The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-08 00:00:00

ITALY.

GENOA, May '7.
Yesterday being the anniversary of the departure
of the thousand of Marsala a great demonstration
took place in this town. Shouts were raised by the
crowds of "Long live the King, Garibaldi, and
War !"

Five hundred Genoese have offered themselves as
volunteers during the last two days.

MESSINA, May 6.
Mazzini has again been elected to represent this
town in the Chamber of Deputies by 329 against
203 votes.

FLORENCE, May 7,

Intelligence received here from all the Italian
provinces reports great enthusiasm in favour of war.
The National Guard are offering their services and
the soldiers called upon to join their regiments are
everywhere readily coming forward.
Prince Humbert has taken his departure for
Lombardy.
General Prim has left this city for Paris.
NAPLES, May 7.

The Municipality of Naples has voted annual
pensions of from 200 to 2,000 francs to Neapolitan
soldiers who may distinguish themselves, and to
the families of those who may be killed in a war
against Austria.
The municipalities of Crema and Palermo have
adopted resolutions to a similar effect.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. This Day.

LoNDoN, May B.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly ; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.
LIVERPOOL, May 7.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Tangier,
from Bombay.
OFF LIVERPOOL, May 7.—wind N.E.—Arrived—Mur-
mer, from Trieste.
PORTSMOUTH, May 6.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Anglesoa,
from Calcutta.

OFF PLYMOUTH, May 7.—Wind S.S.E.—ArrivPd—
Brodraye, from New York for Copenhagen and. Cron-
stadt.

OFF CROOKHAVEN, May 7.—Arrived--City of Boston,
screw steamer, from New York.
Hula., May 7. Wind S.E.—Arrived—Observer, from
Demerara.

QUEENSTOWN, May 6.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—St. Carlo,
from Trieste.
GLOUCESTER, May 6.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Minorca,
from Triesto
FALMOUTH, May 6. —Wind S.E.—Arrived—Maringt
from Demerara.

[By ELECTRIC TELEGRAM 1
Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, May 7—Au 'Genoa ; Thunderbolt,
from Calcutta.
Arrived, May B—Gustaf Wasa, from Goethenburg; Iris,
from Guernsey ; Estonia, from Trieste ; Christina, from
Gothenburg ; Albion, from Guernsey ; Jemitna, from
Dantsic; Harbinger, from Lisbon ; Belle of the Plym, from
Genoa; Blue Jacket, from Canterbury; Leopold, from
S altkallan.

DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
Passed—Delphine, from London, for Rio Janeiro.
Anchored—Veneendor, frem London, for San Sebastien%

The Stock Exchange Committee have appointed
Thursday, the 10th inst., a special settling day in
the second issue of shares in Reuter's Telegram
Company (Limited), which are to be marked in the
twice a week list, and in the shares of Skidmore's
Art Manufactures, &c., Company (Limited), which
are not to be marked.

• THE ICE TRADE.--A speculator Las realised a
large sum by supplying various public establish-
ments in Paris with ice. In consequence of the' mild
winter the ice-houses in the neighbourhood of Paris are
nearly empty, and the fortunate speculator has undertaken
to bring an immense quantity by railway and canal.
Twenty waggon-loads arrived in Paris on the 26th ult.
from Base, in Switzerland, containing each five tons of ice.
Steam vessels have arrived at Havre from Norway for
several days past laden solely with ice, which is brought
to Paris by the Seine. The ice which comes from Nor-
way forms blocks of a cubic yard, on an average. Tho
consumption in Paris is estimated at fifty tons a day.—
Licensed Vieuallers' Guardian.

MASSACHUSETTS IN THE WAR.—The Adjutant-
General of Massachusetts has just completed a very inter-
eating document of 767 pages, showing the part borne by
that State in the war. Massachusetts contributed over
159,165 soldiers, including 96,270 three years' men, and
26,163 enlisted in the navy. Eleven million six hundred
and eighty-Eve thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven.d
dollars and sixty cents bounty money was..distsnebrvuteice
baniouonntgies44W7e2rse
umivenen.
tolnthetheextennatvalof a5nid097;4107408.
Five.

Washoifnget:njoylieralubntlicaat:d
thousand four hundred and thirty-eight officers were com-
missioned by the State. Of this number, Boston furnished
1,241. Of the 111,681 officers and enlisted men in the
military service, 260 officers and 3,278 men were killed ;
104 officers and 1,882 men died of wounds ;75 officers and
5,594 men died of disease; 3 officers and 1,840 mon died
EIKE TO BE w .
in rebel prisons ; 313 officers and 11,731 men were dis-
charged, and 1,026, taken prisoners, have never been
charged for disability; 72 on wore dishonourably
roeeitie dtish-e,
Englishman in the
was started the other day
•-- hat
healrirdHfAroTmE, bNuatLsltsannd3fEasNmßisEsisnTg.
1 asks the Spectator, is the best external
unrtinergestthelargest
characteristicam
possible
usefulness attainable by an
oouflitthe class when pre
sent age ? The question
among a group of literary men,
tphoesictiaognersoci
all doing nothing with
en-
gaged in that occupation, and
each was called on to tell
his ideal as honestly as he
characteristic, could. The replies, all in-
tenselyvf
position of a constitutionalele alla little bizarre. " The
king," said one, who will be
recognised by
many from
ceivable, great wealth, the sentence, "is the best con-
of usefulness, and e great respect, indefinite possibilities
normous power, to be attained without
observation, or re
"Well," said another,
or exertion, except in chat."
" I'd rather be Speaker, live at the
g
centre of things, ar everything, see everything, and
have nothing serious h
"p oh do but sit and bok dignified for
half the year." !" said a third, " Varden's berth
is batter than the Speakership. The librarian of the
House of Commons may hear as much as he likes, and as
little, and do and leave undone pretty much as he chooses.
It is a literary hermitage in the centre of the world." «j
agree with Lever's external position," said the fourth, that
"there never has been, and never will be again in the
world, a position so good as that of a British Peer with
£40,000 a year." "(live me £lOO a year," said the fifth,
"with nothing to dO, and cultivation enough to enjoy
doing it.,, ~ That's !Piggish," said the sixth, " the best
position would be Editor of the Times, with no night-
work." And the seventh summed up by demanding with
brief alliterative compactness, a ciin .
arqulsate and a
million."
By adviocb from Hamburg the price of gold is 1..7 per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.51 per XI stcriin
Standard gold at the Englith Mint priceambur I' s there. ore 14.
about 2- lOths per cent. dearer hi II - g than in London,