The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-01 00:00:00

will remember, one of the greatest difficulties has
been retrospective claims.
One difficulty in the way has often been to find .a
fair valuer of the tenant's claims. We think this
difficulty is exaggerated, and that in practice, arbi-
tration would be found easy enough. After a little
time at least a valuer on each side would soon come
to an agreement. The reasonable advantage to

the property of what had been erected upon it or
done to it, could not be a very profound matter
to calculate. If some difficult cases did occur,
what would this be in comparison with the diffi-
culty, or rather impossibility, of tenant improve-
ment under the existing system—if system it can
be called Mr. SIMPSON proposes that the
" Board of Public Works" should maintain a staff
of valuators or inspectors sufficient for the work.
We think the more natural course of arbitration
or ordinary valuing might be tried first. This,
however, is matter of detail. The benefit would
probably be cheaply purchased even at the pro-
posed cost. As Mr. SIMPSON observes, no colony
could compete with Ireland in providing us with
food. It has 5,000,000 acres. of waste land—and
three times that number of acres only half cul-
tivated. He contends, therefore, that a Tenant-
Right Bill for Ireland is as important to us here
as the repeal of the Corn Laws, and means, in
truth, cheaper bread for England ; we may add,
and a rapidly increasing consumption of English
manufactures.

The economical system is one which, under
the circumstances, needs little discussion. It is
quite true that ordinarily landlord and tenant
should make their own contracts and the law
enforce them. This simple principle is, however,
unduly departed from in England by the im-
mense advantages given to a landlord over any
other creditor, and in several respects the
law modifies the simple contract. But in
Ireland the relation is vitiated by the peculiar
position of the tenant. He is generally too needy
or dependent to be a free agent, and his landlord
too needy a politician perhaps to allow him to be
so. We regret to add, in conclusion, that poverty
and politics are not the only causes of landlord
oppression. Mr.'S. cites the " Law Life As-
surance Company," which owns a vast property in
Connemara ; we have not room for the details of
its conduct as landlord—how it evicted great
numbers, crowded the poor-house, employed no
labour in improving the property, raised the rents
voluntarily, and drove thirty-four poor people to
live in the dry arches of a bridge, and others
below high-water mark on the shore If such a
company could do such things in Ireland, we may
be sure that ordinary laws are not sufficient there
for the tenant's protection.

ARRIVAL OF THE GoVERIME2VT
MESSENGER.

(From a Svplement to the London Gazette
Extraordinary of yesterday.)
FOREIGN OFFICE, MARCH 31.

The Honourable Spencer Ponsouby arrived at
the Foreign-office this morning from Paris, with
the definitive treaty for the restoration of peace,
and for the maintenance of the integrity and
independence of the Ottoman Empire, which
was yesterday signed at Paris Iv the Plenipoten-
tiaries of her Majesty, of the Emperor of the French,
of the King of Sardinia, and of the Sultan, and also
of the Emperor of Austria and of the King of
Prussia, on the one part, and of the Emperor
of all the Russias on the othor.

DEATH OF SIR CHARLES HOTHAM. —TRIESTE,
March 30.—Accounts have beet received of the
death of Sir Charles Hotham, Governor of Vic-
toria.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has con -
i\,nted to preside at the 67,h anniversary dinner of the
Royal Ettrary Fund, which i 4 fixed to take place at
Freemasons' Hall o❑ the 7th of May.
The Due d'Osuria and suite have left the Clarendon
f it Paris.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster and
the Ladies Grosvenor are gone to Eaton, for a short
sejour, previously to taking up their residence in London
for the season.
The Countess de Salis and Miss de Salis have arrived
at Claridge's Hotel, from their seat, Dawley Court, near
Uxbridge.

The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Stonor arrived in
town yesterday, from St 'nor, Henley-on-Thames.
A London Goldsmiths', Silversmiths', and Jewellers'
Company has been registered under the new Limited
Liability Act.
The telegraph• between Constantinople and Vienna
will shortly be open to the public. Thirteen florins is
named as the price of an ordinary message between the
two capitals.
An attempt to dramatise the " Paradise Lost" of Mil.
ton has been made at the Ambigu Comique, but c ,n-
-tiruing the history of the Creation until the Deluge.
As a drama of course (says Galignan,i) the thing is ah-
mrd, but the variety a.ud beauty of the scenery and
getting up will prcbably secure it a certain run. •
The Frankfort Journal announces that the Empress
-if Russia, widow of the late Czar Nicholas, is about to
omit her daughter, the Grand Duchess Oiga, a,t SLutt-

SPAIN. —ln the sitting of the Cortex on Saturday
( \larch 29), the bill on the receipts of the State, pre-
dented by the Finance Minigter, was taken into coisi-
,leration by a majority of 184 against 27. TiMIS the dif-
icult question which threatened to produce a collkion
letweeu the Government and this Cortes is happily

31.thinoud K'aan, who was lately sent to St. Peters-
July; on a special miss:on by the Shah of Persia, arrived
,t Tiflis on the 231, on his way back to Teheran.
ITALIAN RAILWAYS. —The question of connecting to-
:;ether the Lotribar.l ra.iway lines with those of Strdinia
on the point of being d-Bided. The junction will take
)lace, in ali probability, oa two point:c one near Pavia,
,nd the ether at the bridge of Buffill, ra, near the Ticino.

The health of the Empress improves every day. No
lay is, however, yet fixed for the churching of her Ma
je,44, but the ceremony cannot be long delayed. The
'aptisin of the imperial prince being, accorling to the
:mblished programme, to take place after the churching,
it is calculated that it will be celebrated in the course of
the first fortnight in April. The ratifications of the
treaty cannot be exchanged so s,,on, but the adhesion of
al! the high contracting parties will be then known by
telegraph, so that the rejoicings for the baptism will be
also rejoicings for peace ; and as the members of the
C-ngress will be still in Paris, waiting to effect the ex•
change, their presence will give to the fetes the character
of a European holetnuity.—Constitutionnel.
illaj:4.-Generai Sir H. D. Jones, of the Royal Engi-
:keers, whose services at the siege of Sebastopol arid at,
13tirianund will be reiiiembered, has been app iinted by
Lord Panmure governor of the Royal Military College,
Sandhurst.

By the death of Sir Hyde Parker, Bart., Capt. Parker,
aide-de-camp to Major-General Eden, commanding the
Western District, succeeds to the baronetcy. Captain
Parker is the youngest brother of the gallant Captain
Flyde Parker, who fell in the service of his country
shortly after the commencement of naval operations
against Russia.
TEirt LATE EXTENSIVEEMBEZZLEMENTAT LIVERPOOL.—
LIVERPOOL, Monday.—At the Liverpool Assizes, this
,noraing, before Mr. Baron Martin, Robert Wilson, ca-
shier to Messrs. Brocklebank, merchants and shipowners
,f this town, pleaded guilty to the minor indictment of
larceny. Whereupon Mr. Sergeant Wilkins rose to
address the jury in mitigation of sentence, but was
stopped by his lordship, who observed that the offence
was one of the greatest enormity of its class, and must
be visited with, the severest punishment the law autho-
rised him to inflict. The prisoner must, therefore, be
transported 'for 14 years.
THE REPORTED Loss OF THE CLIPPER SHIP SCHOISI-
BERQ.7-In The Sun of the 24th March we gave currency
to the report of the loss of the above ship while on her
voyage from Liverpool to Melbourne. The report in
question, which was brought to Liverpool by the Llgl t-
ning, stated that the Schoenberg bad gone ashore thirty
miles north of Cape Otway, and that the whole ef-the
passengers, 300 in number, were saved, besides 3,000
tons of merchandise. A despatch received at Lloyd's
yesterday from Mel:wurne, via Trieste, confirms the loss
of this fine ship. No details are given in the despatch,
which is dated Melbourne, Dec. 28, and worded as
lnws :—" Schomberg, Forbes, ashore west of the
Otway.
MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE RAIL,
WAY.—The working expenses and other outgoings of this
company's railways (exclusive of the Manchester, South
Junction, and Altrincharn, stated below) have amount,d
in the fortnight ending March 23 to 8,392:. 15s. td.,
making, with the 45,5321. 8-i. sd. already stated, a total
of 53,9251. 3s. 6d. for the first 6 fortnights of the half.
year, or at the rate of 58.26 per cent. on the railway
traffic for the same period. The proportion of the South
Junction, ite., receipts accruing to this company for the
fortnight ending March 23, amounts to 7711. 4s. lii.,
making, with the 3.4491. lls. 2:1. previously ta teo , a
total for the fit G sortuigLts of the half-year of- 4,2201.
15s. 3d.; while the expenses being 3831. is. 10d. for this,
and 1,9171.15 6d. for the 5 previous fortnights, amount
to 2,300/. 17s. 4d., or at the rate of 54.51 per cent. of
the oceipts.