The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-09 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Giornale di Roma of the 28th ult. publishes
a notification from the Government Commissi,,n of
Rome, informing the public that the lands belong-
ing to the State in the provinces of Bologna,
Ferrara, Ravenna, and Forli are to be publicly
sold. The same journal publishes the regulations
for execution of public works by the poor. Romans
only are admitted to these works; they must
besides be weak of body or mind, so as to
be unable to earn their bread otherwise, or else prove
their absolute inability to find work. The public
works in question are of a nature to be executed by
any one ; they consist of earth-works and street-
cleaning. The workmen are divided into com-
panies of 100 men each; they are under the
command of an inspector, of assistants, and
corporals, temporary officers, having no right
to retiring pensions. Every workman has fifteen
bajocchi (eighty centimes) a-day. The Giornalc di
Roma adds, that during the preceding week the work-
men were 2,131. Letters from Rome of the 29th
state that Gen. Fernandez de Cordova arrived there
on the 27th, and that the battallion Reyna Goberna-
dova embarked on the 25th for Spain, with part of the
cavalry and half a battery.
Some of the German papers publish a letter which
contains the following passage :
" I can give you the important news that the Pope has
come to an arrangement with the Catholic powers relative
to the Constitution to be given to the Pontifical States.
According to that arrangement, the motu proprio of
last year, is to remain the basis of the new Consti-
tution. The States are to be divided into four
legations, each of which will have at its head a cardinal
as political chief. A member of the Sacred College is to
be President of the Council of Ministers, with the title of
Cardinal Secretary of State. The President and Vice-
President of the Consulate of State are to belong to the
same body. The relative proportion between the faits
and ecclesiastics in the other employments has not yet
been determined on."

By a notification of Baron Puchner, dated the Isl
inst., the public of Venice is informed that the currency
of the communal paper of that city is definitively con-
tinued to the 28th of February. From the 15th of
February the forced currency of this paper is to ccaie,
and the public offices alone will receive it in payment of
taxes, &c., till the end of March, when the communal
paper is to be without value.

THE MEDITERRANEAN.
SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY NIGHT, FEB. 8.
The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com-
pany's ship Euxine, Captsin R. W. Evans, has just ar-
rived here with ship letter bags of the following dates,
which wore her days of sailing—viz., Constantinople,
January 19; Smyrna, January 23; Malta, January 27;
Gibraltar, February 3.
She brings 22 passengerE, amongst whom are Colonels
Ferera and Leighton, Captains Rixon and Loader, Dr.
Carilieri, and Messrs. Robinson, Wooller, &c. Also,
the following Hungarian and Polish refugees—viz.,
Major Vem and MM. Bogdan, Liphay, Jehory, Nicatea,
Delinaki, Ezechielle, and Erba.

The f, eight list .comprises 20 packages of specie
(value 73,408/. sterling), 5 chests acamony, 68 boxes of
oranges, 2,036 boxes of raisins, 2,641 drums of figs, 20
cases of fruit, 57 cases of opium, 8 boxes of otto of roses,
4 boxei of Maslie, 328 bales of silk, 736 bales of goats'
hair, 33 bags of galls, 10 cases of gum, 29 bags of yel-
low berries, 57 tubs of leeches, 2 cases of orange trees,
4 live sheep, and 81 packages of general merchandise.
The Sultan has experienced very bad weather through-
out the ♦oyage, particularly at Smyrna, where she was
detained three days in consequence. On the 24th of
January, while steaming through the Greek Archi-
pelago, she spoke her Majesty's steam-frigates Dragon
and Bulldog; with the latter she communicated, and
received dispatches for England. These two steamers
were cruizing about, and looking in at the various Greek
ports to detain Greek ships of war.
The English fleet was at the Piraeus. The French
fleet remained at Smyrna, wind bound, up to the 23d
ult., but was waiting an opportunity to proceed to
Athens to watch the movements of Admiral Parker and
the British squadron.
On the 29th of January the Euxine signalled the
Peninsular and Oriental Company's ship Indus, with the
outward India and China mails of 20th ult., 60 miles W.
of the Island of Galati, steering for Malta. On the 3d
inst. exchanged signals off Cape Trafalgar with the
steimer Sultan, frum Southampton, bound to Constar'.
tinople.
Our accounts from Gibraltar arc to the 3d instant.
The Board of Health had issued a notice taking off
the quarantine of three days recently imposed on yes•
sels from Great Britain, the northern ports, and North
America.

Exchanges were quoted as follows:—At 90 days'
date on London, 50i; Paris, sf. 34c. ; Marseille:,
sf. 37c.; Genoa, 51. 58c.; at eight days' sight on Ma-
drid, par ; Cadiz, premium. Paper scarce on the
following places, at respective quotations—Malaga,
par; Seville, I dis.; Alicante, dis.; Valencia, dis.;
Barcelona, par; Spanish 'pillared dollars, one per cent.
premium.
Her Majesty's steamer Scourge, Commander Lord
Kerr, arrived at Gibraltar, from Lisbon, on the ht inst.,
and sailed on the 3d for Malta. The Janus, Lieutenant
Powell, sailed on the 3d for Lisbon.
The schooner Kate and Jane, having repaired
damages, sailed on the 29th ult. for Messina. The brig
Zephyr, which arrived at Gibraltar from Odessa, bound
to Cork, on the 26th ult. (having touched on the Pearl
Rock), commenced reloading on the 29th. The brig
John Callum, from Leghorn for Cork, arrived on the
29th January, with part of her cargo damaged.
A Spanish vessel, El Paquete Malagnenc', was lost on
the 14th ult., near the Cala Grande. The vessel was
bound to Malaga, and nine of her crew perished.
The screw-steamer Hellespont left Malta three hours
before the Euxine, but the latter vessel reached Gibral-
tar thirty hours in advance of her screw competitor.
The Hellespont left Gibraltar for England a few hours
before the Euxine.

To-day the Euxine spoke the brig Clutha, bound to
Antigua, off the Start.
The following is the distribution of the British and
foreign ships of war in the Mediterranean at the latest
dates:—

In Malta Harbour—Ceylon, receiving ship, bearing
the flag of Rear-Admiral Edward Harvey, Superinten-
dent of Malta Dock-yard, and second in command;
Racer, 12, Captain C. Beddoes; Volage, 6 (survey-ship),
Captain Thomas Graves; Porcupine, Lieutenant E. F.
Roberts; Sharpshooter, Lieutenant-Commander Bailey;
Oberon (laid up), troop-ship; Waverley, Captain J.
Morgan; Locust, in ordinary.
At Leghorn—Spithe, Lieutenant Gardiner.
At Cephalonia—Frolic, 16, Captain N. Vansittart.
At Salonica—Researcb, survey-tender to Volage,
Lieutenant Lord John Browne.
At Smyrna —None.
At Athens (Pira3us)—Queen, 116, Captain C. Wise,
bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker, Bart.,
G.C.P., the Commander-in-Chief ; Caledonia, 120,
Captain T. W. Carter ; Howe, 120, Captain Sir J.
Stirling, Knt. ; Bellerophon, 78, Captain R. L.
Baynes; Powerful, 84, Captain the Hon. R. S. Dundas;
Vengeance, 84, Captain Sir 11. M. Blackwood; Fire-
brand steam-frigate, Captain T. 0. Knox ; Bulldog.
Commander Key ; Rosamond, Commander Foote;
and Ardent, Lieutenant Nowell, steam-sloops; Ganges,
84, Captain H. Smith ; Spiteful steam-corvette, Com-
mander J. Carmichael; Odin, the lion. F. Pelham; and
Dragon, Captain W. H. Hall, steam-frigates ; and
Auxiliary, surveying tender to Volage, Mate Comman-
der J. 11. Gover.

At Constantinople—Tartarus steam-vessel, Com
mander Sir G. Webster.

At Tangiers—Growler, steamer, Commander Stod.
dart.

MAIL BTEADI•PACYETS.

At Malta—Merlin, Lieutment J. H. Turner; Triton,
Lieutenant Glinn.
En route from Malta to Marseilles—Medina, Lieute-
nant A. Darby.
En route from Marseilles to Malta—None.
En route from the lonian Islands and Greece to Malta
—Antelope, Lieutenant F. Smyth.
UNITED STATES SQUADRON..

At Baia—lndependence
.frigate, bearing the flag of
Commodore Charles W. Morgan.
At Naples—St. Lawrence, Captain Paulding; Mis-
sissipi steam-frigate, Captain Long, to leave for
Spezzia.
At Genoa—Constitution frigate, Captain Conover.
At Spezzia—Jamestown corvette, Captain S. Mercer.
At Messina—Cumberland.

CABINET COUNCIL.—(THIS DAY.)—The Ministers
assembled in Council this afternoon at the Foreign-
office. There were present the Marquis of Lans-
downe, who arrived in town this morning from a visit
to the Queen at Windsor Castle, Lord John Russell,
the Earl of Minto, the Earl of Carlisle, Viscount
Palmerston, Earl Grey, Sir George Grey, the Mar-
quis of Clanricarde, Sir John C. llobhouse, Mr.
Labouchere, and Mr. Fox Maule. Sir Charles Wood
was absent through indisposition.

CATHEDRAL REFORM —We are glad to find that
the subscription for the support of the Rev. Mr. %Vhistoa
in the arduous struggle in which he is engaged on behalf
of Cathedral Schools against the misappropriation of
the funds by deans and chapters, is progressing favour-
ably. It already amounts Ito upwards of 500/. In the
list wo find the names of the most respectable inhabi-
tants of Rochester, and other towns of Kent, including
S. Finais, Esq., Mayor of Dover ; M. Forster, Esq.,
M.P; J. S. W. E. Drax, Esq., M.P.; Sir John M. Tyl-
den ; the High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire; William
Evans, Esq., M.P; the Right Hon. Edward Strutt ; the
High Sheriff of Derbyshire ; M. P. Bass, Esq. M.P.;
and many clergy of the
_established church.— Kent

MONEY alici COMMERCIAL NEWS.

Y, Q 17A. 2? TER TO 211 REE,

There was a quiet; market for Cotton at Liverpool
yesterday, the sale; being 5,000 bales, of which 1,000
were taken on speculation.—Railway shares were rather
firmer.

The weekly balance-3heet of the Bank of England,
to the 2d instant, is nor, important. The active circu-
lation was slightly diminished, and the discount busi-
ness fell off. The sum to the credit of the public
Treasury is again advancing. In other respects the ac-
count is, comparatively, uninteresting, and the exact
changes, compared with the previous week, are as
follows :
Notes Issued
Increase

... 30,104,810
... 44,310
... 3,232,594

... .3,497
... 5,727,761
... 228,719
... 10,591,701
... 214,182
... 1,205,956

9, 1850

GALWAY, FEB. 6.—lt blew a heavy gale ltht night
from N.N.W. Ti-,e Greek brig San Spiredione is on
shore at Hare Nand, and is likely to become a wreck. •
BELFAST, FEB. 6.—The Anne, f and from Working..
ton, for Dublin, drove on shore during the gale, on Rock
Port, and is making water.
YARMOUTH, FEB. B.—A small loaded brig vas Von
to go down 6th lust, three miles N.W. of the Dudgeon
light vessel.

-LiAnwlctr, FEB. B.—The Premier, of Plymouth, and
the Lively, of Guernsey, have sustained damage from
collision.

PLYmounr, FEE. B.—Wind Asphaler,
Sharp, Alexandria; ship and cargo much damaged.
BIDEFORD, FEB. B.—Fkagments of wreck have come
on shore, a plank marked " Ann Jenkins " in large
gilt latent", and a small archboard " William and
Nancy."

FISHGUABD, FEB. 7.--It blew a violent gale all
yesterday at N.W. with heavy squalls.
PENZANCE, FEB. 7.—The Justice, Swansea end Wa-
terford to Genoa, is at anchor off S. Lklich ei's Mount,
leaky, severely strained, and with loss of bowsprit, top-
maw, and ckelts swept. She will be assittA in as soon
as the weather permits.

BELFAST, FEB. B.—TLo Catherin,,, on shore near
Rockport, is much injured. The Hull Packet, of and for
Dublin, from Troon, is on shore at Banger full of water,
and a brig is on shore at Greypoint.
WELLS, FEB. B.—The Hornsea, London b Wis-
beach, is lelky, having struck upon the bar of Bran-
caster Harbour.

MARKET NE WS.-(TBIS DAY)

COVIONT-G.O.ILDEZI

Increased supplies of —V;le7;l;l7sWere on sale in
to-day's market. The demand for them ruled
heavy, at barely stationary prices. Fruit dull.—
English Fruits--Pine Apples, 5s to 7s ; Muscat of
Alexandria Grapes, 5s to 6s Od; Black Hamburgh
Grapes, 4s Od to 53 Od per lb; Pears, 9s to 15s; .Eating
Apples, 2s 6d to 3s 6d per half-sieve; Apples for cooking,
2s to 4s 6d per bushel; Filberts, 70s to 75s per 100Ibs.
Foreign Fruits—Black Hamburgh Grapes, 9d to ls;
Portugal ditto, 8d to IGd per lb; Spanish Nuts, 4s to ss;
Brazil ditto, 3s to 4s ; Barcelona ditto, 5s to 6s per
peck; Lemons, 4s to lOs ; and Oranges, 3s to lOs per
100; Almonds, 5s to Cs; and Spanish Chesnuts, 3s to
6s per peck; Spanish Onions, 12s to 17s Bcl per box.
Vegetables—Cape Brocoli, 12s to 18s per dozen bundles.
Turnips, 2s 3d to 3s; Carrots, 2s 6d to 4s; Greens, 2s Od
to 3s ; Leeks, 9d to is 3d per dozen bunches ; Horse-
radish, is 6d to 3s ; Celery, is to le 6d per bundle;
Onions, 2s 6d to 3s 6d per bushel ; Parsley, 2s Od to
3s Od per dozen bunches • Cabbages, 9d to Is; Savoy
ditto, is to is 6d ; and Red ditto, 2s Od to 3s Od ; Red
Beet, is to is 6d; Parsnips, 4d to 8d per dozen ; En-
dive, is 3d to is 6d per score ; Brussels Sprouts, 2s to
2s 6d; Spinach, 2s to 2s 6d; Jerusalem Artichokes, is
to is 6d; • and Common Salad, is 3d to is 6d per
half-sieve ; Mushrooms, is 3d to is 6d per pottle;
Small Salad, 2s to 2s 6d per dozen punnets; Sage, 2s
to 3s per dozen bunches ; Shallots, 3d to 4d per lb;
Potatoes, 80s to 120 s per ton; ditto, 3s Od to 4s Od
per bushel; Sea Dail, 2s 6d to 3s per punnet; Aspa-
ragus, 6s to 8s per 100; Rhubarb, 15s to 18s per dozen
bunches; Cornwall Whit. Brocoli, 2s 6d to 4s per dozen;
Forced Cucumbers, 6s to 8s each; Turnip Greens, is to
Is 6d per bushel.

NEVITGATE AND LEADENZALL.
Turkeys, 3s Od to 9s Od ; Geese, 4s Od to 6s
6d; Ducks, 2s to 3s Od ; Tame Rabbits, is 4d to
is 10d ; Wild ditto, 10d to is 4d; Pigeons, 6d to 10d;
Roasting Pigs, 4s Od to 7s 6d each ; Surrey Fowls,
6s 6d to 10s Od ; ditto Chickens, 4s 6d to 6s Od ;
Barndoor Fowls, 3s Od ,to 5s 6d per couple ; English
Eggs, 8s Od to 10s Od ; French ditto, 6s 6d to
8s Od per 100 ; Fresh Butter, 10d to is 3d per lb ;
Pheasants, 3s to 4s; Partridges, is 6d to is 9d ; Hares,
2s 6d to 3s Od ; Snipes, 6d to 7d; Teal, 8d to 10d ;
Wild Ducks, is 6d to 2s 3d; Widgeons is 3d to is 6d;
and Plovers, 6d to 10d each.