THE DUBLIN ASSASSINATIONS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3676, 26 April 1883, Page 4

THE DUBLIN ASSASSINATIONS.

It will bo remembered that Carey, the informer, said the assassinations at Dublin were determined upon after the appearance in the Freeman's Journal of a certain incendiary article: —" As to the immediate case in question, we are inclined to agree with the Times that it is desirable just at present that the Lord Lieutenant should have a seat in the Cabinet. This, however is only the fringe of the real question in issue ; and the real question is whether the change of Viceroys indicates a total change of measures and of men here. If it does not, the retirement of Earl Cowper, from whatever cause it proceeds, Avill avail nothing and signify nothing. As we have over and over said, a total and radical change in the personnel of Castle officialism iv all its branches must be effected, if good is to be done in the country and to the country, and if the heart of the people is to be Avon back to any respect for law or confidence in the administration of the law. It is really no use dismissing an amiable Viceroy if pernicious subordinates are to be retained; and the survival of officialism in its present form makes the disapperancc of Lord Cowper a farce. It is simply repeating the bungle between the ' temporarie.simdthepermcnancies' that once su limcli exei-cised the Hue pru-etical instinct of Miss Susan Nipper. Our own belief—as we have had reason to repeat more than once lately—is that the present change of Viceroys ought to foreshadow a thorough change in the administrative force here, and that there ought to bo a clean sweep out of all the miserable ' deputies of deputies of deputies' (to use an expression of Lord Chesterfield's) who have brought about the unfortunate condition to which Ireland has lapsed. There would be no benefit in appointing a Ciesar or a Chatham Lord Lieutenant if the traditional functionaries of Dublin Castle wore left to the Trinculos and Viceroys over them. Surely the Augiuau stable would not have been cleaned by the removal of an external grazier. It is inside the Administration that the miasma lies, and it is inside that the sanitation must be perfected."