The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-15 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Market quieter to-day. Sales, probably, about
8,000 to 10,000 bales.

EXCURSIONS FROM FRANCE TO THE CRYSTAL
PALACE and back in one day at this season of the year I It
is a tremendous distance for a day's pleasure, but had it
been mid June instead of October the idea would have been
enticing to the novelty-hunting French.

The LATE DUKE OF WELLINGTON remarked that
those who were fond of field sports, hunting, racing, and
shooting, always made the best cavalry officers, as the pur-
suit of these manly exercises gave them activity, nerve, and
quicksightedness, in addition to rendering them healthy,
and capable of enduring great fatigue.
The Dusseldorf Gazette announces tie receipt of
a letter from the Count de Spee, councillor, acting
in the absence of the sub-prefect, in which he says that, in
consequence of the warning which was rendered necessary
by the attitude taken by that journal, it has ceased to be the
organ of official publications, and may now cease to send
gratuitously to the various burgomasters the copies of each
number which were hitherto obligatory.
The Princess-Regent of Reuss-Greiz hasjust for-
bidden any kind of rejoicings within her princi-
pality in celebration of the anniversary of the battle of
Leipsick. A committee had already been formed to deli-
berate on the details of the fete, when an ordinance ap-
peared forbidding in a most absolute manner the perform-
ance of any religious service, the firing of salvoes of artil-
lery, or the lighting of bonfires on the mountains on the
occasion. •

The Avvenire of Naples states that three priests
were tried on the Bth instant at Salerno, on a charge
of being abettors of brigands. Ono of the pri-
soners, named Alfonso Oristano, was condemned to hard
labour for life ; the other two, Curtazzo and Do Marco, to
20 years of the same punishment.
There is a lull in the Federal bombardment of
Charleston. The silence of Gen. Gilmore's messen-
gers can be easily understood, as he is getting his heavy
guns into position, and probably will not open fire until he
believes that he can effectually overpower the Confederate
batteries. But what means the quiet on board the Moni-
tors P Is it that they are unable to withstand the rattlinc,
of the Confederate balls at close quarters ? In the absence
of intelligence, we suspect that there is some such difficulty,
for on the 'Weehawken's grounding under Fort Bl oultrie'
the whole of the Monitors were unable to keep the fire of the
fort in check, so that—as the New York Times stated—the
position of tar) grounded vessel had become perilous, until
the new Ironsides, came to the rescue between
9 and 10 o'clock, continuing under fire till 2 p.m. This
paper says that, but for the Ironsides, "it is not probable
that the Weehawken could have been extricated from her
perilous position. The other Monitors, while they fired as
rapidly as they could, and with splendid effect, could not
keep down the rebel fire. At the best they fired painfully
slow, end every one knows it is the rapidity and continuity
of file that tell against open works, or, indeed, works of any
kind. One frigate like the Ironsides is worth a dozen
Monitors. She was hit undoubtedly over 200 times." It
should, however, be remembered that these Monitors are
only large gunboats, and that the vessels of the Dictator
class intended for sea-service are infinitely more formidable
both for offence and defence, their guns being more
numerous and powerful, and their turrets twice as large
and massive; hence a shower of heavy missiles striking
Against their outside would be scarcely felt by those within
for the sharp shock communicated through the smaller
Monitor turret would be inappreciable after passing through
the denser iron mass of which the turrets of the Dictator
class are composed.
The Opinione of Turin gives the following par-
ticulars of the ordinary and extraordinary Italian
Budget for 1864:`
" The Minister of Finance, according to the law
1863, has presented to the
of the 28th of July,r
of Deputies the tables
President of the
of the changes proposed for 1864. The budget
proposed to the Parliame,nt for 1863 amounted
for ordinary expenses
to i72,419,000fr., to which
must be added
35,716,000 for the interest of
the loan issued, making a total of 808,135,000 f.
The Chamber reduced that amount to 780,258,000
francs, or by about 271 millions, The Cham-
bar, in approving of that Budget even for 1864,
imposed fresh savings
to
doing deprive the the amount of 900,000
francs, but did not by
so
Mi-
nistry of the right of making ulterior propo-
sitions. The Ministry fulfilled the first part of its
mandate by the Royal decree of the 30th of August,
it now performs the second by
Proposing other
savint; for the Bum of 19,605,000 franca, which fixes
the total amount of the reductions indicated by
the Ministry for 1864, to 24,500,000 fr. on the
ordinary expenses, end will make en economy of
more than 45 millions realised on those expenses
in two years, without having in
any way in-
fringed on the organic laws. This result evidently
shows that when the Minister of Finance an-
nounced the possibility of effecting an economy of
100 millions on the Budget peesented by his pre.
decessors, he stated what was feasible. As to the
extraordinary Budget, the sum of 190,380,000
for 1863, which sum was
francs was proposed
reduced by the Parliament to 163,032,000 fr.
The Budget for :1864 is now proposed at
124,106,000 f., and the Budget for that year
presents. when compared with that voted for 1863,
a saving of 63,430,000 fr,, and with that of 1862,
118,155,000 f.