The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-11 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SATURDAY EVENING.—ROYAL RESIDENCE
IN DUBLlN.—Arrangements have already commenced
for fitting up the Phcenix Park, embracing an area of
some hundreds of acres, as a residence for the Queen
and Royal Family, during occasional visits to this
country, after the abolition of the Lord-Lieutenaney.
There are in the Park at present three residences—
for •the Lord-Lieutenant, and Chief and Under-Se-
cretaries. That occupied by his Excellency is in-
tended for her Majesty, but it will require consider-
able change and extension. It is understood that the
Chief and Under-Secretaries for Ireland, to be ap-
pointed under the Act for the abolition of the Lord-
Lieutenancy, are to remain in London during the
sitting of Parliament, but they are to reside chiefly
in this country in the recess. The office of Under-
Secretary, it is stated, is to be permanent. On
account of the increased expenditure likely to
result from occasional entertainments in this city,
the salaries of the Chief and Under-Secretaries are to
be augmented.
Amongst the public generally the announcement
of the intended abolition of the office of Viceroy has
produced very little sensation, and there is less of
discontent than might have been expected in a city
where a numerous class are more or less interested in
the expenditure connected with the Viceregal Court.
There are many, chiefly amongst the Conservative
and Orange parties, who appear to rejoice at the
change ; and there are men of moderate opinions
who approve of the measure, on the ground that it
is calculated to produce a more effective system of
government in this part of the United Kingdom, and
to paralyze local factions. Four or five years ago.
the mere proposal of such an arrangement would have
produced a storm of agitation ; but famine and dis-
tress, combined with the phantom insurrection of
1848, have left no materials for a political ferment.
The Northern Whig of this day refers with great
satisfaction to the intended discontinuance of the office
of Irish Viceroy. That journal, which fairly repre-
sents public sentiment in Belfast, rejoices that " there
is soon to be an end to that mimic, and mock, and
paltry court in Dublin, which has long been a centre
of and excitement to vanities, little ambitions, endless
political intrigues, and frettings, fumings, and
schemings not to be counted ;" and that " we are at
length to be raised from provincial degradation to
imperial dignity, and the enviable position of being
part and parcel of the empire." The same journal
adds :—" It is most appropriate that a Viceroy so ho-
nourably distinguished as the present should be the
last of the official race."

ENCUMBERED ESTATES COMMISSION.—In the week
ending vu thp 6th ivataut thirty yam petitious fvr

A NAPIEBIAN ANECDOTE.—There is not mtich of
novelty in the assertion that Sir C. Napier is a very ec-
centric general, of a very original turn of mind; but the
anecdote we are temut to relate will exhibit his conduct
in a most outrageously peculiar style—such as would
hardly, even in the,o imitative days, find a copyist. It
will be teJollccted that a few months since a young
officer, Lieutenant G. Ashton, of her Majesty's 53d, was
dismissed the service for being intoxicated while on
duty. The Commander-in-Chief, in confirming the sen-
tence of the court-martial, added remarks expressive of
disgust at the crime, and recorded his firm determination
to visit such offences with exemplary pnnishtnent. When
the result cf the coun-martial became known the mother
of the unhappy young man, a woman of highly estimable
character, wrote to Sir Charles Napier, and told him how
that leer son, so fur from being a dissolute character, had
regalarly remitted to her a considerable portion of his
meagre allowances, to assist in supporting herself and his
younger brothers and sisters. She said that if inquiry
were made, it would be found that the crime which had
ruined him in its consequences was the first instance of
a departure from the rules of sobriety, and begged that
some mercy might be extended to his fault in consider-
ation of his affectionate conduct as a son, and previous
worthiness as a soldier. The reply of the Commander-
in-Chief disclosed his regret that these details bad net
been furnished at a previous date, as a knowledge of
them might have mitigated the severity of his senterace,
which, however, was not too great fur the proved offence.
We believe that some further correspondence followed,
and which was finally wound up by the receipt, some
days since, of a letter from Sir Charles Napier enclosing
the price of an ensign's commission. as a donation from
his private purse, the old warrior thus seeking to recon-
cile the claims of duty with the impulses of humanity,
forfeiting to the service the privileges of a sentenced
prisoner, and atoning for the hardships of justice, by at
act of liberal generosity. It is the freluent task of th
journalist to dwell upon instances of singular action on
the part of statesmen and generals, but it is seldom that
their extravagances take such a shape as this. It needs
the occasional misdeeds of an Ashton to render us fully
acquainted with the worth of a Napier, au illustration of
the well-known axiom that misfortune is the parent of
goodness.—Madras Athencrum, Jan. 8.

A WOMAN POISONED BY HER HUSBAND AND
SISTER.--Susan Lucas, the wife of a labourer at Castle
Camps, in Cambridgeshire, expired on the 22d of
February, after a very short iloo ss, in the course of
which she exhibited all the symptoms of haying taken
arsenic. A rumour soongot abroad that the poison had been
administered to her by her husband and hersister, who
were reported to be on too familiar terms, the sister re-
siding in the same house and sleeping in the same bed
with deceased and her husband. In consequence anin-
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and at the petty sessions, on Wednesday, the accused
parties were brought before the Rev. J. Graham and the
Rev. Charles Townley. The evidence of the surgeon
and other witnesses was taken; and the prisoners, who
said nothing in their defence, were then fully committed
for trial at the assixs. Lucas is about twenty-five, and
the female prisoner twenty-one years of age. The latter
has since made a statement to the magistrates in con-
nexion with the affair, which is suppressed by desire of
the bench. She also made some inculpatory remarks to
the surgeon who examined her, it being reported that she
was pregnant, but this fact was not established.

SOUTHAMPTON,
MARCH B.—The United States
mail steamer Hermann, Captain E. Crabtree, arrived
off Cowes, Isle of Wight, at 10 o'clock this morning,
from New York, which place she left on Wedneso...,
the 20th ult., a short time after the sailing of the
Europa, which vessel reached Liverpool on Monday
last. The Hermann has experienced very fine weather,
with a fair wind, during her run across the Atlantic,
and the captain reports to us that his lengthened
voyage has been occasioned by the extremely bad qua-
lity of the coals supplied at New York. All the efforts
of the firemen could only produce a pressure in the
boilers of 10lb. on the square inch, instead of 131 b. to
b. , usually carried. The mails, passengers, &c., for
England and France baying been transferred to a small
m
er, the Hermann proceeded on her voyage to Bre-
men at noon. She has a small cargo and some specie
for Bremen, but none for Southampton. There were
45 passengers, amongst whom is Mr. E. G. Oelricks,
than Hermann
th
at
4.e.
ceived by the Europa. The American mail steamer,
bearer of dispatches from the British Minister at Wash-
ington for Lord Palmerston. These dispatches were
received by express from Washington, but reached New
to) laatteertonebwes sent by
tt,. thee
United Europa.States
The
Yorkbrin 0 later
Atlantic, Captain West, is advertised in the New York
papers to leave on the 27th of April for Liverpool.
She will he the pioneer of the fortnightly line of Ame-
rican steamers (known as Collins' line) to ply between
New Yoi k anti Liverpo,l, under contract with the
United States' G ei lintel-it. Th., line consists of five
steamers, viz., the Atlantic, Pacific', Arctic, Antarctic,
and Adriatic, each
vessel being 3,500 tons burden and
1,200-horse power;' the largest ocean steam-ships at
present afloat. The steamer. Franklin. of 2,500 tons,
was preparit g to leave New York about the Ist of
April for Southampton and Havre.
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