The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-08 00:00:00

ITALY.

In its sitting of the 2d, the Piedmontese Senate
unanimously voted the prolongation of the law im-
posing a tax upon trades and liberal arts, which had
been passed for only a limited period.
The Minister of the Interior at Modena has
issued the following decree, dated the 26th ult.:—
Art. 1. The Jews are dispensed from furnishing
the annual contingent for the troops of the
reserve as well as of the active service. Art. 2,
The Jewish communities shall pay 1,500 francs, as an
equivalent, for every conscript, even of former con-
scriptions. This sum shall be exacted at the end of
each year by the royal tax-gatherers, and paid into
the coffers of the military department, to be applied
to the expenses of the conscription. Art. 3. An
action shall lie on the part of the communities for the
sums paid against the families of the young men
called out for military service.

AMERICAN NEWS.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MORNING

The arrival of the Royal Mail steam-ship Cambria
has placed us in possession of four days' later intel-
ligence from the leading cities and towns of the
United States.
The Cambria sailed from Boston on the 26th of
November, and made the usual bi-monthly call at
Halifax on the 28th. She brings 607,800 dollars in
specie and twenty-five passengers. The New York
portion of the mails are left behind.
Business in the leading cities and ports of the
States was healthy. The money market was lighter.
Stocks firm and in good demand.
Breadstuffs were quiet and without change in price.
Western canal flour, 3 dolls. 621 c. per brl.; Genessee
prime wheat, 96 to 98 cents per lb. ; Indian corn,
round yellow, 60 to 62 cents. per bushel, steady ;
Indian meal, 3 dolls. 3.7ic. to 3 dolls. 50c. per brl.
In cotton there had been a fair amount of business
doing at New York, and former quotations were
steadily maintained. The following were the rates
at the steamer's departure :—New Orleans and Mo-
bile, mid fair to fair, 91c. to 9ic. per lb. ; Uplands and
Florida, mid fair to fair, 84c. to 9c. per lb.
Provisions were moderate. Mess pork, l 5 ; prime,
13k. _ _

Freight of grain to Liverpool, 41. to 44d. per
bushel.

Exchange on London, 1101 to 110/ ; Paris, 5.13 ;
Hamburg, 361 to 361.

WEST INDIA MAILS.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY MORNING.—The Royal
Mail Steam Packet Company'a ship Dee, Captain
Allen, has just arrived here with the West India and
Gulf of Mexico mails.
She brings specie value 1,973,551 dollars on
freight, of which 76,486 dollars are for account of
the Mexican dividends.
The Trent left Tampico after time. Upwards of
600,000 dolls. in specie was left behind.
Camargo, in the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico, is
still in the bands of the insurgents, and in the com-
mand of a Mexican officer, named Cabajal. He has
laid down a scale of rates about one-half of those of the
present Mexican tariff, appropriating one-half for his
own use.
On the frontier of Rio Grande smuggling is now
carried on to a great extent.
In Jamaica the cholera continues fatal in several
parts of the island. A gale had been experienced
near Black River, doing considerable damage to the
shipping.
In Demerara the weather was favourable, and the
planters were getting in their crops as fast as they
could. The shipping in the Demerara river was
loading rapidly. The market was well supplied with
provisions.

We refer our readers to an advertisement which
appears in another column, announcing the formation
of a company to work scientifically and economically
the auriferous deposits of the Bathurst district of
Australia. The British Australian Gold Mining
Company is already completely formed in Sydney,
and holds a lease of lands for seven years, renewable
for a term of seven or of fourteen years, on payment
of a royalty of five per cent., contiguous to the cele'
brated Ophir digging.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following
gentlemen, having undergone the necessary examinations
for the diploma, were admitted members of the College at
the meeting of the Court of Examiners on the sth instant :
Messrs. Alexander Fraser Bayne, Reading, Berkshire; Wil-
liam Thomas Paliologw, Calcutta; John Francis Tierney,
Bengal; Edward Casson, Hull; Edward Mercer, Uxbridge,
Middlesex ; Thomas Gibson, Birmingham ; John Douglas
Francis Cookson, Gloucester ; and Joseph Lee, Guildford,
Surrey.