The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-02 00:00:00

GARIBALDI AT CARRERA.

Alexandre Dumas publishes in his joureal, the
indipendente, the following details of Garibaldi at
Caprera :
General Garibaldi left Naples with only 10
piasters in his pocket, or to speak more correctly,
in the pocket of Basso, his secretary. General
Garibaldi's pocket, quite the contrary to nature,
which has the horror of a vacuum, has a horror of
a plenum. On the observation made to him by
Basso and his son, that the sum he was taking with
him could not last long, the general answered :
" The harvest has been good, we shall therefore
have some corn ; and the kitchen garden was very
promising in the spring. I left seven horses with
Trecchi to sell, we can wait then for the next cam-
paign. Be satisfied." They embarked on the faith
of these words—confidence in the mission ended,
confidence in the mission to come. So he started.
Om arriving at Caprera, instead of that pretended
palace and rich gardens of Armida presented to him
by the French journals, and even the official jour-
nal of Naples, he found the mason who in his ab-
sence had repaired his house, and was waiting for
him at the landing-place of the steamer to present
him with a paper. Garibaldi took the paper,
opened it, and found a bill to pay. The bill was
more than ten piastres ; the general found himself
compelled to confess his poverty and asked the man
for time, but the latter refused to believe in the
poverty of the modern Cincinnatus:
" You have bean the dictator, which is more than
Than a king, of the two kingdoms," said he to him;
" it is not possible you have not put apart two and
twenty piastres." The General assured him of the
contrary, and offered him his ten piastres as an in-
stalment. The mason would not accept them, and
summoned the general before the tribunals. The
affair is still cora??? judice. Do not let it be thought
we are joking; it's the simple truth. In the
meantime the general entered the house. The
work for which the mason asked payment of him
was so badly done that in his sleeping room it
rains as it does in the street. The general took
advantage of one of the steamers from Rubattino
to send for another mason from Genoa, as the first
would not work for him without being paid for
his previous job.
If any details are wanted about the general's
house and furniture, we can give theme
house consists of a ground floor, divided i. The
nine rooms. In the hall, used as a dining-room,
the general's room is to the right; the cis-
tern is over this room, so that the general is be-
tween the dampness of the ceiling and the rain
pouring in from the roof. He is very fond of his
rooms and no human power could make him give it
up. To the left is Menotti's and Frascianti's room;
after which comes Gusmaroli's, then that of the
farmer and his family, consisting of father, mother,
and two children. From the farmer's room you
pass into the kitchen behind, from the kitchen into
the storeroom, into Basso's room, which is used by
other guests also. In the middle there is a dark
chamber with a spiral staircase, up which you
ascend to the terrace. The furniture in the general's
room consists of a wooden bedstead and two mat-
tresses, a small wooden table placed near the bed,
and covered with an old piece of green baize.
Before the table there is a chair, which has only its
legs left, for the rungs are wanting. Two chests of
drawers, and a library containing some works on
history and military matters, complete the furni-
ture. This library will be increased by a " Manual
of Agriculture," consisting of seven or eight illus-
trated volumes. A portrait of the general's
daughter, taken when she was four years old, is the
principal ornament of the room. Above the general's
head is a locket, containing some of Anita's hair,
and some of Garibaldi's mother's. Near it is
Vecchi's picture ; a nail, extracted from a box,
keeps the frame close to the wall, and also
serves the general to hang his watch on.
Near the window hangs a looking-glass that once
belonged to his mother. The chests of drawers con-
tain bed-sheets, towels and napkins, as well as flags
rent by bullets, presents to the general from several
regiments. The other bed-rooms merely contain
iron bedsteads.
The animals on the island are seven or eight
c6ws, a bull, and some calves. The general's
favou:ite cow is called Brunetta, and was brought
from Saidinia. Five asses and two horses form the
,valr

ea .y.
FROM THE oc2ZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

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DOWNING.si3EET, DEC. 31.
The Queen has been pleases: to appoint George Mon-
tague, Esq., to be Deputy SurveyeY-General of the colony
of the Cape of Good Hope.
WHITEHALL, J,.% 1.
The Queen has been pleased to appoiat Sir Henry
Wellwood Monoreiff, Bart., D.D., to be Secretary to her
Majesty's sole and only Master Printers in Scotland, in
the room of Dr. James Robertson, deceased.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, JAN. 1.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge h 9.
been pleased to appoint Captain William Purey Cust to be
one of her Royal Highness's Equerries.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, DEC. 31. ,
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee c''
Privy Council for Trade have received, from the Secreblryr.
of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch b:tnoT•ea
Majt;,,ty's Consul at Naples, enclosing a trent tiOn the
7'itgcvLat and
notice published in the official journal of tch
the following
10th inst., providing that merchants irepoeyr
other cereals for warehousing shallwejen itouses. 2. The
privileges :-1. FaciliL'es for hiri.ungto other Italian ports,
right of re-exporting the t;ll'd if:: at present authorised to
Castellamare Paolo,
or to foreign countries. Tho i'-'' 'es,
have such warehouses are
./Cfp_ .. )
azia Pescara.
Pizzo, Cotrone, Taranto, Broouni
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privyte for Foreign
Council for Trade have received, from the Secretary
of Sta
Affairs, a copy of a French Imperial
Decree, dated the 15th instant, abolishing the prohibition
, of the export of bark for tanning from Algeria.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
George Atkinson, joiner, Branford.

BANKRUPTS.
Aaron Martin Cramp Hodgman, miller, Broadetairs.
William Bryant, tailor, Oxford-street, Middlesex.
William Breut, tanner, Blue Anchor-road, Bermondsey.
Thomas Barton, tanner, Liverpool.
William Grove, licensed victualler, Kingsland-road.
Henry Slater, brewer, Holbeach, Lincolnshire.
Ludvig Levison, merchant, Leamington.
Thomas Edge, gas meter manufacturer, Great Peter-
street, Westminster.
Owen Hewitt, baker, Windsor.
Thomas Flood, hardwareman,
William Hutchins, butcher, Neathsta, Glamorganshire.
George William Kenrick, livery ble keeper, Church-
(street, Hackney.
Alfred Dreplis, opticia;, Ludgate-street, City,

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA.

Mr. Shanly, the general manager, in his report
on the traffic and working of the line for the year
ending the 30th of June last, states that the road
was opened in its entire length on Nov. 21, 1859,
and the number of miles worked since that date was
comprised in the following divisions :—Detroit to
Port Huron, 59 miles ; Sarnia to Portland, 794
miles ; Richmond to Quebec, 96 miles ; and the
London branch, 21 miles; total, 970 miles. The
increased mileage during the year ending as above
was 90 miles. The average number of miles worked
during the year was 9321 miles. The total receipts
for the year ending the 30th of June last amounted
to 2,909,054 dols., and the total expenses to
2,413,774 dols, leaving the net earnings 495,280
dols. The average cost of working the line for the
year was 49 dols 73c per mile per week. The gross
receipts for the year ending June 30, 1860, showed
an increase of 627,733 dols, as compared with those
of the year ending June 30, 1859, and the increase
in the expenditure amounted to 334,644 dols, The
increase in the receipts over the preceding year
was at the rate of 271 per cent, while the increase
in the expenditure did not exceed 1609 per cent.
The management had been charged with grasping
at and fostering the foreign traffic to the neglect
of the local traffic. Every person at all conversant
with railway business knew that the local traffic
was the best paying traffic a road could have. In
refutation of that charge, the report states that the
company's foreign tonnage for the year ending the
30th of June last did not amount to one-sixth part
of their total tonnage. For every ton of merchan-
dise carried for foreigners they carried up-
wards of 61 tons for their own people. The mana-
gers were not so blind to the interests of the com-
pany as to give an undue preference to that class
of business which yielded the smallest profit. To
the through traffic of the Grand Trunk Rail-
way the Detroit and Port Huron section was
an indispensable adjunct, but for reasons he
would mention they were not now taking of
that class of business one-third of what was
offering, and, as a consequence, that portion
of their road was not worked to anything
like its full carrying capacity. In point of gra-
dients and completeness of construction generally,
it stood first among the several sections of the
Grand Trunk Railway, and when supplied with a
proper equipment could be worked at a lower cost
per mile than any other part of the line. Previous
to the 30th of June last the company had neither
engines nor cars of their own on the Detroit see=
tion, but were wholly dependent for working of the
line on hired rolling stock, which of course added
very much to the working expenses. Even now
they did not own in engines and cars suited to the
4 feet 81 inches gauge more than one third of a full
equipment. The average receipts per mile per week
for the year endine. the 30th of June last amounted
to 54 dols 49c, while for the 19 weeks ending the
10th of November they averaged 70 dols 10c per
mile per week. Since the securing of the large
crop of the past season a great improvement in
freight traffic had taken place. There was now
more agricultural merchandise offering than they
had the means of carrying, the deficiency of means
being principally in rolling stock, and, under that
denomination, chiefly in the article of covered
freight cars. With a full equipment of cars and
engines, and with proper appliances for handling
and storing grain in bulk at Toronto, Kingston,
Montreal, and Portland, there would now be
„scarcely any other limits to the business they could
do than were imposed by the limited capacity of a
single line, and by the very small amount of ship-
ping to be counted en at Portland. With a view
to show the deficiency of working stock on the
Grand Trunk line, Mr. Shanly states that the pro. -
portion was one engine to every 42 miles of road ;
and to every mile of road 2.7 freight cars ; while
the Great Western of Canada had an engine for
every 3.9 miles of road, and to every mile 3.4 freight
cars nearly. .The Michigan Central had an engine
for every 3i- miles of road, and to each mile of road
31- cars. So that, according to the proportion on
the Great Western line, th Grand Trunk would
require 31 additional engines and 508 freight
cars, and in accordance with the proportion
on the Michigan Central line the Grand
Trunk would require 61 engines and 846 cars
added to their present stock 0t216 engines and 2,778
freight cars. The number of engines and cars thus
arrived at was absolutely required to enable them
to earn as large an income per mile per annum as
was earned by the Michigan Central, the nature of
the traffic and other matters on both lines being in
many respects similar. Besides the want of plant,
the company were very much straitened for the
means of working the grain trade to advantage.
There was but one granary and grain elevator on
the line (at Sarnia), and until they had its fellow
at some point towards the other extremity of the
road it could be made but little use of; for the
unloading of the cars at the large grain markets,
such as 'Toronto, Montreal, and Portland, entailed
far more expense on them than the loading at the
stations where it first reached the railway. The
almost total absence of proper facilities for handling
grain in bulk at Montreal had pressed heavily upon
them and upon the merchant for the last few
months, and their total absence at Portland would
operate most prejudicially on their working expenses
at that point all the winter. There should be
elevators, with storage attached, capable of contain-
ing 200,000 bushels of grain, at Toronto, Montreal,
Kingston and Portland ; more shed room for
general merchandise was also required at all those
points, but more particularly at the two former;
and at many points along the line there was defi-
ciency of " siding" room to the extent of about five
miles in all. The completion of the " St. Lawrence
Dock and Wharfage Company's" wharfs at Pointe
Levi, and the extension, as formerly contemplated,
of the company's premises there, also would prove
highly advantageous to the traffic during that
moiety of the year when their principal communi-
cation with the ocean was by the way of the St.
Lawrence. It was at Montreal, however, that
means for facilitating the interchange of traffic
between the shipping and the railway was, and
would always continue to be, most essential. It
was as a freight-carrying road that the Grand
Trunk Railway was destined to hold a first
place among the great highways of the North
American continent. For passenger traffic it
could not hope to vie with the shorter avenues to
the great centres of population on the Atlantic
seaboard—Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and
Baltimore. To the merchandise traffic, then, they
must mainly look for swelling their earnings to the
point required to make the undertaking pay. With
regard to the undertaking, he had an abiding faith
in its ultimate ability to make a fair return on the
capital absorbed in it. The cost per mile to the
share and bondholders was much below the average
cost of the chief American lines east of the great
lakes, and though he would not undertake to pro-
mise that for some years to come it could be worked
at less than 60 per cent. of its gross earnings, he
believed that its receipts might be swelled to an
amount that would represent a surplus sufficient to
pay interest on the bonded debt, and by and by a
dividend on the share capital. The working expenses
of the year ending the 30th June last were not to
be taken as a criterion of the proportion that outlay
was to bear to revenue for ever. For the first Id they
of that year they had no Victoria-bride,.
pan out of
had unavoidably to do many things aris
leiblich had
shortcomings in original construction,
drawn unfairly upon revenue.
°tinted t0e70,841
ing the Bth of December lastina;
week of 1859 to
The traffic receipts on the line for the wek end-
?nerease of 19,029 dole.
dols and for the corresp d
fat of July to the Bth of
51,812' dols, showing an
thd6,497 dols, and for the
The total traffic from
December amounted to I,
riot! of the preceding year to
eshowing an increase of 403,222 dols,
corresponding
1,193,275 dols,
33'S per cent.

TIM DAPS Iif.I.REETS.

CORN EXCHANGE.

Today's market was very scantily supplied with English
wheat in poor condition. Both rod and white qualities were
in fair, though not to say activo request, at Monday's quo-
tations,

The show of foreign wheat was large ; nevertheless a
good business was done in it, and in some instances prices
were is per quarter higher than last week.
Floating cargoes of grain were firm in price.
We had a fair sale for barley. In prices, however, no
change took place.
Fine malt was scarce, and in request, at full quotations
but other kinds were very inactive.
There was a good consumptive demand for oats, at ex-
treme rates.

Beans and peas commanded full prices.
There was a good sale for flour, at extreme rates.

ARRIVAI,g THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley., Malt. Oats. Flour.
230 250 400 i 210 k 310
500 1,910 4 50 sacks
bris.

English...
Irish.. •.• •

Foreign.... •• ••

WHITECHAPEL.
The demand for each kind of meat is steady, at full
quotations :
Beef, 3s 2d to 4s 6d ; mutton, 3s Gd to 58 Od ; veal, 4s Ott
to 5a Od pork, 4s Od to 5s 4d per Blbs. by the oarease.

BOROUGH HOP.
There ig a steady business doing in most kinds of hops
ad prim are well supported.