The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-06 00:00:00

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ON'S CONCERTS. 862 is even more marked, amounting to more than
311. t , A L FLRAESDT
NIGHT BUT TWO. 22,000. Nolwithstanding this the estimated
xoleai, ITALIAN OPERA HOUSE, COVENT-GARDEN.
total value of stock has considerably in.
EVE \ ING (Thursday), a BEETHOVEN NIGHT
HIS
To.„--norro (Friday) the Concert will be Miscellaneous. And creased—in fact it has risen—more than
wSaturday,,
positive' y the last night of the Concerts, for
nn
eße.uetit of Mr. Alfred Mel on. half a million, an advantage attributable
Conductor--Mr. ALFRED MELLON
One to the increase in cattle and sheep. For the former
Amphitheatre Stalls, and Amphitheatre, _
ShPiflTun, • apt ess Circle, 2s. ed. ; Private Boxes, £1 1s an • a the numbers have risen from 3,144,231 to 3,257,309
10s. 6d.
Commence at Eight. in the year, while the sheep show an addition of
54,864 in the same period. It must be remembered,
too, that the hones do not represent the same value
as they would in England, being, many of them,
of very inferior quality. If we can get the Irish
to turn their atteu.ion to improving the quality of
their stock, as well as, or instead of only thinking
of the quantity, it will be a great gain. Meanwhile
it is a noticeable fact, that the number of pigs was
decreased by 11,000 in the twelvemonth. This
seems to indicate some change in the old traditional
Irish peasant life, when every hovel kept its pig
or pigs, which shared the family bed and board.
In England the possession of a pig would generally
indicate that a cottager was thrifty and well-to-do,
but in Ireland it would afford no such test. It is,
therefore, not very likely that the owners of pigs
have been able to abandon their charge for the
sake of more. valuable cattle, unless, indeed, the
change is in the property of large owners, and not
of the peasantry. This we are not told, and, in%
deed, it would be difficult to learn, although Mr.
DONNELLY testifies to the general readiness with
which the returns were given, still we should
like to know some particulars as to the decreased
value of the Irish pigstyes. In the other great
staple of Irish peasant life there is, however, no
such diminution—the cultivation of potatoes having
increased by 15,868 acres. The principal item in
the increased land under cultivation this year is,
however, the flax crop, which shows an increase of
no less than 87,761 acres over the preceding re-
turn, This great rise would seem to show that
Irish cultivators are by no means insensible to the
advantages offered by this cultivation, and that
they are determined not to lose the opportunity
now offered to them by high price of cotton
and the consequent increased demand for
linen materials. Many persons still retain
their preference for the good old-fashioned stuff
over all the dainty varieties of New Orleans and
Sea Island, and there are ucquestionably many
purposes for which calico ill supplies its place.
There is therefore no reason to suppose that the
fuller supply of cotton will seriously affect the de-
mand for flax, especially as Ireland has long pos.
sensed so high a reputation in that particular, The
cultivation offers profitable employment to the
people as well as its advantages to the landowner,
and therefore we shall hope to see the number of
acres under flux cultivation yet increasing in the
next report. There is one item in these returns
which will, however, impress the reader painfully.
It is the increase of over 50,000 acres under the
head of Bog and Waste unoccupied. This increase
is divided among the three provinces of Leinster,
Munster, and Ulster, Connaught showing a decrease
of 7,060 acres in her unprofitable land ; but it is a
mortifying fact that notwithstanding the 10,000 ad-
ditional acres under crops, so great a deficit re-
mains. The fact is attributable to the difference irs
the grass lands, in which there is a perceptible
diminution of more than 60,000 acres as well as
about 7,000 in the fallow lands. Fluctuations are
of course to be expected, and so long as they only
consist of casual variations, or of the substitution
of one crop for another, there is nothing to be said,
but to see the country receding instead of advanc-
ing in cultivation is an awkward and unpleasant
spectacle. It coincides very ominously with the
continual tide of emigration flowing from the Irish

HEATRE ROYAL, DRURY- LANE,-
T Manarrers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton.
THIS EVENING, AN APRIL FOOL. Mr. R. Roxby,
M.U. Belmore ; Miss Hudspeth.
After which, the Second Part of Shakespere's Play of
A
HENRY THE FOURTH. Mr. Phelps ; Messrs R. Roxby,
E.lmund Phelps, G. F. Neville, Barrett,
. Raynor, Ray-
mond, F. Morton, &c. ; Mrs. H. Vandenhoff, Mrs. Wallace,
Miss E. Falconer, and Miss Collier.
Commence at Seven.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.—
Lessee. Mr. Buckstone.
TEAS EVENING, BACCHUS AND AREADNE.
Alter which, MADEMOISELLE DE BELLE ISLE.
Messrs. Howe, Farren, Gordon, Baird, ttc ; Mesdames
)3eatrice, Ange', &c.
And THE CASTLE OF ANDALUSIA. Messrs. Weiss,
BIWA stone, Chippendale, Compton, Rogers, Farren, Matthi-
son, Jz..c,; Mesdames Weiss, Keeley, Griffith, &?..
To commence at 7.

R°"L PRINCESS'S
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sok, J,essee and Manager, M G eo. Vg.
THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK.. I addy
O'Rafferty, Mr. Doolnick Murray.
After which, THE STREETS OF LONDON. Messrs.
Vining, J. Forae D. Murray, J. Nelson, H.
Forre,.ter. H. Mellon ; Henry on, Miss Emma
Barnett, and Miss Fanny GN7Ynne•

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EW THEATRE-RO AL, ADELPHI,
S•)10 Propristor and Manager. M. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, GOOD FOR NOTHING. Messrs. J.
Clarke, Billington, hburne, and Mrs. Alfred Mellon.
After which, THE IRISH AMBASSADOR. Sir Patrick
0' Vlenipo (with songs`, Mr. John Collins, supported by
Messrs. Billington, Stephenson; Miss Ilenrie.ta simms and
rs. Billington.
To conclude with TEDDY THE TILER. Teddy (with
gongs), Mr. John Collins.
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Commence at 7.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
Manager, Mr. Benjamin Webster.

EMINti;NT TALENT AND COMEDY.

This popular Theatre is Open for the Winter Season. Those
celebrated artistes Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews are re-engaged.
THIS EVENING, Mr. Arthur Sketchley's highly successful
and original Comedy of HOW WILL 'II.IEY GET OUT
OF IT ? Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mr. and Mrs. F.
Matthews. Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. 11, J. Montague; Miss
Wentworth, and Mrs. Stirling,

Alter which, a New Comedy Farce. 5y Maddlson Morton,
Esq., entitled WOOD, OCK'S LITTLE GAME. Mr. C.
3lathews, Mrs. F. Matthews.

To conclude with UNDER THE ROSE.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manag,eress, Mrs. Swanborough,
Tllli EVENING, JNLIMITEO CONFIDENCE.
Followed by, at Eight, MILKY WHITE. Messrs. Craven
.Stoyle, James ; Mesdames Swanbor ugh and Mande. s.

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liwanborough, Simpson. Johnstone, Hughes, and Carson.

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crowded and populous State, in which labour is
cheapened below its fair value, and trade is
damaged by excessive competition, in which energy
and enterprise have, as it were, no room to move in
the crowd. It is the natural channel for relief
when the national family outgrows its
dwelling-place, and Englishmen have good
cause to rejoice over the possession of so many
fair and healthful colonies, to which her people
may go without breaking all the ties of home or
losing the protection of his great and free Go-
vernment. Englishmen may still live under their
own laws, they may hear their own language
around them whether they cross the Atlantic or
seek the Southern seas. But while a country re.
turns 4,600,000 acres of land as " Bog and Waste
unoccupied," there is little need for such a remedy.
It is like applying the treatment required by aura
feit to starvation, or trying measures of depletion
to a case of extreme debility. There is plenty of
room at home for the men and women who are hur-
rying from their country—plenty of work to do on
these waste lands for the strong arms that are
going to give a strange land the benefit of their
strength. There is not much chance of the " over'
croxding" we suffer from troubling Ireland for a
good many years to come, even should the tide
of emigration be forthwith stayed ; but if the
stream is to keep pouring much longer at its pre-
sent rate, a serious difference will soon be percep•
tible. In the first seven months of 1863 the
number of emigrants who left Ireland declaring it
was their intention not to return was 80,606. This
was surely bad enough, but the first seven months
of the current year show an increase of 4,080 on
that enormous amount. Of course the American
War has much to do with this, and the ignorant
and misguided peasantry still harry like moths to
the candle to fall into the trap set for their unwary
feet. But it is strange when so much has been
said and done to undeceive them, and when it may
naturally be supposed they have heard of the fate
of many of their comrades who went over before
them, that the number of emigrants should be
steadily rising. We wish Mr. DONNELLY could
have told us to what porta these 84,586 were bound,
but in any case, we may well regret that they found
it necessary to say farewell to their own green island,
and trust that the gradual increase in the wealth
and prosperity of the sister country may provide
honest and ample means of livelihood to the active
and industrious peasant, who is generally the one
to try to better his condition by trying
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It would seem from the report of the proeeedings
at Saithill that antagonistic debate and discussien
are by no means confined to the Parliamentary
arena. Some few days ago the right hon. gentle.
man the member for Buckinghamshire, in pursuance
of his autumnal duties to his constituents, was pre-
sent at an agricultural meeting, when he natu-ally
addressed them on the topics of the day, among
which the harvest took, of course, a prominent
place. His speech was lucid and sensible, com-
bating the melancholy views which some persons
had taken about the crops, and entering into some
of their agricultural perplexities. But it seems
that this address, although apparently harmless
enough to the uninitiated, has excited the dire dis-
pleasure of other parts of the county; and at another
dinner held yesterday at Salthill, a Mr TROXtrElt,
who proposed the health of the county members,
was obliged to relieve his feelings by expressing his
dissent from almost everything Mr, DisRAELI had
said uron a former occasion, and by gravely assert-
ing that "he had been told'' the cffsct of the right
hon, gentleman's speech WWI to low r the price of