The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-19 00:00:00

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It is stated DrhUisßmijoTninTglituhaßt"thAeYsyltpßtoNimlisel'in'
the case of Mr. Leeson, Mr. Pollock, and theother
gentlemen living in the college continue so far
favourable, under the care of the eminent medical
men iu attendance. It is said, however, that Mr.
Duffy, who was so violently beaten by the foot
police, has sustained internal injuries, from which
he still suffers a great deal ; and it has been ascer-
tained that the number of non-residents who have
received serious wounds is very much larger than
was at first supposed.

CONVICTS.
TeEplisoTdlPePEolteleur"rer at the trial of the
A curious . .
Murderers of Mr. John Ellis at Nenagh Assizes:
It was proved that one of th
jury at the coroner's inquest° assTahsesi samnsweascoonront4eer
was in the court during the trial on Monday, sitting
behind the attorney for the prisoners, and prompt-
ing him. The Judge had noticed his conduct,
which he denounced in the most indignant terms,
declaring that he should be removed from his office
instantly, and peremptorily ordering
him out of
court if he did not wish to be put in the dock.
"Itis no wonder," said his lordship, "that the
laws are set at nought by. the ignorant, when they
see such a person as that holding the high office of
upon him for some
memirede.yhesis conduct:" His lord-
shipcotimroeneare.d
II
have
ee
witnessed
the subject, hon. gentleman said :
the Attoronnaey- subjectGan er a l
'shuahvjingeet,aptpi?ealriedichtto
" There is an *affidavit preparing
hav-
ing reference to this person, and as it
SOOll as is
ready to act on I will do my duty,”

THiti. TR E-R OYA L, DRURY-LANE
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
For the Benefit of Mr. E. T. Smith, Lessee.
THIS EVENING) Friday, March 19, the new and
original Comedy THE LOVE KNOT. Mr. and Mrs. Leigh
Murray, dtc.
Followed by THE LOAN OF A LOVER. Mrs. and Miss
Louise Keeley.
After which, A GRAND CONCERT.
To ceaclude with the Transformation scene from the Pau.
to rime.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI,
Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster.
THIS EVENING, will be performed RORY O'MORE,
Mr. Barney Williams.
After which, AN FIGUR IN SEVILLE.
To conclude with.THE IRISH TUTOR.
Commence at Seven.

-ROYAL LYCEUM TREA.TRE.—SoIe Lessee
and Manager, Mr. C. Dillon.
THIS EVENING, will be presented SHE STOOPS r 0
CONQUER. Mrs. Dillon and Mr. Toole.
Followed by the new farce of DOUBLE DUMMY. Mrs.
Mellon and Mr. J. L. Took.
And THE BIRTH-PLACE OF PODGERS. Mr. Toole.
Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7.
3ox•office open from 11 to 5 daily.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick.
THIS EVENING, Shakespere's Tragedy of ROMEO
AND JULIE!'. Romeo, Miss Goddard; Juliet, Miss 3!.
Eburne.
Followed by THE TWO POLTS.
Concluding with THE ORPHAN OF GLENCOE.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow-
lag company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS,
CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, &c., viz. :—Miss Russell,
Mrs. Badsey, Madlle. Marietta, Miss Brulen, Miss Ray,
Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague, and Madame Marietta ;
Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Renshaw, S. Jones, J.
Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. Rime, Mr.
Badgey, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Bell, and Mr. Bernard ; Messrs.
T. Maclagan, W. T. Critchfield, G. Forde, and E. Mackney.
Piano-!orte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, Master Williams ;
Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock
precisely. Snppers,•&e., until twelve o'clock.
Mr. AUGUSTUS BRA.HAM will appear every Evening.

HIGH WATER /IT LONDON BRIDGE.
TIM DAT—Morn., 15 min. aft. 4—Even., 35 min aft. 4
To•MoBsow —Morn., 52 min. aft. 4—Even., 12 rain. aft. 5

THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICII, MARCH 19.
IFIIIIMO3CITER, IN TE SHADE.
53—highest since noon yesterday.
48—lowest this morning and during the night,
53—this day at noon.

BAROMETER, 30.37.
WIND, North-Essterly ; light, with fine weather, some
rain early in the morning.

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26th February. There has therefore been no lathes
ou their part—nothing that even the most captious
opponent could complain of. They found that
their predecessors had acquiesced in the claim set
up by King Bomaa.—that they had virtually
acknowledged that our two compatriots should
answer for their alleged complicity in an offence
against the law of Naples, committed in the
Neapolitan territory, and fur which they were
arrested therein. It was, however, discovered in
December that they had been misinformed on
this point ; but still nothing was done between
December and the end of February. Two months
were wasted. Our brethren were unnecessarily
detained for that time, during which poor
WATT succumbed to the terrible pressure. Had
Lord CLARENDON displayed the same energy and
determination manifested by his successor, the
grievance would already have been redressed ;
the prisoners would have been set at liberty, and
the terms of compensation, or what might really
be designated as the damages for the false impri-
sonment, would be nearly arranged.
As it is, all the papers relating to the subject,
which are very voluminous, will be collected
and laid before both Houses of Parliament
without delay, and with them the opinions of
the law officers of the Crown on the important
question of international law. Then the public
will be enabled to judge for themselves—to
understand the real merits of the case. The able
opinion of Mr. PHILLIMORE, which appeared in
The Sus, last week, seems to be conclusive. Hav-
ing waited, however, for ten months, and WATT,
the chief sufferer, being already liberated, we can
afford the brief interval that now remains, and
we have no doubt that the result will show that
the Derbyite Government will prove that in that,
as in other matters, the nation will have no cause
to regret their accession to power. The suggestion
that the matter should be referred to the Judicial
Committee of the Privy Council was properly
answered. There has been no precedent for such
a course, and it would not be right that those
who may ultimately have to decide the question
should commit themselves by any premature
opinion which could not properly be argued before
hem.

It remains to be decided what we shall do, not
only with YEll, but—a matter of much more im-
portance—with Canton. It signifies compara-
tively little what becomes of the sanguinary old
Governor, who set a price upon the heads of
Englishmen as though they were, in his enlight-
ened estimation, mad dogs rather than barba-
rians. The burly old Mandarin, now that he has
been fairly run down and trapped by Mr. Consul
PARICES, may be trundled off, at Admiral
SEYMOUR's leisure, to our Ultima Thule,
here in England to be displayed among the spolia
opima of the Chinese War of '57-'5B as a sort of
an expanded burlesque of the tragic "show"
presented to the old Romans in the stately and his-
torical form of CARACTICUS. However this may
be it matters scarcely anything at all, either to
the Chinese Empire or to the British Empire,
what becomes of the old bullyragging Viceroy of
the province of Quangtong. So far aCJOHN BULL
himself is concerned in the affair, his personal
wishes in the matter might be expressed in that
verse of the comic love song--" He may go to
Hong Kong for me !" It is hardly worthy of one
moment's consideration. Governor TZli, for all
anybody cares about him, may be sent—pre-
cisely as Sir Jon BOWItING' S whim may dictate
—either to Coventry or to Jericho. It is
\ not thus with regard to CAnton in any way a
) matter of indifference. In YEE we may have a
worthless hostage; but in Canton at least we have,
indeed, what the CZAR of all the Russias delighted
to call a material guarantee. With that most
important of all the ports indenting the whole
sweep of the Chinese seaboard actually in our pos-
session, we are in a position, without the anxiety of
firing another gun, of fixing another bayonet, of
biting another cartridge—we are, literally and
strictly speaking, in a position to dictate our own
terms to the Imperial Government.
The Chinese trade is, of course, a serious con-
sideration to us, but so also it is, of course, to the
Chinese themselves. It is important to us
that we should have tea to consume,
but it is equally important to them that they
should have customers to consume it. According
' to our modern habits, tea is no longer a luxury,
as it was with our great-grandfathers. It is one
of the commonest and homeliest necessaries of life
among all ranks and classes of the community.
Insomuch that the stoppage of the supply would
be even less of a deprivation, if possible, to the
Duchess in Belgravia than to the thriftiest
laundress in the humblest court of the poorest
bye-lane in Bloomsbury. Mrs. NIIBELES over her
ironing, little Mr. NANDY in his Union Work-
house, would miss the accustomed solace of the
cup that " cheers but not inebriates," more even
than the Dowager Lady KEW or the Most Noble
the Marquis of FAREITOSEI. It is an universal
necessity with us, the consumers. But it
has also long since come to be a necessity
with the produoers, that the black leaf
and the green leaf, the souchong and the bohea,
should be taken off their hands and consumed by
the outer barbarians. The requisite in this case
as in so many others has its duplex action, its ine-
vitable reciprocity. There is our security as to
keeping up amicable relations in the long run even
with an impracticable and insulated race like the
Chinese. They must be friends with us if only out of
the merest considerationfor their pecuniaryinterests.
Shortly after the closing of the last China war
our imports and exports atCanton alone amounted,
in 1844, to a total value considerably over seven ,
millions sterling ; and in 1845 to very nearly
seven millions sterling. The imports in the for-
mer year being 3,451,3121., and the exports
3,883,8281., giving an aggregate exactly of
7,335,140/. While in the latter year the imports
reached a total of 2,321,6921., and the exports
4,498,3701., giving an aggregate of 6,814,0621.
Since then our trade with China has increased
considerably—and this not simply at Canton, but
at the consular ports of Amoy, Foo-choo,
Ningpo, and Shanghae—the value of our aggre-
gate trade with which in 1844 amounted
very nearly to 8,500,0001. sterling, and in
1845 to something not far short of 9,500,0001.
sterling. A trade of 20,000,0001. annually is
not a trifle to be thrown away by any race in any
quarter of the globe as a matter of no considera-
tion. The traders may be aliens, may be barba-
rians, sea-monsters, anything you please out of the
pale of our sympathies—stil l if they are ready, nay,
rtauther eager, to barter with us year after year to the
reiataolne of 2:eoi:
our interest to be '
)000/. we are prepared, it is to
the foreign
to keep up amicable
the
naiosaavages—be we even
than Englishmen. TheZl '')e ytlieeryy
no ether than C
therefore, that even
little
ootherui)t
how
entirely
security for an early pacific:ti°oln.'"lt°u •
it give 3 us 1
with ourselves now—when and
P"" shall
be established with the Chinese Government.

Last night the Lord Mayor and a large party of friends
attsnded one of the public suppers at Christ's Hon ital.
The Duke of CAmbridge, gorernor of the institution,
was also present,