The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-03 00:00:00

cumstance of a family bereavement, which rendered
the journey necessary, might have mistaken the
exact route and moreover thought that a driver
was more likely to be accurate in that respect than
a person conveyed. As regarded the alleged inter-
ference of the cabman, he remarked that ladies of
Mrs. Jones's position in life were always approached
with becoming deference and respect by their ser-
vants, and were unused to the coarse and not over-
polite demeanour of cabmen. There was nothing in
complainant's conduct to justify him (Mr. Paynter)
in refusing to give him the usual costs ; the act
making insulting language or behaviour an'offence,
not mere incivility; and Mr. Jones was therefore
adjudged to pay 2s. 6d., the fare, and lls. costs.
THE EARL OF 1c INGSTON.—The summons
granted to a poor cabman gratuitously against the
Earl of Kingston, for an unpaid fare, was made re-
turnable yesterday. but his lordship did not appear.
The Cabman said that he went to his lordship's
residence, 26, Duke-street, Manchester-square, to
ask for £1 for a previous day's fare, when he told
him if he would take him to Beak-street, whence he
was to convey some ladies to the House of Lords,
he would pay him. He took his lordship and re-
mained two hours, when, finding he did not return
he drove away. His fare was os.
Mr. Payntcr adjudged the Earl of Kingston to
pay that amount and ss. costs. The order for this
and the previous claim would be served on his lord-
ship together.

The Clerk remarked that there was anothe order
against his lordship.
Mr. Paynter asked whether it had been served.
Knowland, the summoning officer, replied it had
not. The servant at the house in Duke-street said
his lordship had gone to Ireland.
The Cabman—it is very hard upon me. lam
crippled with a bad leg, and it was as much as I
could do to get here, both last week and to-day.
Mr. Paynter—lt is too bad. Give him ss. from
the poor-box.

TIIR LATE BARON VON BRUCK AND
.HIS ACCOMPLICES.

.1,

The Nazione of Florence, in its number of the
24th, the day after Baron Bruck's death, contained
the following remarkable particulars communicated
to that journal in a letter written from Trieste on
the 17th :
" A few days ago there was arrested M. RiVol-
tella, along with other merchants, all under suspi-
cion of having been accomplices in the frauds of
Gen. Eynatten. When matters have come to such
pass, it is a sign that they are rather serious.
" It must be observed that this M. Revoltella is
an old friend and partner of the Finance Minister,
Baron Bruck, and that since the latter became Mi-
nister they have become rich, because they have
transacted very important affairs together. M. Re-
voltella was originally connected with the cattle
trade, and in that business was a petty agent. He
began to be something just after the head of his
house of business was ruined. He contrived to
turn out a friend from the post of agent to Eskeles
and Arnstein, one of the first houses in Vienna,
and to get the post himself in that establishment,
which, after all, failed last year. Thus he mounted
step by step, and became partner in a company of
which Bruck and others were members—a com-
pany affording great facilities to persons inclined
to ruin themselves. Thus they became rich, but
the millions were made only after Bruck became a
Cabinet Minister. The Minister informed his part-
ner and friend of the right time to speculate for a
rise or fall of the funds, and the profits were di-
vided between the two. Revoltella thus became
possessor of many millions, and because he had po-
sitively too many, he began to display a :magnifi-
cence and luxury far surpassing those of any other
merchant at Trieste, so that Chevalier Revoltella at
length became a very important personage. Then
he began to play the part of a patron of art and
letters. He was surrounded by a little court. In
company with another millionaire, he founded a
school of design for artisans. He erected at his
own expense an alter in the Church of the Jesuits.
He built a palace which, if not beautiful, was at
least immense, and lavished on it every conceivable
expense. The money spent on his house and on
his garden was very great. He was one of the
largest subscribers in all philanthropic works, as
well as for building the Radetaky frigate, and, id
fact, for everything that bore the stamp of iznpe-
rial and royal Austrian patronage.
" When Baron Bruck had ceased to be Minister
of Commerce, and before he was sent as internuncio
to Constantinople, certain strange proceedings hap-
pened at Trieste. Immense frauds were discovered
in the execution of contracts of meat made by the
municipality. The number of persons implicated
was very great, and amongst the rest was Bruck's
partner, Chevalier Revoltella.
" The Procureur-General, at that time M. Blum-
feld, had ventured to propose the arrest of several
of these gentlemen, and amongst them that of Baron
Bruck, the ex-Minister. The Procureur-General,
Blumfeld, was in consequence dismissed from his
post, and was sent as Police Commissioner to Venice.
He had wished to catch the big fish as well as the
small, but the big fish broke through the net.
"When Baron Brick re-entered toe Cabinet the
municipal contracts of Trieste were but trifling
matters. The speculation assumed a bolder charac-
ter. Amongst the more successful were those con-
nected with the sale of the railways • for it ought
to be known that by degrees the Minister of Fi-
nance was selling everything that the State pos-
sessed, a mode of procedure of which Italy ought
to be grateful. We hope that he will one day per-
suade the Austrian Government to sell its Venetian
possessions. Baron Bruck invested his money in
foreign funds. He bought lordships in Croatia, and
all, of course, with his savings. He had, however,
amongst the confidential counsellors of the Aus-
trian Emperor, a rival, and this rival was Count
Grunne, who was speculating after another fashion,
who hated him most cordially, and who caused
him to be hated by the rest of the military under
the pretence that he wished to diminish the ex-
pense of the army. When in April, 1859, the
question was discussed in the Austrian Cabinet,
it' the new proposals for a Congress ought to be
accepted, all the members were agreed as to the
acceptance. The Emperor appeared to share the
opinion of all his Ministers. Bruck telegraphed to
his friend Revoltella, and the latter speculated
forthwith on the certainty of peace. Count
Grunne, on the contrary, speculated on war. Af-
ter the counsel held with his Ministers, the Empe-
ror gave orders to the Minister of Foreign Affairs
(Buol) to make the famous intimation to Sardinia
to disarm. The agent of the Rothschilds at Trieste
who speculated on the war made immense sums,
whilst Revoltella lost, and became so embarrassed
that there was even the dread of a failure. How-
ever, it would seem that his friends from Vienna
came to the rescue, as it likewise seemed that both
he and his friends did not lose sight of the chances
of speculating in the war in the matter of the war
contracts.
" The whole affair caused much scandal, but it is
nothing extraordinary. Such frauds are common
enough, and poor Italy knows them from expe-
rience. But on the present occasion the swindle
was effected on a large scale, and with still greater
impudence.
" These gangs of chevaliers d'industrie,' both at
Trieste and at Vienna, as well as in the minor cen-
tres of the Austrian Empire, are all leagued toge-
ther. The plunderers are so many, and hold such
high positions, that the matter generally ends with
the punishment of some subordinate functionary,
who is bought over to keep silence. This time,
however, the big fish have also been caught in the
net, and the affair is creating a greater sensation
from the fact that the law officers, with a pertina-
city that betrays both personal animosity and an
understanding with persons high in power, are
doing everything to discover the relations existing
between the swindlers of Trieste and their friend
the Minister, Baron Bruck.
" The great military functionaries have enriched
themselves immensely in the period between 1848
and the present time, because they are always spe-
culating in buying and selling military stores,
speculating on the movements of the troops, in
conscriptions, and in Italy, even in the political
trials. Now, as' the Finance Minister wished to
subject to contract certain items of the military in
order that the deficit might not become annually
increased beyond all bounds, these high military
functionaries, who knew how greatly the Minister
had become enriched, were perpetually at war with
him. And because Gen. Eynatten has killed him-
self, and other military personages are notoriously
implicated, the military functionaries are resolved
to turn the tables on the great civil servants of the
Crown who have been defrauding after their own
fashion.
" For the Italian people who desire the fall of
Austria there is matter of congratulation in this
strife. The subjects of Austria may learn a lesson
from it, and as these subjects suffer frightfully from
being pillaged in a thousand fashions, it is hoped
that the lesson will not be forgotten.
" Unless appearances deceive one, these are the
symptoms of a decay in the Austrian system which
ought to encourage Italy to proceed with boldness
on her own appointed path. The day of justice
cannot be far off."

A FAST Boy.—" Stanley," said widower Brown
to his hopeful of fifteen summers, " I want you to stay at
home this evening." "What for, Pop? Where are you
going ?" " That's a very impertinent question for a sen to
propound to his father, but I suppose I will have to answer
it. lam going to pay my respects to Miss Sally Patterson
this evening." "No you don't, Pop ! I'ra going t• ace
her myself this evening, and 'taint us use of us both going
to see the same gal at the tame time." So saying, young
Stanley took up his hat and walked, leaving his worthy
father perfectly confounded.