The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-09 00:00:00

the following information respecting the intentions and the
plans of the Government at Turin against Austria. A
meeting was held the other day at Genoa of all the leaders
of the party who are anxious to come to an understanding
with the Government to attack Austria and sti up a ravo-
lution in Venetia.
"This meeting was attended by many eminent men of
the Hungarian and Polish emigration, as also by Alberto
Cavaletto, one of the former leaders of the Venetian emi-
gration. The general attitude to be observed towards
Austria was first discussed, and then what steps should
be taken as regards the party of action, who vehemently
demand that Venetia shall be attacked at all Trice.
" I am informed that the resolutions adopted are in sub-
stance as follows :
" That it was desirable to prevent, by every possible
means, any good understanding between the Austrian
Government and Hungary, and that emissaries for that
purpose should be sent into Hungary and Galicia. It was
also resolved that, as soon as possible, a revolutionary en-
terprise should be undertaken against Austria, and, to give
it a better chance of success, it was proposed to operate simul-
taneously on the opposite coast of the Adriatic. The party
of action was to be allowed to carry out its views, especially
as regards the introduction of arms into Venetia. M.
Alberto Cavaletto has already left, and it• appears that his
mission is to prepare a sort of agreement with the so-called
men of action.

"We do not believe that either the Government or the
plotters imagine that they will gain Venetia by these
means ; for the present their intention is not to provoke
serious complications and warlike eventualities against
Austria, but only to occupy the Austrian Government by
continual embarrassments to enable them to carry out their
operations at some later period."

Pi he Great Eastern Steamer and the Atlantic
Telegraph Cable,

The work which has been for several months past
in progress on board the Great Eastern, which still
occupies her moorings in the Medway, a short dis-
tance below Chatham harbour, where she has been
stationed since last summer, has so far progressed
that preparations are now making for the shipment
of the first portion of the Atlantic telegraph cable,
from the factory of Messrs. Glass, Elliott and Co.,
of East Greenwich, the firm to whom has been con-
fided its manufacture. The entire length of the
cable is about 2,500 miles, for the reception of
which three enormous tanks are in course of
erection on board the Great Eastern, each
capable of holding about 800 miles of cable. In
order to provide the necessary space for the stowage
tanks, one of the principal saloons has been removed
and two of the decks taken away, besides other al-
terations, the grand saloon not being interfered with
for the present. One of the tanks is completed and
ready for the reception of the first portion of the
cable, and a second tank is expected to be finished
in about a fortnight. The tanks have a diameter
of 58ft., and are 20ft. in height. They are con-
structed of iron, the contract for their -erection
having been taken by Messrs. Westwood, Baillie,
and Co. For some time after the arrival of the Great
Eastern in the river at Chatham she was thrown open
for the inspection of visitors, but these are now ex-
cluded in order to permit of the work connected with
the fitting up of the vessel being proceeded with with-
out interruption. The new cable will be more than
double the strength of the original Atlantic telegraph
cable—the latter breaking at a strain of 3 tons
16 cwt., while the breaking strain of the new
cable will be 7 tons 15 cwt. The weight of the new
cable will be 35 cwt. 3 qrs. per nautical mile, while
the old cable was only 20 cwt. per mile, and 13.4
cwt. per nautical mile in water. The cable now in
course of manufacture will weigh 14 cwt. per nau-
tical mile in water, and will bear its own weight in
11 miies' depth of water. The entire weight of the
insulation of the new cable is 4001 b. per mile againsf
2611 b. per mile in the old cable. About 800 miles
of the cable have already been completed at the
works at Greenwich, and the first supply is now
ready for the shipment on board, her Majesty's fri-
gate Isis having been despatched from Chatham to
assist in the operation of conveying the cable
from the Thames to the Great Eastern. In
consequence of the large amount of space required
for the stowage of the cable two of the boilers have
been cut off, but in other respects the ship's machinery
has not been interfered with. Several hundred men
are daily employed on board the Great Eastern in
the work of preparing her for the service on which
she will be engaged, but according to existing ar-
rangements she will not leave the Medway until
June next, so as to obtain the finest weather during
the operation of submerging the sable. An ingeni-
ously contrived machine has been constructed at the
company's works for paying out the cable so as to
prevent any accident from breakage while the
steamer is under weigh. During the time the Great
Eastern has been at her anchorage in the Medway
she has not suffered in the least from the heavy
gales which have from time to time visited the coast,
and no apprehension has even once been felt for her
safety.

THE BRIGHTON DIVIDEND.—The Brighton Rail-
way meeting is announced for the 30th inst., but we
must wait some days before the dividend is officially stated.
There is every reason to believe that the result of the half-

year's working will afford additional confirmation of the
soundness of the opinions of Mr. Schuster that the com-
pany will recover the losses sustained by the reduction of
the rate of fares in 1863. The directors will probably have,
including the balance brought in from the last half-year, a
sum of about 45,0001. to deal with in excess of the receipts
of the corresponding half-year, though it will not be quite
equal to the revenue of 1862. If, however, allowance be
made for the loss of 11,0001., which was paid in that year
as tolls by the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, the
receipts for the last year will be found equal to those of
1862, the year of high rates and of the Exhibition traffic.
This cannot be considered other than a satisfactory result.
As it requires only a sum of 34,0001. to gfve an additional
dividend at the rate of 1 per cent., and as there is a surplus
of 45,0001. it is not improbable that a dividend at the rate
of 6 per cent. may be announced, as against 5 per cent. in
the corresponding half of 1863.—Railway News.
TRIAL OF COTTON MANUFACTURERS FOR ROB-
BERY.—At the Preston Quarter Sessions, on Friday,
day, John Newton, formerly a cotton manufacturer, Pres-
ton, and Wm. Halliwell and James Halliwell, cotton manu-
facturers, Blackburn, were tried for stealing a large quan-
tity of beams, yarn, cloth, oil, tallow, &c., belonging to the
assignees of the first named prisoner. The prisoner New-
ton pleaded guilty, and the other prisoners not guilty.
The case depended in a great measure upon the evidence
of Newton's son, who was at first charged along with the
rest, and who was admitted approver. He swore positively
that the Halliwells had a knowledge of the assignment.
The prisoner Newton was also put upon oath, and said that
the other prisoners pressed him to sell them the property
at a low price ; and that the bailiff in possession, who had
since committed suicide, had often put the key into his
hands to enable him. to take away the goods. The jury
returned a verdict of not guilty against both Halliwells.
Newton was sentenced to six months' imprisonment with
hard labour.

THE MURDER AT ST PETERSBURG.—The Ayr
Advertiser states that a letter has been received at
the Isle of Whithorn from Captain John Wyatt, master and
owner of the brig Acadian, now at St. Petersburg, where
she remains locked up by the ice, giving the particulars of
the murder at St. Petersburg of his wife, Frances Logan,
belonging to the Isle of Whithorn. A reward of 300 rubles
was at once offered, while the authorities at the British
Embassy and Consulate exercised the utmost vigilance in
watching the matter. •The greatest consternation existed
among the English residents of St. Petersbuig, while the
deepest sympathy and commiseration were exhibited to-
wards Capt. Wyatt. Within a' few days from the time the
crime was committed the police succeeded in apprehending
one of the ruffians, who has since made a full confession of
everything. When captured the miscreant was wearing a
pair of trousers and vest belonging to Captain Wyatt, and
his statement was as follows :—For several days he and an
accomplice, who is still at large, had been watching for an
opportunity of plundering the vessel, and on the morning
of the 13th, observing Captain Wyatt to go on shore, they
at once proceeded to carry their diabolical project into exe-
cution. While the deed appears to have been committed
in the utmost barbarous manner—the ruffians having pro-
vided themselves with a hammer and clock weight for the
purpose—the utmost expedition must have been employed
in accomplishing their bloody work, The two girls must
have had a narrow escape, for there can -ha no doubt, had
they arrived during the time the murderers were QII board
they, too, would have been dispatched. It may be men-
tioned, as a somewhat curious coincidence, that Mrs. Wyatt,
on the morning which was destined to be her last, concluded
a letter which she had been writing to her now disconsolate
mother, and which was posted by her husband when at St.
Petersburg, with the remark that the neighbourhood was
swarming with dangerous characters, and that several rob-
beries had been committed, though fortunately they them-
selves had hitherto escaped. Her remains were interred in
the English burying-ground at St. Petersburg, most of the
British residents accompanying the body to the grave. The
mournful occurrence has plunged a highly respectable
family into the deepest affliction, and much sympathy is
felt for Captain Wyatt.