The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-04 00:00:00

MORE PERSECUTIONS AT FLORENCE.

By a letter dated Florence, Sept. 20, we learn that
the sister of Miss Cunninghame and the Rev. Mr. Gor-
don, having received a warning from some friend that
they were about to be arrested and thrown into prison,
managed to effect their escape, and repaired to Leghorn,
where they took refuge on board the Modeste, under
the flag of Lord W. Crompton. They were charged
with the crime of reading the Scriptures with some
Italian friends.
Miss Cunninghame, we learn, has been removed to
one of the condemned cells. She has been permitted
to hire her bed—a deal board being the only substitute
which the cell affords. She has also been allowed the
use of a bath. She is permitted to see her mother, but
only for half an hour in the course of the day.
The police boast that they have the names of about
50 persons enp.ged in the work of proselytism, and
among the number are three or four English ladies,
whose letters are opened at the post-office, without even
the shadow of a disguise.

RAILWAY AND MINING COMPANIES.—A bill is to be
introduced in the ensuing session to give more extended
powers to the constituencies of railway and mining com-
panies in relation to the acts of their directors.
THE FORTIFICATIONS AT DEAL.—The works at No.
1 Battery are progressing favourably. The founda-
tions of the sea wall are completely laid, and enclose
the whole of the battery. The foundation is laid 15
feet below the surface of the ground, and the wall
is to be varied to a height of 15 feet about the surface.
It is to be composed of solid brick-work, four feet thick,
and laid in cement. Another wall, 20 feet high, is to
be erected within this, and the centre is to be filled up
with concrete ; and upon the summit of the latter are
to be fixed 68-11). cannons, which from their position
will command a full sweep of the Downs.
THUNDERSTORMS.—On Saturday heavy showers of
rain and hail fell at Manchester from an early hour, and
in the afternoon several heavy peals of thunder were
heard here. The rains were continuous during the
greater part of the night, and frequent and heavy
showers fell on Sunday. On Sunday afternoon there
was a second thunderstorm, accompanied by a heavy
fall of large hailstones. The sun shone out for a short
time during the day with considerable power between
the showers. In the evening the temperature fell very
considerably, and during the night frost set in. On
Monday morning a hour frost had left its impress upon
the fields and hedges, and in some places water was
covered with ice.
SHIPMENTS OF SPECIE.—The shipments of specie by
the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Euxine amount to
501,7501., of which 30,000/. is gold for Malta, Alexan-
BANK OF ENGLAND.—The following return was issued dria, Ceylon, Hong-Kong, and Canton, and 471,7501. is
from the Bank yesterday. It is to be presumed that the silver for Bombay, Madras, Calcutta, Penang, Singa-
acceptance of new stock thus shown to have taken place pore, Hong Kong, and Canton. The amount of specie
must have come from persons at some distant part of the brought by the West India packet is not so large as had
globe, who were unacquainted at the time with any un- been anticipated, but is still very considerable,
being
favourable changes in the money market : about 540,0001. From New York the sum is 50,000/.
BANK OF ENGLAND. ALLIANCE CLUB OARS RACE.—The members of the
AMOUNTS OF NEW STOCKS ACCEPTED THIS DAY. Alliance Club rowed a four-oared race yesterday, for a
Three-and-a-Half per Cents £5,000 number of valuable prizes, consisting of oars and rudders,
Two-and-a. Half per Cents Nil, and sets of valuable gold studs.
difficultiesThe.ci_donu tidl. course i
.wet
eihlol
,af7th, textendedhthoi:i 0 w
said
Exchequer Bonds Nil. from Messrs. Searle's to Nine-elms. After contesting
DIVIDEND DAY AT THE BANK OF ENGLAND AND the preliminary heats very warmly, the following took
SOUTH SEA HOUSE.—Notice was issued yesterday at their places for the grand heat :—Messrs. Jones, Barrett,
the Bank of England and South Sea House that the Tenant, Sore, and Holland (cox(eswoxasiwn)a,inp)i,ngkre;en; Turner,con.
October dividends will be in course of payment to the Hopkins, Wing, Hotz, Bennett
public on Thursday, the 13th inst., and that the transfer stable, Greenland, Loveday, Potter, and Fawcett (cox-
for the undermentioned annuities, due the 10th inst., swain), yellow ; Chapman, Cooper, Dawson, Sibley, and
will be reopened as follows, viz. :—Bank Stock on Wed- Tubbs (coxswain), red. They effected a capital start,
nesday, the 19th inst. • Long Annuities and annuities and were oar and oar a considerable distance ;
for terms of years, on inst.
the 19th inst. ; 31.55. pink then drew slightly, but were closely waited upon
per Cent. Annuities, on Thursday, the 20th inst. ; and throughout the race by green, who were only beaten by
Reduced 31. per Cent. Annuities, on Friday, the 21st. little more than a clear length.
The former mode of weighing gold in the bullion-office THE RECENT SUICIDE IN FRENCH-STREET, DUBLIN.—
of the Bank of England by pounds, ounces, penny- At length a clue to the identification of the wretched
weights, and grains is discontinued, and the only weights man who shot himself recently in a disreputable house
now in use in that office are of denomination of the Troy in the above street has been obtained. Some time ago
ounce and its decimal parts. South Sea House.—The (on the 25th of August it is stated) a clerk of the Messrs.
transfer books for South Sea Annuities will also be re- Mein, wool merchants ofJedburgh, in the South of Scot-
opened on Wednesday, the 19th inst. land, committed two forgeries upon one of the banks
THE MIDDLESEX REGISTRATION.—Yesterday, Mr. there, and absconded with the proceeds, amounting to
Shadwell, the barrister appointed to revise the list of 7181. He had not since been heard of, although the
voters for the county of Middlesex, opened his court at usual search after him had been made. The persona
the White Home 'Uxbridge, and proceeded with the whom he robbed in Jedburgh having learned through
districts of Oowiey, Harefield, Hayes, Hillingdon, the papers the particulars of the suicide here, and read
Ickenhami Norwood, Ruislip, Uxbridge, and West the description of the deceased, suspected that he might
Drayton. The objections on both sides amount to be the culprit ; and one of the di: actors of the Jedburgh
upwards of a thousand, and there'are numerous claims bank, who is also a magistrate of that birough,. but
urged 'tiy both the great political parties ; but a new whose name etwhwa:e.iclimtc.),i)iilled,soioitt,nya.asfoncerdiu.tthhaieasn,
raerfrived in Dublin ca
feature in these proceedings has arisen from the opera- Saturday, and having seen the miniature of the suicide,
tion of the act passed in the last session of Parliament, at once pronounced it to be that of the absconding. clerk.
NY:filch was introduced by the noble lord the member for He also recognised the deceased's handwriting n he
the county; which limits the term of polling
of Messrs.
to one day. memorandum book, and states that canateherethein
no
The Registration of Voters Act, the 6th and 7th of doubt whatever as to the identity. 0
Viet., o. 18 sec. 36, enabled voters not resident in the Mein is to arrive in Dublin to-day, when the body will
county to poll, upon application to the barrister, at any be again exhumed for identification. We are informed
booth which might be most convenient to themselves ,• that the unfortunate man, MacFarllanet,
aas.whifeentLwaino?
and it also enabled voters resident in the county to poll be called,
at the booths more immediately adjacent to their own child.—Daily ExPre-u•
residences„ irrespectively of the situation of theproperty THE COMING BREVRT.—The
for which, they vote. The privilege has not Phitherto in the way of a brevet are many infEecor.ede;c,
been exercised to any great extent ; but now that the our readers in general suppose.
new act for limiting the polling to one day comes into given to the "quit/ nuns" at the clubs, tk
force it will be found to be an extremely important and culty experienced:it(:)o:3l(3)staoitrinieotnrt,hle:ringae6n't 1 er
' is Cohanb salutary provision, and hence it is that there were yes- to the disbursement of 2s. a day !1T...a
ornaor .e great be
day a great number of these new claims to be allowed to be promoted to brevet
mrna,lo,
_. o„reat ci.ft
of the Tr. 1 -
to vote at the most convenient and proximate ellin that a compromise will be 8 P.X11,,, V
Al °f the - -asurY
tiplvaecses;.
ur. Mr.iw .TH. A.
J.
aJmoenses appe.ared for the Conpserva-g onlyeawh.ose commissions si: •It i, caPtains
, as hitherto, represented tLe dud
Middlesex. Registration Office ; and Messrs. Le Brecen all the captains of 1843 b'
Uwein 1842 e captains
I: In t 0 f
hZol.:ralnbekensent
i col
itihobsee ofi
and Davies represented a new registration society, sup- positively rejecteeraidiyobyer
was
so
s:ifcolonels
ported by a section of the Liberal party in the co-untry. and it
.il generally
in ca' -, 61,"11. egret to i„,include
tiande, left
SYDNEY RAILWAY.—The last Australian pro.,ers de- great dl,7l%,ecer
tent in eacyeh
Year.
ell Lo
scribe the progress of the works of the Sydne•rj itailvray, 1843- the 9ts 'intaiLnoing the rd liaidin
the, first line attempted in the colony, and s iso give an (lows% to, ~ brevet ge has found
(ratline of its history. Its length is to be 4(J miles, from that .ohasrpcury
we believuenuy, the even r
ext nels and
uliseeuoctlen:Jrceoaslonjelif
t f,e .oznotion to h position fr
'Sydney to Goulburn, through Pai amatta ; but, although and,
Mr. Sidney
1 ril : 6
I,' ,
el :dP ° 1:4;
tt- t hti e:til rt
c°ll:(lllBetarn;rt.
d
the company obtained its act of incorpc 'ration in 1849, cost" 4 one ,-, - e Colo
will probably r:ea-I;twrhcleairi:e's by interested
little progress was made until very recently, owing to wag '
—Naval and
November, blit
efforts
the total want of competent per •sonFs to undertake a He Alert's
work of the kind. The gold disco varies, however, gave in
it an impulse, and, under a guar sntee of 5 per cent.irties to have
from the provincial Government, the first 100,0001. of A "ii/i3tra:y Gaajc:tei.t postpolielvde ybe Sydney
capital was raised, the shares for -which now command
irollza,.
a premium of 10 per cent. It ales...am:ars that the th onsanct AT A.,
Government have agreed to make a. dire-A subscription do, Ibtfei conventions-../tic4l.„,. ~,
.. uoivrENTIO A
of 150,0001., on condition of naming one-half of the goo d . utility, o held in the United the
board of directors. At present 200 men are employed, in \ v., and
another ne has just closed nited States of
as.l4 •
and the first two miles of the road have. already been the li, i nos still more im
that •
promises some
being temporarily laid down, 0),..a, •64 in Octobe important is to
completed, wooden rails
labourer is n' ther 'ails and h• • r• The first w assemble
The rate paid to the common s 6s. Der day, public • librariesibliopolists -as a meet' rs.
e destroto of enapoying 500 It c,,' vast d 1 of the of America Nearlyn- of
and the company ar of n
be finish ea to P * s " • f country , all
hoped that the line maythe first • . . aramatta (16. ure s (W.' p race 'cal
ormation was el' icited •
were represented ; a
miles from Sydney, and nand town) in about Prenqise, i-- concern ' andsolve
miles übstantial ' nto all scholars devisedome znea-
a year and a half. )actin iug, tiindin improvements in th , which
EFORM BILL ----WO
THE NEW IZ _ou . . have been ASS preserving
boot arran
~. ging, the
e modes of col-
says the Leatningtonthu rter,. '9Olll the most reliable gatherbai of the 'r (t.c. The secondg'' natal°guing' and
thority, that under e provisions of the is, c au- adopt S. i • e presidents and • is to be a national
Bill, Leamington will be annexed to the b
evv Ref 1, . miform prey and 1 deform evzse e directors of 1
rai
Ys, to
iirarivie ,
• I for the rtlrpoeg nfra 1. Orou a measures for Chef
r fampilf,rr borough of establish as a law for their in
prevention f nnagement, to
tion. , rPrreeenta, ! nation. ycm of careful •' o accidents and to
feels vigilance '
i meta, Everybodyan,,. the nee • throughout the
,1 Iwo/m(ses theessay of thin nu,,t ,necessity
results, ' m°7e-

The Grand Duke is said to have declared that he
considers the discovery of Miss Cunninghame's guilt (!)
as a special interposition of Divine Providence, which
has afforded him the means of executing s gnal chas-
tisement on English missionaries. His ministers have
in vain suggested a more prudent course—their in-
fluence is counterpoised by that of the confessor. In
the meantime the decision of the English Government is
awaited by Tuscans as well as English with breathless
interest. Above all, the Tuscans are asking each other,
can this really be an Englishwoman who is treated with
such foul indignity I Will England bear it tamely, that
one of her daughters shall be doomed for tei years to a
felon's cell for doing that which the virtuous and good
among all classes of her countrymen must justify and
applaud ? If so—if she has so degenerated from the
spirit of Elizabeth and Oliver— then has she become a
" geographical expression," and nothing more.
The Tuscan reactionary policy is but part of one great
conspiracy against civil and religious liberty. The
agents of that policy seek to strike terror into their own
subjects, by showing them that England is now power-
less and despised, unable or unwilling to protect her
own subjects, far less to stretch out a helping hand to
the suffering in other lands.

0 Parair
lady('
fiel7

SIR EDWARD BLAKENEY.—The gallant Commander
of the Forces in Ireland has so completely recovered as
to be able to walk out every day.
WOOD PAVEMENT IN OXFORE-STREET. The works
having been advanced with so much rapidity within
these few days, that the removal of the whole of the
wood pavement has been effected, and replaced with sub-
stantial granite block paving, the entire line of road,
from the Regent-circus as far as Old Cavendish-street,
has been reopened for traffic, to the great convenience
of the immense number of vehicles of all kinds tra-
versing this great line of road to and from the west-
end of the town and the City, and the public generally.
The small portion of the street between that point and
Bond-street now only remains closed, which causes com-
paratively little inconvenierce, and which, however, will
soon terminate, as the remaining portion of Oxford-street
by this time entirely completed, and will immediately be
thrown open to the public. The thoroughfare at the
end of the street, near Tottenham-court-road, is now
completed, and thrown open for traffic, and as soon as
the small portion of the street . between Old Cavendish
and Bond-streets is re-opened, the whole of this fine line
yehgraraancitteer :
of street will be open, and in a complete and perfect
taonnde
more bloek
adaptedpaving
state of repair, the whole of the wood and other paving
ohfavainsugbnstoawntbiaelenanrdepdabl
replaced by
to one of the busiest and most important of the metro-
politan thoroughfares.

- CLOSING OF THE TRAFFIC OF CHANCERY-LANE.—
Yesterday morning workmen were busily engaged in
taking up the pavement of the roadway at the lower end
of Chancery-lane, from Fleet-street, for the purpose of
its being entirely relaid, the traffic of that portion of the
lane being entirely stopped. In Fleet-street, the whole
of the granite was relaid, and the concrete infused on
Saturday, but the workmen were unable to finally
complete the works 11 as to admit of general traffic from
the Strand to the City for omnibuses and other heavy
vehicles. This morning the last layer of gravel was laid
down, and the apparent imperfections in the pavement
levelled and cemented, so that in a few hours the general
traffic will be fairly resumed from the Strand to the City.
In the Strand the general repair of the roadway has not
been completed in a very satisfactory manner, so that
many holes and ruts still remain, but the relaying down.
of the pavement on the south side of St. Clement'
Church is a great improvement, the former paver')
being on a slope towards Essex-street ; but as refs'
is made more level, thereby rendering less habil&
horses slipping, a more certain footing being afr
THE AHMY.—Major-General James Jacks
conclude, resigned the Cape command, to
been appointed. In the "Army List"
month neither the general nor his aide-
the places assigned to them in lap'
Lieutenant-Colonel Routh and Li
rick have exchanged places, the 1
rackmastership of Bristol, and
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
deputy quartermaster-gen,
Major Rose, of the 551.3-
extra aide-de-camp to
Captain the Hon../
Guards. Dr. D. r
as staff surgeon
Lieutenant D
tenant Ear
, of the G'

.id i
f to thl
.orded.
Jll has, we
.vhich he had
of the present
4-de-care present
eutenant py
t month's ".List."
G. IGold-
termer taking the bar
cral
,obet,he latter of Canterbury.
C. 8., has ceased to
be
at Mauritius. Brevet
4 Foot, has been appointed as
the Governor of Gibraltar, vice
4. P. Egerton, of the Grenadier
.oambreck has succeeded Dr. Rawkey
a of the London recruiting district.
"ling, 20th Foot, has succeeded Lieu.
,er, 40th Foot, as superintending officer
.as,gow district. Our readers may remember
raPh inserted in our paper a short time since re.
to the existence of grave dissensions between &
a officer and a junior major of one of the crack corps
_a Dublin garrison, which ended in the admonition ot
both parties. We regret to hear that recent events of a.
Most serious nature have been a subject of mutual re.
crimination between the.partiee, and, unless stayed at
once, are likely toe nd in a most unpleasant manner.
It is said, however, that the authorities, not liking the
complexion of the affair, have signified their readiness to
accept mutual explanations, and that it may yet be
hushed U. We regret to find that desertion still con.
tinues in the nth Regiment, and, since the arrival o
the corps in America, upwards of 60 men have deserted,
Ithree-fifths of whom have been from the head-quarters
at Frderickton, owing to the ready facility afforded
themey the country people in guiding and assisting
them into the States.---United Service Gazette.
CHARON OP WILFULLY PROPAGAZ/NG SX4IL-PDX.---
A serious case, under the new 'Vaccination Act, has just
arisen in Devonshire. A woman, living in the village
of Tedburn St. Mary, a few miles from Exeter, wished
her children to have the sreal/-pox, and, according to a
custom which seems to have prevailed in the rural dia.
i tricts, she determined that they should receive it bycon.
tagion. Accordingly she sent her children, in the care
of a nephew, named William Peimsaul, to Crediton, that
they might get it from the servant of a respectable
farmer, who was ill of the disease. The farmer's wife
took a handkerchief which had been worn by the sore.
ant, and tied it round the children's necks. They soon
afterwards caugh the disease. The wife of the farmer,
and the mother of the children, were brought up before
the megisrates of Crockern well, sitting in petty sessions.
and charged with the offence. The former was comma
witted to prison for a week, but the latter escaped, it ift
hew, who west
believed, through the perjury of the nep
thereupon charged with the offence. On Monday last
he was brought up, he was so dangerously ill that the
charge could not be gone into. The chairman (Baldn
told him that the magistrates were Un.,
Fulford, Esq.)
willing to proceed against him in the present state of hit*
health, but he wished it to be understood that in all
cases where persons were found to endanger the lives of
their children, by exposing them to the small-pox in the
way narrated above, the magistrates would inflict the
extreme penalty of the law. If death had ensued to theb
children, the parties! ctlnr.,l.„ 11,,:,1111 b„,.. , . .
~ Qtyn triel
for their lives,