The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-24 00:00:00

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CITY OF LONDON GENERAL
PENSION SOCIETY.—(TIIIS DAY.)
The annual general meeting of the subscribers of
this society, which was established thirty years ago
fir the permanent relief of aged and decayed artizans
an I others, and their widows, &c., was held this day ;
ELobert Obbard, Esq., in the chair.
The Secretary, Mr. GEORGE HENCE, read the
report, which detailed the results of the management
during the past year. Two elections have taken
place, at which eight new pesioners have been added
to the list. There are now 58 aged persons receiving
relief from this charity. Three pensioners died in
December last year, since which no death had taken
place. No less than 13 died in the year preceding,
anei nine the year before that. During the present
fearful and wide-spread mortality, not one of the
pensioners, most of whom are between 70 and 99
years of age, has been swept away by death. The
men are receiving 275. and the women 18s. per month,
and the directors have not felt justified in recommend-
ing any increase. In consequence of the festival in
April last a large accession had been made to the
fundts of the charity. A great number of the annual
subscribers have doubled their subscriptions. Not-
w;.thstanding deaths and other casualties amongst the
subscribers an increase of 601. has been made
in the annual subscriptions this year. The
net proceeds of the festival, after deducting all
expenses, amounted to upwards of 5001. in donations
alone. A legacy of 200/ has been received, and the
former secretary has repaid to the charity the whole
of the balance due from him. During the year
nearly 8001. has been paid to pensioners. Stock to
The amount of 435/. 18s. 7d. has been added to the
society's funded property, which now amounts
to 7,3061. 3s. The total working expenses, including
printing, stationery,' advertisements, rent, salaries,
and miscellaneous have been 299/. 6s. Bd., leaving a
balance in the Bank of England of 454/. Bs. ld.

The report and accounts having been approved and
adopted, the necessary officers for the ensuing year
were eleete.l.

New trustees of the life fund were then appointed,
in consequence of the death of several of the old
trustees, and it was directed that the whole stock
should be consolidated, and transferred into their
names.

Votes of thanks having been passed to the direct
ton, and the-Chairman, which were briefly acknow.
ler;igiad, the meeting separated.

FRANCE.

The Gazette de Hopitaux announces the still fur-
ther decrease of the cholera even beyond what had
been anticipated. On Thursday and Friday the
number of cases in the civil hospitals were only 16
from the former, and 17 the latter ; while the deaths
on Thursday were 13, and on Friday only 7. In
private houses the deaths were, on Wednesday 21,
and on Thursday 18.
The Municipal Council of Narbonne having been
dissolved by a decree of the President of the Republic,
a new election took place on Sunday and Monday,
when, after a warm contest, the Socialists succeeded
in electing their 27 candidates, 25 of whom were
members of the late Council.

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It was rumoured in Vienna that the Austrian and
Russian Ambassadors had quitted Constantinople.

ITALY.

The Osservatore Romano, of the 10th, states that
many members of the late Assembly have left Rome.
A large assembly cf the people was remarked outside
the Porta Pia on the 9th, notwithstanding the decree
which prohibits such meetings.—As the master of the
band of the 25th Regiment of the French army
was returning from Frascati to Rome, several shots
were fired at him simultaneously, but without effect.
The police were in search of the perpetrators.
The following Bill has been presented by
,the
Minister of War to the Chambers of Turin :
" Art. 1. The Government is authorised to deliver
horses belonging to the army, to private individuals of
the state under their responsibility, after au estimate of
their mercantile value and of their probable life, for no
more than eight year=. Art. 2. The private individuals
who shall have received such horses shall incur the
obligation of keeping and restoring them at the first
notice, or in lieu of them others of equal capacity for
service, during the time respectively fixed by Art. 1,
after which they shall he free from every responsibility.
Art. 3. If during the said time the nation were to place
itself on a war-footing, Government shall have the right
of using the said horses during the war. Mores in a state
of gestation shall be exempted from the service. Art. 4.
The Minister of War and Marine shall take the proper
measures in concert with the administration of the 1)o-
-main for the execution of the present law."
According to the Concordia of Turin. the Austrian
army in Italy is now distributed as follows :-Ist
Corps, under the command of General Wratislaw,
occupying the provinces of Milan, Lodi, and Cremona.
2d Corps, under General d'Aspre, occupying Central
Italy, south of the Po. 3d Corps, under Lieutenant-
Marshal Appel, occupying Brescia, Bergamo, and
Sondrio. 4th Corps, under Lieutenant-Marshal
Thum, occupying Como and the frontier of Switzer-
land. The Ist reserve corps, under Lieutenant-Mar-
shal Woger, occupies the Venetian provinces. The
garrison of Venice is 8,000 strong, under General
Gorzkowski. The garrison of Bologna is commanded
by Lieutenant-Marshal Wimpffen.
The Milan Gazette of the 17th states that a great
parade was held there on the preceding day, to cele-
brate the end of the revolution in Italy and Hungary.
In the absence of Field-Marshal Radetzky, General
Wratislaw assisted in his name.

A letter from Leghorn in the Corriere Mercantile
of Genoa of the 17th states that the military Gover-
nor has threatened judgment by martial law against
all persons who are found with packing-needles about
them, in consequence of wounds having been lately
inflicted with such instruments.
By a decree dated Pavullo, 10th inst., the Duke of
Modena has reduced certain taxes as follows :-1.
The increase of one fifth upon the direct tax, imposed
by the edict of the 22d of January last, is remitted
for the two last rates to be paid ; 2. Two of the four
rates to be paid as a forced loan by rich landholders,
merchants, and capitalists are suspended ; 3. The de-
duction from salaries and pensions ordered by the
decree of January 22 is to cease from the end of Sep-
tember ; 4. The increase of ten per cent. on indirect
taxes is taken off from the 15th inst.

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LONDON,*

accident of his birth ? He is a naturalist. Two years
ago he attended the meeting of the British Association
at Oxford, looked like the pictures of his uncle, talked
a great deal, and read a paper on a new genus and
three new species of bats. His likeness to Buena-
parte was unctuous, hairy, and large. His talk was
of peace and the blessed agency of science in
allaying party heats and international jealousies.
People were charmed to hear a Bonaparte talking
in this manner, and naturally thought what a happy
thing it would have been for mankind if Napoleon
had taken to stuffing birds instead] of slaying men.
We do not think that the Prince was quite true to
these amiable professions when he helped to intro-
duce into Rome a band of adventurers collected from
all parts of Europe—when he drove out its lawful
Sovereign—when he undermined, or threatened to
undermine, the Vatican, and to destroy all the monu-
ments of Rome, whether Pagan or Christian, sooner
than admit that Sovereign's allies. This might be
heroic, but it was neither pacific nor scientific ;
and instead of allowing the Prince to proceed on his
ornithological course the Association might well have
asked him a few questions about the clean and un-
clean varieties of the human species, the vampires and
the vultures he helped to collect into that Noah's ark
the "pseudo-Republic" of Rome.

TATTERSALL'S—THIS EVEN INC
SIX o'CLoca.
ITHREE YEAR OLD TRIENNIAL STAKEi.
7 to 4 agst Tadmor
5 to 2 agst Bornco
GRAND DUKE MICHAEL STAKES.
5 to 2 on Vatican
4 to 1 agst Honeycomb
TWO YEARS OLD TRIENNIAL STARES.
2 to 1 apt Knight of Avenel
3 to 1 agst Harding()
CESAREWITCH.
12 to 1 agst Glenalvon
20 to 1 agst Lady Evelyn
20 to 1 agst Raby
30 to 1 agst Legerdemain

PIG MANURE.—Mr. Samuel Pocock, of Thoul-
stone- farm, after referring to a debate on the subject, at
the last meeting of the Frome Agricultural Society,
remarks—" Well knowing the excellence of pig manure,
five years ago I was induced to try it solely for turnips.
I tested it against guano and bone dust. The result
was quite equal to the guano, and beat the bone dust
hollow. My farm is one part clay and another sand; I
found the same result on both. I have also the manage-
ment of a farm at Hampstead, a poor thin soil, and there
the manure was equally beneficial. I have continued to
use it ever since with the same results. To carry out
any plan convenient farm buildings are necessary. I
have a large dry shed, in which, first of all, I put a layer
of dry coal ashes, about a foot thick and four feet wide,
to which the deposit of the pigs is taken both liquid and
solid, and a 3 soon as it begins to ooze out I put on more
ashes, and so on till it gets to about four feet in thickness.
I then begin a fresh layer, and treat it in the same man-
ner. After lying some time it is turned two. or three
times, and then it is fit fur drilling. I have put in this
year 45 acres of turnips with nothing but this manure,
and the result is now open for the inspection of any who
may choose to see it. I found the droppings of three
pigs, carefully preserved, to be ample for two acres, and
quite equal to three sacks of bone dust per acre. lam
not speaking theoretically, but from actually experience;
and I consider that if we can get such valuable manure
for nothing but the labour, it is much better than to put
our hands in our pockets and paying 28s. or 30s. per
acre for artificial manures." The plan suggested from
practical experience of preparing a drill manure for
turnips, by an admixture of ashes and pig manure, I
believe might be extended to a very large number of
farming districts with decided advantage. In the
case of the ashes, they should be always prepared with
as large a portion of charcoal in them as possible.
Those from coals are, it is true, peculiarly useful for
many soils, from containing a portion of sulphate of
lime in them as well as charcoal; but these are not com-
monly obtainable to any large extent; but then the
farmer has very often the means of clearing vegetable
substances, but let him ever remember not to burn, but
to merely char these matters.—Somerset County Gazette.
Le Commander A. de Souza, Consul-General to her
Majesty the Queen of Portugal at Calcutta, left London
on Saturday morning by the General Steam Navigation
Company's Mail Steam-ship Columbine for Rotterdam.

PJEYISIOUTH, SEPT. 23.—Wind E.N.E.—Sid. Aliwal,
Port Natal; Coromandel, Port Adelaide, S. A.; Harry
Lorrequer, ditto.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.