The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-30 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.)

HOUSE OF LORDS. -APPEAL.
IEIPPRN AND ANOTHER F BARLEY.

This appeal sway aypointed for further hearing this
morning at half-past ten o'clock. The hearing of this
cause will probably occupy their 1 rrdships the whole of
the day.

EVENINq, APRIL 30, 1E558.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, THURSDAY MORNING.
THE GREAT ANNUAL CATTLE SHOW.

The yeArly cattle show r.f the Royal Irish Agri-
cultural S,,ciety came off yesterday with consider-
able eclat, and was followed in the evening by the
usual reunion. Lord Eglinton was pres nt, and
delivered an admirable speech, in the course of
which his Excellency touched upon several topics
of general interest, preluding his address with a
graceful tribute to the merits of his predecessors in
the office of Viceroy :
" I cannot but feel (said his Excellency) that it was
in this building I first addressed an assemblage of Irish-
men, when I was invested with the office which I now
hold by favour of her Majesty, and I rejoice that I should
have again the opportunity of, fur the first time, address-
ing a public assemblage in the same place on my return
to Ireland. (Applause.) Pleasing as these occasions
are, I cannot but feel that on both occasions I have
been placed in a certain position of difficulty and dig-
hdvautage, in spite of the kindness which I have experi-
enced at your hands then as I de now. Then I came en-
tirely new to official life. I came to fit.d myself the suc-
cessor of a man of distinguished ability and of long-tried
official experience—one who had conducted the affairs of
this country through difficult circumstances with that
ability which distinguished him then, before, and since.
(Hear.) I now find myself in a ra• her—a more than
tither disagreeable position, of succeeding Lord Carbide
—one who by his amiable disposition and his unwearied
courtesy won all hearts, and by the accomplishment of
his mind adorned the office which he held, and by his
eloquence shed a brilliancy over the driest subjects on
which he touched. But, though I must acknowledge,
wi h deep humility, my inferiority to those noble lords,
either in official knowledge, in talent, in eloquence, or
in accomplishments, yet I an not afraid to undertake
the duties of the office. (Loud applause.) 1 did when
I came here before fear I might be unequal to the task.
I doubted, because I was not acquainted with the Irish
character. (Hear.) I ought to have known, as I know
now, that you world accord me a fair trial, and give me
e hearty welcome (loud applause), and that so long as I
do my duty by the people of this courery they will
extend to rue their kindness and considera'ion. (Ap-
lause.) Six years have gone past since I last sat in this
chair—and what changes have occurred since then !
These years have been years of strife and bloodshed —of
an European war, of the Indian mutiny, of national
calamity and national glory. Buy T e.jelee to say tboy
have been years of steadily-increasing prosre rity for
Ireland. (Cheers.) In these few years agricultere has
spread itself over the country—farming, in every way,
has improved—capital has been expended—crime has
diminished. I rejoice to say that On coming back here
I find Ireland in a condition of prosperity such as I did
not think it possible that it could obtain when I last ad-
dressed a meeting of this society. I then remarked—and
I remember a‘most the very words—the turning point
of Ireland's misfortunes was at hand, and that the
darkness which had so long brooded over it would soon
break up into sunshine. I think lam completely jus-
tified in saying that that turning point has not only
been reached, but has been long since passed—that the
sunshine has broken through the clouds, and that Ire-
land is now rapidly arriving at that position which her
beet friends would wish her to reach. (Applause.) I
think that I may not be called too sanguine if I predict
a happy and a glorious future for Ireland—a country
whica by its fertility and richness, by its position and
beauty, and by the talents and ready wit of its people,
nature seems to have intended to be the brightest gem
of the British crown. (Loud applause.)"

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