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Show WYNDHAM'S WORMINGS. Chief Secretary's Undertaking a Sor-ry Sor-ry Performance. Commenting' upon Irish affairs, the Drogheda 'Independent' thus scathingly rebukes Secretary Wyndham: A sorrier performance than Mr. Wyndham's it were difficult to parallel. paral-lel. He shuffled and writhed; made explanations whech were unsatisfactory;, unsatisfac-tory;, rounded on hia "colleasrue" In a way to excite scorn; sought to make amends in a second performance which i only excited laughter and ridicule; 'with a result that he placed his party in a slough from which they will find it hard to extricate themselves; and . himself in a position that while it ex-j ex-j cotes scorn leaves no room for pity or j commiseration. He has been shown to 1 have toyed with a scheme to - reform the corrupt castle government of which he is the head; but when the ascendancy ascend-ancy party, whose villainous grip on the throat of this country has been the bane of Ireland, was threatened, and that party began to clamor because the rat holes of Dublin Castle were i danger, he fled incontinently and betook be-took himself for safety behind a-series of half-truths and manifest tergiversations. tergiversa-tions. Th? colleagues whom he sought to cast as a victim to the howling bigots of this country, has come out ot , the mess vindicated and respected a man whose manful qualities reflect credit on him, both as a Catholic Irishman Irish-man and a. man whose distinguished record has been borne testimony to by men high in the counsels of the state. Sir Anthony MacDonnell emerges from the embroglio into which Oraiigedont and Wyndham combined to plunge him. unsullied in reputation and vindicated vin-dicated to the full. |