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

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)
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 yoar 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
enticiug 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 Dusselclorj Ga:ette announces the 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. 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.
JOHN BUN YAN'S FLUTE !—The flute with which
John Bunyan beguiled the tediousness of his captive hours
is now in the possession of Mr. Howell, tailor, Gains-
borough. In appearance it is not unlike the leg of a stool
—out of which, it is said, Bunyan, while in prison, manu-
factured it. When the turnkey, attracted by the sound of
music, entered his cell, the flute was replaced in the stool,
and by this means detection was avoided.
VIOLENT STORM.—Truro, Tuee•day Afternoon.—
Last night various parts of Cornwall were visited
by one of the fiercest gales of wind that are remembered to
have prevailed during a long period. A stiff braze com-
menced in the morning, and gradually developed itself into
a perfect hurricane. Rain, too, poured down in torrents.
This morning the weather is calmer, although we have had
a high wind, in addition to rain, and heavy peals of thun-
der. Reports from various quarters speak of considerable
damage to house property that has been effected. At 235
p.m. the wind appears to be again rising, Reports from
Falmouth state that her Majesty's ship Russell, GO guns,
Commander Grenfell, was oriven from her moorings across
the bars, where she now remains.

LORD LOVAINE, who has been draining Down],
tan Loch, between Wigtown and Fort William, has found
traces of lacustrine habitations
been min the bed of the loch. Ar-
tificial islands appear to haveade by means of stones
mixed with fern and other branches,bows of trees, and other
r 0 found, and
timber rudely worked. Piles have
also
many teeth and other bones of animals ' .
been
a
se v e
l,
earthenware articles, a small granite quern,
beads, frag-
ments of armlets, and other relics. No distinct
remains of
dwellings have yet been found, and no tool or weapon of
any kind.
The Opinione of Turin gives the following par-
ticulars of the ordinary and extraordinary Italian
Budget for 18d4:—
"The Minister of Finance, according
to the law
of the 2Sth of July, 1863, has presented to the
President of the Chamber of Deputies the tables
of the changes proposed 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
the loan issued making a total of 808,135,000 f.
,
The Chamber reduced that amount to 780,258,000
francs, or by about 27 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 so doing deprive the 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
saving for the sum of 19,605,000 francs, which fixes
the total amount of the reductions indicated by
the Ministry for 1864, to 24,500,000 tr, on the
ordinary expenses, end will make an economy of
more than 45 millions realised on those expenses
in two years, Without having in any way in-
fringed on the orgaL'ic laws. This result evidently
shows that when the
.Nlinister 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 su,ll of 190,380,000
francs was proposed for 1863, 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. for 1863,
a saving of 63,430,000 tn, and with that, of 1862,
118,155,0001.