The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-19 00:00:00

ITALY.

.11 Risorgimento of Turin states, that the President
of the Council, the Minister of Justice, and the
Minister of the Interior, have tendertd their resigna-
tion to the KING in consequence of the election of
M. RATAZZI to the. Presidency of the Ctiarriber of
Deputiez,.

The new Cabinet, according to this journal, will
be composed Of Count GIACINTO DI COLLIGNO (at
present the Minister at Paris), as Foreign Mini,ter ;
M. RATAzzt as Minister of the Interior; the Count
CAvOUIt retaining the Finance Department, with the
Presidency of the Council.
Tae Piedmontese Gazette of the 15th publishes a
royal decree, authorising the execution of the conven•
tion betwe, n the Sate and the company
for the con
struction of the Turin and Sevigliano Railway.

GREECE.
We have received Athens journals to the 7th, in-
clusively.
The L'ourrier d' Athenes asserts that the finances of
the state ate in a melancholy condition, and adds that
the Minister of Finances, finding himself unequal to
the task of Et meliorating the financial position, was
about to scud in his resignation.
The brigandage in the province?, which has so long
exi=ted, continues. In the night of the 27th ult. a
band of brigands went to the house of a rich widow
at Arachova, and in their fury at not finding the
money they had expected, murdered her. On the
same night another band went to Courcoura for the
purpose of pillage, but fell in with a detachment of
soldiery. A conflict ensued, without loss on the part
of the brigands, who then retreated in good order.
On the 29th ult. VOTIS, the ex-treasurer of Lamia,
who had fled to Turkey after robbing the public
chest, returned to Lamia with three Alhaniang, and
entered the house of the present treasurer, with the
intention of murdering him. An alarm was fortu-
nately raised, and the neighbours rushing in, arrested
VOTIS and his followers.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian of this day.)

MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—The Asia, with advices to
the sth inst. from New York, arrived in the Mersey at
six o'clock on Saturday evening. The telegraphic
announcement that she was off Holyhead led to some
of the speculators, who were expecting accounts of a
further rise in America, to purchase freely in the
latter part of the day, so as to swell the trans-
actions to 20,000 bales. It turned out, however,
that the tendency to speculation was somewhat
ab ted; that the New York and New Orleans
markets were less animated; and that the incline-

tion of prices was slightly in favour of-buyers. The
total receipts to May sth were 2 682,710 bales, against
2,060,931 last year; and in the week, 75,140, against
38,326 in the corresponding week of 1851; and it was
anticipated that on the 12th they would show a still in-
cr., asiog excess. In short, the indications of a crop of
3,000,000 bales were more decided than before. These
advice* had the effect of checking the spirit of specula-
tion in the Liverpool cotton mat kel yesterday. Business
was timer; and, it the buyer could secure no concession
in price, be bad, at any rate, a larger choice,
which comes to much the same thing. Still, the sales
amounted to 10,000 bales. To day, there has been an
evident attempt to make the best of martere. At noon, it
was telegraphed that the sales were 8,000 to 10,000
bales, and the market firm; but the afternoon's an-
neuncement stated the sales as only 6 000 to
8,000, with a flat market. At the same time,
toe reeident merchants in this place eentinue to re-
ceive descriptions of a state of trade in 'Germany which
are as discouraging as ever. And we have letters by the
overland mail representing the market for goods and
yarns in general as exceedingly dull at Calcutta, with
rather lower prices in some descriptions. At Bombay,
too, the transactions have been quite inconsiderable,
but this wes mainly owing to the ab.euce of fresh sup-
plies, and the consequent indisposition of holders to
realise. Prices were generally steady. Mule twist,
however, was slightly lower. In the Canton market
but little has been done in our staples, but stocks
were light. These accounts, and those from Ame-
rica, have jointly exercised a rather unfavourable in-
fluence upon yarns and goods in this day's market; for,
although the state of trade in the east does not appear
to he worse than before, yet the absence of any
stimulant to Wither operations, at present, has a
somewhat subduing effect antler existing circumstances.
We have, therefore, to report an inanimate market
in yarns and goods at large; a marked caution on
the side of buyers; and an amount of business
altogether inconsiderable. In some few articles, sellers, '
toe, have been found slightly better to deal with,
but, as a whole the market remains quite steady.
Spinners are, indeed, for the most part so well en-
gaged as to be indifferent about selling at present, ex-
cept on their own terms. The extreme dearness of Sea-
island cotton has led to an advance in the prices of fine
yarns, from 100's upwards. The tnekers of domestics
complain very much of their trade. They still find the
home demand very bad; they have to depend mainly,
therefore, upon foreign buyers; and are unable to get
any higher prices, though the cost of production hag
now risen considerebly.
ROCHDALE, inONDAY.—We have had rather more in-
quiry for goods to-day, and a rather better demand.
The merchants have shown a greater disposition to pur-
chase, if the manufacturers could have submitted to a
reduction in price. Wool is firm in price, but with
little business doing.

HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—In our piece hail to-day there
has been a very slender attendance of buyers, end but
few goods, either plain or fancy, have changed bands.
There is rather more doing in yarn, chiefly for the ship-
ping houses; and the quotations exhibit a little more
firmness. Wool continues quiet, without any alteration
prices.iu

HUDDERSFIELD, TUEDAY.—There is no noticeable
change in our market to-day, Except it be that buyers
have been rather scarcer than last week. The quantity
of goods that have exchanged hands in the hall has net
been large; and the purchases have consisted chiefly of
crapes of the clouded and shaded patterns, at low figures.
A limited amount has been done in wools, at very firm
-rates.

The anticipated announcement of a reduction in
the rate of interest on the Exchequer-bills falling due in
June appeared yesterday. The existing rate is DA& per
day, or 2/. ss. 71/td. per annum, and henceforth it is to
be 11j,1d, per day, or 1/. 18s. 0111 d. per annum. The me-
dium course has, therefore, been taken between Sir Charles

Wood's theory that no reductioq of any kind should be
made and the principle of adopting at all times the fair
market rate. In the latter case the descent would have
been to Id. per day, or I/. 103. sd. per annum, at which the
preminm would still have been such as to insure their circa,.
lation under any conceivable change in the money market;
but, &though 33,000/. of the public money has been
sacrificed by not resorting to it, and the credit of the
British Treasury is made to appear much less high than
it actually is, there is a satisfaction in finding that the loss
of double that amount, which was incurred in February, and
which was threatened to be repeated on the present occasion,
has been averted. The lowest quotation of the June bills
yesterday was 64e., being consllerably above what has
u ually been cons,de -ed the fair average premium that such
securities should be made to maintain. At this price the
actual interest they will pay (excluding the contingency of
a further reduction at any future period) will be l/.65. 10d
per annum.

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THE WHALE FISHERY.--1-1 ,1 BALER WRECKED
AND Loss or LlFE.—Letters from Fraserburgh, dated last
Saturday, announce the arrival at that port of the whaling
ship Malmika, Mr. Stephens, master, from Greenland, with
a full cargo of oil. Her news of the fishery is most satisfac-
tory, as she reports the a access of the undermentioned ships
up to the 24th of April, the time she parted w al them for
England The Agostina, of Peterhead, 140 tons of oil ; the
Columbia, of Peterhead, 55 tuns of oil; the Venerable, t f
Hull, 80 tuns; the Commerce, of Peterhead, 50 tuns; the
Ham lton R 099, of Peterhead, 100 tuns; the Sarah and Eli-
zabeth, of Hull, 40 tuns; the Pomona, 60 tuns; the Xanthus,
of Peterhead, 100 tuns; and the Alarm, of Hull, 50 tuns.
She brings, however, melancholy intelligence of the loss of
the ship Joseph Green, of Peterhead, which occurred on the
20th of March, as she was making through the ice. Un-
happily, the event was accompanied with loss of life. The
master, Sir. Stewart, and three of his crew, -met with a
watery
grave. The remainder were rescued by another
whaling ship.
SAILORS' ORPHAN GIRL'S SCHOOL AND HOME.—
The annual general meeting of this society, of which her
sq Majestyuare R isoo thems ; patron,
his
Gracewas held on Monday, at the Hanover-
finCfluh
and was supported by ote.; Ruke of Manches.er presided,
Maude, the
Rev.
1) Canon
o ampneys, the Rev. Mr. Blood,
adstock, the Hon. Captain
Noble Chairman having briefly
clergy and laity. The
meeting, the Rev. Mr. Foy reyadstttteed the object of the
it appeared that the strength which the committee
from which
gained during the past year was to be committee had
attributed to the
amalgamation of the institution with the asylum,l
last report an appeal was made to the public, which had
been nobly responded to. • The disawrous burning of the
Amazon, and the wreck of the Birkenhead, since their last
meeting had more clearly shown the necessity which existed
for their institution. They had admitted three children
whose fathers had perished in the Amazon, and they would
that day admit one whose parent was lost in the Birken-
head. The balance-sheet showed that thereceipts for the
past year amounted to
702/ , and after paying all expenses,
there remained a balance of 4301. The Rev. Canon Champ-
nays moved the adoption of the report which was seconded
by Major Little, and carried. The Rev. Mr. Blood then
•
d g of is escae
gave a very graphic un
heinterestin proceedingsaccount closed with a vote
from the Amazon; and t
of thanks to the chairman.
' VCE.—Tbis much THE LATE COLONEL I ORD
la-
mented officer in his last will bequeathed a pension to the
widow of every soldier who should fall under his command ;
a shilling each per day to all disabled soldiers of his corps,
commissions for his five
and left the means of purchasing cmmi
mot deserving sergeants.— "Laid Aftwaan.
COETRADICTI.,NS OF PROVERBS.—
" The more the
merrier." Not so; one hand is enough in a purse •—" No-
, .
thing hurts the stomach more than surfeiting." les ,
lack of meat.--" Nothing but what has an end." Not so;
a ring bath none, for it is round.—" I‘loney is a
great comfart." Not when it brings a thief to
the gallows —" Th Net
e world is a long journey.,
so ; the sun goes over it every day. "—,, It is a great way to
the bottom of the sea." Not zo tis a stone's cast.
4,A friend is best found h adversity." Not so ; for then
there is none to be found...-" The pride of the rich makes
the labour of the poor." Not so; the labour of the poor
makes the pride of the rich.