The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-19 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

DEPARTURES.
Earl and Countess Cadogan, from Queensberry House,
for the Marine Parade, Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs.
Berkeley, for the Grand Parade, Hastings ; Lady Car-
dross, for Brighton ; Sir W. Newton, for the Castle
Hotel, Hastings ; Lady Dashwood, for the Marine Pa-
rade, Brighton ; Mr. and the Misses Hallifax, from
Portland-place, to Chadacre Hall, Suffolk ; the Rev.
William Waters and Mrs. Waters, from the Waterloo
Hotel, Jermyn-street, St. James's ; Hugh Mallett, Esq.,
and Mrs. Mallet, from

CHANGES.
The Earl of Roden, at Tullymore Park, from Hyde
Hall, Herts ; Earl Fortescue, from Castle Hill, for Ire-
land ; Mr. Young, M.P., and Mrs. Young, from a visit to
Lord and Lady Adare, at Dunraven Castle, on a tour ;
Hon. C. Annesley, at Dingwall, N. 8., from the south.

PitoC.

ROYAL JLAMATION.—Whereas, on each and
every of our Royal movements, it has been, and is the
the custom of sundry weekly-disposed persons, known as
" Our Own Correspondents," " Our Private Correspon-
dents," and others, to write, and cause to be printed, ab-
surd and foolish language, touching ourself, our Royal
Consort, and beloved babies, it is our will and pleasure
that such foolish practices (tending as they really do to
bring Royalty into contempt) shall be discontinued ; and
that from henceforth, all vain, silly, and sycophantic
verbiage shall cease, and good, straightforward, simple
English be used in all descriptions of all progresses made
by ourself, our Royal Consort, and our dearly beloved
children. And furthermore, it shall be permitted to our
Royal self to wear a white shawl, or a black shawl, with-
out any idle talk being passed upon the same. And
further, our beloved Consort shall, whenever it shall so
please him, "change his round hat for a naval cap with
a gold band," without calling for the special notice of
the newspapers ; and further, that our beloved child, the
Princess Royal, shall be permitted to walk " hand in
hand" with her Royal father, without exciting such
marked demonstrations of wonderment at the familiarity,
as have been made known to me by the public press.
Be it known that the Queen of England is not the Grand
Lama ; and further be it remembered, that Englishmen
.
should not emulate the vain idolatry of speech familiar
in the mouths of Eastern bondmen.—Vicronu REGINA.
Given at Blair Athol, Sept. 16, 1844.—Punch.

IRELAND.
MORE TRICKERY IN THE JURY LISTS. ••
DUBLIN, SEPT. 17.—The following remarkable q>!,;r:77);\
statement appears in the Dublin Evening Post of this -
•
afternoon :
" After the thorough exposure of the illegal tinCtlV'f.'fr". L.
fraudulent practices in regard to the jury list of the 11.4;:4.1
year, and the effect of those exposures, one mightizilP.
pect that all parties concerned in the prepart4l4Vi„--
the new lists would take care, at least, to comply with db ztAtZAT
the forms required by the jury law. The public will
learn with surprise, that all such forms have been ut-
terly disregarded. We have learned from Mr. Ala-
bony, to whom the duty of attending to the revision
last year had been entrusted, that the cess collectors
are playing the same game. Notwithstanding the
strict directions in the Jury Act, and also in the pre-
cept sent to each of them, that they should print and
circulate their lists of qualified persons, in each of the
parishes, early in August—notwithstanding all the
remonstrances last year that those provisions of the law
had not been complied with, the duty still remains
undone in the middle of September. But the disre-
gard of the law for the protection of trial by jury has
been carried much further.

" Although the lists of the cess collectors are re-
turnable to the clerk of the peace before the 22d of
August, the first return of those lists was not made
until that day, and even then three parishes only were
returned. The last returns, required by law to be in
the hands of the clerk of the peace before the 22d of
August, were not in the possession of that officer
until Friday last, the 13th of September ! But, even
although thus held back, the provisions of the law
requiring the previous printing and publishing of
the entire lists in the various parishes had been wholly
neglected.

"It is remarkable also that the entire number of
jurors, common and special, now returned, amounts
only to 5,175. Last year, imperfect as the lists were,
they exceeded this considerably, and it is notorious
that there are at least 12,000 persons qualified to
serve as jurors in the city of Dublin.
" The Government have the power to compel those
entrusted with the administration of the jury law to
fulfil its mandates ; and if Lord Heytesbury desired
that his administration should maintain a shred of
character for impartiality, he would require that the
jury lists should be made according to law. What
are the Government Crown solicitors for, unless they
see that a law, upon which the entire administration
of justice is based, has been complied with ?
" Never was there anything so scandalous 'as the
whole course of proceeding in reference to the jury
system in Ireland. The present Jury Act has been
the law of the land for ten years. That Act requiros
that there shall be an annual revision, before the Re-
corder, for the due administration of justice and the
security of the subject. Nevertheless, there never
was a revision until last year, when Mr. Mahony,
acting on behalf of the traversers in the State trials,
demanded it. Care will, no doubt, be taken that there
shall be another revision this year ; but up to this
moment, as we have shown, the provisions of the
jury law have been utterly andi daringly disregarded.
We call on Mr. Shaw, the Recorder, at once to inter-
fere. Why should he receive lists which have been
made up illegally, and in the arrangement of which
every guarantee provided by law for the impartial
administration of justice has been violated ?
" As to the county of Dublin we have inquired,
and have learned, to our utter amazement, that the
precepts were issued so long since as the 25th of June
last. The return should have been made on the 25th
of July at the latest, and yet we now write on the
17th of September, having ascertained the fact that
not a single collector has made a return to the clerk
of the peace up to this hour. Is there, we ask, no
remedy for this ?"
FRACAS IN THE THEATRE ROYAL.

In the course of the evening an unpleasant fracas
occurred between an officer of the 11th Hussars and
a gentleman who not long since held the office of
high sheriff for a southern county. The latter was
sitting with some ladies in the last row of the dress
boxes, when the officer in question opened the door
and remained standing at it, the box being full. He
was requested to close it, as the air incommoded the
ladies, and from the reply he made some words passed
upon the occasion, but the affair did not terminate
without blows. Cards were exchanged, and several
officers of the regiment having interested themselves
in consequence of the position in which one of their
corps had been placed, not a little discussion took
place subsequently, which ended, as we learned, in
explanations being given, which put an end to any
ulterior proceedings.
The preceding statement is copied from Saunders's
News Letter of this morning. The gentleman al-
luded to is Mr. Saunders, who had been high sheriff
of the county of Kerry two or three years since, and
who is regarded by all who know him as one of the
most peaceable men in society. It is stated that the
officer of the 11th Hussars, who had been engaged
in this rencontre, subsequently apologised to Mr.
Saunders.

A NEW ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY.
A most important step in the advance of railway
extension in this country has been taken from the visit
recently paid to this country by the Directors of the
Great Western and the South Wales Railways, to
test the working of the:atmospheric principle on the
line now at work between Kingstown and Dalkey.
This project has for its aim the connexion of the
ports of Waterford, Wicklow, and Wexford, with
Kingstown and Dublin on this side, by means of an
atmospheric railway; aild the port of IVexford with
Fishguard-harbour, in the south of England, by
powerful steam-boats. The inland communication
with the great metropolis, by means of an atmospheric
railway of 120 miles, to join the Great Western at a
given point, and from thence by this now available line
to London.

The harbour of Wexford to be rendered fit for the
reception of steam-vessels of suitable tonnage. The
distance, it is ascertained, can be readily accomplished
in thirteen harbours, and thus the Irish traffic to Lon-
don by the Liverpool and Birmingham and Grand
Junction will be fairly divided, and any unjust mono-
poly defeated.
The directory, it is intended, will consist of a cer-
tain number of the Directors of the Great Western,
the South Wales, and the Dublin and Kingstown
Railways.
This is the merest outline of the intended project.
On the 19th instant a deputation from each of the
directions intend to meet at Swansea, to adopt mea-
sures towards the furtherance of this great undertak-
ing, and to facilitate the passing of a Bill for the pur-
pose in the next session of Parliament.—Dublin paper.
EVICTION OF TENANTRY.
The Cork Examiner publishes the following " facts
for Lord Devon :"—" In the parish of Drumtariff,
within half a mile of Kanturk, in this county, 16
families, numbering 96 individuals, have been turned
off the land which they held for several years—many
of them for 40 years and upwards. This took place
on the 25th of March last. This land, held by such
a number of tenants, is now in the possession. of one
individual, and that individual, shall we add, is a
Protestant. The landlord is Richard Longfield, Esq."