The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-15 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, FRIDAY.
The tide of emigration from Ireland may be said
to have ceased to flow. Emigrant vessels depart
from some of our ports without a single emigrant.
It appears from the report of the Emigration Com-
missioners that the entire emigration from the
United Kingdom in 1860 was only 128,469 persons.
Though this was 8,037 more than the previous year,
it was 31,659 less than the average of the preceding
five years. Of the aggregate number 21,590 were
from Ireland—a small proportion compared with
former years. Mr. Buchanan, the principal emi-
gration agent, classes the emigration to Canada
from the United Kingdom, exclusive of foreigners
who embarked at English ports, as follows :
English,
2,491; Scotch, 2,830 ; Irish,
estimates the arrivals in Canada through 2'831' He
States at about 4,800. St" s carry most of th
amer the United
emigrants now. Of 7,830
who e
Law-
rence, only 904 went by sailingwent to St.
the steerage passengers by steamers vessels. Among
one death in the year, and there were but three in
there was but
the sailing vessels. The returned
the year numbered 24,434, emigrants during
the United States, and
r of whom the large pro-
portion of 17,798 came from 4098 from Canada.

As to the contract itself, we must revert to our
original conviction—that it would be far more eco-
nomical to divide the subsidy among any number
of deserving gentlemen that might be selected for
the purpose than to give it to the existing com-
pany. Mr. Gregory made a very good speech last
night, but, like many another good speech, it was
a speech of excuses. It was an apology for the
Galway Packet Company. The very stars have
fought against that company from the beginning.
Both the parliamentary and the natural heavens
have concentrated upon it their utmost malignity.
" Lurid smoke and frank suspicion" in the shape of
storms that raged nowhere else, and an economy
directed against that enterprise alone, have blighted
it in the bud, and thwarted every attempt to retrieve
its lost fortunes. First one threatening motion in
the house, then another—one Treasury frown, then
another, paralysed not only the company but the
contractors as well, weakened the very plates and
ribs of their huge ships, and loosened the rivets
and bolts out of their sides. Persecution did its
worst, and distrust broke the back both of the com-
pany and its ships. The directors dropped their
heads, and the ships swayed and twisted with the
waves, and long before the packets reached the
swell of the Atlantic they trembled and shivered
and gaped at the prospect of the Parliamentary
trials that awaited them. That they never once
did their voyage out in the stipulated time, and
only twice did that on the return journey, is no
more than was to be expected from so inauspicious
a commencement. Grant, then, that the enterprise
was Irish, the opposition was English and Scotch.
Powerful and highly-favoured companies, some of
the largest cities in the empire, men of •immense
wealth, and, above all, national selfishness, com-
bined agaidst this attempt to let Ireland have her
own. Such influences were too stiong for the a
universal com-
pany to do its work in the face of _
scep-
ticism. That to a considerable extent it did fail
of its work may be admitted, when even the
Royal Mail Company failed for years to anticipate
the conveyance of news from the West Indies
-v York, and yet had its subsidy. In
.nee, tut; Company is the only one that
has been brought to book, and treated with rigour.
It has been fined, and its subsidies withheld,
till what it has received is a mere trifle, which
goeq a very little way to compensate it for the
trouble- undertaken- upon Government account.
So far as regards the way in which this company
has discharged its obligations, a Select Committee
cannot be expected to throw very much light on a
result which Mr. Gregory himself describes as an
actual failure. The general question of an Irish Packet
Company is still open, and on:this point no English
or Scotch prejudice should be allowed to stand in the
way. Mr. Gregory states it to be a fact that Ireland
alone can maintain a packet line; that its letters, its
passengers, its goods, are quite enough to make
a fortnightly line amply remunerative, though a
subsidy would, of course, be very convenient to
begin with. This is just one of the points
that a Select Committee would be able to
ascertain. As to the transmission of news by
telegraph, there can be no doubt, we should
think, that a line of steamers doing the distance
between Galway and St. John's in six days would
render that the precise interval, in point of news,
between London and New York. But we should
think it not unlikely that the committee will direct
its inquiries chiefly to the convenience of English and
Scotch passengers and goods. On this point there
can hardly be two opinions on this side the Irish
Channel. No gentleman with an unbiased regard
to his own convenience, intending to go to the
United States, would prefer a voyage to Dublin and
a journey across Ireland preparatory to embarking
in a transatlantic steamer, to a journey to Liver-
pool and a walk on board the packet in the Mersey.
Ireland, after all, is only a province of the empire, in
the same sense as Scotland and Yorkshire, or the
Western counties, none of which claim a direct line
of steamers for themselves ; so we must fall back on
the general convenience of an Atlantic port for the
Transatlantic line. We can only consider Ireland
a natural breakwater lying before the real ports
of the empire. Ports of embarcation are matters
of personal and commercial convenience, and the
attempts to make them in spite of distance, insular
separation, and other natural disadvantages, would
only lead to a large expenditure in vain. The
homeliest view of such a question is the
best. Government would only be helping to
dupe the too willing Irish enthusiasts if it encou-
raged them to invest their small savings in the for-
mation of a port which could only be kept up at
very great cost, and which would fall into decay as
soon as the favour of Government was withdrawn.
Mr: Gregory is of opinion that a candid inquiry
must terminate in assigning to Galway the palm
of convenience. That is his private opinion, which
he avows with becoming modesty. The time may
come when Galway, and half a dozen other
ports, will each send its own steamer and letters
to the States, but that time has not come yet, and,
apparently, is still far off in the future.—Hines.

RAILWAY ANTELLIGENCE.

LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN.

The adjourned Wharneliffe meeting of this c,•om-
pany was held yesterday at the Waterloo Station,
to consider a bill authorising a lease of the Margate
Railway to the London, Chatham, and Dover Com-
pany, and for other purposes—Capt. Mangles yin the
chair.

Mr. BIRCHAM, the solicitor, read the heads of
the bill, and explained that it contained clauses
authorising working arrangements with the South-
Western and three other companies, subject to the
approval of the respective shareholders and the
sanction of the Board of Trade. Thq London,
Chatham, and Dover, (Metropolitan Extension)
Railway would form junctions with the South-
Western Railway in Battersea-fields, and it was
therefore considered desirable to have power to
make traffic arrangements.
The CHAIRMAN stated that the company could
not make any of the working arrangements referred
to in the bill without the assent of the shareholders
at a meeting specially convened for the purl:ape.
He concluded by moving a formal resolution approv-
ing the bill.
carriedC unanimously.apt.JonNsTo
Nseconded the motion, and it was
This concluded the business for which the Wharn-
cliffe meeting had been convened.

THE PAPAL-AUSTRIAN RIOT AT
FLORENCE.

" Who do you suppose," we read in a private letter
from Florence, " was the O'Donoghue of this dis-
graceful demonstration ? Why, no less a personage
than one of the clerical heroes of St. George-in-the-
East, whose ' hat mless' name is much milder than
his manners. He has just hurried away for his
life, and when he reaches England will no doubt
relate with holy pride to his friends the Jesuits of
the English Church how, while enjoying as a guest
the gentle hospitality of this fairest city of the
Italian kingdom, he, an English gentleman and
clergyman, shouted ' Viva it Tedesco !' (Long live
the Austrians), and was chased by the mob, who
soon found out his name, arid calling it out in its
Italian pronunciation, hunted him pale,
_ie
and_
trembling, to his hotel, into which he scrambled
anyhow, while the people outside were
vowing
imen
of an Englishman thought himself safe; but pre-
vengeance. Here, however, this precious spec
had not
Rome
availed
him-
the miserable probationer from Rame of—England,
om
pre-
sently appeared two gendarmes, who wound uild have
taken him off as the ringleader of a
self in his extremity of the n
bring this affair
and his religion !
We all trust Lord Norman
Double blasphemer of his
willbyThe cause is worthy
country
before the House of Lords.
News.
of the hero, and the client so.fthe advocate.".—Daily

T EARFUL COLLIERY ACCIDENT NT CLAY
Cross.—The ___The efforts to get out the water from the Black
Shale snspE. F
been continued night
it have and day. Dui tiring the
the- id
whole of Wednesday and Thursday
bo
0 alpumps
were supplemented by the use of bucketsl 'a ,
oand 'as hoped
that the pit would be dry on Thursday night or c arly yes•
terday morning. It is now conclusively established that
there are 20 men and
engine
B left in the pit, bu,,t no hopes
arepennotesrptaEinceTd toh,Fa t theyTu EwHillobie, recovered
0F redaliivee.x.l.—Th 0
alive..
great of the growth of hops of last season very
naturally excites the hopes and fears of hop- growers failure
re-
lative to the prospects of a hop crop of the approaching
season. The present period is a critical one in hop plan-
tations, for in a few days the most promising ercip may be
destroyed. In Surrey, where the choicest quality of hops
are grown, and in the adjoining counties, B•erks and
Hants, the hop-gardens now assume a most ye: rdant and
flourishing aspect. At Farnham and Woking • the hop
grounds are in good condition, and in other dim tricts the
crop is healthy. The root, although later than u sual, has
made strong shoot, the bine grows rapidly, and sets well
to the pole, and up to the present time no seriou s indica-
tion of the hop flea, has yet shown itself on ' the bine.
During the last fey:, days of wet weather partial blight
has set in, which too frequently is the :prec, ursor of
the hop flea, and which last year destroyed the :hop crop.
But dry and warm weather may yet avert the pestilence
of the fly. As yet it is impossible to conjecture' the aver-
agen:
D 3
bulk of crop, although considerable betting has
menced as to the amount of hop duty ; but it
l
satisfac-
tory to bo able to state that in the hop districts gen°ra a
very an
abu
of the southern counties fair prospect exi,o3, :s for
, ..hop at,the coming I) soma,
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•••••--
THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Rackstcne.
THIS EVEN INI, the performances will oornmenee with
the of THE 0 VERLA.ND ROUTE. Messrs. Chas.
Mathews,Comedy Buckstone, E. Villiers, Rogers, Sze.; Mrs. Wilkins,
Mrs. C. Mathews, and Miss E. Weekes.
Followed by THE ADVENTURES OF A LOVE
LETTER. Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews.
And THE SUN AND THE WIND.
Commence at 7.

iViAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
It, Lessee and Manager. Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, TRUTH AND FICTION. Supported by
Messrs. F. Matthews, Widdicombe, Shore, Cathcart, Garden;
Miss C. Leclercq, Miss R. Leclereq, and Miss M. Harris.
Followed by THE MAN OF THE WORLD. Mr. Phelps.
Concluding with THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Shore,
pleadowr, Garden, and Miss C. Leclereq

EW THF.ATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Proprietor and 3lianager, Mr. B. Webster.
Reproduction of "The Colleen Bawn. " The Adeiphi
"Census " every Evening.

THIS EVENING, the successful new Farce, entitled A
TURKISH BATH. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. P. Bedford.
After which (207th time), THE COLLEEN BA WN. Mr.
D. Boucicault, D. e'isher, BiHine:ton, Falconer, Stephenson,
'C. J. Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boucicault, Miss
Woolgar, Mrs. Billing-ton, and Mrs. Chatterley.
To be followed by a new apropos Sketch, THE CENSUS.
Messrs. J. t.. Toole, Eburne, Romer, C. J. Smith ; Miss
Kate Kelly, Miss E. ehorne, and Airs. Chatterley.
Doors open at half past 6--Commence at 7.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
THIS EVENING, the most-successful Spectacle ever
produced, MAZEPPA, with splendid scenery and stately
effects. To be followed by the Rocky Mountain Wonders
and SCENES in the CIRC I.E. Concluding with the Panto-
mime Ballet entitled JOCKO, the Brazilian Ape. Reduced
prices. Doors open at half-past 6.

CANTERBURY -HALL CONCERTS
AND FLNE ARTS GALLERY.
EVERY EVENING,
Two Grand Selections from celebrated Operas. including
Verdi's new Opera. THE BAL MASQUE (first produced
in England at this Establishment), with a Chorus of Forty
Voices, and upon a scale unequalled at any other Concerts.
Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr. Greville, Mr. Herbert, Signor
Tivoli, Mr. Bernard ; popular Solos on the Cornet-a-piston,
by Mr. Levy (the first performer of the day); the Brothers
Conrad (in an entirely original entertainment on the double
ro_pe, not to be seen elsewhere); continued success of Mr.
Wood and his talented little Son.
The Comio Department comprises the followinz favourites :
—Mr. Marshall, Mr. Hollingsworth ; the NERVES, by
Messrs. Harvey and French ; and Mrs. Lawrence.
Musical Director, Mr. JONGHMANS.

CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS
GALLERY.
THE NERVES. a Comic Duet, by
Messrs. Harvey and
French, EVERY EVENING.

TH E 0 X F oR D,
6, OXFORD-STREET.
Mr. LEVY, undoubtedly the best performer of the day on
the Cornet-a-Piston—Grand Selections (on the most complete
scale) from Dinorah, Martha, Stradella, &e., and other vocal
and instrumental music, by Miss Russell, the Misses Stuart,
and Miss Ernst, Messrs. Charles Greville, Fornari, Kimber-
ley, Bernard, Beaumont, Bervon, Huish, Signor Tivoli, and
Xr. Henry Herbert, with full band and powerful and selected
chorus, conducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans.—The following
Comic talent, Messrs. W.andall J. Blanchard, W. H.
land, Hollingsworth, B. Marshall, Harvey, and French and
the Brothers Conrad in their latest and best entertainm, ent,
every evening. Admission, Hall, sixpence ; Balcony and
,Stalls, one shilling,. Private Boxes, 10s. 6d.

—RIGS WATER, AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tsie DAY.—Morning, 6h. 24m.—Afternoon, 6h. 50m.
To-monnow.-Morning, 7h. 16m.—Afternoon, 7h. 46m.