The Dublin Assassinations.

Otago Witness, Issue 1639, 21 April 1883, Page 22

The Dublin Assassinations.

It will be 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. The following is an extract from this article :—: —

"As to the immediate case iv 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 j 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,, will avail nothing and signify .nothing. . As we have over and over said, a , total and radical change in the personnel^ ol Castle officialism in 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 won back to any respect for law or confidence in the administration of the law. It is really no use dismissing an amiable Vicffroy if pernicious subordinates a*-e to be retained ; and the survival of officialism in its present form makes the disappearance of Lbid Oowper a farce. If is simply repeating the bungle between the ' temporaries and the permanencies ' that once so much _ exercised the fine practical 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 tie a' clean sweep out of all the miserable 'deputies' of deputies of deputies ' (to use an expression of Lord Chesterfield's) who have brought aboutthe unfortunate condition to which Irelandhas * lapsed. There would be no benefit in appoint- , ing a Cjesar or a Chatham Lord Lieutenant if " the traditional functionaries of Dublin Castle wore to be left to the Trinculos and Viceroys over them Surely tho Augeean stable would not have been cleaned by the removal' of an external grazier. It if* inside the Administration that the miasma lies, and it is inside that the sanitation must be perfected."

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