecreese in all its mate-
riel interests, nod I em toe much interested in it not to look
forward with great hope and consolation to these proopects.
You Lave been kind eneuelt to mention my relations with
my tenantry. I ens glad to Fee. that they are sharing in the
general itnprovement of the country. I have b-en very
much gratified 'et see the improved habits and condition of
the people, and to bear how further demands will insure a
fin-her supply, and that the general improvement which
everybody 'ass prevails over Ireland has extended also to
that vrild district that lies under Benhulhen. (Applause.)
His lordship then retired, and the commissioners separated.
THE TENANT RIGHT CONFERENCE.
This body met again yesterday, when the following re-
solutions, among others, were passed :
"That, having heard the s'atements of the honourable
members for Dungarvan and Tipperary, on the proceedings
taken for the furtherance of the cause in the last session of
Parliament, iliae conference is of opinion that the Tenant
Right Bill so ably advocated by them is the smallest demand
that, in full justice to the tenant, it can consent to put for-
ward in their name; and that Mr. Maguire anti The
O'Donnerhue are hereby requested again to introduce it, and
to procure the amplest discussion for its previsions during
the ensuing session.
" That the intimation held ont by the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, that the question should receive the considera-
ti G )vernment, in the opinion of this conference, is
not on
satisfactory ; and that Lord Derby's Government, hay.
ng opposed the consideration of the tenants' claims by a
committee of the house, tenant-rinht representatives should
hold thentselreg independent of, and in opposition to,
that Government."
CARDINAL WISEMAN IN IRELAND.
The Freeman says, in its iaFile of this morning :—" We
untleretand that his eminence has acceded to the request
of Sir John Bradstreet, Bart., president, and the council of
Ireland of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, to deliver a
public lecture for the society in Dublin on his return from
Ballinesloe."
The Church is resolved to profit by the Cardinal's visit.
At Ballinasloe he is to consec-ate a chapel, and preach a
sermon, which can only be listened to on payment of some-
thing like thirty shillings a head by the faithful. This beats
Spurgeon, who has created some amusement in Belfast from
tie business-like way in which lie arranged his e specula-
tion."

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