The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-14 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY MORNING.—Mr. Acheson
Lyle has been appointed a member of the education
board over the foundation schools, in succession to the
late Rev. Dr. Elrington.
Tuu WEATnett.—The weather continues very in-
clement. Yesterday evening there was a fall of snow,
and in the course of the night a smart frost.
CORK.—On Saturday last Mr. Pennington offered
for sale, by auction, two portions of the lands of
Corroghanearle, each respectively containing 102 and
103 acres, situate within two miles of the towns of
Carrigadrohid and Macroom. They were held for a
long term of years, and produced a clear annual profit
of GO!. per annum. The highest bona fide offer was
4501., which not being accepted, they were bought in
at 4601., there being no advance beyond that.
ABDUCTION.—This crime, which is peculiar to Ire-
land, has become rather common of late. In the
county of Kilkenny there have been two cases within
the past fortnight, and two in Tipperary. Subjoined
are a couple of the most recent. The first is from the
Kilkenny Moderator of this morning:—
" ABDUCTION.—On the night of Saturday last, a
young woman, named Catherine Healy, about nineteen
years of age, residing at Mount Nugent, near John's-
well, was seized upon, at her house, and forcibly carried
off by a man named Roily, who had been previously
paying his addresses to her, but unsuccessfully. The
young woman, we understand, was daughter to a ser-
geant-major in the army, who, dying, lett her 300/., to
be held in trust by the Might Rev. Dr. Healy, R.C.
Bishop of Carlow, and this little fortune seems to have
tempted the rejected suitor to the desperate course
which he adopted. Assisted by another person, named
Riley, his cousin, and also accompanied and abetted by a
man named Richard Griffin, he seized the girl, and in
spite of the resistance which she could offer, carried her
off iu a covered car to the house of a Mr. Edmund
Cronyn at Stonecarty, near Stoneyford. There she was
detained during the night and following day, though she
was not treated with violence. However, in the even-
ing she found means of sending a message to
the Stonoyford constabulary barrack, requesting
that the police would go to Stonecarty without
delay, but not mentioning for what they were
required. Constable Kelly, with two of his party, pro-
ceeded to Cronyn's house, and the moment they were
observed the Biters and Griffin rushed out of the back
door and made a precipitate retreat: Miss Healy called
on the police to pursue the runaway?, which theyim;
Griffin
after did, and Kelly succeeded in capturing In
after a warm rum The other policeman gave
ovecotihabstee
to
the Riley; for upwards of a mile, but w
overtake them. Griffin has been committed for trial by
J.l'.,i
Colonel Wemye, J.
~ and a warrant has been sLued fir
the arrest of ihe other delinquents. This is the second
case of abduction occurring in our county within a
fortnight."
From the Limerick Reporter-." On Friday night a
party of fellows entered the dwelling of a buxom widow,
near Cooreclare, suspected of having plenty of cash, in-
tent on forcing her to become the wife of ono of the
party. cUnderstanding that she slept generally with her
daughters, our gay Lutharioe snatched up their supposed
prize, with which they decamped to a house some miles
distance, where to their utter chagrin, instead of the rich
fascinating widow, they found themselves in possession
of an old haggard pauper, whom the daughter had
broueht for her companion for the night in the mother's
accidental absence. Shortly after the discovery a party
of the police in pursuit of the housebreakers came up,
who arrested six of the party and committed them to
prison, where they are to remain until after Shrove
Tuesday."
Tux loons g2ECIIANGE.—The Wes yesterday were ;

He must have the courage also to remark upon
tio)se errors which their rule-rs have apparently coin
initted in former times, so that the concentrated wii-
dom of tile l,ri d ma 3 be the better enabled to avoid
siu filar misthkez: when lsgisiatin for the present and
the future.
Ali this, it appears, has been well and nobly done
by the Prime Minister of her Most Gracious Majesty_
On Friday lag, in making a declaration to the
House of Commons (f the general policy her MA-
jesty's Government mean to pursue with regard to
the colonies, Lord John Russell called upon the
people of the British empire to regard with attention
the page of past events, and reminded them that
" wherever Englishmen have been sent, or have
chosen to settle, they have carried with them the
freedom and the institutions of the mother country?'
With this landmark as his guide, his Lordship pro-
ceeds to tell our,Legislators that, " whenever you say
political freedom cannot be introduced, you are bound.
to show the reasons for such exemption."
With these data as guide for the policy to be pur-
sued towards our colonies, his Lordship has not hesi-
tated to recal to our recollection Cromwell, " his
high notion of British power and energy i"
and here let us pause for a moment to consider, what
is not England's power and energy now, compared
with what it was then ? Well, indeed, may his
.Lordship remark that we ought not " now to-be
considering whether we should part with those cola-
nies.-77whether we shoulel make the connexion looser
—or whether even we should leave them with less
means of defence against foreign aggression." And
his Lordship has not dreaded, with this landmark as
his guide, to tell "those persons who have gone the
length of proposing that instead of remaining subject
to her Majesty, the province of Canada should be
annexed to the United States," that "to that pro-
posal the Crown could give nothing but a decided
negative." And his Lordship has firmly but mo-
destly expressed his trust that " those persons, know •
ing the determined will of the Sovereign of this
country and of her advisers, not to permit their project
to be carried into effect, will acquiesce in the deci-
sion of Ow Crown."

This trait of his Lordship's will no doubt find an
echo in all true and loyal hearts, and-wiil, there can-
not be a shadow of a doubt, sooner or later give uni-
versal satisfaction throughout her Majesty's North
American dominions. It is true, his Lordship hits
said, " I do anticipate with others, that some of the
colonies may so grow in population and wealth that
they may say ' our strength is sufficient to enable us
to be independent t f England " but his Lordship
adds,."l do not. think that that time is yet approacb-
ing." So much for the political affairs of Canada. New
for what his Lordship has said regarding our other
colonies, and to that "question, which has been much
agitated, namely, that we should no longer think
it worth while to maintain our colonial empire, I
say," observes his Lordship, "that I consider it to be
our bounden duty to maintain the colonies which
have been placed under our charge. I think
we cannot get rid of the obligation and responsibilities
to govern those colonies for their benefit, and I trust
we way be the instruments of improving and civili-
zing those portions of the world in which they are..
situated." Thus boldly and ably does his Lordship
meet this much agitated question, and who will gain-
say his Lordship's trust that we may be permitted to
fulfil our appointed destiny ? But to proceed : In the
early part of his Lordship's address a general sketch
or outline is given of our early colonial polioy—eits
progress, end of how our present colonial empire stands;
thus we are shown our moral responsibility to retain
all those possessions, their importance in peace as
well as in war for the support of the imperial autho-
rity and the protection of our extesided com-
merce ; and the few following words of his
Lordship will bring this forcibly home to
the door of every aglishnisn, who " will
admit the value of that commerce which penetrates to
every place of the globe," and to which " many 41
those colonies give harbours and security most useful
in time of peace, lunt absolutely necessary in time of
war." Having explained all these matters, his Lord-
ship has bud the candour to confess that "discootent,
and in some places well-founded discontent, has
arisen," and has had tl:e courage also to refer to past
errors as beacons to warn us from those mistakes' that
appear in former times to have been so disastrous to
the nation.

On looking back," says his Lordship, " at the
origin of that unhappy contest, I cannot but think
that it was not a single error or a single blunder
which got us into that contest, but a aeries of repeated
errors and repeated blunders, of a policy assorted
and then retreated from—again asserted, and
then concessions made when they were toe
late ; and of obstinacy when it was unrea-
sonable." " I believe," adds his Lordship, " that
it was by such a course we entered into the unhappy
contest with what were at the beginning of it the
loyal provinces of North America." Thus are we
warned by his Lordship to shun a weak and vacillating
course of colonial history—may the nation profit by
the advice.

It was not to be supposed that the subject of free
trade, the great commercial novelty of the age, and
the one of so much consequence to our colonial em-
pire, would be omitted in so important a declaration,
and accordingly we find his Lordship declaring, no
doubt under the impression that the nation has deter-
mined to give this modern system a full and fair trial,
that, " By the repeal, last year, of the naTigution laws,
I conceive we have entirely put an end to the whole
system of commercial monopoly in our colonies.
It is not my purpose to go into the question whether
this new policy a right or a wrong policy—it has
led at home to questions as to how the colonies are to
be in future managed ; the whole result of what I
have to say is, that whatever discontent ,has arisen
from a transition painful to the colonies, front a
system of monopoly as regards the colonies to a sys-
tem of free trade, we ought not to attempt to go back
in any respect from that decision."
To conclude, then, we gather from the declaration
put forth by her Majesty's G )vernment—first, that the
integrity ado, empire is to be maintained ; secondly,
that the liberal commercial colonial policy is not to
be given up ; and, thirdly, that the freedom and the
institutions of Great Britain are to be ex-
tended to all her Majesty's subjects, in

whatever quarter of the glob* they may think pro-
per to reside. There appears to be the three cardinal
points upon which his Lordship has insisted in the
colonial policy to be carried out ; and let us hope
that, as ob'erved by the Right Honourable the Pre-
sident of the Board of Trade, " the calm tone in
which this important question has been discussed is
an augury of the manner in which colonial matters
will in future be debated." And let us hope that,
looking to the very favourable statistical results set
before the House of Commons by his Lordship,
the public will become every day more and
more aware of the great increase in popu-
lation and in wealth of a large class of colonies under
the dominion of the Crown—and that we shall all

feel more sensibly the value of those relations about
which so much discussion has taken place, and un-
fortunately, as his Lordship observei, a great deal
talked about by some persons " without much inves-
tigating into the subject."
Meaning with your permission to renew at some
futiere period my comments on
.what is passing around
ui regarding som the colonies,
Believe me to remain, Sir,
Your most obedient humble servant,
ROBERT CARMICHAEL SMITH,
15, Charles-gtreet, Haymarket, Feb. 11.

FIRE IN SOUTHWARK.—' esterdity afternoon,
showy before two o'clock, a fire broke out in the pre .
rnisei belonging to Mr. Wilcoxon, paper-stainer, situate
in Lant-street, Southwark. The flames commenced in
the first-floor workshop, a spacious building extending
over three houses, anal were caused as follows:—The
workmen having gone to dinner, they left a great quan-
tity of paper on the fcames to dry. The draught from
one of the open windows caused one of the lengths to
fall against a Latent stove, and it instantly ignited. The
flumes then communicated with other pieces of paper, /
and the consequence was, that in less than live minutev
the spacious floor presented one immense sheet of flame.*
The engines of the parish, London brigade, and Wes t
of England Company, quickly *ate), ed, and the firemen
happily succeeded in getting the fire Out. bat not untit
the whole of the stock in trade was destroyed, and the
prtlnises very seriowdy burned.
MONEY MARKET.—The premium on price or 3/. 17s.
10}d.qd. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exeh are Qf
25.47; and the exchange at Paris on London at shott
being 25.47,, it follows that gold is 0.02 per cent.
dearer in London thin in Pais BY advises fr!an Hun-
t 13.91 ;andeu
6 for x .
burgh the price of gold is 4341 per mark,nwltieh, at
the English Mint price
an xng
ricee()icuSal.l7e us. ! 0.1241. per
standard gold, gives
change at Hamburgh on London at short being 13.11 i,
it follows that gold is 0.63 per cent, doter isa.Lcu•
dota than ir3 ganaburgh.

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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. JAMES ANDERSON.
THIS EVENUNTG.
Will be presented, by her Majesty's Servants,
JIILTUS C.ESAR. Julius Cesar, Mr. C. Fisher ; Octavius Csasar,
Mr. Everett; Mark Anthony, Mr. Andersen ; Brutus, Mr. andcn-
heir; Cassius, Mr. Cathcart ; Casca, Mr. Cooper; Trebonins, Mr.
Diddear ; Decias, Mr. Montague ; Calphuriala, Mrs. Ternan ; Portia,
Miss Phillips.
To be followed by a New Grand Historical, Metaphorical,
Allegorical, and Diabolical Pantomime, by the author of " Bluff
King Hal to be called HARLEQUIN and GOOD QUEEN BESi ;
MERBIE ENGLAND IN THE OLDEN TIME,
private bozo, 11. 3a., 2.1._125. 6d., 21. 25., 11. Its. 6d., and 11. Is.

s. d.
SECOND PRICE.
Boxes - - 2 0
Pit - - I 0
Lower Gallery - 0 6
No Half-price to Lipper Gallery
, Mr. J. Povey.

Stalls, ss. each.
s. d.
FIRST PRICE.
Boxes - 4 0
Pit - - - 2 0
Lower Gallery - 1 0
Upper Gallery - 0 6
Box-book-kee;

THEA fitE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Mr. B. Webster, Sole I,..ssee and Manager, Old Brompton.
THIS EVENING,
Wlll be presented an entirely new and original Comedy, entitled
LEAP YEAR ; or. The Ladies' Privilege. Sir Solomon *ohm, vr.
Keeley ; Captain Mouser, Mr. ielby ; Mr. Dimple, Mr. Buckstene ;
William Walker, .or. Charles Kean ; Mrs. Flora Flower !ew, Mrs.
Charles Kean ; Miss Sally O'Leary, Mrs. Fitawilliam ; Mrs. Crisp,
Mrs. F. Matthews.
Ts be followed by a new Comedy', untied THE SEIIIOEII FA-
MILY. Characters by Messrs. Webster, J. Wallack. linekstoie ;
)its W. Clifford. Miss Reynolds, and Mrs. Fitrwilliam.
To conclude with BOX and COI.
Tke Box-stlitie is ander the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer.

TREAT Has kWYAL, ADELYIII.
•;ader the •ilrection oi Madame Celes,,i,
THIS EVENDT6,

11" Will be performed a new domestic Drama, called THE WILLOW
COPSE. Principal characters by Messrs. Hughes, Wright, P. Bed-
Fsri , O. Smith, Worrell ; Madame Celeste, and Miss Woolgar.
Aster which an entirely new Extraraganaa, entitled DO-
MESTIC ECONOMY. John Grimly, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Grimly,
Mrs. F. Matthews.
To conclude with FRANKENSTEIN; or, The Model Man. Franken-
stein, Mr. Wright ; the What is It ? Mr. P. Bedford; Zaraiel, Mr. 0.
Smith ; Otto of Rosenberg, Miss Woolgar ; Tiddlewincz, Miss E.
Chaplin ; Agatha, Miss Coveny ; rndine, Misa E. Harding.

PRaCESS'S THEATILE.
Mr. J. M. Maddox. lo Lessee and manager.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed a new corals Opera, entitled THE TALLEY OF
ANDORRE.
To conclude with KING JAMIE ; or, Harlequin and Magic Fiddle
Harlequin. Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr. Peale; Clown, Mr. Flex-
more ; Colanabine, Miss Fawcett.

NEW ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATER.
Sole Lessee, Mr. W. Watts, St. John's Wood.
THIS EVENING,

Will be performed THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Duke, Mr.
Johnstone; Antonio, Mr, Ryder; Bassani°, Mr. Conway; Gratiano,
Mr. Wigan; Lorenzo. Mr. BeLon ; Shylock, Mr. G. V. Brooke;
Launcelot Gobbo, Mr. Compton; Portia, Miss Fanny Vining; \e-
rim, Mrs. Seymour: JellaiCa., Miss Oliver.
After which a new Farce, ei.titled ♦ DEAD TAKE IN. Captain
Darceart, Mr. Wigan ; Hector Poalet, Mr. Compton ; Clara, Min
To conclude with THE MIDNIGHT WITCH.

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
FRENCH PLAYS AND OPERA CO MIQUE.
Last Week but One of M. CIOLIET'S Engagement.
Mr. MITCHELL begs respectfully to announce that the French
Performances at the St. James's Theatre will commence
TO-MORROW EVENING,
With the First Act of
LA DAME BLANCHE.
After which a popalar comic Opera, entitled
LE ROI D'YVETOT.
Jesselyn, M. Chollet ; Jeanneton, Madlle. Guishard.
The Box-office of the Theatre is open daily from Eleven till
Five.
Boxes and Stalls at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-
street.

ROYAL LYCEUM TREAT 13IG.
Under the Management of Madame VeStria.
dole Less Tee. Mr. Charles Mathews.
HIS EVENING,
Will be perfornsed CHARLES THE TWELFTH.
After which THE ISLAND OF JEWELS.
To conclude with BOX AND COX.
Dress Boxes b... Upper Boxes, 45. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, is. No
balf-price to any part of the house.
All applications for Private Boxes must be made to Mr. Aileron, 15
New Bond-street.

♦STLaY's ROYAL AMPHITHEATRIC.
Provrietor, Mr. W. Batty.
Last Week of the Pantonalrne.
An entire change In the Scenes of the Arena,
New Grand Spectacle.
THIS STRIUNG,
The performance will commence at a Quarter to Seven, with a
w Grand Spectacle of TUE CORSR DE LEON ; or, the Brigand
Savoy.
To be tollowed by a brilliant display of Batty's peerless scenes of
1 Cittle,sapported by the accomplished artistes of tie establish-

To conclude with a grand Equestrian Comie Pantomime, by
Nelson Lee, called HARLEQUIN YANKEE DOODLE, who came
to Town upon his little Pony.
Rex-oftice °pea from Eleven till Four.