The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-21 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Bunt?, of Bale, announces officially that the
Austrian authorities are allowing certain citizens of
the canton of Ticino to proceed to Lombardy to
look to the preservation of their property there.
The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa, of the 16th,
states that the imperial commissary of the district
of St. Fedele (Lombardy) has invited the landed
proprietors of the village of Erbonne, who are all
Ticinese, and live at Muggio, to return to their
estates and perform the usual agricultural opera-
tions there.
The /Dress of Vielap, ota,tea that the acreages

between Austria and Piedmont, on the subject of
the refugees of Lombardy, are still very far from

having reached a solution:
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager of Sardinia left
La Spezia on the 15th, in the Governolo steamer,
for Massa, there to meet her august relation, the
ex-Empress of Austria.
The German Journal of Frankfort states that a
pontifical bull rendering mixed marriages more
difficult than they are now will shortly be published
at Vienna.

We stated some time ago that Col. Calandrelli
° had been pardoned by the Pope at the intercession
of the French Government. The Opinione of
Turin subsequently contradicted the news of his
liberation ; but we now find by a letter from Mr.
Giovanni Calandrelli, his father, in the Spener
Gcmette, of Berlin, that his liberation has taken
place. M. G. Calandrelli, however, corrects the
statement of the Independaitee Beige, which had
attributed his liberation to the good offices of the
French Government, and declares that it is solely
owing to the efforts of the King of Prussia.
The committee for the withdrawal of paper

money from circulation at Rome has issued a-noti-
fication, announcing that since the last month a
sum of 390,449 scudi (2,169,182 fr.) of paper money
has been withdrawn, and replaced by an equal sum
of coin.

DENMARK.

The Copenhagen journals of the 12th publish a
circular of the anish Minister of Foreign Affairs
to the diplomatic agents of Denmark, dated so far
back as the 9th May. This document enters into
an elaborate review of the motives on which the
opposition in the Diet voted against the Royal
message of the Bth October last, definitively fixing
the succession to the throne, in accordance with
the treaty of London— a vote which it will be
remembered led to the dissolution of the Diet.
According to the 'Minister, the opposition as well
as the government and all the Danish nation,
approved highly of the selection of the Prince Chris-
tian of Glucksburg and his male descendants by his
wife the Princess of Hesse, as successors to the throne ;
but that it thought that the messsage went beyond
the treaty of London in enacting that the same
order of succession should be observed in all the
States submitted to the sceptre of his Majesty as
well as to Denmark Proper—and that the order
of succession for these States established in 1665
should be abrogated. But the Minister announces
the intention of the Government of persisting in
all the clauses of the Royal message, because, he
says, it is convinced that they will not only be ad-
vantageous to the country, but that they are
necessary for the full execution of the treaty of
London. He directs his agents to explain to
foreign governments the views of the opposition,
and to inform them of the determination of the
Government ; and he concludes by stating that
the governments will see, from them, the cause of
the delay, which, to the great regret of the Danish
Government, has taken place in the execution of
the said treaty.

ENTIRE ABOLITION O.F THE DUTY ON
ADVERTISEMENTS.

(From, the Morning Adve)Ziser.)
It will be seen from our Parliamentary report, t hat
the information was correct which we exclusively g ave
in our paper of yesterday, relative to the intention. of
Mr. Gladstone to agree to the entire repeal of the ad-
vertisement duty, provided the house would enable him
to throw out the bill of Lord Robert Grosvenor for
abolishing the duty on attorneys' certificates. Before
the house divided on the second reading of that bill, the
right hon. gentleman stated, in terms as explicit; as
could be desired, that, in the event of the house rejecting
the measure, he would, seeing the strong feeling which
existed in the country on the subject, acquiesce in the
entire remission of the advertisement duty. We may
therefore consider that remission as a fact virtually
accomplished.

(Front the Daily News.)
Mr. Gladstone, like a wise tactician, is no longer in-
clined to force down the throats of an unwilling public
and an adverse House of Commons his opinion about
the advertisement tax. He has a hundred and fifty
thousand pounds surplus, at any rate, in hand ; a.nd
though he would rather keep it all, he declares hinn self
not unwilling to surrender the beggarly 80,0001. he p ro-
posed to get by taxing the advertiser, or, iu pl sin
terms, by checking publicity and preventing the ext an-
sion of trade. He admits- that the House of Commcms
"has express2d a strong desire for the repeal of the ad-
vertisement duty”—a very modest way of characterising
the divisions in favour of repealing that duty ;—a.nd
declares that the Government, having to choose whether
they shall give up the tax on attorneys or the tax on pub-
licity, they prefer relieving the press to giving 80,000/..
a-year to the lawyers. This decision will be popular'
throughout the country. The agitation of Mr. Milner
Gibson on the subject of the press has contributed largely'
to the growth of public opinion respecting the Press-4
laws ; and the great injustice of the treble tax on news
papers is now very generally condemned. Men see
that to keep three taxes one one article is unfair ; and
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as an equitable, wise, and proper step taken by the
Ministry. The reduction of the tax from is. Cd. to
6d. on each advertisement was advocated upon the
principle that by such reduction no loss of revenue Is ould
arise. The increase of advertisements, the incra tsed
consumption of newspaper stamps and of excise pay, ing
paper, would, it was shown, have made up the deficien cY
created by the reduction of the direct advertisetwot
duty. But, as Mr. Gladstone now points out elm rly
enough, he has at any rate some 150,0001. to dispose ;
and as the real question left for the House of Commons
and the Cabinet to settlebetween contending as id
powerful claimants—was whether the pressure of t be
Attorneys' licence should be- lessened, or the tax on
publicity be wholly removed—there could be no roe an
for doubt which should be done. All trade licences axe
bad in principle. As means of raising money, they be-
long to a mischievous and theoretically exploded spa .em
of finance. But until all of them can ba removed, to
reduce the tax on one class of licences would only be to
render still more irksome and unjust all those left un-
touched.

Mr. Gladstone's decision to abolish the advertisentent
tax is therefore exactly the one to be expected iron i a
wise and judicious minister, and the hearty spirit viith
which the house accepted his resolve was shown by the
very significant division that followed soon after he ..had
made his statement. It now only remains for the Hoe use
of Commons to pass the needful bill repealing the ad i'er-
tisement tax, and parties concerned will find am ple
materials for satisfaction in the results that must display
themselves. Trade will obtain new powers of extension
through greater facilities of publicity, whilst the n,ewst-
paper press will have to thank a free-trade Ministry for
the removal of a shackle put upon it in those glow my
days when tyrannical governments were fertile in schei nes
for checking the growth of a free newspaper press.

SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday, July 20,—The Peninsula
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and Oriental Company's steam-ship Tagus, Captain 11.
K. Joy, which left this port on Monday with the coil-
tract mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gib-
raltar, returned this morning about 5 o'clock, in cons4.l-
- of having sustained a damage to one of tho
engines, which rendered it impossible to use more than
one of them in propelling the vessel. The accident
occurred on Tuesday, when about 50 miles to the west-
ward of Land's End, and Captain Joy judged it expedient
to retrace his course to Southampton in order to get the
necessary repairs properly effected. Captain Englediue,
the superintendent of the Company, on the arrival of the
Tagus at Southampton, ordered the City of London,
Captain Cargill, to be immediately dispatched, and the
mails,_ passengers, and cargo were at once transferred
to that ship. So great was the expedition used in
Performing this operation that the City of London vas
ready for sea at 11 a.m., and started for her destination
shortly after that time, to prosecute the voyage unsiac-
cessailly undertaken by the Tagus. The latter vessel, it
is expected, will take the place of the City of London on
the Constantinople line, and the adjustment of the Lila-
chinery will probably be accomplished in time to enaible
the vessel to start within a day or twl of the 1
ap-
pointed time—viz., the 27th inst. The Peninsular and
took her departure at 3 p.m, to-day Captain John
for Gibraltar,
Malta, and Alexandria, with the usual semi-monthly
Soy, Oriental Company's steam-ship Indus,
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The Indus had about 50
Egypt, Aden, India, China,
general cargo, and the followingspecie
:—For Malta, 2,0801. in gold ; Alexandria,
loamnsna,d Oifi passengers,rOts ehe
Ofi a
/og .rhittnle golVi Easternflull de ; Bombay, 23,000/ . in silver ; Madras,
300/. in silver; Calcutta, 5,000/. in silver; Penang, 2,0001.
in silver ; Singapore, 30,000/, in silver and 3001. in goikl ;
Hong Kong, 15,2001. in silver and 10,000/. in gold;
Canton, 6,5001. in silver; Shanghai, 5501. in silver
the total being 109,930/. The United States mail'
steam-ship
Washington, Capt. E. M. Fitch, also sailed
this afternoon for New York, with the British, French,
and German mails, upwards of 150 passengers, and a
very full and valuable cargo of continental merchandise
shipped from Bremen and Havre. The General &rev/
Steam-shipping Company's ship Queen of the South,
Captain Norman, which left Calcutta for Plymouth a nd
Southampton on the 14th of May, and would call at
Madras, Ceylon, Mauritius, the Cape, and St. Vincent,
is shortly expected at Plymouth and Southampton.
The Queen of the South has a full cargo, the chief items
of which are 83 bales and 63 cases of raw silks, 449
chests of indigo, 2,237 packages of saltpetre, &c. The
Mauritius, belonging to the same company, is now over-
due, in consequence of her machinery being out of
order, but is daily expected.
BREAK DOWN OF THE TALUS.---The Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steamer Tagus, which left South-
ampton at 3 p.m. on Monday with the Peninsular mail,
broke down near the Start, and returned to Southamp-
ton at 5 a.m. yesterday. By 11 a.m. the mails, passen-
gers, and cargo were transhipped on board the above-
named company's chartered steamer the City of London,
and the latter had steamed out of the port. The Gibral-
tar portion of the mail from the steamer Tagus was placed
on board the Indus, which left Southampton yesterday
with the Indian ruail.

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