The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-10 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Minister of Finance has presented to the
Chamber at Turin the Budget of 1855, and a pro-
posal for a loan of 35,000,000.
The Opinions of Turin, of the 6th, mentions some
strange rumours afloat there, such as extraordinary
armaments on the part of Sardinia, and a demand
said to have been addressed by Austria to the
Court of Turin, to have the fortress of Alessandria
given up to her, or a portion of the Sardinian forces
sent over to her as hostages.
On the 28th ult. Prince William of Prussia had
an audience of the Pope, and after paying a visit
to Cardinal Antonelli set out for Naples.
We read in the Girondale di Roma that on Ash-
Wednesday the Pope received the ashes in the
Sistine Chapel, and then gave them to the mem-
bers of the Sacred College, the Bishops, the Roman
magistracy, several members of the diplomatic
body, and to Prince George of Saxony.
A letter from Rome says :—" The Pope, during a
recent visit to the Ecclesiastical Academy, after com-
plimenting Mgr. Cardoni on the excellent manage-
ment of his establishment, and testifying his delight
at seeing a certain number of young foreign ecclesi-
astics among them, had the names of all the pupils
called over to him. Among them was one called Pace
(Peace). His Holiness, after permitting him to
kiss his feet, said with a smile No one will have
anything more to do with you for the present, but
be not discouraged, your time will again come.'
The Pope afterwards added, I hope that some ad-
vantage for the Church will result from the war
which is about to commence ; I recommend you to
offer up your prayers to that effect.' "

RESIGNATION BY SIR JOHN PAHINGTON OF HIS
CHAIRMANSHIP OF QUARTER SESSIONS.—The Right
Hon. Sir John Pakington, Bart., M.P., has addressed a
letter to Lord Lyttleton, Lord-Lieutenant of the county
of Worcester, announcing his intention of resigning the
office of chairman of quarter sessions, an office which he
has held for mmy years, and with which his name has
been so intimately associated. The right hon. baronet
says that after the ensuing quarter sessions he shall have
held the office for twenty years, and that the near ap-
proach of that long period has alone prevented him from
sooner requesting permission to resign a position which
he has found to be almost incompatible with his Parlia-
mentary duties. He proceeds to remark that when he
accepted political office, two years ago, he intended to
resign the chair, and only yielded to the persuasion of,
friends whom he consulted, but since he ceased to be a
member of the Government he has found his difficulties
with regard to the sessions almost equally great. During
the Parliamentary session, which embraces three out of
the five annual meetings of the court, he is generally
obliged to be absent, a very serious inconvenience, and
at great personal inconvenience. Sir John concludes by
stating that ,he proposes to attend the Easter sessions,
and then to preside for the last time.
WRECK OF THE EDINBURGH STEA.HER.--The Edin-
burgh steamer, Captain Phillips, with six chief and ten
fore-cabin passengers on board, struck upon the Bar-
kumriff, on the East Friesland, about three o'clock on
the morning of Monday, the 27th ult., during a gale
from the north-west, and remained in a most dangerous
position with her head towards the lighthouse of
Barkum Island. The catastrophe involved the loss of
12 persons—viz., four stokers, three seamen, two ap-
prentices, and three passengers.
Loss OF THE CHIEFTAIN, AUSTRALIAN STISAMER.—
Yesterday intelligence was received at Lloyd's, under
date, Clyde, March the Bth, that the Chieftain steamer,
bound from the Clyde to Port Philip, with a number of
passengers and a valuable cargo, had gone ashore eP
Coon, six miles north of Carradale, in the Sound of
Kilburn. When the vessel struck, the shore was
covered with rocks, against which the sea dashed
furiously, and the vessel speedily began to break up.
The crew and passengers were with difficulty saved.
The ship became a total wreck. She is understood to
be fully insured.
SHIPWRECK AT HOLYHEAD.—LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY
—lntelligence has reached this port of the loss of the
new American ship Pantheon, of Boston, Captain
Barstow, which went on shore at Rhoysmgyr, near
Holyhead, last night, bilged, sunk, and abandoned. The
Pantheon cleared from New York for this port on the
Bth ult., with the following cargo on board, viz., 574
bales of cotton, 2,000 barrels of flour, 5,965 bushels of
wheat, 15,468 bushels of Indian corn, 507 barrels of
Indian meal, 365 barrels of resin, 30,115 pounds of lard,
225 dozen of brooms, and 9,000 staves. Eight of the
crew are reported to have landed at Rhoscolyn in a
boat, but no intelligence has been received either of the
safety or loss of the remainder.

FATAL ACCIDENT TO A CHEMIST. —The death of Mr.
James Haywood, teacher of chemistry at the Wesleyan
college, Sheffield, occurred on Thursday morning under
most distressing and melancholy circumstances. On the
previous evening, about six o'clock, Mr. Haywood was
engaged in the laboratory at the college, preparing for
his lecture to the pupils that evening, and it was neces-
sary for him to pour into a phial a quantity of sul-
phuric acid contained in a large bottle in a hamper. It
appears that the hamper was getting worn out, and Mr.
Haywood incautiously lifted up the bottle by itself, when
the acid contained in the bottle, being much heavier
thin water, broke the glass, and ran or• Mr. Haywood's
clothes. A quantity of the acid also fell on the dress of
a boy, a pupil at the college, who was assisting him,
and burnt through his clothes ; but as the lad was rush-
ing out of the place to get some water, he was seized by
one of the teachers, who tore off his burning clothes,
and held him for about twenty minutes while he was
pumped on with cold water. By these means, and in
consequence of the fresh air which he inhaled, the
boy escaped with a few burns, and is now considered
out of danger. It fared differently, however, with
Mr. Haywood. On finding that the bottle had broken
he let it fall, and at the same time he fell forward
on the floor. He inflicted a deep gash in his hand
with part of the broken bottle. From this time Mr.
Haywood appears to have lost his usual presence
of mind, and instead of holding his breath and escaping
from the room instantly, he lay for some moments in-
haling the deadly fumes of the poisonous liquid. After
remaining some time in the laboratory, breathing an
atmosphere charged with the exhalations of the acid,
he was at length taken away, and conveyed in a very
distressing condition to his home, where he lingered
till his death, which occurred about 5 o'clock on the
following morning. Mr. Haywood was an analytical
chemist of great celebrity, and occupied a distinguished
place as a public lecturer on chemistry as applied to
agricultural science as well as to manufactures. His
loss will be deeply regretted in Sheffield and many other
parts of the country.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT STEPNEY OF A NEWSVENDER'S.
—Yesterday morning, between two and three o'clock,
the neighbourhood of Old-road, Stepney, was thrown
into a state of the utmost confusion, in consequence of
the sudden outbreak of a most destructive fire on the
premises of Mr. J. Cooper, newspaper agent and stati-
oner. The police on duty, perceiving the smoke issuing
from the lower part of the house, instantly raised the
alarm, wh'n the inmates had barely time to make their
escape before the building was in one sheet of fire. The
premises and contents were entirely destroyed, but the
fire was confined to the house in which it broke out.
The cause is unknown, and the contents of the premises
are insured in the Sun Fire Office.
MONEY ORDER OFFICES IN THE METROPOLIS AND
VICINITY.—In addition to 32 receiving houses in the
different parts of the metropolis, the City, west-end,
north, and south, which includes all the principal streets
and districts within the three-mile circle, at which money
orders may be granted and made payable, besides the
chief mo n ey order offices in Aldersgate-street, St. Martin's-
le-Grand, Abchurch-lane, City, Stone's-end, Borough,
Charing-cross, and Old Cavendish-street, the following
receiving houses in the neighbourhood of London beyond
the 3-mile circle, but within the 12-mile circle, are now
open for the granting and paying of money orders, either
to or from any part of the United Kingdom (post towns),
_England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland : Barking, Barnet,
Bayswater, Bexley, Brentford, Brixton, Bromley (Kent),
Brompton (Middlesex), Carshalton, Chelsea, Chislehurst,
Clapham' Croydon, Deptford, Dulwich, Edgware, Ed-
monton, Eltham, Enfield, Erith, Greenwich, Hammer-
smith, Hampstead, Hampton, Harrow, Hendon, High-
gate, Hounslow, Kensington, Kingston, Lewisham,
Norwood, Paddington, Putney, Richmond, Romford,
Shooter's-hill, Southall, St. John's-wood, Regent's-park,
Stanmore' Stoke Newington, Stratford, Sydenham,
Tooting, Tottenham-cross, Turnham green, Walham-
green, Waltham-cross, Wandsworth, Woodford, and
Woolwich. This is a facility of transmission of money
which will no doubt be generally adopted by the public.