The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-03 00:00:00

THE PROCLAIMED DISTRICTS OF DONEGAL.

The district of Cloughaneely—rendered noto-
rious by the attempt to assassinate the Rev. Mr.
Nixon, by its sheep killing, and enormous false-
hoods—has been visited by a strong party of
police forthe past few days, for the purpose of
collecting the tax levied upon it for the support
of the extra force placed there for the protec-
tion of the orderly inhabitants. The amount due,
about £250, was paid on demand, with a seeming
good grace, by the bulk of the peopel, who have
been represented as starving—as " ground to
powder by cruel and oppressive landlords."
The Daily Express states that out of a thousand
applicants for free emigration to New Zealand Mr.
Dobbs, on behalf of the sympathisers from that dis-
tant country, has selected upwards of 400 adults of
both sexes to be sent off, and many others expect
soon to follow. Mr. Dobbs flatters himself he has
chosen the best-conducted of the peasant-inhabi-
tants of the proclaimed district, and it is to be
hoped they will prove themselves worthy of his
confidence in New Zealand.

THE MURDER OF MR. ELY.
Mr. Hanna; stipendiary magistrate, has been
transferred from Carrick-on-Suer to the town of
Borris-in-Ossory for the purpose of directing and
aiding the police in pursuit of the assassin of the
lath Mr. Ely. Twenty additional police have arrived
in the parish of Kyle, the expense of whose support
will be levied on its ratepayers.
The King's County Chronicle, alluding to the
large subscriptions offered for the arrest of Delany,
the supposed murderer of Mr. Ely, says :
" All this money thus offered will not, we appre-
hend, induce a single hint which may lead to his
capture, though his whereabouts and his haunts
are known to several, who hypocritically affect to
feel sorry at the death of Mr. Ely. Such arc the
influences which the Ribbon system exercises over
the minds of the peasantry, who are taught by it
to admire and approve of the execution of its
bloody mandates, and to protect and succour the
remorseless ruffians by whom they are carried out."
THE TROOP SHIP BOMBAY.
Her Majesty's ships Brunswick and Racoon, at
' Queenstown have received orders to weigh and
look after the troop ship Bombay.
THE CAMOLIN ESTATES, COUNTY WEXFORD.
These estates, formerly the property of Lord
Mountnorris, purchased under the Encumbered
Estates Act in 1852, were disposed of on Tuesday
last. Ballnelor was bought for £,3,500 by Mr. W.
Bolton. The manors of Monosota and Rossmo-
'love were set up at 190,000. Mr. Bolton bid
£Bl,OOO. Mr. Tenney offered X 82,000. The
vendor bid £104,500. No advances were made,
but it was declared the lot should be divided, and
offered again for competition.

ALDERS HOTT.—In this recently established and
flourishing town, the principal inhabitants, alive to the im-
portance of such a building, have commenced the erection
of a handsome and spacious market. On Friday, the 26th
ult., the foundation stone was laid by Lieut.-Gen. Knollys,
in the presence of his staff aud a majority of the inhabitants
of the town and neighbourhood. At the close of the cere-
mony a handsome silver trowel, bearing an appropriate in-
scription, was presented to the general by T. P. Copeman,
Esq. (Messrs. Co man and Lacy, of Guildford and Alder-
shott), chirman of the market committee in the names of
himself and his co-directors. The Rev. James Dennett, of
Aldershott, attended, and offered up an appropriate prayer.
In the evening the genera in command, accompanied byColonel Wood, C.B:. Co' o lel Kennedy, C. 8., Captain
Murray;R.E., ardt e ;eneral.'s aide-de-( amp, houoi red the
directorswith their presence at apublic dinner, held in ( o 0-
mernoration of the event, at the Royal Hotel, .Aldershott, at
which Captain Mangles, M.P., presided,

The new company who have taken this A S
hand during the past few weeks are composed in a
great measure of the old shareholders—who feel -
that the commercial prospects of the undertaking
are really based on a too certainly successful foot-
ing to be thrown off with every ill-humour and
mood of dejection—united with a few other capi-
talists, who see that if the Leviathan, costing a
million, was likely to pay a dividend, much greater
would be the dividend paid by a Leviathan costing
£90,000. No time, therefore, will be lost in fitting
the ship up and getting her ready for sea. The
first-act of the new company promises well. The -
shares (the Whole of which are now subscribed fbr)
have been taken up by people in all classes of
society, the majority of whom are, of course, anxious
to see the property they have invested their money ,
in. That this natural curiosity may be fully in-
dulged in, the *ship will, during the next fortnight,
be thrown open to the pnblie inspection of all who
choose to go on board, free of charge. After the
expiration of the prescribed fortnight, hoNtever, no
one on • any pretence. Will be allowed to visit the
ship, so that the work of finishing the interior
fittings may be probeeded with uninterruptedly, and
be completed in about five months. For some shoit
time after she goes to sea the Leviathan will run
between some English port and Portland, in Anie- -
rice ; but she will only be kept upon this station
just sufficiently long to convince the public other
superior speed and safety. The real and legitimate
field for her operation will be the East India trade.
On this line, both in cheapness and rapidity, she
will be able to compete successfully with all the
existing communications with India either overland
or by sea, both for goods and passengers. Suppos-
ing her speed to be only 15 knots an hour (though
no one calculates it at less than 18 knots), she
would perform-the voyage from England to India
in onemonth, which would establish her success
in Point of speed. Being, as she certainly will be, •
able to carry an enormous freight, as well as_hei
coals out and home, it necessarily follows that she
will be able to take all classes of goOds at a much
cheaper rate than any other ship. These are self-
evident
facts. But then the question is asked,
Will there, be sufficient trade, either in-goods or
passengers; to supply one, much less two or thr( e
such ships running every month ? A reference to
the statistics of • our Indian trade sufficiently an- .
swers this. Large and remunerative as is the
existing trade to the East, and valuable and costly,
as are the commodities sent there, no one unac-
quainted with the subject can have any conception
of the extent to which it is capable of being de-
veloped with regular and rapid communication
such as the Great Eastern will ensure. With silk
from China and India, amounting annually to from
90,000 to 100,000 bales valued at £2,000 to £3,000
per ton; of indigo, some 150,000 maunds, valued
at
,from £5OO to £l,OOO per ton ; with saf-
fibwer,.sh ellac, lac dye, tea, and coffee, ranging
in value from £lOO to £7OO per ton; with shawls
and other valuable Eastern productions, a full and
ft:paying
.cargn may be insured each homeward
voyage, without taking into account the number of -
passengers, to whom the saving in time and -money
would be an object. For the outward voyage at
least there would be no doubt of securing a _full
cargo. What with metal work, Birmingham and.
Sheffield wares, cotton and woollen fabrics from
Leeds, Manchester, Paisley,. • and Glasgow, and
haberdashery, embroidery, silks, and. satins from
other parts of England, from France, and from
Germany, there is surely freight enough to fill the
Great Eastern, and many other ships besides.
With the daily increasing wants of the civilised
people in Australia, and a European army in India
of three times its former strength, together with.
the inducement to European residence and settle-
ment which the extensive system of Indian railways
now in course of construction will undoubtedly
give, there can be little doubt that, with;..
facilities of readily transporting to those rich fields
of industry in the East the enterprise of Europe,
there is at this moment profitable employment
for a fleet of such steamers as the Great Eastern.
The exports from England to Calcutta, Madras,
and Bombay for eleven months of • 1858 were
409,957 tons of goods, valued at £12,082,584,
of which merchandise about 131,000 tons were
capable of paying £5 per ton freight. To Ceylon,
Hong Kong, and Shanghai. in the same line were
exported 57,563 tons of freight, of the declared
value of £8,584,290, of which 35,000 tons
were capable of paying £5 per ton freight,
which, with adding cargoes to Singapore, Bunnell,
and a host of other Eastern ports, makes the total
expert for the present year about 600,000 tons, of
the declared value of about £20,900,000 ; and of
this about 180,000 tons were capable of paying a
freight of £5 per ton and upwards. The overland
route traffic and merchandise are not included in the
above calculation. The Australian trade by
,the,
proposed branch line, which will be carried froth-
Ceylon to' that remote region, will a!so 'contribute
largely to the_ freight of the Great Eastern. The
return freights from the Eastern ports, as shown
by the same return, are of equal extent and value,-
and would without doubt be much increased. The
rough estimated freight from the East to Europe
capable of paying (of course forth() facilities afforded
by the rapid voyages of the Great Eastern) £lO to
£2O per ton is about 30,000 tons, and capable of
paying from £6 to £7 per ton 50,000 tons, if tea in
sufficient quantity could be had. That this will
soon be the case is very probable, for the tea from
Calcutta will, in a few years, form a large article
of export, and the high qualities of the tea produced
in Assam and the North-West Provinces are already
charged a high rate of freight. This year the export
of tea from Calcutta was 415,000 chests, and as soon
as order is restored thfonghout India, probably the
annual amount will he at least double this. Thus,
when forty-five days -is known to be the time
guaranteed by the Great Eastern for landing
goods in India and China, instead of a doubtful 80
or 90, all this -trade -must naturally fall to her
carriage. Thus, only calculating the probabite
amount of goods and passengers which might fairly
be counted on each month, supposing her to run
ten voyages in the year, carrying 10,000 tons, at
£5 per ton outward, would make in the year ,
£500,000. Homeward, 10,000 tons each voyage,:
at £lO per ton, £1,000,000. Parcels out and home,
at £3O per ton, £24,000. First-class passengers%
at from £BO to £lOO each in the year, 6,000 outout-'-
ward and 6,000 inward, £1,080,000. The same
number of second-class passengers, at from £5O to
£6O each, £660,000 ; and 10,000 third-class passers
gers outward and homeward, at £3O each, would
make the gross earnings of the ship for the
_year.
£3,080,000 sterling. This may be supposed an
over-estimation, but it is based upon the traffic at
present existing between England and her Indian
possessions. The only question which is at all
begged is that the ship will monopolise the whole
of the trade in consequence of her Kreat rapidity
and the cheap rate at which she will be able to
carry goods and passengers. Even supposing she
only realises one half, or indeed one quarter of the
estimated gross earnings, then it will be a fair
annual revenue for a vessel costing altogether little
lover £240,000.

THE INDLIN EMPIRE.

It appears from the statement of a most intelli-
gent passenger, who has crossed the "Atlantic no
less than five times within the last fifteen months,
that soon after leaving Cape Race, the Indian
Empire was surrounded by a dense fog, to
which succeeded the hurricane by which she
was driven, or rather against which she struggled.
for • upwards of three weeks. By the ac-
count of this gentleman, who kept a strict
log, the Indian Empire did not sight a
single sail from the Ist to the 21st, from which
we infer that she was driven.out of the usual track
of vessels crossing the Atlantic. It would seem by
the evidence of the passengers that the weather
was hazy, as well as stormy, that the captain was
unable to take a solar observation during eleven
continuous days. The Indian Empire
well during five days of tremendous weatherb fromved
New York to Halifax, and made fast run
The gentlemanto
whom
gives
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on
'Capedebtd forna e oure
the highest character to the captain, officers,
crew.' Not a passenger received any injufreye.rs,Caond
Con-
sidering the storm, or rather storms, which the
Indian Empire encountered, and the difficulty which
all fast steamers must incur_ when stress of weather
keeps them out beyond the period for which they
are coaled, we think the
to passengershegratbeyfnl to
and owners
of this ship have reason i _
dence, and in the next place to the skill and judg-
ment of the captain and officers. Indeed the whole
crew and passengers behaved extremely well.
The only matter which scents to have given a little
dissatisfaction to some of the least reasoning part of
the passengers was exactly that for which they
ought to be most thankfuf to Captain Courtenay,
viz., the husbanding of the provisions in case the
vessel should have been out longer even than she
was. We understand that half rations need not,
as it turned out, have been resorted to ; but surely-
it was an act of wisdom on the part of the captain.
The coast round Halifax is described as having
1 eea literally strewn with wrecks. The figure_
he id of one vessel was washed against the Indian.
Empire and scoured. On arriving at Dublin yes..
t ray evening the passengers were met by Illr.
Lever, who happened to be in the neighbourhood,
and a warm welcome, together with a good slipper
provided by the orders of that gentleman, seemed
to be duly appreciated. On the whole, we are in..
famed, that the passengers looked none the worse
for the perils and the toils of their t - D 1)1*
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Evening Mail.

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The Height and Size round Shoulders is sufficient measure.
Patterns and price per post, free.
Any number of Cloaks forwarded in four days from date of
order, free to London.

D. MACDOUGALL,
THE ROYAL TARTAN WAREHOUSE.
INVERNESS.

TRUST AND LOAN COMPANY of UPPER
CANADA.—At an Extraordinary General Meeting of
Shareholders, held this day, at the Offices of the Company,
No.-65, Moorgate-Street, T. M. WEGUELIN, Esq., M.P., in the
Chair, the following Resolutions were passed unanimously : --
That the report and accounts submitted by the Directors
be received and adopted.
That a dividend, at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum, free
of income tax, be declared on the paid-up Capital Stock
of the Company for the six mouths ending 30th Sep-
tember, 1858.
That th© Right Iroti. Edward Pleydel Bouverie, M.P., be
elected a Director of the Company.
That the thanks of the Meeting be given to the Chairman
and Directors of the Cempany for their zeal and atten-
tion to the interests of the Company.
(Signed) T. M. WEGUELIN, President.
65, Moorgate-street, Dec. 2, ISSB.

This Day, Post Octavo, 7s. 6d.,
HANWO R T H. Originally published in
" Fraser's Magazine."
London : John W. Parker and Son, West Strand.

THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.—Under
the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W.
Harrison.

THIS EVENING, Auber's grand Opera, THE CROWN
DIAMONDS : The characters by Miss Louisa Fyne, Miss
Susan Fyne, Mr. Geo. Honey, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. Henry
Corri, Mr. Bartleman, Mr Terrott, and Mr. W. Harrisen
Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon.
To conclude with a new Ballet Divertissement, LA FLETJR
D'AMOUR : Mesdlles. L. Michelet, Morlacehi, and Pasquale.

R 0 YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS HVENLNG will be presented Shakspere's Tragedy is'

MACBETH.
Macbeth Mr. C. Kean ; Lady Macbeth, Mrs. C. Kean.
Preceded by a new Farce, in one act, entitled
THIRTY-THREE NEXT BIRTHDAY.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING will be performed SUE STOOPS
TO CONQUER. Mr. Buckstone and Miss Reynolds.
A new Spanish Ballet, THE INFLUENCE OF GRACE,
in which Perea Nona will appear.
With WHITEBAIT AT GREENWICH. John Small, by
Sir Win. Don, Bart.
And A DAUGHTER TO MARRY.
Commenue at 7.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, THE LITTLE SAVAGE.
After which THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE.
WOOING IN JEST AND LOVING IN EARNEST
Miss Swanborough.
And THE BONNIE FISH WIFE.
Commence at 7 o'clock.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.
Sole Lessee Mr. William Cooke.
By Special Desire, for Five Nights longer.
THIS EVENING, and duri the week, will be presented
Shakspere's Tragedy of KING RICHARD THE -THIRD ;
or, The Death of White Surrey, reproduced with all its origi-
nal splendid effects. The Duke of Gloster, Mr. Holloway ;
Richmond, Mr. H. Phillips.
Followed by SCENES IN THE ARENA, and a variety
of inimitable feats of Equitation by those talented artistes,
Madame Blanche, Miss Emily Cooke, Madame Fleurette, Mr.
W. Cooke, Mr. Runnels, Mr. W. Cooke, jun., /cc.
On Saturday next will be produced, for the first time, a new
grand Spectacle, with most peculiar effects, entitled LIFE
IN THE EAST ; or, The Sepoy Revolt, embracing the entire
strength of this vast Hippodramatic Temple.
No fees to box-keepers. The art of riding taught.
Commence at seven.
Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
Proprietor—C. MORTON.
The public is most respeotfully informed that the FINE
ARTS GALLERY, in connection with the above Hall, IS NOW
OPEN DAT AND NIGHT, from 11 o'clock a.m. until 12
o'clock p.m. The New Gallery contains an extensive Collec-
tion of Pictures, by Ancient and Modern Masters and is also
devoted to Art productions generally. The Proprietor feels
he may confidently assert that, viewed altogether, the exist-
ing Music Hall, the New Fine Arts Gallery, and the recently
added Ante-Hall, will present an attraction which, whether
as regards the architectural beauty of the structures them-
selves, or the varied and hitherto unattempted combinations
within, will be found to be wholly without parallel in the
Kingdom.
The MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT commences as usual at
Seven o'clock.

THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, DEC. 3.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.

55—highest since noon yesterday.
40—lowest this morning and during the night.
48—this day at noon.
BAnomETEn-30.18—rising rapidly.

WIND, South-Westerly ; light, with fine weather.

THE SUN.

FRIDAY. DECEMBER 3, 1858.

A noble-hearted, gallant English Tar has passed
from amongst us in the person of Vice-Admiral
EDMUND, first Baron LYONS of Christchurch.
Peace to his ashes—honour to his memory. Let us
hang a votive garland up among the trophies won
by his valour, and piled in glittering array by the
couch upon which, now, " after life's fitful fever,
he sleeps well!" Conspicuous among those trophies
the heraldric shield upon which the arms of his
ennobled house are emblazoned—with the haughty
motto beneath Noli Irritare Leones—with the
bloody print lipon it (A.D. 1840) of the hand of the
baronetcy—above the escutcheon the baron's coro
net awarded to him (A.D. 1856) by royal paten t
under the great seal and under the sign- manual Of
the SOVEREIGN. There, too, by the dead sailor are
the insignia of the orders of knighthood bestowed
upon him in recognition of his high qualities and
his great services to more than ono of the chief
powers of Europe the grand cross and riband of
the Bath—the star of the Guelphic order of Jian -
over—the Grand 'Cross of the Legion of Honour—
the Cross of St. Louis of France—the Star of the
Medjidie of Turkey—the Grand Cross of Savoy—and
the Greek symbols of a Knight Companion of the
Redeemer. There they all lie in the mortuary room at
Arundel Castle—together with the brave Vice-Ad-
miral's sword, his medals and clasps, and the signs
of his high rank, socially and ' professionally,' as
a peer of the realm, and as a naval commander. It
is a gallant display. Honour to whom honour is
due—the palm to whomsoever deserves it. But—
while there is a hackneyedold scrap of Latin which
says be mortuis nil nisi bonuni—there is also ano-
ther equally familiar, if not to all, at any rate to
very many schoolboys, De mortteis nil nisi verum.
Of the dead let nothing but " truth" be spoken. It
is a wise saying enough. And there is another
almost as old—certainly equally sagacious in its
way—which recommends the eulogist of a great
man never to bring a greater into comparison with
the theme of his panegyric.

Now, precisely this most mistaken kind of enco-
nium has been pronounced by The Times M a
studied and deliberate manner over the inanimate
remains of Admiral Lord LYONS Upon the very
morrow of his demise. Poor Lord Loss had
hardly breathed his last on Wednesday the
24th of November—when our contemporary,
on Thursday the 25th of November—drew
a distinct parallel (according to its view) between
Lord LYONS and—ye gods !of all men in the
wide world—Lord NELSON ! One might as reason-
ably compare General WOLFE and HANNIBAL—
SPRIT and SHAKSPERE—SOULOUQUE and NAPO-
LEON BONAPARTE. The comparison is altogether
something quite preposterous. We honour the
gallantry of Lord LYONS as much as anyone. We
have always done so. And certainly, if ever we
have been disposed to do so with unaffected cor-
diality, it is at the present moment, when the noble

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