The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-21 00:00:00

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" Palestrina, May 9, Nine P.M.
" The combat of to-day could not have had a better
termination. The Neapolitans, to the number of 7,000,
with 500 cavalry, arrived in the evening of yesterday at
Valmontone, and were annoyed by us during the night
with a fire of musketry, pushed up to the walls. To-
day they attempted to strike a decisive blow at us.
Three roads lead from this place to Valmontone, which
all meet in one at two musket-shots beyond Palestrina.
The enemy divided his forces into two bodies ; one was
directed upon our left, by the road which runs from
this to Cave, with a branch to Valmontone, the other
upon our right, by Lugano. At the centre a skirmish
took place, in which three of the Royalists were killed,
without any of our men being hurt.
" At half past four the enemy, whose coming we
ardently longed for, appeared. All was ready. The fire
began from our left, the enemy replying with cannon as
well as musketry. None of our men gave ground for an
instant, but stood nailed to their post, like lions made
fierce by thirst of blood. After an hour's firing, the
enemy made a movement in retreat ; a detachment of
our troops, sent to the left under shelter of the high
ground, opened a fire upon his flank, well nourished and
directed with such skill and steadiness that we had the
satisfaction of seeing the enemy betake himself to a
precipitate flight, leaving many dead and wounded, with
three pieces of artillery, two of them disabled. He was
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while another body of troops came upon our left, by
the pathway of Zagarolo, to which leads a track branch-
ing from the post-road of Frosinone, in the neighbour-
hood of Lugnano; they were drawn up in mass, with a
vanguard of cavalry; another body of cavalry, deployed
upon their left flank, was posted in reserve. This body
arrived in good order at the point where the roads
crossed each other, and opened a fire from one piece of
artillery. Their object was to repair the repulse they
had received on the other side, and they attempted to
deploy some battalions on this quarter, but our troops
were too firm at their posts to allow them to pass ;
thereupon they changed their tactics, and attempted
to penetrate to our right flank by descending in
single file. The fire with which they were met was
too keen; they tried a last effort, but, unsuccessfully.
Our men, encouraged exceedingly by what had passed,
met them with ardour, and could not long be restrained
in their position. Quitting it on three points, they
made a vigorous assault, and forced the enemy to a
hurried flight. A single company of ours sufficed to
pursue him more than a mile, repulsing and almost de-
stroying a squadron of cavalry, which had in despair
attempted a charge.
" Thus it is proved that the Italians, when they fight,
conquer—for those only are Italians who contend for
liberty. The Neapolitans sustained a heavy loss in
killed, wounded, and prisoners: of our men few were
wounded, and still fewer killed. The particulars of the
Royalist and our loss will be given to-morrow.
" DATERIU, Chief of the Staff of Gen. Garibaldi."
GARIBALDI returned to Rome on the 11th, and was
received in triumph. Accounts have been received
from Bologna to the 12th. The place still held out
against the Austrians. The people were fighting
desperately, and are prepared to make of Bologna a
second Saragossa. The Austrians have been repulsed
by the Bolognese in several attacks. Hostilities re-
commenced on the 9th, when the Austrians threw
rockets upon the town from the suburb of San 'Mi-
chele, and cannonaded it from the Palazzo Aldini. A
combined attack upon the Galliera, Felice, Isaia, and
Saragossa gates took place at the same time, all which
were repulsed, while the Bolognese cannon did great
execution among the Austrians at the Annunziata.
The Bolognese have 2,000 troops of the line.
The Riforma of Lucca publishes several procla-
mations of General D'ASPRE, at Leghorn, dated the
11th, directing that all arms are to' be given up
within 24 hours, prohibiting the tricolour, and re-
storing the old Tuscan white and red; dissolving the
National Guard, and declaring the town in a state of
siege.

SICILY.
Intelligence has been received from Palermo to the
9th. The Sicilians had driven back the forces of
FILANGIERI to Messelenimo, a distance of four miles,
and the Neapolitan steamers could not approach suffi
ciently near to bombard the city, from fear of the guns
of the fort..

THE CHURCH-YARD STILE.
I left thee young and gay, Mary,
When last the thorn was white;
I went upon my way, Mary,
And all the world seemed bright;
For though my love had ne'er been told,
Yet, yet I saw thy form
Beside me, in the midnight watch,
Above me, in the storm.
And many a blissful dream I had,
That brought thy gentle smile
Just as it came when last we leaned
Upon the Church-yard Stile.
I'm here to seek thee now, Mary,
As all I love the best;
To fondly tell thee how, Mary,
I've hid thee in my breast;
I came to yield thee up my heart,
With hope, and truth, and joy,
And crown with Manhood's honest faith
The feelings,of the boy.
I breathed thy name, but every pulse
Grew still and colit the while,
For I was told thou wert asleep,
Just by the Church-yard Stile.
My messmates deemed me brave, Mary,
Upon the sinking ship;
But flowers o'er thy grave, Mary,
Have power to blanch my lip.
I felt no throb of quailing fear,
Amid the wrecking surf,
But pale and weak I tremble here,
Upon the osiered turf.
I came to meet thy happy face,
And woo thy gleesome smile,
And only find thy resting-place
Close by the Church-yard Stile.
Ohl years may pass away, Mary,
And Sorrow lose its sting,
For Time is kind they say, Mary,
And flies with healing wing;
The world may make me old and wise,
And hope may have new birth,
And other joys and other ties
May link me to the earth;
But Mowery, living to the last,
Shall treasure up thy smile,
That called me back to find thy grave,
Close to the Church-yard Stile.
—Weehly Dispatch. ELIZA COOK.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool closed rather steady
on Saturday. Sales about 6,000 bales, including 5,000
American at 311. to 6d., 300 Mama:them at 4d. to 44e.,
100 Bahia at 4p., and 200 Surats at 3d. to 30. Prices
remained without alteration; 1,000 American were taken
on speculation, and 500 for export.—ln Railway Shares
a good business was done at rather higher prices.
In Mark-lane to-day very little business has been
transacted, and Wheat is perhaps rather lower than
otherwise. All Spring Corn, however, fully supports
the previous value.
A simple, but at the same time a very excellent sug-
gestion is made by the Postmaster-General in one of the
ordinary official circulars, via., the inhabitants of private
houses should have a letter-box made in the street-doors.
Such a small and inexpensive matter, it is no doubt
rightly stated, would prove of great benefit both to in-
dividuals and the public service, by materially hastening
the delivery of letters, for it is not too much to amen that
it is the detention at street doors, not the " walk," which
consumes the postman's time.
The exportation of the precious Metals from London
during the week to Thursday last was as fellows :
Gold coin to Hamburg 93 ounces ; Mauritius, 2,089
ounces; and 3,564/. ; and Belgium 150 ounces. Specie to
the Mauritius, 1791. Silver bars to Rotterdam, 20,000
ounces; silver coin to Rotterdam, 60,000 ounces ; to
Belgium, 27,500 outlets ; to Elambureb, 1:103 ounces;
and to the Mauritius, 3,910 ounces. The rect nt large
arrivals here of silver, and the increased difficulty expe-
rienced in negotiating bills of exchange, cause silver to
be made more fie quently available as a remittance,
The Ceritinental news has not made matters more
favourable here to-day, and the further decided fall in
the French Rentes affects us here, rather from the ap-
prehension it inspires than from any direct present
fluence which it has. It is not an unimportant circum-
stance that we may shortly witness pretty nearly
the same state of things in our Money Market
as that which prevailed last year, viz., that
in proportion as confidence oecomes weak abroad, the
surplus funds of bankers and others will be forwarded to
England for investment. It is natural to conclude that,
but for this circumstance, we should not have such a
steady market here ; and it is stated on good authority
that investments in our Funds are making for French
account, a statement, which we believe to be
correct, because in one or two instances
it comports with cur own knowledge. The
question, whether political, and as a consequence, finan..
cial affairs in France are likely to become worse, it is
scarcely possible to venture even an opinion upon, but
it is right to mention that in many well-informed quar-
ters the feeling prevails that there is an exaggerated fear
at Paris, scarcely warranted by the circumstances. The
vicissitudes of the past twelve months may, nevertheless,
well excuse the timidity shown in many quarters, and
which is the more natural after the steady improvement
recently in the French Funds.
We understand that the gentleman who was foremost
in his endeavour to take seminary vengeance upon the
miscreant who attacked our beloved Queen on Saturday,
was Mr. B. B. Williams, of Westbourne-terrace, Hyde
Park-gardens, and who would most undoubtedly have
carried his intention into full eff,ct, but for the inter-
ference of Maier General Wemyss and the police.
There has been a very heavy market for the Public Se-
curities, and the prices have further declined upon Satur-
day's range, being 904 to 91 for present Transfer and
Account. The sales for money, however, have been
wholly unimportant, and the speculative dealings are
likewise of no consideration. The New Threeeand-a-
Quarter per Cents. have been 90 to 3, and the Three
per Cents. 891 Bank Stock is worth 195. Exche-
quer-bills have been 445. to 475., and India Bonds 68s. to
70s. premium.
In the Foreign Market there is a certain flatness also,
in consequence of the dulness of the English Funds,
but there is very little doing. Mexican Bonds are 31e
to i; Brazilian, 774; Grenada Deferred, 31; and Buenos
Ayres, 374. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have
been 484 to 49.
Railway Shares have been rather flatter again, with
a moderate business doing. Tho English lines are all
lower, but the French are particularly affected.
O:NE CLU
P trS or BUITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES;
_lank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Anns ...... 891,6% 8-9 e
per Cent. Consols Annuities 9034 91 911
gew 3 per Cent. Anna-- .
Penns. to expire Jan. 1860 -16 8 9-16
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 BN: 8%
'ndia Bonds, 1,0004
Ditto under 1,0001.. ....... p VO p
Consols for Account
4:xchequer Bills. I%d. & 20.
1,000/. June ..............« 44 47 p
5001. June 44 47 p
Small, June 44 47 p
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS ONx
O'CLOCK.

47 p
47 p
47 p
CLOsus •
PRIG'S •
771%
3714
91 LA2
53

Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 ner Cent.
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent ... —
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Equador Bonds
Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent —
Ditto Deferred
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons 31% 31%
Ditto, Account .... 3 t 1/2 311 A
Ditto, Ex Coupons .....
Ditto, Account ............ ......... • 291 28% 29
;panish 5 per Cent. 1840. . .
Ditto, Account .
Ditto, Passive ..
Ditto, 3 per Cent
I )ividends on the above payable in London.
French Rentes, 5 per Cent.
Exchange —25 f. 30c,
Dutch 21/2 per Cent., 12 Guild.
PRICES OF PAID BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
.
AILIVAY SHARES. AT 0M O'CLOCK... PRICES.
Bristol and Exeter 9O ... ..
Di tto,iThirds
Caledonian
Do. New 101. Pref lO ... .. 11.4; xin ...... 1 INxin
:Mester and Holyhead
Ditto, Preference l5 ...... 12'% I2N
ii: as t e.rn Cousk ties— ..... 20 ...... 812.
Do. New Guaranteed
6 per Cent..
Ditto, Extension, 5 per
Cent., No. 1 6/.135. 4d.... 1/2...
East Lincolnshire ...... 25
Great Northern
Great Western 100
Ditto, 1/2 Shares
Ditto, 1,4 Shares
Ditto, Fifths ... 20
Ditto, New 171........ 15 ...
Hull and Selby .. ...... 50
Do. Sixteenths 6lr4 414
T,9ntion, Brighton, anel
South Coast 5O .. ... 36% 36%
Do.Guarant. 5 per ct.. 9
,s
Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50
Llndun and Greenwich 12/15s 4d... 9% s 4 ...... 93.4
London and N. Western 100 ..... 128 127 l'7
Ditto, New Quarters.. 7
Ditto, Fifths ..... .. .. 2 ..., VA 713
Lon 4. &S. Western 50 ...... 34 t/,1,4
Midland ... . —lOO ..... 681/26'7 68 67.4 671/2
Do., do., 50/... Shares... 25 ... .. 131/2 14
Do. Birm., and Derbyloo
Do.Consol. Bristol and
Birming., 6 per ct.... 100 ......1221/2.... ..... ..... 0231/2
NThrfolk .......... ........ —.lOO - .....• 351/2
Nirth British ........ ... 25 ....
Ditto, Halves ..
Ditto, Quarters
_... 3

3%

Ditto, Thirds; Bll/4 331,
_orth Staffordshire 17% 1214 i».•
Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton 50

Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate - 15
Shrewsbury and Birns... 11
So ith Staffordshire 7I.E 2% ..
iiuth F.sster, . 331,E 203/4 21 20%...
D0., Scrip No 4
South Yorkshire, Don-
caster, and Goole $
Wear Valley 6 per Cent.
Guaranteed ... .. ...... b 0
Do. do. do. ... 25
York, Newcastle, and
Berwick ... ..
MN. Newcastle Eater. 20
Do. G.N.E.Preference 8 ... .. — 4 ll
York and North Midland 50 30 14 29% 30% 30 29% 29%
Ditto, Preference
Do. Fast and Westßid-
ing Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 20
Dutch Rhenish ......... 7 LA... .. .. ...... .... ';i:
Great Indian Peninsular 5 ...... 5 5'4
Namur and Liege
Northern of France...... I 3
Paris and Orleans ...... 20
Paris and Rouen 2O ..... 19
Rouen and Havre

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