The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-07 00:00:00

breech terminated in a fine bald and bearded heal

al, said to

be that of the Apostle Paul. This gun took a firm hold
of the midshipman's memory ; and 50 years later, when
the Admiral was on his way to Europe, ho spoke of it to
his officers and expressed his intention of looking in at
Tunis to see it, and his hope that he, p:Thaps, might be
able to acquire it. The topic seems to have been often up-
permost in his conversation, for " the Admiral's gun" came
to be a standing joke among the officers. When Farragut
was at Florence ho was taken to the most remarkable
buildings, and among others to the old Palace of the Po-
desta, more commonly known as the Bargello, long a
prison, but in which several rooms aro now set apart as
a museum of antiquities. As Farragut was making the
tour of the wonderfully picturesque court of f the build-
ing, whore some pieces of sculpture and other objects
are displayed, he suddenly exclaimed, " There's my
gun." And, sure enough, his gun it was; the very piece
he had sqen more than half a century previously, and
which he intended going to see again at Tunis. It is a
remarkable piece of ordnance, which may have been mur-
derous enough in its day, although now more in its place
in a museum than in a battery. Inscriptions upon it, cast
in relief, show it to have been the work of the Florentine
Cosimo Cenni, executed in 1638, under the reign of Ferdi-
nand 11., Grand Duke of Etruria. By that Prince it was
sent as a present to Venice, and is said, according to the
chronicle cf the Bargello, to have been taken by the Bar-
bary ct uisers in a successful raid executed upon the terri-
tory of the Republic. There is a certain amount of inter-
course between Italy and Tunis, in which latter country
there exists a considerable Italian colony, and a year or
two ago it occurred to the Pasha that the gun in question,
having been cast in Florence, wonld ba a suitable present
to the Monarch who had lately transferred his capital
thither. Thus has it come to pass that St. Paul's cannon
now lies in the inner court of the Bargello, with a ticket
attached to it declaring it the property of the King, and

it is to be feared the Admiral has not much chance of
taking it with him on his return to the United States. It
may be some consolation to him to know that the
guardians of the gate and galleries of the old Guelph
palace are perfectly acquainted with the circumstances of
his first acquaintance with and constant affection for it,
and that the handsome piece of bronze, with its magnifi-
cent bearded head, is likely to become traditional as "the
Admiral's gun."

The trial of Colonel Nagle, at Sligo, has been
postponed until the next assizes, as a sufficient number of
aliens could not be obt%inad for the jury.

The American Government bas declined to aid
by counsel Captain Mackay (whose true name is Lomas-
ney) on his trial, on the ground that he violated British
law on British soil. He was born in Boston, United
States.

One hundred and fifty recruits for the Papal
Zouave corps have arrived ira New York from Canada,
en route for Home. Their departure from Montreal on Feb.
19 was the occasion of imposing religious ceremonies
in the Catholic churches.

Admiral Bell, of the United States Navy, was
drowned at the mouth of the Osaka river, Japan, on 11th
January. The mouth of the river had been closed by
sand bar, which had formed during a heavy storm. The
admiral had been waiting for several days to cross the bar,
when he finally started, accompaniei by Flag Lieutenant
Heed and thirteen men in a boat from the Hartford. While
passing over the bar, going in the direction of Osaka, the
boat capsized, and all on board were drowned, except three
sailors. The bodies were recovered and buried near the
mouth of the Osaka river.
The revenue officials at New York have so busied
themselves in looking after the whisky frauds and illicit
distillers that other wholesale cheating has been going on
with comparative impunity. The Treasury Department
lately commenced looking into the matter of the revenue
collected on cotton, and it is found that the deficit during
1867 only was upwards of $2,000,000, and as the law pro-
vides a fine of $lOO for every bale of cotton illegally de-
livered, the whole amount of the.penalties is over,s2oo,oool
with the forfeiture of the vessels engaged in bringing the
cotton to the port. Five steamships have already been
seized, and if their owners are convicted will ba confis-
cated.
The Canadians complain that American hunter's
are violating their genre laws by shooting deer out of

season.
The Convention in the cod-fishing interest, held
at Boston, decided to go to Washington and attempt to
secure a higher protective tariff and the entire abolition of
duty on salt.
" Carleton," writing to the Boston Journal fro).
Constantinople, alludes as follows to one of Springfield's
wanderers :—" You roach a building of three stories, with
a stovepipe coming out of the window. This is the Light
House of the East. Step inside and see the light—Bibles
in half a dozen languages, books, papers, tracts, maps °f
the world, showing the missionary stations. It is the
Mission House, also the Bible House of the American
Bible Society, and the British and Foreign Bible Society.
The lower floor is a salesroom. We creep up a stairwaYt
and find a score of workers. Among them is the Bev'
Edwin Bliss of Springfield, Massachusetts, editor of a
paper with 1,700 subscribers, and the number constantly
increasing. Here is his brother, Rev. Isaac Bliss, agent
of the American Bible Society, who has young native
Christians penetrating, in connection with the British So-
ciety, every part of the Turkish empire."
New post-offices have been established on the
Boston, Clinton, and Fitchburg Railroad, with postmasters
as follows: Ferryville,in the town of Southboro', Anna B.
Newton ; West Berlin, S. L. Carter ; Pratt's Junction, T.
H. Currier.
There are 1,568 lakes in Maine, some of which
are from 1,200 to 2,000 feet above the level of the sea. it
is claimed that no other area of extent in the world pos-
sesses so much water power.