The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-07 00:00:00

ROME.

The following order of the day has been issued by
General de None :
" Officers and Soldiers—A Ministerial decision, dated
24th August, appoints me to the command of the French
troops at Rome.
" You have known me a long time. You know how
fully I appreciate your exact discipline, your devotion, and
your excellent spirit.
" Sure of the loyal and sympathetic support of your
chiefs, I can only feel proud of having to continue the com-
mand which is left to me in such excellent conditions by
General Count de Goyon, to whom we all pay a unanimous
tribute of respect. _

"To-day, as yesterday, our duties are the same; indif-
ferent, strangers to the sentiments which may divide the
Roman population, we shall have but one will—that of as-
suring tranquillity, of not allowing any species of disorder
under any form whatsoever.
" We will also give the most firm and solid support to the
Holy Father, and we shall attain the object desired by all—
to fulfil the intentions of the Emperor and to deserve his
approbation.
" General of Brigade, Commandant of the French Troops
at Rome,
" Rome, Aug. 29, 1860. " Comte DE NOTIE."

AMERICA.

GALWAY, FRIDAY.

The Atlantic Royal Mail Company's steamer,
Parana, Captain Heenan, arrived here at 6.30 a.m.
to-day. She left Boston on the 28th ult., and St.
John's, Newfoundland, on the Ist inst. She brings
90 passengers.

The passage from St. John's was made in five
days 22 hours.

LATEST BY TELEGRAPH via ST. JOHN'S.
NEW YORK, AUG. 31.

The Africa has arrived out, and the Nova Scotian
at Father Point. The City of Baltimore arrived
on the 27th inst.
The Prince of Wales visited Aberbrook, St.
Hyacinth, and Lennoxville yesterday. He started
for Ottawa to-day, and was to visit Boston about
the 14th October.
General Houston has declined to become a can-
didate for the Presidency, and urges a union of
the Conservatives and the Union men against
Lincoln.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, AuG. 31.

Cotton steady. Flour advanced 45c. since Mon-
day. Wheat 6c. higher. Corn scarce, and nomi-
nally higher. Provisions steady. Stocks heavy.
NEW ORLEANS, AUG. 30.
Cotton advanced 1. Sales, to-day, 4,000 bales
Middling upland 102 c. to 10Zc.

QUEENSTOWN, FRIDAY.

The Royal Mail steamship Persia, Capt. Judkins,
which left New York on the 29th ult., arrived here
to-day at 10 a.m. She brings 67 passengers and
405,832 dols. in specie for England.
She landed eight passengers and all the mails,
except those for Liverpool, and proceeded at 10.30
a.m. All well.

The Persia made the passage in 81 days.

SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS.—This DAY.

This afternoon, at one,o'clock, the general half-yearly
meeting of the shareholders was held at the London
Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, to receive the Report of the
Directors of the progress of the company during the past
half-year, and the declaration of a dividend.

Sir TAMES CARMICHAEL in the chair.
The SECRETARY having read the Report, which has
already appeared in the Sun,
The CHAIRMAN referred to their increased expenditure
arising from accidents to cables, which had been heavier
than in any former half-year, and the cause of these acci-
dents were mainly to be attributed to the severe storms that
had occurred in the Channel, where at one time there were
no less than 300 wrecks. But at the present time
their cables were in perfect order; but he did
recommend that a larger amount ought to be re-
served out of their revenue to meet these expenses
than heretofore, without being compelled to have
recourse to their capital. The chairman, after adverting
to the working expenses of the company, congratulated the
shareholders on the success they had attained in completing
an entire communication with Hamburg and the North of
Europe, and read a statistical account of the number of
messages that had been received from various cities during
the past half-year as compared with the previous, showing
that in most cases they were doubled, trebled, and in one
instance quadrupled. He might mention that the
last year had been ono of remarkable depression
in trade on the continent, and had seriously affected
electric telegraphs generally. A meramial had been pre-
sented by shareholders at Manchester relative to a reduc-
tion of their tariff, and on other points as to the manage-
ment of the company, and he would recommend that a
committee be appointed to confer with the directors cm the
the subject. He then moved that the report be read and
adopted.
Mr. HIND3IAB.SII seconded the motion.

Mr. SAUNDERS and several other proprietors having ad-
dressed the meeting, the report was received and adopted.
The proposed committee having been appointed, the re-
tiring directors were re-elected, and a dividend at the rate
of 3 per cent. on the half-year declared.
The proceedings then terminated.

THE COST OF A GAOL BIRD.---At the County
Hall, on Friday last, James Turner, whose name is always
before the public during the poaching season, was charged
with trespassing in search of game at Eckington, on the
28th of June last. The prisoner has only just been libe-
rated at the expiration of
n. lais 34th term of imprisonment
for the same kind of offenHe wa3 ordered to pay 40s.
and costs, and in default was again committed to his old
quarters for two months. Among other offences com-
mitted from the year 1832 till the present month, he has
been convicted for stealing coal, breaking a fence, assaults,
stealing ducks, trespass (seven times), poaching (eighteen
times), and sundry misdemeanours. He has been in gaol 35
times, and his sentences have ranged from fourteen days
to five months. Altogether he has in 28 years spent 65
months in prison, and the following figures show the ap-
proximate cost this vagabond has inflicted on the county
and his prosecutors-260 weeks maintenance, £143 ; 35
convictions, £24 10s. ; total cost, £167 10s. It is quite
clear that the gaol has no terrors for James Turner.—
Derby Mercury.
LAST OF THE HORSE RIDE IN KENSINGTON-
GARDENS.—A report upon this subject was brought up it the
vestry of Kensington on Wednesday last, and after having
detailed the course adopted by the committee and the re-
sult of the memorial to the Queen, which was signed by
43,000 persons, against the horse ride, it stated that the
hurdles and posts had been removed, the road was being
levelled, and new turf laid down. Mr. Banting, in propos-
ing the adoption of the report, congratulated the vestry on
the triumphant results, and said their enemy was beaten,
and he hoped by that time he was buried and under the
turf. The report was adopted and a cheque drawn for the
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