The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-10 00:00:00

May 24, at eleven, and June 21, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy.
Abraham Harris, tobacconist, Shoreditch, May 23, at
half-past one; and June 21, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy.
John Smith, Patrick O'Neill, and Henry Dawe Leaman.'
warehousemen, Milk-street, City, May 21, at one, and June
19, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria.
cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the Bth day
of May, 1861:

ISSUE DEPAIITMENT.
Notes issuedi.aara26,l9o,7oo Government Debt 411,025,100
Other Securities .. 3,459,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 11,302,248
Silver Bullion .... 713,452

X 26,490,700;

£26,00,700

Proprietors' Ca i pANKING D
to B
X 14.553,000
Rest
Public DepOsiis (in- 3,214,842
eluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
1 Banks, Commis-
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-
Oth counts) .......... 6,083,595
Seven Daer Depositsa and
.. t. 12,070,911
other Bilisy ..... 636,172 ,

;PARTMENT.
Government Secu-

rates (including
DeadWeightAn-
nuity) £10,272,938
Other Securities 19,141,648
Notes- 8,316,016
Gold and Silver
Coin 857,91%)

x 36,5873,520
Dated mar 9, 1861. la. 3

£3e,588,52
RS HA LI., Chief Cashier.

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from Returns made in the week ending the NI day
of May, 1861, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great
Britain :

Muscovado, the produce of the British pos- PER CWT.
sessions in America
Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius .. 288 44
Muscovado, the;produce of the East Indies.. 198 72(1
Average price of the foregoing .. .. 26s 1014
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—THIS DAY.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 19 11 191
Antwerp
Brussels — 24 50 25 55
flaraturgh
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles — 25 521 25 57t
Frankfort on Maine — 1181 118 f
Vienna
Trieste -..- 14 95 15 0
Petersburgh — - 334. 33}
Berlin
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples
Palermo
Messina ..
Lisbon
Oporto
Rio Janeiro
New York — • . a.
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard)....per oz. £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars 0,••• .. 0 0 0
Silver in Bars (Standard) .. ,, 00 0
South American Doublons

48
48
25 5
25 60
25 60
391
1171
117 i
62i
624

49
49f
25 75
25 65
26 65
39#
118
118
52f
53

THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT.

(From a Correspondent of the Times.)

TURIN, MAY 7.
The die is cast, and Naples must supply 36,000
men to the Italian army. A little more than 12
months ago-Italian patriots of a sarguine cast flat-
tered themselves that the annexation of the Two
Sicilies to the North and centre of the
Peninsula was sure at once to double the national
forces. The illusion was soon generally dispelled.
The Bourbon army, though it proved but a feeble
stay to the falling dynasty, turned out also some-
thing worse than useless to the new rulers. Not
10,000 of those men and officers are now in the
King's army. It was one vast brigand mass, and
broke up into small marauding parties. Even as
robbers and murderers those wretched instruments

of priests and tyrants are only formidable to petty
communities off their guard ; they are wolvesmerely
to open and unwatched folds ; a few Piedmontese
battalions and carabineers will soon give a good
account of them.

Up to the present moment therefore the two
Southern kingdoms, it may be said, were hardly able
to supply one regular soldier to the national war.
Luckily, the national war is indefinitely put off,
and by the time it breaks out Naples and Sicily
must end will be ready with their contingent. Italy
may look upon the actual military establishments
of those two kingdoms as a blank, but it must not
continue so one day longer.
You remember that the Minister for War, Gen.
Fanti, had presented a bill for the levy of 18,000
men in the Neapolitan provinces. That bill, accord-
ing to rule, has been discussed in the bureaux, and
a commission appointed by them, and the result is
that Parliament found out a mistake in the Minis-
ter's calculations, by which it became clear that the
debt Naples owed to the common country was not
of 18,000 men, but twice that number. To under.
stand this difference, which must of course be irre-
levant to English readers, we must bear in mind
that the Minister proposed to call out those recruits
who, having been enlisted by the Bourbon Govern-
ment in the conscriptions of the years 1836 to 1841,
had been allowed to stay at home, but were still
held liable to be summoned to the service. The
Neapolitan recruits were thus kept at the call of
the State for seven years, from the 18th to the 25th
of their life, and such number of them were
draughted out yearly as Government wanted. By
an application of the old Neapolitan law of the
categories, as they are called, of, the abovenamed
years, the present Administration is entitled to call,
not 18,000 men, as Fanti misreckoned, but 36,000
under the standards.
Most of the Neapolitan deputies deserve great
praise for the patriotism with which they not only
pointed out the mistake of the minister, but also
evinced the utmost zeal for the furtherance of the
Government views on this subject. Not only did

they h
lesoeght cheerfully to pay her
sacred
sister provinces which
uffe
redd i c
those
Italianopr her, and bear a hand in those
fit
et
an
debt
that
t bled
le Na
further efforts which are to achieve the great na-
tional work, but they expressed their conviction
that in a country like theirs military conscription
is the most powerful and immediate means of popu-
lar education and civilisation, and that no greater
benefit can be conferred upon those lazy, degraded,
and brutalized populations than Ciat of removing
the young and able-bodied from among them, and
subjecting them to a training and discipline which
will not only improve them mentally and morally,
but eventually send them back as models of rege-
nerated beings among their countrymen. And,
truly, the Sardinian—now the Italian—army is in
every sense a school, almost the best school in the
country.

There were two or three Neapolitan members of

the Chambers, however,--democratic membersitlhoenY
called themselves, too,—who opposed the
the ground that, in the present state ofag:i
neon-
and disorder, a conscription would creatences,and
trollable discontent in the Neapolitan ;trey
advised
give rise to dangerous outbreaks. T
bill till order w
' corv' se
overruled
a tillb
was the postponement of the
national question
tho-
roughly restored, and the great
was completely
as to the unity or dualism of Italy
Neapolitans should
settled—that is, they thoug
do 00 ' every
not be called touponrwas
removed.
apprehension of
ottlahtib°' yil
These objections
R. .
words of General ixio, who, aptly
the generoniecenductof the Frenchwar
revolutionary
contrasting .
'
Government of 1789 With
G°ve that of the decrepit
oligarchy of
Venetian the same period, contended
that a State which in great emergencies shows any
' remissness or hesitation in ' the
national armament
is only hastening its ignominious downfall; and by
Count Cavour, who laughed to scorn the idea of
any serious resistance to the Government's will on
the part of the Neapolitan population, and contended
that the Government had hitherto been too gene
rally charged with lack of energy and determine-

tion, but was now bent on establishing its authority
on the firmest footing, and felt perfectly confident
of unlimited success on that score.

FISHING IN Loch TAY.—The fishing season in
Lech Tay since it opened has been unproductive with nets,
and the takes generally have been poor compared with
former years, especially in the month of February and
March. The number of salmon killed with the rod during
the last six weeks, however, has been large, particularly
about Auchmore and the west end Several gentlemen
have caught in the course of a few hours from five to oil,
fish each, weighing from 181 b to 351 b. Eight salmon
at Auchmore on Friday last weighed altogether 14111.
Owing to the continued drought thelDechart, LoohY, and
other streams which flow into the loch kayo Inconact very
shallow,