The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-31 00:00:00

ITALY.

Marshal RADETZKY is appointed Governor- Genera
of the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom. He will re.
side at Verona, and be assisted by the Counts
MosTEcucum and STRASSOLDO. Prince SCHVARE-
ZENRERG is named as Civil and Military Governor of
Milan ; and General PUCHNER as Civil and Military
Governor of Venice.
The Statuto, of Florence, quotes a letter from
Rome, of the 20th, stating that the pro-Minister
GALLI has drawn up a new financial project in-
stead of the one on the paper bank which had been
rejected by the commission of finance. This new
project consists in a new system of indirect taxes.
The Government, acera)ing to this system, is to tax
every commune in proportion to its population. The
commune is bound to pay to Government the whole
of the tax, and afterwards rate its inhabitants accord-
ing to the amount. This system would establish a
different taxation for every commune.
The Chamber of Deputies at Turin came to a
vote on the 25th, limiting, by a great majority, the
collection of the indirect taxes to the month of
November.
On the same day a Cabinet Council was held at
Turin for the purpose of considering the nomination
of the new Minister of Public Works. It was said
that overtures had been made to Engineer PALEOCAPA.
Chevalier LIGNES BARDOJI, Charge d'Affaires of
the Queen of SPAIN, has had an audience of the
KING in order to present to him the insignia of
Grand Cross of the Order of Charles 111. His
MAJESTY already had that of the Golden Fleece.

THE LORD MAYOR.
The following letter from Lord John Russell to
the Lord Mayor will be read with unfeigned grati-
fication by all who have formed a just estimate of the
duties which devolve on a Chief Magistrate of Lon-
don, and who have carefully watched the manner in
which these have been performed by Sir James
Duke. The influence of his high station has been
uniformly employed in accordance with ithe
en-
lightened spirit of the age; and his hospitality,
although of the most princely kind, and on the most
extended scale, has never been ostentatiously or indis•
crimina•ely bestowed. The Mansion-house, since
the commencement of his Mayoralty, has been thrown
open to distinguished men of all creeds and parties ;
whilst science and literature have made (w e
believe we may say) their first festive ac-
quaintance with commerce at his board.
In one thing we cannot be mistaken—the universal
feeling that Sir James Duke will leave his high office
exalted in public estimation by his fulfilment of its
duties, and we therefore warmly and cordially con,
gratulate him on the well-deserved honour that he has
received :

" Downing street, Oct. 30, 1849.
" My dear Lord Mayor,—The Queen has been
pleased to direct that your Lordship should be created
a baronet.
" In congratulating you upon this distinction, I
may add, that his Royal Highness Prince Albert was
highly gratified with the reception which his Royal
Highness, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales,
and her Royal Highness the Princess Royal have
met with from the immense multitude who greeted
their progress this day.
" His Royal Highness was likewise extremely
gratified with the arrangements made at the Coal
Exchange, and the loyalty evinced by all classes of
the Queen's subjects.
" 1 have the honour to be, my dear Lord Mayor,
" Yours, very faithfully.
" The Lord Mayor." " J. RUSSELL."

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD JOHN
RUSSELL, ONE OF HER MAJESTY'S PRIN-
CIPAL SECRETARIES OF STATE.
My Lord,—l am not going to ask you to rehearse
the Articles of your Belief, —but to thank you for
having done a service to honest men of all beliefs, by
standing out against the grcss imposture attempted to
be practised upon the country whose counsels you
direct, by men presenting themselves to you with a
palpable falsification in their hands, of the authority
to which they untruly made profession to appeal.
Your courage has saved the country from the dis•
grace of bowing before the Baal of a lie, got up by
some if not by others, with ulterior designs against
the freedom and progress of the State. But the
danger though parried is not over. A needle cannot
stand upon its point, but if it does not fall our way
will fall the other. There will be neither safety nor
quiet till the truth is driven home, to the confusion of
its enemies. There can be little doubt that they
will provide the opportunity.
What I want then to submit to the grave consi-
deration bound to be attendant on the acts of the
prime minister of a great country, is whether if
another bishop should present himself to you with a
heresy for which he, ought to be unfrocked, and
inferior churchmen in the receipt of pay and allow-
ances for upholding the faith adopted by the
majority of the nation from the Protestant
Reformers should aid him in his apostasy,—
the conduct befitting the first Minister of a Pro-
testant Sovereign, would not be to reply with the
self-possession which few who have witnessed it have
forgotten, and with the still small voice which has
been heard farther than the thunder and the storm,
That the principle they advance is not supported by
Christianity, but is in distinct terms repudiated by
Christianity:
That it is not in the doctrines of the Protestant
Reformers, but, on the contrary, is enumerated among
their grievances in the Confession of Augsburg.
That it is not in the doctrines of the Church whose
ministers they profess to be, but, on the contrary, the
Church in her Catechism and Articles, in strict con-
formity with the injunction of the New Testament,
refuses to admit the obligation of the Fourth Jewish
commandment, and thereby classes it among the
" Ceremonies, Rites, and Civil precepts, which do not
bind Christian men," and not the " Commandments
; which are called Moral."
A rebuff of this kind would be the most useful
thing that has happened since Elizabeth stopped the
Churchmen's games in Smithfield.
ONE WHO BELIEVES SABBATICAL OBSERV-
ANCE PROHIBITED TO CHRISTIANS.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NEWMARKET COURSING MEETING—TUESDAY.
CHIPPENHAM FIELD.—THE DERBY.
Mr. Fyson's Fabian beat Mr. Dobede's Donald.
Mr. Buckworth's Butcher beat Mr. B. Smyth's Saxon.
Lord Stradbroke's Merchant boat Mr. King's Refuge.
Mr. B. Smyth's Seville beat Mr. Gillett's Garnet.
Mr. Dobede's Damion beat Mr. Fyson's Fig.
Mr. O3baldeston's Othello beat Mr. Finch's Cantab.
THE CUP.
Mr. Fyson's Forerunner beat Mr. B. Smyth's Sanspareille
Mr. Buckworthy's Bruce beat Mr. Fyson's Fancy Boy.
Lord Stradbroke's Moreen beat Mr. B. Smyth's Sweet-
briar.
Mr. Dobede's Doron beat Mr. King's Rex.
Mr. Osbaldeston's Olinda beat Lord Stradbroke's Miller.
Mr. Dobede's Desperate beat Mr. Gillett's Game Chicken
Mr. Osbaldeston's Orlando beat Mr. Buckworth's Baron
Mr. Buckworth's Bessie Bell beat Mr. Moody's Baby.
THE OARS.
Mr. Gillett's Glance beat Mr. Osbaldeston's Ophelia.
Mr. bloody's Rosebud beat Mr. Gillett's Geneva.
Mr. Fyson's Fairy Queen beat Mr. Dobede's Dewdrop.
Mr. B. Smyth's Silkworm beat Mr. Buckworth's Brocade
Mr. Moody's Ready beat Mr. Buckworth's Bodice.
Mr. Fyson's Fortune-teller beat Lord Stradbroke's Male.
Mr. Finch's Crenoline beat M. B. Smyth's Starligh
Lord Stradbroke's blanto beat Mr. Dobede's Dew berry.
PORT STARES.
Mr. Dobede's Diamond beat Mr. Buckworth's Brush.
Mr. Gillett's Glentilt beat Lord Stradbroke's Music.
Mr. Buckworth's llebe beat Mr. Dobede's Douglas.
Lord Stradbroke's Mary beat Mr. Dobede's Drift.
Mr. B. Smyth's Sheriff beat Mr. King's Racer.
Mr. Fyson's Field Marshal beat Lord Stradbroke's Maly,.
Mr. Fyson's Formidable beat Mr. Moody's Rattle.
Mr. Osbaldeston's Olivia ran a bye.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TUESDAY.
WOECESTER STEEPLECHASE. 7 to 1 sgst The
Young 'un (), 8 to 1 agst Shiorone (t), 9 to 1 sgst Rat-
trap (t), 12 to 1 agst Fugleman (t),
DERBY.-11 to 1 agat I3Mingbroke, 11 to 1 agst
Ghillie Callum, 12 to 1 agst Knight of Avenel, 20 to 1
1 apt Clincher, 20 to 1 agst Sweetheart, 25 to 1 sgst
Deicoon (t freely), 25 to 1 agst Cyprus, 33 to 1 agst
The Nigger, 33 to 1 agst Penang.

Emigration continues in Germany in a frightful
degree. In the course of the present ear the number
of emigrants who have embarked at the port of Bremen
alone, amounts to upwards of 57,000, 8,000 of whom left
during the last month. The majority have taken their
passage to the United States of America.