The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-02 00:00:00

ITALY•

theTGheovßsoerenmrgerti'itnoerfitio)aOrrmTirnf thehia:sum 26th states that
monedthe t
ax
-
gatherer of Pontr.-moli to refund upwards of 16,000 f.
hich he had paid to various persons by order of the
TuQcan Government, at the time that the province of
Lunigiana was under its sway in 1848. The tax-
gatherer is threatened with the sale of his property
and that of his brother, if he does not obey the in-
junction within 30 days.
The Nazionale of Florence, of the 23d, states
that the example of the municipality of Massa Marit-
timr., in petitioning the GRAND DUKE in favour of the
Constitution, is about to be followed by several
others. It publishes a petition, addressed by the in-
habitants of Montecarlo to their Municipality, recom-
mending them to petition the Grand DUKE for the
same object.
The Roman Minister of War, C42neral KALBER“
MATTEN, has addressed an order of the day to the
troop, offering those soldiers, whose engagements
have expired, a new engagement in the guards of the
Minister of the Interior. Their former years of ser-
vice are to be counted in their new engagement.

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The intrigues of Austria and :11•+ aples against the
tranquillity of the Piedmontese States have been
uncelsing. At first they sought to render con-
sfitutional government in that country impossible, by.
sending Socialist agents to endeavour to excite dis-
turbances. Warned by the events cf last year, the
Piedmontese turned a deaf ear to the entreaties of the
Austrian spies, who were ignominiously exposed and

expelled. The Austrians then endeavoured to excite
the bigotry of the priests against the constitutional
order of things, and in this they have been more suc-
cessful. The Archbishop of TURIN, acting under
Austrian influence, has addressed the following letter
to his clergy, commanding them to disobey the laW :
" TURIN, APRIL 18.—Very Reverend Sir and Bro-
thcr,—As the civil lade carnot dispense the clergy from
the special obligations to which they are subjected by
the laws of the church and by the concordates or cnn-
ventions with the holy see, which, regulates the appli-
cation of them, I charge you, very reverend sir, to in-
timate to tLe tccletiastics of your parish the following
prescriptions:—

" 1. That if called upon to appear as witnesses before
a lay judge they must, as hereto'ore, address themselves
to the archiepiscopal authorities to obtain the preicribtd
permissior.

" 2. That, if cited to appear before any lay tribunal
for such civil causes as by the tenor of the existing con-
cordates, should be of the exclusive appurtenance of the
episcopal jurisdiction, they must address themselves to
the bishop, for the opportune directions which the case
may require.

3. That if they should be proceeded against
Bally by a Icy tribunal, in cases not contemplated in the
convention of the 27th of March, 1841, they must, in
like manner, have recourse t) the bishop, and if they
have not the time or the means of so doing, and appre-
hend serious damage from a rifest,' to answer the inter-
rogatories made, they will have to oppore the incompe-
tency e f the jurisdiction, and protest that they yield
only to necessity, without prejudicing the right they
have to personal immunity; otter which, in consenting
to answer the questions put them, they will incur no
culpability or blame.

"4. A similar protestation shall bo mado by the
parish priest of any church, every time that an act con-
trary to the local immunities of his church or right of
asylum shall take place.
" 5. That if an ecclesiastic or a religioua establish.
ment should have to proceed against another ecclesiastic
or religious establishment, each respectively must have
recourse previously to the bishop for the directions to be
followed in each case.

"6. In fine, that such prescriptions are to be con-
sidered as temporary, and to subsist until such time as
the apostolical see shall have made known the ulterior
instructions which have been solicited.
"Not doubting in the least, Very Reverend Sir, but
that, knowing the importance of the matter in question,
you will display all possible zeal, in order that such pre-
scriptions may be strictly observed. I deem it useless
to add any special recommendation, and will only note
that, if it should come to your knowledge that any one
should infringe them, I expect to be immediately in-
formed of the same. (Then follows an order for public
thanksgivings for the return of the Pope to Rome.)
(Signed) " 1;4 Louis Archbishop."
The people of Italy are, perhaps, less bigotted than
those of any other Catholic country • they are by
birth Roman Catholics, but if Papacy becomes in their
mind identified with atrian obscurantism, they will
soon cease to be such. The Italian priests are play-
ing a dangerous game in thus lending themselves to
Austrian intrigue.

THE LONDON COFFEE-HOUSE AND EATING-HOUSE-
KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION.—This excellent institution cele=
brated its anniversary last evening lay a dinner at the Free-
masons' Tavern, Mr. Masterman, M.P., efficiently dis-
charging the duties of the chair. In proposing the health
of her Majesty the worthy chairman alluded to the interest-
ing event of the morning, and congratulated the company
upon the increase that had been thereby occasioned to the
Royal Family.—(Cheers.) After giving the other loyal and,
routine toasts, the chairman proposed the toast of the even-
ing, "Prosperity to the London Coffee-house andEating-house-
keepers' Association," passing a high eulogium on the excel-
lency of the Humphries announced a list
of subscriptions, which included 10/. 108. by their chairman,
21/. by the president of their association, and various contri-
butions by the proprietors of the public journals. The
number of coffee-houses, he observed, in the metropolis,
was about three thousand ; many of them took •in three
or four of the daily papers, and a considerable number
of them received as many as forty or fifty papers
per day. It was a source of gratification to their
proprietors to lay before the almost innumerable visitors of
their establishments the good and sound information that
the press placed before the public.—(Hear, and cheers.) In
reply to a toast, the treasurer of the society observed that
their object was to provide for their'poorer brethren, and to
institute almshouses for the orphan children of members of
the trade.— (Cheers.) In acknowledging the toast of the
committee and auditors, Mr. Humphries said that amongst
the many strange changes and vicissitudes of life it had oc-
curred that among the first applicants for the assistance of
their association was one of the most well-known men in the
metropolis. He should stand excused for not mentioning his
name, because poverty had always difficulties enough to con-
tend against without the ,disadvantage consequent upon the
publication of that adversity.—(Hear, hear.) The object of
their association was to assuage distress, and he was per-
suaded that it was conducted in a manner iu unison with its
object. Various other toasts followed, and the result of the
festival was announced to be a handsome subscription in aid
of its funds. The-entire arrangements reflected the highest
credit upon the Freemasons' Tavern, and the company sepa-
rated highly gratified with thievents of the evening.
SPIRITS.—A return printed by order of' the House
of Commons, gives the number of gallons of proof spirits dis-
tilled in England in the year ending the sth January, 1850,
as 5,573,411. The number of gallons distilled in Scotland
was 10,846,634. In Ireland the number of gallons was
8,355,083; making a total for the United Kingdom of
24,775,128. The number of gallons made in the same period,
for proof spirits, on which duty was paid for consumption in
England, was 9,053,676; in Scotland 6,935,003; in Ireland
6,973,33! gallons; making a total in the United Kingdom of
22.962,012 gallons. The number of gallons of proof spirits
imported in the same space into England from Scotland was
,651,529; and the amount of duty, at 75. 10d. per gallon,
1,058,5151. The number of gallons imported into England
from Ireland was 890,021; and the amount of duty, at 7s.
10d. per gallon, 348,591/. The number of gallons ins-,
ported into Scotland from Ireland was 12,580; and the num-
ber of gallons imported into Ireland from Scotland, 766,405.
NAUTICAL ALMANACK.—An account relative to
the expenses incurred in the publication of the Nautical
Almanac has been returned, from oshich it appears that in
1847-48 10,000 copies of 1851 were printed, and 8 638 of
various years were sold by John Murray at ss. per copy, the
per-centage allowed amounting to 15/. The expenses of pre-
paration, printing, and sale, amounted to 3,677/. 25., and the
amount produced was 2,159/. 10s., giving a balance against
the public of 1,517/. 12s, In 1848.4910,000 copies of the
year 1852 were printed, and 8,776 'of various years were
sold. The expenses amounted to 3,035/. ss. 4d., and the
amount realised was 2,1944 making a loss to the public of
861/. ss. 4d. In the year 1849-50 the usual number of
copies of 1,853 were printed, and the various copies sold
amounted to 8,8951. The expenses were 3,475/. 7s. 3d., and
the produce of the sales 2,223/. 155., the loss to the public
being 1,2511. 12,. 3d. In 1847-48 the sums disbursed as
rewards, &e., for scientific purposes, amounted to 3131. 9s. ;
in 1848-49 they amounted to 748/., the principal item being
500/. paid to Mr. Charles Brooke for his apparatus for the
self-registration of magnetical and meteorological pheno-
mena. In 1849-50 the sums so expended amounted to 100/.
COURT OF. INLAND REVENUE.—SaHIueI Genese,
proprietor of the hotel and coffee-house, 125, Jermyn-street,
was yesterday fined• in this Court in the sum of 1201., for
retailing wine and malt liquor without a licence.
Slanderers are; at all events, economical, for they
make a little go a great way, and rarely open their mouths
except at the expense of other people. Eliza Cook's Journal,
HER MAJESTY'S TEIEATRE.---The Queen's box at
her Majesty's Theatre was on Tuesday evening occupied by
the Countess Grey, Lady Mary Wood, Miss Copley. Sir Jo-
seph Copley, the Hon. 11. Grey, Mr. Bogus, Mr. Grey ano
party. Among the visitors were—His Serene highness
Charles Duke of Brunswick, his Excellency the Russian Mi-
nister, M. do Berg, his Excellency the Turkish Ambassador
and suite, his Excellency the Swedish Minister, the
Priuce Louis Lucien Bonaparte, the Marquis anti Mar-
chioness of Kildare, the Marquis of Huntly, the Earl of
Falmouth, the Earl Bruce, the Countess Flahault and
Miss Flabault, the Earl of Cardigan, Viscount Clifden,
Prince Tamahama and suite, the Viscount Anson, the
Viscount Cantilupe, the Viscount and Viscountess Dupplin,
Lord Gardner, Lord Adolphus Fit zclarence, Lord G. Paget,
Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Augustus Gordon and Lady
Gordon, Lord and Lady. Dalmeny, Lord A. Hay, Lori
Sandys, Lady Rosé Lovell, Mr. and Lady Caroline Sand-
ford, Lady flenrietta Somerset, Comte Ferdinand Pergin,
the Count Jules B. de Richebourg, Lord Kilmorey, the 110.
nourable Fitzroy Stanhope, the Honourable Mrs. Dudley
Ward, the Baroness de 'Rothschild, the Baron and Baroness
Lionel de Ro.hschild, Sir Anthony de Rothschild, Bart.,
the Hon. Augustus Chichester, the Marquis d'Azeglio,
the lion. A. Upton, the Hon. C. R. Neville, Sir George
Carroll, Sir James Clark, Sir Isaac Goldsmid, Sir Thomas
Barrett Lennard, Bart., and Lady Barrett Lennard, Sir R.
Lopez, Baroh de Krelimer, Baroness de Schertz, Sir George
Wombwell. Bart., Lady Thorold, Lady Shirley, Lady Gordon,
Sir J. and Lady Atkinson, Lady Davey, Mr. W. Pinney,
M.P., Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke, Bart., and Lady Clarke,
the Count de Civry, Mr. and Dirs. Ewing, the Hon. Major
Needham, Hon. Gran tley Berkeley, M.P., Hon. Claude Lyon,
Major ldountjoy Martin, Colonel Lowther, &c., &c.

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ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—Her Majesty's box at the
Royal Italian Opera was occupied on Tuesday evening by the
Earl and Countess of Listowell and Lady Augusta Hare and
party. The general audience included, among others, the
following members of the fashionable world : The Mar-
chioness of Westmeath, the Earl and Countess of Talbot and
Lady Victoria Talbot, the Earl and Countess Cowper, the Earl
Granville, the Countess of Beauchamp and party, the Coun-
tess of Malmesbury and party, the Earl' of Darnley, the
Countess of Glengall and party, the Countess of Cadogan
and Lady Augusta Baring, the Countess Dowager of Essex
and Miss Johnson and party, the Earl of Gifford, Viscount
Sydney, Viscount Exmouth, Viscount and Viscountess Tem-
pleton, Viscount Macdowall, Viscount Maldon, Lord and

Lady Mandeville, Lord Alfred Paget, M.P., and Lady Alfred
Paget, Lady Camoys and the Hon. Miss Stonor, Honourable
Francis Stoner, Lady Stanley and party, Lordand Lady
Montcagle and the Hon. Charles Spring Rice, Lord Adol-
phus Vane, Lady Augusta Gordon Hallyburton and the
Misses Erskine, Lady Louisa Molyneux, Hon. Charles Pepys,
Lord Arthur Hay, Lady Suffield, the Hon. Miss Tracy and
party, the Count and Countess de Jarnac and the Hen:
Adelaide Foley, Hon. Fitzgenild Foley, General Count Ca-
brera and party, Lady Webster and party, Lady Flint and
party, Lady Templemore and the Hon. Miss Chichester, Hon
F. Chichester, Lady Morgan and party, Sir William and
Lady De Bathe and Miss De Bathe, Sir Henry Webb, Sir
George Armytage, Lady Vernon and the Hon. Miss Vernon,
Sir Thomas Hare, Mr. Towneley and Lady Caroline Towiteley,
Hon. George Milks, Hon. John Fortescue,. M.P., Sir John
Bailey, General Meade, the Hon. Mrs. Meade and Miss
,Made, Mr. Henry Greville and Miss Greville, &c.
WALWORTII LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTI•
TUTION. —The fifth annual soiree of members and friends of
the above institution was held yesterday evening, in the New
Lecture Hall, Walworth ; the Right Hon. C. T. d'Eyncourt,
M.P., presiding. After a few general observations on the
advantages of literary institutions, Mr. D'Eyncourt con-
cluded by stating that the erection of the handsome hall in
which they were assembled had exhausted the funds of the
institution, and that a balance of 2001. remained yet due on
the builder's account. Mr. G. Cruickshank, Mr. Parry, the
Rev. Messrs. Statham and Rogers subsequently audressed
the company, and at intervals an excellent selection of songs
and glees were sung by Miss E. Lyons, Mr. Seguin, Miss
Thornton, &c. We should not omit to mention that the
walls were decorated for the occasion with some excellent

copies of the great masters, the production of a lad nut more
than 15 years of age, a Mr. Watkyns. The hall was fully
attended, and the company seemed highly satisfied with the
entertainment provided.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
cur); QUARTER i 0 THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 14,000 bales, of which 1,000 Brazil were taken for
export. and 3,900 American, 59i, Bahia, 1,000 Surat, and
1,000 Egyptian on speculation. The market closed with an
upward tendency.—Railway Shares were dull, and generally
at lower quotations.
The six weeks' average price el Wheat is 375. 10d. per
quarter.

IVe have received from Messrs. M‘Yair, Greenhow, and
Irving, of Manchester, the following leport upon the trade
of their district :

" Excitement and quiet may again be said to have been
the alternate characteristics a this market during the
month. Since the date of our last circular its progress has
not only been very changeable, but very perplexing,
occasioned mainly by .the different arrivals from
the United States, all concurring as to the mate-
rial falling off in the supplies of Cotton at
the different ports, es compared with the same periods in the
preceding year, the effect of Which has been to raise the price
of that article since the 28th ult. nearly Id. per lb. it we
are not mistaken, the date given was the period when Cotton
had reached the lowest point of this year. This advance,
and the receipt of more favourable accounts from India and
China, have caused the transactions of the month to be of
considerable magnitude in both Cloth and Twist.

"A nude; ial advance has been realised up, n 7-8 and 9-8
printing cloths, 36 • and 40 inch shirtings, maddapol4ms,
water and mule twist, in both of which the transactions have
been enormously large. Stocks, with the exception of cer-
tain descriptions of domestic, T, and long cloths, are now
exceeding light. Purchases have again been chittly fur ex-
port; those for the home trade, considering the season of the
year, having been of a limited character."
Accounts from Brussels state that no parties had pre-
sented themselves before the Council for the re-adjudication
of the railway from Louvain to la Sambre (towards Namur
and Charleroi). The undertaking, therefore, must be done
away with, unless an arrangement is made between the
Government and the Luxembourg Company.
At Amsterdam the Funds were more animated on the 30th
inst., owing to the settlement of the account. The - Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were 55 3 16. Foreign Stocks
generally were more feeble. The Frankfort Bourse on the
29th ult. was flat. Austrian Metallics, 77%.
The last week's railway receipts ascertained up to this day
were as under :

1850. 1849.
North-Western... £42,883 18s. 2d. £40,572 12s. 11d.
South-Western 9,386 ss. Bd. 9,538 6s. ld.
Brighton. .
,Od. 7,468 Os. Od.
22,038 17s. 6d. 21,255 6s. 7d.
South-Eastern
Caledonians
North Stafford ...
The English Stock Market has been 'firmer this morning,
but the business is still rather limited. The speculative
dealings are influenced a little by the Paris election,
but many augur favourably of it as a whole-
some check upon the reactionists. Consols have ruled
at 05% to y 3. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents.
have been 96% to 971/14. Bank Stock is worth 206 to 207.
India Stock is at 265. Exchequer-bills have been marked
675. to 695., and India Bonds 90s. to 935. premium. Consuls
now are 955 g •
In the Foreign. Market the transactions have not been of
any moment. Mexican Bonds have been quoted 26% :A,
and Peruvian 691/2 to 70. Brazil Bonds are 861/.. l'or-
uguese Four per Cents. have been 3314, and Spanish
Three • per Cents. 3676. 'Belgian. Your-and-a-Half per.
Cents. have been 861/2, and Dutch Two-und-a-lialfper Cents.
55 IA .
Railway Shares wear still a heavy appearance, and there is
not much doing. North-Western are scarcely so good.
South-Eastern firmer-; Great Western steady ; Northern of
France higher. ' ' •

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