The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-23 00:00:00

LAST WEEK IN LONDON.

If R. W. S:WOODIN'S OLIO of ODDITIES.
TO-NTGFIT and every evening, at B.—The above entertain.
meat has received novel additions, Vocal and Visual, including a New
Loco-Toko-Motive Lyric, entitled OFF BY THE l RAIN, illustrated
by numerous changes, faiial, lingual, and cor oreal. Mr. W. S. Wood in
.s Mrs. Florence, in the " Yankee Girl," with the songs of " Bobbing
around," and " Polly, won't you try me, oh !"—Polygraphic-hall,
King William-street, Charing-cross.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.
—OPEN' EVERY EVFINENG.—The celebrated HUNGA-
EZIAN. BAND, under the direction of He-r KALOZDY, will perform
every Evening at 9 and 11 o'clock, In addition to the usual Vocal
Entertainment The following company of talented Vocalists are
permanently ,ngaged for the performance of Selections from all the
Popular Operas, Ma 'rig:lls, Choruses, Duets, &c., viz. ;—Nlis. J.
Caulfield, Miss Brunel, Miss Sommers, and .N 4 Iss Pearse ; Sam Cowell,
Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr F. donglimans S. Jones, T. Farrant, W.
Melling. Barker, Russell Grover, and P. Corrie; blasters E. Con-
nell, Austin, and Bennett , 'and Mr. T. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr.
J. Ilarroway, R.A. , harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun. ; director, Mr.
J. Caulfield. Commence at seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, &c.,
until twelve o'clock.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, FRIDAY MORNING.
THE 18TH ROYAL IRISH.

There is every reason to believe that the report
is correct as regards the abandonment of the inten-
tion to deposit, with certain ceremonials, the old
colours of the Royal Irish in the Cathedral of St.
Patrick. All the preparations for the affair were
brought to a stop yesterday, and the temporary
state entrance, platform, &c., for the accommoda-
tion of the Vice-regal party taken away. Thus,lry
some mismanagement or other, what was meant by
the authorities as a high mark of respect to the
services of a national corps has been tortured into
au Irish grievance, and the Dublin journals seem
determined that it shall be no fault of theirs if a
thoroughly sectarian complekion be not imparted
to the whole transaction. There is no doubt what-
ever that nearly a fortnight back, when the an-
nouncement was first made of the honours about
to be paid to the 18th, rumours of discontent were
rife with respect to the Cathedral portion of the
pageant ; and it was, perhaps, unfortunate that
advantage was not then taken to make such a
change in the programme as would effectually get
rid of the difficulty. What more fitting depository
for the reception of military trophies than the
Royal Hospital at ICilmainhain I That, at least,
is neutral ground. The Freeman's Journal of this
morning observes :
" When Chelsea Hospital, on various occasions, re-
ceived the standards of the English regiments, and
Greenwich the captured flags sent home by St. Vincent,
Howe, and Nelson after their great naval victories no
religious ceremonial was observed. Why should the
colours of the Royal Irish be an exception I No sooner,
however, was the attention of Lord Carlisle directed to
the subject than he at once discovered the impropriety
of yielding to a suggestion which would have given a
sectarian colour to the whole proceeding, and deprived
it of that éclat which must otherwise have accompanied
it. We may state that the regiment and depot of the
Royal Irish number about 1,300 men, of whom 1,200
are Catholics, the remainder having been recruited in
England."
The Freeman denies positively that any Roman
Catholic ecclesiastic interfered in the matter, or
waited upon or influenced Lord Carlisle, as more
than hinted at by one of the Protestant Dublin
journals.
COMMUNICATION WITH SCOTLAND.

A Treasury minute just issued notifies that the
Lords of the Admiralty have reported that the
ports of Donaghadee and Portpatrick are the best
that could be selected for establishing a short sea
passage between the north of Ireland and Scotland;
and that, upon certain conditions being complied
with by the promoters of this line of communica-
tion, the Government will be prepared to make the
necessary improvements on the two ports named,
and use the packets plying between them for the
mail service, at a fair rate. The conditions are two
—first, that a steam-boat service, suited both for
passengers and mails, shall be established by a pri-
vate company without any aid from the Govern-
ment, except a reasonable charge for carrying the
mails; and, secondly, that the railways on each
side of the Channel shall be completed, so as to
connect Donaghadee with Belfast on the one side,
and Portpatrick with Glasgow and Dumfries on
the other. As soon as the Government are satisfied
that these works will be carried out they will pro-
ceed to execute the improvements.