The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-24 00:00:00

MR. P. C. RONEY.

The following notice of the present position of Mr.
P. C. Roney, in relation to the Chester and Holyhead
Railway, appears in Saunders 's News Letter of this morn-
ing. The writer does only justice to a gentleman whose
merits appear to be appreciated by every one, save those
who have derived substantial advantage from his untiring
energy and indomitable exertions :
" Some six or eight months back we alluded to the sepa-
ration which we then thought would have taken place be-
tween Mr. Roney and the Chester and Holyhead Company,
and took occasion at the time, in common with the whole
of our contemporaries, metropolitan as well as provin-
cial, to state most distinctly the loss which that gentle-
man's services would be, not only to tho company—whose
popularity he had so much raised during his then brief
connexion with them—but also toithe commercial interests
of Ireland generally. The press was never more unani-
mous than on this occasion—one and all concurring in the
opinion that the policy of the company in endeavouring to
dispense with Mr. Honey was a most suicidal ono, and
deeply to be regretted.
" Shortly after this period we wore pleased to find that
an arrangement was likely to be agreed upon, by which
Mr. Roney would still be retained by the sixteen compa-
nies who were interested in the through booking' system,
and the full development of the Irish traffic ; but, we
grounds,sub-
seqently learned, though we have never heard upon what
grounds, that the above arrangement was not confirmed.
That this was an oversight none can doubt. Of Mr.
Roney's antecedents we know sufficient to enable us
bto
offer an opinion, and we most unhesitatingly say that, e
the cause of the severance from the Chester and Holyhe the
losers in the matter, and this we stated at the first. His
services were not, however, fortunately lost to Ireland—to
wit, his exertions in behalf of our Exhibition ; and from
this fact, we had hoped to have found him still amongst us
when.the end of our Industrial Palace had arrived. Such
is, however, we regret to say, not to be the case, he
having concluded an engagement which kes hi m out to
Canada for three years and a half, in order ta
to work up the,
railway traffic of that colony.
" Concerning his tourist traffic arrangements, and., in-
deed, his perfect system of through booking' generally, it
was truly said by a contemporary that he did more in
one year to cement a friendship between the two countries,
and to raise friendly commercial relations between our
manufacturers here and those on the other side of the
Channel, than all our legislation did during the previous
half century,' and thereore we feel that his loss, though a
general one, will be particularly felt by our commercial
interests, which now especially so much need his guiding
spirit.
" Deeply regretting that we have lost so worthy and'able
a citizen, it, however, affords us great pleasure to announce
that Mr. Roney's position has been much improved by the
change, and that he goes out to the Canadas with the full
conviction and hope that before some distant day all
Transatlantic communications must pass via Ireland—a
consummation, it need not be stated, he is deeply inte-
rested, as an Irishman, in seeing carried out.
" And, in conclusion, we would just say, that be his
mission to the east, to the -west, to the north, or to tho
south, we wish him a hearty God speed, and success to all
his undertakings."

) THREATENING THE LIFE OF THE EMPEROR OP FRANCE.
—TheMemorial of Aix states that a hosier of Marseilles,
named Sauvan, was lately tried before the Correctional
Tribunal of the former place for making a proposition
for assassinating the Emperor. The charge was sup-
ported by the evidence of an Austrian political refugee,
named Normanne, who is established at Marseilles as a
teacher of music and languages, and who declared that,
when in the shop of the prisoner, he said to him "Well,
you ought to be satisfied ; the Empire is made, and
business will prosper ; " to which Sauvan is said to
have replied, Yes ;if it only depended on me,
there should be no more an Empire than an Emperor. I
have proposed to the democrats of Marseilles to set off
for Paris, and kill Napoleon 111. I demanded
100,000 f., but they could only give me 40,000 f., and
they then recommended me to go to Jersey, and g,et the
sum completed by the political refugees there. M.
Lagarde, a merchant, and M. Second, both officers in
tho National Guard, declared that in 1848 and following
years, the prisoner had always been a zealous defender
of the cause of order, but that he sometimes talked in a
flighty and inconsiderate manner, without any bad in-
tention, The Court took this view of the affair, and
acquitted the prisoner.
AMENDMENT OF THE CRIMINAL LLAW.—A. 'bill brought
forward by Lord St. Leopards is w aiting discussion in
the House of Lords on the amendm.ent of the criminal
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