The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-06 00:00:00

FLORENCE.

Accounts. from Florence state that some disagreement
bas taken place among the Ministers about the circular of
the Keeper of the Seals, which directed the officials to
apply the tax relating to the press with more vigour.
This circular was formally protested against by
Signor Ferrari and others. This arbitrary measure of
Signor Pironti has created two parties in the Cabinet. It
is believed that General Menabrea and others of his col-
leagues intend to promulgate, by a royal decree, some of
the laws which the Chambers have refused to sanction.
The Liberal portion of the Cabinet will be certain to
oppose such a policy ; but the official organs of General
Menabrea were decidedly in favour of it a short time
since,

A Court of Inquiry has been sitting at Boston
to investigate charges made by sailors of the U.S. steamer
Pawnee against Captain John M. B. Clint; and Lieutenant-
Commander Henry B. Seely for cruel and inhuman punish-
ment. On suspicion of a theft of which another was after-
wards proved to be guilty, John A. Simmons and John
W. Turner (coloured) with Patrick O'Brien (a white
man) were tied up by the wrists, with their toes just
touching the ground, chained back to back, and fastened
up in a bunch for forty-eight consecutive hours, with
wrists and ankles manacled behind their backs. Atter
they wero released it was feared for some time that
ono of them would lose both hands. Sufficient evidence
has boon supplied to go before a court-martial, which will,
it is believed soon be called.

The ancient ruins in Dlexico are constantly being
brought to light, and recently the remains of an Azteo
fortress have boon discovered on the summit of amountain
near Orizaba. The place is so dense with woods and un-
dergrowth that a thorough exploration could not be made
by the discoverers. They found four houses, three sacrifi-
cial stones, several pillars, and a kind of urn, in which wero
more than two hundred skulls as white as marble, from
which not a tooth was lacking. Several idols and stone
statues were discovered.
An adroit swindle, in which all parties concerned
were cheated, has just conic to light in New York. Some
persons, representing themselves as thieves, offered to
fifty
d p
etrh the
cent. detectives,
commission, uIJ o sell a broker 5125,000 of alleged stolen bond:; for
Ent,,,Our
agreed to buy. The detectives met the bond sellers in a
to
tavern in Hudson, New Jersey. Tho package of
:re their broker
little i n
f ofri
bonds was exchanged for a package of money. Then
with valour the detectives arrested the thieves and opened
the lackeys. The $lOO,OOO in money which the honest
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officers of -the law had given the thieves were found to be
all counterfeits. The 5125,000 in bonds which the thieves
detectivesbad given the
as the thieves.

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