The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-22 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, March 21.
Fenianism has done much evil and cost a great
deal, but it has also elicited some good. It has fixed
the more earnest attention of Parliament on the con-
dition of Ireland, and drawn closer and rendered more
cordial and confiding the relations between the Irish
gentry and the Executive. For some years there had

been something very like disaffection in a large por-
tion of this class, and the way in which they ex-
pressed their feelings towards those who represented
the Sovereign in this country was by no means calcu-
lated to induce the masses of.the people to respect
the authority of Government. We hear nothing of
that kind now. On the contrary, warm expressions
of approval and promises of co-operation are com-
ing in to the Lord-Lieutenant from all parts of the
country.
Yesterday the Lord-Lieutenant received deputa-
tions from two grand juries, one from Down, in the
north, and the other from Kilkenny, in the south.
The former consisted of Mr. J. Cleland, nigh She-
riff, Major Forde, M.P., D.L., Major Percival
Maxwell, D.L., Major Nugent, D.L., and Mr. John
Mulholland, D.L. His Excellency, accompanied by
Mr. Edmond R. Wodehouse, private secretary, and
the Hon. Captain Dormer and Mr. Campbell, aides-
de-camp in waiting, received the deputation in the
Throne-room at the Castle. Mr. Cleland read an
address; which stated that the grand jury desired to
express their thanks for the firmness and vigour
with which Lord Wodehouse has met and is repress-
ing " the treasonable conspiracy which, casting off

all social and religious restraints, has threatened the
property and the peace of this portion of her
Majesty's dominions." They rejoice that he has
obtained from the Legislature powers which, exer-
cised with energy and judgment, promise to prove
equal to the protection of all classes of her Ma-
jesty's subjects in Ireland. From the well-known

loyalty of their county, they have been spared the
alarm and disturbance that have been felt else-
where ; but they express their determination to
support the Executive in all measures that may be
required to maintain the integrity of the kingdom,
to preserve the peace of the country, to protect its
institutions, and to uphold that supremacy of the
law without which there can be neither prosperity
nor progress.

His Excellency read the following reply :
" Mr. High Sheriff and Gentlemen,—As representative
of our most gracious Queen, I sincerely thank you for
your loyal address. The announcement of your determi-
nation, in common with similar influential bodies of gentle-
men, to support the Executive and maintain the supre-
macy of the law, cannot fail to strengthen the hands of
those who are intrusted by her Majesty with the adminis-
tration of the country. It is a source of great satisfaction
to me that you approve the course which has been taken
by the Government to repress the treasonable conspiracy
which has threatened to disturb the tranquillity of this
portion of her Majesty's dominions. You may rely on my
sparing no effort to afford protection and security to all
classes of her Majesty's subjects."

The deputation from Kilkenny consisted of Col.
W. F. Tighe, D.L., J.P. ; the High Sheriff, Sir
James Langrishe, D.L., J.P. ; Sir John Blunden,
D.L., J.P. ; Sir H. Marsh, D.L., J.P. ; and Mr.
John de Montmorency, J.P. In their address they
said :

"Believing that an etpression of grateful support ema-
nating from public bodies, who may be supposed to repre-
sent much of the prosperity and intelligence of the country,
will be considered acceptable to your Excellency, and may
tend to strengthen the hands of the Executive, we wish to
record our approving sense of your official conduct under
the circumstances of the present insane and criminal con-
"Pwir.acy, which is creating much personal uneasiness, scaring
'!:a3:capltal, awl paralysing the best energies of the country.
apply to Parliament for your
exceptional having properly first exhausted the extreme resources of
the constitutional l our Excellency was compelled to
measure, and by the
vigorous execution ofortah
Watching
el,ZrPowders thereby confided to you,
by carefully
atrnogerous symptom, and by
your demand for additiojal
you are. allaying the
fears and reassuring the loyalty troop`' you
wellh-disposed sub-
jects; and we trust that a continuance
ness and vigilance may dispel the delusions of the
saame "
of I
difitirnlou. s,_
and in time restore the confidence and tranquillity
land. We have only to add our determination thatineo-
effort shall be wanting on our parts hi aiding the ends of
justice, and in maintaining the dignity of the Throne."
Lord Wodehouse read a reply similar to the fore-

going.
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