The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-30 00:00:00

ITALY.

It was reported in Turin on the 22d that the Mi-
nister SICCARDI, the great opponent of the Jesuits
and the parti pretre, had resigned, in consequence of
the determination of his colleagues to send Signor
PINELLI to Rome. Written placards were imme-
diately posted on the walls, inviting the inabitants to
assemble on the morrow, and make a demonstration, in
which they were to cry out, "Down with Azeglio—
down with Galvagno. Long live Siccardi—long live
Bianchi Giovini." The Concordia declares that
there is no truth in the report that SICCARDI, who
is so justly popular, will abandon the post which he
fills with so much dignity. The Ministers were
quite unanimons in sending Signor PINELLI Co Rome.

RAILWAY TRAVELLING.—Such is the stimulus
given to railway travelling, that as much space is traversed
over in one day as took our forefathers a whole week, and fur
fewer shillings than coot them pounds. Just think of a Sun-
day morning's excursion train to Brighten and back for
3s. 6d.! Two thoustr.d two hundred and twenty persons
availed themselves of this facility last Sunday, and came
home all safe in the evening.
The Fellowship Porters of the city of London, who
conceive that their privileges have been assailed by the dock
companies, especially ae to the discharge of corn-laden shi;
have resolved to establish a protection society.
POSTPONEMENT OF TII FUNERAL OF Louis
PHILIPPE.— Late last night it was commueicated to Messrs.
France and Relating, the undertskers, that the interment of
Lis late Majesty must be postponed in consequence of family
arrangements and parties being expected from France. The
time now fixed is Monday morning, half•past ten.
The University of Jena has recently cooferrta 'the
honorary degree of doctor upon our co-religionist M. Meyer-
beer. There is a peculiarity attached to this act. which en.
hances the value of the tribute to the composer's talent.
It is the first issued by that university to a professor of mu-lc.
—Jewish Ckrimicie.
A SHABBY THEFT.—A few days ago a.box that
had been placed on the chimneypiece in the parlour of the
Warwick Arms, Pimlico, for the purpose of receiving the
contributions of the visitors towards the working man's
memorial to the memory of the late Sir R. Peel, was stolen.
The box, it is supposed, contained but a few shillings.
Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous
ally of invention; and there are many books that owe their
success to two things—the good memory of those who write
them, and the bad memory of those who-reid them.—Agra
Cook's Journal.
T E WALKER TESTIMONIAL.--Mr. George Alfred
Walker ha, been the leader, if not the Originator, of the po-
pular movement in opposition to intramural interments. And
now, when that cause may be said to have surmounted all
the obstacles that were thrown in its way by vested in-
terests and unchristian prejudices, the friends of Mr. Walker
propose to present him with some suitable memorial of the
value they attach to his important services At a public
meeting, over which Lord Dudley Stuart presided, nearly a
hundred guineas were subscribed on the spot; and subscrip-
tions are now received, by post or otherwise, at Messrs. Coutts
eads of those
rewards should alight with equity
and Co.'s. We are always desirouson that
the both fame and
who
its
personally deserve them. It is too often the casein this world,
that one man originates a great and important movement,
and another reaps and enjoys the honour and the reward of
it; one plants and another eats; one builds and another
inhabits. He who carries a measure in Parliament, is
very apt toscarry also away the palm from him who carries
that measure in the hearts and rninda of the people. His-
tory is full of such robberies; and laurels are voted, and
monuments erected, to men whose chief merit consists in
making use of other men, as the fox made use of the goat in
the well. We are happy to sec that the hammer of renown,
in Mr. Walker's case, has strack the right nail on the head,
as, almost single-handed for years, he attacked the prevail-
ing evil, and at lest aroused public spirit in the cause of re-
form. His discoveries and disclosures astonished the public.
churchyards, and other
and awakened their attention, to a series of appalling facts
connected with churches, chapels,
abominations, of which they had previously no idea, and
which, for years, they could scarcely believe. Mr. Walker
mountain.—Family Herald.
himself believed. and his faith has succeeded in removing a
Manners arc more esteemed in
lli
society than virtues
though the one are artificial. like false briants—and the
other pure, like real jewels. —Eliza Cook's Journal.
The late Mr. John Jones, of Herne-hill and Cheap-
side, bequeathed 100/. to each of the following charities :
to Read ; and the Free W
The Asylum for the Support and Education of Indigent
Blind ; the Infirmary for Fistula and other Diseases of the
Rectum, Charterhouse-,quare • the Royal Free Hospital, in
Gray's Inn-road; the London 'Society for Teaching the Blind
at Penge.
Tun LATH LOUIS PHlLlP..?E.—irrespective of
of France. Gra.:tiL.e k),,c toe
politics, we deeply t, Jea s, the (!e Ith of the ex-King
atermen and Lightermen's Asylum
Jewish moral code; and the Jews will ever remember with
sincere gratitede the perfect equality 'which the French Jews
iacipal feasur• in the
enjoyed under hi.l reign.-Jewish Chroick.