The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-24 00:00:00

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RIBALDI, at Pisa. So that, after all, Professor I
PARTRIDGE was in error when, upon his first exa-
mination, he pronounced his opinion that there
was no bullet therefor extraction ! Dr. NELATON
being in the right when, in opposition to the
majority of the surgeons, he asserted that
there was: nay, probably in the right also when

he affirmed that the probe he used in his
examination actually struck against the ball
still lying there perdu, A reasonable and confi-
dent hope may now be cherished, in earnest, that
before very much longer the General's recovery
from his sick couch may be effected, and his health
(tried so seriously by these lengthened sufferings,
and by this long confinement to the languor and
inertness of life in au invalid's chamber) may, by
judicious treatment, be rapidly and securely estab-
lished.

Meanwhile there are these legislative discussions
which have now commenced in earnest at Turin—
where Signor RATTAZZI finds himself at last brought
face to face with the ranks of a powerful and serried
Opposition. This—after the affair of Aspromonte !
After—the ignoring by the Government of the
Minister's Imperial patron, of the despatch or cir-
cular of General DURAND° ! After—the dissipa-
tion of the last faint, feeble, dimly-outlined expec-
tation that the policy of the RATTAZZI Cabinet
was still pledged to the cause of Unifica-
tion. The Minister stands at this moment
before the strong Opposition whose chief orators
are now in rapid sequence following each other
into the Tribune, to pour forth thence the phials
of their wrath on the devoted heads of the Italian
Premier and his Ministerial colleagues—RATTAlZl
stands before the Chamber of Deputies and before
the whole mass of the Italian population out of
doors in this disadvantageous plight : that he is re-
cognised now on all hands as having deceived the
nation, as having deceived his fellow-countrymen,
at least so far if no further—that he is known now
to have assumed a virtue while he had
had it not ! To have ousted Signor RICASOLI
in other words upon the pretence of going more
resolutely and more determinedly to work to secure
the simplification of the national difficulty and the
dissipation of the national troubles by the one device
of Italian Unity ! How far the Minister's policy
has been successful in that direction Italy, Europe,
the whole world knows now full well. The faintest
vestige of a hope of any proximate solution of the
problem has, under his insidious and double-dealing
policy, been scouted. Events of a painful character
demonstrate the fact that it is so. The conclusions
arrived at are drawn from facts that no one can gain-
say. If the Opposition now confronting Signor
RATTAZZI in the Chamber of Deputies at Turin were
to move for his impeachment, they have names and
dates, and facts, and documents within their reach,
abundantly sufficient to enable any Parliamentary
body to draw up a Bill of Attainder of a character
altogether unanswerable and overwhelming.
Every purpose, however, may—far more readily
and quite as effectually—be answered by the
agency of a free discussion of the whole
political situation of the country in
the popular chamber of the Italian legislature. To
those discussions the friends of Italy may now,
therefore, look most hopefully. Through the de-
bate which has but just been commenced in the Par-
liament at Turin, the patriotic portion of the as-
sembly may rationally hope to worst all the more
insidious, and therefore all the more really dange-
rous members of the RATTAZZI Cabinet, to—" Con-
found their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks"
—and generally to look for the expiation of all
recent errors by resorting perhaps to RICASOLI, or
at any rate, by calling to the helm of the State some
man whose minsterial robes hare not been trailed
in the blood of Aspromonte.

The Duke of Rutland is entertaining a large
party at Belvoir Castle.
The MarquFs of Lansdowne has been receiving
a succession of visitors at Bowood during the past week.

THE MINISTRY.—Since the Cabinet Council, held
on Thursday last, some of the ministers have left town. Sir
George Grey has returned to his seat, Fallodon, Northum-
berland. Earl Granville is detained in London by the ill-
ness of his mother, the Dowager Countess Granville, who
is resident in Hereford-street. Lord Palmerston is staying
at his mansion in Piccadilly. Earl Russell is remaining
at his residence in Richmond Park. The Duke of Somer-
set, the Duke of Newcastle, Mr. Gladstone, Sir George C.
Lewis, and Mr. Milner Gibson continue in London.—
bserver.
THE EXHIBITION FINANCES.—At the meeting of
the Society of Arts, last Wednesday. when Sir C. W. Mlle
was present, Sir Thomas Phillips said in his opening ad-
dress—" I cannot detail with any precision the financial re-
sults of the Exhibition, but I understand the money paid
for admission on this occasion has amounted to £409,000,
whilst the receipts in 1851 were £423,792, including in
each instance the payment for season tickets."
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On Saturday evening last her Majesty, with the
Princesses, visited St. George's Chapel, and placed wreaths
of unfading flowers over the vault of the late Prince Con-
sort.—Court Jourtial.
THE BOMBAY MAIL.—SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 23.
—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Delta,
Captain Weeks, with the heavy portion of the above mails,
arrived here this evening. She brings 26 passengers, £lOO
in specie, and 842 packages of merchandise. Her cargo
chiefly consisting of grain. The Delta left Gibraltar on the
19th inst. On the following day she passed four men-of-
war entering the Tagus, and on the 23d passed the ship
Walmer, which wished to be reported. Enchange on Lon-
don, at Gibraltar, 90 days, 501 ; Paris, sf. 29c. Freight-
unaltered.
The weather continues cold but dry in Paris.
The thermometer marked yesterday morning a little below
zero, but at three in the afternoon, it had risen to 2 above
2oro Centigrade (33 3-sths Fahrenheit).
THE CONVICT GARDNER.—The sweep, Samuel
Gardner, who was to have suffered the chief penalty of the
law last Monday with Robert Cooper, for the murder of his
wife, but who, as our readers are aware, received a respite
on the Saturday previous, still remains in Newgate, and no
itimation bas yet been given as to the intentions of the
Government with regard to his ultimate fate. He still per-
sists in declaring that he is innocent of the crime of mur-
dering his wife ; but it would seem that he does not now
say anything with reference to the girl Humbler being the
guilty party, but contents himself with the assertion of his
own innocence.
THE EMPEROR OF MOROCCO.—The following is
from the Gibraltar Chronicle of the 18th inst. :—" Letters
from Tangier mention that the Sultan of Morocco has re-
moved the prohibition against the importation of :sulphur
and saltpetre. These articles are no longer to be the sub •
ject of a monopoly, but, as an experiment for one year,
they are to be admitted at an ad valorem duty of 10 per
cent. The exportation of rags and aloe fibre is also to be
allowed—the former paying a duty of 10 ounces (about
is. 3d.) the canter or cwt,, and the latter six ounces. It is
reported also that the Sultan is about to make his debut as

a manufacturer, his highness having made arrangements
for establishing a paper manufactory at Mogador, under
the superintendence of an Englishman. Experiments in
the cultivation of the cotton plant have been made on a
small scale in the neighbourhood of Mazagan and Saffl.
The specimens produced are reported to be of excellent
quality, and have encouraged the Moorish Government to
send for a large quantity of cotton seed) as well as for the
machines used in cleaning the cotton, with a view of intro-
ducing the cotton cultivation into Barbary."
THE SILK TRADE IN FRANCE.—The Salut Public
of Lyons shows that the exportation of silks of all kinds,
including ribbons and trimmings, reached, in 1861, a sum
of 333,310,000 fr., being less by 121,421,410 fr. than in 1860.
The resul, of 1861 is even inferior to the quinquennial ave-
rage by 86,806,712 fr. in 1861. The difference, compared
with 1859, is 166 millions of francs. These figures (says
the Salut Public) show the extent of the crisis through
which the silk trade is now passing.
A Naples letter in the Phare de la Loire gives
some details of Count de Christen's attempt 10 escape from
prison :—" The Count who was devising mum; of imitating
Monsignor Cenatiempo, has been seized this week in the
very act of attempting to escape.
With the aid of one of
his fellow prisoners he had succeeded in making two diffe-
rent openings in the prison walls. One led into the chapel,
which is public, and the other on to the Mountain Saint-
Martin. Since the escape of Conatiempo the jailors aro
themselves overlooked by members of the city police, who
are changed every day, so that it would be difficult to open
negotiations with them with the view of corrupting them.
It was those men who gave the alarm, and M. de Christen
was aurprieetl atib.e was removing the 144 atm."