The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-24 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Gazzetta del Popolo of Turin says :—" The
judicial inquiry into the affair of the 29th of Juno
at Genoa is closed, and its results fill three enor-
mous volumes. The number of prisoners under trial
is 39, of whom about 20 are defaulters. Their case
has been considerably aggravated by the discovery
of five letters in Mazzini's handwriting, and by
his allegations published in his organ, in which
he most imprudently jeopardises those who be-
lieved in him, and who are now in the hands of
justice. One of the above letters was found on
the person of a workman, who had sewed it under
the lining of his coat, and was arrested by the
Custom-house offic -rs at Arona at the moment he
was about to cross the lake in a boat. The cap-
ture of this letter led to the arrest of several per-
sons at Turin and Genoa; and to the banishment
of some refugees. Another letter was directed to
A. M., a member of the committee of action, and
contained orders proving the existence of a secnit
government. But Mazzini's article entitled L 9.
Situazione' has seriously compromised the prison-
ers; had it not been for that, there would have
been no legal proofs of high treason, and the
whole affair might have ended in a few condem-
nations on the count of being in possession of
prohibited azms.'

DENMARK.

A Copenhagen letter, in the Spectateur, says :

" The hostile attitude assumed by the Diets of
the two German.Ducbies of Holst,An and Laueu-
burg towards Denmark has produced a remark-
able impression on public opinion in this capital.
The moment that the public has considered the
general organisation of the monarchy to be menaced
by Germany, the Danish national spirit has been
roused t 3 support the present- ministry, which
looked upon as the energetic representative of na-
tional ideas. Nobody believes here in the possi-
bility of an amicable arrangement on the Holstein
question with the two great German powers.
Moro notes may doubtless be written, but the
government of Copenhagen is decided, I am as-
sured, on awaiting with calm the decisions of the
Frankfort Diet, before which the question will b.!
definitively brought by Prussia and gustria."

SPAIN.
The Madrid journals of the 19th have arrived,
but do not contain any news of political interest.
In expectation of a visit from the Empress of the
French, the inhabitants of Arteaga, the place in
which her Majesty's chateau is situated, had on
the 14th erected a triumphal arch bearing the
inscription. " Arteaga to the Empress Eugenic,
its protectress," and all the authorities of the
neighbouring towns and villages had assembled ;
but finding that her Majesty did not arrive, the
authorities partook of a splendid banquet at the
house of the French Consul of Quernica. A

MAILS.'

CANADA.

letter from Melilla of the 12th says that the
Moors of the tribe of Benisidel had after nine
months' peace recommenced hostilities against
the place, though at the time several of their body
were in the town. The Spaniards generously
allowed the latter to leave before returning the
are. The result is not stated. The chief of the
tribe had, however, expressed his regret to the
Spanish governor that he was not able to restrain
his men.

TUNIS.
•
We have been favoured with the following ex-
tract from a letter dated Tanis, Sept. 12 :
" The Bey, convinced by the earnest representa-
tions and persuasive arguments of the British and
French agents, after numerous consultations with
his Ministers, determined to make the improve-
ments in his system of government which were pro-
posed to him, and on the mornin; of the 9th Sept.,
having invited the foreign agents and some of the
principal European residents to wait upon him at
his Palace of the Bardo, in their presence he gave a
constitution to his country, swearing to observe its
provisions, and causing his priests, ministers, and
people to do the same.
" The constitution consists of 11 articles, which
would be too long to set out in, extense, and I there-
fore only give the substance of them, viz. :
"1. Security of life and property.
" 2. Equal taxation.
"3. Equality before the law of all classes and
denominations.
"4. Religious liberty.
"5. Limitation of the period of military service.
"6. Admission of non-Mussulman assessors in
the criminal tribunals.
"7. Establishment of a mixed commercial tri-
bunal.
"8. Abolition of all immunities and privileges
now enjoyed by Mussulmaus.
"9. Liberty of commerce, abolition of monopo-
lies, and interdiction to the Government to trade.
" 10, Permission to foreigners to exercise all
professions, trades, and callings, and to introduce
foreign enterprise, arc.
" 11. Right for foreigners to purchase and pos-
sess houses, lauded property, ch.
" The . importance of this reform cannot be too
highly estfmated."

A letter from Stuttgart of the 19th says that
foreigners, especially French and Russians, were
already flocking into the city in considerable num-
bers. All the departments iu hotels had been
taken in advance, and it was impossible to satisfy
anything like the demands made for accommoda-
tion. The King of Bavaria and the Grand Duke
of Hesse were expected.

A Vienna letter says that the negotiations be-
tween France and Austria for a postal treaty have
been brought to a satisfactory conclusion, and
that M. de Lowenthal, the Austrian negotiator,
had returned to that city from Paris.

The Deutschland of Vienna says :—" We
learn from good authority that the directors of
banks in Central Germany will shortly hold a
conference in Frankfort,' in order to come to an
understanding respecting the reprisals to be
adopted against Prussia, for her prohibition of
the circulation of their bank-notes within her ter-
ritory. Up to the present moment these banks
have decided that as long as the decree of the
Prussian Minister of Commerce is in force, they
will not advance any money for transactions in
the kingdom of Prussia, and ►ill even close the
credits now open."

The Emancipation of Brussels denies that there
is any truth in a rumour current in that city to
the effect that the negotiations between Belgium
and Holland for a treaty of commerce have been
broken off, and affirms, on the contrary, that they
are going on favourably, and are likely to result
in arrangements of a very liberal spirit.

H.M. steam gun-vessel Vigilant arrived at
Malta on the 13th from the fleet under the com-
mand of Lord Lyons, which she left at Algiers.
The fleet was expected off Malta harbour about
the 20th, on its way to the lonian Islands. The
Vigilant is placed at the disposal of the Rear-
Admiral Superintendent for the conveyance of
Indian despatches.

INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY, 10 A. M.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Colombo, Captain Field, has just arrived, with the
ludia, China, and Australian
She made the Needles at 10 o'clock last night,
but was detained for a pilot, and anchored there
all night.
The Colombo left Alexandria, Sept. 12th ; Malta,
15th; and Gibraltar, 19th.
She has 184 passengers, of whom 56 are children.
Among them are Col. Lennox, wife, and daughter.
The Colonel belonged to the 22d Regiment at
Fyzebad, in Oude ; only a sergeant of Artillery and
the Colonel escaped. The passengers include a
large number of late residents in India.
The Colombo also brings 4,8001. in specie, and
cargo of gum,.silks, shawls, arc.
Among the passengers is a lady who escaped from
Delhi with four children and a dog. The fugitives
report being all well treated by the merchants at
Calcutta, and supplied with money to send them
on immediately on the Colomb;s arrival. Captain
Field received a letter from the Relief Fund Com-
mittee, through the Peninsular and Oriental Com-
pany, authorising him to render the passengers
overt' relief and assistanoe.

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.

The steamship North American, Captain Grange,
belonging to the Montreal Ocean Steamship Com-
pany, arrived in the river this afternoon from Que-
bec; which port she left on the 12th inst., with the
usual mails and 106 passengers.
The Chicago Press, speaking of the Hudson's
Bay monopoly, says : " Let the Canadian govern-
ment be extended over its territories, and they will
be at once opened to a large immigration, thus fur-
nishing homes to hundreds of thousands of the peo-
ple of the United Kingdom who are longing to bet-
ter their condition, and adding immensely to the
prosperity and importance of Canada."
A requisition is in course of signature in London,
C.W.,-calling a meeting for othe purpose of consi-
dering the propriety of urging the annexation of
the Hudson's Bay territory to Canada, and for the
expression of opinion as to the most suitable loca-
lity for the future seat of government.
Complaints of the failure of the potato crop are
becoming very general, and there is little prospect
of the yield being so good as was anticipated.
The Toronto Lender says :—" We believe it is
true that the speedy return of Sir Edmund He id
to Canada may be looked for. It is probable that
Attorney-General Macdonald has already sailed
for Canada. The return of the Hon. J. Ross may,
we presume, be looked for before the end of this
month."
It is =aid that the Hon. Mr. Filmore, late Presi-
dent of the United States, is about to marry a lady
of Montreal.
The Toronto Co/onist says the investments in un-
productive real estates in Upper Canada, during
the last four years, have absorbed seven millions of
pounds.
James Stewart, one of the seamen on beard the
Eliz tbeth Anne Bright, from Liverpool, died from
cruelties received on board the vessel on her outward
passage to Quebec. The coroner's jury returned a
verdict of " manslaughter" against Michael Keenan,
the boatiwain, and declared " that John Olive, the
commander of the Elizabeth Anne Bright, is highly
censurable for neglecting to provide the deceased
James Stewart with the necessary care during his
illness, and in not sending him to hospital imme-
diately on arriving in the port of Quebec.
A return of the number of inimigrants arrived at
the port of Quebec to the 11th September, 1856
and 1857, has been published, from which it ap-
pears that 8,914 more immigrants arrived at Que-
bec in 1857 than in 1856.

COMMERCIAL.
QUEBEC, September 12.
We have seldom seen a fortnight during which the
transactions in our port in the great staple of our trade
have been on such a limited scale. In red pine, oak, and
elm, we have no change to remark. Standard staves
are accumulating, and may be quoted at 521. 10s., while
West India are in demand at 161. 103. to 171. Deals are
rather declining, floated having been sold in the raft at
121. 10,. for late, with a proportionate price for 2nds
and 3rde. Bright are not much inquired for unless for
good specifications in consequence of the unsatisfactory
state of the market in England. Freights are duller
than they were, and a good many vo,.sels are offering.
28a. for Liverpool, 34g. for London, 30a. for the Clyde,
34e. for Belfast, and 335. for Fleetwood, may be consi-
dered as the ratee.

Sir George and Lady Holistoun-Boawall have arrived
at Maurigy's Hotel, from, a tour,

R INDI

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It is not very unusual, says the Paris correspon-
dent of the Times (second edition), for persons of
a sanguine and imaginative temperament to
dwell upon an hypothesis until they fancy it
proved, and proceed to reason upon it as ear-
nestly as if it /ware an established and incontro-
vertible fact. Au instance of this sort has
lately occurred in the case of a -portion of the
French press, which, while considering, and per-
haps exaggerating, the extent of our Indian difficu'.
ties, and at the same time underrating our means
of surmounting them, has come to the hasty con-
clusion that, sooner or later, we shall have to seek
aid from France, and has even got so far as t'
' speculate on the terms upon which it may be
granted. On the part of the Legitimist papers there
was nothing astonishing in this unfriendly haste to
profit by a neighbour's misfortunes to drive a good
bargain, but it may well excite surprise when the
friendly Siecle out-Herods our habitual foes in its
desire to make of England's difficulty France's
opportunity. The most rabid of our opponents,
when anticipating, without the slightest grounds,
an application from Englaudfor succour, stipulated
terms usurious enough, and at one stroke of its
catholic quill, swept us out of the Mediterranean ;
but at least it gave us something in return for -
Malta, Gibraltar, and the rest. A French army
was to go and re-establish us in our Oriental
possessions. Of course we felt a proper amount
of gratitude. We by no means underrate the
value of the proffered aid, nor doubt that in Hin-
dostan, as in the Crimea, and wherever they have
fought, the French would prove themselves most gal-
lant and useful soldiers. But there is such a thing as
waiting till you are asked, and of this we may re-
mind those who appear to forget the history of the
present century, and the power and resources dis-
ployed by Great Britain when opposed to Europe
combined against her by one master-mind and
seemingly resistless hand. They may be quite
sure that the British nation, since, then enormously
increased in numbers and wealth, has lost none of
its energy or patriotism, and that by the exertion
of these it is well able, without seeking foreign
assistance, to vanquish even greater difficulties
than the. very serious ones that have arisen in the
East.

THAMES.

T Y AND THE POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (This Day.
FRENCH PRESS.

THE POPLAR BOARD OF WORKS.—In this case the
complainants were the Board of Works for poplar,
which sought to recover a sum of 421. ls. 6J. from
Messrs. Wedrel and Knight, highly respectable licensed
victuallers, Millwall, and the proprietors of the Iron•
monger's Arms, that which were costs arising ,from
works done by the Board, fur repairing and restoring a
iea wall, which bad been cut through by the defendants,
who were bailding several houses adjoining. The clues'
tion resolved itself into one of jurisdiction.
Mr. Yardley, who had given a most patient hearing to
the case, and which had been several times adjourned;
wished the case to be submitted to a superior court.
Mr. Morris, clerk to the Board, contended that the
magistrate had jurisdiction ; and Mr. Beck, solicitor
for the Ironmonger's Company, on whose estate the
wall was, asserted that the Metropolitan Commissioners
were the parties who alone bad jurisdiction.
After hearing the arguments of the solicitors on both
sides,
Mr. Yardley took down the main points in the case,
for the purpose of submitting them to the Court of
Queen's Bench, observing that it was a case of much
Importance to all hawkers. He would give every
facility to the case being decided.
Mr. Morris remarked he should have to serve a
notice upon him, Mr. Yardley, if he dismissed the

summons.
Mr. Yardley replied that he should do so, sp,d
asked what was the amouot of cost claimed by tvi°
Board.

Mr. Morris replied 421. is. GI -
Mr. Beck replied that the cost included legal expen"g
and counsels fees which he thought the thard ought tic'
to claim. The actual cost was 261. 19s.
Mr. Yardley said he should only allow that amount'
Mr. Beck then asked for costs for the defendant which
were allowed.
The parties then left the court.