The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 11, 1860.

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BRITISH POSSESSIONS.

closing
Share Railways. Paid.
Frice
100 Atlantic &St Lawrence all Si 83
stk
f Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Ind 100 94 95 94 S
( Gu. 5 per cent .. .... li
18 Do, Do. 16 15 1 d
205 BuffaloandLase Huron all 5 +ssd 55
205 Do. New
10 Do. Preference — . all 04 7
100 1 Buffalo,Brant&Godrich 100 78 S 2
6 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872
1101 DDoo.. dodo.
.Jj
ouol ye
11:
11887743
100
5 Clcutta.&S.Eastn. (Lim, 1. 30. 4 d h.)
100 7370 7758
20 Cape,Eastn.Prov. (Lim.) 2s. --
20 Cape Town & Dock Scrip 3s. I 2 (.1 31
20 Ceylon Guarantd. 6p. c. 75 15 1 d
175 Demerara... all
20 Eastn. Bengaigu. sp. c 75 11 15 d
stock East Indian, rgu. sp. c. 100 995 lc° 991 5
20 Do. F Shares Ext..... 15 5 d pr
20 Do. Jubbulpore l5 d pr
100 Do. 45 pc. Debentrs all 93 99
100 Do. 5 p.c. Deb., 1864 all 101 102
20 Geelong & Melbourne —
Geelong Corporation 6
sto. 100
per cent. Bonds
stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 26 27 261 5
100 Do. 6 per cent. Pref all 85
100 Do. 6 per ct. Debentr all 51 53 52 1
100 Do. 7 per cent. 1862
100 Do. do. 1867 all 48 52
100 Do. do. 1872 all 48 52
tock Gt. Indiarenin.f.,,ma.sp.c lOO 96 97 965 6
20 Do. New gua. sp. c 6 lid i d
Gt. South.of India (Lim)
20 13 25 11d 115
guaranteed 5 per cent.
205 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 135 131 134
all 99 102
205 Do. New .. .. .. . -.
18 61. 84d'
114
100 Do. Bonds pay. '76, with
opt, till '6O ..
100 Do. do. '73 till '6O all 99 102
100 Do. do. '73 without opt all 98 102
100 Do. 55 p. c. do. '77 do all 92 24 93
stock Madras, guar., 45 p. c lOO 83 85
stock Do. do. 5 per cent
stock Do. 41 p. c. Extension 100 86 8,3
20 Do. Fourth do lO 15 1f d
20 Do. d 0... .. .
stock Melb.Corp. 6p. a Bnds lOO
Newßrunswick& Canda
20 Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.6pc
all
Class A Capital Share —I 5 7
.. Do. do. Land do..
20 Do. do. B Capital do all 5 7
Do. do. Land do.
20 Oude (Limited)
stock Scinde ... ..... A 44 100 99 100
20. Do. Punjault .... fe. g 7 11 d 15d
20- Do. Do. .... —.. Fe' cl all d
f
eto:lk Do. Indus. St. Flo. grg 100 93 944
20 St. Andrews & Quebec A 18
10 Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip 1 3 51 d
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
10 Antwerp & Rotterdam all 55 6
20 Ardennes .... .....
20 Bah.&S.Fran..Lim.7 p.c 64 1 Of d
5 Belgian East. Junction all 1 1
20 Beziers to Graissessac all
6 Carmeaux Mine & Rail all 23 2f
100 Copiabo & all
10 Ditto Extension all 25 2 d
20 Dutch Rhenish
20 Eastern of France
20 Grand Rus. Guar. 6p. c 6
20 Do. do. all
20 Great Central of France
20 Gt. Luxem., Con. shs 64 7 CI
20 Italian Junction ..
20 Lake Constance & =ale —
20 Lierre & Turnhout
20 Lyons & Geneva . . all
335 Maria Antonia ........ all
10 Do. New . ... ........ all
20 Namur & Liege .... .... all 8 85
20 Do. 6p. c. Pref. ........ all 195 205
16 Northern of France.... all 88 39
20. Do. New Shares -
10 Norwegian Trunk Pref all 75 85
20 Paris,Lyons, & Mediter all 36 37
20 Paris & Orleans..
20 I Recife & S. Fran. (Pere )
gua. 7p. ct. Urn-- 13 3 25.1
20 Riga & Dunaburg l4
10_ Rome & Frascati
20 Royal Dani5h........., all 13 15
5 Royal Swedish
4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref all --
20 Sambre & Meuse
10 Do. 5i per cent. Pref all 8 a
20 San Paulo, lim, g. 7p. c 2 d
20 S.Aust. &Lomb Venetin 12 f 4 d 11
20 Southern of France all 194 204
81 West Flanders
10 Do. 55 p. c. Preference all 95 DI
20 W. & N.W. of France
20 Western of Austria 6
20 Western of Switzerland all
6 Wiesbaden
6 Do. 8 per cent. Pref all
20 Zealand

BRITISH MINES.

Share'

Brines.

Pail'Closing I Business
Price. Done

Al freri Consols (Philack) 2.11.10
British Iron
Clifford
Devon G. Cons. (Tavist ) 1
East Bassett (Illogan) 3O
East Caradon 14.6
E. WI Russel (Tavistk ) 7.4.0
Gam.dzSt.Aubyn(Gwen ), 51}
Great South Tolgus l7s
G. Wheal Alfd. (Philack) 12.13.9
•G. Wheal Vor (Helston) .94
Grenville
Herod's-Foot 8.12
Hingston Downs 4.8.6
Lady Bertha
Margaret (Uny Lelant) 9
North Downs 2
North Frances (Mogan) 11
N.Wh'l Basset (1110 ~an) 5s
North Wheal Croay
Par Consols (St. Blazey) 14
,Providence (Uny Lelnt) 10.6.7
Surtridge Cons. Min. Co. 12s
South Caradon(StCleer) 1}
'S. Carn Brea (Illogan) 3/
S. Dcv. Iron &Gen., Lim. all
S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan) 18.1'4.9
Stray Park 22.18.0
Tamar Silv.& Lead Min. 4/
Tin Crolt 9
Vale of Towey (Caren ) ;^,5 6d
,West Basset (Illotran) l4
IW. Caradon (Liskeard)
West Seton
Wheal Basset (Illogan) 5/
Wheal Buller (Redruth 5
[Wheal Edward (Cals. 6}
Wheat Kitty (U.Lelant 1.7.2
Wheal Mary Ann (Men. 8
, ,Wheal Trelawney (Lis. 54

if tit
1 1

415 435
1121 1174
9 104
11 12
27 29
101 114
1 11
1
24 314
29 31
34
1 2
42 44
44 145
2 34
44
11 12
114 124
46 48

11 If
295 305
31 31
125 13; 5
53 55
21 21
5i 61
4
174 184
73 75
300 310
127/ 1321
78 82
2 21
15 16
24 26
23 25

6
281:81

d
1
11
28 29

dis.
43 45
9 11
1
1 2i
22 23
id pr
1
10 ll
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5 6

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NEWMARKET RACES.—(This .Day.)

AY ELECTRIC TELEGRAM
SWEEPSTAKES OF 300 SOVS.
Walloon
£5O PLATE. R,M.

Gallus
Malta
Styria
Nine ran.
BRET BY STAKES.

Sister to Roesia
Cantatrice
Vaga
Three ran.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOUS.

Mousetrap .
lienhaur Lass
Pomona .
Thirteen ran.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-(TIIIS DAY.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ASSAULT ON A GENTLEMAN.—Catherine Keith, a low-
looking female, was charged with assaulting Mr. William
H. Davies, gentleman, of 8, Albion-street, Hyde-park.
The complainant said that between one and two that
morning he called in at the Victory Tavern, Oxford-street,
with a friend, and had scarcely been in the house a minute,
when the prisoner, who was in company of other females,
called him a " prig," and on his friend saying they would
leave, the prisoner struck him in the face. His friend then
left for the purpose of fetching a constable, upon which the
prisoner struck him on the nose some severe blows, cover-
ing him with blood, scratched his face, pulled his hair, and
tore his coat. He then gave her in charge.
Mr. Wm. Eade, of 3, Adam-street West, confirmed a
portion of the above, and said he was much annoyed by
prisoner and her companions.

74 I) proved taking the prisoner into custody, and find-
ing the complainant bleeding from the nose arid mouth.
The prisoner was very violent in her conduct.

Mr. Tyrwhitt fined the prisoner 10s. or 14 days.
ASSAULT ON A LICENSED VICTUALLER.—Two men,
named Winspeare and Bates, were charged with assaulting
Mr. Richardson, of Great St. Andrew-street, licensed
victualler.

Mr. Richardson was very roughly handled by Win-
speare, the other attempting to rescue Winspeare.
Winspeare said he didn't know he was " obstropolous."
Fined, Winspeare 15s. and Bates 2s. 6d.

THE LEBANON.

The following are some details respecting the
natural history of this part of Syria at present
attracting so much interest. Wheat, barley,
maize, lentils, and peas are produced, but not
in sufficient quantities for more than seven or
eight months' consumption ; and the deficit has
to be made up by imports. Potatoes would
succeed very well, but only small quantities axe
planted, and the crops are generally sold to
Europeans; the population, with that horror
for innovation, for which they are remarkable,
prefer, to potatoes, the beans of Egypt, of which
they make wretched bread, and which they have
always used. In the lowlands, and especially those
in the direction from Beyrouth to Seyde, large quan-
tities of oil, grapes, figs, almonds, and nuts are pro-
duced. Most of these fruits, however, are far from
equalling those of Europe; they are, in fact,
little better than the wild ones of the West,
and the Orientals eat them before they are
ripe. The apricots, grapes, and figs are good,
especially the sort of the latter called Bey-
routh. The town of that name and its neigh-
bourhood are infested with large bats which com-
mit, at night, much damage. The cactus plant
grows largely in Syria, but the inhabitants have
not had the idea of turning it to account in bre( fling
cochineas ; they content themselves with using it to
make hedges, and gathering the fruit. Pine trees
flourish in the country, and the Persian lilac is
planted in avenues and much esteemed ; but, except
these two, all shrubs are plucked up to make room
for mulberry trees. The mulberry justifies the
preference shown for it; in addition to feeding
silk worms on the leaves in spring, its branches
supply fuel ; its bark serves the purposes for
which willow is employed in other countries;
the second crop of leaves feed cattle, and its
wood is used by carpenters. The pasture grounds
in the upper part of the mountain are good but
not extensive, and consequently the production
of oxen is limited. Every year 30,000 or 40,000
sheep are imported from Mesopotamia, and fat-
tened on mulberry leaves. Camels are obtained
from the Arabs of the Desert ; asses, mules, and
common horses from the isle of Cyprus ; oxen
and goats are bred in the country. There is not
much game in the Lebanon, owing to the de-
structive manner in which sporting is carried on.
The chiefs of the mountain employ falcons to catch
partridges, but the common mode is to tempt the
birds to certain spots by spreading grain, and
then to surprise them. The ounce, hyena, wolf,
chacal, fox, gazelle, bear, wild goat, wild boar,
and very large porcupines, are the wild or savage
animals found in the country. In the Lebanon
there is a great quantity of fossil coal, but it con-
tains so much sulphurie acid as to be only fit for
large manufactories. Iron is abundant, and several
mines are worked, but unfortunately in an imper-
fect and very expensive manner. The iron, how-
ever, obtained is preferred to foreign, on account
of its malleability. It is said that mines of gold,
silver, and copper, also exist in the country."

FLEET STREET AND TUE STRAND
FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

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The bridge we are just crossing is built over the
river Fleet, a tributary to the Thames, into which
it flows not far from the Black Friars' house. It
rises in the heath of Hampstede, certain miles
north of the City. The vessels near the bridge
are laden with sea-coal, charcoal, and lime, which
they carry to or from the wharves on the Fleet
banks. The street into which we have entered is
also known as the Fleet-street. Though without
the walls it is yet a Liberty of the City, and within
its jurisdiction, which extends in this direction
to yonder posts, linked together with chains, known
as the " Bars." This street is chiefly in-
habited by brewers of ale—who, in this country,
are mostly women—and makers of felt hats, yet has
a few notable buildings. First on the left is the
royal palace of St. Bridget's, or Bride's, near the
well dedicated to that saint. It is an ancient resi-
dence, and little used. Next comes the Bishop of
Salisbury's Inn. The monastery beyond it is that
of the Carmelites, or White Friars, and has of late
been rebuilt for them by themunificent hand of the
Earl of Devon. That large building with the round
church, still further on near the Bars, is the New
Temple. You know, doubtless, that it derives its
name from the Knights Templars, who removed
hither from the Old Temple in the street of Ould-
burne. On the recent suppression of that order, the
Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, called " Hos-
pitallers," shortly became its possessors, but having
a larger establishment in Clerkenwell, they not
long since leased the New Temple to the students
of common law, who have converted it into an Inn
of Court. Opposite thereto, you see another Inn
of Court, called " Clifford's" from the lessor thereof,
Dame Isabel Clifford. Beyond the Bars is the
river-side road, called " Strand-street." It was
sorely in need of paving until lately, when a tax
for its repair was levied on all goods carried along
it to the Staple at Westminster. Here, many
lords, spiritual and temporal, have goodly inns, of
which you can see but two or three ; the Bishop
of Exeter's close on the left ; the Bishop of
Bath's beyond it; and the Bishop of Chester's,
with the old stone cross before it. At that, cross
the judges have sometimes sat to try pleas. The
palace which you can just see to the lett is the
Savoy, so called from Peter, Count of Savoy, who
built it in the reign of our Henry the Third, whose
queen wag the count's niece. Now the Duke of
Lancaster is the owner thereof, and John, the cap-
tive King of France, lodged there not long since.
The bridge over the lane in the centre of the road
is called " Strand-bridge." On the right of St.
Clement's Danes Church you see the wells of St.
Clement's and Holy Well ; and, beyond them the
vineyard and convent garden of the Abbey of West-
minster, skirted by the woods of Long Acre. The
church among the fields, in the distance, is St.
Martirfs.—All the Year .Round.

THIS DABS lIIARRETS.

LONDON-BRIDGE TERMINUS HOTEL

COMPA.ATE

st.
A special meeting of the proprietors of this com-
' pany was held yesterday at the London Tavern, for
the purpose of considering the propriety of dispos-
ing of the present site of the proposed hotel, or at
once proceeding with the building; Dr. Challice,
the chairman, presided.
The notice convening the meeting having been
read, and the seal of the company having been
' affixed to the registry of shareholders,
The CHAIRMAN' said this was the first oppor-
tunity the directors hod had of explaining to the
shareholders the position of the compan3r, and
therefore he would give them a short history of
their progress. -When they first started the com-
pany they were led to believe that the Brighton
Company would assist them, and give them permis-
sion to have access from the hotel to the platform,
but when they served their parliamentary notices on
the various parties they found that they were to be op-
posed not only by the Brighton ,butby the South-Eas-
tern Railway Company also. They got their bill into
the House of Lords but it was thrown out on a technical
objection. They subsequently applied to the magis-
trates at the Surrey sessions, and obtained permis-
sion to block up the Broadway, provided they
opened St. Thomas's-street to the public ; and that
having been arranged they were threatened with
still further legal proceedings by the railway com-
panies. Under these circumstances it would be for
the shareholders to decide whether it would be wise
to prosecute their plan and incur further legal ex-
penses. Since this project had been started other
circumstances had arisen which had made an im-
portant change in the state of their prospects. The
London, Chatham, and Dover Company had ob-
tained a bill to carry their terminus to Farrin,gdon-
street ; the South-Eastern had obtained powers to
carry theirs to Charing-cross; and the London and
Brighton had opened theirs at Pimlico,where there
was a large hotel in course of erection. These, it
was thought, would so divert the traffic that it was
not advisable to proceed any further with the hotel.
Several shareholders had written to him to say that
if the Brighton Company would give a fair price
for the ground it would be better to let them have
it and abandon their project. The directors ac-
cordingly opened negociations with that company,
and had received an offer of £30,000 for it, includ-
ing the £5,000 the hotel company had paid to the
St. Thomas's Hospital as caution money. Nego-
ciation were progressing satisfactorily until Mon-
day last, when the directors of the railway desired
to be released from the necessity of building the
hotel, as they would be bound to do by the agree-
ment under which the land was granted by the go-
vernors of the hospital. This difficulty could be over-
come provided the railway company would capi-
talise a sum that would yield a revenue of £750
a year, so as to secure the ground-rent to the hos-
pital. The directors of the railway company would
meet in a few days, and they would then decide
whether they would .comply with that condition.
Until their decision was known nothing could be
done, and he should therefore have to move adjourn-
ment of the meeting till the 2d of November. If
the sale took place the shareholders would have the
option of receiving back their money intact, or still
prosecuting their scheme on another site. If they
chose the latter course there was a piece of ground
contiguous to the one they were giving up, which
could be had for a sum that would leave a consi
derable balance to go towards building the hotel,
and it was part of the agreement with the railway
company that they should have access to the rail-
way platform for foot passengers—a privilege that
was worth £5,000. He then formally moved the
adjournment of the meeting till the 2d of Novem-
ber next.
Mr. HAWKINS seconded the motion.

Mr. KINTuEA said, notwithstanding the discou-
raging circumstances just narrated, there was
nothing, in his opinion, that ought to induce them
to abandon the scheme, and he trusted it would
yet be carried out on the new site. He wished to
know what their expenses had been up to the pre-
sent time.

The CHAIRMAN said their outlay and liabilities
:o the present time amounted to £29,639, including
.he £5,000 caution money.
The motion was carried unanimously.

A cordial vote of thanks to, and confidence in,
the chairman and directors having been carried, the
meeting separated.

THE _RAILWAY MARKET.

The railway market remains intrinsically sound,
and, as its steady recovery throughout the year has
been attributable solely to the extension of com-
mercial traffic, which seems destined to go on in an
increasing ratio, there is little reason to apprehend
any material reaction, whatever may be the state
of the money market. Looking at the prices cur-
rent at this moment, in comparison with those
prevalent on the Ist of January last, it may be as-
sumed that there has been an average augmenta-
tion of nearly 5 per cent. in the value of the railway
property of the country, or a total of more than
£15,000,000 sterling; and this result becomes more
striking when it is mention that Consols during
that interval have undergone a fall of nearly 2 per
cent., and that the weather throughout the entire
period has been the worst ever known. As a decline
of 2 per cent. in the British funds would represent
about £16,000,000, it may be calculated that the
nominal loss in that respect has been exactly coun-
teracted by the opposite movement in railways.
With regard to the changes in different invest-
ments, such as those of a miscellaneous character,
the fall in some descriptions has also been about
balanced by an extraordinary advance in others.
Thus while many kinds of foreign stocks are lower,
and also nearly all classes of shares in speculative
undertakings, there has been an unexampled re-
bound in the principal United States' railway secu -
rities, and especially in those most largely held on
this side. In the securities of the Erie and Illinois
Central lines our capitalists were embarked to the
amount of several millions. The shares of the first
have advanced from 11 to 41, and of the latter from
38 discount to 18 discount, while in the mortgage
bonds of both undertakings the recovery has ranged
from 10 to 15 per cent. On the other hand, our
commitments in our own American possessions
have gone from bad to worse, and Grand Trunk of
Canada shares, which stood at 421 at the beginning
of the year, are now down at 261, while in its pre-
ference and debenture stocks there has been a fall of
between 25 and 30 per cent. How much this fall
would have been increased but for the favourable
Canadian harvest and the visit of the Prince of
Wales must be matter of conjecture. Happily, the
shares of the other large Canadian line—the Great
Western of Canada—have not suffered any fresh
decline, but are now at a point slightly above that at
which they stood in January. With regard to the
English railway companies, it is to be remarked that
notwithstanding the great prosperity they have
shown on the average, there is abundant evidence of
the drawbacks they have had to encounter from the
weather. The instances in which a great rise has
taken place have almost all been in connection with
the commercial districts, while those which depend
upon casual pleasure arrangements mostly show a
decline. While Midland Stock has advanced from
110 to 130, the Great Northern from 107 to 116, the
Manchester and Sheffield from 39 to 48, and the
Lancashire and Yorkshire from 100 to 1184, that of
the Brighton has declined from 115 to 1121, and the
Dover from 85 to 84. The Eastern Counties
company
has fallen from 581 to 531, but as that
has a peculiar power of depreciating
under all circumstances, no solution ofci its
com-
mercial or meteorological character need
of all kinds
be sought
with respect to it. The
case also there is an
1
have likewise fallen, but inthat
the want of a definite
exceptional explanation from
and vigorous system of
Indian finance. On the whole
the conclusion to be draw.nfromunng the present
the. ehanpgreesoft
prices of all sorts of securities d
year is that it is safe to place reliance on the com-
mercial progress of 1
nationaltheeountrwy,anantadnatalrtsteeandteilry
improve in value, -
prises really based 01
while Consols,which have usually
been the test by which the
quotations of all invest-
ments have been regulated, may, during the same
period, from.political and other causes, experience a
decline.
—2lnzes' City Article.

TrIE NEW ACT ON NAVAL DISCIPLINE.--The Act
to amend the laws relating to the government of the navy,
which was passed at the close of the late session, will not
come into operation until the Ist of April next. The pre-
amble states that it is expedient to amend the laws relating
to the government of the navy, 'whereon, under the good
providence of God, the wealth, safety, and strength of the
kingdom chiefly depends. The Act is divided into seven
parts. Public worship is to be properly conducted in all
ships of war, and the Lord's-day is to be observed accord-
ing to law. Penalties are to be imposed for misconduct in
the presence of the enemy, for neglect of duty, for mutiny,
and for insubordination, as well as for desertion. For ab-
sence without leave an offender may be imprisoned for ten
weeks, with or without hard labour, or such other punish-
ment as the circumstances of the caee may require, and for-
feit a sum not exceeding two days' pay, exclusive of all
charges of apprehension, and in addition for every twenty-
five hours of absence a sum not exceeding six days' pay,
and any person may be deemed to be absent without leave,
notwithstanding his absence may not have been voluntary,
but may have been caused by imprisonment under a com-
mitment for an offence against the law ; penalties are to be
enforced for profane swearing and other scandalous actions
in derogation of God's honour and corruption of good man-
ners with dismission from the service. Other offences are
described, and the punishment to be irrflicted, as also the
constitution and proceedings of cout'ts•martial. Where
persons are insane at the time of the offence or trial, they.
are to be kept in strict custody, and the Lords of the A.der
miralty are to give orders for their safe custody during _he
Majesty's pleasure. Another portion of the Act has r.efour.
ence to penal servitude and prisons. During the imprls
mcnt of any person the pay and wages toe be seroppeeds-
t This
com-
Act repeals the whole and parts of sevjal ita_tuaing with
mencing with the 22d George IL, cap. 33, an"
the 16th and 17th of Victoria, cap, 69.181

CURIOUS REVELATIOA'S,

he Opinione and other Italian papers publish
various letters from Sicilians and Neapolitans of
the highest distinction, whioh cast a strange light

on the doings of M. Bertani and the clique to which
he belongs. The history of the railway concession
to the firm of Adami and Co. is pecUliarly

amusing :

" In a letter to Baron Poerio, M. Filippo Cordova,
now banished from Sicily on account of his annexa-
tionist tendencies, relates that when he was
Attorney-General to the Court of Accounts at
Palermo, under the Pro-Dictatorate of M. Depretis,
a contract was laid before him, signed Garibaldi
—Adami,' by which the latter were invested with
the exclusive monopoly of the construction of all the
railways in Sicily, which the Government might
'think proper to decree. On the capital to be raised,
the firm was to receive two per cent. commission ;
the capital itself to be represented by Sicilian
Government stock, payable to bearer, and the firm
being left at liberty to negociate it at any pcssible
figure. On the whole capital expended the firm
was to receive an additional five
per cent. M. Cor-
dova shows the absurdity of such a plan, by which
Sicily would first have to pay two per cent. com-
mission on the sale of her stock, while it could be
disposed of readily at a brokerage of one per
thousand; then run all the risks of the enter-
prise without the firm's risking one farthing ;
and lastly, pay, at five per cent., 25 millions more
for no service done whatever. This project was
unanimously rejected by a commission com-
posedte of MM. Michele Amari, Secretary of State
for Public Works, Cordova, and Perez, and h
Pro-Dictator Depretis annulled the contract."
M. Cordova goes no further in his letter, but we
know already that the same project was signed the
other day at Naples. How this was done, the
Naples correspondent of the Perseverenza of Milan
explains :

" When Bertani arrived at Naples on the 21st
ult., he applied to M. Scialoja, the Minister of Fi-
nance, requesting him to place 800,000 francs at
the disposal of G. B. Garibaldi, of Marseilles, for
the purchase of arms, and another million of francs
at his (M. Bertani's) disposal. The Minister re-
plied that, as to the arms, G. B. Garibaldi, of Mar-
seilles, might send them, and draw in the course of
business for the above amount ; and as to the mil-
lion, its necessity not being proved, it had better
be talked over some other day. M. Bertani did.
not insist, but on the 26th asked Scialoja for
40,400 fr. to defray office expenses. This enormous
sum was granted to him by the Council of Minis-
ters, believing it to be required for the payment of
the swarm of Dictatorial officials attached to the
secretary. On the 29th Scialoja resigned office ;
and on the same day Bertani wrote to the Director
of Finance for a sum of 88,000 fr ! On the pre-
vious day he had been with Messrs. Adami to the
notary, M. Cacace, and had there, armed with the
Dictator's authorisation, signed the celebrated con-
cession, not only for Naples, but also for Sicily,
although, as above stated, it had been rejected by
the Pro-Dictator of that island."
These facts, and the appointment of Crispi to Ber-
tani's place, greatly irritated the Neapolitans, who
had received the announcement of Bertani's depar-
ture with intense joy. The Turin Gazette pub-
lishes, in its turn, some telegraphic despatches sent
by Bertani to M. Tripoti, commanding the troops
on the Neapolitan frontier, bidding him prevent
the Sardinians from entering without permission
from the Dictator. One of these telegrams runs
thus

" Organise the defence with your forces. E►.nploy
every revolutionary means. Call out the National
Guard. Do not divide the troops. I hopia soon to
send you good decisive news."
In another he says :
"Prevent the annexationist expeditions. Take
the necessary rigorous measures against the agita-
tors who want annexation before the Dictator has
ordered it."

To complete the history of these strange doings,

we must not omit mentioning a letter addressed to
the Opinione by M. del Castillo di Sant' Onofrio,
. . __

late Director of the Post-office in Sicily:—
" I would," he says, " have explained the reasons
for thy resignation sooner, if the liberty enjoyed
in Sicily under Mordini's misgovernment did not
prevent every free manifestation of opinion. Now,
however, in this happy land of freedom, I may
speak openly. General Garibaldi having lowered
the postage tariff to Piedmont to 40 centimes,
when the communications with Naples were re-
established, Lthought I must extend the benefit
of the same tariff to Naples also ; upon which M.
Mordini sent me so strange and violent a Ministe-
rial letter, that it could only come from a person
unaccustomed to civil society. This led to further
correspondence, which ended in my resigning and
being dismissed at the same time. This was the
apparent reason ; but the real one was that I was
a firm annexionist, and a friend of the excellent
M. Depretis, whom I had often recommended to
order the vote of annexation, even without Gari-
baldi's consent. Another reason, perhaps, was that
Mordini became aware that, under my administra-
tion, the secrecy of letters would be inviolable."

M. Depretis, late pro-Dictator of Sicily, has written
to the Opinione of Turin, denying an imputation
cast upon him by M. Bertani, to the effect that,
while in office, he had retarded the acceptance of
certain bills, to the great detriment of the public
service. After stating that the finances of Sicily

were in a bad condition, he relates the facts as fol-
lows :—Towards the end of August, seven bills of
exchange, drawn by Bertani, were presented to
him for acceptance, to the total amount of
2,168,000 fr. Not having received advice, he or-
dered the first to be paid, which amounted to
325,000 fr., and immediately wrote to the central
office of the society for aiding Garibaldi requiring
explanations, and accounts justifying the expen-
diture of such a sum, the Treasury of Sicily
having already contributed 3,675,000 fr. to-
wards the Garibaldi Fund. In September—
the matter, it seems, having been explained—
he paid in 150,000 fr. more, which
sum, according
to advices received, he considered sufficient for the
requirements of the fund. Soon after he accepted
the second bill of exchange to the
amount of
351,000 fr., and arranged withtrsheecaatshier
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later periods.
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with M. Depretis, and M. Bertani's accusation falls
to the ground.