The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-16 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Independance makes the following important
statement :—" According to our last accounts from
the South of Italy, we may expect to see the opera-
tions against the Bourbonian reaction assume a
more serious character, and if we are to credit
what is stated to us from Turin, the day is near
at hand at which the Roman territory will cease
to be, as churches and convents formerly were, an
inviolable asylum for the malefactors whom the
camarilla of Rome has hitherto employed with im-
punity to create disturbances in the Neapolitan
provinces. We are informed that General Cialdini
recently wrote to Baron Ricasoli to declare for-
mally that the extirpation of brigandage will be
impossible. So long as the brigands can obtain
impunity by crossing the Pontifical frontier with-
out being followed by the Italian soldiers,
and that the idea of pacifying the south of
Italy must be abandoned if that frontier is to
continue to be for the Italian army a barrier
which it dare not pass. He, in consequence, soli-
cited authorisation to follow into the Roman
States the bands which may seek a refuge there.
Baron Ricasoli naturally hesitated to give such
permission without a previous understanding with
the Cabinet of the Tuileries, but with his ordi-
nary frankness he represented the matter in its
true light to the French Government, and it is
said that he has succeeded in obtaining from it a
promise that the Italian troops shall not encounter
any opposition from the French army under General
de Goyon, in the event of the necessities of the war
they are making against the brigands taking them
beyond the present limits of the kingdom of Italy.
Instructions in this spirit have, it is added, already
been forwarded to General de Goyon and General
Cialdini."

The Madrid journals of the 11th do not contain
any political news of importance. The Contem-
poraneo had been again condemned to a fine of
20,000 reals, for publishing a seditious article.

AMERICA.

QUEENSTOWN, AUG. 15.

The Glasgow has arrived with the United States
mail. She passed the Great Eastern on the 13th
inst.

NEW YORK, AUG. 3.

General Pillow has issued a proclamation stating
that he will drive the Federals from Missouri. He
has promised Governor Jackson to send 20,000
Confederates into that State.

The escaped Federal prisoners state that General
Beauregard intends to remain on the defensive,
and is fortifying Fairfax.
The Missouri Convention has appointed a provi-
sional Governor and State officers.
Governor Wise and force have retired from
Western Virginia, leaving behind them 1,000 mus-
kets and kegs of powder in the hands of the
Federals.

Prince Napoleon has arrived at Washington.
Congress has passed a bill levying a duty of 3c.
on cocoa, 2c. on chicory, 1 dol. 25c. per gallon on
brandy, and 50c. per gallon on other spirits; also,
an ad valorem duty of 50 per cent. on wine. The
ad valorem duty on silks has been raised to 40 per
cent.

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING.

The North German Lloyd's screw steamship New
York, Captain G. Weake, which left New York on
the 3d inst., arrived off Cowes at midnight, and
went on to Bremen, after transmitting mails, &c.,
for this port. She brings 136 passengers, of whom
33 are for Southampton and Havre, and the re-
mainder, with 1,000 dols. in specie and 1,000 tons
of cargo, for Bremen. The weather on the passage
was very changeable, with southerly winds and
high seas, and, during the last two days, foggy.

The Fulton, steamer, from Havre and South-
ampton, was off Cape Race on the morning of the
2d inst.

The following vessels were spoken by the New
York—Aug. 3, off the battery, the American ship
Hemisphere, just arrived; 7th, in lat. 43.26 N.,
long. 51.45 W., the American ship Kiddy Simpson,
steering to the eastward ; 13th, in lat. 49.45 N.,
long. 16 25 W., the Bremen schooner Georg and
American ship William Frothingham, both bound
to the westward; 15th, the English ship 2P.
9412, and the Bremen bark Oukel, both bound
to the westward, off the Start.

ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT EASTERN.
LIVERPOOL, AUG. 15.
The Great Eastern arrived at her moorings in
the Mersey at 8.30 this evening.
She left Quebec at four o'clock on the morning
of the 6th inst., and was detained about 12 hours
crossing the bars in the river St. Lawrence.
The Great Eastern brings no news whatever
from the United States. She passed Farther Point
on the offshore during the night.

She has 241 cabin and 125 steerage passengers.

VALUE OF BUILDING LAND AT TUNBRIDGE-
WELLS.—The forty-fifth land purchase of the Conservative
Land Society, being the fifth hi West Kent, has just been
made at Tunbridge-wells. Th 3 increasing demand for
houses (Tunbridge-wells by the new rail way communications
being within a shorter run of the metropolis even than
Brighton) has induced the society to acquire this eligible
building property, which adjoins the Woodbury-park estate,
belonging to the same society. It has a largo frontage to
the New Queen's-road, is close to the church of St John,
built on a site presented. by the society, within a short dis-
tance of the railway station, and immediately adjoining the
most picturesque promenades of Tunbridge-wells. The
Woodbury-park estate was one of the earliest purchases of
the society, and has proved ono of the best, completely
establishing the advantage of holding properties over for a
certain number of years w:th the cartainty that the building
time must come round. Of that large estate but a small
quantity now remains unsold. In, the present year two
allotments have taken place, and the land has been pur-
chased with the greatest avidity. Fresh communications
have been opened all through the estate with an excellent
system of drainage, connected with that formed by the town
commission. The value of land at this pleasant watering
place has quadrupled in the last ten years.