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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 1, 27 April 1883, Page 7

They have been guarding the Viceroy of Ireland well-nigh out of his wits. He is so watched, poor man, that he cannot command as much as a moment's liberty, and so awkward are his protectors that they have been clashing against each other and arresting each other ma deucedly unbecoming, if not, indeed, ludicrous manner, According to reports from Ireland, Earl Spencer is guarded on one side by constables in uniform, on another by soldiers in mufti, in front by constables in plain clothes, and behind by soldiers in uniform. Besides this peculiar body-guard, marines are posted, we are told, here and there along the noble Earl's route whenever he yen tures out of doors, and the Dublin public have also undertaken to act as scouts and watchers. Sometimes the gross results are not satistactory. As the Lord Lieutenant advanced the other day two men were noticed making a movement. The bystanders jumped to the conclusion that there was going to be an assassination, and told the police. The two men were taken to a police-court, when they proved to the satisfaction of the authorities that they were really portion of the Viceroy's body-guard— that they were, in fact, marines.—Universe*