The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-23 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Giornale di Roma of the Nth states that on
the preceding day the diversions of the Carnival were
not interrupted by any sinister event, and that the
Corso was thronged and highly animated. The band
of robbers that invaded Brisighella on the Bth is com-
manded by one PASSATOBB, already noted for many
similar crimes and extraordinary daring. A corre-
spondent of the Opinion of Turin writes from Rome
that the Prince of MUSIGNANO'S hand is but slightly
wounded, but that his thigh is in such a bad state
that it would probably be necessary to proceed to
amputation. According to this correspondence, the
POPE'S departure from Portici was still fixed for the
14th; he was to pass the first night at Terracina, the
second at Piperno, the third at Frossinone, the fourth
at Nagni, the fifth at Velletri, and on the
sixth day he was to enter Rome by the gate of
St. John of Lateran.

The Nazionale publishes a letter from Rome of the
13th, stating that upwards of 500 persons had been
arrested since the preceding day. Most of the per-
sons arrested are shopkeepers, functionaries, and per-
sons in easy circumstances. Even ladies had not
been spared. On the 12th three or four Frenchmen
more had been stabbed, and from 40 to 50 persons ar-
rested on that account. The advanced sentinel of the
CAmpo Vaccino had been stabbed immediately after
the publication of General BiItAGUAT
prbclamation. Two trasteverins were to be shot on
the 13th for having knives about them. The French
andltoman police were actively engaged in stopping
anti searching people in the streets.
The Tuscan Minister of the Interior has addressed
a Circular to the police authorities of the country, re..
commending them to exercise the greatest vigilance
over strangers not provided with regular papers, and
to have them conveyed beyond the frontiers of the
state.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
THE LATE DREADFUL EXPLOSION AT AORRIS
CASTLE.— Another of the unfortunate sufferers
(Mr. Buckett, sen.) has breathed his last; it was at
first hoped that he would recover, as, although he
had a leg broken and was considerably bruised, yet
he was not considered to be dangerously injured. An
inquest was held on 'young Buckett and Jerrome,
and verdicts of "Accidental death, caused by the ex-
plosion," recorded; the same jury has since given a
similar verdict on view of the body of old Mr. Buckett.
What caused the explosion is still a mystery, no one
will acknowledge to having been even in the loft for
some days, much more having any fire there.
There appears to have been about one cwt. of gun-
powder in the two cases, or magazines, also a large
quantity of fireworks, and a variety of yacht stores
taken out of the Kate and the Ganymede. Mr.
Bell, jun., son of R. Bell, Esq., the proprietor of
Norris Castle, had a narrow escape, as, had he not
left the stables on seeing the smoke issue
from the loft, with a view to obtain the key
of the loft door and ascertain the cause,
he would, most probably, have lost his life with the
other unfortunates. The whole building is of the
most massive character, similar to the castle, the
walls of immense thickness ; but the explosion was so
tremendous that they stood no chance against it.
The floor of the loft was carried by seven beams,
twelve inches square, all of which were destroyed ;
the roof was carried over into the next yard, and an
anchor, weighing 3 cwt., was blown on to the top of
a hay rick. The men who lost their lives by this
terrific explosion were at the time engaged in the
put out the fire on Mr.
Bell's return with the key,
and were killed by the
falling yard procuringo fthe walls, water
&c.
•
Various reports have been in circulation as to the
cause of the fire :—that a person had been seen going
into the store smoking a cigar—had been taking gun-
powder from thence for sporting purposes, and dropped
some, which formed a train—that the fire was caused
by the fireworks, and also by leakage from a carboy
of muriatic acid—but nothing of the kind came out
in evidence. The dreadful effects are all that is
known—the rest is only conjecture, as the maga-
zines were (if properly closed) next to fireproof, and
the trifling fire in the store would not have injured
them.

PUBLICThe new Isle of Wight
and
Company have entered
into a contract with Mr. Joseph White, of Cowes, to
poTts
InAocuctohms Is °ter; Anir-TboosTa.t--
build them two new boats, 110 feet long, each to be
June next; they are to be
expected to steam fourteen
finthyeitnheeoufilrs2.l3t,hTahonfed engines are of 40-horse power
milesr regulareadyno
each.

RAILWAY RETURNS
RAILWAY TaArric.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail-
ways for the past week—that is to saY. UP to the date to which the
respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same
week in the previous year:—

..; '''
~,,
Week Last aa S ti.
ending NAME OF ItALLWAT. week. E
bb
Q .2
--------.---. --___..,-
----.
.E 4
Feb. 16 Aberdeen •• ...... -•• • • ..... • ••• • • 806 390
422
17 Amiens and Boulogne .•••• • • . ... 1,070 1,534
16 Belfast and Ballymena:• ••• • • .... •• • 367
17 682 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 759
17 Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe, and W. Y• 405 357
- Bristol and Exeter ...... ••.•••• • • * • • - -
10 Ca1ed0n1an............. •••••• • ' • • • • 5,'1,15,. 3,824
17 Chester and Holyhead... •••••• • • • • • • `,`°. 1,100
14 Dublin and Drogheda. ••• • • ••"• • • •'654 679
19 Dublin and Kingstown ••••••• • • • • • " 570 613
16 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen •••• • • • • 1,044 945
17 East Anglian.... ••••••• • • • • • • ......
• 738 698
16 Edinburgh and Glasgow •• • • •'• ••• • • 2, .212 3,133
16 Edinburgh and Perth •••'•"• • • • • ''' ' ° 1,605
17 Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. 13,287
11117066
GGGrlra4 Glasgow,
eeaagttol3,362
1,741519
17 East Lancashire ..
17 Eastern Uni0n...... --•••• • • - - - `.°4° 1.201
16 Great Southern and Western •••• • • • • 3,616 3,395
10 Lancaster and Carlisle ••••"' • • • • • - 3•15::
12,592 17670
10,826 10,887
17 Lancashire and Yorkshire..
608 219
le Leeds and Thirsk •••••••• • • • • " • • -
76 72
17 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport. •• •
120 119
16 Londonderry and Enniskillen •••• • • • •
wNwesanrElimithedrnerGnan:refiena°en.de.ke:Ek.a...nl Ld.....A.......?"....r...•
...
....
....•
..•••
.......... 22:854631:5 21:831;
17 London and North Western, Ice" .... 38,003 36,713
17 London and Blackwall• ••••••' • • • • • •
16 London and Brighton .•••• • • • ' •"•
• • 6,426 6,756
17 London and South Western .• • ..... 7,209 7,472
17 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 4,564 3,112
17 Midhtnd, Bristol, and Birmingham •• • • 19,540 19,319
17 Midland Great Western (Irish) ••• • • • 904 1,065
796
17 North British ..... ........ .•••• • • • • 3,080 2,312
16 Paris and Rouen, .................. 5,684
2224 52:7,5551
16 Rouen and Havre ..••••••• • • • • • • • • •
.. • • •
17 Scottish Central ••••••...• • • • • • • • •
•• 1,122 879
5
368 256
16 Scottish- Midland ••••••••• • • • • • • . • •
17 Shropshire Union •••• • • • • •••
. .
17 Shrewsbury and Chester •••••• • • • • • • 1,241 1,374
366 -
..
16 South Eastern and Branches ••• • • • 7,607 6,506
10 South Devon ........ .••••"•• • • • • • • 1,510 1,320
- •
16 Taff Vale _ ~..... ............ ••• • • • 1,510 1,756
17 Ulster . ...... .....
.. • • • • . • • •
Waterford and Limerick.... •••' • '• -
• 283
10 Tirhitehaven Junction .•••••••• •• •• • • • • 201 -'
17 York and North Midland .•• • •
17 York and Newcastle .•••••• - - - - 6,3"
6,307

DEATH or LADY Lucr NORTH.—This lady died
on Wednesday last at her town residence, after a short
illness. Her Ladyship was third daughter of the Right
Rev. Dr. Brownlow North, Bishop of Winchester, and
sister of the Earl of Guilford and the late Dowager
Lady Walsingham and Lady Henrietta Gamier. By
the lamented demise of her Ladyship several families of
rank are placed in mourning.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 4,000 bales, all to the trade.—Railway
Shares were very dull.

The Weekly Statement of the Bank of England is all
on the side of increased assets. There is an accumula-
tion of notes unemployed, and of bullion, while the loans
appear to have been diminished likewise. The balance to
the credit of Government was largely added to, and the
only indication of a slightly augmented opening for the
employment of money is in the reduction of private
deposit.. The comparison with the previous statemen
is as follows :
Notes Issued
Increase
Rest

... 30,340,035
• 214,650
... 3,317,661
~. 58
... 7,087,030
... 815,000
... 9,848,781
... 311,487
• 1,153,364
... 18,126
... 14,399,368
• 102.814
.. 9,657,067
_ ••• 55,638
Notes ... 11,153,535
Increase . . 449,525
Bullion ... ... 17,089,901
Increase 239,646
Active Circulation ... 19,186,500
Decrease ... 234,875
Tho rates paid for bills at 90 days upon the principal
continental cities were 3 esterday afternoon as follows:
Paris, 25 674 to 70; .Antwerp, 25 70 to 75; Ham-
burgh, 13 12 to 131; and Trieste, 11 32 to 35.
It is not often that the reports made by the Joint-
Stock Bank boards of direction afford muck information
beyond what immediately concerns the proprietary, and
perhaps it may be as well, since the great difficulty would
be to avoid touching on debatable ground. There are,
however, in the annual report of the Birmingham Dis-
trict Banking Company some judicious observations re-
lative to past reverses in the manufacturing districts,
and the following is a portion of them:—
" Since the former report was presented, many of the
effects produced by causes of then recent occurrence
have, to a great extent, gradually settled down, but still
leaving traces not soon to be entirely effaced, and recol-
lections of too vivid a nature to be forgotten, by the un-
fortunate subjects of them. But it is surprising to ob-
serve how the elastic force of a community, possessing
all the elements of greatness, heaves and straggles until
it overcomes the pressure even of intense disaster, and
how rapidly it surmounts, not only one crisis, but a series
of crises; although after every such struggle many
affecting cases of blighted hopes and ruined fortunes
give but too sure evidence of the resistless force of the
late storm. It is, however, highly satisfactory to con-
trast the present circumstances of the country with its
late condition and prospects during the prevalence of
commercial reverses, of money panics, of dearth, and of
drains for railway engagements, which threatened to
exhaust the large class of persons concerned in tkat
adventure.

Increase ...
Public Deposits ...

Increase
Other Deposits

Decrease ... .
Seven Day and other Bills

Increase ...
Government Securities

Increase

Other Securities
Decrease

"In the manufacturing districts generally, but espe-
cially in Lancashire and Yorkshire, a great revival of
trade has taken place, particularly in most articles pro-
duced for foreign markets; and perhaps it is not too
much to state that considering the general employment
of the people, and the low price of nearly everything
that enters into their subsistence, the working classes
never had a greater command of physical comforts than
at the present time. This is really a cheering fact ;, and
it may be hoped that considerable numbers of provident
men will avail themselves of the favourable opportunity
to make such reserves as will guarantee them against
feeling the severity of any future periods of depression.
" The retail trade of the country has not enjoyed the
full benefit of the improvement already referred to,
owing partly to the great depression which, in turn, and
especially during a period of transition, has come upon
the agricultural interest. But despite the present gloom,
which forms a serious drawback on the cheering signs
of the times, it may be hoped that, seconded by British
capital, skill, and energy, other causes will soon come
into operation which will arrest, or at least mitigate, the
threatening evils, and make agriculture fully participate
in the general prosperity; so that it shall cease to seem
that the prosperity of one class is incompatible with that
of any other. But another cause which has worked un-
favourably for the retail trade Is the great diminution of
income arising from the generality of railway invest-
ments, and which could not fail considerably to limit
consumption. _ _ _

" This rapid glance at the condition of the several
interests on which banking profits in this district de-
pend would be incomplete without a few remarks on the
iron trade. The production of iron being unduly stimu-
lated a few years ago by large orders for rails, at high
prices, it was obvious that whenever a serious check
should occur to that extraordinary demand, the home
and foreign markets together would soon fail to take off
the additional production, and that consequently depres-
sion must ensue. The check came with the reaction in
railway undertakings; and almost, with the exception of
a few old contracts, the sudden cessation of demand for
railway iron produced great depression in the trade,
which all attempts to overcome, except by a diminution
of the make, failed to secure. At present, however,
there is a better feeling, and a fractional improvement
in prices, the demand for commercial and trade purposes
being very considerable, and altogether giving promise of
better times."

The exports of bullion from London during the week
to Thursday last were 65 318 ounces of silver and 514
ounces of gold to the Continent. There were also 706/.
in specie seat to the Mauritius.

The West India letters and papers were delivered tc-
day, but they add nothing important to the published
ad VICCP.

The report of the Amsterdam Bourse of the 21st inst.
is unfavourable. Large orders to sell continued to ar-
rive, and home and foreign securities all suffered. Dutch
Tao-and-a-Half per Cents. were 54 9-16.
The Hamburgb Mail of Tuesday brings the rate of
exchange on Loudon at 13 10. The Coffee market was
duller.

The advices from the woollen manufacturing distrieta
notice continued activity, and in the hosiery department
there is a good deal doing, but the cotton branches are
heavy.

Tae Funds have been fluctuating again, but at this
moment look somewhat better, owing to the report per
telegraph that the basis for an arrangement of the
Danish question has been agreed on at Berlin. Con-
sold hare Leen 95 to 4 for Money, and are now 95k
For Time they realise 95+ a. The New Three-and• a-
Quarter per Cents. are 974 Exchequer-bills have
bee❑ marked 545. to 575. premium.

In the Foreign market scarcely any business is doing.
Mexican Bonds are 29i Peruvian have been 801 to
81. Russian Scrip is dull at 2 prem.
Railway Shares are all heavy again, the North-
Western dividend of only 5 per cent. baring an un-
favourable effect.

ONE :Lt,til. G
P:tllr. • ':‘ .cliorvi ..1-7NDI O'CLOCK. '''RIC'ES.
3 . or Cont. Reduced An no ...... 9514% 955
3"per Cent. Consols Annuities 951/814 95 95U 9514
gaw 314 per Cent. Anu5...... 97:15 98
L ng Arms. to expire Jan.lB6o -16 8 9-16
consols for Account
r'xcliequer Hill,i. l 14,i. & 2d
1,000!. June ... ....- 54 57 p 57 p
5001. Juno
&non. June 54 57 p 57 p
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. °NE OLosIN
O'CLOCK. fitICES .

Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, Small
MOXlcan, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons—
Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons ... —
Ditto, Account
Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent
Ditto, Account ..... BO% 81 801,i
Ditto Deferred
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto, 4 per Cant.
Ditto, Account
Russian Bonds ...
Ditto Scrip 2 p
4anish 5 per Cent. 1840
Ditto. 3 per Cent
,2 Venezuela Bonds, 21A per Cent
Ditto, Deferred !.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 214 per Cent., 12 Guild. .. 551.
Ditto. 4 nor Cent. Certificates 861,41 861A2
PRICES OF ?AID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
!!AILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICE,,
Caledonian
Ditto, New 101. Pref... 10
Chester and Holyhead... 50 .....• .. .. ...
Ditto, Preference l5 ...... ... 9%
F. astern Counties... - •••..... ... 7is
Do, New Prt.f.rence,
6 ver Cent ....
Do. North. & Eastern,
6 per Cent. ... 5O ......
Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50
Do. New
Eastern Union, Class A
(late E. U. Shares) 25
East Lancashire
Great Northern
Do., 1,2 A Deferred
Do., 14 B 6 per Cent... PA 31,4 31,4
Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. 12 14...... 10%
~reatcorth of England.loo ......

891 A

2p
1814
36%

12%

Ditto. New, 30/ ......... 30
Great Western... ..... ....100
Ditto, 14 Shares
Ditto, Fifths ......
Ditto, New 171........ 15 ... —7% ... 73
Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 ...... „.. .......
..... /4
Ditto, Thirds
Lancashire& Yorkshire 100
Do. New, Gua.6 per et. 10
Leeds and Bradford
London &Blackwall...ll/. 63.3 d — ....
37
London, Brighton, and
South Coast..~ ~..•100
London and N Wei-tern 100 10614 1071js 106% 106%
Ditto, New Quarters.. 12
Ditto. Fifth:, . -
......
...... 1214
Do. 104 (111. & R.) C 1 ...,.. 11%'....,..,. ... 1%
Manchester. Sheffield
and Lincolnshire 100
Do. New 10/. Prsf..... 10 ...,.. 714 714
Midland ... 1(;) .. 42 41% 421,i 41%
Do.Consol.Bristol and
Do.. do., 50!. Shares 30 c .. SIA 5%
Do. Birm., and Derby 100
Norfolk ......... ........... 100
Do. New 20/. ~ l 5
IN Extension ...
North British .......... 25 .....
Ditto, Quarters
Ditto, Thirds ........ 8} .... 3'4 •-•-•
North Staffordshire ... 171/2 6IA% 6%
Oxf,4rd, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton
Scottish Central
Shrewsbury and Bine— 1214...••. 414
Ditto ditto, Class B. 8
South Eastern
Do., Regidepod No. 4 10 ...... 6 more ...... , , 6