The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-13 00:00:00

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is a priuciple which can never be admitted, and
which may as well be repudiated at once. It is
not a question of " old and free England," as the
Proeureur-Geneml was polite enough to call this
country, but of every independent State, great or
small, The law and the opinion of Europe must
protect Belgium or Switzerland as well as England
or the United States. The justice of the' case is
clear. It is no pleasure for peaceful communities
to receive refugee's among them; it is a stern social
duty. These men have been driven from their
country by the violence of factions, they hays
passed months or years in the midst, of political
tempests, and they are not likely to settle down at
once into quiet citizens. If there be a ground of
complaint on either side, it belongs to those nation'
on whose shores or frontiers these bands of out- -
casts are thrown. France has in this matter been
a grievous offender in Europe, What have Eng-
land and Belgium and the Swiss Cantons done that
they should be periodically covered with the still
burning matter discharged from the French
volcano ?

Is it not well known that men of desperate cha-
racter, of violent passions, of fanatical opinions,
heroes of the club and the barricade, have bees
violently expelled from France year after year, to
wander whither they choose ? Are we to be re-
sponsible for these men ? Are we to turn ourselves
into agents of police for each successful. party which
reigns in France ? Are we to demoralise our social
system by espionage, and, because a foreign poten-
tate chooses to recall the age of proscription, to aid
him by spreading a network of deteclon which is
odious to our feelings, and the operation of whie
must tend to injure our own moral tone I These
things we never can consent to, and yet they are
demanded of us, since they are demanded of others
whose misfortune it is to be weaker than our-
selves.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, FRIDAY MORNING.

THE COLLEGE ELECTION.
The list of candidates is this morning furtl.er
narrowed by the retirement of Mr. Henry Holmes
Joy, Q.C., whose resignation is notified under his
own hand in the papers this morning. The field
is now occupied by Mr. Lefroy and Dr. Gayer.
What if, after all the portents of a great elec-
tioneering storm, there should be no contest I
THE MURDER OF MR. ELLIS.
Mr. Attorney-General Whiteside left town yes-
terday for Nenagh, to conduct in person the prose-
cution of the parties charged with the murder of
Mr. Ellis, near Templemore, Tipperary.
FRIDAY EVENING.

ARRIVAL OF LORD EGLTNTON.
The Earl of Eglinton made his state entrance
into Dublin between one and two o'clock this
afternoon. The day was far from being propitious,
snow, varied by a drizzling sleet and a biting cold
wind, prevailing all the time ; the streets were
consequently well nigh deserted, and but for the
mditary on duty no one would have supposed that
the Castle was about to receive a new Viceroy.
It was just ten minutes to two o'clock when the
Viceregal cortege, vhich was extremely brilliant,
entered the castle. His Excellency's reception, from
the railway terminits to Cork-hill, was quite enthu-
siastic. He ro ?e on horseback, and the reiterated
cheers of tie public necessitated the frequent un-
covering of his head in acknowledgment,—no slight
cnupliment, considering the inclemency of the
weather. The noble Earl appeared in excellent
health, and was evidently 0-ratified by the cordiality
cf his reception. At Kings'town, where the weather
was more favourable, it was more animated
than iu the city. The ceremony of swearing in
terminated at three o'clock. After the procession
had passed Trinity College a row of rather a curious
nature took place between the students and the
police. The former, who had assembled in con-
siderable force within the rails and at the gate of
the college, amused themselves with pyrotechnic
displays and orangepeel projectiles some of which
having hit the police, they most' unfortunately,
used their batons, the effect of which was to exas-
perate the youths assembled. A general melee
ensued, the horse police came within the rails and
used their swords freidy, while the fcot police
resorted to their batons. Several of the students
are reported to be dangerously wounded. None of
the townspeople took any part in the transaction ;
it was confined solely to the police and students.

THE LAW APPOINTMENTS.
It is officially announced that Mr. John George,
Q. C., the late Conservative member for the county
of Wexford, has been appointed to the office of
Solicitor-General. The announcement has taken
the legal profession and the public generally by
surprise, as the learned gentleman was scarcely
mentioned among the expeotants ; he is a member
of the Leinster bar.