The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-15 00:00:00

THE CAUSE OF ITALY.

Signor G. B. Nicolini has addressed the following
note to Lord Ellenborough :
" My Lord,—Will your lordship allow me, as one
of the oldest exiled patriots and a particular friend
of General Garibaldi, to thank you for the sympathy
you show and the interest you take in our future
deliverance ?

" The regret your lordship expresses that the
Italians have not as yet raised a powerful national
army (which alone can assure our independence, or
that of any nation) is felt by all the Italian patriots,
but the fault, as your lordship surmises, lies not
with the nation.

" All the present rulers, the King of Piedmont
excepted, more eager for personal advantages than
for the real greatness of Italy, have thought that
adulation, subserviency, and insignificant decrees
are the most efficacious means for effecting the libe-
ration of Italy. After they have enacted that
justice shall be rendered in the name of King Vic-
tor Emmanuel, or any other such decree, they give
themselves up to rejoicing, and, like Scipio, call on
the people to follow them to the Capitol to thank
the gods for having in that day saved Italy.
" But let Garibaldi, whom your lordship honours
with such flattering though well deserved praises,
call on the populations to join with him in fighting
for the cause of Italy (or of Italian independence)
with Italian swords, and your lordship may be
assured that warriors will spring up by thousands,
and they will fight as we fought at Rome and at
Varese.

" England cannot render a greater service to Italy
than by following your lordship's example, and
sending arms to Garibaldi, and with the arms that
mural support which alone can ensure success. In
the possunt quia posse videntur lies the secret of
victory. I will conclude by assuring your lordship
that my friend Garibaldi will not sacrifice the real
interests of Italy either for Napoleon, the Pope, or
any other potentate on earth. He will not allow
himself to be either intimidate or flattered, bought
or seduced, but will stand to the last the champion
of Italy.
" While Garibaldi lives, and does not forfeit the
love of the Italians, which I am sure he will do,
there will always be hope for Italy, notwithstand-
ing the ill-omened prospect of a Congress, always
fatal to the feeble.--I have the honour to be, my
Lord, your lordship's humble, obedient servant,
" G. B. NICOLINI.

" Upper Mitcham, Surrey."

A telegram from St. Petersburg yesterday stated
that the pressure on the money-market is diminishing, and
that the rate of discount has receded to 7 per cent. The
recent mischief, it is remarked, has not been so much from
trading operations as from the bursting of the many bubble
schemes concocted since the peace, and for which the
authorities have been greatly deserving of blame.
The Constantinople journals give an account of a
daring murder in that city :—Three Servian senators, who
being accused of conspiracy in their own country, had
sought refuge in Constantinople, were on the 26th ult. waited
on by two of their countrymen, one a man named Dakieh,
the other a priest, named Grubich, who told them that
they knew that Prince Milosch hid hired assassins to mur-
der them, but that they had persuaded the assassins not to
execute the crime. The senators naturally received this
communication with astonishment, and before they could
speak Dakieh discharged a revolver at one of them named
Arranghelovich, but missing him stabbed him with a
poniard, causing instant death ; after which he and the
priest took to flight, but were pursued and captured. What
the motive for this extraordinary crime was the journals do
not state.

THE ADMIRALTY SUPPLIES OF COAL.—Mr. Craw-
ford, M.P. for London, accompanied by Messrs. Stringer,
De Mattes, and Challis, had au interview on Friday with
the Duke of Somerset and Lord Clarence Paget, at the Ad-
miralty, on the present system adopted by the Admiralty of
employing an agent in sending forward the greater part of
their supplies of coal to the various stations in the
East Indies, China, the Mediterranean, and Black Sea.
It was urged as unfair to the shipping interest that
the large quantities of coal now required from time
to time should be kept secret' from all except
one individual ; and that the true plan would
be for the Government to follow in this portion of their
business the same principle that guides them with regard
to the several other articles of consumption, especially as
the rapid incraase in the exportation of coal for the wants of
steamers renders every fluctuation a matter of paramount
importance to the commerce of the country. The saving
in public expenditure from the advantage of competition
in so large a branch of the Storekeeper-General's depart-
ment was also insisted upon, and full details were given
of the way in which it is considered the selected
agent, from the preferences and information given to
him is enabled to interfere with the regular operations
both of the coal end freight market. The Duke of Somer-
set and Lord Clarence Paget, it is stated, agreed that in all
Government matters public competition is desirable, and
concluded by expressing a determination that both to ti e
shipping interest and private commercial enterprise justic
should be done. It was expressly mentioned by the depu-
tation that no personal feeling exists against the agent cf
the Government, who has conducted his transactions to the
credit of his position, the complaint being grounded solely
on the objectionable nature of the system. This system, it
is said, exists also at the Ordnance-office.