The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-03 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The French Senate met yesterday at 2 o'clock,
and held an extraordinary sitting. The order of
the day consisted of, Ist, the admission of new
senators; 2d, communication of a project of senatus-
consulte.

The Debats publishes the text of the project :

"Article 1. The budget of expenses is presented
to the Legislative Body, with its divisions in sec-
tions, chapters, and articles. The budget of each
Ministry is voted by section conformably to the order
annexed to the present Senatus•Consulte. The divi-
sion by cl'.apters of the credits granted for each Minis-
terial department is regulated by a decree of the Em-
peror rendered in a Council of State. Special decrees
rendered in the same form may authorise the trans-
fer (virement) of one chapter to another in the bud-
get of each Ministerial department.
" Art. 2. No supplementary or extraordinary
credits can be granted except by virtue of our law.
Nothing is done against the Enactments of the
existing laws insomuch as they concern the expenses
of the budgets closed still due, the expenses of de-
partments, communes, local expenses, and the funds
subscribed (fonds de contours) for the expenses of
the public interests.

"Art. 3. Articles 11 and 12 of th© Senatus-Con-
suite of the 25th December, 1852, are modified in so
much as they may be contrary to the present Sena-
tits Consulte."

BOURSE, DEC. 2, Two o'clock.—The operations
of the settlement have proceeded without any mate
rial difficulty, and prices, for the end of the month,
have been maintained at about the closing rates of
Saturday, Threes being now 69f. 35c.
Three o'Clock.—The following are the last quo-
tations:—

4/ per per Cents ... 95 15 j Credit Foncier llBO
Do end month.... 95 40 Belgian 4/ lOO
3 per Cents
Do. end month 69 35! Roman —
Bank Shares 2965 —1 Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 742 50 J Spanish Threes —
Do. Account 743 75 ; Home Debt

RAILWAYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans 1332 50 .. 1335 ..
Northern
New ditto - . 915
Lyons and Mediterranean 1025 1027 50
Geneva.. 345 347 50
Southern 660 .. 661 50
Western
Eastern
Sardinian 350
Austrian
Lombard ......... 517 50 .. 513 75

ITALY.

A communication from Rome has the following :

" The following is an account of the last affair of
Isoletta. The brigands crossed the Liri at Fontana,
and though they wore seen by four national guards,
the latter, instead of giving an alarm, secreted
themselves in a hut. The brigands were, conse-
quently, able to reach Isoletta without striking a
blow. The sentinel on duty there was a Neapoli-
tan soldier, and though he was attacked by several
of the brigands there, he defended himself bravely;
he shot down one of them, and wounded, with his
bayonet, some others, but he was at last killed him-
self. Before he expired he embraced a little flag
which he had in his sentry box, and cried Long
liveltaly !' Another sentinel and three other
soldiers, were murdered before the fort of Isoletta.
A sergeant, named Colelli, of Brescia, was in the
fort with twelve men ; but as the building was not
completed, and as the windows being open, afforded
easy ingress to the assailants, he and his men took
to flight by a back door, and crossed the bridge
over the Liri under the fire of the brigands. When
he was out of reach he had only six men, one hav-
ing been murdered, another, who was wounded,
having fallen into the Liri and been drowned,
and the four others having been taken by the
brigands and shot by order of their chief.
This chief was not Chiavone, who did not take part
in the affair, but a young man, about thirty years
old, with fair hair, and of high stature, who was
dressed in black, and wore a Calabrian hat, and was
called the Major. It was afterwards ascertained
that he was a Belgian, the Marquis de Trafignies.
He had by his side a notorious assassin named
Mattei. After Isoletta the brigands ascended the
mountains, and attacked San Giovanni Incarico.
There were in that place only forty infantry soldiers,
under the orders of Captain Tecchio, and they- fell
back towards Pico. Before they had gone far they
met a company of the 43d Reg. hastening to the
place and returned with them to San Giovanni;
the total force was 120 men. Although the bri-
gands had only been half an hour in the village,
they had burned down several of the principal
houses. They had, it was stated, intended to
destroy another, but had consented to spare it on
the intercession of one of their band, an ex-Bour-
bonian lancer, who when in garrison in the village
had been well treated by the owners of it. The
brigands afterwards proceeded to pillage other
houses, but on hearing the trumpet of the Italians
they cried out Fly ! Fly and ran off as fast as
they could. M. do Trafignies, who had com-
manded the pillage, and had threatened with a
revolver of six barrels the woman who prayed that
their houses might be spared, was, on the arrival
of the Italians, in the house of one Santoro, where
with great fury he was breaking everything within
his reach. He did not hear the Italian trumpet,
and was captured. He was taken before Major
Savini, who had arrived with reinforcements: and
by his order, being tried by a Court Martial formed
of the officers present, was condemned to death.
Half an hour was allowed him to arrange his affairs,
and confess to a priest ; but he could not at first
believe that he was to be shot. He refused to
address a letter to his family, as he was recom-
mended to do, but he wrote in the pocket book
of Captain Teccio, am Alfred de Trafignies, of
Namur, cousin of the Marchesa Montalto, am-
bassadress of Italy in Belgium.' On searching
him some papers relative to Chiavone's band, a
letter from his sister, the portrait of a lady, and
a lock of hair were found. When the time
allowed him had expired he was placed against
a wall. He turned round to speak to an officer
who was near, but at the same moment the
command Fire ! ' was given, and a ball struck
him in the head, causing him to fall dead. The
deceased was the nephew of Marshal St. Arnaud,
and of M. de Merode• He had left Rome in a
carriage, and ordered it to wait for him at
Veroli."

Mr. and Mrs. Tollemache have been entertaining
a succession of visitors during the last fortnight at Peck-
forton Castle, Cheshire.

lITE MAGAZINES.

The Dublin,.

" The House by the Churchyard" is continued,
and it is very entertaining in this instalment. The
lovers of genuine fun will delight in the poisoning
scene and the passage at arms afterwards. Pud-
dock, with the best intentions, concocted some won-
derful compound for his friend o•Flaherty which
was to be applied outwardly, but in the flurry of
an agitated moment the unhappy patient swallowed
a small bag, containing the deleterious mixture.
In the excitement of the _crisis they called in a doc-
tor who made bad worse, and gave the sufferer for
mental anxiety some vile stuff that gave him phy-
sical torment and was the cause of much confusion
on the field where the affair of honour was to be
settled. The scenes altogether are admirably de-
scribed, and it is impossible to overrate the sense
of wit and humour which pervades these ludicrous
events. Mrs. Becky Chattesworth is another
good character, and altogether this portion of
the tale is first-rate, and a great improvement
on the previous parts. The ability displayed in
this striking story i 3 a great advantage to the
readers of this periodical. There is a very sensible
article called "A Remonstrance against Strikes,"
which contains much to improve and enlighten
these whom it concerns. The forcible and yet
temperate language in which the writer speaks of
the suicidal policy and the detrimental agency of
this egregious blunder and often great crime is very
impressive, and a more able advocate of a good
cause could hardly be found than the composer of
these few pages on this insidious evil which strikes
at the root of labour and undermines the stronghold
of capital. This passage forcibly illustrates the
fallacy of the procedure in many instances where
" those who conquer do not win, nor those receive
who gain."