The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-20 00:00:00

ITALY.

We read in the Costituzionale of Florence of the
15th that the council of prefecture of that city has
annulled the vote of the municipal council allotting
I,ooof. to the fund for sending Tuscan workmen to
the London Exhibition.
A letter from Naples of the 2d, in the Costitu-
zionale of Florence, states that the Supreme Court of
Justice has overruled the objections started against
the competency of the tribunal by the persons now
under trial for the affair of the insurrection of the
15th of May, 1848. The objections were—let, the
royal amnesty for all acts committed on the 15th of
May; 2dly, the accused being deputies at the time,
and therefore subject to the jurisdiction of the Court
of Peers only; idly, Signor SCIALOIA being a
Minister at the time, and Signor LEOPARDI on an em-
bassy to the Court of Sardinia. The public prose-
cutor had consented to the third objection, but the
Court overruled them all by 5 votes to 4.

KOSSUTH AND HIS COMPANIONS.
The Paris Patrie of yesterday says—" Letters
from Constantinople of the sth announce that the re-
fugees of Koutahia have been set at liberty, and have
already arrived at the Dardanelles. With theex-
ception of two or three, who go direct to Eng-
land, the whole of them are about to embark for the
United States."

THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—The workmem em-
ployed in extending the electric telegraph on the Great
Western, Bristol and Exeter, and South Devon Railways are
making rapid progress. Already nearly the whole of the
straining and connecting posts between Chippenham and
Paddington—a distance of 9354 miles—have been fitted, and
the materials for the remaining portion are in a very forward
state, so that very little has to be accomplished except
passing and connecting the wires. It is intended, on the
completion of the South Wales Railway, to extend the
electric telegraph to Milford Haven—thus the whole of the
naval arsenals, with the exception of Sheerness, will be placed
in immediate communication with the Admiralty, viz., Ports-
mouth, on the South-Western; Plymouth and Pembroke
(Milford Haven), on the Great Western and its auxiliaries;
Chatham and Woolwich, on the North Kent; llarwich, on
the Eastern Counties and Deal, on the South-Eastern
Railway. The flag-ship at Sheerness can be communicated
with, in clear weather, through the depot ship in ordinary
at Chatham.

RAPID DISCHARGE OF CARGO.—The new screw
steam-ship City of Manchester, Ns hi ch arrived hers from
Philadelphia on Sunday last, on the next day discharged
her cargo, consisting of 6,872 packages, in the short space of
eight hours! The cargo consisted of 6,5';1 barrels of flour,
51 hhds. of bark, and 297 tierces of beef, which were landed
at the rate of Hi packages a minute, or one package every
four seconds ! Besides this wonderfully rapid discharge of
cargo, an unprecedented circumstance in connexion with her
reloading deserves to be noticed; namely, that she was en-
tered inwards for discharge and outwards for loading in the
same Customs' bill of entry ; special permission to that
effect having been granted by the board in London. On
Wednesday she proceeded on her outward voyage, with nO
passengers and nearly 1,000 tons of coal and cargo, the
whole of which had been received on board within the short
quo of twelve hours.—Liverpool Chronicle.