The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-31 00:00:00

NEWRY AND ARMAGH.

The ordinary half-yearly meeting of the proprie-
tors of this railway was held at Newry on Monday.
Mr. Lattimore, chairman of the company, presided.
The report, which showed an increase in the traffic,
was unanimously adopted.
The CHAIRMAN then moved the resolution autho-
rising the directors to exercise the borrowing
powers of the company.
Mr. J. W. GREER asked if the payment of that
loan and interest took precedence of the dividends
on the shares when the railway was in a position
to pay a dividend ?
The CHAIRMAN said there was no question upon
that point, but if they would come forward and
take shares they did not require the clause at all.
The resolution, having been seconded, was put
and carried nevi. con.

The meeting was then made special in order to
consider and determine the future prospects of the
company. In the course of the discussion of the
prospects of the company it was asserted that, un-
less 3,000 shares were taken it would be almost im-
possible to procure the requisite loan of £78,000
from the Commissioners of Public Works. It was
observed that the proprietors of the soil in this dis-
trict had not extended to the undertaking that
amount of support that was to be expected from
them. Some of the merchants and householders in
Newry, &c. had looked upon the scheme rather
phlegmatically ; and a committee was nominated to
call upon them to urge the necessity of supporting
the directors.

O.RIENT4L INLAND STEAM COMPANY
(LIMITED).

The half-yearly meeting of this company was
held yesterday, at the London Tavern, Colonel
Grimes in the chair, when the following report was
read :

" In their last report your directors intimated
.9. that the trains despatched from this country last
autumn bea,arrived in India in safety, and that so
soon as this intelligence was received, your manag-
ing director was despatched to Kurrachee to see
the vessels fairly started on the river. Your direc-
tors have now to report that upon Mr. Bourne's
arrival at Kurrachee, owing to the great vigour
with which the work had beeh prosecuted, he was
enabled almost immediately to launch one steamer,
a passenger barge, and one cargo barge ; these
vessels were tested under weigh in the harbour in
a connected state, and were found to act satisfac-
torily. The mouth of the Indus, which at present
forms the navigable entrance to the river, is a con•
siderable distance from the harbour, and the mon-
soon being then near at hand, it was found impos-
sible to wait for the completion of more barges, as
in consequence of the heavy sea during that period
between Kurrachee and the mouth of the Indus, the
passage across in boats of this description would
have been impracticable. As it was, those already
launched were only got into the river with much
difficulty. On the 23d of May, Mr. Bourne, accom-
panied by Mr. Wood, started from Gisree, and pro-
ceeded up as far as Sehwan, a distance of about
330 miles. The intense heat of the weather caused
much sickness among the officers and crew. The
European pilot, Mr. Masterton, died from sun-
stroke ; and the power of the steamer, from causes
not at present fully known, having been found
inadequate to propel her with sufficient speed
against the stream, which was found to be stronger
than was hitherto represented, it was resolved to
return to Gisree, with a view of perfecting arrange-
ments for another trip. Intelligence has been
received by last mail of her safe return.
" The directors regret exceedingly that the antici-
pation they had entertained of being able to report
on this occasion the favourable inauguration of
the company's enterprise has, from these causes,
been unavoidably deferred. Nevertheless, although
the train has been unable to complete the ascent of
4: the river as above mentioned, your directors see no
reason to abate their confidence in the ultimate
success of the undertaking. The remaining barges
of the first train, as also the whole of the second
train, were in a forward state at the time the last
reports were dispatched from Kurrachee, and they
will, it is believed, be ready for transmission to the
river by the close of the monsoon. Your directors
in the last report intimated• their having ordered
two additional trains oftrre greater
in arpower and capacity
trains a
than the last ; theseforward state of
completion ; some of the barges have been shipped
in a vessel purchased by the company, with a view
to her being converted into a coal hulk on her ar-
rival at Knrrachee. The steamers, one of which
is being put together for a trial in this country,
will also be ready at an early period.
e A considerable quantity of coal has been dis-
patched, as it was deemed requisite to have a large
supply in India, there being at times a difficulty in
procuring an adequate supply of wood.
"The calls made on the several issues of shares
having been freely responded to, your directors do
not consider that it will be necessary to make any
further call for the present.
" In the articles of association, clauses No. 34
and 41 are too stringent, and have caused much in-f
convenience in the practical working of the com-
pany's busiNess. A resolution to amend these has
been framed, and will be submitted for adoption at
the speCial meeting.
" In furtherance of the intention expressed by
your directors at last meeting, they proceeded to
elect two gentlemen to fill the seats in the direc-
tion which were then reported vacant; and it was
with' considerable satisfaction that they were
enabled to add to their list the names of Mr. Car-
gill, one of the directors of the Oriental Bank Cor-
Tporationotnd Mr. Mackenzie, deputy chairman of
the Eastern Bengal Railway Company ; and to
these appointments your confirmation is solicited.
" A vacancy having occurred in the office of an-

ditor by the retirement of Mr. May, it will be for
the shareholders to elect a successor."
The CHAIRMAN stated that this meeting had been
convened in accordance with the articles of associa-
tion, though the directors would rather have post-
poned it till they could have received full informa-
tion as to the inability of the steamer to ascend the
river ; but he was glad to say that Mr. Bourne
would shortly be in this country himself, and then
the result of another trip would be laid before the
proprietors, and he should propose to adjourn the
meeting for three months, when the board would
be in possession of all the information which they
required. He would now move that the report be
adopted.
The motion having been seconded, was carried
with one dissentient.
General BRIGGS said it was clear that the steamer
had not sufficient power to carry on the work in
the river ; and that the company's officers had not
had the requisite information as to the strength of
the stream. How was it that Mr. Bourne had not
been well informed on the matter, seeing that the
Indus had been navigated for the last 16 years?
What was the rate of the stream ?

The CHAIRMA-Nbefieved that the engine had a
power in excess of any stream. They had always
been given to understand that the current or stream
was about four knots, but it was found to be six
knots an hour.
General BRIGGS said they must have boats of a
proper description for the particular service. We
had half-a-dozen boats running between London and
Ramsgate, but the smaller penny boats could not
do it.
The CHAIRMAN informed the hon. gentleman
that the board had every confidence in the power
of the steamers, and that at present they did not
know of any great difficulty they had to overcome.
They had armed themselves with every informa-
tion which it was possible to obtain.
General BRIGGS—It would not tend to improve
the position of the company by the adoption of the
report. If the report had been postponed till Mr.
Bourne returned the public would have been satis-
fied.
Mr. CARGILL (the deputy-chairman). said that
perhaps the chairman was out of order in moving
the adoption of this report, which, it must be ad-
mitted, did not convey much information beyond
the fact that the first attempt had failed, which they
were led to suppose had arisen from some cause or
an.other, and that cause they could not hear till the
return of Mr. Bourne. Till, however, that infor-
mation was obtained, there was certain business
which must be done at a meeting of this kind,
which was, to a certain degree, of a formal charac-
ter; but there were other points, the consideration
of which ought to be deferred, which had reference
to the cause of failure. They might stand over till
the adjourned meeting. The matters which must
be decided, subject to the approval or otherwise of
the shareholders, were the confirmation of the elec-
tion of Mr. Cargill as a director, and the re-election
of Mr. Kennedy, and the appointment of an auditor.
If the chairman would consent to postpone the
adoption of the report till the adjourned meeting
could be held, the meeting could then express their
approval or otherwise of the two names referred to,
putting aside the report till the adjourned meeting.
The CHAIRMAN said he was most happy to adopt
.the suggestion of the deputy chairman.
That motion was then withdrawn.
The two directors were elected, and Mr. Thomas
Tilby, paymaster in the Royal navy, was proposed
by General Briggs and seconded by Mr. Nash as
auditor.
The meeting was then adjourned till the 30th of
November next, at one o'clock.
A special meeting was then held for the purpose
of altering and amending the 34th and 41st clauses
of the articles of association, for the purpose of
giving greater facilities for conducting the details
of the business of the company.
A vote of thanks to the chairman and directors
closed the proceedings.

IREL AND.

DUBLIN, TUESDAY MORNING.
INVASION OF IRELAND.

The Irish war journals (now reduced to three in
number) are making spasmodic efforts to impress
their readers, including the scattered members of
the Phcenix Clubs, with the idea that something
portentous looms in the visit to Europe of Mr. John
Mitchel, the great champion of vitriol bottles at
home and of slavery in the Southern States of the
Union. It appears to be a settled matter that the
interesting exile's steps will be first directed to-
wards the shores of France, and that here in Ireland
we need not expect his presence untilhe is prepared
to land at some exposed spot at the head of an in-
vading army. The Dundalk Democrat, after ex-
pressing its disbelief that the fate of Wolfe Tone in
'9B is reserved for its more modern hero of '59,
observes :

"If he is coming to France, he would not have
ventured there without knowing the footing on
which he is to stand. It is probable that he has
been corresponding with friends in Paris, who
know something more of what is going to happen
than other people. Or, perhaps, as the British say
there will be an invasion, that Mr. Mitchel believes
them for once, and is going to give a helping hand
to the enemy, and offer his advice on the best place
to strike the fist blow. Should the invasion take
place, and that-Ireland is to be visited by the for-
midable Zouaves, John Mitchel would have no ob-
jection, we suspect, to accompany them; and the
worst of it is that we are ill prepared, owing to the
Crime and Outrage Act, to resist any such invasion.
Mr. Mitchel knows all our weak points ; and our
opinion is that he would lose no time in going round
to land in Connaught or Bantry Bay, but would
dash boldly on the capital and seize the Castle, and
all the arsenals in Dublin. He would, we fear,
strike at once at the heart of our power, and scatter
us like chaff before the wind before we could
organize our forces. Among the Young Ireland
party there was no one but John Mitchel capable
of leading an army of liberation. He was a man
of iron will and indomitable courage. We believe
he possesses that boldness and energy which would
inspire his followers to rival the soldiers of any
other nation in deeds of heroism. He is a man to
Oecide *quickly, and to carry out his purpose with
unerring judgment and a vigorous arm. He would
have the men of all districts either with him or
against him, and would deal roughly with all who
should desire to stand on neutral ground. Such a
man as this would prove a formidable foe to Eng-
lish power in Ireland ; and, although he might run
some risks, it is certain that he would not be so
easily caught as 'Wolfe Tone. If Mr. Mitchel's
visit to Europe be to aid the invasion which the
English seem to expect, he will have no mercy for
John Bull, and will more than rival Garibaldi in
his furious onsets against the Great Britons."

In an adjacent column this best possible public
instructor informs its readers that it is to France
they must look for a free press ! Erin go bragh !

THE POTATO DISEASE.

The Cork papers will have it that the blight in
its oldest and worst form has attacked the potato
crop in that quarter. The fact of its actual appear.
ance there has been several times noticed in the
local journals, but this morning the tale is told with
more circumstantiality than usual, and is no longer
set down as a flying rumour. The Examiner of
last night says:—
" We regret to say that, so far as has come under
our observation, in the rural districts for many miles
around, the potato disease is becoming very
general. In one instance that has come to our
knowledge a splendid field of 15 acres, excellent
land and highly cultivated, the crop on whi.ch was
at one time expected to realise £5OO, is now become
absolutely worthless. In many cases half and even
two-thirds of the crops have been lost. As es-
teemed correspondent informs us that the blight has
set in with deadly virulence along the coast from
Kinsale to Clonakilty. The crop in that district
this year was about the same average breadth as it
has been for the last three years, but in yield and
quality it had been greatly superior. Unfortu-
nately, however, in no year has the tuber been so
rapidly destroyed. The potato melts away almost
when attacked. Whole fields have been abandoned
as not being worth the cost of digging. With re-
gard to the other crops in that district, the same
correspondent states that wheat has been found
not nearly so productive as in 1858, oat§ on the
other hand much more prolific, and barley less in
produce, but far better in quality and condition."

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LORD NORMANBY AND THE TUSCANS.

(From the Nord.)

M. Übaldino Peruzzi sends us, with a request for
their insertion, the two following letters. We have
much pleasure in complying with his wish :--
" Mr. Editor,—The Marquis of Normanby, when
speaking in the House of Lords on the late move-
ment in Tuscany, described the conduct of the
Liberal party in a way that is eloquently contra-
dicted by the events that have taken place in this
country for the last four months. But, in addition
to this, the noble lord, in publishing separately his
speech of the Bth of June last, thought fit to add to
it some notes, one• of which, concerning the memo-
randum of the provisional Tuscan Government,
places me under the painful necessity of addressing
myself, through your kind medium, to the impar-
tiality of the public.
" In the note B the marquis relates a little ad-
venture which appears to him to be curious, and
which appears to me, were it true, to be
most dishonourable to me. On reading the pas-
sage of the memorandum drawn up by the secre-
tary of the Foreign Minister, where it speaks of
the efforts made by the Grand Duke and his sons
to put down by force the national movement of the
27th of May last, I am asserted to have said :
Bat we cannot affirm that, because it is not true ;'
and notwithstanding that I am stated to have
nevertheless signed this document, having yielded
to the majority of my two colleagues.
" As this fact is completely false, I wrote to the
Marquis of Normanby the instant I was made ac-
quainted with his publication, and begged him to
be so good as to contradict it publicly. I told him
that the memorandum ordered and advised by me
had been drawn up by the Minister of Foreign
Affairs on the authority of documents since pub-
lished, that it was then corrected, and at last,
signed by me before it was by my two honourable
colleagues ; and lastly, I declared to him that
nothing like the anecdotes he had related had oc-
curred.

" The marquis has done me the honour of ad-
dressing to me two letters, in which he enters at
full length into the denial and the justification of
the repressive measures alluded to in the memoran-
dum but respecting the calumnious tale he had
piously consigned to the note B, he confines himself
to informing me that he received it from a well-in-
formed correspondent at Florence. It is right I
should add that in those letters, as also in his
speech of the Bth inst., in the House of Lords, the
marquis was so good as to render to my character
a homage that would not all be deserved, if the fact
he has publicly affirmed and has not publicly con-
tradicted were true.

-
" This is why I take the liberty of begging you,
sir, to be so good as to give a place in your re-
pectable journal to the solemn contradiction I see
myself compelled to give to the calumnious report
that the Marquis of Normanby has thought proper
to publish respecting me.
"I beg you at the same time to be so good as to
publish also the annexed letter addressed to the
same personage by my friend Commendatore F or-
netti, secretary to the Ministry of Tuscan Foreign
Affairs, and which has remained unanswered.
" Deign to accept, sir, my thanks and the assur-
ance of my most distinguished consideration.
" ÜBALDINO PERUZZI,
" Formerly Member of the Provisional
Government of Tuscany."
" Paris, Angus?, 25, 1859.

M. Peruzzi, in his letter to the Marquis of Nor-
manby says :
" Monsieur,—l have seen the speech you delivered
in the House of Lords on the affairs of Italy, and
which you have published as a pamphlet, with
notes.

" The note B regards 1113 especially ; it contains,
as regards me, insolent and calumnious insinuations.
"Your insolence I reject with contempt. The
one Fornetti' of whom you speak as if he were the
most abject of men you knew perfectly well to be
the Commendatore Pornetti, Officer of the Legion
of Honour, Secretary General to the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs. I do not remind you of this
through foolish and puerile vanity, but to expose
the bad faith with which you have written all that
concerns me.

"As for your slanderous insinuations of the
curious details' that might be revealed about my
rogueries,' I defy you, in the most formal manner,
to instance them, and I cite you to publicly produce
and justify them. If you think that age and decre-
pitude give you a license to tarnish with impunity
the reputation of honest people, I forewarn you that
you have made a calculation_ as false as it is in-
famous.
" Florence, July 15."

THE COMMERCE OF ITALY.

(Abridged from the Journal des Debuts.)

While the grave question of Italy is being dis-
cussed perhaps a brief commercial valuation of the
several component states of the prospective Italian
confederation may not be unacceptable.
Italy, from the Mediterranean to the Adriatic,
from the maritime Alps to the mouth of the Taglia-
mento, was the ancient home of European com-
merce. In the middle ages, when the ports of
Havre, London, and Liverpool were solitary sand-
heaps, it was at Genoa and at Venice that its bril-
liant dawn uprose, and those glorious cities of the
sea already filled the world with the dazzling fame
of their wealth and enterprise. Their grand exist-
ence has, it is true, passed away, or rather been
eclipsed by the prosperity of their modern rivals ;
but run your eye along the littoral of that Italian
peninsula, and think what a merchant navy might
'become which should unite under the generous pro-
tectorate of a common federal bond the numerous
ports that fringe its coast—Nice, Genoa, Leghorn,
Ancona, Civita Vecchia, Palermo, Cagliari, Messina,
Naples, Sinigaglia, Fiume, Venice ! And behind
all these maritime mouths, over those fertile valleys
which the Po and its many affluents irrigate, be-
sides the Piave, the Adda, the Arno, the Tiber, &c.,
what natural wealth has Providence lavished on
the soil ! what precious raw materials are harvested
or manufactured to nourish the great mercantile
operations of the seaports.
In Piedmont, and in Lombardy, rice and bilk,
the mulberry and the olive, cattle, wool, and leather,
besides plenty of other industrial resources, which,
if not so vigorous as our own, do nevertheless
flourish, as the Turin Exhibition of 1858 proved;
cloth, silk, woollens, paper, typography, leather,
glass, and metal works. In Tuscany, in Parma, in
Modena, cereals, marble, iron, lead, copper, argal,
borax, cheese, plaited straw hats, rags; in the Roman
States, cereals, cattle and wool, flax and hemp,
wood, potosh, and alum ; in Sicily and in the Nea-
politan provinces, oil in abundance, wheat, wine,
fresh and dried fruits, salt, sulphur, madder, comes-
tible pastes, &c. All these, with many other raw
or cultivated products, commercial Europe receives
at present from the rich plains of Italy in immense
quantities. But what may not their development
become when a vigilant and enlighted administra-
tion, animated with a keen instinct of national
unity, shall have improved the cultivation a the
land by a better division of the soil, facilitated the
exchange of products by the abolition of frontier
dues, which are a premium to smugglers, and oft en
to brigandage, and emancipated labour, which
almost throughout Italy is the slave of monopoly—
as, for instance, at Urbino, where the Albani family
have retained the manufacture of pins as a privi-
lege of their house ever since Clement Xll. ; and
as at Rome, where illustrious descendants of patri-
cian families of the ancient republic possess the ex-
clusive right of making strings for musical instru-
ments, window-glass, &c.
The Italian Governments are rather weak in
statistics (excepting, of course, Piedmont), and it
would be somewhat difficult to make out an exact
table of their exports and imports; but the follow-
ing may be taken as an approximate statement of
the commercial transactions of the peninsula, or,
rather, of what was known about them 12 years
since, and of what they were still up to a recent
period. As to Lombardy, its commercial transac-
tions have until lately figured with those of Venetia
in the official statistics of the Austrian Empire, and
their average value may be estimated at not less
than a fourth or a third of the total commerce of
that Empire—that is to say, to a minimum of about
500 millions of francs (L 20,000,000). Economically
speaking, Austria had ample reasons for clinging
to the preservation of that rich agricultural domain,
called Lombardo-Venetia ; for it must not be for=
gotten that the silk produce alone represented in
raw material nearly 180,000,000 of francs, some-
thing like from three to four millions of kilo-
grammes of raw silk, which, being manufactured at
Lyons, at Saint Etienne, at Zurich, at Elberfeld,
and at Birmingham, arc worth from one millard and
a half to two millards of francs (£60,000,000
£80,000,000). On the whole, leaving a certain
margin for the transactions in bond at the free ports,
such as Genoa, Leghorn, &c., on a c4inparison of
the two periods above mentioned, we get at the
following averages :

1844-46. 1857.
Millions of Francs.
Lon kbardo-Venet ia 4lO 500
Sardinian States 330 843
Tuscany and the Duchies. 170 245
Papal States
Two Sicilies l7O 180

1,145 1,886
The progress in 12 years appears considerable—more
than 84 per cent.—and it will give us some idea of
what a country which (speaking of Central Italy
only) has hitherto been the worst governed is the
world, may become. Only let this noble Italy live
her own life, let her natural capabilities be freed
from all foreign pressure, and you will see how