The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-29 00:00:00

TRE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC 111 AILS

The exports of saltpetre from Iquique since
January last amount to upwards of 616,000 quintals.
At Valparaiso exchange en London, 90 days, was
quoted 44-1 ; Paris, 455; Hamburgh, no transactions.
Bar silver, 15 75 per mare. Copper, dole. 17 50
per 100 lb.

At Demerara the weather was wet. A dry season
was anxiously looked for by the planters. Two
ships had arrived with immigrants from China.
Produce was scarce. Shipping abundant. The
Guiana Bank had declared a dividend for the half-
year at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum.
The crop at Barbadoes was nearly finished. It
was expected to reach 50,000 hhds. of sugar. Ex-
change,
30 days', dols. 490.

The news from Trinadad is unimportant. 'The
Jamaica Legislature had been prorogued pro forma
until September. The anniversary of the emanci-
pation was being celebrated peaceably and quietly.
The question of cotton growing was being prac-
tically tested, and cultivation spiritedly taken up.
Business was excessively dull. The demand for
imports was limited. The quarterly return of revenue
is £4,550 less than last quarter. The coffee crop was
nearly closed, but the supply in the market was
limited. Inferior, 425. to 445. ; mountain, 48s. to
50s. Pimento none at market. The coming crop is
small. Sugar sales at 15s. to 18s. ; inferior, 12s. to
14s. Freights scarce. American gold scarce. The
banks demand 11 per cent. above the island standard
value.

Exchange on London, 90 days, f per cent. prem. ;
60 days, 1 ; 30 days, 13.

LECTUI?E THE QRSZNI CONSPIRACY
13Y CARLO DE RUDIO.

On Monday evening Carlo De Rudio, one of the
men who joined with Orsini in the attempt to
assassinate the Emperor Napoleon 111., in January,
1858, delivered a lecture in Birmingham on the con-
spiracy and the subsequent sufferings of the lecturer,
as a prisoner at Toulon and Cayenne, together with
his escape from the latter place in a small boat, on
the 9th of December, 1859. The attendance was
not large. The chair was taken by Mr. Henry
Dorman, who, in opening the proceedings, said he
knew the people of Birmingham would, when ad-
dressed by a man who done well for his country,
and for the world at large, listen to him, and bid
him God speed in his noble and heroic
enterprise. They had not come together in
secret to conspire, but had met openly to listen
to the history of one who had done and
suffered indescribable things, in consequence of
struggling for our common humanity ; one who
deserved well of his country, and who deserved
well of the inhabitants of Birmingham. (Cheers.)
As Englishmen it was our glory to have a stand-
up fight, to face our opponent, tell him our wrongs
and demand our rights, but he could conceive the
possibility of the case of a man, or of the case of a
nation, being such as to be driven to the very last
act of desperation, and to either have an honour-
able death or a glorious and permanent victory.
(Applause.) Mr. Dorman then entered into a long
dissertation on the character and intentions of the
Emperor of the French, suggestibg as a possible
explanation of the coolness reported to exist at pre-
sent between France and Austria a desire on the
part of Napoleon to learn whether, by picking an-
other quarrel with Austria, he would be able to get
the Island of Sardinia. He concluded by introduc-
ing to the audience M. de Rudio, a young man of
pleasing appearance, who was received with loud
and prolonged applause.
M. de RUDIO commenced by giving a brief sketch
of his early life up to the 14th of March, 1848,
which found him a student in the Milan Military
Academy. On that day the people of Milan rose
against the Austrians. Rudio was one of the first
Italian students to join the insurgents, and after
five days of continuous bloodshed, the Austrians
were driven from the city, and he afterwards went
to Venice and Rome as a volunteer in the cause of
Italian liberty. After the struggle for liberty had
been defeated he joined Mazzini, by whom he was
employed on many missions of danger into the cities
held by the Austrians in Italy, of which the
reward would have been death or torture by the
Austrian police, if discovered, while if there were
other missions in which there was no danger,
and a chance of filling one's pockets out of;
why there were always good patriots ready
enough to take them. It was in 1853, when hiding
from pursuit in the Julian Alps that he first corn-
ceived the idea of ridding the world of the man who
he thought had been the cause of all their troubles,
for had Napoleon not interfered in the affairs of
Rome the fire of liberty would in a short time have
made such a conflagration that all the tyrants in
Europe could not have quenched it, andltaly would
have been free, not from the Alps to the Adriatic
only, but from one end to the other. In 1854 he
was taken at Zurich by the Swiss authorities, and
for a second time expelled from Switzerland and
shipped off to England, where he arrived with six-
pence in his pocket. He suffered much, as a letter
he had written to Mazzini, asking that the Repub-
lican Committee should be directed to assist him,

was not even answered. Mazzini was thought in
England to be a true patriot, but in Italy it was
known that his motives were not pure love of his
country; while his cruelty was shown by his treating
in such a heartless manner one who had been his most

faithful and well-proved assistant. The lecturer
passed briefly over the period intervening between
the end of 1857, when Bernard met.
.him, and he
was informed of the project of
.Orsi.ni. Upon its
being agreed that if he fell his wife and child
should be cared for by the committee,,
w hheerleefhteLmonet-
don on January 9, 1858,. for Paris
Orsini; Bernard. having only given him fourteen
francs and a ticket, though he had a larger sum
that he ought to have handed over. Bernard was
expected in Paris, together with some other men,
to join in the attack, but like many men who
thought they were conspirators, and who would
join the secret societies and take the oath, when
the hour of danger came he was absent. On
the evening of the 14th of January, Orsini,
Pierre, Gomez, and himself, each having a bomb, a
poignard, and a loaded revolver, set out on their
enterprise, and though there were only four of them
instead of ten came forward, had not one of the four
,
been a fool and another a coward, the butcher of
the Boulevards" would have met his death. Pierre
got apprehended before the carriage came, Gomez
threw the first shell too soon, and out of time he
threw the second shell, and after about two minutes
Orsini threw the third. He (Rudio) then cocked
his revolver, and creeping towards the carriage of
the Emperor on his bands and knees, determined
that if he had escaped the shells he would shoot
down " the curse of Rome," when he heard the
sound of approaching cavalry, and a regiment of
Lancers came rapidly along the street. To escape
being trodden under the horses' hoofs he had to stand
back, and the carriage was at once surrounded by
troops. He (Rudio) then thought it was time to look.
out for his own safety, and he went to the place of
rendezvous, but found there none of his companions.
He then went to the railway station, where he in-
tended to take the train to Bordeaux, and thence go
by sea to Oporto, but the train had just gone. He
then went back to his hotel, where he was take.n
into custody. The lecturer went into the details of
his examinations and trial with great minuteness,
and stated that it was not until the executioner had
made his toilet and he was preparing to walk to the
guillotine that he was informed his punishment had
been commuted to transportation for life. He was
afterwards imprisoned for six months at Toulon,
where he was treated in the most brutal manner by
the governor. At the end of that time be was pre,-
mised his liberty on condition of giving up t, ile
names of the other conspirators, but this he refu itsed
to do, and he was therefore sent to Cayenne, where
he arrived in December, 1858.
At this point Rudio paused, and a man 'named
Thomas Wright said the subject of the lecture had
been associated by some with itsmsinotlon, but'

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY.
The Royal Mail steamship Shannon, Captain Ab-
bott, with the above mails, arrived here this even-
ing. She left St. Thomas on the 14th instant. She
brings 162passeng.rs, 1,862,384 dols. in specie, and
1960 packages of cargo.
Intelligence from Carthagena state that General
Mosquera had obtained a decisive triumph over the
Centralist army and had occupied the city of Bogota
destroying entirely the entrenched army which de-
fended it. Generals Espina, Posada, and Paris were
taken prisoners. Marino, Ospina, and their Presi-
dent were also prisoners.
The British ship Lord Hungerford foundered at
sea on the let of June. The crew were saved. The
British ship Santiago had been in collision with
another vessel off Cape Horn. Calling at the
vanes Islands she sailed for England to repair dam-
ages, her bow compartment being full of water.
There is nothing new from Chili. The commercial
crisis continued.

In Bolivia the friends of General Pelzu express
dissatisfaction with the government of General
Acha. The army was being increased.
No news of interest from Peru.
Two shocks• of earthquake were experienced at
Panama on the sth,