The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-21 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, FRIDAY.
The Lord-Lieutenant arrived at Hillsborough on
Wednesday evening, on a visit to the Marquis and
Marchioness of Downshire, accompanied by the
Messrs. Lascelles and Captain Cochrane, aide-de-
camp. The Marquis and his son were waiting at the
Lisburn station for the Viceregal party, who were
conveyed in his carriage to Hills-borough Castle.
The streets of Lisburn were full of people, who
cheered his Excellency as his carriage passed. In
front of the union workhouse the paupers were all
dr .wn up. The juveniles cheered loudly and
aved their caps. As the party approached Hills-
borough " the joy bells of the church rang forth a
merry peal." At the entrance of the town an arch
spanned the street, on one side of which were the
words, " Welcome to the Lord-Lieutenant ;" on the
other, " Prosperity to Ireland ;" both formed of
dahlias of the most attractive colours. From the
windows of almost every house, says the Belfast
News Letter, flags and banners were displayed ; in
fact, the whole fronts seemed to be covered with
them. The streets were crowded with people, and
as the Lord-Lieutenant passed under the arch the
cheering was loud and general. There was a din-
ner party at the Castle in the evening, which, in
addition to the Viceregal visitors, included the Lord
Bishop of Down and Mrs. Knox, Lord and Lady
Dufferin, Lady Erne, Lady Louisa Crichton, Lady
Charlotte Chetwynd, and Miss Chetwynd.
Yesterday the Viceregal party drove into Lis-
burn, and inspected the bleachworks of the Messrs.
Richardson, where they partook of luncheon, and
next visited the damask manufactory of Mesers.
Hilders and M'Canhon. There was a ball at Hills-
borough Castle last night.
While the thriving little towns of Lisburn and
Hillsborough are ringing with the joyous shouts
of the industrious and contented people, and the
words " Irish prosperity" are seen on floating ban-
ners and floral arches, all spontaneous expressions
of public feeling, a voice proceeds from the dull
and stationary little town of Tuam, crying that
Irish prosperity is a myth. Archbishop M'Hale has
addressed a letter to Lord Palmerston, written in
the doleful strain of an unheeded prophet clothed
in sackcloth. The evils of the Established Church,
says the Jeremiad, though often denounced, have
never been removed. The tenantry are constantly
harassed and driven out of their homes by the
unchecked cruelty of the landlcrds ; the faith of
Catholic children is assailed by bigots ; the autho-
rity of the Catholic Church is jealousy excluded
from public institutions ; not even in Naples or in
Rome, though held up by British statesmen as the
worst Governments upon earth, is there a state of
things embracing anomalies of a more grievous and
persecuting character. The condition of the Irish
people, Dr. M'Hale avers, is far below what it was
at the close of the last century, for then they were
protected by the franchise from capricious and
unjust evictions. He says
"Yet, in the midst of such deplorable evils, in which
there is no legal security whatever for the existence of the
inhabitants, we are stunned with the hollow repetition of
the prosperity of Ireland.' Should we inquire, as we will
not fail to inquire, where the evidence of this prosperity is
to be found, it will be difficult to afford a satisfactory reply.
Ireland's prosperity may be wafted through the venal jour-
nals that are become so generally the indiscrimmate vehicles
of truth or falsehood. But those who attach its proper
meaning to the word, and are anxious that it should be
realised, must feel the additional insult that is involved in
their continual repetition of Ireland's prosperity. If in-
stead of such ambiguous language, the prosperity writers
and speakers were, in precise words, to specify the feeding
of its cattle rather than of its people—which, no doubt, is
their real meaning—then would the parrot phrase of Ire-
land's present prosperity be intelligible. They would then
furnish clear ground for canvassing the assumption that a
nation .s prosperou in praportion as its people are dimi-
nished, its agriculture contracted, and its cattle multiplied.
Nor would the flippant and heartless propounders of such
consolatory theories fail to find themselves at issue with
every sound writer that ever discussed the principles on
which the wealth of nations reposes from the days of Au-
gustus, who identified the growing prosperity of the empire
with the increasing number of its people."
The 'Prentice Boys of Derry, 20 in number, were
summoned by order of the Government, for vio-
lating the Party Emblems Act while celebrating
the anniversary of the relief of Derry on the 12th
of
he ease
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heard at
petty sessions, last.ns Yesterdaywhen
unanimously
decided that the evidence produced was insufficient
the
magistrates
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to justify the bench in receiving informations. The
case was accordingly dismissed. The Rev. Mr.
Scott, of this city, has issued a printed address to
the 'Prentice Boys, exhorting them to celebrate the
anniversary henceforth by holding a union prayer
meeting under Walker's pillar. He is quite serious,
but the 'Prentice Boys will probably treat the ad-
vice as a good joke.
The Rev. Mr. Fox, Roman Catholic Chaplain of
the South Dublin Union, having pp
been aointed
superior of his order, appointed a " representative
chaplain" to perform his duties in the workhouse.
The matter having been brought before the Poor
Law Commissioners, they
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The Board of Guardians to the South Union have
agreed to permit the ladies who are members of the
Social Science Association to visit the paupers in
the workhouse.
The Dublin Evening Post has ascertained that
Mr.R. Guinness Hill is not related to Mr ;Benjamin
Lee Guinness and states that Mr. Hill, who bears
the Christian name of Guinness, was a relation of
the late Mr. Barley, head of the brewery fine of
Messrs. parley and Nicholson, at Stillorgan. For
some years atter the death of Mr. Barley and the
cessation of the brewery establishment Mr. Hill
carried on a malting establishment there. Some
years since, as stated in the report of the proceed-
ings, Mr. Hill married, in Brussels, Miss Burdett,
a young lady of great personal attractions and large
fortune, the granddaughter of the late Sir Francis
Burdett, for many years member for Westminster,
and niece of Miss Burdett Coutts, who had taken a
great interest in her welfare. For some time after
their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Hill resided in Ste-
phen's-green-west, in this city, and Mr. Hill carried
on the business of a maltster, making sales OCCa•
sionally at the Corn Exchange.