The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-05 00:00:00

ITALY.

, Our readers will remember our mentioning a
few months ago an action that had been com-
menced by the Minister of Finance at Rome
against Advocate Carlo Armellini, one of the tri-
umvirs of the late Roman Republic, for a sum of
42,900 scudi (257,000 fr.), not satisfactorily ac-
counted for in the expenditure of the Repub-
lic. The Messagere of Modena, of the 24th
ult., now states that the judicial inquiry has shown
the said sum to have been duly expended, according
to directions given by the then existing Government ,
Signor Feoli, the banker, having, by order of the Re-
public, drawn a bill for 20,000 f. on Leghorn, and an-
other for 10,000 f. on Paris , the former fiaving been
employed in attempting to transport the Lom-
bard legion to Rome, and the latter sent to Signor
Accursi, the Roman agent at Paris. Besides these
comparatively minor transactions, a contract has been
produced in court which had been concluded with a
London house for 34,000 muskets and 7,000 barrels
of gunpowder, for the sum of 6,5001. The tribunal
has not yet pronounced its decision on the matter.
The Genoa Gazette of the 26th ult. publishes a
statement from which it appears that the intercourse
between Sardinia and the Canary Isles has consider-
ably increased of late, no less than sixteen Piedmon-
tese vessels having arived at Santa Cruz (Teneritre)
in 18.50, while vessels of that nation were but rarely
seen in that port before.
The Breslau Gazette has the following from
Milan, 23d ult. :—" The Austrian troops concen-
trated on the Piedmontese frontier have reached
the number of 20,000 men, and the garrison of
this place (Nlilan) may be considered as the
reserve of that body, as, in case of war, they
would be immediately united, as was done in
1848. Negotiations have been opened with
the Piedmontese Government, and it will soon
be known whether Austria complains merely of the
asylum which has been given to political refugees, or
whether it is the whole system of the Government at
which she has taken umbrage, in consequence of its
favouring the Propagandist hope of Italian unity.
Field-Marshal Radetzky will in a month remove his
head-quarters from Verona to Milan. Under all
cases, this measure has for its object an armed demon-
stration against Sardinia."
The Ferrara Gazette, of the 21st ult., states that
early on the preceding day four bundles, consisting of
24 gun-barrels, were found near the bridge of Santa
Lucia ; from there being no traces of rust on them,
it was supposed they had been left there that very
night by some person afraid of being detected with
them in his possession. What added to the singu-
larity of the circumstance was, that at the other
end of the town three carbines, a small fowling
piece, and a gun-barrel was also found that very
mcrning in the vicinity of the church of Santo
Spirito. These arms were claimed by the monks, as
having been found on their property. The four
bundles mentioned above were left in the hands of
the police.

ADMISSION OF CADETS TO THE
EAST INDIA COMPANY'S SERVICE.
The following are the points upon which candidates
are to be examined before they are passed as cadets in
the service of the E sst India Company:-
1. Each candidate will be required to write English
correctly from dictation.
2. He should possess a competent knowledge of the
ordinary rules of arithmetic, including the rule of three,
compound proportion, simple and compound interest,
vulgar and decimal fractions, and the extraction of the
square root. He should also have read the first three
books of Euclid.
3. In languages he should be able to translate into
English passages from Caesar's Commentaries, or from
the first four'books of Virgil's 2Enead, and he:will be fur-
ther expected to parse, and show his knowledge of gram-
mar and syntax.
The candidate will be required to translate from
French into English an extract from one of the follow-
works, viz., Telemachus, Voltaire's Charles the XII.,
and Peter the Great. But the candidate will have the
option of being examined in the Hindustani in lieu of
the French language, and in that case he will be required
to translate from Hindustani into English an extract
from one of the following works, viz.: Bah-o-Buhar,
Tota Kuhanee.
4. In history he should be prepared to pass an ex-
amination in Keightley's Histories of Greece and Rome,
in Gleig's History of England, and in the History of
British India, contained in vols. 1 and 2 of the Edin-
burgh Cabinet Library.
5. In geography he should possess a competent know-
ledge of the modern divisions of the world; the principal
nations in Europe and Asia ; the names of the capital
of each nation in Europe, an of the chief cities of Hin-
dostan; and the names and situations of the principal
rivers and mountains in the world.
6. In fortification, he should have read some elemen-
tary work on the subject (Straith's Introductory Essay
to the Study of Fortification, or Macaulay's Field
Fortification), and have received some instruction in
drawing.
The examination of the candidates will take place
before a board of examiners, to be convened for that
purpose at the Military Seminary at Addiscombe, near
Croydon.
If the candidate has been confirmed as a member of
the Church of England, he will be required to make a
declaration to that effect. If not so confirmed, or if nut
a member of the Church of England, he will be required
to produce a certificate from a minister stating that he
has been well instructed in the principles of the religion
in which he has been brought up.
The candidate will also be required to produce testi-
monials of good moral conduct, under the hand of the
institutionprincip in
principal or
whichsuper hiore mayau havethority beenofth edecollege rr publicunder
the hand of the private instructor to whose care he may
have been confided—and the said testimonials shall have
reference to his conduct during the two years immedi
atoly preceding his presentation for admission.

.XTRAORDINARY Cow.—On Tuesday last, Mr.
Richard Knowles, butcher, of Lytham, slaughtered an enor-
mous sized cow, the gross weight of which was, when alive,
one ton within five pounds. Two hundred and twenty
pounds of loose fat were taken from this extraordinary
animal when killed, She was about six years old, and was
brad and fed by Mr. Richard Gorst, of Ribbleton. Our cor-
respondent has not informed us of the weight per quarter
when cut Up.--Preston Chronicle.
COAL DUTIES IN HOLLAND.—The Gateshead Oh-
server says :—" We are happy to announce, on the authority
of a letter from ft most respectable Dutch house, received
yesterday, that the Government of the Hague is disposed to
bring forward a proposition for altering, or even totally abo-
lishing, the import duty on coal.' "
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