The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-21 00:00:00

TRADE OF SICILY

MR. WGREGOR'S REPORT.

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE VISCOUNT PAL-
TMAERRYSTOOFN,
sMTA.PT I
.IHERMxAO.TREESITGYNSAPFRFAINIRCISP, ALSECRE-
FOR
My Lord,—Agreeably to your Lordship's instruc-
tions, I left London on the 27th of August last, and
proceeded without delay to the kingdom of the Two
Sicilies.
On my arrival at Naples, I had, accompanied by
Mr. Kennedy, her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires, an
early interview with his Excellency the Prince di Cas-
saro, his Sicilian Majesty's Minister for Foreign Af-
fairs. At this interview the commercial relations be-
tween the United Kingdom and the kingdom of the
Two Sicilies were discussed by the Prince di Cassaro
and myself ; and I then stated that the effect of the
exclusive sulphur monopoly, granted by his Sicilian
Majesty's Minister of the Interior, M. Santangelo, to
a M. Taix and Company, WAS so ruinous to the Bri-
tish merchants and shipowners who had invested their
capitals in the trade of Sicily, that her Britannic Ma-
jesty's Government considered the abolition of that mo-
nopoly as a sine qua non, before entering into any nego-
tiations relative to the projected treaty between the
Governments of England and of the Two Sicilies, or to
the modifications of the Sicilian tariff, conditional upon
the abandoning of the immunity of 10 per cent. reduc-
tion of duty, in favour of merchandize imported into the
kingdom of the Two Sicilies, as stipulated by the treaty
of 1816.

I stated also to his Excellency, that her Majesty's
Government could not but consider the granting a mo-
nopoly of the whole sulphur trade of Sicily to an in-
dividual or to a company a direct contravention, in
principle and in fact, of the treaty of 1816 between
England and the Two Sicilies ; inasmuch as it was
stipulated by the fifth article of that treaty, that Bri-
tish subjects might, within the dominions of his Si-
cilian Majesty, " be entitled to occupy dwellings and
warehouses, and to dispose of their personal property
of every kind and description by sale, gift, exchange,
or will, and in any other way whatever, without the
smallest loss or hindrance being given them on that
head."

Prince Cassaro did not admit nor deny this, but
acknowledged the justice of abolishing the sulphur mo-
nopoly, and that the same would
,be abolished. His
Excellency expressed his earnest desire to remove

every obstacle to the most durable harmony between
the Governments of England and Naples : and I here
beg leave to state, that, if all such measures were
left entirely to the direction of his Excellency, no dif-
ficulty could exist, as the high character of the Prince
justifies the fullest confidence being placed upon what-
ever depends on his power to execute.
On making myself more thoroughly acquainted with
the nature of the sulphur monopoly, the circumstances
under which it was granted, and the extensively ruinous
effect which it had upon the British trade in and navi-
gation with Sicily, as represented to me, not only by a
numerous body of merchants engaged in that trade and
navigation, but also by the most respectable Neapoli-
tans and many foreigners settled at Naples, and even
by several French merchants engaged in the trade be-
tween Marseilles and Sicily, but not connected with the
monopoly, I considered it necessary to communicate
by letter to Prince Cassaro what I had stated verbally,
and, after elucidating in: detail the great elements
of reciprocal commerce which naturally lay open to the
most extensive and profitable development between the
dominions of their Britannic and Sicilian Majesties, I
concluded by saying :
" In order, therefore, to extend the commercial rela-
tions so desirable between kingdoms whose political
power and commercial interests are so eminently iden-
tified that the prosperity of one country can never he ra-
tionally viewed with jealousy by the other, but which na-
tional prosperity must, on the contrary, tend to promote
the political power, trading interests, and general safety of
both, I beg leave most respectfully to state to your Excel-
lency, that, as her Britannic Majesty's Government are
prepared to abolish the differential duties on Sicilian
oils, and abandon the stipulation continued by the
treaty of 1816, of an allowance of 10 per cent. duty
on imports from British ports into those of the King
of the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, and also to extend
every, possible privilege and immunity to the navigation
of the vessels of the subjects of his Sicilian Majesty
trading to the ports of the United Kingdom, and to
all the ports in the dominions of her Britannic Ma-
jesty in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, condi-
tionally upon the Government of his Sicilian Majesty
extending to the navigation and trade of British subjects
_A
.-t .1-
leges, and relying upon your
that the monopoly of the sulphur contract shall be at
once abolished, which abolition I am also instructed
to represent to your Excellency her Majesty's Govern.
ment consider, as a sine qua non preliminary to such
important and mutually advantageous arrangements
for the trade, navigation, and welfare of the dominions
of their Sicilian and Britannic Majesties.--1 am," &c.
At my next interview (accompanied also by Mr.
Kennedy) with the Prince di Cassaro, his Excellency
admitted that the abolition of the sulphur monopoly
should be considered as a sine qua non to the proposed
treaty, and that his Sicilian Majesty had also approved
of this preliminary understanding.
1, however, soon discovered, that notwithstanding
the undoubted sincerity of the Prince di Cassaro, and
the intentions of the King, intrigue and corruption were
actively and deeply at work to frustrate the power of
the Prince, and the promise expressed by his Majesty.
They artfully represented to him that the sulphur
monopoly, instead of being an evil, would prove an in-
estimable blessing to his Sicilian subjects, and that the
complaints were merely the clamours of a few usurious
British subjects, who, like all their countrymen, were
ever at work to overreach the subjects, and oppose the
interests of every power but that of England.
I confess that the statements made to me relative to
the sulphur monopoly, although apparently drawn up
from correct numerical returns, startled my confidence
in them ; and I felt that it would be at least
approaching to hardihood to assert that the opera-
tions of the sulphur monopoly had cut off the navi-
gation of more than 300 ships of from 150 to 350
tons, annually employed in the trade between the
United Kingdom and the kingdom of the Two
Sicilies • that the British capital, profit, and wages so
employed annually amounted to at least 2,000,0001.
sterling, exclusive of the immense sums invested in
money, buildings, and machinery, by a great number of
British merchants in the United Kingdom, through
their agents in Sicily, in the sulphur mines of that
island ; and of the tax imposed by the increased price of
sulphur, on British manufactures, amounting to about
300,0001. annually ; and finally, that if the sulphur mo-
nopoly should be continued, that from 12 to 18 exten-
sive mercantile establishments in Sicily must unavoid-
ably disappear, with the loss of all the capital they had
invested, and of the consequent loss of the trade and
navigation to England.
Under these circumstances, I considered it would be
necessary for me to visit the island of Sicily.
I accordingly proceeded to Palermo. On arriving, I
found from the port returns, and from the statements
given me by some distinguished men in office, and by
some of the principal Sicilian proprietors of mines, as
well as by authentic documents, showing the loss to
British trade by the operations of the sulphur monopoly,
that, at least as far as the British trade and navigation
was concerned, none of the accounts given me at Naples
were exaggerated. Previously to the monopoly, the
average number of British ships which loaded at Pa-
lermo averaged 191 ; since monopoly 93 ; difference 98.
In fact, I saw that the British trade and navigation
with that port had decreased more than one-half since
the monopoly bad been in force, a period of then little
more than thirteen months ; and although Palermo was,
in regard to shipping brimstone, but a third-rate port,
yet the effect which the monopoly bad on the general
trade was such, that but two British vessels were then
in the port ; and the effect in regard to the employ-
ment of the inhabitants was such, that the immediate
neighbourhood of the town was infested with bandits.
After collecting all the requisite statistical informa-
tion that could be obtained, I proceeded to visit the
shipping ports and sulphur districts. Mr. Craig, a
very intelligent gentleman, who knew all parts of Sicily
well, and who had also spent some years in the island
of Sardinia, and my private secretary, Mr. Frederick
Lack, accompanied me. One of the chief proprietors
of the wine establishments in the island (Mr. Ingham)
also accompanied us to his extensive establishments
at Alcamo. At this time that part of the country, as
well as all the sulphur districts, and nearly all the rest
of Sicily, were in the most unsafe state. Robbers and
bandits were committing depredations and murders, and
those arrested were tried and executed by martial law.
On the road to Palermo we passed sixteen criminals
going to execution, and ten were executed the previous
week at Trapani.
From the latter place, which is the chief centre of the
Sicilian salt works, we proceeded to Marsala. Here
there are six wine establishments, four British an d tnwt.
o
Sicilian ; but the two latter are of very limited extent.
Three of the British are on a large scale, and have from
8,000 to 20,000 pipes in annual deposit ; and the fourth,
latterly established, only requires the necessary term of
years to be equally as extensive.
It is not 40 years since the wine trade has been at-
tempted here ; and extensive as it now undoubtedly is,
and nearly all carried on by British enterprise and ca-
pital, such is the extent of waste land equally fit for
vineyards, that the cultivation is comparatively in its
commencement.
Having left Marsala, we travelled, always on mules,

over a wild, thinly peopled, but naturally rich country,
to Girgenti, one of the principal shipping ports for
brimstone on the south of Sicily. Hero we found that,
although the British proprietors had several cargoes
prepared for exporting to England, they could ship
none ; and we only found one British vessel in the port.
The annual number of British vessels which annually
carried cargoes of brimstone from the port of Girgenti
for the five years previous to the monopoly was—
Vessels of from
200 to 350 tons.
By the port returns 74
Since the moncroly (I,;r 14 months) 5

Thrown, in consequence, annually out of the
trade 69

By the statements given me by the Vice-Con-
sul at Licata, the average number of British
ships r hich loaded at that port, previous to
the monopoly, were 6S
For the last 15 months, during the rm)noi oly,

Only

Difference 65

At Terra Nova and Siculiano no sulphur has been
shipped in British vessels since the monopoly has been
in force.

On leaving the southern coast of Sicily we entered
the brimstone country, and visited many of the principal
mines. We found the population, which, previously to
the monopoly, had been constantly employed and regu-
larly paid, generally assembled in idle multitudes, and
in many parts, especially at Favara and Cannicati,
living by plunder, or by levying contributions on those
who possessed any property. Previously to the mono-
poly, it was customary to send a boy on a mule across
the country, from Girgenti to Palermo for money, and
he always returned safe with from 1,000 to 3,000
ducats intrusted to him. When we traversed the island
the same amount would scarcely have been considered
safe under an escort of six or eight armed Cainpieri.
In regard to the capital invested by British subjects
in the sulphur mines, the representations made to me
at Naples appeared, on visiting those mines, in no de-
gree exaggerated ; and sufficient proof was afforded me
of their advances to the proprietors, and of the money
they had expended in erecting buildings, sinking shafts,
and in the heavy cost of machinery.
On traversing the interior, from Girgenti to Castra-
giovanni, and thence to Catania, we found, amidst the
most abundant natural fertility, very general poverty,
the land-tax and other burdens on agriculture being
so oppressive, that a great proportion of the soil lay
uncultivated, and frequently whole villages and towns
without inhabitants.

At Catania, although brimstone has only formed a
part of general exports from that port, the returns given
nie by Mr. Leaf, the very intelligent British Vice-Con-
sul there, show—
The average annual number of British ships
previous to the monopoly were
Since the monopoly only 5

Difference

The trade between Malta and Catania and the south
side of Sicily, formerly important, has been for some
time greatly crippled by differential exactions which,
exclusive of many vexatious annoyances, have been, in
regard to the Maltese, very oppressive, and, in propor-
tions to their means, highly injurious.
At Messina, the returns given me by the British Con-
sul and others, state
That the average number of British ships
which had loaded annually at that port,
were for five years previous to monopoly 196
Since the monopoly 73

Difference 123
Thus showing that in the navigation of the
ports of Palermo, Girgenti, Licata, Catania,
Messina, there were employed annually for
five years previous to the monopoly
For the 15 months during the monopoly, only 179

Difference against British navigation... 384
To the vast importance of this carrying trade there •
must be added the very great commerce dependent
upon it, such as the freight outwards, and markets for
British and Colonial merchandise, arid the tax of morn
than 300,000/. sterling per annum, which the enhanced
price of brimstone imposes upon (used as a chemical
agent) British manufactures.
In short, the conclusion which I was compelled to
form, on the evidence of all the facts which came un-
disputed before me while in Sicily, was, that the con-
tinuance of the brimstone monopoly must inevitably
destroy the whole British trade and naviaation with
auu Ul ►:ecessiLy ureeK up irom r to
extensive Lrttan mercantile est:bl:shments; while, at
the same time, nearly all the sulphur proprietors, who
arc remarkably attached to the British nation, would
be ruined.

His Majesty received me with a great deal of con-
descension, and expressed his most earnest wish to main-
tain the most friendly understanding with England, arid
his very great desire to conclude a treaty for the pur-
pose of extendinc, the commercial interests and strength-
ening the political' alliance between his Government and
that of her Britannic Majesty. His Sicilian Majesty
further assured me that her Britannic Majesty might
depend on his fidelity (loyaute) in these expressions.
Of his Majesty's sincere intentions I had no reason to
doubt ; but in the Minister of the Interior I knew there
could be no confidence placed, and with his influence at
Court, and especially over his Majesty's confessor, and
knowing his determination at all hazards to maintain the
sulphur monopoly, which he had granted to M. Taix, I
stated to Prince Cassaro, that unless I could be assured
that the monopoly should cease to exist on or before
the Ist day of January, 1840, I must break off all fur-
tiler negotiations in respect of the projected tariff and
treaty, and leave Naples for England in a few days ;
and that her Britannic Majesty's Government would,l
most assuredly, hold the Government of his Sicilian
I Majesty responsible for full indemnity to British sub-
jects, for all injuries sustained in consequence of the
said monopoly.
Prince Cassaro at our next interview said, that his
Sicilian Majesty had determined to abolish the mono-
poly ; that he hoped that I would not insist on a note
verbale to that effect ; that he granted the monopoly
was a great error, but that his Majesty could not involve
his honour so far as to commit a confession of such an
error to writing, and he (the Prince) assured Mr. Ken-
nedy and myself that the monopoly should cease to be
in effect before the Ist day of January, 1840, as de-
manded by me. I was assured of the same, two days
after, by the Austrian Ambassador, Count Lebzeltern,
who had been with Prince di Cassaro, and also by M.
Dupont, chief farmer of the customs of the Two Sicilies.
In consequence of which, and the very perplexing
state of British trade with the kingdom of the Two
Sicilies, I entered into the consideration of the several
articles of the principal treaty, and the modifications of
the tariff of the kingdom of the Two Sicilies. In do-
ing so, in the absence of the instructions which I under-
stood were to be very soon sent after me, I can only
plead the very perplexing circumstances under which I
acted ; and, from finding it impossible to arrange, or
even to enter upon the arrangements of the modifica-
tions of the tariff to be annexed to a treaty, until at
least the principal provisions of such treaty should be
understood by the Neapolitan Government.
On the 25th November last, having signed each ar-
ticle as agreed to, ad referendum, for your Lordship's
approbation, I left Naples for England.
In elucidation of the objects of my mission, and of
the resources and trade of the kingdom of the Two Si-
cilies, I beg leave to refer your Lordship's attention to
the annexed statistical appendices.
In concluding this report, I feel bound to state the
readiness at all times of his Excellency Prince di Cas-
saro to enter frankly at once upon every subject of dis-
cussion, and to assure your Lordship, that not only the
sulphur monopoly, but all other just causes4;?ov
f complaint
on the part of her Britannic Majesty's ernllient,
would never have existed or have been continued had
Prince Cassaro the direction of, or control over those
matters, and were it not for that power of intrigue
which has prevailed over the truly honest views and
exertions of the Prince.
To Mr. Kennedy's active assistance to me I also fee'
bound to bear the fulleilatlcestizcony.
London, June 30, 1840.

JOHN MACGREGOR.

DEAFNESS. i
DEAFNESS.—At length this dreadful malady s
completely o.bviated, without
Standorture and serious risk by medical
treatment.. The Messrs. B. Solomons, 39, Albemarle
street, Piccadilly, and 76, King William-street, Bank of Eng-
land, have constructed a Voice-Conductor, the size of a seven-
shilling piece, which, when fixed into the cavity of the ear, is
soft, easy, and not more uncomfortable nor perceptible than
having a piece of wool in its place ; and that which is deserving
the public attention and approbation is, that an individual in
company may place it in the ear and remove it unobserved. It
pours into the ear the general conversation to such an extent,
that in severe cases deafness is not the least perceptible, and
sufferers are enabled to hear the slightest whisper at a public
assembly. Their newly. invented Spectacle Lenses, immediately
they arc placed before imperfect vision, bring it at once back to
its original and natural state, and the most minute particle 'is
seen, either by day or candle light, with exact distinctness.
These valuable improvements in the materials are secret to
themselves, and are solely confined to their establishments, 39,
Albemarle-street, and 76, King William-street, City.
The large steam-ship Dundee sailed on Wedne6s,;
day from Hore's Wharf, in Wapping,
for Dundee, with
Lord
passengers, among whom were Lord Francis Russell,L .
all,
Morley, the Hon. Edward Petre, Mr. and Mrs. )
Mr. and Mrs. Cope, Mr. and Mrs.
Walker
and other persons of rank and fashion.
The. and family,4.l sevi.:ral horses Dundee also
took out a general cargo of great value, :
and carriages.

"It having pleased the All-wise Disposer of hurf,..
events to call from tiis transitory existence the
esteemed and lamented Pro-Grand Master, the E
Durham, the most Worshipful Grand Master, pare, -
piing in the grief which fills the breast of every Mason
on this melancholy event, is anxious that every testirnony
of respect should be paid to the memory of the deceased
noble and exalted brother, and is therefore pleased Lc,
order that the Grand Lodge, and all Subordinaie Lodge.);
shall be placed in mourning for six months from this,
date."—Masonic Circular.

Aye ! thick be the emblems of mor.rning around us,
Though feebly our feelings of sorro they trace ;
For death at a moment unwonted ha. foand us,

And borne off the Chieftain we ce'cr can replace
How warm the regret of the kw %rho reprov'd him ►
How heartfelt the grief of the thousands who lov'd bin
Alas ! that the fiat of faith hath removed him

Alas ! for cur Order that Durham is gone
In triumph we turn'd to him fondly and proudly.
For his was the honour, whoe'cr won the praise ;
In trcuble we call'd, not mistrusting; nor loudly,
But sure that our shield of defence he would raise I
Though peer there was none where the noble were mec:inr,
The good and the wise miss the best at their g,reetiLg I
Alas! that his day-spring of life was so fleeting !
Alas 1 for our Order, now Durham is gone 1
August 19, 1840.

T IIE PRESENTATION OF TUE
FREEDOM OF THE CITY TO HIS ROYAL,
HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT.

Yesterday the City Lands Committee and the Ge.
• neral Purposes Committee met at Guildhall, for the pur-
pose of deliberating* upon the most proper mode of re-
ceiving; his Royal Highness Prince Albert cn the i3Bth
instant, the day appointed for the ceremony of present-
ing the freedom of the City to that illustrious person&Erc.
The two Committees, we understand, ultintateis
came to the determination to fit up the eastern portico
of the hall for the accommodation of ladies, apd -the
flooring, will be completely laid down in the hull in the
coarse of this day. Each Member of the Corporation
will, it is believed, be authorised to introduce four per-
' sons to the seats which the City Surveyor has been di-
rected to erect round the arena in which the ceremony
is to be performed, and the public will be admitted to
the lower part of the building. The ceremony will be
extremely short, and will commence exactly at five
o'clock, and it is expected that his Royal Highness will
be sea.teeilig his dinner at the Mansion-house at six.
WheriTnnce Leopold of Saxe Coburg was presented
with the freedom of the City in the Mayoralty of Alder.
man Wood, on the 11 th of July, 1816, there was no
preparation made for the reception of fanale spectators
of the scene, although the Dukes of Kent, Sussex, and
Gloucester were presented` with the freedom on _.the
same day. Upon that occasion the ceremony was per-
formed on the hustings, and his Serene Highness was
ushered into the Hall by Lord Erskine, and received in
the Council Chamber on his entrance by the Lord
Mayor and the Corporation Officers ; and the Chief
Magistrate introduced the Members of the Court of
Common Council to the illustrious stranger.
The City Chamberlain (Mr. Clarke), in address-
ing- Prince Leopold, upon presenting him with a mani-
ficent gold box, containing the freedom,.aliuded to the
Royal union, in the following words, after sonic compli-
mentary acknowledgments of his Serene Highness's mi-
litary services :—" Allow me, Sir, to express a wish
that you may long continue in the possession of connu-
bial felicity—that your Royal bride may cross ti our
wishes with a race of Princes, who may inherit. the
virtues and graces of their parents, and be willing z!nd
able to protect the Citizens of London in the enjoys.
went of those invaluable privileges which have been
handed down to them by their ancestors, the preserva-
tion of which is not less essential to the interests of the
State than dear to those aom your Serene Highness
has condescended to call your fellow-citizens."
• His Serene Highness and the Royal Dukes, after tire
ceremony, accompanied the Lord Mayor to the Man-
sion House, where a splendid entertainment was pre-
pared ; and in the evening the Lady Mayoress gave a
grand ball to about 2,000 individuals, on which occa-
sion the Duke of Sussex was the only member of the
Royal family who danced.
Prince Albert will be received, we arc told, by the
Lord Mayor, Aldermen, City officers, and Commons
Councilmen in their full dress gAwns, The following
is the oath which will be administered to his 11 oyel
Highness, by Sir James Shaw, in the Guildhall. We
recollect, when it was administered to Prince Leopold,
twenty-four years ago, that there was a good deal of
merriment occasioned by the reading of several oft e
passages. Our readers will soon perceive where the
laughter, in which the three Royal Dukes most iseasstity
joined, occurred :

" he shall swear that y.,...114, ond ~,.„ ,„
• stt, OLIO to toe new. --
of our said Sovereign the Queen. Obeyslnt and obeli-
cut-ye shall be to the Mayor and Ministers of
city. The franchises and customs thereof ye Flo,
maintain, and this City keep harmless in that that
in You is. Ye shall be contributory to all manner
of charges within this City, as summons, watches, con-
tributions, taxes, toilages, lot and scot, and to all other
charges, bearing your part as a freeman ought to do. Y.t
shall colour no foreign goods, under or in your mutt, ,
whereby the Queen or this City might lose their customs
or advantages. Ye shall know no foreigner to buy or sell
any nieichandize with any other foreigner within Cc. ;
City or franchise thereof, but ye shall warn the Cham-
berlain thereof, or some minister of the Chamber. I'd
shall implead or sue no freeman out of the City, whilst
ye may have right and law within the same City. t
shall take no apprentice, but if he be free born,thot is
to say, no bondsman's son, nor the child of any atiea.
and for no less term than seven years, without fraud or
deceit ; and within the first year ye shad cause him to
be hirolled, or else pay such fine us ghitil be reasonably
imposed upckn you for omitting the same. And after
his term's end, within convenient time, (being required)
ye shall make him free of this City if he has well an,t
truly served you. Ye shall also keep the Queen'.;
peace in your own person. Ye shall know no gather-
ings, conventicics, nor conspiracies made against th,s
Queen's peace, but ye shall warn the Mayor thereo,
or let it to your power. All these points and ar-•
ticks ye shall well and truly keep according to tirt
laws and customs of this City to your person. So God
you help."
The sonorous voice with which the freeman's oath
was read by Mr. Clark, the Chamberlain, who oflliate(k
on the occasion to which we have adverted, told with
great effect in enumerating the duties. The solimoity
of Sir James Shaw's manner, which is peculiarly impres-
sive, would probably increase the effect likely to be pro-
duced by the odd application of the several items of the
oath, but the worthy Baronet has a knack of lowering
his voice when in his official station he happens to har.l
anything to pronounce calculated in his opinion to sink
its dignity.
It is expected that those who are to attend to wit.nessa
the ceremony will be rather particular in their attire.
Mr. Harper, the celQbrated performer on the trumpet,
is, we are informed, to lead the band in the Guildhall
The severe illness of the Lady Mayoress will, we regret
to say, not only prevent her Ladyship from receiving
company in the evening in honour of the event, but will,
it is apprehended, incapacitate her Ladyship from gracing
the board in the Egyptian Hall, which is to present
as
extraordinary exhibition of turtle and venison, and every
thing else that is delicious and desirable.

CATHOLIC INTOLERANCE. --While revel. • ;
in the beauties of nature, 1 did all I could to forget ts,J
atrocities committed in these valleys of the Waldenses, ut
the name of a religion of love. Even now, things .Ire nur,
as they should be, and as to anything like an equillity of
rights between the two sects, such a thing is not evert
dreamed of. The Waldenses are shut up in their valley ts
as the Jews in the Jews' quarter ; they are not permitted
to make any fresh purchases of lauded property, an i con—
stant endeavours are made to obtain by cliancry :Ind in-
sult what barbarity was unable to effect. DNng the s'mts
of the French (we must not allow their failings to twils.)
us forget their good points) toleration was much more gene.
ral and went vnuch further ; nor was there then even this
semblance of priestly rule. Here we have a Cattiola
clergyman walling up every window in his house that
may not see the Protestant church.—Ruunier's Itul.! us
the Italians.

A City correspondent informs us that insuranr.;e3
to a considerable amount were effected on Wednes.my
Lloyd's on French vessels now on the passage honw fro-t
ludia. The policies included the risk of capture, I t1..1
premium of insurance was higher than has been gi. on oft
the same voyage for several years.—Post.
Tuesday next, the 25th August, is the last, day.
for sending in objections to parties claiming to vote, elthtr.
for counties or boroughs.
CHANGE OF MILITARY STATIONS ABROAJ).
—The General Commanding-in-Chief has issued orders
for the disposition of the following regiments—viz,,
38th, 19th, 42d, BSth, 97th, and Ist battalion of the Rifia
Brigade, from their home quarters to tho Alediterratneot ;
the 3.8 d, 47th, 59th, 92d, and two battalions of the Coma
Rifles, from the Mediterranean to the West Indies ; '074
14th, 74th, 64th, 68th, 70th, and 59th from the West
Indies to North America. These moves will t4epla•
with all the celerity consistent with the exigencies-of

service.
MEHEmET ALL—Lord Keane, We arQ ttA
visited this successful adventurer, on his Lorcithip'i wrty
borne from India. One of the observations of Me-
hemet Ali to his Lordship was, that be had got, hit pfo•
sessions by his sword, and he would keep them by ti 4
sword.

ENGLISH VOCALISTS ABROAD.-MISS
!aide Kemble is singing at La Scala as prima &ant«
Miss Novello is concert-singing in Germany, whet:, Mnei.
Albertazzi is also making a'favourable impression;. and, 42,
add to the list of successful English vocalists abroad,-lALi.
Bishop is everywhere gathering laurels, and somoll
better, in the north of Europe.

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