The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-29 00:00:00

ITALY.

Several of the most eminent lawyers have been
summoned to Turin, to aid in drawing up the new
marriage law.
Several persons have been arrested at Rome,
charged with being concerned in a supposed conspiracy.
The King of NAPLES has ordered the trial of the
persons charged with being of the Society of the
United Italy to be suspended. While PECHENADA, the
police agent, arrests every one who has raised the cry
of " Long live the Constitutional King," General
NuNztAIE orders them to be set at liberty, as the cry
is perfectly legal.

ALARMING FlRE.—This morning a fire, which at
one time threatened the lives and property of a large
number of persons, broke cut, shortly before twelve o'clock,
in a narrow passage leading from Drury-lane to Endell-
street, and well known as Brokers'-row. The fire first broke
out in the first floor of Mr. Wilson, furniture-dealer. Great
fears were at one time entertained ter the Brownlow Arms
public house, but the timely arrival of the firemen stopped
the flames from extending any further. At the time we
write the firemen are playing upon the burning ruins.
THE COURT AND THE ROYAL YACHTS.—The Court
will not again visit Osborne till after its return from Scot-
land, about the Bth of October next. ' The royal yachts have
all come up to Portsmouth Harbour. The Victoria and
Albert has returned the state barges into store in Portsmouth
Dockyard, and will probably return her furniture and go up
the harbour in a few days, as her services will not be likely
to be again called into requisition this summer.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
has arrived at Plas Newydd, Anglesey, on a visit to herßoyal
Highness the Duchess of Cambridge.
His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen left
town on Tuesday evening, on a visit to her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Kent, at Abergeldie Castle, Aberdeenshire.
The Countess of Lichfield and Lady Harriet Anson
have arrived in town, from Tunbridge Wells.

THE DRAINAGE ACT.—Upwards of ten pages of
the Edinburgh Gazette of Friday last were occupied with a
list published by the Inclosure Commissioners, of the appli-
cations for money under the Drainage Act, to be applied to
land in Scotland. The number of applications. is 172, and
the total amount applied for 320,0521. The sum voted by
the Act is two millions, of which one-fourth, 500,0001., was
allowed to Scotch proprietors, so that a large sum still re-
mains unapplied for. Grants are limited to 5,0001., and out
of the-172-iipplicatiens, eighteen are for the highest sum
allowed.

The newsvendors of Manchester and Salford have
formed an association to watch over the interests of the trade

The American papers state that the last scenes of
the popular branch of this Parliament were not calculated
to illustrate the dignity of constitutional legislatures, but
were, on the contrary, of the most disgraceful nature. It is
stated that the majority of the Members were drunk, and
amused themselves by making
_paper bullets and flinging
them at each other's cheeks and noses. One of them, being
more drunk than the rest, resented this treatment and
threatened to respond by throwing inkstands, but his anta-
gonists appeased him, and then pelted him by stealth, so
that he could not tell who to throw at in turn. Meanwhile
the few who were sober, or partially so, were passing laws
with railroad speed.
IMPORTATION OP WINE FROM THE UNITED
STATES.—The American line-of-packet ships arriving in the
Loudon Docks from New York continue to bring large quan-
tities of wine, the produce of the south of Europe, as part of
their cargoes, for reasons which make it more advantageous
to carry the wine twice across the Atlantic than to import it
direct. The packet-ship Margaret Evans, just arrived in the
docks from New York, has brought 39 pipes and 58 other
casks, and the packet-ship Cornelius Qrinnel, arrived from the
same place, 33 pipes and 119 other casks of port wine, as
portions of their cargoes, consigned to wine-houses in the
metropolis.

ALARMING OCCURRENCR.—Yesterday afternoon a
portion of the new building in course of erection at the cor-
ner of New Oxford-street, Tottenham-court .road, fell with a
tremendous crash. A large quantity of the material fell on
the footpath and the roadway, and several persons who hap-
pened to be passing were seriously,_injured.

A FAMILY REAPING PASTY.—On Saturday, in a
wheat field, situate near the Cross Gate, adjacent to the
town of Ilminster, were to be seen a father and his ten sons
reaping. The field is rented by one of the sons, and by his
request his father and his brothers helped to reap. The
father is as athletic man, named Wm. Mullins, aged 65 years
His sons' names and ages are—John, 40; William, 38; Noah
and James (twins), 86; Esau and Jacob (twins), 34; Ma-
thew, 32 ; Henry, SO; Robert, 28 ; and Emanuel. 22 years.
The sons are all fine and robust men, and, on an average,
stand 5 feet 11 inches each. A great many persons went
from the town to see them reap, and the bells of our venera-
ble church rang two peals on the occasion.— FVestern Flying
Post.

HOLYHEAD HARBOUR. The Government have
completed the purchase of all the ground and property re-
quisite for the construction of the new harbour here, and the
whole of the works will be pushed forward with the utmost
expedition, nearly 1,500 men being constantly engaged in
the various operations. The engineers are proceeding
rapidly with the extension of the sea-wall at the north -rn
breakwater, and are also progressing with the erection of the
stages. Many thousands of cubic feet of stone are now
ready for the commencement and erection of the immense
sea-wall; and fresh supplies are daily obtained from the
lofty heights that overhang the harbour, where extensive
quarrying operations are being carried on. The material
thus obtained, when thrown down into the breakwater,
forms masses from 10 to 50 feet in thickness. The estimated
cost of this new harbour, which will consist of 316 acres of
sea-room, is 700,000/., and of this sum the Chester and
Holyhead Railway Company was liable to the extent of
200,030/. ; but the measure introduced into Parliament has
relieved the company of this responsibility. Chester
Courant.
POST-OFFICE ITEM.—About 80,000 letters and
newspavers were received at Liverpool from America, and
dispatched from Liverpool to America, on Saturday week.
This number was exclusive of those letters and newspapers
contained in the mails made up in America for London, and
made up in London for America, which are not opened as
they pass through Liverpool.— Liverpoo! Standard.
Among other visitors whom we may expect at the
Great Exhibition next year will be a German chorus, made
up of many Liedertafel societies, rivalling in number the
never-to-be-forgotten Cologne gkthering (an assemblage of
more than 2,000 voices), the intention of which is to give
performances in London.
IMPROVEMENTS AT KENSINGTON.—It is intended
to form a new and direct road from Brompton to Notting-
hill and Bayswater. by pulling down some houses in High-
street, exactly opposite the Queen's-road.
TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, AUG. 28.—At a
meeting of the Master and Seniors, this day, the Rev. Wm.
Carus, M.A. (1830), Fellow of the College, was elected a
Senior Fellow of the Society.
The Manchester subscriptions fur a monument to
the memory of Sir R. Peel amount to 5,050/., of which 4,0001.
has been paid in.
The incumbency of St. Paul's Chapel, Lambeth,
has been conferred on the Rev. John Goring, 8.A., of Trinity
College, Dublin.

POST-OFFICE NOTICE.—The Lords of her Majesty's
Treasury having been pleased, by a warrant, dated the 30th
July, 18,50, to authorize the use of postage-stamps for the
payment of letters forwarded to the United Kingdom by
seamen on board her Majesty's ships at foreign stations, all
seamen's letters which may hereafter reach this country in
bags made up on board any of her Majesty's ships will be
delivered free, provided the postage of one penny to which
they are liable be paid by means of a postage stamp affixed
to such letters. In those cases where bags of seamen's let-
ters are brought to the United Kingdom by private ships,
the gratuity of two pence payable by law to the master, will
still be chargeable upon each letter, unless such sum of two
pence, in addition to the postage of one penny, be paid by
the seaman by means of postage stamps. It must of course
be understood that all the conditions laid down by law, under
which the letters of seamen *re transmitted at a reduced
rate of postage, must be duly complied with as respects the
letters to which the present regulation refers. Seamen will
be supplied with postage stamps by the purser of the vessel
to which they are attached.

POOLE EiEcTion.--We understand that Mr. Savage,
the Protectionist candidate, has withdrawn from the contest,
being of opinion that protection, like charity, should begin
at home, and wisely determining to protect his own breeches
pocket. Mr. Montague Alerryweather Turner (who is most
appropriately named) is in the field as a Protectionist; he
having at the last election come forward nominally as a Free-
trader, but really, it would appear, for the purpose of di-
viding the free trade interest, in order to let Protectionist
Robinson slip in, a feat which he accomplished most effec-
tually, for had the fifty-three votes which he polled been
added to the poll of Mr. Hutchins, the Protectionist would
have been defeated. The canvass of Mr. Seymour is, we
understand, most satisfactory, and there is no doubt but that
he will be returned by a large majority, should Mr. Turner
venture to go to the pall.
NEW RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER THE WlS.—The
site of this additional bridge will be a short distance below
the old one, and the staple material will be iron, the casings
ot the piers being of that article; or rather the piers will be
formed of iron tubes filled up with concrete. The first ob-
jects that attract the notice at Dresent are the great and novel
works constructed for sinking in the river the cast-iron piers,
the foundation of which is upon the solid rock at the bottom
of the Wye. The piers on the land side are six feet in dia-
meter, and those in the water eight feet. They are bolted
together in, sections, and will be filled with concrete as soon
as the workmen have excavated the rock and sand beneath
the iron rim, so as to ensure an equal foundation at the base.
On the top of these iron-cased piers will be placed the road-
way for carrying the trains of the South Wales Railway over
the river to Gloucester; but whether it will be by a tube, or
by a partly suspended medium, the spectator has no means
of ascertaining, except that a tube is being made similar to
that at the bridge over the Severn on the Gloucester and
Forest of Dean Railway, and made of large iron plates.
The greatest difficulty in this new construction at Chepstow
appears to be from the water pouring so fast into the iron
piers that it requires a large steam-engine topp it up, so
as to enable the men to work under the iron, and thereby
secure an uniform and solid foundation.—Llereford Times.
FINAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR TriE FUNERAL OF
Louis PHILLIPS.—From inquiries made of Messrs. France
and Bunting, it was definitely
settled last evening that the
remains of the late ex-King ot the French should be removed
from Claremont on Saturday morning at an early hour, foi:
interment in the Roman Catholic Chapel of St. Charles
Borromeos, Weybridge, Surrey, four miles from Claremont,
and will ultimately be removed to its final resting place
in Paris. Workmen were, dispatched this morning to
prepare the vault and to hang the
chapel with black. The
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