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sent time cannot be indifferent to us — our hearts cannot but beat in 

 sympathy with all earnest effort to raise and elevate our country — to 

 develop her natural resources, and to encourage and strengthen her 

 people in. every honourable aspiration. 



'' We deeply feel the unhappy circumstances which seem to bar 

 her progress and hinder her in her development. In particular we 

 deplore, in common with the great mass of our countrymen, the 

 dreadful deeds which have stained our soil with blood, and flung 

 over us all a veil of sorrow and humiliation ; and we denounce, 

 with all the earnestness of which we are capable, the perpetration 

 of the murders, so many of which have gone unpunished amongst us. 



" In this unhappy state of affairs we hail with congratulation 

 the resumption of office by Tour Excellency, as a Statesman com- 

 bining ability and vigour with a long personal experience gained 

 in Ireland; and we earnestly hope that, under your Excellency's 

 Administration, the painful feelings of irritation will gradually die 

 away, and Ireland, obedient to law, will resume her sisterly inter- 

 course with our neighbouring island, striving in honourable rivalry 

 to uphold the dignity and advance the interests of the Empire." 



The address was unanimously adopted. 



The Secretary read the following letter in reply to the Eesolution 

 passed on the 8th inst. — 



" The Castle, Dublin, 



''May 9th, 1882. 

 "8m, 



" Lord Spencer desires me to thank you for the Copy of the 

 Resolution passed by the Royal Irish Academy on the 8th instant. 



" The expression of feeling conveyed to him in the resolution he 

 highly appreciates under the present trying circumstances, and he 

 will take care that the relatives and friends of Lord Erederick 

 Cavendish and Mr. Burke are informed of the sympathy of the Royal 

 Irish Academy, and its adjournment in respectful memory of their sad 

 fate. 



"Tours faithfully, 



" COURTENAY BOXLE, 



"Private Secretary. 

 "Alex. Macalister, Esq." 



