The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-21 00:00:00

NEAPOLITAN EXILE FUND.

A meeting of the general committee of this fund
was held at 118, Pall-mall,-on Saturday last, which
was attended by the Earls of Shaftesbury, Carlisle,
Granville and Ripon, Viscount Palmerston, Lord
John Russell, the Right Hon. Edward Ellice, Mil-
ner Gibson, W. E. Gladstone, Sir B. Hall, Vernon
Smith, and Sir D. Dundas, the Deans of West-
minster and St. Paul's, the Hon. A. Kinnaird,
M.P., Mr. Wentworth Beaumont, M.P., Mr. C.
Delapryme, Sir James Ferguson, Mr. John Forster,
Mr. Thomas Fairburn, Mr. J. B. Heath, Mr. M. J.
Higgins, Sir H. Holland, Mr. A. Kinglake, M.P.,
Mr. R. M. Milnes, M.P., Sir R. Murchison, A.
C. Robarts, Mr. Ker Seymer, M.P., Mr. William
Stirling, &c.
It was moved by Viscount PALMERSTON, and
seconded by Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Mr. W.
MILES, M.P., that the following brief statement of
the circumstances in which the exiles are placed,
and the views of the committee with respect to the
relief to be afforded to them, should be printed and
circulated for the information of the public:—

"Sixty-seven Neapolitan exiles, most of whom are gentle-
men by birth and education, and all of whom are men of
unimpeachable character, were removed a short time since
from the prisons of the King of Naples, and were conveyed
to Cadiz on board a Neapolitan man-of-war.
" They were there forcibly transhipped into an American
sailing vessel, with whose captain the Neapolitan Govern-
ment had contracted for their conveyance to New York.
_ _

" These unhappy men, broken dam in health and spirit
by a ten years' imprisonment, naturally shrank from cross-
ing the Atlantic during the Equinox, and from deportation
to a distant quarter of the globe, where they had neither
resources nor friends.

" They, therefore, remonstrated so earnestly against the
obvious illegality of the contract into which the American
captain had entered respecting them that he at last yielded
to their written protest, and consented to land them at Cork,
where they arrived on the 6th inst.
" They are all middle-aged or old men; they are almost
all enfeebled and worn out by long imprisonment and hard-
ship ; some are confirmed invalids ; all are ignorant of our
language; all are entirely destitute.
" The noblemen and gentlemen who have formed them-
selves into a committee for the relief of these exiles wish to
collect by subscription a sum of money sufficient to main-
tain them with frugality until they. shall have recovered
from the effects of the long suffering to which they have
been exposed. The committee then desire to afford to each
individual, according to his previous avocation and present
necessities, the means of starting in life afresh, either in
this country or abroad, and of rendering available for his
future support the talents and energies which remain to
him.

" For the immediate assistance which they received on
landing in Ireland the exiles are indebted to the prompt
and generous humanity of Mr. John Arnott, the Mayor of
Cork, who not only raised a local subscription on their be-
half, but also forwarded to the committee in London his
own personal contribution of £lOO.
" The number of the exiles, and the fact that many of
them have wives and families at Naples and elsewhere de-
pendent on them, render it necessary that exertions should
be made to collect a considerable sum, in order to place the
committee in a position to afferd to each even the most mo-
derate relief, it being evident that for some time to come the
exiles themselves can do nothing towards earning their
own livelihood."

THE HUMAN HAIR.--A German savant has
taken the pains to count the number of hairs existing in
four heads of hair, of different colours. He found in a
blond 140,409 distinct hairs, in a brown 109,440, in a black
102,960, and in a red 88,740.
WOODS AND FORESTS.—The gross income of the
Woods, Forests, and other Crown property in 1857-8 was
£417,069, and the net income, £276,654. The cost of man-
agement was £77,806, and of improvements, £54,933. In
1838-9 the net income was but £155,000, and in 1845-6 only
£85,000. £212,900 was received in 1857-8 for the sale of
Crown property, and the sums re-invested in new property
amounted to £8,052. The sums stated as re-invested in new
property do not include the purchases made under the pre-
visions of the Acts 54, George 111., chap. 70 ; 7, George
IV., chap. 77 ; and 10, George IV., chap. 50, by which the
Commissioners of her M esty's Woods and Forests, &c.,
were required to apply, not only the surplus income, but
also the produce of the sales of Crown rents and lands, and
the consideration moneys received for the enfranchisement
of copyholds, to the purposes of the Regent-street, and
Charing. cross, and Strand improvements.th e
landThebarleavneeneuoef,
the stock invested from the produce of the sale of estates
standiug to the credit of th capital the
amounted to the sum of
on the 31st of March, 1858,
£330,472 ls. ld.
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