The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-12 00:00:00

ITALY.

A private letter from Rome mentions an epigram
which had been posted on the walls of that city, al-
luding to the circumstance that M. Baraguay d'Hilliers
has two aides-de-camp named Foy and Dieu; from
which it infers that the French Republic, seeing that
the Roman Government had neither faith nor God,
had thought fit to send both.
The Statuto of Florence quotes a letter from Rome
of the Ist, in which it is stated that General Baraguay
d'Hilliers' instructions are to threaten the Pope with
the evacuation of the Roman States by all foreign
troops, unless he consent to return to Rome imme-
diately. It also mentions a letter said to have been
written by a French diplomatist, announcing
that since the news of the embarkation of the
Spanish troops, matters had assumed a more
promising aspect at Portici ; that now it is
the Pope himself who begs the French will
remain ; that the arrival of the new Ambassador is
anxiously expected, and that negotiations are about
being entered into for a permanent garrisoning of
Rome, but that it is probable General Baraguay
d'Hilliers will insist upon the Pope's return before he
enters into any parley on that subject. The corre-
spondent further says that the Pope has sent private
instructions to the three cardinals recommending them
to govern with the greatest moderation.
The Piedmontese Gazette of the 6th publishes a
royal ordonnance instituting a normal infantry school
for the formation of good officers.
The Reforma of Lucca states that war steamers
are to ply on the Lago di Gardi, the Lago Maggiore,
and the mouths of the Po. The Austrians are not
fortifying Piacenza, as had been stated.
The Piedmontese Gazette contains a Ministerial
report and royal decree dated the 4th, founded upon
it, which must be considered as a concession to the
moderate Left of the late Piedmontese Chamber, and
calculated to exercise a conciliatory influence on the
impending elections. By this decree a special commis-
sion is named to examine applications for naturalization
made by the natives of the provinces united to the king-
dom of Sardinia,in virtue of the laws of the 27th of May,
16th and 21st of June, 11th and 27th of July, 1848.
The Commission is to take into especial consideration
the applications of those : Ist. Who are excluded from
Amnesty in their own country on account of political
acts intended to promote the cause of Italian indepen-
dence, and who have applied for letters of naturaliza-
tion before the promulgation of this decree. 2dly.
• Who are invested with some public office in the State.
The letters of naturalization are to be delivered free of
expense.

IRELAND.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
DUBLIN, MONDAY EVENING, DEC. 10.—Two
municipal elections took place to day for the wards
vacated by Mr. Reynolds, M.P., electing to sit for his
old ward, Merrion. Mr. Martin Burke, the eccentric
but wealthy proprietor of the Shelburne Hotel, and
who possesses the reputation of having saved Charles
Gavan Duffy from the fate of John Mitchel, was
returned for the Castle ward by a majority of 13 over
James Meade Loughnan, a Repealer, who last week
.vas ousted by a Conservative from the Custom-
house ward, for which he had sat since the Municipll
Reform Bill. Mr. Bagnall, a Repealer, was returned
without opposition for the Linen-hall ward, also va-
cated by Mr. Reynolds.
The great will case of the Hon. Martin Ffrench
against his brother Lord Ffrench, re-commenced to-
day, the Court having granted an order for a new
trial. The case, which is a special jury one, sill

last three or four days!
THE NEW COURT AND THE OLD ONE.—The fol-
lowing intimation, which was going the rounds of
the " Hall " to day evinces the noli-me-tangere
relations in which the Court of Chancery and the En-
cumbered Estates Commission stand towards each
other. It appears nothing can equal the politeness
of one to the other, except its distance. It
is now "fixed" by the Master of the Rolls, that he
will not appoint a receiver on petition, on any lands
brought into the Encumbered Estates Court, except
at the cost of the party applying. Further, if any
application be made for a receiver in respect
of such lands, and his Hononr be not ap-
prised that they are so circumstanced, the
order will be rescinded, with costs, to be paid by the
solicitor presenting the petition for the receiver. The
attorneys look upon this as sharp practice, even from
one so little friendly to the profession as the Right
Hon. T. B. C. Smith.

The sudden death of John Boyse, Esq., the newly-
elected Mayor of Limerick, before he had entered
on office, will cause a sharp contest for the civic
I dignity in that city. Limerick is a stronghold of
the Protectionists, and it is expected that the struggle
for the mayoralty will embrace the questions of free-
trade or protection. Mr. Boyse was for a moderate
fixed duty.
A commercial paper of this evening has the follow-
ing particulars respecting a course of competition, at
once insane and destructive, in which an immense
Irish capital is wasted in mutual injury instead of in
attempting to open up the thousand roads to prospe-
rity still accessible in this country to well-directed
skill and industry :
" One of the Dublin and London companies, irritated
by the opposition given to them by some gentlemen con-
nected with Waterford, encouraged or assisted the
establishment of a steamer between Waterford and
Liverpool, in competition with the Waterford Steam-
packet Company; and the latter, by way of reta-
liation, have placed vessels on the Dublin and Liver-
pool station, to oppose the City of Dublin Com-
pany, which is nearly identical with the British
and Irish Company, the promoters of the
Waterford opposition. This last is supported
by the Waterford and Kilkenny Railway Company,
which claims indeed the merit of originating it, and in
revenge for this intervention, parties connected with the
old Waterford Company have set up cars for the con-
veyance of goods to and from Kilkenny, whereby the
railway traffic has suffered severely.
" The result of this insane competition is that between
Dublin and London, Dublin and Liverpool, and between
Waterford and Liverpool. the several steam compa-
nies are carrying goods and passengers at rates
which yield to them little more than half
their expenses. Four years ago there was but one
company plying between this port and Liverpool;
there aro now three; seven ships in each week being
the addition made by the new comers. The freights
are about one -fourth, one-fifth, or even one-sixth
of what they then were; eno company, for instance,
carrying sugar for 2s. per ton; bale goods for Id. per
foot; and deck passengers at 3d. a head. If directors
are devoid of common sense, have shareholders no power
to put a stop to this inconceivable folly—to this rceklsss
and most inexcusable waste?"
THE FUNDS.—Three per Cent Consols, 95k; Three-
and-a-Quarter per Cent. Steck, 96k; Mining Company
of Ireland, 5; Dublin and Kingstown Company, 132.
ROYAL EXCHANGE. City Debentures, Four per
Cents., 72k; Dublin Consumers' Gas Company, 4t.

METROPOLITAN WATER SUPPLY.—On Monday
evening a very numerous meeting of the parishioners cf
Southwark and the districts adjacent was held at tho
Three Tuns Tavern, Borough, for the purpose of con-
sidering " the present defective and impure supply of
water to those localities, as now drawn from the pol-
luted river Thames ; and also for the purpose of adopt-
ing measures to secure a constant, cheap, abundant, and
pure supply of water at high pressure, as essentially
cessary for the health of the inhabitants." Mr. T.
Walker, a churchwarden of St. Olave's, took the chair.
Ho observed, that they had not mot for the promotion
of any particular scheme. They wished to agitate the
general question only, as no one could doubt that the
supply from the cesspool of the Thames was unfit for
human consumption. Not only was the water bad in
quality, but deficient in quantity ; and, impure as it
was, there was not even enough to supply the mlec-
rable dwellings of the poor, let, sub-let, and even re-
let again, and where the most imperative necessity
existed for an unusually abundant supply. Mr. Challis,
surgeon and chairman of the Bermondsey Board
of Guardians, proposed the first resolution, and in
doing so remarked, that the people were at present
utterly unable to prevent the infliction of bad water
upon themselves, and the Government would probably
not greatly interest itself until the pressure from with-
out compelled them to give their undivided attention to
the crying evil of the present monopoly. The late epi-
demic had peculiarly chosen for its ravages those dis-
tricts south of the Thames supplied with its waters, and,
as if to indicate its deleterious influence, had literally
stayed at the point where that supply ceased. The
resolution he had to props° was, " That this meeting
considers the water supply of the whole metropolis
deficient in quantity, impure in quality, and more espe-
cially so in the parish of Southwark and the adjacent
districts, that supply being drawn from the impure
water of the Thames." Mr. William Howard seconded
this resolution, which was unanimously agreed to. The
second resolution recommended that " each metropolitan
parish should, by vestry meetings or otherwise, support
the principle of parochial co-operation for the purpose
of obtaining from Parliament powers to place the whole
of the water service under the management of a board
of parochial representatives appointed by the rate.
payers of all the metropolitan parishes." This was also
egreed to, and the meeting separated after a vote of
thanks to the chairman.

THE EMPEROR, FAUSTIN.—A money-changer of
Paris received yesterdayft om Port-au-Prince a complete
set of all the coins struck since Soulouque has been
declared Emperor. They aro of the same nominal value
as the coins of France. Each coin represents on one
side the new Emperor, in the imperial costume, like that
of Napoleon on the day of his coronation; and on the
cther side the inscription of "Faustin 1., Emperor of
Hayti." Round the edge aro the words—" God protects
my people."— Galignant s Messenger.
The Belgian Moniteur annnounces officially that
in consequence of the death of the Queen Dowager of
England, the King of the Belgians has gone into
mourning for two months from the 6th.