The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-05 00:00:00

ITALY.

A letter from Rome, in the Univers, states that
the city was thrown into great excitement on the
29 h ult. by the apartments of Signor ALESSAN-
DRONI, one of the superior officials of the Secretariat
of Statc, being broken open by the police, and mi-
nutely searched. As Signor ALESSANDRONI in-
habited some rooms in the palace of the Quirinal
the police could not have ventured upon such
an act without a special permission from
the POPS himself. All this seemed to in-
dicate that suspicions of a very serious na-
ture rested upon Signor ALESSANDRONI, who
was in the country at the time ; and public rumour
adds that the discoveries made by the police among
his papers were so important as to induce the Go-
vernment to send off the French packet two days
sooner. The same correspondent states that an at-
tempt at assassination was committed on the 28th
ult. upon Count DANDINI, an Assessor of the Direc-
tion of the Police, but that the stiletto struck the
hip bone, and thus caused but a slight weund.
The Official Venice Gazette of the 30th ult. states
that the priest PIETRO DALLOCA, a native of Venice,
has been condemned to five years' imprisonment, for
having sent two numbers of the Italia del Popolo of
MAZZINI to a friend of his at Ferrara.

Viscountess Dungarvon and suite, Sir James and
Lady Anne Mackenzie, Sir James Stuart, Bart., and Lady
Brettingbam, embarked at the St. Katharine's Wharf yes-
terday morning, on board the General Steam Navigation
Company's steam-ship Soho, for Antwerp.
MULTIPLICATION BY DIVISION. —An experiment
on the fertility of wheat has, during the past year, been
carried out in the garden of Mr. Stowe, a surgeon at Buck-
ingham, of which the following is a correct account. On
the 13th of July, 1850, a single grain of wheat was sown in
the garden; the plant came up in ten days, and grew luxu-
riantly till the 13th of September; it was then taken up and
divided into slips, and replanted. The plants lived, and
flourished till the 13th of November, when they were again
raised, divided, and replanted, and suffered to remain till
the 16th of April of the present year. The weather then
becoming favourably wet, they were all taken up again and
divided into no less than 114 plants; these being planted,
were permitted to stand till the month of August, when
they were productive of the amazing number of 520 ears of
wheat, many of them of full size, containing more than 50
grains of corn. The crop was gathered before it was fully
ripened, as the birds attacked it in spite of revolving feathers
and a protecting net. Whether the result of this trial will
strengthen the opinion of those who contend for the thin
sowing of wheat in ordinary field cultivation, must be left
to the judgment of more practical agriculturists, but of the
amazing productiveness of the wheat plant, under such
treatment, any one may easily satisfy himself by repeating
the experiment.

STATE OP TRADE, MANCHESTER, SEPT. 4.—There
still continues to be a quietness in the market consequent
upon the high prices demanded, and we do not hear of the
slightest change since Tuesday. Business is transacted with
the utmost caution by buyers, and the sellers manifest ne in-
clination to force sales for either yarns or goods. The de-
mand continues to be for the same qualities of goods as on
Tuesday, and seems likely to continue for the same quarters.

BELPER.—STATE or TRADE.—We cannot give
any very favourable report of trade this week. The silk
glove branch does not seem to improve, although twenty
weeks have elapsed since any quantity has been given out
to the workmen. Kid gloves appear to be generally worn
instead of silk. Unless the manufacturers turn their atten-

tion to making selvedge gloves instead of cut ones, there
will be no great demand for silk gloves as a general article
of apparel. The wrought cotton hose hands seem quite
settled down to the abatement of Is. per dozen. and we are
sorry to say that this branch is not fully employed. The
drawer and pantaloon branch does not improve, although
the coarser gauges are mostly well employed at this season
of the year for the autum demand. The hands are in ex-
pectation of being set on in the course of a few days. At
present there appears to be no activity in the hosiery trade,
and the workmen are in a most depressed condition.—
Derby liferoury.

BIG SALmort.—This is really proving a season
likely to be distinguished from past as from future seasons by
the number of salmon of uncommonly large size which it
has yielded. We have already chronicled the capture of a
fish 451 b., in the Spey; of one 401 b., in the Findhorn ; in
the Beauly one of 291 b. was lately taken with the fly ; of
large fish in the Moray Firth ; of monsters in the northern
streams, and now, to cap all, it is recorded that in a bag net
near Maeda, about a mile and a half from the mouth of the
Deveron, a salmon was caught a few days ago of the extra-
ordinary weight of 531 b. This fish may be looked upon as
the king of the year, for we suspect a heavier one is not
likely soon to be taken. He was 4ift. in length, and at the
thickest part 2ft. 1-3 d in girth, with a tail spreading 12i
inches. What a pity there should be bag-nets or any other
kind of nets to pick up such fish, and more especially to inter-
cept them in the sea before they could get into their native
italkUlit—lnrarneas Courier.