THE IRISH ASSASSINS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3128, 12 April 1883, Page 3

THE IRISH ASSASSINS.

It will be remembered from the accounts we have published, 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 in question, we are inclined to think 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 not, the retirement of Earl Oowper,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 of 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 Viceroy if pernicious subordinates are to be retained; and the survival of officialism in its present form makes the disappearance of Lord Cowper a farce. It is simply repeating the bungle between the ‘ temporaries and the permanencies’ that once so much exercised the fine practical instinct of Misss 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 be 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 Caesar or a Chatham Lord Lieutenant if the traditional functionaries of Dublin Castle were to be left to the Trinculos and ‘Viceroys over them. Sorely the Augfflan 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.”