The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-26 00:00:00

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Six o'clock.

ITALY.

Advices from Southern Italy furnish some details
as to the state of affairs in the delegation of Ascoli,
a province of the Papal States, on the borders of
the kingdom of Naples. At the last dates the in-
surrection was still strong in the mountain, but
the town of Ascoli was in the hands of the Pied-
montese, and occupied by a strong body of their
troops. Some sharp combats had taken place at
Acqua Santa, Mozzano, Castel Trasino, and Gia-
vanozzi, in which the insurgents had suffered con-
siderable loss. The Piedmontese had also a num-
ber of men. They have since received reinforce-
ments, and were to march in a body on the insur-
gents, who had rallied on several points, and kept
the mountainous region. The Sardinian Govern-
ment displayed considerable energy in putting
down these different insurrections, and appeared
decided to employ extensive military means in the
struggle.

SPO RTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER-FRIDAY.

The Liverpool Steeplechase has the effect of giving a
little life to turf speculation, otherwise it bears every symp-
tom of dwindling down to a state of dormancy, without a
prospect of showing activity until after the acceptances for
the Spring Handicaps have been signified. For the Chase
Goldsmith was supported to win near £l,OOO at 14 to 1,
and the Tattler was in demand, closing at 20 to 1 taken.
100 to 7 was taken a few times about Xanthus, and Red•
wing had a coming appearance. Cockatoo would have been
backed for money at the rate of 100 to 3. For the Chester
Cup 30 to 1 was offered on the field. Indeed, we have seen
nothing during these last few days to lead us to believe
that 1,000 to 30 would have been taken about either Indus-
trious or Chere Arnie. The disposition to bet against
Dundee for the Derby is not so great as it has been during
the winter months, and to-day 6 to 1 agst him was unob-
tainable. In other respects nothing transpired that calls
for special remark.—Closing prices :

GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLE CHASE.
14 to 1 agst Goldsmith (taken freely)
100 to 7 agst Xanthus (taken
100 to 6 agst Jealousy (offered)
20 to 1 agst The Tattler (taken)
25 to 1 agst Redwing (taken)
100 to 3 azst Cockatoo (taken freely)
100 to 3 agst Freshman (taken)

CHESTER CUP.
30 to 1 agst Industrious (offered)
100 to 3 agst Chere Arnie (offered)
100 to 3 agst Lawyer (take 40 to 1)
100 to 3 agst Umpire (take 40 to 1)
40 to 1 agst Man-at-Arms (take 50 to 1)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
6to 1 agst Kettledrum (offered)
7to 1 agst Klarikoff (offered)
10 to 1 aggt Russley (take 100 to 9)
TILE DERBY.
6to 1 agst Dundee (wanted)
100 to 7 ngst Big Ben (offered)

TIIIS DAY'S MARKETS.

COVENT GARDEN.

The arrivals of vegetables have been decidedly on the in-
crease, and the show of fruit is seasonably good. Gener-
ally speaking, the demand rules steady, as follows :

FRUIT.
8. d. 8. d. 8. d. s. d
Pine apples, perlb 4 oto 8 0 Cherries, per lb.. 0 oto 0 0
Colonial do., each 1 oto 1 6 Filberts, per lb 1 eto 1 6
Grapes, per lb 60to10 0, Cobnuts per lb 1 oto 1 6
Foreign do 1 oto 2 0 Almonds, per bus 0 oto Qt 0
nelons, each
Peaches, per doz 6 oto 12 d Figs, per d0z..... 2 oto 4 6
Nectarines, per dz 2 oto 6 0 Strawberries potl. 0 0 to 0 0
Apples, per llf. sv. 2 oto 4 0 Gooseberries hi sv 0 oto 0 0
Pears, per do
Oranges, per .100 4 oto 12 0 Plums, per do. .. 0 oto 0 0
Lemons, per 100 3 6to 8 0 Greengages, pr do. 0 oto 0 0
Apricots, per doz 2 oto 4 0, Raspberries, pr ptlo oto 0 0

'VEGETABLES.
Greens, dz bunch 4 6to 6 61 Shallots, per lb .. 0 6to 0 8
Cabbages, pr doz 1 oto 1 61 Horseradish, pbn 1 oto 2 0
Savoy do., pr do. 1 oto 1 61 Parsley, per ditto 0 2to 0 0
Cauliflowers, pdz 3 oto 6 0 Celery, per ditto 0 Bto 1 6
Brocoli, per dz 0 oto 0 0 Beet, per doz. .. 1 6to 2 0
Potatoes, per ton 130 to 190 0 , Parsnips, per do. 0 oto 0 0
New ditto, per lb. 0 oto 0 0 Small salad, p. pn, 0 2to 0 0
Peas, per sieve 1 6to 1 9 ; Mushrooms,p pun 2 oto 3 0
Turnips, dz bunch 3 oto 4 0' Artichokes, pr dz 4 oto 6 0
Carrots, pr do 5 oto 6 0 Cabbage lett,score 1 0 to 2 0
Cucumbers 1 oto 1 6 Endive, per score 1 oto 2 0
Garlic, per lb
Sorrel, per sieve 0 oto 0 0 I Tomatoes, hf sve 4 oto 6 0
Spinazh,ht-sv 0 6to 0 8 I Walnuts, per 100 0 oto 0 0
Brus. sprouts, h.s 2 oto 2 9 Chilies, per ditto 0 oto 0 0
Old onions, hf. sv. 1 3to 2 01 Capsicums, per do 0 oto 0 0
Do., dz bun
French beans, 100 1 9to 2 0 I Asparagus, pr do. 10 otono 0
Leeks, per bunch 0 oto 0 01 Seakale. per pun. 2 0 to 2 6

LACORDALRE AND GUIZOT.

We extract the following from a letter dated
Paris, Friday evening :

The reception oC the eloquent Dominican monk, Father
Lacordaire, at the Academie Francaise, which I briefly
alluded to in my last night's letter, merits a more ample
notice. As a literary event it has had no parallel for many
years. Ever since the establishment in France of a despotism
which, whilst it created liberty trampled upon public elo-
quence and placed literature under the ban, the reception
of candidates at the Academie Francaise has acquired a
certain degree of political importance. Cautious and guarded
as academical speeches traditionally are, the public has ever
shown intense eagerness to hear and read the eloquent ad-
dresses, whose tributes to liberty, eloquence, and moral
courage have ever been rightly interpreted as a protest
against the tyranny of the regime clu silence, as
a condemnation of the moral torpitude of the
sycophants and renegades by whom it is supported.
But for the last 10 years circumstances have never
invested a reception at the Academie with the peculiar sig-
nificance attached to that of Father Lacordaire--a Domi-
nican monk, celebrated not less by his ardent faith and his
matchless elequence, than by his equally boundless attach.
ment to liberty, summoned to the seat vacated by the death
of De Tocqueville, the champion and historian of Demo-
cracy, at a time when despotism and liberty combined aro
dealing the death-blow to the institution of the Papacy !
Such a man, too, a fervent and yet a liberal Catholic, to be
welcomed to the only society where the voice of liberty is
still permitted to be raised, in subdued tones and at distant
intervals, by the representative of Protestantism, by the
champion of parliamentary government, by the fallen minis-
ter of a fallen dynasty, of a constitutional king ! Such a com-
bination of circumstances never yet Occurred ; and maynever
again take place. You may, therefore, easily conceive the
eagerness with which this day's ceremony was antici-
pated ; but you cannot so readily form an idea of the
anxiety evinced to be present and hear the speeches from
two such great masters in the art of speaking from their
own lips, instead of waiting until next day's paper. The
hall of the institute where the sitting took place holds 1,500
persons ; there were not less than 10,000 demands for
tickets. As it was the place was crammed to suffocation,
and the very space railed off for " les guarante inimortels"
was trespassed upon by some ambitious crinolines. A
great many ladies attended. I mentioned yesterday that
the Empress honoured the ceremony with her presence ;
doubtless as a mark of respect for the Church. The strange
coincidence of its falling to the lot of M. Guizot, as director
for the year, to hand her Majesty to her seat was much
commented on ; it was, at all events, one additional pecu-
liarity of this extraordinary seance.

Father Lacordaire wore, as is wont, his white monastic

costume.

Those who were not so fortunate as to hear the two
great orators generally give the preference to the speech of
Lacordaire. The Empress staid until the sitting was over,
and, I am informed, sent for Lacordaire and complimented
him on his eloquent address.
Another letter says :

" The reception of the Abbe Lacordaire at the Academy
to-day is the all-dominating topic of interest. The
Academy is itself composed of most distinguished indivi-
duals, who are not indisposed to mingle politics with lite-
riture. The Academy, as a rule, is an Opposition body.
Being supposed to be always in advance of the age, it has
counted amongst its illustrious forty the strongest oppo-
nents of the Bourbons and of the Orleanists, as it does now
of the empire; only that the anti-Imperialists happen to
be made up of ex-anti-Bourbonists and ex-anti-Orleanists,
fancying that they are still going ahead, while in reality
they are falling back. To give more piquancy to the pre-
sent occasion, it is the Protestant Guizot who is to re-
ceive with the customary eulogies the Dominican Friar

iacordaire, prohibited even for one day prom wearing
he costume of the Academician. The Abbe Lacordaire
wears the same white robe which adorned his handsome
person the day he took his seat in the Csmstituent Assembly,
beside the Abbe de Lamennais, amongst the Montagnards.
The political misery which makes such a strange pair of
bedfellows counts, no doubt, amongst the attractions which
set the Faubourg St. Germain in a struggle for tickets nine
months ago. No newspaper correspondent is at the Aca-
demy today, unless in the disguise of a duchess in gala
costume. Money would certainly not purchase a single

ticket, whatevei loNe might do. We must, therefore, won-
der, with the simple public, What will the Protestant say
to the Priest? How will the impassioned Savanarola of
the days of 1848 deal with the " shy profundity" (the ex-
pression is De Quincy's) of his predecessor, De Tocqueville ?
More consistent in speculation than in action, the profound
writer upon Democracy had something to do during his
timid and vacillating administration of Foreign Affairs
under the Republic, with sending French Republican troops
to put down the Roman Republic. Is this the bright spot
the put-
will celebrate in a duet with another ex-
Foreign Minister, who abjures spiritual sticks by political
Pontificates ? Tocqueville treated Democracy as an advan-
cing flood, which no Canute could turn back; and he wisely
counselled society, in its own interest, to purify and prepare
the future ruling power by education, without stint or limit.
How M. Guizot would deal with the Democracy, and how
Father Lacordaire would educate it, will, we hope,. be told
to the world to-morrow.