The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-22 00:00:00

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, Dxc. 12.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Francis
Howard Vyse, Esq., Row British Vice-Consul at Jedo, and
Acting Consul at Kanagawa, to be her Majesty's Consul
at Kanagawa.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEc. 19.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. John A.
Callender as Consul at Edinburgh and Leith ; of Mr. Chas.
Cotesworth as Consul at Liverpool ; of Mr. George Newan-
ham Harvey as Consul at Cork ; of Mr. Thomas Beynon as
Consul at Newport, South Wales ; and of Mr. Edwin Fox
as Vice-Consul in London, for the Republic of Liberia.

DOWNING-STREET, DEc. 19. —"—
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Stewart Camp-
bell, Esq., to be one of her Majesty's Counsel for the pro-
vince of Nova Scotia.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint William
Dardis Furlonge, Esq., to be a Member of the Council of
the Island of Montserrat.

CROWN-OFFICE, DEC. 20.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

County of Nottingham—Southern Division.—The Hon.
George Philip Cecil Arthur Stanhope, commonly called
Lord Stanhope, in the room of Sydney William Herbert
Pierrepont, commonly called Viscount Newark, now Earl
Danvers, called up to the House of Peers.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC. 21.
Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Cornet George Henry
Bowyer to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice James
Gunter, promoted ; Philip Chetwode Browne, Gent., to
be Cornet, by purchase, vice Webster, promoted.
Bth Light Dragoons—Richard Chambers, Gent., to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Collier, promoted.
10th Light Dragoons—Troop-Sergeant•Major John Hill
James to be Quartermaster, vice John Fenn, retired upon
half-pay.
12th Light Dragoons—The surname of the Captain ap-
pointed to this !Regiment, from the Ist Dragnnn Guards,
on the 30th November, 1860, is " Cuninghame," and not
Cuningham, as then stated.

Coldstream Guards—Lieutenant and Captain Michael
Walker Heneage to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel,
by purchase, vice Ullick Canning, Lord Dunkellin, who
retires; Ensign and Lieutenant Ellis Philip Fox' Reeve
to be Lieutenant and Captain, by •purchase, vice
Heneage; JaTeph Blake, Lord Wallscourt, to be Ensign
and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Reeve.

4th Regiment of .FOOC—John Edmund Sinclair, Gent., to
bo Ensign, by purchase, vice Freeman, promoted. •
6th Foot—Lieutenant John Grahame to be Captain, with-
out purchase, vice Walter Tyler Bartley, deceased ; En-
sign Thomas Greer Saunders to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Grahame; Lieutenant Wm. Wastle to be
Paymaster, vice Allan M'Donald, deceased; Wm. Owen
Lanyon, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Frederick
Helyar, appointed.to the Bth Light Dragoons.
Bth Foot—Martin George Cole, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, 'vice Madden, promoted.
9th Foot—Robert Henry Nicholson, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Josselyn, promoted ; Henry Augustus
Brudenell Bruce, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Forte, •promoted.
10th Foot—Captain James Farquhar, from the 48th Foot,
to be Captain, vice Richard Cormic Clifford, who ex •
changes
•

lth Foot—Walter Long, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Hare, promoted.
.2th Foot—Simon Bagge Triphaok, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Bacchus, appointed to the 7th Dragoon
Guards ; Henry Duppa Cutbill, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Andrews, appointed to the 74th Foot.
.3th Foot—John Moutray Read, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchaie, vice Nunnington, who retires ; William
Frederic Middleton, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Brooks, promoted.

15th Foot—Stewart Paxton Majoribanks, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Brunker, appointed to the
26th Foot.
20th Foot—Henry Hays Leeming, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Andrew Halliday Hall, promoted in the
2d West India Regiment ; Robert Herne Mardon, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Wahab, promoted.
22d Foot—Edmund William Grove, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Nevile promoted.
26th Foot—James Samuel Greer, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Wolferstan, promoted.
29th Foot—Robert John Watson, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Croft, appointed to the Ist Dragoons.
34thFoot—William Vaughan, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice John McCarthy O'Leary, who retires;
John Macredie Mure, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice French, appointed to the 59th Foot.
45th Foot—Augustine Hugh Lefroy, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Tennant, promoted.
48th Foot—Captain Richard Cormick Clifford, from the
10th Foot, to be Captain, vice James Farquhar, who
exchanges.
50th Foot—Charles Morant Churchill, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Barker, promoted. •
53d Foot—James Anthony Hussey, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Brown, promoted.
60th Foot—George Thomas Whitaker, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice James Blaikie-Keith, appointed
to the 69th Foot.
61st Foot—James Rogerson, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Atkinson, promoted.
63d Foot—Morris Charles Smith, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Hulton, promoted.
70th Foot—George Green Cuppage, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Riddell, promoted.
75th Foot—William Scott Richardson, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Finnerty, promoted.
79th Foot—William George Graham Glascock, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Coventry, promoted.
82d Foot—James Newman Tanner, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Johnston, promoted • Staff-Assistant-
Surgeon John Smeaton Allanby, M.D., to be Assistant-
Surgeon, vice Spence, who exchanges.
83d Foot—Ensign Littleton Albert Powys to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Gandy, promoted.
93d Foot—Major and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Robert
Lockhart Ross to be Lieutenant-Colonel by purchase, vice
vice Brevet•• Colonel Alexander Sebastian Leith Hay,
C. 8., who retires; Captain and Brevet-Lieutenant-
Colonel William Donald Macdonald to be Major, by put.•
chase, vice Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Ross ; Lieutenant
Maxwell Wither Hyslop to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Macdonald; Ensign Charles
Dennis Potts to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice Hyslop;
Edward Boase, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Hastie, promoted.
94th Foot-..-Robert Lovell Gwatkin, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Blake, promoted.
95th Foot—Henry Francis Sneyd, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Brooke, promoted ; Staff-Assistant-Sur-
geon John Niven to be Assistant-Sdrgeon' vice Sharpe,
appointed to the Staff. The appointninnt of Staff-Assist-
ant-Surgeon John Smeeton Allanby M.D., which ap-
peared in the " Gazette" of July 10,1860, has been can-
celled.
97th Foot—Lieutenant Andrew George Onslow, to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Roger Swire, who retires;
Ensign Henry Champante Crespin to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Onslow.
98,1) Foot—John Robert Meiklam, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Heathcote. promoted.
99th Foot—Paymaster Frank Potter, Paymaster for
General Service, to be Paymaster, vice Charles Schoen-
berg Thomas, whose services are dispensed with.
100th Foot—Win. Ritchie, Gent., to be Ensign, by
pur-
chase, vice Lawrell, promoted.
2d West Tndia Regiment—Thos. Peach, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Lloyd, promoted.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Ensign Frederick Thos. Tegart
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Joseph Albert Den-
ton, who retires.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—Deputy Inspector-General of
Hospitals Chas. Whyte, retired on half-pay, to have the
honorary rank of Inspector-General of Hospitals, under the
Royal Warrant of Oct. 1, 1858. Assist.-Surgeon Robert
Spence, from the 82d Foot, to be Staff-Assistant-Surgeon,
vice Allanby, who exchanges.
BREVET.

Quartermaster John Fenn, half-pay 10th Light Dra-
goons, to have the honorary rank of Captain.
Lhout, James Deacon, Paymaster bat Foot, to haye the

BANKRUPTS.
James Winter, surgeon, Rosslyn-terrace, Hampstead.
James Leyland Hodgson, money scrivener, Manchester.
George Wilkinson, joiner and builder, Macclesfield.
Frederick Wilkins, egg merchant, Whitechapel-road.
John Jacob Schenck, merchant, Old Broad-street, City.
William Rider, grocer, Tunstall, Staffordshire.
George Grimmett, corn dealer, Birmingham.
John Strachan, brewer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
John Gray and John obert Henson, upholsterers, Ep-
som, Surrey.
George Dodd, shoe dealer, Tunstall, Staffordshire.
William Sampson, innkeeper, St. Thomas the Apostle,
Devonshire.
Thomas Hindle, builder, Everton, Lancashire.
James Brooks and Samuel Pitts, jua., wholesale iron-
mongers, Upper Thames-street.
Henry Foulkes, cab proprietor, John-street, Union •
street, Kennington-road.
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.

Mrs. MargarelLyali,glass merchant, Glasgow.
David Rodgers, lace and muslin merchant, Edinburgh.
Alexander Cameron, farmer, Haughland, near Elgin.

BANK OF ENGLAND.

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 19th day
of Dec., 1860 :

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
Notes issued ........X27,044,595 Government Debt £11,015,100
Other Securities .. 3,459,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 11,455,828
Silver Bullion .... 1,113,767

£27,044,595;

Proprietors' Capi-
tal £14,553,000
Rest
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Sayings'
Banks, Commis-
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-

counts) 7,384,841
Other Deposits 11,759,820
Seven Day and
other Bills

652,051

£37,534,038

£27,014,595

Dated Dec. 20, 1860.

;PARTIIENT.
Government Seou-

rities (including
Dead WeightAn-
nuity)
Other Securities
Notes
Gold and Silver
Coin 761.675

£37,534,038
;HALL, Chief Cashier.

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.

The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from Returns made in the week ending the 18th day
of Dec., 1860, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great
Britain :
Muscovado, the produce of the British pos- PER CWT.
sessions in America -
Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies -30 s 7td
Average price of the foregoing .. '29s Hid

STATE OF ITALY.

(From the Times' Correspondent.)
TURIN, DEC. 18.

The news from the Two Sicilies is in the same
melancholy strain ; all public and private intelli-
gence from the South seems calculated to cast a
gloomier cloud on the thinking minds of the North.
This latter will deserve no little credit, if it ulti-
mately succeeds in bringing to reason the more
senseless parts of the Peninsula. By an official
statement in to-day's Opznione we learn that Farini
is ill at Naples, and that his son-in-law and private
secretary, Cavaliere Riccardi, is prostrate with a
mortal complaint. The news last evening was that
he was dead. The young bride of this amiable
and accomplished youth, Ada Farini, had just em-
barked at Genoa, together with her mother, on
Wednesday evening last. She can only have reached
Naples in time to receive his parting breath. This
is an awkward moment for the King's Lieutenant
in the Southern Kingdom to be afflicted either
with personal indisposition or with family calami-
ties, and the worst is that Farini has always been
in the enjoyment of strong health, and is still in
the prime of manhood. His present illness, from
which he has been suffering almost since his arri-
val in Naples, must be either the result of worry-
ing cares and harassing difficulties, or a pretext to
rid himself of them in a plausible manner, and a
hint for Count Cavour to remove him from his
unenviable post.
Matters bear an even more ominous look in
Sicily. A gentleman who had accompanied the
Royal Lieutenant Montezemolo to Palermo, and
has just returned, describes the state of the island
in very dark hues. Murder stalks abroad, and the
police is utterly powerless. At Palermo an officer
in the Customs was shot dead on the Bth as he was
walking home in the evening:—

" In Monreale, on the evening of the Bth, as Michele
Polizzi was I alking with one Lamantio in the street, he was
struck by a bullet, which went through him and his com-
panion, and killed them on the spot. Polizzi was a bold,
violent, bad man.' He had been a bad subject in past times,
but upon the rising of Sicily he lent his stalwart arm to
the cause of freedom, and, because he loved much, much
was forgiven him by Garibaldi, always so generous to those
who fight for their country."
I copy the above from the private correspondence
of an ultra-Liberal and Garibaldian, because the
writer unwittingly lays the finger on the sore point.
Garibaldi, engaged in an almost desperate struggle,
had neither leisure nor power to be very particular
as to the means he employed. The most generous
patriot and the most abandoned ruffian equally
crowded under his banner. He had no knowledge
of their characters, no means of discriminating
between good and bad. There are hundreds and
thousands like Polizzi strutting about the streets
of Palermo in the much abused Garibaldian red
shirt. These did not, for the most part, fight in
Sicily, for Calatafimi, Palermo, and Melazzo were
won almost exclusively by the handful of primitive
adventurers who landed with the Liberator at Mar-
sala ; they did not fight in Calabria, or at Capua,
because they never crossed the Straits. There are
2,500 officers at Palermo, and not one soldier. 66
idle "gents" in glancing uniforms make the Staff
of a cavalry regiment, of which not ohe man nor
one horse is forthcoming. These worthies are the
leaders of those Picciotti bands of, which your cor-
respondent from Garibalcii's head-quarters made
such capital fun four months ago. They have
given themselves ranks and epaulettes, and their
claims have possibly been acknowledged by Gari-
baldi, who at the time would have been fain to
grant them any terms so he might be rid of them.
The whole mass of these ill-sorted bands were left
in the island. The men went home to their own
houses ; the officers received their pay, and cum-
bered the streets of the capital. Only a small
number of Sicilians followed the tide of invasion
on the main-land, and a sample of their valour we
have in the dastard who shot Colonel Dunne, their
commander, because, in the sifting of the self-
awarded titles and brevets of these mushroom offi-
cers, he urged his particular objections to this one,
because he had not only turned his back upon the
enemy at Santa Maria, but actually bidden his sol-
diers to run away with him. These 2,500 epauletted
blackguards at Palermo are now savage against
Fanti, because "he struck down all the employes of
the Sicilian Minister of War en masse ; and with the
same decree he:put off all the officers with one month's
to six month's pay, by way of a dismissal. The
King's provisions for the Garibaldians at Naples do
not apply to the Garibaldians south of the Faro ! "
Unendurable hardships !
The very worst feature in all the ugliness of this
Neapolitan and Sicilian disorder is the shocking bad
faith of the writers on both sides, but especially on
that of the Mazzinians who usurp the name of Gari-
baldians. It is only yesterday I read the diatribe
of one who charged Farini with the appointment to
high offices of men of notoriously bad character, and
scarcely instanced one who, to my very certain
knowledge, for I was in the country at the time,
did not owe his nomination to the too facile Gari-
baldi, or rather to the reckless partisans who
availed themselves of the carte blanche which he,
engrossed by his warlike operations, was compelled
to allow them, to throw discredit on his Govern-
ment, and to make sad havoc of his fair name. It is
difficult to decide whether all these misstatements
are:more attributable to wilful malice or to blind

infatuation, for certainly all men in Naples have
mot lost the remembrance of things and dates, nor
have they laid aside the horror with which, not
Garibaldi's, but Bertani's dictatorship had filled all
honest men. It can be no blame to Garibaldi if
he left the Two Sicilies in the same utter disorder
as lie found them. His was the work of demoli-
tion ' • that of reconstruction devolved on other
hands. Wherever he advanced the Intendenti, the
magistrates, and other Royal officials, for the most
part, fled before him ; the gendarmes and other
guardians of public order followed in their foot-
steps, if they had the good luck to escape popu-
lar vengeance. Municipal authorities there were
none in the Two
Sicilies, and for three or four
months nearly all the towns and provinces, and
most certainly all the remote districts, were left
without government of any kind. The result of the
universal anarchy among a population which long
iron tyranny had converted into herds of chained
wild beasts may be easily imagined. Something
might be hoped from their native supineness
and :pusillanimity. But since Garibaldi's depar-
ture unprincipled appeals have been and are being
made to their Worst passions. The savages are un-

chained, and they must, let us hope only for a brief
season, have their fling.
e no feeling
a man who
for the country he is tearing to pieces,
at, but
everywhere else would merely be laughed
Among the worst workers of popular mischief is
whose flashing talents and epigrammatic, asthmatic
French style, is not without its baleful influence
among those light-minded, excitable Southern
people. I allude to M. Alexandre Dumas. Goaded
to madness by his dismissal from the Royal
Museum, and his ejection from the Paradise
of the Chiatamone, he has set up as a journalist,
and his Independente, a paper written almost en-
tirely by himself, in a quaint, semi-barbarous, but
racy, Italian, has become a most efficient firebrand.
The man's assurance, his uncompromising lies,
may be amusing to those who read them at a dis-
tance, but they do incalculable harm on the spot
where they too freely circulate. " Why is it," he
said, " that we read in all the Piedmontese official
or semi-official papers the word Cretin inva-
riably applied to the Neapolitans ?" He then
proceeds to account 'for this misuse of an un-
merited term of opprobrium by the fact
that the Neapolitans are, if not hostile to
Cavour, at
his and
Piedmontese, united all least
Gari-
baldi, who broke their chains, and would have
also rescued Rome and Venice from thraldom
Italy,ho strongly.
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their
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thlteaelie a
nfteobi
lreedt,hareenathwarted by the unprincipled ruse of Cavour and
the blessings of freedom and have set their minds
against the unification of the country. He further
descants on the intellectual and social qualities of
the Neapolitans, and launches into withering in-
vectives against the wanton injustice. of inflicting
the ignominious epithet of cretin on so gifted a
race. Now, it so happens that lam living in
Piedmont, and read all the Piedmontese papers,
Ministerial or otherwise, and I need hardly assure
you that the word cretin, as coupled with the
Southern Italians, never appeared in any of their
columns, as it is universally admitted here that the
Southern people have the advantage of the North-
eners in all the more brilliant qualities of the
mind; and the word cretin, indicative of a disease
which is too common in the valleys of the Alps, has
rather been too generally, whether deservedly or
not, used by unfriendly neighbours to designate
the Piedmontese themselves.
M. Dumas knew all this better than I do ; but
it answered his purpose by a gratuitous falsehood,
which hardly any win in Naples has the means or
the inclination to disprove, to stir up the bad blood
doing for
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It
this poor Italy,upon which
they are so anxious to exercise their " legitimate
influence." On the one hand we have the Pope en-
throned on French bayonets on the Vatican (may he
never have a softer seat under him !) ; on the other,
we have Admiral Barbier hectoring at Gaeta,
General Goyon blustering at Terracina, his lieute-
nants taking and retaking Viterbo, threatening
Orvieto, and everywhere doing the dirty work of
Pontifical Gendarmes ; all this while the Imperial
pamphleteer flatters the Italians with hopes of the
imminent suppression of Papal temporalities and a
purchase of Venetia on easy terms. And if official
interference were not a sufficient evil—there we
have amateur Lamoricieres and Pimodans heading
a crusade for the Pope, and here amateur Dumases
determined to blow the sparks of old Italian jea-
lousies into a conflagration of irreconcilable feuds.
Under such circumstances it is very clear that the
South of Italy and the whole country can only be
saved by the strong hand, the armed force of the
North. Twelve thousand choice Sardinian troops
are expected soon to land in Sicily, where Monteze-
molo contemplates a general disarmament of the
population. The sting must be taken from the
wasps; we will then see how the drones may be
converted into orderly and industrious bees. lam
told that the elections in Sicily can by no possi-
bility come off before the end of next February, as
the absence of all municipal or other government
renders it impossible to draw the electoral lists
before that time.

THE WEATHER AND THE PARKS.