The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-01 00:00:00

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because it would be plainly detrimental to this end expectation of being able to pas And, 'whenever
were the public attention to be diverted from the this could be made clear to the satisfaction of a
broad questions at issue into matters suggested by jury, then the parties would be generally deemed
personal pique or private animosity. The pro- to have received punishment enough in the anxiety
priety of a banker granting assistance upon special and pain attendant on such an investigation.—
securities to a customer in difficulties is un- Advertiser,
doubted, provided there be a reasonable prospect
of those difficulties proving merely temporary. This
was the nature of the statement laid before Messrs

TILL' PRISONER OF THE IRISJI

Overend and Co. Many months before, Messrs.
Streatfeild submitted an application of a similar
character to the Bank of England, who acceded to
it. When Messrs. Streatfeild stopped, the Bank
of England, like Messrs. Overend and Co., were
found to be, to a certain extent covered by special
securities. Yet the management of the Bank of
England has not been impugned, and we have
upon a former occasion shown that it was not open
to blame in the matter.

BIZIGaI LE.

The Morning News of this day prints the first in-
telligence which up to the present has reached Ire-
land from any of the Irish prisoners taken by the
Piedmontese at Perugia or Spoleto. The commu-
nication is from a young man named Brophy, a
native of Dublin, who, says the Pews,
" Had been charged to distribute among the men
checks on the National Bank, obtained for them
from the bank of Plowden, Cholmeley, and Co.,
by a kind friend in Rome. This money was part
of their bounty, which the faithful Celts—the
same in heart all over the world, in America,
India, Australia, or Italy—were about to remit to
the parent, the sister, or mother at home in Ireland.
Sergeant Brophy was intrusted with this duty, and
undertook to make out and return to Dublin a list
or inventory of the cheques of his own company.
He appears to have distributed the cheques and
made out the list, when suddenly the treacherous
onslaught of the Piedinontese invaders (which we
thus perceive was utterly unexpected) burst upon
Perugia."

COUNTRY MARKETS.

The following is the brief message, written on a
crumpled bit of paper :
" Near Livorno, en route to Genoa, Sept. 20.
" Sir,--You will perceive by the enclosed that I
have faithfully carried out the instructions of
to me respecting the cheques intrusted to my
charge at Perugia for our company, but unfortu-
nately I had not time to post it before the siege
opened on us. I send here the schedule I made
out ; do with it as is best now.
" You will surely excuse this sort of a note, re-
membering, as you see, that now we are prisoners.
I need say no more.
" I have not room, if I dared, to tell you all. I
wish you could know all about our capture.
" Poor Allmall (Allman P)., whom you knew, fell
dead by my side, shot through the heart. He never
spoke. Instantly I myself was struck down. My
gun was shattered out of my hand, and as I lay on
the ground I was hit again by a ball in the left
hip, my trousers torn to atoms, my wound but a
trifle. But our company escaped wonderfully,
considering it might have been destroyed.
" We are here after three days' dreadful march:
Our poor fellows are used awful. You would see
the blood oozing out through our shoes and over
at the ankles, from streaming down inside our
clothes from our wounds—still made to go fearful
marches. But our spirits are the same as ever.
"We are going, they say, to Genoa. I have of
course given every man his check, except five or
six, which I keep awaiting instructions. I suppose
no letters can reach us, but try.
" Dear Sir, send word to my mother of my fate;
she lives at No. —, —, Dublin. It is no use her
writing, as I might not get it.—Your obedient ser-
vant, " T. W. BROPHY."