The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-09 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

The Viennese Ecclesiastical Gazette announces
the death of the Emperor of China.
The Austrian encampment in Moravia will not
be established at Turas, but in the vicinity of 01-
mutz, where 40,000 men are to be assembled front
the 15th to the 30th of September. They are to
be inspected by the Prince of Prussia, as federal
inspector. General Count Wratislaw, will have the
chief command.
The Austrian Lloyd, at Trieste, is gathering all,
information respecting the affair of the mouth of
the Danube, at Sulina, with a view of addressing
the Austrian Government to solicit its intervention
in the removal of the obstacles to the shipping in-
terest.

SPAIN.
The Madrid Gazette of the 3d contains the royal
decrees accepting the resignation of M. Moyano, as
Minister of Public Works, " offered on account of
the bad state of his health," and appointing M•
Esteban Collantes, Director of the Post-office, las
successor.

The Three per Cents. were done at 44i ; De-
ferred Debt, 24.

ITALY.

The Milan, Gazette of the 2d publishes a sentence
pronounced by the Court-martial of Mantua, con-
demning four persons to various periods of ink
prisonment in irons, varying from eight to fifteen
months for having been found in the possession
of arms.
The Venice Gazette publishes a sentence by the
Court-martial of Udine, of the 21st ult., con-
demning a gentleman named Locatelli, aged 50,
having a wife and family, and, as the sentence
says, a good reputation in a political point of viol/
to two years' imprisonment in irons, for having
been found in possession of an unserviceable fire"
lock, and a good sword. This sentence has been
commuted into one year's imprisonment without

irons.
The Eco della Borsa of Milan states that great
importance is 'attributed in high political circles
to the fact of Lieut. Marshal Benedeck having
been summoned to Vienna, and it is currently re-
ported that he is to take a part in the labours °f
Count Rechberg and Chevalier de Burger for the
re-organisation of Lombardy.
At Rome, July 27, the police having been in"
formed that a number of young men with Britisa,
passports had landed at Civita Vecchia and tho
/.
they had left that place for Rome, caused then' t 0 '
thorn be followed, and two of
those were arrested.
persons are
it would appear that ovolu"
tionary agents, and that they came with the
of mediating between the object
secret societies of Italy. a .
-.,
out to be forgeries. various chiefs of the
Their passports turnet.

THE DOCK LABOURERS' STRIKES.—This morning at
7 o'clock the full quantity of men had been taken on
that were required, and printed notices were posted on
the gates to that effect ; but a vast number of men re'
mained outside the entrances to the London and St.
Katharine's Docks. At 8 o'clock this morning a gentle'
man from the Directors of the East and West 'no
Docks waited upon Mr. Mumford, the Superintende.,et
of St. Katharine's Docks, and Mr. Clements of ill
London Docks, requesting to be supplied with sever
hundred men, as the company he represented were 01
need of a great number of labourers. There were abont
300 men at that time to spare, who had been engage'''.
as a reserve, and they were accordingly placed at the
agent's use, if he thought proper to engage them. Th. ei
were then requested to proceed to the Minories' stail
near Tower-hill, and were conveyed by the Blackvi,,
Railway to the Docks, where they were put to 'Or"
with a promise of overtime.
SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
OPENING TO BIRMINGHAM.—The above company's lane
line to Birmingham having been connected with ,0
offices, 30, Cornhill, and 104, New-street, the company
commenced transmitting dispatches on Monday
The communication between the respective terminil"aa
:1
found to be more than usually perfect, and the trn%
nutting media apparently without flaw. There was
public ceremony upon the occasion, and the only calls_
which render the event remarkable are the great redo'',
tion in the tariff, the former amount of 2s. 6d. being ir.s,
duced to ls., the is. additional charge for each 10 Nv°;ft
above the minimum of 20 having been changed to a tai.;"6
of 6d. for each additional 10 words or fraction of -4
words, and the somewhat gratifying circumstance tile
the great link-lines of Europe are now continued in pot
unbroken chain of communication from the continev
through London, and northwards as far as as Birittiogi
ham. The Company's line to Manchester and LiverP°°

is to be rapidly proceeded with.
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MILITIA LAW AMENDIEENT.—Another Govern.- 44
measure has been printed to suspend the making of lig;
and the ballots, and enrolments for the militia of tl.lO
United Kingdom, and otherwise to amend the rev b,
relation thereto. By its provisions all general and o°oo
division meetings of the lieutenancy, excepting those A,
called in the 15th o.acl 16th Vic., c. 50, and all pron:
ings relating to the ballot and provision of substitntre,""'
are to be suspended until the Ist of October 1854,-44,
ceedings during such suspension to be by order in Cow' to
So much of the Militia Act of last session as relates
deputy-lieutenants raising volunteers for the tiabe
repealed. The times and places of exercise are to
appointed by the Lord-Lieutenant of the county
deputies, and the notices are to be sent to the its
by post. The penalty for fraudulent enlistment „70101
future not to exceed 101., and in default three Werthe
imprisonment before one of the Justices n'
Peace, who is forthwith to send a report t,,e the
Secretary of State. Provisions are also made ic>rmeat
discharge of men from the militia on the rePelleass
of the bounty and the expenses of enrolment--t 0
orethe
men enlisting in the regular forces—and to withh;"ia,
bounty from those wrongfully absenting from re of
Enrolment in the militia is not to cause the forfeits
any interest in any benefit society. Men abs 001
themselves from or during training, and not taken three
afterwards, are liable to a penalty of 101., or ad,
months in default, with or without hard labour_;.,4oo
persons harbouring militiamen so absenting thew''
incur a penalty of 201.'1130
FLOWERING OF THE VICTORIA RECTA AT -4,71100-
CAL GARDENS, MANCHESTER.—This'very rare planAv the
progress has been watched with so much interes'' '4BO
subscribers to theßotanical Gardens, Old Trafford, jboo•
length come into flower. It was received frnru
worth on the 9th of April last. It was then a see thaa
having only three leaves, none of which were Iner resent
three inches in diameter. It was placed in itsbP aqua'
position in the huge tank which it occupies in ten% ode'
ec
rium, and in about three months the leaves had 7floWa
to five feet six inches in diameter. The arsoetioue
opened on Tuesday afternoon at 5 o'clock, anVednescislo
open until between nine and ten o'clock tined 0,,
morning. It then closed, and re-op_a finauti
o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, 3_14. eir
closed on Thursday morning between sevorifer h
o'clock. The flower on the first day was pe ittbee_e'
the petals standing erect, but on Thursday nel,u_L,;lg the!,
petals were slightly tinged with pink, and :n 1"
f the -stite
gently bent downwards to the edge d mature ,sre
into which it will gradually sink an Pl_ci
seed. Alsecond flower opened on Thur37l„ioe I'l°o
o'clock in the afternoon, and closed between at tw.,
toe,crilooe'icilothcke
soanmeFraidftaeyrnomoonr,nianigld.
clotntrine-aoepdeni:le.„:4l.o:
seven or eight o'clock on Saturday morninsfz. °fie 104
of the plant are now expanded to a
great five feet si%
which was measured on Thursday, was
chee cirere.
a half inches in diameter, or 16 feet 71 n
From Terence.
the The
present aquariumheailth ns
phpeeaatreadn
et
eo
oari_batohuestupScicsaencisiigotrreioefe
is every probability that there will be
f
flowers for some time.—Examiner.
weather of the
HARVEST IN THE WEST. —The genial
pastcrops week b
the
has
west, had a an
and
theost blyehneeafitc i
ha
Devonshire under soroey
in many parts of Devon
- auspices. On Friday, in the Exeter marke.r.,,
beneficial
lisoose3r Itel9eefenririgtie
samples of this year's wheat were exhibiteu•