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
activity,thempur-
nringthem
healthy,
and capable of enduring great fatigue.
The Dusseldorf Gazette announces the receipt of nerve, and
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suit
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gaveto rede 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 hasjuet 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 abetters of brigands. One of the pri-
soners, named Alfonso Oristano, was condemned to hard
labour for life ; the other two, Curtazzo and De 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. Bat what means the quiet on board the Moni-
tors Is it that they are unable to withstand the rattling
of the Confederate balls at close quarters ? In the absence
01 intelligence, we suspect that there is some such difficulty,
for on the Weehawken's grounding under Fort Moultrie,
the whole of the Monitors were unable to keep the fire of the
fort in check, so that—as the !faze York Times stated—the
position of the 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, and every ono 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 aro 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 snrsiler
Monitor turret would be inappreciable after passing through
the denser iron mass of which the turrets of the Dictator
class are composed.
The Opinions of Turin gives the following par-
ticulars of the ordinary and extraordinary Italian
Budget for 1864:
,t The Minister of Finance, according to the law
of the 28th of July, 1863, has presented to the
President of the Chamber of
Deputies the tables
of the changesproposed for 1864. The budget
proposed to the Parliament for 1863 amounted
for ordinary expenses to 772,419,000 fr., to which
must be added 35,716,000 for the interest of
a total of 808,135,000 f.
the loan issued, making
The Chamber reduced that amount to 780,258,000
francs, or by about 271- millions. The Cham-
ber, in approving of that Budget even for 1864,
imposed fresh savings to the amount of 900,000
francs, but did not by sodoing deprive the Mi-
nistry of the right of making ulterior propo-
sitions. The Ministry fulfilled the first part of its
maudate by the Royal decree of the 30th of August,
it now performs the second by proposing other
saving for the sum
of 19,605,000 francs, which fixes
the total amount of the reductions indicated by
the Ministry for 1861, to 24,500,000 fr. on the
ordinary expenses, and will make an economy of
more than 45 millions realised on those expenses
without having in any way in-
in two years, wit
srt
fringed on the organic la,w_s. phis 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
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extraordinary Budget,
th 1 sum of 190,380,000
francs was proposed for , which sum was
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 fo,- 1863,
a saving of 63,430,0001 r., and with th4t o 1862,
118,155,000 f,