The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-20 00:00:00

TUSCANY AND PIEDMONT.

"As for the subscription of the 10,000 musketry, you
have already made the opportune remark to the Presi-
dent of the Government of the Grand Duke, that his Ma-
jesty's Government has stopped that subscription, and
that legal proceedings have been set on to act against the
promoters of it. But Chevalier Baldasseroni seems to
have manifested a fear that the steps taken by the Sardi-
uiau Government were t mild, Ind that our laws are
inadequate to punish the authors of the offence with the
deserved penalty. We :.re of a different opinion. We
believe that our laws provide sufficiently for our internal
safety, as well as for our international duties.
" The Government of the King repels every interpreta-
tion which might lead to excite the belief that it disturbs
abroad, by direct and indirect means, that order and that
tranquillity which it has always known how to mainta►n
at home. It is not by the reasonable and temperate eye
of moderate liberty that disorders and insurrections are
produced. The history of Piedmont in these last years
sufficiently proves thig.

" The Grand Ducal Government knows by experience
in how many circumstances Sardinia has assisted effica-
ciously in preventing disturbances at home and abroad ;
and it is certainly not at a moment when just emerging
from a blo ,dy and costly war, undertaken for the defence
of order, that she can be accused of fomenting distur-
bances in her neighbourhood. The Government of the
King is well acquainted with the international duties
which bind it to the neighbouring States, and it scrupu-
lously fulfils them. But the Governmen of the King is
not disposed to sacrifice to the demands of others, found-
ed on exaggerated fears, those liberties which the citi-
z ms of its State enj,y.
"If Irightly understand your account of your conversa-
tion with the President of the Tuscan Cabinet, it would
op?ear that his excellency expressed himself as meaning
to hint to an appeal either to the Cabinets or to the putilic
opinion of Europe. I know not havi:,g well meditated
their case, the Cabinet of Floret:co still adheres to this in.
ttliiion. Should such be the case, you will inform the Pre-
sident of the Tuscan Ministry that the Government of Elk
Majesty, strong in their rights, conscious of having loyally
tuMited all their duties, and mindful of wrongs unre-
dressed —does not fear an examination of their acts,
which are usually done in broad day. You will inform
Excellency that the opinion of the Cabinets and of
the people of Europe is a judge whose competency will
never be contrasted by the men who have the honour to
sit in the councils of the King of Sardinia.
" I charge you to send this despatch to his Excellency
Chevalier Baldasseroni, and to give him a copy thereof
if demanded.

(Signed) " C. CAVOUR.
"To Chevalier Gianutti,
Charge d'Affaires of Sardinia, Florence."

LONDON AND PARIS BANK.—At a 'fleeting of the
London and Paris Bank, held yesterday, the directors
were authorised to take measures for winding up, re-
turning the capital in the proportion paid 1-,y the share-
holders, with the exception of 3/. per share, which Is to
be retained until an account shall have been rendered of
preliminary expenses and the remuneration of retiring
officers. It was explained that the directors find the
altered position of the money market and the discredit
occasioned by recent joint-stock bank suspensions un-
favourable to the prosecution of the undertaking. A
proposition to appoint a committee to assist the board
in arranging the repayment of capital, &c., was defeated
by a small majority. An application is to be forthwith
made to the Board of Trade to sanction the contemplated
proceeding, and, as the funds are deposited in the Union
Bank of London, their distribution, it is thought, may
shortly be commenced.
EXTRAORDINARY OSOURRENCE.—An accident of a
singular description occurred a few days since at the
Hanbridge Brewery, Lang port. By some unexplained
cause a considerable portion of the brickwork of the
whereby the head of a large vat
in gibbing" gave
egreavaebownay
shout ',500 gallons of strong beer was
stove iu. The liquor of course ran out, and a large por-
tion of it found its way to a small river called the Ivel,
and thence into the river Parret, of which the Ivel is a
tributary. The effect on the finny inhabitants of the
Parret was remarkable; they were stupified, and turned
up by thousands. On Saturday the water from Lang.
port to the railway bridge was covered with fish for a dis-
tance of fully two miles. All kinds of fish seemed to
share the same fate, as there were to be seen amongst
the dead, roach, (lace, jack, carp, eels, &c, The loss
to the proprietor of the brewery exceeds 300/.—. leo/
SPANISH AMERICAN BONDHOLDERS.—A meeting of
Spanish American Bondholders took place yesterday,
Mr. J. D. Powles iu the chair, when the following reso-
lution was carried :—" That whereas the amended reso-
lution passed at the meeting of the Bth of August, 1856,
will have the effect et depriving the Committee of spa-
niat American Bondholthre of any adequate reinunera-
Gen for the important services rendered by them in ob-
taining an adjustment of the debt duo by Guatemala, it
is the opinion of this meeting that the said resolution be
rescinded, arid that the meeting authorcee a deduction
of 5 per cent, on the issue of bonds representing the
principal and arrears of interest of the said debt, to be
placed at the disposal of the Committee of Spanish
American Bondholders for the remuneration of the par-
ties who have been instrumental in bringing about such
1 adjustment, and for the payment of the expenses which
have been incurred by the committee, and for their re.
muneration."

Lions to follow bis example, as he was led to believe it
was a safe investment.

1 Mr. GODDARD called upot the chairman to put his
resolution.
The CHAIRMAN declined to (10 so,
On the motion of General AITCHISON, seconded by
Mr. STAPLETON, *he following resolution was passed :
i " That it appears to this meeting, and it is hereby de-
Glared, that the losses of the Royal British Bank
have exceeded all the surplus and reserved capital,
and one-fourth part of the now paid up capital of the cor-
poration of the said bank." Mr. Coleman having first
explained that such a resolution was necessary to faci-
litate the winding-up of the undertaking.
The CHAIRMAN said that the resolution having been
carried, it only now remained for him to dissolve the
company, which he accordingly die, except for the
purpose of finally closing and winding up of the affairs
of the Company therein mentioned.
The proceedings terminated shortly before five o'clock.

The toll, wing is the balance statement of the affairs
of the Royal British Bank, Sept. 3, 1856, as prepared
by Mr. Coleman :
To total amount of liabilities
„ Capital
158,735 0 0
„ Reserved fund

X-712,069 1 5
By total amount of assets. £288,644 8 11.
„ Losses
270,412 13 6
„ Adjustimg interest account 22,356 10 6
„ Charge aqd expenses
„ Preliminary expenses
„ oil bills le-discOutitcd
„ Welch works, cost (exclusive of
interest)

£712,069 1 5

We are enabled to place before our readers the
following official despatch, which the Piedmont's,
Government has addressed to that of the Grand
Duke of Tuscany. Austrian influence at Florence
has for some time past inspired the Tuscan Govern-
ment with a marked hostility to that of Piedmont,
and a number of vexatious and petty insults have
been imposed on Sardinian subjects, to which M.
Cavour thus replies :

" MAIM, Sept. 5,1856.
"Although the Tuscan Goverment has for some time
past accustomed his Majesty's Government to that die-
display of scant courtesy, not to use stronger language,
which they exhibit towards those Piedmontese subjects
who visit the Grand Duchy, nevertheless, I admit that I
heard with surprise from your confidential despatches of
the date of the 2d inst., the abrupt expulsion from the
Tuscan territory of the director and the scholars of the
Commercial College of Genoa, who arrived at Florence,
having been allowed to disembark at Leghorn, and after
eying presented their papers duly signed by the Grand
Ducal consent at Genoa. And my astonishment was
increaed by the unusual language held to you in this
affair by his Excellency Signor Baldasseroni, President
of the Council of the Ministry, who, instead of justifying
an act which cannot be qualified, addresses complaints
and reproaches as inopportune as ill-founded, and which
the Government of the King considers it their duty
end their right to repudiate by all means within thei
power. The Tuscan Government has the right o
.refusing an entry into their State to any one who is no
their subject. The Tuscan Government may avail itself
of this right towards Sardinian subjects as frequently as
it chooses. For such acts his Majesty's Government
will not make vague complaints, anu will willingly leave
them to be judged by Europe. But what his Majes-
ty's Government complains of, and with reason, is that
Sardinian subjects provided with the proper permission
from the competent Tuscan authorities in the Sardinian
territory are either refused or turned cut of the Grand
Duchy, without their having given a legitimate cause of
complaint by their conduct. Let the Tuscan Govern-
ment give its agents accredited to us those instructions
as it may deem to harmonise with its policy, but not re-
pudiate them at every moment by sending out from the
frontier or interior—and thus doing manifest wrong to
their legitimate interests—those who went to Tuscany
relying on the assurance of the persons who act and
speak legally in the ❑ame of the Tuscan Government.
"The President of the Grand Ducal Government is
not satisfied with the voluntary subscription which is ac-
tually going on in the Sardinian States for the purpose of
waking the present to his Majesty's Government of 100
cannons, intended for the fortifications of Allessandria.
We regret that a demonstration, whose olject is to
testify arid to in .;:rease the confidence that the Piedmontese
people puts in their Kingand in their Governmen•, should
not meet with the sympathy of him who holds the first
place in the Council of a friendly State. We regret that
the spontaneous and universal co•operation:of ttie whole
people to secure one of the bulwarks of the independence
of Piedmont--and we may say also of Italy—should
provoke remarks which are not friendly from an Italian
Government. But not on that account cirn se grant to
the Tuscan, any more than to other Governments, the
right of demanding explanations relative to an act which
does not concern it, and which injures no one, least of
all Tuscany, who has nothing to du with the frontiers,
for the defence of which the iortifications of Aleasandria
are destined.