The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-01 00:00:00

talion, Bth ("the King's'') Regiment, have just
celebrated at Aldershott the fourth anniversary of
the capture of Delhi from the rebellious sepoys.
The non-commissioned officers of the 78th :High-
landers also took part in the entertainment, which,
by permission of Brig.-Gen, Taylor, came off in
the officers' mess apartments, in the lines lately
occupied by Ur.) 2d battalion, 25th Regiment.
Col. Napier, b'uiretintendeut of 31ardi2s at the
-Royal Military College, has been appointed Com-
mandant of the Staff College at Sandhurst, in the
room of Col. M'Dougall, resigned. -
The volunteers given by the British and Indian
depots, comprising the three battalions at Chatham,
for the 64th Regiment, the companies of which are
considerably reduced in strength from their Jong
service in Persia and India, were inspected yester-
day morning on the general parade ground, after
which they left Chatham by the London, Chatham,
and Dover Railway, to join the Gith at Dover.
The volunteers of the 36th Regiment, one of the
corps under orders to proceed to Canada, left Chat-
ham a few days previously, and proceeded to join
that regiment at Dublin. Volunteering has been
discontinued at the garrison for the present, the
required number of men having been obtained.

THE MARCHIONESS OF LoNnON-
DERRY AND HER _IRISH TENANTRY.

The annual entertainment given by Frances Anne,
Dowager Marchioness of Londonderry, to her Irish
tenantry took place on Thursday last in the town
of Carr-lough. Flags and banners were suspended
from several windows, and the ships which lay at
anchor in the harbour had their colours hoisted in
honour of the occasion. The town altogether pre-
sented a gay and animated appearance.
Shortly before 2 o'clock Lady Londonderry, ac-
companied by a distinguished party, arrived at Cern-
lough from Garron Tower, and as her ladyship
alighted from her carriage the assembled tenantry,
numbering about 300, cheered loudly.
The dinner took place in the Town-hall, which
was tastefully decorated with flags, banners, flowers,
and appropriate inscriptions.
At her ladyship's table sat Lady Laura Antrim,
Gen. Upton, M.P., Sir H. M'C. Cairns, M.P.,.Sir
W. Eden, Sir T. Higginson, Mr. C. It. Dobbs, J.P.,
D Mr. J. V. Stewart, J.P., Mr. W. T. Staines,
J.P., Mr. R. Wilson, J.P., Rev. J. Wilson, Rev.
Cuedise L-se.
The chair was occupied by Mr. It. Wilson, J.P.
After the usual loyal toasts had been given and
responded to,
Mr. J. KELLEW (a tenant farmer) proposed "the
health of the Marchioness of Londonderry," which
was drunk with enthusiasm.
Lady LONDONDERRY, on rising to respond, was
received with enthusiastic cheers. Her ladyship
said—My friends, your affectionate reception always
rejoices my heart ; none know better than the Irish
how to give a hearty welcome; and I assure you
that, when I have the pleasure of fading myself
once more among you, I forget the exertion and
effort necessary to arrive here. (Cheers.) It is also
encouraging to believe that these annual meetings
really do good, and this is clearly demonstrated by
the improvement you make; and the bringing us
together affords an opportunity of cultivating a
kindly feeling between landlady and tenant ; be-
sides, I have the vanity to fancy that my lectures
and warnings have been of service--(laughter and
cheers)—because you well know that, although my
advice is given in all due humility, yet it is always
with a sincere and anxious desire for your own
good. (Applause.) And while I deplore that the
state of things as regards your farms, your houses,
&c., is far, very far from what I could wish, still
there is no daub; progress has been made. The
simple fact that in 1858 only 27 acres of flax were
in cultivation, and in 1861 it is increased to 150
aeres—(applause)—speaks volumes. On the other
hand, I grieve to hear that, in defiance of all warn-
ing and advice, you have planted the potato in far
greater quantities than you ever did before, and
mark how fatal this has been and how universal
the blight, and let me entreat you to beware how
you repeat the experiment. A spirit of enterprise is
shown among you by the increased number of com-
petitors for prizes for the best cultivated farm, and I
rejoice that we hare found something to interest
you and stimulate your energies, as the shows
for flowers and roots were obliged to be abandoned
as unsuccessful. You have expressed gratitude to
me for the road I have lately made through Bally-
voddy, and I hope it will be of great advantage in
opening out that mountainous district, where it
really made my heart ache to see an industrious set
of people beset with difficulty and almost impri-
soned. But I must do you the justice to say that
you have worked hard, and given all the aid in
your power to forward this object, and those who
do not participate in the benefits it will confer were
not sparing of their exertion and trouble. This
shows the advantage of a good pull, a strong pull,
and a pull all together—(laughter, and great
cheering)—and proves what may be accomplished
by the tenantry cordially uniting, I was going
to say with the proprietor, but I ought rather
to say with the agent, for he has been himself
early and late superintending this road ; and, in-
deed, my friends, you are very fortunate in having
so excellent a man as Mr. Wilson to watch over
you as he has done for 11 years. (Hear, hear, and
applause.) I believe he fully enjoys your confi-
dence as he most deservedly does mine, and that
he strictly and conscientiously fulfils his duties to
both. (Renewed applause.) I hear the different
schools on the estate are prospering and progress-
ing, and, thanks to the excellent system and valu-
able aid of the National Board, there are good
schools in almost all the townlands, and it is really
your fault if your children are not properly edu-
cated. (Hear, hear.) It ought to be a source of
gratitude to you, as I am sure it is to me, that these
annual gatherings are generally distinguished by
the presence of visitors who we could hardly ex-
pect would condescend to attend such little
humble meetings. The estate is small, the lo-
cality distant, and yet on these occasions I have
always found myself friendly supported
by persons whose importance, whether as county
landowners or as individuals, have conferred honour
by their presence. I feel this deeply and gratefully
as a mark of friendship shown to me, and for which
I beg to offer my best thanks. And now, my friends,
it only remains for me to read the names of the suc-
cessful candidates, and then you have to listen to
the valuable advice of those who may kindly take
the trouble of speaking to you. (Prolonged cheers.)
Sir H. M'C. CAIRNS, M.P., who on rising was re-
ceived with cheers, said,—Lady Londonderry, Lady
Antrim, Mr. Chairman, Ladies, and Gentlemen,—l
rise, in obedience to the wish of the chairman, to pro-
pose to you as a toast, " Prosperity to agriculture."
Gentlemen, good wishes for farmers may come
even from a person who is not a farmer himself,
and the good wishes of your chairman for your
welfare in every respect are so well known that he

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might fairly be entrusted to other hands. (Hear,
hear.) Gentlemen, in proposing to you the toast, I
wish I had been able to congratulate you on a more
geniel season and a more early harvest than I fear
this part of the country has experienced. I

gine we might almost be disposed to envy the
brighter sun and earlier-saved crops which we hear
of in most parts of England and parts of Scotland.
'(Hear.) But, gentlemen, we well know the hardi-
ness of that which is one of the principal grain
crops of this part of the country—oats ; and I trust
that the sunshine we have had to day may be ac-
cepted as an omen that there is yet a month's good
weather in store for us, during which you will be
able to save that harvest which, in paint of quan-
tity, appears to be abundant. (Applause.) I
am somewhat afraid that we are rather in the
habit of attaching more importance, as regards
prosperity to agriculture, to sunshine and to seasons
than to other elements of prosperity which arc
much more under our own control. There is no
doubt that fine seasons are excellent things, but we
cant3ot commap!d. the seasons, and yet there arc

some things which we can command. If I might

be allowed to suggest to you, as one of the first

elements of prosperity, not only for aoriculture, but
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for every other employment, I would say the first
and chief element is a spirit of self-reliance and of

persevering industry, Because, gentlemen, it is a
wise and merciful arrangement of Providence, tlw