The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-21 00:00:00

SICILY.

We have received the following letter from Pa-
lermo, describing the events which have recently
occurred in that island. FILANGIERI is the ape of
lIITNA.u, as his master, BoMBA, is the ape of the
ittd EMPEROR.

" Palermo, Jan. 29, Isso.

" This town was yesterday tilled with horror and in-
dignation by a most atrocious act perpetrated by the
Government of Filangieri, which rivals his own ac-
tions at Messina in September, 1848, and a year since at
Catania. _

" Towards 9 o'clock on the evening cf the 27th there
was a popular demonstration on the place of Furavechia,
where a number of persons assembled, in order to pro-
test against a Government which, trusting solely to
physical force, had committed actions of the most un-
heard-of violence and spoliation, and reduced the entire
country to a state cf misery and despair. It was
very courageous .of any persons to make this
protest in the face of a tyrant,! who, like his master,
recognises no law, does not wish to be on good terms
with the people he governs, and only desires to rule by
the sword. It is supposed by some that his infamous
police, in order legally to get rid of certain brave and
popular men, of whom, they were afraid, lured some of
them into P guet-a-pens by means of this fatal demon-
stration, which the Government itself admits to have
been of a pacific nature ; as appears by the
filllowing extract from the supplement to the
Giornale Officiale of yesterday—' A few per-
sons were rash enough to attempt to appeal
to the people of Palermo by means of seditious
clamour. . . . . The police authori

ties, always watching over the preseriation of public
tranquillity, having previously been informed of this
miserable attempt, had placed a patrol on the pla7e,:con-
sisting of an inspector, three of the police, and four
pioneers, who were sufficient to break up the meeting
of these criminals, six of whom fell into their hands.'
Surely, if instead of a pacific demonstration, this had
been an attempt at a revolution, as General Filangieri
afterwards characterised it, such a small force could
not have sufficed to suppress it. It is certain
however, that the unfortunate persons captured by the
police were entirely unarmed. The official paper adds,
that before any rumour of this meeting could have
penetrated into the other quarters of the town, even
before any suspicion could be entertained of its exist-
ence, the guilty parties were already arrested, and order
and tranquillity bad been restored in the place where
they had momentarily been disturbed; nor had any ill
consequences followed, nor any injury been done, during
the short struggle that had taken place to prevent this
criminal attempt.' Who, however, would have supposed
that this more attempt at crime, as it is called by the
official organ of General Filangieri, would have given
rise to such a frightful scene as that we yesterday wit-
nessed? The General ordered these unfortunate men,
against whom there was no other proof than the testi-
mony of his infamous spies, and who, perhaps, were in-
veigled by them to the spot where they were arrested, to
'pcliocnkn. He pretended to call a
council of war, but it is well known that
btheeseshovt before
ilianou six o'clock.
sexc el tribunals are merely
the blind instruments of his tyrannical will. The
greater portion of the town knew of this barbarous exe-
cution before knowing of the attempted revolution that
had been suppressed by four of the police and four
soldiers. I repeat that the horror and indignation of all
classes of the people was at its height. Some of the vic-
tims were of good family, and one of them, Mondini, had
served with distinction in the constitutional army as
lieutenant of engineers. After having deluged Sicily
with the blood of her sons for eight months, under the
pretext that his victims had been guilty of the detention
of arms; after having. filled the citadel of Messina and
all the prisons in the island with men whose only crime
was that of being suspected by him, after having re-
duced this unhappy country to a state of the greatest
misery by the enormous and arbitrary tax of 4,300,000
ounces (2,150,0001. sterling) upon the richest branches
of her trade, General Filangieri now considers himself
sufficiently powerful to stifle, by sanguinary executions,
the well-foundel complaints against his insupportable
tyranny; possibly, however, he may be mistaken, and be
may not be reniering better service to his august
master than did his infamous predecessors, Vial and
Delearetto.”

ignite., the Meat-
GRAND DINNER AT THE MANSlON.HOUSE.—Yes-
tdeirddeanytethrteaLinomrdenMt atoyotrheansdurarready.Y:Mayoress gave a splen-
rawahaich
was
sa
hers for and the principal gentry of the county, and a
number of ladies. The chief officers of the household
Messrs. Ring and Brymer, and did great credit to their
were in attendance. The dinner,
taste and exertions, consisted of all the delicacies of this
pplied by
most prolific season. Amongst the company, which
numbered about 150, were the following:—Mr. J. W.
Freshfield, High Sheriff for the County of Surrey; Mr.
E. Penryhn, Mr. T. Puckle, and Mr. J. E. Johnson,
Chairmen of the Quarter Sessions, and the magistrates
of Surrey, the Right Hon. C. Tennyson D'Eynoourt,
M.P., Hon. P. J. Locke King, M.P., Sir William Moles-
worth, Bart, M.P., Sir Benjamin Brodie, Bart., Sir An-
thony Rothschild, Bart., Mr. T. Alcock, M.P., Mr. IT.
Drummond, M.P., Mr. W. J. Evelyn, M.P., Mr. J.
Masterman, M.P., Mr. Alderman Copeland, M.P., Mr.
Alderman Humphery, M.P., Mr. Alderman Sidney,
M.P., Mr. C. Pearson, M.P., Mr. M. Forster, M.P., Mr.
W. Cubitt, M.P.,Mr. R. D. Mangles, M.P., Mr. T. S.
Cocks, M.P., r. Alderman Farebrother, Mr. Alder-
man Gibbs, Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Lawrence, Mr.
Alderman Musgrove, Mr. Alderman Salomons, Mr. Al-
derman Carden, Mr. Under-Sheriff Millard, Mr. Under-
Sheriff Wire, Mr. R. Baggallay (treasurer of St. Tho-
mas's Hospital), Mr Sergeant Channel!, Mr. Sergeant
Shee, Colonel
.C. B. Challoner, Captain Page, Captain
Wood, Messrs. W. Clarkson, Russell, Gurney, Hankesr,
J. Goodhart, W. Evans, B. Cohen, C. Barclay, G.
A'Beckett, D. Mildred, W. Paynter, A. Pott, 11. Start,
A. K. Barclay, J. Clifc, L. Redhead, W. D. Starling, D.
H. Stone, the Rev. C. Marshall (chaplain to the Lord
Mayor), the Rev. A. C. Onslow, and their ladies. The
vocalists, under the direction of Mr. Hobbs, were Miss
Birch, Miss E. Birch, Mr. Francis, Mr. Loekey, Mr.
Lawler, and Mr. H. Phillips.
RIMMEL'S TOILET TINEGAU.—Mr. Rimmel, the
Queen's perfumer, has recently invented an article which
may be classed either among the most delicious perfumes
or among the most potent disinfectants, for his Toilet
Vinegar possesses hygienic and prophylactic qualities of
a high order, while as a perfume it is far superior to
Etta de Cologne, or any other scent of which spirit
forms a basis, inasmuch as it preserves its refreshing and
invigorating qualities to the last, and does not become
faint and faded, as do spirituous essences shortly after
they have been poured on the handkerchief. During
the recent visitation of cholera it
was extensively and
successfully used as a disinfectant, and we can bear our
testimony to the fact that a few drops of Toilet Vinegar
poured into a glass of water form a most agreeable, a
most effectual, and a most cleanly dentrifice. Mr.
Rimmel has laid all lovers of a cigar under a great
obligation, for if after smoking the mouth is rinsed out
with a glass of water, into which has been poured a few
drops of Toilet Vinegar, the unpleasant odour of tobacco
is completely removed. Henceforth no toilet-table can
be considered complete without a bottle of Rirnmel's
Vire.lar, and it should be also found in every sick room.
CORIUM V. TILE BISHOP OF EXETER. The
Guardian stat,a that the judgment of the Committee of
Piney Council in this case will not be given this week,
but, if possible, on or before the 2d of March.

MONEY and. COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was very
dull, and prices of all descriptions were id. per lb. lower.
The sales were 2,500 bales all to the trade. The trans-
actions comprised 2,000 American, at 6d. to 71i.; 100
Pernem and Maranham, at 6d. to 7d.; 100 Egyptian, at
Ciel. to 7d.; and 200 Surat, at 4id. to ,Qd. per lb.—The
market for Railway Shares closed heavily, and prices
were again lower.
In the markets in the United Kingdom which regulate
the duties, the sales of wheat last week were 91,307
quarters. The six weeks' average price is 395. Bd. per
quarter.
The Amsterdam market was in a favourable position
on the 19th instant ; the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents. being 55. Spanish Three per Cents. were 291.
There was a good business doing in foreign securities.
Thera are very encouraging advices from Berlin un-
der date of the 16th instant, as to the progress of the
negoiia dons upon the Danish question. They are said
now to be more active than ever, and consequently we
are entitled to assume that there is a better chance of
their being brought to a successful issue.
The letters receive; by the Overland mail from India,
describe business as being dull at Bombay, though tole-
rably good at Calcutta; but they communicate more
favourale intelligence as to the progress of affairs gene-
rally towards a sounder, and, we trust, a permanent
condition, and in that sense are far more important than
if they simply advised a " spirit " in trade.
For years past, as we have frequently ex-
plained under this head, the Indian houses
pursued a course which could net but ensue in
ruin, buying on one side at high prices, and selling on the
other at lower, almost for the express purpose of keeping
a mass of paper in circulation. The miserable dividend
list of the failed houses will illustrate this, for, with one
or two exceptions, those of greatest magnitude and re-
pute have paid least. The accounts from Ceylon and
the Mauritius are encouraging.
There is a curious statement in a New York journal,
among the number of those last to hand, and whether
correct or the reverse, it serves to show that the feeling
upon the Hungarian question has run very high, and is
more enthusiastic than in England. The editor re-
marks:—
" Our correspondents at Washington have informed us
that Mr. Bodisco, formerly Russian Minister at Washing-
ton, has been positively recalled, or rather (as he is not
here) been stopped. We also hear from other quarters, that
possibly the Emperor of Russia may rectal all his En-
voys here or elsewhere on missions to the United States.
Similar rumours are current in relation to the Austrian
Embassy; and it is not improbable but that Prussia,
were she not prevented by considerations of commer-
cial advantage, would take a leaf out of the same book of
diplomacy.
" The exhibition of public opinion in the United
States, by the independent journals, and the debates now
in Congress, can find but little favour with the despotic
Governments of Europe; and wears not at all astonished
to see some extreme step taken by Russia and Austria in
reference to their embassies in this country. If these
two Emperors should, in fact, withdraw their ambas-
sadors and ministers from Washington, we do not ex-
pect that the end of the world will be at hand, nor
the last day of the American Republic determined upon.
The American people, we opine, will live a little while
longer as a nation and as a Republic, and as a great
united community, without even Ministers from Russia,
Austria, Spain, or any other despotic country in the
world."
In the English Stock Market business is quiescent,
Consols being 95 -A for Transfer and 22i 3 for Account.
The New Three-and-a-Q, carter per Cents. have been 98
to 984, and the Three per Cent. Reduced 95/ je Ex-
chequer-bills have been quoted 545. to 575., and India
Bends 85s. premium.
The transactions in Foreign Stocky have been unim-
portant. Peruvian Bonds have been comparatively
neglected at 77 to 781 for the Active, and at 32 to 33
for the Deferred. Mexican have been done at 29i and
30k. Equador are worth 4, and Brazillian 89. Danish
Five per Cents. have realised 99k, and Dutch T wo-and-
a-half per Cents. 55 to
Railway Shares are extremely passive, and there is
scarcely auy alteration in their value. South-Eastern
are flatter, Great Western a trifle firmer, South-Western
heavy, and the lines with smaller amounts paid up about
the same. French Shares are very quiet. United
Mexican Mine Shares have risen again, being 6 to 6i.
The Week's Railway Receipts, as far as yet com-
pleted, are as under :

1850. 1849.
North-Western .£38,003 Bs. Oil. £36,712 10s. Od.
South-Western .. 7,209 16s. 10d. 7,471 19s. Bd.
Brighton
Midland 19,540 14s. 11d. 19,319 83. 9d.
131iITISH FUNDS TillS DAY- AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ..... ...... 95%934
8 per Cent. Consols Anns 95%%
New 31.„( per Cent. Arens. 9Bl/BM 9g 9814
Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, WO 8 9-16 8%
India Bonds under 1,0001
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. I %d. 2d.
Merck. June.
_ .

------
1,0001.
5001 - 54 57 p
Small — 54 57 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent B9ll
Danish Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent 72
Ditto, 5 per Cent
Equador Bonds •• 4
Mexican 80nti5,1846,5 per Cent., Coupons
Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons
Ditto Account . 3O 29%
Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Ditto Deferred
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto 4 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account 33 3314
Russian Bonds. 1822, 5 per Cent —
Ditto Scrip 2IA p
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent lB%
Ditto Account - lB5l
Dividends on the above uavable in London.
Dutch 214 per Cent.. 12 Guild
Ditto 4 ner Cent. Certificates
BIISINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONS O'CLOCK

RAILWAYS. PAID. PEA 5111ItE.
Birmingham,Wol., & Dudley,
calls duly pd, or with guar. 15 -
-

Do., without a guarantee... 15
Bristol and Exeter
Caledonian
Ditto, New 101. Preference 10 ....„ 75y % to
Chester and H01yhead..„..... 50 .....
Ditto, Preference -
Eastern Counties
Do. Exten., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 132. 4d .. p .to
Do., do N 0.2,61. 133.4 d... 5/Rl/2 p .. to
Great Northern
Great Western
Ditto, Half Shares ...... 50
Ditto, Quarter Shares
Do. New 171
London Is North Western 100 10.) 108% to 109
Do. 101.... M. and B. (C.) 1
London and S. Western .......100
Manchr, Sheffield, and Linc.100
Do., New 101. Preference.. 10 ... .. 7.!‘ to
Midland ....... .... ........ ...100
Ditto, 501. Shares ..... ...... 30 ...... 5% .... to
Birmingham, 6 per cent.... 100 123
North British .. .. ......... . 25 ......
Ditto, Preference
Reading, Gaildtd., & Reigate 15
Royston and Ilitchin ..... .. 41% 4% x.n to
Scottish Central
hropshire Union 61h... .. 274. ..... to 3
South Devon ... ... 50 ...... ....... to
Ditto, Preference .. ...
3325
19 18% to 9
South Eastern
Ditto, Registered No. 4.... 10
York, Newcastle, and Berwick 25
Do. and Newcastle Exten. 20 ..... 10% to 10
Do. G. N. E. Pur. or Pref. 6
fork and North. Midland .. 50
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
dnglo Italian (late Italian
and Austrian) 51,2 — to
Boulogne and An
Luxembourg
Ditto
Northern of France l6 .... 14
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 7 ... .. 3% to
Paris & Strasbourg ..... ..... 12
Sambre and Meuse
RUNE 3.
Santiago de Cuba. lO ...... 8 ...
United Mexican ....... ........ 28% 614%... to '..6

DEATH OF THE COMMON SERGEANT OF THE
CITY OF LONDON.—Yesterday morning John Mirehouse,
Esq., the Common Sergeant of the City of London, de-
parted this life. The learned gentleman was taken ill a
few days since at the Old Bailey sessions, from which
indisposition he never recovered. He was chosen as
Common Sergeant to the City in the year 1833, so that
he has held the important office about seventeen years.
The appointment of his successor is vested in the Court
of Common Council.
CHILD SAVED FROM DROWNING.—HEROIC CON-
DUCT.—Between six and seven o'clock on Friday night
last James Whewell, a servant in the employ of Messrs.
Appleton, paper manufacturers, Smedley Vale, was
alarmed by hearing shrieks and cries, proceeding appa-
rently from the banks of the river Irk, which runs a
short distance from the paper-mill. He hastened in-
stantly in the direction from whence the cries proceeded,
' and learnt that a little boy, named Samuel Lovett, had
been seen to fall into the river, from a wooden bridge a
little below the cotton manufactory of Messrs. Bright
and Brothers, and that the body was then drifting down
the stream. As it was dark, he had some difficulty in
discerning any object on the water, but, after running
some distance,
he saw what he. supposed must be the
body of the child. He immediately jumped into the
river, and after considerable effort, and at the imminent
peril of his own life, he succeeded in saving that of the
child, at
a distance of more than 200 yards from the spot
where it had fallen in. The body appeared, on being
taken out of the water, to be quite lifeless, but assistance
was promptly obtained, and all the usual means resorted
to in such cases being used, the boy was brought to life,
and is now in good health. Had the child floated but a
short distance
further, in all human probability it must
have perished in the water, as the current below becomes
deeper and more rapid. Such instances of disinterested
personal sacrifice in the cause of humanity deserve a
more substantial reward than a mere newspaper record;
and as in this case the deliverer of the child is an honest
hard-working man, with a wife and family dependent
upon him for their maintenance, we think him an object
worthy the bounty of the Humane Society.—Manchcster
Guardian.

SETTLEMENT LAW.—The Government have just
required (in accordance with a resolution of the
nollifl of Commons) a return of the number of pavers
removed during the last five years, disting'aishing those
who were Irish and Scotch. This is another stepping•
stone to a total abolition of settlement law.

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
FRENCH PLAYS.

The pleasing, sparkling, humorous opera "Le
Postilion de Lonjumeau—the chef d'oeuvre of that
most lively and agreeable of composers, Adolphe
Adam, of whom it may with truth be said that he is
often excellent, always pleasing, and never dull, was
produced here last night, and was throughout received
with marked approbation by one of the most fashion-
able and crowded audiences of the season. The music
of the Postillion is well known in this country;
where is the music-stand on which some of its favo-
rite airs do not find a place ? Where i 3 the drawing-
room or the concert-room in which the music of the
Postilion has not been heard ? The opera itself has also
been adapted at more than one theatre, and the original
was represented in London some few years since by
the Brussels company at Drury-lane. Chapelou,
the Postilion of Lonjumean, possesses a superb
tenor voice. He is heard singing on his wedding-
day, by a Marquis attached to the Court of Louis
the Fifteenth, and is at once hurried away from
his wife to Paris, and transformed into an opera
singer. Alter the lapse of ten years we find him,
under the name of St. Phar, the leading tenor of
the King's troop, giving himself all the airs which
leading tenors will give themselves, and making
desperate love to:a certain Madame de La-
tour, forgetful of poor Madeleine, who he
had married ten years before, and left at Lonjumeau
He, however, hears that Madeleine is alive and in
Paris, and in a scene in the dark he fancies himself in
the presence of both Madeleine and Madame do La-tour,
for he hears distinctly the voices of each relating the
history of his perfidy. To add to his dismay, he be.
lieves that he has been guilty of bigamy in marrying
Madame de La-tour, and he hears a comfortable as-
surance given to him, that the punisiameat for such an
offence is hanging. All, however, is clef fired up by the
discovery that Madeleine and Madame de La-tour are
the same person. M. Chollet was the original Chapelou,
and it is not too much to say that he made the opera.
He was also the Chapelou of last evening and was as
fresh, as gay, as brilliant, and as bustling as ever he
was. His "Oh ! oh! qu'il etait beau," was admira-
bly given, and his caricature of a regular built grand
opera song, " Assis au pied d'un hetre," was an ex-
quisite bit of musical drollery, and elici Led an unani•
mouse encore. His acting throughou; was full of
vivacity, spirit, and point. Mademoiselle Guichard,
who was the Madeleine, when the! opera was per-
formed at Drury-lane by the Bruise is company,
again appeared in that character, and n ever has the
rustic soubrette been more coquettishly or more na-
turally represented ; her acting as the fine lady,
too, was excellent, and it is seldom that such
versatility has been seen as was e. ahibited by
Mademoiselle Guichard in the scene in the dark, in
which she alternately personates the two wives. M.
I3uguet, as Alcindor, the coryphee, was exceedingly
quaint and amusing. The choruses were admirable,
and the opera was most carefully put upon the
stage. The success was complete, an.d.at the con-
clusion Chollet and Mademoiselle Guichard were
loudly called for, and rapturously applauded.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(TIII:S DAY.)
LONDON, FEB. 21.—Wind S.W., fresbt breeze and
cloudy.
DEII„ FEB. 20 —Wind W. to W.S.W.— Arrd. Pallas,
Hopkinson, Bombay, for Hull. Arrd. from the River
for Queenstown, Launceston; Betsy, Mauritius; James
Holmes, Barbadoes.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 20.—Wind W., ;:rest.—Arrd..
Carlton, Maranbaw; I. 0., Barnes, Di treerara, and
Dublin; Triumfanti, Menchasa, Havanni,h; Minerva,
Llguna. Sld. Don Pedro 2d, Rio Grande; Huskisson,
Africa. Put back, Waldron and Mary Ward, New
Orleans; Zarab, Ceylon; George Dean, Sierra Leone;
St Hilda, Coquimbo; Dauntless, Maranham ; James Gray
and Evertborpe, Charleston. Off port, Firefly, Propontes
steamer, Media, and Middlesex.
QUEENSTOWN, FEB. 18. Wind W.3.W.
Albion, New Orleans.
JERSEY, FEB. 20.—Wind S.W.—Sid. Renard, Rio
Janeiro.
NEWPORT, FEB. 19.—Wind Ariadnc,
Jamaica; Kingston, New York.
SWANSEA, FEB. 20.—Wind W.N.W.--Arrd. Moul-
t in, Cuba.
SHIELDS, FEB. 20.—S1d. Orlando, New York; Anne,
Eliza, and Jane, America and Pernambuco.

COIILTERSAY, ISLAY, FEB. 14.—Some fragments of
wreck and part of the stern plank of a vessel marked
Mary Wilson, have come on shore.

WIIITEIIAVEN, FEB. 20.—The Magdalen. of Cardigan,
from Liverpool, got on shore and received some trifling
damage.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)
MEW GIITE AND LEADEN X3:112.1..
The general demand was in a very sluggish state, at
our quotations. Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 4d; Mutton,
2s 8d to 3s 10d; Veal, 3s to 4s; and Pork, 2s 10d to 4s
per 81bs by the carcase.