The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-21 00:00:00

THAMES.

Mary Moore was brought before Mr. Paget charged
with assaulting and wounding Mary Sullivan and
biting a piece of flesh out of her cheek. The parties
live in an Irish colony called Turner's-buildings,
Robin Hood-lane, Poplar, and there was " a row and
a scrimmage there yesterday, in, the course of which
Mrs Sullivan, whose face had been dressed, said, wall
the usual Irish exaggeration, " Missus Moore then
kilt me and bit me eye out, and burnt all me hand
away." It was, however, certain that Mrs. Sullivan
had been very seriously injured. The prisoner, in
defence, said that Mrs. Sullivan beat her and kicked
her, and that she neither bit nor burnt her neighbour.
She had no fire such a hot day as yesterday to make
the poker hot, and she was sure Mrs. Sullivan must
have done it herself. Mr. Paget did not seem to be-
lieve in the possibility of a woman biting a piece of
flesh out of her own cheek near the left eye, and re-
manded the prisoner.

. TIIE DIFFICULTIES OF ITALY.
The Times publishes a letter on Italian finances from an
eminent financial authority who has previously more than
once presided over the national exchequer. He considers
the general opinion formed of Italian finances to be far too
unfavourable, and he is now in a position to reason on pre-
proved for 1868.9. The Italian Government has, he says,
else figures, as the accounts have been duly audited and ap-
been greatly blamed for being always in arrear with its
accounts, but this has been the case with all States which
have gone through a revolutionary period. In Belgium the
disorder in the accounts lasted longer than in Italy itself,
where affairs are now getting into order. The ordinary
revenue has within seven years risen from £18,850,000 to
£34,420,000. The estimate for 1870 is £35,000,000. The
Budget is divided into two heads, the Permanent and
Debt, the Pensions, Civil List, &e., which eannot be econo-
mised. Under the Administrative head come the War and
ordinary
in which great savings have been
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expenditure
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the War and Marine Budget for 1862 being
made,
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£14,500,000; and for 1869 £7,500,000. The ordinary expen-
diture
1860 an ordinary expenditure of
£ 3w4h, 4i 2c
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revenue of £34,420,000. Unfortunately
"the heavy fine
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expenditure,O'
nation has bad to pay for its emancipation," has risen in
the same time friars 9,572.,000 to £24,250,000. The public
the permanent
in those seven yhas increased nearly ten millions, the
pension list has grown from £1,600,000 to £2,000,000 ; the
ei
is hasco consequently erne
railway guarantees have risen at a still more rapid rate. The
national liabilities, however, include large sums expended
on public works, which will ultimately prove remunerative.
If, says the writer we are quoting, we contrast the ordi-
nary revenue and the expenditure, both ordinary and ex-
traordinary, we shall arrive at ae,
yearly deficit, but this is
not real, because we have not calculated the extraordinary
revenue of sale of national domains, reimbursement; etc.,
and only the revenue actually collected is reckoned, not
that which falls in arrear. The Italian Government has
been accused of not knowing how to collect their revenue
and it is true there are arrears amounting to no lese
than fourteen millions. But some of these represent the
debts of the municipal corporations for f • arming out the
octroi, some arrears of direct tax kc. The • '
es, c. equalisation
of the land tax in the newly annexed provinces occa-
sioned some unavoidable delay in the collection
The arrears, it is stated, are not so great in the
Southern States, as in Piedmont and Tuscany, the Loin-
bards and Venetians being the most regular in their ac-
counts. The condition of Italian finance is therefore far from
being hopeless, if not at present as prosperous
desire. , as the well-
wisher' of the country might •-
•

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.-(THIS DAY.

Sales probably 12,000 bales. Market quiet.

Some wholesale grocers complain that the Oust=
House authorities will not afford any relief from the
hardship inflicted on manufacturers and dealers in sugar
by the sudden alteration in the scale of duties. Their
suggestion was that manufactured sugar in stock on the
11th inst. should be placed in the bonded warehouses at
the owner's expense, with an affidavit, if required that it
had been made from sugar on which the higher rate of
duty had been paid, and be admitted to drawback under
the same regulations as if intended for sh!_ps' stores or ex-
port. They hope that the Government, `r for the sake 9t
its own honour," will in some way remedy the wrong it
?gas done them.

The Queen, it is well known, has for some years
taken a very great personal interest in the contents of the
Stuart papers, a very large mass of which is in the Royal
Library at Windsor and which was being catalogued and
arranged by her Majesty's late librarian at the time of his
death. One day, ust zsany years ago, the Queen came
into the library and inquirea of her then librarian what
progress ho was making with the Stuart papers, adding
with much naivete, " You must know, Mr. - Ism a
devoted supporter of the House of Stuart." "Madam,
your Majesty will pardaA me," was the ready reply, "if
I say that I am an equally devoted gu')vorter of the
qa» of ganover.".—Ouvaiffy