The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-14 00:00:00

ITALY.

The following telegraphic dispatch was publithed
at Rome on the 2.(1 inst.:—
" THIRD BULLETIN.

" The French army is encamped at Castel di Guido.
It is believed that it consists of 5,000 men. Nothing
now. The country round Rome is tranquil. Nothing
can be seen from Rome, but on the other points
there are agents who have a view of passing occur-
rences.

Forty minutes past ten o'clock A m.—The French
troops are moving towards the west.
" 23 minutes past 11—Colonel Mosi announces that he
is watching the French troops.
"30 minutes past I—Garibaldi must be at Malagrotta.
" 15 minutes past 4—The enemy are striking their
tents.

" 15 minutes past 6-100 of our dragoons, with Gari-
baldi and his corps, are to be seen at Santa Maria de la
Ripera.
_ _

'• 5 minutes past 7—A column of the French troops is
seen at St. Severs. Others at Prati. The fog impedes
our communications."

The Italia del Popolo of Rome, of the 3.1 inst., con.
tains a:► iusulting article on the Neapolitan army

" Surround, surround Rome," it says, " with a circle of
fire; still Rome will resist as long es she retains a spark
of li,e. If we are vanquished, it will be after our death!
Up brothers ; to arms ! avenge the ambassadors of
Palermo and Messina. Up; God is with u.;!"
The Commission of the Barricades at Home pub-
lished the following proclamation on the 2i inst.:-
6' Gtneral Oudinot promised to pay for everything in
cash. Let him, therefore, pay for the pictures of Raphael
perforated by French bullets. Let him pay for the in-
jury and the insult inflicted oallichael Angelo. Napo •
leon carried off the Italian works of art to Paris, but we
had at least a compensation in the admiration bestowed
on them by foreigners. At present the French Govern •
meat invades our territory, and such is their love fur
Rome teat they wish tb destroy it ? "
A letter from Rome of the 4th inst. says—
" The capital is tranquil. It appears that the Nea-
politzins are approaching our walls. The Commission of
the Barricades have ordered all the blacksmiths to pre-
pare iron hooks to be used against the cavalry. Prepara-
tions have been made to meet the enemy. The Trium-
virate, whilst announcing to the people the approach
of the Neapolitans, exhort them to defend their
sovereignty to the last extremity. Considerable reinforce-
ments of infantry and artillery had arrived to the assis-
tance of the Unmans. The first division of the Neapo-
litans is said to amount to 8,000 men; the second to
2,000."

The National publishes the following letter from
M. Peacantini, late Envoy from the Roman Republic
to the French Government :
" The French have come to bombard the Roman Re-
public through love for the Pope. Whilst they were en-
deavouring to scale the garden of the Vatican, and were
bomb .riling the palace, I was on the terrace with several
representatives. I replied to the bombardment, and to
the assault, by ordering the band of the Carabiniers to
play up the Marseillaise.' The same evening I accom-
panied a Frenchman to visit the barricades of the Porta
del Popolo, and showing him the obelisk of Sesostri3, the
most ancient in the world, I could not avoid saying to
him, '• Leok at this obelisk—it is extremely old. It is,
we are told, 6,000 years old, but it never witnes.,ed any
infamy equal to tha; of the eonduct of the Government of
the Frentnltepublic against theltoman Republic. Speaking
of M. Drouyn de Lhays, he says, If you see the Minister
for Foreign Affairs, tell him that he was wanting in gcod
faith to me.' Beltram and I have proved by our sepa-
rate votes, and by our collective declarations, what great
confidence we felt in the French Republic, and how far
we would go in point of concessions. We were far from
thinking that he would have replied to Ls by the crime
of fratricide."

A rumour is in circulation in Paris, that the
Neapolitans were beaten by Garibaldi before the
gates of Rome, in an affair said to have taken place
on the sth.

NEWMARKET RAILWAY.
(MIS DAY.)

The adjourned halt-yearly general meeting of the
Newmarket and Chesterford Railway Company was held
this afternoon at the London Tavern, Bishcpsgate; Lurd
George Manners in the chair.
The report of the Committee of Investigation ap-
pointed at the previous meeting was read. It was a
long document, but this following extracts will convey
its spirit:—" The company was projected in 1845, during
the prevalence of the railway excitement. The original
design was, as your committee believe, not to make a
line merely from Chesterford to Newmarket, which
would have been absurd, but to make that line as
part of a scheme, which was ultimately to em-
brace extensions to Thetford and Bury St. Ed-
munds. The actual proposal however, as pre-
sented to Parliament and sanctioned in July
1846, was to make a line from Chesterford to New-
market only, with a branch to Cambridge ; and for this
purpose power was obtained to raise 350,0001. in share
capital, and to borrow 116,0001. on debentures. This
sum, economically manager!, would have amply sufficed
to carry ou; the design. Unfortuaa.telyour dirt ctors
appear to have assumed as of course that the ex-
tension Acts would be obtained, and that capital
would be forthcoming to carry out the more extended
plan; and in anticipation of this they directed expen-
sive surveys to be made of the proposed Thetford and
Bury lines, entered into heavy prospective contracts for
the purchase of laud, and ordered a vast supply of loco-
motive engines, passenger carriages, and trucks; they
even sanctioned the erection of a double station at New-
market, which would probably have cost upwards of
50,0001 All this occurred between 1846 and the meet-
ing of Parliament in 1847. Meanwhile the railway
excitement had sabstded, and it had become evident that
capital, n able for carrying out the extensions,
could not then b) obtained; nevJrtheless your directors
adhered to their original views, and after spending
an immense sum in overcoming a Parliamentary oppo-
sition, obtained their Extension Acts, which have ever
since remained a dead letter. Fortunately the execution
of the original design as to the double station at New -
market was abandoned, and a more moderate building,
though still too costly, was erected, after an expenditure
of about 2,0001 From the contracts relating to rolling
stock it was too late to escape, and you have been in
consequence burthened with a plant which cost upwards
of 88,0001. Part of it has since been sold at a loss, and
the remainder is at this moment useless to you. The
line was now in this position. Owing to mismanage-
ment it did not earn 101. per mile per neck ; and the,
committee now submit the following as the result of
their deliberation3:—

" 1. They recommend you, if no suitable offer be
made by the Eastern Counties Company, or any other
company, to abandon, for the present, all thoughts of
selling or leasing your railway, and to concentrate all
your energies on the improvement of your property.
If properly improved, it will fetch a good price at the
proper time.

"2. Remodel your system of direction. Whilst con-
demning the past, your committee fed disposed to at-
tribute your present position rather to the directorial
system than to your board of directors or any of
its members. The directorial system is, as they think,
faulty in principle. It does not impose particular duties
on particular individuals, and we all know that what is
everybody's business is nobody's, and is not done with
business-like attention or energy. But whether that
) ,Clll
' • be a faulty one in all cas.s or not, your com-
mittee are satisfied that it is inapplicable to a small
undertaking like yours. Such an undertaking ought to be
managed chiefly by one responsible person. Your com-
mittee, therefore, recommend you to-
3. Appoint a managing director, appropriato to him
all the remuneration you can afford, and let that remu-
neration be by a percentage on net profits. Remunera-
tion by net profits will probably induce your managing
director to make every eirOrt to increase your revenue,
and diminish your expenditure. ilitherto yoir revenue
has been but little cared for, and your expenditure has
not bi en kept down. Many disputes which your com-
mittee cannot but think that a managing director, in-

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terested in keeping down outgoings, would, by
his personal interference, have settled at once, have '
been left to ripen into expensive lawsuits, in
which many hundreds have been spent. The con-
tract with the Electric Telegraph Company has
particularly attracted the attention of your committee,
as it involves a permanent burthen of not less than 3001.
a year. Certain it is, that although large railways,
with enormous revenues, may be remunerative, notwith-
standing some waste, small railways cannot bear heavy
charges. Of course the managing director ought him-
self to be under superintendence, and should on all mea-
-1 sions of importance, act only with the sanction of other
directors. Your committee are therefore of opinion that
you should—
" 4. Appoint five other directors, who should act gra-
tuitously until the funds of the company will admit of
their receiving remuneration."
Mr. FANE, the chairman of the committee, moved the
adoption of this report, and after some discussion, it was
agreed to.
Mr. SHEPPARD, another of the committee, moved that
the nomination of the directorS be entrusted to the com-
mittee and the Noble Chairman, which a as also agreed
to, and the proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks
to the committee and chairman.

ADULT DEAF AND DUMB INSTI-
TUTION.—(TIIIS DAY.)
A meeting was held to-day in the Board Room of
this excellent charity, 26, Red Lion-square, Blooms-
bury. From the sixth annual report it appears that
the superintendents of the several departments have had
occasion to give the most encouraging reports as to the
progress of the pupils in learning the different trades
carried on at the institution. There are at present
twenty inmates, and it has been found advisable, during
the past year, to separate the elder workmen from the
youths; the former are therefore supplied with leather
and cloth, which they manufacture at their homes, and
bring the article after cympletion to the institution,
whilst the youths work in the institution, thus as much
as possible preserving the inmates from evil communi-
cations from without. A few of the elder workmen
cannot wholly support themselves by their labour, and
therefore receive temporary relief from the funds f the
charity. Upwards of 180 deaf and dumb perions have
received temporary relief during the past year, either
by giving them clothes or money, and all who apply
receive casual assistance in the various difficulties into
which the deaf end dumb are peculiarly liable to fall.
It was stated that since the printing of the report,
some of the inmates had left the asylum fully qualified
to support themselves by their own labour and industry,
while others had been received in their place. The ap-
plications for admission, however, were far more nume-
rous than the committee could entertain, owing to the
want of funds, and a hope was expressed by the meet-
ing that the co-operate of the benevolent would be ade-
quate in exteot to the nature and requirements of the
charity.

[IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

- - -
The LORD CHANCELLOR. took his seat on the wool-
sack at Five o'clock.
The Bishop of LONDON presented several petitions
in favour of the Bill for the protection of women.
The Earl of STRADBROKE presented several peti-
tions praying for a repeal of the malt tax.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE presented a petition from
Sheffield against the proposition for giving the Commis-
sioners in Bankruptcy a criminal jurisdiction. His Noble
and Learned Friend had promised to give to that prayer
of the petition his best consideration. The subject had
been already mooted in the Committee.
Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the
Liverpool Association for Protection of Trade with a
similar prayer. The Committee had that day heard the
evidence from Manchester and Leeds on this point.
The Earl of CARLISLE presented eeveral petitions
from places in Yorkshire against giving a penal juris-
diction to the Commissioners in Bankruptcy; also, seve-
ral petitions in favour of fecalar education.
PORTPATRICK AND DONAGHADEE.

The Marquis of LONDONDERRY asked whether it
was the intention of the Government to continue the
communication between fort-Patrick and Donaghadce.

The answer of the Marquis of LANSUOWNE was
quite inaudible in the gallery.
The Marquis of GLANRICARDEwouId not shrink from
taking upon himself the responsibility of having ordered
the removal of the packets between Port Patrick and
Donaghcdee; by that removal there had been a saving
of 4,0001. a year to the public, while the communication
bet Ween Scotland and Ireland had been better carried
on by other channels.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said that when
the railroad should be completed to Port Patrick they
would regret having given up that communication.
AFFAIRS OF ROME.

Lord BEAUMONT, in rising to put the questions of
which he had given notice with regard to the intervention
of the French, the Austrians, and the Neapolitans in the
affairs of Rome, besought their Lordships to keep silence
in order that, as he suffered from severe hoarseness, he
might be heard. On the accession of the Supreme
Pontiff, misgovernment had brought them to the verge of
rebellion. During the reign of Gregory XVI. hundreds
had been executed, and the prisons were filled' to over-
flowing. On the accession of Pius IX., it was deter-
mined to reform the institutions, in order to
drevent an outbreak; but to such a height had
abuses grown that it was seen that the attempt
must lead to the separation of the temporal from the
spiritual power, but it was made in a mariner which in-
sured its failure. It was attempted to govern the country
with the advice of secular councillors without sacerdotal
supremacy. These secular councillors were deprived of
the initiative in legislation. At this time revolutions took
place in the other states of Italy and the Roman people
claimed for themselves those liberties which had been
conceded to the people of the other Italian states. To
the granting of these concessions, the whole body of the
Cardinals was opposed.
(LEFT 4YEAKIN G.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair & few minutes before
Fuur o'clock.

THIRD READINGS.
The following Bills were read a third time and
passed:—
Caledonian Railway (Purchase or Lease of Wishaw
and Coltness Railway).
York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway and Mary-
port and Carlisle Railway (Lease and Amalgamation).
York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway (Newcastle-
upon-Tyne and Carlisle Railway Lease and Amalgama-
tion).