The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-29 00:00:00

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern 920 .. 923 75
New ditto Bll 25 812 50
Lyons and Mediterranean B6B 75 868 75
Geneva 535 --
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian 416 25 .. 412 50
Austrian .. 557 50 .. 562 50
Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 121 c. ; money,
25f 10c. ; three months, paper, 241.971 c.; money, 24f. 95c.

SARDINIA.

A Paris letter in the Nord of Brussels says :

" The French army of occupation is preparing its
winter quarters in Lombardy and in Parma. You
will have remarked that the French have troops at
Piacenza as well as at Milan, while there is not a
single soldier in the Duchy of Modena or in Tus-
cany. This distinction between Parma and the
other two Duchies has a cause. It is simply be-
cause Austria having tacitly accepted as a fait
accompli the annexation of Parma to Piedmont, we
act legally in Piacenza as at Milan, and in both
cities we are equally on a friendly territory for
the interest, and with the consent, of the Sove-
reign who possesses the territory."
The administrative organisation of the Lombardo-
Piedmontese kingdom is on the eve of being ter-
minated. The fundamental principles of it will,
according to the Independente of Turin, be as
follow :

" 1. Assimilation of Piedmont to Lombardy, in
order to replace our administrations, which are too
much broken up, by centres of greater extent.
Lombardy has only nine provinces, and Piedmont
forty, although the population of the former
is 2,800,000, and that of the latter 5,000,000.
The consequence of this increase of the limits of the
administrative departments will be the suppression
of some of the smallest provinces by incorporating
them in others.

" 2. On this occasion the general circumscription
of the State will be reformed, and some compensa-
tion may thus be given to the provinces suppressed.
"3. The provinces will recover their self-govern-
ment.

"4. Some large political centres will be main-
tained, probably in addition to Turin, Genoa,
Milan, Charnbery, and Cagliari.
" 5. There is reason to believe that the com-
munes -will be divided into different classes,
according to their importance, and this classifica-
tion will be the basis of their attributes.

" 6. The administrative circumscription will not
be identical with the federal one, as it is important
to multiply the centres of the latter, in order that
the administration of justice may not be too incon-
venient, tardy, and expensive."

FATAL ACCIDENT AT WOOLWICH DOCKYARD.—
On Saturday morning- last a fatal accident occurred to
Richard Hales, a stoker employed at Woolwich Dockyard.
The deceased was at work on board the Ariadne screw
frigate, which is now being fitted with her machinery, and
while in tho, engine-room assisting to move a portion of the
same of immense weight, it fell upon the unfortunate man
and crushed him in a fearful manner. On account of the
weight of the iron, it was some minutes before the deceased
could be extricated, and he was then so strongly convulsed
that it required six men to place him on a stretcher for con-
veyance to the Royal Marine Hospital, where death ter-
minated his sufferings immediately after admission.