The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-08 00:00:00

LOMBARDY.

The Milan papers received this morning by ex.
press publish the following':—
QFFICIAL BULLETIN.

" MILAN, AUG. L.—The Italian army has suspended
its movement of retreat. The enemy attacked it at CrOtta
l'Adda, Corno Vecchio, and Macca Storms, but was
" This morning Lord Abercrombie, the English Mi-
nister at the Court of Turin, arrived at the camp, and
after-a conference with his Majesty the King of Sar-
dinia, set out immediately for the Austrian head-quar-
ters, charged with an important diplomatic mission. .
"13rescia. never for a moment dismayed, is, preparing
a vigorous defence. The courage of the inhabitants has
bee„ greatly animated by the announced- reinforcements
of th,! Na.ional Guard ot Milan, the gallant behaviour of
General Griffini, and especially the recent visit of Gene.
ral Zucchi. -
Our volunteers continue to keep a strict look out on
the Tyrolese frontiers. Surprised in'small nunibers near
Vermiglio on the 28th ult.; and thrOwn into some dis-
order, ix the first instance, by a corps of 2,000 Austrians,
they victoriously repulsed - the enemy in the sequel.
Captain Stampa, who was severely' wounded in the knee,
Lreatly distinguished himself on the occasion, as alto
ieutenant Rips. The enemy suffered serious loss.
"FANTI (General)
" RES TELLI-MAESTRI."
The Giornale del Lloyd Austriaco, of the 28th of
July (received this morning with the Osservatore
Triestino), states that the Sardo-Venetian squadrbn
continues to maintain its position (at anchor) in the
waters of Umago. It consists of three frigates, foltr
corvettes, three brigs, and six steamers.
The Piedmontese Gazette of the 2d inst. announces
that the Sardinian army had retired behind the
Adda. •''

" Both officers and men," it says, " are returning in
all directions to their respective corps. The army,
dispirited by privations, which were the principal cause
of the disorders that occurred, is fast recovering its
ardour. Order is being re-established, and in a shOrt
time it will be able to act more vigorously. It was
deemed prudent to evacuate Cremona, and take stronger
positions, which are better calculated to ensure and
cover important communications. The army effected
its movement without being harassed by the enemy."
The same journal contains a decree of Prince
EUGENE of Savoy Carignan, proroguing the session
-of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies of Sardinia
until the 15th September.
Tranquillity was completely restored in Turin.
The Committee of Public. Defence of Milan ad-
dressed, on the 30th ult., the following proclamation
to the inhabitants of that_clphij : c0„e.„.,„
- along the Oglio, will be shortly re-organized. Its artil-.
lery is entire and promises to "be of great assistance.
Brescia has been placed in a forinidable state of
defence. The enemy was repulsed with loss froin
Tonale, and the defiles of Stelvia and Caffaro are well
defended. Our young militians are 'assembling, and
will shortly be able to protect the Lombard city. In a
council of war, held this morning, all the means of
defence possessed-- by the country were examined,
and it was unanimously decided that Milan should
he fortified, and oppose ' a desperate resistance to
the •enemy. Remember, Citizens, the ardour
and impetuosity that animated you during our five
immortal days. Let us construct new barricades, destroy
the bridges, cut the roads and streets, and place a de-
"Solate wilderness between us and the enemy. Let us
prove that we can resist adversity, and that, if over-
- powered by superior numbers, we are worthy of the
assistance and sympathy of Europe."
- The Committee of Defence issued, at the same tine,
the following decree :
" 1. A permanent council of war is instituted to try,
within the shortest possible delay, all those who, invested
with any public function or conimaad, had designedly
neglected their duties, and became traitors to their
country:
" 2. The council Of war is composed as follows :•!--
General Rongier, President.; Messrs. Dossi Antonin,
Arese Francesco, Lissoni Antonio Barrier, members ;
and M. Nessi Pietro, reporter.
" 3. This council shall assemble the moment Milan is
declared in a state of siege, and be invested with the
right of life and death, in the vigorous application of the
military laws."
The Milan Gazette of the 31st ult. states:—
" The defence of the city has been organized as fol-
lows by the Committee:—The defence of the space com-
prised between the gate Tenaglia and the gate Vercel-
lina was to be confided to General Antonini, who
was to have his head-quarters at Castello ; the
second section of defence was to be entrusted to
Lieutenant-Colonel Francesini, who was to establish
his head-quarters on the square of St. Alexander ;
and the third section to Lieutenant-Colonel Arduino,
whose head-quarter were to bo at Simpliciano. A de-
tachment of the battalion of sappers, commanded by'a
captain, and a temporary hospital, were to be attached
to each section of defence. The preparations making
. by the Committee of Defence," says the Miles Gazette,
" are a certain guarantee of its energy. The National
Guard has mobilized a strong column ready to take the
field. Goribaldi, with his glorious legion, will set the ex-
ample of bravery. Zucchi left this morning to direct the
movements of the army of defence, which is to combine its
operations with those of the generous army of Charles
• Albert. Courage, activity, serenity of heart and mind,
and the clouds that darken the destinies of the
Italian cause shall soon vanish. Be firm and resolute,
and, after resisting a few days longer, Italy, clasping
France in her arms, will raise the cry of victory anti
• triumph:" •
• The Milan Gazette announces that the Piedmonteie
• Ministry; as well as the Provisional Government of
• Lombardy, had formally demandell the Intervention
• of France.

ELECTION COMMITTEE.
DUBLIN. _

! The scrutiny into the validity of Mr. Reynolds' ma-
; jority was resumed yesterday, and the whole day was
occupied n ith arguments as to the legality of the Dublin
• pipe-rate. The point was not decided when the Com-
mittee rose; and of course no votes were struck off.

1:1,14-ONDON, BRIGHTON,
_And SOUTH
•
COAST RAILWAY:
-4
meeting .of the shareholders in the London, Brigh-
ton, and South Coast Railway Company friendly to a
...returce in the management of the concern, was held
7"t,erdaY at the Hall of Commerce; Mr. Josiah Wilson
an tne chair.
Mr. H. DAVIS, who had been instrumental in calling
the meeting together, explained the reasons which had
induced him to take so prominent a part in the pro-
ceedings of the dissentient shareholders. He was
induced, about nine months ago to embark his ca-
pital in this railway, helievinz that it was depre-
ciated below its value by the pressure of the
times: but he had since discovered that he was grievously
mistaken. The
.law expenses of the company for the
last five years ' 'amounted to the enormous sum of
213,000/. The shares had latterly shrunk from 80/.
down to almost nothing, while the interest paid to the
shareholders had dropped from eight to four per
cent. They were told that the depression in their
property was in consequence of the severity of the
times, but he denied that. The times had done very
little indeed to depress their property, and ho attributed
.the falling off in the value of their shares toa feeling -
li:ng_
had been grossly mismanaged. I *
.that prevailed amongst the
public that the undertaaged. The capital al ready
expended upon the line amounted to seven
millions ; the returns to about- 450,000/., while
nearly half of that income Was absorbed in its
gathering. This fact alone was enough to prove that
the concern had been mismanaged, but let him just bring
under the consideration of his hearers the
. heresult
corn-
oft
the
last halt-yearly accounts. In the first place,

plained that 31,000/. had been expended last year
ie stations, and 10,5131. upon branches whose
works were Still untouched. Last year no less
a sum than 40,0001. was expended in promoting
the defunct Mid Kent scheme, while, beside that
amount, 12,2001. was put down in the account for
law expenses; and he need not remind the shareholders
that this expenditure was of such a nature that must
ever be unproductive. The working expenses of the line
were heavy beyond measure, indeed they exceeded those
of any other line in the kingdom. They amounted to
no less than 49L per cent., but he was informed by parties
well qualified to form an opinion upon the matter that
they ought not to be more than 38L per cent.
He concluded by declaring that these facts proved
beyond all doubt that the management of the
railway was highly defective; and he therefore moved a
series of resolutions, to the effect that the large expen-
diture in law and expensive works appeared to be ill-
judged, and opposed to the interests of the concern—
that the advances of 20,0001. to promote the establish-
ment of a steam-packet company, and of 23,000/ to the
Direct Portsmouth Company, were made without the
assent of the shareholders, and a misappropriation of
the funds of the company—that the proprietors present
pledged themselves to use their influence to bring about a
change in the management of the company, and that a
subscription be formed for paying the expenses of pro-
secuting that object.
Mr. Alderman Mum( supported the resolutions,
and denounced the proceedings of the Brighton directors
in connexion with the advances to the Steam-boat and
Direct Portsmouth Companies as illegal and unjust.
He, however, thanked God that they had a House of
Lords to prevent railway directors from committing
these robberies upon their shareholders.—(Hear.)
After some further discussion, the resolutions were put
from the chair, and carried unanimously, and a com-
mitttee of management was appointed to organize the
course to be adopted at the next half-yearly meeting.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman and the par-
ties who had got up the meeting, and the proceedings
terminated.

LONDON AND NORTH=WESTERN

RAILWAY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Six,—The attention of the directors of this company.
has been called to a report (copied from the Observer
into the. Times of this date) of the proceedings of a meet-
ing attended by a number of engine-drivers, servants of
this company. The statements said to have been made
at that meeting are either unfounded or grossly exag-
gerated,snd prove that the men have allowed themselves
to be imposed upon by certain evil-disposed persons
connected with their clubs, whose interest it is, by mis-
representing the intentions of directors, to produce dis-
content amongst a class of men whose limited number
leads them to imagine that they can dictate the
conditions upon which they will continue in the
service of railway companies—a state of things incompa-
tible alike with the safety of the public and the well-
being of the men themselves. Now the regulations
which the directors of this company have thought it fit
to impose are not only just and reasonable in themselves,
tiut precisely those which are best adapted to promote
these very objects.
. With reference to the statement put forth that it is
the object of the directors to use the classification of the
drivers as a means by which to reduce their wages, I
am instructed to state that the directors never have had
any intention, either directly or indirectly, to reduce the
wages of their engine- drivers. The directors have adopted
the measures necessary for supplying the place of those
men who have combined to quit their employment.
They have already engaged a number of experienced en-
gine-drivers, and have every reason to believe that the
.service will continue to be conducted with the same regu •
larity and safety to the public as heretofore.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
• R. CREED, Secretary.
Office, Enston-station, Aug. 7, 1848.
The following has been posted on the premises of the
company:--

" Euston-station, August 7, 1848.
"A statement having appeared in the Observer news-
paper of Sunday, and been copied Into the Times of
-this day, tothe effect, that at a meeting on Fridaymany of
the engine drivers and firemen employed on the London
North-Western Railway, it had been alleged that it
was the intention of the directors to use the classification
as the means of ultimately . reducing the wages of
the men, I am instructed to declare, that so far
from this being the case, it is their intention,
in every instance, strictly to carry out the regulation by
which engine-drivers -and firemen are to be successively
advanced as vacancies may occur in the classes above
them, and that it is not, and never has been, the intention
of the directors to redtice the number of the men em-
ployed in these classes, or their rate of wages.
"By order,
"R. CREED, Secretary."

A LIST showing the BUSINESS yet to be trans-
acted in both HOUSES of PARLIAMENT to
the End of the present Session.—Aug. 5.

IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

Bail for Manslaughter Bill—Waiting for Committee.
Bankruptcy Court Regulation Bill Ditto second
reading,
Bankrupt Law Consolidation Bill—Ditto Committee.
Bankrupts' Release Bill—Ditto Committee.
Caledonian Canal Bill—Ditto second reading.
Charity Trust Regulation Bill—Dittoreport.
Clergy Offences Bill—Ditto second reading.
Constabulary Force (Ireland) fill—Ditto second reading.
Copyhold Enfranchisement Extension Bill—Ditto report.
Corn Markets (Ireland) Bill—Ditto report
Declaratory- Suits Bill—. Ditto third reading.
.
Farmers' Estate Society (Ireland) Bill—Ditto fiist
reading,
Highway Rates Bill—Ditto Second reading.
Juvenile Offenders' (Ireland) Bill—Ditto second reading.
Land-tax Codimissioners' Names Bill—Ditto second

reading.
Loan Societies Bill—Ditto second reading.
Naval Medical Supplemental Fund Society Bill—Ditto
second. reading..
Parliamentary Electors' Bill—Ditto second reading.
Paymasters' Offices Consolidation Bill—Ditto 'second
reading. -
Protection of Women Bill—Ditto'second reading.
Public Works (Ireland) (No. 2) Bill—Ditto Committee.
Regent's Quadrant Colonnade Bill—Ditto third reading.
Reproductive Loan Fund Institution (Ireland) Bill—
Ditto second reading.
Rum Duties Bill—Ditto second reading.
Salmon Breed Preservation Bill—Ditto Committee.
Trustees Relief Bill—Ditto second reading.
Trustees Relief (Ireland) Bill—Ditto Consideration of
Coaimons' amendments to the Lords' amendments.
Unnecessary Actions Prevention Bill—Ditto Committee.
Windsor Castle and Town Approaches Improvement
Bill—Ditto second reading.—Total, 30 Bills.