The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-16 00:00:00

ITALY.

Letters from Turin, of the 9th, state that the
Piedmontese Chamber of Deputies, after a warm
debate, had voted the ratification of the treat♦
of peace, concluded at Milan on the 6th of August
last, with the Austrian Government. Of 129 depu-
ties who voted 112 voted for the ratification, and
17 against it.
In the Chamber of Deputies of Turin, on
the Bth, the Minister of Public Instruction pre-
sented a Bill on Secondary Instruction,
and another for the Re-organization of the Uni-
versity of Sardinia. The Chamber afterwards
deliberated on the Bill provisionally regulating the
budget of 1849, and adopted the two articles of the
measure, as agreed to by the committee and the
Ministry. The Chamber also voted five articles
of a Bill to authorise the collection of the taxes
until such time as the budget of 1850 had been
definitively passed. The said collection is to be
permitted to the end of April next. Some changes
proposed by M. BALBO in the regulations were also
agreed to.
A letter from Rome of the sth says :—" Two
more regiments of infantry, the 50th and the 68th,
are leaving Italy, the first for France, the other for
Oran. Generals JOHN LEVAILLANT, THIRY, NIEL,
MOLHERE, and DE TINAN are also recalled. The
effective force of the French army is now reduced to
14 or 15,000 men. The health of the troops has
much improved. There are_now only 760 men in the
hospitals."
The Gazette du Midi of Marseilles has the follow-
ing from Rome, dated the sth inst. :—" The supplica-
tions from all the towns of the Roman States have at
length touched the paternal heart of Pius IX. After
having maturely deliberated with his Cardinals, the
POPE has declared to the diplomatic corps that he will
return to his capital in the middle of January."
A letter from Florence -of the sth says :—" For
the last firty years the cold has not been felt so
severely here as it is now. All the hills near the
city are covered with snow, and the thermometer
has been as low as 12 degrees of Reaumur (10 2-5
degrees Fahrenheit)."

PENINSULAR MAILS.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING.

The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company's ship Iberia, Captain C. F. Burney, has
just arrived, with the usual Spanish and Portuguese
mails.

Her arrival has been detained by heavy northerly
gales in the By of Biscay and on the Spanish coast.
We have accounts from Lisbon of the 9tb, contain-
ing a copy cf the Queen of Portugal's Speech at the
opening of the Cortes on the 2d inst.
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Up to the time of the packet's leaving Lisbon
nothing of particular interest had taken place in
the Corte.

M. Rebello CAbral had been re-elected President
of the Chamber of Deputies.
The English squadron had returned to the Tagus.
The Lisbon Board of Health had issued a notifica-
tion declaring all ports in England, save Liverpool,
disinfected.

According to our correspondent there was no truth
in the reports spread in Lisbon respecting a com-
mencement of revolutionary acts at Evora, Chaves,
and other places.
It appears that the Portuguese Chargh-d'Affaires,
recently returned from Madrid, had stated that
30,000 Spanish troops be ready to enter
Portugal upon the first requisition of the Count de
Thomar.

Tne Count di Lavradio was to move an amend-
ment to the answer to the Throne in the Upper House
on the 12th, when an angry debate was looked for
upon the political state of the country with reference
to the position of Count Thomar, as President of the
Council.

Upon the Lisbon Exchange a large supply of
London paper had appeared with few takers, except
Board of Public Credit, which has remitted 14,0001.
by this packet. Exchange on London, 54; discount
on Bank-notes, 181 per cent.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BETTING AT MANCIIESTER.-TUESDAY.

CHESTER COP.-603 to 20 agst Lady Evtlyn (t), 33
to 1 agst Peep-o'-lay Boy (t), 40 to 1 agst Cossack (t),
40 to 1 agst Eilerdale, 50 to 1 agst Fogleman (t), 50 to
1 agst Miss Ann (t), 1,000:to 20 agst Grief (t), 1,000 to 15
agst Harriott (t), 1.000 to 15 agst Little Jack (t), 550
to 10 offered agst all the three yrs old. The handicap
is very highly spoken of by all parties here.
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.-15 to 1 agst Peter
Simple (t), 15 to 1 agst Knight of Gwynne (t), 15 to
1 agst Rattrap, 20 to 1 agst Fanny Grey, 25 to 1 agst
Chandler, 25 to 1 agst Vain Hope.
METROPOLITAN STAKES —2O to 1 agst Testator, 22
to 1 agst Black Esgle, 25 to 1 agst Borneo.
DERBY.-9 to 1 agst Bolingbroke, 10 to I agst Ghillie
Callum, 12 to 1 agst Knight of Avenel, 16 to 1 agst
Voltigeur (t), 16 to 1 agst The Italian (t), 18 to 1 apt
The Nigger, 1,000 to 15 agat Yew Tree.

We understand that Sir Claude Scott, Birt., has
sent the steel barrels which burst in his hands, and
about which so much discussion has taken place, to
Mr. Witton, 82, Old Broad-street, to be exhibited to
the public and all parties interested, to enable them
to judge for themselves ; further particulars of which
will be found in another part of eur paper.

DEATH OF MRS. BARTLEY.—This lady, who WAS
fir many yt ars a brillialit °ream:cot of the tragic stage,
died 3 esterday morning, at her residence, No. 11, Wo-
burn-square, after a severe and protraltel illness, which
la•tei for seven 3 ears. Her disorder was a general rara-
lysis, hut her consciousness was perfect up to the mo-
ment of her dissolution. The deceased was firmerly
Miss Smith, who, in 1806, made her first curtsey to a
London audience in old Cogent-pardon. During the
eery first season of her prosperous career, Mrs. Siddons
returned to the stage, and on the same boards; and the
beet proof cf Mrs. Bartley's genius that can be given is,
that they played alternately Alicia and Jane Shore
without detriment to the fame of the younger actress.
On the destruction by fire of Covent-garden Theatre, in
1808, Miss Smith accepted an engagement on London
t Tms in Dublin. Ste remained in Ireland for three
years, at the end of which period she made her second
appearance at Covent-garden in 1811. Here she re-
mained, first, foremost, and without a rival, until 1814,
when she transferred her services to new Drury-lane.
Soon after she became Mrs. Bartley, the wife of the
excellent comedian. Mrs. Bartley died in the 65th year
of her age. She who numbered Joanna Baillie and Sir
Walter Scott among her warmest friends and fondest
admirers, and who was summoned to Windsor Castle
and Buckingham House to charm the ear of royalty by
her incomparable elocution, can have been no ordinary
woman—no ordinary actress.

—THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY
COMPANY. —A fdw weeks ago a case came on for bear-
, iog before the Salford Magistrates, at the New Batley
Court-house, in which the London and North-Western
Railway Company were the appellants, against a rate
laid upon that portion of the Liverpool and Manchester
section of their lines lying within the township of Bar-
ton- upon •Irwell. The rate levied Ras 1,336 L 9s. 6d.,
and of this the company had raid 6701. The magis-
trates on that occasion decided that the company were too
late with their appeal, they having allowed three special
and three quarter sessions to pass over without coming
forward with their case. They were ordered, therefore,
to pay the reirainder of the rate, and the overseers of
the poor understood that they would do so ; but upon
an application being made to them shortly afterwards,
they again objected, and accordingly a summons was
taken against them. On the day of hearing, however, it
appeared that the magistrates on the bench (Messrs.
Brandt and J. H. Wanklyn) were shareholders of the
company, and therefore the case was adjourned until
Thursday last, when a more impartial bench should be
sitting. The case having been aguin entered into, Mr.
Kent, solicitor, who appeared in order to watch the pro-
ceedings on behal of the company, was asked by Mr.
Trafford, the magistrate, whether the eempany were pre-
pared to pay. He replied is the negative, and he was
then kformed that a k: arrant e,f distress would be taken
out against them. This will probaoly be done in a fdw
clap. The company object to pay the full rate because
they contend that their property has much depreciated
in value, un account (-f the diminution cf the traffic upon
this part of the line within the last few months.

On Tuesday moorings were laid in the Sloyne for
the use of the new line of American mail steamers from
New York to the Mersey—Liverpool Mercury.
ERRATUM.—In the course of the second paragraph
of our first lcadirg article cf last evening, a "troop of
the 16th Regiment" should have been a " company of
the 16th Regiment."