The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-01 00:00:00

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans l3OO .. 1300
Northern lO4l 25 .. 1042 50
New ditto

Lyons and Mediterranean 1146 25 1148 75
Geneva — .. 367 50
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian......
Austrian
Lombard 587 50 .. 568 25

ITALY.

A communication from Turin, of the 25th ult.,

says :--

" At San Rossore, the King, when on his way to
Naples, paid a visit to one of the finest of the estates
belonging to the Crown. San Rossore is a magni-
ficent farm, founded by the Medicis, which many
superb palaces might envy. It is situated on the
sea coast, in the midst of immense plantations,
which afford extensive hunting grounds, and is ap-
proached by an avenue of elms and 'poplars more
than two miles in length. The revenues of this
property must be immense, as in cows alone it pos-
sesses more than two thousand. Another pecu-
liarity of the place is that camels live there, and
multiply as if they were in the desert ; about 20 are
occupied in the labours of the farm, whilst the others
are living in a savage state in the wood. M. Ra-
tazzi has been to Sienna to visit the numerous victims
of the late accident at Asciano, from the collision
of two trains on the Florence and Sienna Railway.
I The King charged him to deliver 5,000 fr. to the
committee formed to relieve the wounded, and the
families of those who perished. The cure of Vit-
tonne, near Milan, has discovered a means of has-
tening the solution of the Italian question, and this
is what he proposed at one of the last assemblies of
the Ecclesiastical Society at Milan, which is the
most numerous Liberal society in all Italy :—That
the committee should place itself at the head of a
petition addressed to the Pope, entreating him, in
the name of religion, which is menaced, to renounce
the temporal power ; that the petition should be
sent to all the priests in Italy, with the request to
give their adhesion to it ; lastly, that a deputation
of Lombard priests should proceed to Rome to lay
the address at the feet of the Holy Father. The
idea is good, and will, it is said, be carried into
execution. It is thought impossible that the Pope
should refuse to receive the :deputation, and the
more so that it will be composed of honourable men,
who, as priests, are irreproachable."

The Espero of Turin announces that the Minister
of Marine, Admiral Persano, has ordered the con-
struction of eight more iron-cased frigates. The
cost of these vessels is to be defrayed partly in the
current year and partly in 1863.

DISEASED CATTLE.—In a report
PIO
the Registrar-General of Scotland he : issued by
the attention of
the public to the fact that ever !!nee the pleuro• pneumonia
broke out among the cattle of this country a few years since
the returns of mortality have shown that carbuncle, a dis-
ease formerly very rare, has become comparatively com-
mon. Dr. -4Jivingstone observed in Africa that if the flesh
of animals who die from pleuro-pneumonia is oat en it causes
carbuncle in the persons who eat it, and that neither bailing
nor roasting the flesh nor cooking it in any way gets rid of
the poison. It is true that if such cattle are ever sold for
food they are killed before they fall victims to the disease
naturally, but still the poison is in them. The report sug-
gests as a subject of inquiry whether the new form of dis-
ease which we term diphtheria may not be partially induced
by the use of diaeased

The new flag of the United Principalities, accord-
ing to the pattern decided on by the convention of Paris,
has been officially recognised by the Porte. It is red, yel-
low, and blue, placed horizontally,