The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-03 00:00:00

ITALY.

Later intelligence has not arrived from Rome, but
further particulars up to the 24th ult. inclusively
have been received. _ _ _

It appears that although the Romans were taken
by surprise by the assault on the 21st and 22d of
June, they managed to fire no less than between
600 and 700 cannon shot against their assailants.
The Italian journals contain accounts of the pro-
ceedings of the French, corresponding with the bul-
letins of General OUDINOT.

The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa, of the 27th,
again contains accounts from Civita Vecchia to the
effect, that the French had been repulsed and driven
back from the walls to their original positions, and
that hostilities were suspended. It says that General
LEVAILLANT and other superior officers disagreed
with General OUDINOT, and that the latter gave the
order for the assault contrary to their advice. They
propose to change the assault into a blockade. Some
letters say that OUDINOT had embarked on board a
steamer for France. The Corriere, however, also
says it has received other accounts that, though the
French have made no further progress, they yet
occupy the breaches, and were still at work erecting
their batteries on the 24th.
While the Paris Constitutionnel declares that " all
the Italian journals, even those that are the adversaries
of the French intervention, coincide in saying that,
but for the French having tried every means in order
to avoid the injury of the Roman monuments and the
destruction of the oppressed population, Rome would
have long since been in their possession"—the
National describes the damage done by the French
artillery to some of the choicest frescoes of DOMENI.
cum), and to the church of San Carlo at Catinari.
On the 21st ultimo the anniversary of the en-
thronisation of his Holiness Pope Pius IX.
was celebrated with extraordinary pomp at An-
cona. During the chanting of high mass in
the cathedral church of the Crucifix the great Pon-
tifical banner was hoisted on the citadel, and was
saluted by the artillery of the ramparts, and by the
Austrian vessels in the harbour. After the perform-
ance of the religious, there was a grand
_m;utary-,,
ceremony, in the course of which Marshal ylb prr
distributed medals.to those who had distinguished
themselves in the campaign, addressing them in eulo-
gistic language.
The Piedmontese Gazette announces that the death
of CHARLES ALBERT must be regarded as almost
certain, according to a letter of the Sardinian Consul
at Bayonne, dated the 21st ult. In consequence the
places of public amusement in Turin were closed,
and the Risorgimento and Saggiatore were in
mourning.
The Turcan Mond'sr of the 24th ult. publishes the
following :—" At Padua a deputation is expected
from Venice to treat for the surrender of the city.
M. BE BRUCK, the Austrian Plenipotentiary, is also
expected at Padua."
Letters from Turin of the 21th ult. state that the
conclusion of a commercial league with Austria had
greatly alarmed the manufacturers of Turin, who
anticipated from such a measure the destruction of
the Piedmontese manufactures. The Government
had refused to accede to the exigencies of Austria,
and the negotiations were interrupted.
The electoral colleges were to be convoked for the
16th of July, whether peace were concluded or not.
The 17th and 18th Regiments of Infantry, which
were to have reinforced the garrison of Alessandria,
had been ordered to Piacenza, Parma; and Guastalla.
Another Sardinian corps would, it was believed, enter
Tuscany to maintain tranquillity in that country.

THE WEST INDIA MAIL.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 3.—The Tay steamer arrived
this morning from the West Indies and the Pacific. She
brings specie to the value of 270,0001., and a large
freight of indigo and cochineal. There is nothing of
importance from any of the islands.

Sir Edward Sugden had an interview with Lord John
Russell yesterday. The Rev. Mr. Brogde officiallso
residenc .an ine
-
terview with his Lordship yesterday, at his
in Downing-street.
Mr. J. A. Jackson had an interview with Earl Grey yes-
terday, at the Colonial-office.
The Commissioners for inquiring into the use of iron in
railway structures had a meeting yesterday,. at the office of
the Board of Trade; Lord Wrottesley yresichng.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin had an interview with Sir G.
Grey yesterday' at the Ilorne-otlice.
The Hon. Mr. Clemson,
.United States Minister to Bel-
gium, and his lady and family, have arrived in London from
the ti cited StAte§9l;lthelK TOWn t 9 EAccaciley'g missive.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The tst les of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated
at 8,00.) bales, including 6,006 AmericanAt 6%d. to 61/2d.,
£OO P( nava at 4%e1. to 5%d. 200 Bahia at sd. to 5%d.,
100 Et ;y ptian at 5%d. to 61,4 d., and 100 Surats at 3%d. to
414 d. per lb. Of the above 2,000 American wera taken for
export and on speculation. The market closed very firm.
Railwa y Shares were dull, and prices had a downward
tendenf
Their are important public sales of Wool announced for
the prertes nit week. In produce generally a aaoderate busi-
nes is d DEng.
The . ship:Columbus, arrived at Liverpool, brings advices of
June 4, -from Pernambuco. On political affairs there is
nothing: .of particular interest, and the Brazilian provinces
wera in tranquillized. The exchange was 241. very few
shipmen:al being in progress. Sugar was firm and freights
were lo- w . There is ne; lung definitive from the River Plate.
The l Koval Mail steamer from the West Indies has arrived,
and doe s not bring favourable accounts from the colonies.
The let cars are not yet delivered. There is a bullion freight
of 270,3400/., and this includes no less than 300,000 dollars
irom Cr lifornia.
Some.; idea of the present state of Canada, and the ember-
rassme nt of :its finances, which unless remedied must bring
about a serious crisis, may be formed from the following par-
ticulars in a local journal received yesterday by the Eu-
ropa :—" In 1840, the debt of Lower Canada was 113,9751.,
we ,were- saddled, it is true, with a debt of 1,271,744. from
yveAo9l:ss
Upper Canada, but united, that of the whole province only
amounted to 4385,7204 k The credit of Upper Canada was
at a very low ebb ; the great works which were necessary
ye: sdr
el o er
a.ivlrlot:m;e
roi
rteoawd
theirevdpa
unnboeelaiscr.
for that trade of the province were proceeding
vpreor
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receivedEo ti lgl
sa
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et,
ne
nahndademrh could
fao dr
succeede d in uniting the two provinces, the Upper Canadians
y
olonstano Vime in taking advantage of our good credit to carry
rnacadad sizing roads, building •
bridges, ports, canals, &c., of
immense cost and extent. Some idea may_ be formed of their share lit the budget, from the s' thisr
year's return, the Welland Canal,ng einem classed at
68,1551., about one-sixth of the whole g expenses of
the Kt )vince. Lower Canada continued after the
union as before, spending little, improving little ;
its credit , however, was, as may be imagined, considerably
impaired by the increased expenditure of the whole pro-
vince. The interest of the public debt of Canada is to day,
accordin g to Mr. Hincks, 200,0001. ; the whole expenditure
of the. province was for the year 1848, and will probably
exceed in 1849, 414,1771.; total, 614,1771. ; against which
the revenue return of last year presents a sum of only
379,7451. 7s. Bd. The annual deficit, even supposing that
notwithstanding the free trade policy of England, Mr.
Hine& tariff, and local agitation, commerce remains still
as pros perous as before, will be upwards of 200,0001. Thus
the capital of the debt will go on increasing in a very
rapid natio. To pay the interest, the Government will be
obliged to issue debentures, on a perfect railroad scale ; for
some rears yet to come no other available source of con-
siderable revenue will present itself. At what discount de-
bentures may be current we cannot, of course, now foresee;
but any intelligent person will perceive that they will only
be received at a heavy loss in England, where the Whigs
call us bankrupts, and the Tories think us on the point of
annexation. In Canada, if trade continues to decrease in the
ratio it has done for the two last years, their value will be
positively nominal. Canada Debentures will be placed on
the same par as the Pennsylvania Bonds, and well will
it be for the province if the disgraceful word repudiation be
never pronounced in our Legislative Halls."
There is evidently work here for the Legislature, and
some speedy action should take plack in the matter.
The polling in favour of Baron Rothschild goes on so tri-
umphantly that there is a feeling of ridicule attached to the
efforts of his opponents.
At the London Dock meeting to-day, the usual dividend of
2% per cent. for the half-year was declared, and a very fa-
vourable statement was made of the business of the com-
pany. The new wool warehouses, which will allow of 8,000
bales being shown for public sale, are already nearly full, al-
though not long since completed. The dividend will be paid
on the 10th inst.
The Colonial Bank proprietors have also had their meet-
ing this morning, and a dividend of one per cent. for the
half-year has been declared. The profits have diminished,
owing to the increased caution exercised by the directors, but
the business is sounder.
The English Funds have remained comparatively dull, and
the report of a renewed complication of the Roman affair, and
the recal of General Oudinot, has some effect. Consols have
been 913/4 to 91%. New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents.
92% to 92%, and the Reduced Three per Cents. 9116 to 91%.
Bank Stock is about 194 to 195. Exchequer-bills have
been 445. to 475. premium, and India Bonds 695. to 71s.
premium.
The Foreign Securities have been very quiet, being marked
33 to % for Spanish Three per Cents., 28 to f for
Mexican, 29% to 29% for Portuguese Four per Cents., and
80 for Brazilian. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have
been 50 to 50i ex. dividend.
Railway Shares are again fiat, and generally lower, and
the speculators for a fall make the most of the unfavourable
circumstances connected with two or three of the York lines.
The returns of railway traffic for the twenty-four weeks of
this year show a gratifying result compared with last year.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 194 195
3 per Cent. Reduced Anauities 92%%
New 314 per Cont. Anna. ........ 921,4
Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 B% 8 11-16
India Stock
Do. Bonds, 10001 69 p
Ditto under 1.000/
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. I %d. 2d.
March. June.
1,0001.
5001. 47 44 p
Small 47 44 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bond., 5 per Cent BO
Equador Bonds
Grenada, 1 per Cent. ...... 15%
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent
Ditto Deferred
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto 4 per Cent.
Ditto Account . 291/2%
Russian Bonds, 1822,5 per Cent lO4
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent.........
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild
Ditto 4 Der Cent. Certificates
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARE& AT ONE O'CLOCK
RAILWAYS. rem Pea SHARE.

Caledonian
Eastern Counties
Do. Exten., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d
Do., do N0.2,6/. 138. 4d... 14 p... to
Edinburgh and Northern ... 25 ...... 11% to
Great Western 100
Ditto, Quarter Shares
Ditto, Fifths
Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 93 ..... ...... to
Ditto Quarters
Ditto Fifths lO
Do., West Riding Union... 9 .... . 41% to
Lend., Bright., & South Coast 50
London & North Western.....loo l3l
DI. New Quarters.
Do. Fifths
Mid1and........ lOO -
Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo ... .. 43
Birmingham, 6 per cent.... 100 126
North Staffordshire... .. ...... 17%
Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton ... .. .......... .. 50
Reading, Guildfd., & Reigate 15
Scottish Central
Shrewsbury and Birmingham 11 — to
Ditto. ditto, Class B. 7
lork, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 —
Do. and Newcastle Eaten. 20 ...... 133/476 to
Do. G. N. E. Pur. or Pref. 8 .... . 4
York and North:Midland .. 50 28.% 29 281,E to 293/4
Ditto, Preference
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Tours & Nantes ... . .. 11

T IS DAY.)
fresh gales and
Ay, with heavy passing clouds.
--DazAr-, JULY 2.—Wind N.W. to N.N.W.—Arrd. Adelaide,
Cornin, dauritius ; Elizabeth Ratcliffe, Beed, Callea ; Inde-
fLatLilfDleY: NND'arj'wvSo'---Tho'dSs,H.d—itl-Wto-Pi;nj'Fd ol::Tns"couo—en, Leyton,B(.W St. Thomas's;
Agnes, Labalestier, Honduras; Hargrave, Gardner, New
York for Antwerp. Arrd. from the River and sld. John
Bunyan, Thompson, Hong Kong; William Inglis, Newby,
Buenos Ayres. Sld. Mary Ann, Algoa Bay.
DOVER, JULY 2.—Wind N.N.V, 5, p.m., N.W.—Arrd.
Bonifacia, Cortina, La Guayra for Hamburgh ; Courier, Cora,
La Guayra. Off Port, Ist, Thomas, St. John's, New Bruns-
wick, for London.
OFF DUNGENESS.—Eweretta, Livingston, Grenada; Ist,
Amazon, Roberts, St. John's, New Brunswick; Kostenaar,
Mertens, Batavia for Rotterdam.
PORTSMOUTH, JULY 2.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Anna, Han-
sen, Batavia for Bremen ; Westminster, Doane, London, and
aid. for New York.

COWES, JULY 2.—Wind W.N. W. —Arrd. Nestor, Benstor,
Bahia ; Baltic, Crocker, Matanzas ; Francis, Gregory, Ha..
vannab; Cochituato Berry, ditto; Bessy, Haesloop, New
York.

SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 2..... Wind W.—Sld. Trent, steamier,
West Indies.

OFF THE START, Juxa 30.—Mountaineer, Demerara;
Palro, Digby,Dominica.
LIVERPOOL, JILT 2.—Wind W.—Arrd. Ist, Highlander,
Gething, Callao; Leonora, Demerara; Nautilus, Wright,
Tampico ; Lord Seaton, Fitzsimond, New Orleans ; Mas-
conorat, Knight, New Orleans; Richmond, Ewer, Mobile;
Cornelia, Blanchard, Mobile; Amity, Borrowdale, Pngwash ;
Lady Constable, Mason, Richibucto. 2d, Bronda, Baird, Per-
nambuco; Sesostris, Dand, Maranham, aid. May 24 t h ;on,ciirna:
cßu;enos
tie, Graves, Trinidad ; Contractor, Gordon, Porto
drew Scott, Emery, Apalachicola. Sld 30tiiic,k 5.0_511,,131;i
Anders
Ayres ; Volant, St. Andrew's, New Or-
son, Munudie, Ottawa, Quebec. Off port,
leans; Elizabeth. New_ Bruns wßelmont,
9 Wind N.W.—Arrd. 30tb, ChoriAer,
PLYMOUTH, JULY rir •
Adelaide,
South Australia.
Richards, Monte Video. 2d. Traialgar, nr~rrdr3oth, rigut,
OFF FALMOUTH, JANE 29.—General, Batavia for East-
ward. Ist inst. Acorn, Langlois, Porto Rico, and sailed for
Liverpool, Christine, Wells, New York, and sailed for Lon-
don.
CARDIFF.—SId. Change, Panama; Harp, New York.
GRANGEMOUTH, JUNE 29.—Arrd. liampson, Graham, St.
John's, N.B.

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—A short dramatic after-
season commenced here last evening, the operatic company
having left. The chier attraction of the performance was
the first appearance of those favourite artists, Arnal and
Madame Docile, who performed in the vaudevilles Ce que
Femme Veut and Riche d'.Amour. The house was well at-
tended. Some very amusing novelties are announced, which
will employ tke talents of Arnal and Madame Doche until
the close of the season at the end of next week.

A BROAD lIINT.-41 Sally, what time does your
folks dine ?" " Soon as you go away; that'a DlisBus' orders."
—Rochester .4.Yorth Star.

We confess we were afraid to speak; we were in rap-
tures over many of the solos, and enthusiastic to slight
insanity during the choruses; but as we knew not how
to make our pleasure audible, in acceptable phraseology,
we prudently remained silent, and felt. half ashamed of
our inability to participate in the oral hieroglyphics.
We had a shrewd idea that we could have As fully ex-
pressed our tasteful discrimination, and our intense ap-
proval, as our neighbours; but certainly not in their
peculiar way, so we betook ourselves to deep study in
chromatic" And nowy;
yet w wee
the erudite and black letter lore of music, beginning
with " Lasus of Hermione," and ending with " Cle-
ment"
of " breves " and " natural chords," with
tio flu enc
a.r cano
secretlyventure
o of
toop i
nt
iaol
nk t
hat mosti t
sounds very like a superior " slang.' " Tell it not in
Guth " though, or we shall never have another concert
ticket sent us.

All the world must have observed the routine of cour-
teous and superficial utterance attendant on " morning
calls," when healths are inquired after with strict gram.
matical solicitude, when running allusions to popular
subjects of gossiping interest are " got up" with dramatic
accuracy, as to text, and duly delivered in some half-
dozen drawing-rooms, where compliment and scandal are
administered according to " elite" authority, in words
and tunes that have no variation from their first visit in
Woburn-plaeo, their latest lingering in Belgrave-
square. Genuine, simpic matter-of. fact English, would
never carry people through the embassies
of " morning calls." Oh, dear no ! be assurct.,
reader, that the tongue which acquits itself creditably in
such work must be acquainted with a certain method of
speech, which is nothing more nor less than an elegant
and refined " slang"—a certain way and manner of
talking, spangled nothings—which would sadly per-
plex those foolish folks who have an obstinate knack of
saying only what they think and what they mean.
" Evening parties" are sustained on the same " deriva-
tives" and " elements" of language, perhaps rendered
occasionally a little more " mellifluous" in sound by the
" liquids" of negus and champagne.
Who will deny that there is a most distinct, and not
very euphonious, style of "slang " upon "'Change ?"
Only put your head into " Capel-court," and if you do
not confess that the business there is carried on in more
abstract and exclusive terms than any ever employed by
" Paul Clifford," or " Gentleman George," we will con-
sent to give up our shares in the " Californian Junction
Line." We sought to become enlightened in this living
Sanscrit; we anxiously inquired into the natural his-
tory of the " bear," and endeavoured to gain a few
particulars of the physiology of the " bull," but in
vain; every interrogative was met by some masonic
" 'Changeism," which our simple brain could not
possibly interpret. We tried to learn something of
the " stag," but our most determined attempts were
frustrated by the opaque "transcendentalism" of our
city " Buffon." We have frequently seen one in the
distance with the " pack" at his heels; but we know not to
this hour, whether tears ever "course down his innocent
nose." We made a rash and alarming essay in putting
an inquiry to a sleek-looking gentleman, whom we have
heard designated as a "lame duck," touching the " whys"
and " herefores" of his cognomen. The indignation
and displeasure he evinced, made us believe, for the mo-
ment, that, like Moses, we had broken all the Com-
mandments at once, and wo have never since men.
tioned a word relative to any aquatic cripple within- a
mile of Cornhill. We purchased the shares above men-
tioned, in the vague hope, that through them, we might
at least realise a trifle of intellectual endowment in the
Gresham classics. How dearly we have paid for our rash
pursuit of knowledge, we do not choose to tell. Be it
sufficient to reveal, that we religiously believe the
" whistle " alluded to so bitterly and philosophically by
the immortal Franklin, must have been a "railway " one,
and that we still consider the " parlance" of " scrip," and
"transfer," among the most veritable "slang" that ever
echoed in a commercial Babel.

There is a law " slang," which bewilders and confounds
most painfully, for we seldom come within reach of its
cabalistic breathings without knowing and feeling that
the same will be all set down in " costs," and that every
sentence of legal Hebrew formally chattered by aflippant
clerk, or lynx-eyed principal, will be ultimately balanced
by round and sound " pocket-pieces." We once saw an
old countryman fall into a
,violent fit of alarm on being
told he was " subi,enaed" on an approaching trial. " No-
body shall subpeeny' me," cried hei " I'll have none of
your law tricks—l'd rather go to Americky to get out of
the way." It was explained that he was merely to bear
testimony as a witness. " Aye, aye," said the old fellow,
" that's all well enough ; I ain't no objection to going
speaking the truth, but I stand none of your subpeeny-
ing' bedevilments." Many a wiser citizen of the world
has had dial dread of the " unknown tongue" so preva-
lent among " blue bags" and " briefs;' and happy for
them if the imposing and astounding " slang," so pecu-
liar to parchment and pleadings, intimates no greater
infliction than a " subpeenying bedevilment."
There is a medical "slang," which has astonishing in-
fluence with hypochondriacal gentlemen and nervous old
ladies. If a physician were to tell such patients that
their stomachs and brains were oppressed by improper
food and beverage, and that they only needed simple
diet, mental employment, and bodily exercise, the unfor-
tunate disciple of Esculapius might starve in his plain-
spoken honesty; but let him discourse of an inflamma-
tion of the " pylorus," let him suspect congestion of the
" biliary ducts," accompanied by gastric fermentation,
and deranged ganglionic nerves, and that even the
"pleura" and " diaphragm" show symptoms which need
great attention; let him insinuate these important words,
with grave demeanour, and the dear old ladies and gen-
preivseanstatstievree,pa,v,eur:
tlemen are satisfied most incomprehensibly; the talent of
the physician is pronounced " first rate," and they give
gold and take physic under the " hey presto" cony
of a few words of medical " slang."
There is a political " slang " heard, perhaps, in talk*,
" member " nominated who did not talk of " constital-
ontitconstituents," perfection,
entshustings.n
ofarepresentative,"
e
tives "" the great cause of reform," " devo-
tional proroga
"seal for the national welfare," "
ion to the people,"
"alle-
giance iance to the Protestant Church," " noble and worthy
apnroueldecptoiosintio
flinching in 'duty as a servant of the public," and a long
train of inflated idioms, recognised as belonging exclu-
sively to political " speechifying." They tell remarkably
well, with the addition of open taverns; and perhaps the
hustings' "slang" may be set down as among the moat
" corrupt"dialects ever listened to.

We could pursue the thread of our argument until it
became a large skein; but we think the needleful we have
given will show our readers that " slang" has its em-
bossed and gilt-edged encyclopedia, as well as its coarsely
printed hornbook. EuzA COOK.