The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-01 00:00:00

ITALY.

SARDINIA AND LOMBARDY.
The Risorgimento of Turin, of the 26th ult., states
rthe
after a severe engagement on the 19th, in which
e Austrians were defeated at Olgiate, btween
a and :Varese, GARIBALDI had entered Como
wan his troops, which statement must be taken cum
gran.
States from Rome that about 300 Swiss had mud-
!lied at Rimini on the 11th, on account of their pay
bin g irregularly withheld. They killed their cap-
end two lieutenants, and marched to Ravenna,
_lit finding the gates closed, they were obliged to
Friaaeed further, when, quarrelling among them-
ee"'es, they disbanded, and were arrested in small
Parties.
n We read in the Opinione of Turin—" General
'Av&toxAc has assured a person well worthy of
credit that our country shall not be abandoned to the
Austrians."
An ordonnance of the Prince DE CARIGNAN ap-
pearsa in the Gazette, of the 26th ult., dissolving the
1:11:itte establishments throughout the kinglom,
a„-An'shing these ecclesiastics with some exceptions,
b";," aPPropriating their revenues to the general pur-
seg °f public instruction. The same decree dis-
t"ea the institutions of the Dames des Sacre Curs
all Piedmont, but not in Savoy.

ROME.
Letters from Rome of the 22d ult. say that the Minis-
ter e. r
Commerce being questioned in the Chana•er re-
ith.
"`eting the evacuation of Bologna by the Austrians,
bead-Quarters
that the committee had presented itself at the
neaci-quarters of General WELDEN, demanding the
reason of the invasion of Bologna, and had solemnly
imme-
diately protested against that proceeding.
Marshal WELDEN replied that he would
recal the greater part of his troop, and those
Ah~t6ccul had passed the Po, out of deference to the Pon-
ie envoys. • He explained the motive which had
da
to this occupation of territory, and expressed a
"18h that it should be communicated to the PorE.

TUSCANY.
In the sitting of the Florence Chambers of the
21st ult. the Minister CAPPONI, President of the
c
"1161 took an opportunity of explaining the
Poll
eY which the Cabinet intended to follow. He
leelared that they would, by every effort, defend
Italian nationality, promote the federation of the
Italian States, and invite the succour of those
powers
that have hitherto shown a similitude of
to.t,rests engaged in the Italian cause. The
Ministry, he said, is therefore actively occu-
Pied in taking part in the negotiations now
107nding. He then proceeded thus :—" If the voice
of. this Government, which has for it the authority
a,,lllishaken loyalty towards the other nations
b'4urope, will be listened to, the federation promoted
Fill 3: uss I affirm it, gentlemen, shall take place ; ricr
it be our fault if it is not concluded. And tie
_
Erie be
assistance of those two great states that have
already, promised their co-operation will be more ef-
sifelal and honourable if we also take part in the de-
l?erations, if our voice be heard while others treat
Iwith us. This succour, which we need no longer
a '!te, but which the Government accepts in so far
s it may be useful and not contrary to the dignity of
Italy—this succour and friendship of those two great
I:wers Was but a few days ago confirmed to U3.i11 the
ost satisfactory way.."
The Minister's speech was received with loud ap-
P awe.

NAPLES.
N.We have received dispatches to the 24th ult. from
il,aPes. A shower of projects were thrown before
Chambers by deputies whose impatience would
not even allow them to wait for the Ministers to pro-
ducei their measures. The reform of the courts of
lultice new laws on the National Guard, municipal
reform, prison discipline, and a host of other projects,
were successively produced.
It was fully expected that Sicily would be obliged
to return to allegiance, or be given to the second
son of FERDINAND. The bombardment of ME ssina
was continued. On the night of the 2d six grenades
ocvso'
and a bomb of large calibre, were thrown into
thre town and set fire to a warehouse, but did no
further harm.
Messinese continued to fire on every Nea-
Ponten vessel which passed the Faro. The Fernando
Was fired on and disabled.

VENICE.
The Political Circle of Venice issued a proclama-
tion to the Italians on the 19th ult. :
` The Italy of the 22d March," it says, " is on the
brink of the abyss, but is not yet lost. A nation of
9{ millions of souls cannot perish unless it be by its own
Forward, then! Let every man join the standard
of independence, and rally round the heart of the penin-
sula, round Venice, the vigil4nt guardian of Italian
°f the
an impregnable citadel, against which the rage
`4l,,ethe barbarians shall prove unavailable. Tuscans !
Vcitizens of Curtalona and Montanan. call for the
„t°,9d of the enemy, and not for womanly tears. Nea-
politans ! follow the example of your brethren, whom
ink Ferdinand has proclaimed rebels. People of the
Peninsula rise like one man !"
1. The Provisional Government of Venice had pub-
nshed the following decree :
,„ "Considering the importance of preventing all com-
AMication between the interior and exterior, at a mo-
ment particularly when the fate of Italy depends on
thatV of Venice, and after consulting the Committee of
114ilance, the Provisional Government decrees-1.
From this day Venice shall be surrounded with a cordon
Of
tinned barges, which shall exercise day and night, the
most active vigilance. 2. No boat, whether public or
;Private, and no matter what its destination, form, or ton-
.4g° may be, shall be allowed to enter or quit Venice
Ithoutlaving being previously visited by the crew of
mentioned
of tl* barges of the cordon. 3. Each visit shall be
the
in a certificate, which is to be presented to
e Prefecture, with the permit, by all individuals enter-
-1
nbg 'Venice. 4. Should a boat not reply to the third
allenge the sentinels are authorised to fire upon it. 5.
Boats found without any permission in the lagunas are
Lie immediately sequestered, and the owners, master,
°,21 every person on board shall be condemned to pay a
fine of 150 Italian livres. The boat sequestered shall
answer for the payment of the fine, unless the Govern-
-4t think proper to convert the penalty into im-
ti eonment, during a month in the house of Coffee-
tirl• 6. The Committee of Vigilance of Venice and
d e Prefecture are charged with the execution of this
eeree.

(Signed)

" MANIN.
" GRAZIANI.
"CAVEDALIS."

`` 'Venice, August 18."

EGYPT.
-I:RE CHOLERA AT ALEXANDRIA.
Accordingir to the accounts received from Alexin-
hiria up to the 18th ult., the cholera still raged, and
po-"' made great havoc, especially amongst the Arab
Pulation. One of the English medical men at
Bede of
DAVISON, a young man of great promise,
if- of the disease after only fifteen hours' illness.
T:re several Europeans have fallen victims to it. Mr.
}l,i°74Aa BELL, one of the leading English merchants,
bathe
ujour of his children suffering from the complaint
I:nl'e same time, two of whom died in a few hours,
het the others are getting better. The mortality
,is now reduced to about 120 cases daily ;
Ise-,:eelY any who are attacked escape. This awful
atall‘ge has now been raging nearly ea
month here,
Must have carried off at least 5,000 persons.

TURKEY.
A. letter from Persia, dated June 18th, contains the
The Governor of Salmas has received
Information by a courier from Teheran that the in-
iallrgents of the Khorassan have cut the royal army
117 Pieces, and that the capital was under the greatest
%Tn. At Salinas, great fears of a famine were en-
d r‘ained on account of the locusts, which had already
nvoured one-half of the crops, and threatened to
ravage the whole country."

raoßoGATlort OF PARLIAMENT.—The prorogation
of Parliament is definitively fixed for Tuesday next, the
Lord High Chamberlain having issued his orders for the
-Majesty on prepn
ar that
to be made for the reception of her
day.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE ROYAL ARTILLERY
BARRACKS, Woorimen.—Yesterday, Mr. C. J. Curttar,
coroner for West Kent, held an inquest at the Marquis
of Anglesea, Woolwich, on the body of George Hop-
croft, aged twenty years, a gunner of the Royal Artil-
lery, It appeared from the evidence that en Monday
morning last the deceased was leading a horse belonging
toom m the field battery, for inspection, in the presence of his
down
canding officer, when, by some accident, he fell
, and the horse trod on his chest. The deceased
was picked up insensible, and died in a few hours. A ver-
dict of." Accidental death" was returned.
The Chairman of the Excise had interviews yesterday
with Earl Granville, at the office of the Board of Trade,
and oleo with the Chaucellor of the Exchequer.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The CeHon Mar:set at Liverpool y.e.terdey was
steady, bit. cuiet. Sa'.c.-.e 4,000 to 5,000 ba'es. Americae
realised 34-1. to 513. po.: lb. Railway Shares were in good,
demand and firm.
The accounts from Paris of the reported indisposition
of Austria to accede to the terms proposed by England
and Fraece, are considered now to come in a more
" questionable" form, and many parties are already
prognosticating very serious political difficulties as the
result. The assumption of a menacing attitude by
France would be likely, perhaps, as stated, to have the
effect of inducing dogged resistance by Austria, backed
by Germany; but there is at least reason to hope
that as the Danish affair, which with the Diet of Frank-
fort had much more of a national character than the
Italian question, has been amicably arranged, the same
may be the case with the latter. Under circumstances
the anxiety felt is not surprising, and we fear the money-
market will be sensibly affected by it, for Frenchmen
think too little of the consequences to be deterred by
considerations of the ruin entailed by war.
The state of the Irish Savings Banks, we may hope,
is not to be entirely judged of by the unfavourable " ex-
hibits" of the institutions which have recently sus-
pended, but there is obviously a want of supervision in
the sister isle, whatever there may be in England. Al-
though we have not an immediate opportunity of enter •
ing at length into the question, so tersely explained in
the letter of Colonel Thompson, which appeared a day or
two since in the columns of The Sun, we may usefully
subjoin an extract from the September number of the
Bankers' Magazine :
"From 1820 to 1824, the deposits increased rapidly,
and during the Parliamentary session of the latter year
the reduction in the amount allowed to bo deposited
was effected. According to the Act then passed the
deposits of any one depositor were not after the 20th of
November, 1824, to exceed 504 in the first year both in
Great Britain and in Ireland, nor 301. in any one year
afterwards, nor 2001. in the whole exclusive of interest.
" The Three per Cent. and Three-and-a half per Cent.
Stocks, standing in the names of the National Debt
Commissioners, .to meet the demands of the owners of
the above accumulations on 20th November, 1824,
amounted to 13,384,3801., being 12,700,0181. stock, ap-
plicable to the deposits in Great Britain, and 684,334/.
applicable to those in Ireland.
" After incurring liabilities amounting to nearly twelve
millions at the end of seven years, and sacrificing, in the
payment of interest to the trustees of savings' banks dur-
ing that period a sum exceeding 200,0001., averaging
more than 30,000/. annually, the Government was bound,
in 1824, to introduce some restrictive measure."
Notwithstanding this, we should be sorry to find the
saving system injured by ill-timed parsimony. The
grand object is to see that the proper object is effected,
viz , the encouragement of thrifty habits among the poor.
The Stock Market has been extremely inert to-day,
but takes a lower range by nearly per cent. Thi.:, is
not the result of money sales, but of the intelligence
from Paris. Consols have been quoted 86f, and since
85'1. Bank Stock has been firm at 193. Exchequer-bills
of March have been 28s. premium. The New Three-
and-a- Quarter per Cents. are 864.
Foreign Stocks are looking well acain. Spanish Five
* 238
per Cents. are 121 to 1, en the Three per Cent,.,
to 1. Portuguese Four per Cents. are 221 to 221.
Mexican Bot7di have been 16f1. Russian Stock ex.
dividend, is worth 98. Dutch Two-and-Half per Cents.
have been 44i to 454.
Railway Shares are affected by the heaviness of the
English Securities, but sellers are not pressing.
0 E CLOSING
p ,•;RITISH FUNDS. O'CLOjF. PR!CES.
Bank Stock l9B 198
:3 i.ur Cent. Reduced Anns.. B6l/‘l/1 8578 86
3 pet Cent. Consols Annuities 86.4 85.14 85%
New 3 4 per Cent. Anne.— . , B7 8634 5/8 8634
Long Anns. to expire J an. 1860
India Stock 237 237
India Bonds, 1,0004 ...... 22 p 22 p
Ditto under 1,0001... -. 9O p p
Consols for Account....... B6 861% 85:3/4 85%
xchequer rills. 2 4(1. & 2d.
I,ooth. March
1,000/. June
Small, March .. 31 p
aNE
O,t,T,ICX.
17e1:ic111, 5 per Cent.. 1843 163&
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 29;.6
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
4 per Cent. 2234
Ditto, Ac ount 221/21,1
leusseet Bonds ...
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, 3 per Cent ...
Ditto. Account 2311i;
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian 4% per Cent ... 7 034
Putcti 21,4 per Cent., 12 Guild.... 44.!.4% 4514 4434
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 7078 71 'A 71%
PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES. PAID' AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen 5O
Amber. Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junet:on

'RILES OF FOREIGN I, U.NDS.

22 p
31p
CLOSINti
FRICE
16,1
29

Ayrshire and Galloway.. 2
I.lelfast & County Down 16 ......
Uirnlingbam and Ox-
f, rd Junction ... 20
Bi:mingham, Wolver-
hampton, and Dudley 10 ••..•• .••••
Birmin.,;-„Wolverh'ptori,
an 1 Stour Valley 131. 145... •••
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June,.... 10
Lo ,ton, Stamfd & Birtn. 5
Bristol and Exeter B 5
Ditto, Thirds
f„uckinr,liani,:hire... 14.4:x.
Caledonian
DiktD, half Shares .. 834 ......
Do. New 10/. Pref 2%.....
Di, to,Cly desdale J unc 50
Chester and Holyhead... 213/4..
Ditto, ('reference l5
Clarcnce
Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10
Do. 2J Class, 5 per Ct. 10
Do. Government Loan,
4 per Cent. ^

2234
221/2
98xd
1214

Dircet London & Ports-
mouth
Dublin and Belfast Junc. 30
Dundalk & Enniskillen 20 ......
Eag Anglia, 251., L. &
E. and L. and D...... 25 ......
... .. 5
Do., 18/., E. & 1i.... 18 .....
Do., 3/. 103. ..... .... 3% ......
[astern Counties........ 20 ...... 13:4. 14 x d .•• isx 135' d
Do. New Guaranteed
6 per Cent.
Ditto, Es tension, 5 per
Cent., No. 1 . 61. 13s. 4d....
Ditto ditto, No. 2...6/. 13s. 4d... —
Do. North. & Eastern 50
Do., 5 per cent.
Do. Quarters
Do. New
Eastern Union, Class A
__. (late E. U. Shares) 25

Ditto, Class A, ditto... 1

Ditto, Class 13 (I. &
and B.)
___

Ditto, Cltzs C, ditto... 17%.....

Do. Scrip (6 percent.) 10 ...... . •••••
Ditto, ditto
Ditto (C. &E.) guar.
5 per cent......
East Lancashire
Ditto, New
Ditto, New Quarters 6%......

Do., 6 per Cent. Pre- -
ference Quarters ... 21,4 —
East Lincolnshire
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ditto, Half Shares ... 15 .. .. ......... ......
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12V2......
_.... .
._ _

Edinbui-gfi andNorthetu 25 —
Ditto, New 614
Ditto, Newport l3

. _
Ditto, ditto, New si. ••••
Exeter,Yeovil, & Dorch. 2%
Ditto, New ... 2% .. —
Glwow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle
Glasg,ciw,Kilmar., & Ayr 50 ......
Ditto, New ... .•. 40
Do.l'reference Consol. 15 ...... 71,E .. ......
Great Northern
Do., London and York 2% ......
great South. and West.
(Ireland) ... 421/2.- 22/2 22
Great North of I:ngland.loo ......
Ditto, New, 401 4O
Dit to, ditto l5 - ..
Ditto, New, 301 3O
Ditto, New,ls/ l4 ••• ......
.. ..

Great Western 9O ... .. 82 81 x.d.
Ditto, 1/2 Stares 5O ...... 47 46 x.d.
Ditto, 14 Shares
Ditto, Fifth 3
Ditto, New 171........ 13 ... .. 9% x.d lO x.d.
Huddersfield and lilcucb. 28
Ditto, Thirds
Ilull and Selby
Ditto, Halt Shares ... 25 ......
Ditto, i 4 Shares
Lancaster and Carlisle... 50
_—
Ditto, Thirds
Laticahire & Yorkshire 93 , —
Ditto, ditto
Ditto, % Shares ...... 43 ... ..
Do. Quarter Shares... 17% l2 'fis
Dc FifthF 9 6N... • -

JO. . ifths... ...
Do. Sixteenths 6 —
Do. Thirdi (Reg.)„... 13 ..... 474
Do. New, Gus. 6 per ct. 21,4......

. _
Do. Liver p. and Bury 43 —
Ditto % (late Hud-
dersfield and Sheff.) 38
Do.(Wakeacl d,Ponte-
fraet, awl Goole) ... 50
Do.( W. Riding Union) 6
Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25
Do. % Shares (A)... 91%
Leeds and Bradford 5O
Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 50
Do., Half Shares 221/2....•• .. .
Do., (blue) Scrip 21,4...,..
Leeds and Thirsk
Ditto, New
Do., Prefer., 6 per CL .......
Liverpool, Crosby and
Southrt . 31,2 —
Liverp., Manchester, and
Newcastle Junc,ion... 21,4
London & Black wa11...13/. 6s. 8d —
Do. Ex tension ..... 22% —
London, Brighton, and
South Coast
Do. Guarant. 5 per ct.., 9
Do. Pref. Con. 5 per et. 50
Ditto, 1852 50

Ditto, New 5/., guar.
6 per cent.
London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d
Ditto, Prefevence... 18117 a 2d...
Lohion an 3 N. Western 100 ll5l/4 116
Do. Quarters (L.& B.) 22
Ditto, New
Ditto, Fifths ..... 2
Do. 40/.Sheres(L.M.) 25
JDQ. 10/, (51. & 13.) A. 9