The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-28 00:00:00

ITALY.

The celebrated archaeologist, Meloni, died at
Portici, on the 12th, of cholera.

The Chamber of Commerce of Genoa has been
officially informed that the French Government
has fixed five hundred square metres as the space
to be allotted to Sardinian produce in the Grand
Exhibition of 1855.

The convent of Capuchin nuns at Turin has just
been evacuated by the inmates, in order to make
room for cholera patients. Nevertheless, the mor-
tality from the epidemic is very slight, the total
number of cases since the outbreak not exceeding
100, with 77 deaths.

The Provisional Exhibition of articles of Tuscan
manufacture, intended as a preliminary step to
their being sent to the Exhibition of the Industry
of all Nations, will take place at Florence on the
12th of November next, instead of the 15th of
October, as had been previously fixed.
We read in the Moniteur :
" During the course of the epidemic which still rages
on the coasts of Italy, the agents of Franca have given
a proof of devotedness, which we take pleasure in
making known. At Genoa, our Consul-General set
an example of calmness and courage in the midst
of the general terror produced by the rapid inva-
sion of the disease. He never quitted the place,
which was -almost deserted, and co-operated in the
most active manner in organising the necessary mea-
sures for succouring the sufferers. At Nice, M. Gavard,
the director of the French consulate, equally distin-
guished himself by his intelligent zeal, which has procured
for him the gratitude of the inhabitants. Count de
Maricourt, the consul at Port Maurice, devoted him-
self with abnegation to the alleviation of the suf-
ferings of a population cruelly decimated by the
• disease, not only at his place of residence, but also in the
neighbouring town of Oneglia. The whole province, and
the Sardinian Government itself (through its official
Organ, the Piedmontese Gazette), have testified the gratitude
with which his conduct has inspired them. It is painful to
have to add that whilst M. de Maricourt was giving assist-
ance to the sick with a zeal which is beyond praise, he
himself suffered the most severe affliction that could have
fallen on him ; in a few hours be lost his daughter, aged
15. At Leghorn, on the 15th, after having been present
at the Te Deum sung in honour of the fete of the Em-
peror Napoleon, M.. de Sdnevier de Joisieu, the CoMul-
. .General of France, worthily finished the day by visiting
with the employes of his consulate the cholera hospitals,
and addressing words of consolation and encouragement
to their inmates."

MALTA.
MARSEILLES, SATURDAY.
We have advices from Malta to the 22d.
The Orinoco bad arrived.
The French steamers CafTarella and Ajaccio, with
troops and military stores for the East, had also
arrived. They left the saw.e day.
The cholera bad broken out on board the Med-
way. A portion of the troops remain at Malta.
The Ripon, with the
Indian mail, will be de-
layed by a fracture to some part of her machinery.

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ATHENS, AuuREECE.
from the Pirmgust 18.alergis has returned
Pincus —li
and attended the council of
tions and added
Ministers after theßing had signed his proposi-
some remarks in his own hand-
writing:. • • ‘:
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TERRIFIC BOILER EXPLOSION AND Loss OP LIE.—
A boiler explosion, which occasioned then ea
of one
man, and was likely to have seriously injured otherFi,
occurred at a mine in the parish of 'Hogan, Cornwall,
last Friday. The man who met his death was named
John Spargo, and it appeared he had charge of the pup-
ing engine, which he had, worked for
any years. Re
had, however, allowed the feed to be exhausted, and
then suddenly turning on a fresh supply of water when
the boiler was hot, an explosion was the consequence.
portion of the boiler, weighing about two tons, was
blown a distvice of upward!' of 300 feet.