The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-24 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Yesterday, a Court was held for the election of a
Town Clerk by the Corporation of London, and for the
despatch of a great deal of public Lusiness. There was
a full attendance of members, and the space below the
bar was crowded, the interest excited by the expected
election being very great.
THE DISTRESSED MANUFACTURERS.
Mr. R. L. JONES moved that the Court subscribe the
SLIM of 500/. in aid of the funds arising from her Majes-
ty's letter for the relief of the distressed manufacturers
of England and Scotland. lie thought it was unnecessary
to make any comment upon the subject, well knowing
that the Court would most willingly accede to the appeal
which had been made to their compassion.—(Hear.)
Mr. P. TAYLOR proposed, as an addition to the propo-
sition of Mr. R. L, Jones, " That the Court recommend
that the money to be granted in aid of the manufactu-
rers be laid out in the purchase of corn, to be admitted
free of duty, and that the Government be petitioned by
the Court for that object."—(Hear, hear, and No, no.)
After a short conversation, in which the Recorder
Mr. Wire, Mr. Pewtress, Mr. W. Jones, and Alderman
Farebrother joined, the original motion was agreed to,
and Mr. P. Taylor's addition was negatived by a small
majority.
The Court then proceeded to the election of Town
Clerk, in the room of Mr. Woodthorpe, deceased ; and
on the votes being taken, the Lord Mayor declared Ser-
geant Merewether the successful candidate, the numbers
being-t
ry - -

106
80

For Sergeant Merewether
For Mr. Pritchard

Majority

BELGIUM.

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BRUSSELS, JUNE 17.—The absence of the King and Queen
will be for about a month.

It is said that there will be a general promotion in the army
to the ranks of General, Colonel, and Lieutenant-Colonel.
Several superior officers will retire upon pensions.
It seems that the debate• on the project relative to sug r is
deferred till the month of August.
The petitions of the four persons condemned for the conspi-
racy have been transmitted to his Majesty by the Minister of
Justice. They were to be submitted to the Council of Minis-
ters before the King set out for London.
Lord de Saumarez, with his family and suite, arrived at
Brussels on Friday.
BRUSSELS, JUNE 20.—8 v a Royal decree of the 19th of
June, M. Adolphus Dechamps is appointed Governor of the
province of Luxemburg, in the room of Prince Joseph de
Cl.anay.

Major Pirson has arrived at Bru,sels, having term:naled a
journey to explore the interior of Texas, undertaken by order
of the Government. His journey took him seven months.
He has brought home documents concerning the political,
financial, and commercial relations of that Republic, which are
said to be extremely interesting.
The sultry atmosphere which we have had for some time past
was cooled last week, but the drought continued. Ye,terday
afternoon the earth was refreshed by a fail of rain very favi,ur-
able to the crops, which are extremely promising all over the
country.

BRUSSELS, Jo NE 21.—8 y a Royal resolution of the 19th of
June, the punishment of hard labour for life, passed on the
persons condemned for political offences is commuted as fol-
lows, viz :—For Messrs. Vandermeere and Vandersmissen to
twenty years' confinement, and for Messrs. Verpraet and Van
Laethen to ten years' confinement. And all four to remain
under the surveillance of the police for twenty years after the
expiration of their sentence. This resolution was communi-
cated to them yesterday afternoon in the prison of the Petits
Carmes. It is said that they will undergo their sentence at
Vilvorde.
MONE

Y MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM TUE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
CHRONICLE.—The complaints against the Bank of Eng-
land for refusing to pay out silver do not subside. The private
bankers, we hear, will not pas t with what they have in store,
and urge, as a sufficient reason, that the Bank of England will
not supply them with more. It is quite true, at the same time,
that there was lately a "surplusage" of silver. The Govern-
ment received several waggon loads of it from China, and large
remittances have come to hand from time to time from Mexico,
and other parts of South America. We are thus at a loss to
account for the scarcity now experienced, and cannot believe that
there is any real want of silver in the Bank of England. We
are induced rather to believe that there may be something in
the charges made against the Old Lady, that she en-
courages the Government in issuing their recent proclama-
tion, under the expectation that it would throw a large addi-
tional quantity of her paper into circulation ; that the Direc-
tors are, therefore, not a little disconcerted in finding that
the deliverers of light gold call for silver more generally than
Bank paper; and that they are, therefore, making silver
scarce, in order to compel the public to draw out their notes.
This charge is very generally made against the Bank, and the
large influx of silver lately received into their coffers tends to
strengthen the probability, more particularly when viewed in
connexion with the statement made by the Master of the Mint
last night in the House of Commons. But, whatever may be
the cause of the scarcity, there can be no doubt of the fact that
it is experienced, and that it is creating additional incon-
venience and embarrassment. A gentleman in the City asked
for three sovereigns and forty shillings in silver from the Bank,
in exchange for a five-pound note. He did so under the im-
pression, that as silver was a legal tender up to 405., he had
a right to demand payment of the Bank paper partly in gold
and partly in silver up to the amount for which silver is a legal
tender. His demand, however, was refused, the Bank autho-
rities maintaining that it was optional on their part to pay
partly in silver, or otherwise, as they chose, and that they
could not be compelled to do so. The Bank of England says
—we have the option of paying our notes altogether in gold,
or partly in gold and silver. The holder has no option. Ac-
cording to equity the law should be exactly the reverse of this.
The holders should be entitled to say to the debtor, " pay me
in gold for these notes, or so much in gold, and on each note so
much, up to the legal tender, in silver." If the holders do not
possess this option, there ought, at all events, to be some Go-
vernment office where the legitimate wants of the public should
be supplied ; but, instead of that, silver is a strict monopoly in
the hands of the Government and the Bank of England, and
the public have no place of resort to obtain silver except the
Bank, whose doors are now shut against them.
POST.—The quotations for Spanish Bonds yesterday were
21i 22h for the Five, and 234 23a, for the Three per Cents. ;
to-day they have been 214 211 and 23L 23# respectively—the
advertisement for the payment of the dividend due on the 30th
instant having appeared in the interval. 'this decline goes
far to show the estimation in which these things are really held
at a time when any doubt as to the receipt of the dividend
ought to have been dissipated ; when from every appearance a
Ministry had been formed, and outbreaks hail been quietly put
down, quotations of the bonds decline, instead of rise. The
real solution is to be found in the fact, that no reliance can be
placed in the certainty of future or regular payments, and the
gross injustice which is being committed upon the original cre-
ditors by the overthrow of the old claims. Neither nation nor
individual can maintain credit by a continuous system of bor-
rowing to pay interest, which as soon as obtained becomes
pritcipal, and the nucleus of an indefinite amount of debt,
oh,ch, when too large to be borne by an insolvent, must
necessarily be thrust aside. Experience has e.ompleiely proved
that not the slightest reliance can be placed upon any promise
or dtcree which may be made or issued on the subject of Spanish
finances, each having been successively repudiated as soon as
it had fu filled the purpose intended, or found to be insufficient
for the effect which it was meant to produce, without refe-
rence to the parties who might be affected by such proceedings.
And in the present condition. of the Spanish revenue, the
holders of the Three per Cent. Stock can expect no other fate
than that their claims also will be thrown into the common heap
immediately capitalists refuse to lend any more towards the
dividends. The more the nature of the bonds be known the
less valuable they become, and, therefore, the less inducement
to make advances ; hence every day brings the crisis nearer,
which sooner or later must arrive.

The Chronicle has for the last day or two been again endea-
vouring by second editions to raise the quotation of these do-
cuments, its peculiar pets. Yesterday, by the early edition,
under "Spain," in the most conspicuous type, the public were
informed by extraordinary express that an outbreak had taken
place at Figueras, which would be easily quelled. This had
scarcely been read when a second edition, brought by another
extraordinary express, stated that an outbreak, &c., had been
easily quelled—the only difference between the two being a
change in the tense. To-day a third extraordinary express
brought the official accounts of the formation of a Ministry,
which fact had been known to the public twenty-four hours
previously. The clumsiness with which these have been ma-
naged would of itself have excited suspicion, had it not been
long since notorious that these second editions were published
merely for stock-jobbing purposes. As the expense cannot
exceed printing a few additional papers, the game may be
played with but little loss, though the object sought to be
gained by them may not be attained.

The General Steam Navigation Company's vessel,
the Giraffe, fromßotterdam, arrived offthe Custom-house at 11
o'clock this day, with the Dutch mails.

The steam ships of the Antwerp Company, which
arrived at the St. Katharine's Wharf, Tower, on Wednesday
and yesterday, were the Bruges, Captain Main, from Ostend
and the Antwerpen, Captain Jackson, from Antwerp. The,
passage from Ostend was made in 121,4 hours, and from
Antwerp in 19 hours.
HOBITOTJSE AND CO.'S BANKRUPTCY.—The ar-
rangement made for the paying of dividends has worked so ex-
ceedingly well as to have enabled the assignees too pay upwards
of 50',000/. to 2,000 creditors.—llath Chronicle.

ASTRONOIMICAL PHENOMENA. —Last night, a
grand phenomenon was displayed ia the south-eastern part
of the heavens, when the moon, which is only the fiftieth part
of the size of our earth, will rise about seven minutes past
nine, being at that time preceded by the planet Saturn, a mag-
nificent globe, 1,000 times larger than our own, and accum •
partied by seven moons, in addition to its splendid rings.
Jupiter, whose magnitude far exceeds all the other planets in
the solar system, being 1,400 times larger than the earth, fol-
lowed quickly after the moon, rising in the same. part of the
horizon about a quarter of an hour after that luminary. The
moon attained her greatest altitude at midnight; con-
sequently about eleven o'clock they formed a group of the
most splendid objects for the contemplation of the young astro-
nomer that a summer's aspect can possibly afford him. Saturn
appeared near the north-western limb of the moon, and
Jupiter at a greater distance to the east. In a day er two
the satellites of Jupiter and the rings of Saturn may be seen
with a good telest:ope ; but the best time will be during the
first week in July, when they will make theienearest approach
to us, being then in opposition to the sun. At that time the
distance of Jupiter will be 4(0,000,000, and that of Saturn
812,000,000 miles from the earth.

We have been favoured with copies of a lithograph
drawing by Mr. OTriscoll, of the criminal Francis, who
has been convicted of one of the deepest crimes that it
is possible to contemplate ; and of the hardened villain
Cooper, who has been sentenced to die for shooting. the
policeman. We cannot speak too highly of the like-
nesses. Mr. OTriscoll has been very happy in hitting
them off ; he has just caught the expression, and appa-
rently at the most advantageous period. They are
struck upon good paper ; and those who are anxious
to obtain a good likeness of the man who could so far
forget himself as to fire a pistol at our beloved Queen,
may depend upon having a correct one before them, if
they have one of Mr. O'Driscoll's drawings.
Yesterday the Brunswick Wharf, Blaukwall, was
a scene of great gaiety, owing to the arrival and departure of
a number of large foreign steam-ships. The Bristish steam-
ship, Wilberforce, arrived at eight o'clock, from Ant-
werp, and landed her passengers, among whom was Lord
Rockbv. The mail-packet Giraffe, arrived shortly after,
from -.Rotterdam ; and the General Steam Navigation
Company's favourite steamer, Rainbow, left as usual
tn- Antwerp, at one, with a most elegant assemblage of
passengers, and nine carriages. Among upwards of one hun-
dred passengers, we noticed Sir E. Ryan, Sir Edward Party,
the Rev. Mr. Rodker, Colonel Thomas, Major-General Boa-
towline, Dr. Cumming, and Captain Biscoe. Several packets
were also leaving fur Gravesend and Woolwich, filled with

company.
The Radcliffe Trustees have given a donation of
one hundred pounds, to that useful institution, the Royal Dis-
pensary for Diseases of the gar, Deau-street, Soho-square.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS

HOUSE OF LORDS..
TUESDAY, JUNE 21.
INCOME TAX BILL.
MAJORITY IN FAVOUR OF THE THIRD READING
OF THE INCOME TAX BILL.
H R. H. the Duke EARLS. Rochester, Bishop
of Camld►dge Beverley Llandall; Bishop
ARCHBISHOPS. Mansfield' Chester, Bishop
Canterbury Liverpool Gloucester, Bishop
Armagh Malmesbury Chichester, Bishoo
Clanwilliam
Wicklow
I.ucan
Bandon
Rosslyn
Powis
Charleville
Manveis
Verulam
13rownlow
St. Germain's
Bradford
Beauchamp
Glengall.
Eldon
Somers
Stradbruke
Dunraven
Cawdor
Ripon
VISCOUNTS,
Canning
Canterbury
Gage
Hawarden
Hood
owther
Middleton
Sydney

Lord Chancellor
Buccleuchi
Buckingham
Cleveland
ItichinomA
ellingtdn
ARQUIdfiS.
Abereorn
Aylesbury
Dow n sh ire
Exeter '
Londonderry
Salisbury

EA RLS,
Devon
Sandwich'
Shaltesbuty
Jersey
Eglin court
Moray
fi and i ngton
Home
Galloway:
Dalhousie
Aberdeen
Dunmore
Aylesford
arwic
Delawarr
Bathurst

Lincoln, Bishop
Bangor, Bishop
PAIRED OFF.

Marquis of Huntley.
Marquis of Bute.
Marquis of Ely.
Earl of Kinnoull.
Earl of Cornwallis.
Earl of Mounteashel
Earl of Chre.
Earl of Wilton.

Earl of Clanearty
Bishop of London,
Lord Sondes.

Lord Bray brooke.
Lord Wynford.
Lord De L'ltle.

BARONS.
De Roos
Clinton
Beaumont
Colville
Boston
Walsingham
Kenyon
Bayning
Bolton
Northwick
&ayney
Carbery
Crotton
Itede6dale
Samlys
Rivers
Prudhoe
Colchester
Itavensworth
Dclamcre
Forrester
Bex►ey
De Table),
Whai nclitfe
Fitzgerald
Stuart de Bothsay
Heytesbury
Templemore
Seaton ,

Lord Stanley of Alderley
Lord De Freyne..
Duke of Hamilton.
Lord Lovat.
Lord Sherborne.
Lord Bateman.
Duke of Devonsh:re.
Lord Foley.

Marquis of HeadforL
Lord Dinorben.
Lord Hastings.

Earl Fitzharilinge.
—Lord Talbot of Ma!abide.
Earl of Belfast.

(From the rotes and Proceedings of the House al Commons.)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22.
SUDBURY DISFRA.ArCHISEAIIE,VT BILL.
Motion made, and Question put, " That the Report be now
read :—Amendment proposed, to leave out nom the words
" That the" to the end of the Question, in order to add the
words " Bill be re-committed," instead thereof :—Qustion put,
" That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the
Bill :"--The House divided:—
MAJORITY AYES,
Escott, Bichkam
Evans, William.
Ferguson, Sir H. A.
Gill, Thomas
tV reet.e, G.
Hodgson, It.
Howard, P. H.
Lambton, H.
Lelroy, Anthony
Lincoln, Earl ot.
Mach an, D,,n‘ld
Mainwarmg, T.
Rlarsland, H.
Miles, P. W. S.
Miles, W.
Norreys, Sir D.
O'Brien, W. Smith

13arnard, E. G.
Baskerville, 13. M.
Bernard, Viscount
Blake, M. J.
llowring; Gr.
lrodie. W. B.
BrothertOn, J.
Burroughes. N. N.
Bu tei d,.
Cnristie, W. D.
Colebrooke, Sir T. E.
Courtenay, Viscount
Cripps, J.
Dynnistdun, J.
Dickinson. F. H.
Eastnor, Viscount
Eliot, Lord

O'Connell, M. J.
O'kerrall, More
Plurnridge, Captain
Plumptre, J. P.
Protheroe,

Seale Sir -J

Stock-, Dr,
Towneley, John
Villiers, Charles P.
Wawn, John T.
Whitmore, 'F. C.
Wood, Benjamin
Wyse, Thomas
Yorke, H. riedhead

Allix, John Peter
Arbuthnot, Hon. 11
Bailey, J.
Baird, WilLam
Bradshaw, James
Smedley, Henry
Darby George

NORITY-NOES,
Fuller, A. E.
Grimsditch, T.
Henley, J. W.
Hervey, Lord A.
Jackson, J. D.
Lawson, Andrew
Mackenzie, Thomas

TELLEIIB.
Reddington, T. N.
Ward, 11. U.,

Master, T. W. C.
Mundy, E. M.
Pringle, Alexander
Vere, Sir C. B.

TELLERS.
Blackstone, W. SA
ltusnlarooke, Colonel

Forbes, William

RIVERS (IRELAND) BILL—
Tenth Clause (Meeting of Landholders
point a valuation in c'rtain cases) : —Que
Clause, as amended, stand part of the Bill
divided :

.In the Committee.
to be convened to ap-
stion put, " That the
:"—The Committee

;
Acland, Sir T.l)
Allix, John Peter
Baskerville, T. B. M.
Bernard, Viscount
B:oadley, H.
Brotherton, J.
Charteris, Hon F.
Colville, C. K.
Courtenay, Viscount
Cripps, W.
oarby, George

JORI T
Eliot, Lord
Fuller, A. E.
Henley, J. Warner
Howard, P. H.
Hughes, W. B.
Hutt, W.
Jackson, Serjeant
Left oy, Anthony
Lincoln, Earl of
Mainwaring, T.
m sterman, John
Miles, P. S.
'Y
-NOES,

Miles, W.
Mundy, E. Miller
Norreys, Sir 1). J.
Plumptre, J. P.
flash sigh, Wm.
Itushbrook, Colonel
Stuart, H.
Sutton, Hon. h. M
Vere, Sir C B.

TELLERS.
Young, John
Pringle, A.

Dicarison, c: H.

MINORIT'
Ferguson, Sir Robert
O'Connell, M. J.
O'Ferrall, It. M.
Wyse, Thomas

TELLERS.
igton, T. N.
...

Reding
Blake,

ILrtin

GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY.
Traffic returns for the week ending June 18, 1842 :
Passengers £o39 7 6
Merchandise 3OO 6 5

£1,239 13 11
W. O'BRIEN, Secretary.

Darlington, June 22.

THE COLNAGE.-PJ.X JURY.

A Privy Council was held on Wednesday, at the office of the
Comptroller-General of her Majesty's Exchequer, for the pur-
pose of empanelling a Jury of twenty-four members of the
Goldsmith's Company, to assay the gold and silver coins of the
realm.

The Lords of the Council present were—the Lord Chancel-
lor, Lord Motiteagle, the Duke of Buccleuch, Lord Wharn-
clitle, Lord Yesci and Fitzgerald, Lord Bexley, the Right Hon.
Wm. Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Sir H.
Hardinge.
The origin of an inquiry of this nature bears date so far back
as the 18th year of the reign of Edward 111.
Several ladies were present to witness the proceedings.
The names of the Jury having been called over, and a fore-
man appointed,
The Loan CHANCELLOR. addressed them to the following
effect :—Gentlemen of the Jury, you have assembled here this
day, agreeably to, and in accordance with, a very ancient
custom, which is termed a trial of pix, or, in other words, to
try the quality and weight of geld and silver lately coined at
her Majesty's Mint. It will be your duty to ascertain whether
the coinage corresponds with the standard required by law.
'The oa h that has been administered points out your duties
and obligations to the Crown, the public, and the Master of
the Mint. The Noble and Learned Lord then said, that the
Mint indenture of February 6, 1817 (which was still in force),
made it imperative that 46 29-40 sovereigns should be coined
to the pound weight troy, of the standard of twenty-two carats
of fine gold and two carats of alloy. With respect to the silver
coinage, it was ordered by the indenture to which he had re-
ferred, (dated in 1817), that all silver moneys coined should
be after the rate of sixty-six shillings the pound troy, of
the standard of eleven ounces two dwts. of fine silver, and
eighteen dwts. of alloy. The same standard was required for
gold and silver coined for the West Indies—that coinage must
correspond with the coin of the British realm. His Lordship
proceeded to say that trifling accidents, trifling deviations must
at times occur. It .was impossible that, in all instances, the
coin could exactly correspond with the standard, and therefore,
when an inquiry of that nature was first instituted, a provision
had been made to meet any case of trifling deficiency. With
respect to gold, twelve grains were allowed in every pound
troy. In silver, one dwt. in every pound troy. If no greater
deficiency than what he had stated took place in a new coinage,
it was allowed, but if there was a greater deficiency, the Master
of the Mint must render an account to the Crown, for he was
responsible. If, on the other hand, there should be an excess
in the weight, the Master of the Mint was entitled to receive
it ; and further, if the coin was wrong, it was imperative on
the Master of the Mint to recoin it at his own expense, in a
proper form and manner, agreeably to the pleasure of the
Crown. This was not he first time he (the Lord Chan-
cellor) had had an opportunity of addressing a jury assembled
for a similar inquiry. The question they had to determine was,
whether the late gold and silver coinages were correct at the
time they were issued, and they would be found so he had no
doubt. He believed in no instance within the memory of man,
in no instance since that inquiry was first instituted in the reign
of Edward the Third, had there ever been a deviation which ex-
ceeded the limits. On the last occasion of a Pix Jury assem-
bling, their verdict was that the coin was correct, but it fol-
lowed as a matter of course that the current coin must be in
some degree altered by wear and time. On the present occa-
sion they were met to ascertain if the Master of the Mint had
done his duty to the Crown and the public. With respect
to both the Crown and the public, it was most important te
ascertain if the different ,coins, when they were issued, cor-
responded with the standard required by law. At an early
period—in the reign of Edward the Third—two plates, one
of silver the other of gold, were made, and they were called
" trial plates," and would be produced before the jury. Those
plates were kept and secured in an iron chest in Westminster
Abbey; that chest had three locks, the keys of which were
in the custody of three different public officers, and they were
only removed on occasions like the present, when it was in-
tended to have a new coinage. The box in which these plates
and coins were deposited was only opened when it was her
Majesty's pleasure to direct an inquiry like the present. It
would then be their duty to take a piece of the trial plates
and an exactly equal quantity of the coin of the realm, and
after assaying, and making them into ingots, to see if they
corresponded. The assay would take place in their presence,
in a room attached to that office, in which a furnace and the
necessary apparatus had been prepared. It was their bounden,
their important duty, to see, and rightly ascertain, whether.
the coinage, at the time it was issued front the Mint, exactly
corresponded -with the required standard ; and if they
should find that it did not, if they were of opinion that
it deviated to an extent not sanctioned by law, it was
their dety to say so, by the verdict which they would have to
return to the Lords of the Council. The process would be
carried on in their presence ; and on this particular occasion,
said his Lordship, place no confidence in the honour or integrity
of the Master of the Mint : you hake an important, a solemn
duty to perform—important to the Crown, and especially im-
portant to the public. He had no doubt the gentlemen he was
addressing would do their duty satisfactorily. When the trial
was over he would receive their verdict, and direct that it
should be recorded in the usual form.

The Foreman of the Jury suggested that the verdict should
be received that afternoon in the private room of the House of
Lords, or at his Lordship's residence in Great George-street,
Hanover-square.
The LORD CUANCELLOR—If you are prepared, I will receive
your verdict in my private room at the House of Lords, at a
quarter before four o'clock ; after that time at my residence in
George-street.
Their Lordships were invited to dine at Goldsmiths' Hall in
the evening, It being the usual custom of that wealthy Com-
pany to give a splendid banquet upon occasions like the present,
which only occur once in the course of several years.
During the short time Mr. Abercrombie was Master of the
Mint, the silver coinage in threepenny, twopenny, and three-
halfpenny pieces for the service of the West India colonies,
amounted to the total value of 10,0151. 10s.
The amount of gold coined during the time Mr. Labouchere
was Master of the Mint, amounted to 6,400,5461.
Silver coin during the same period, 1,399,503/. 12s.
For circulation in the West India colonies, 71,016/.
Since Mr. Gladstone has been appointed " Master and
Worker" of her Majesty's Mint, the total value of gold coined
is 3134,0691. ; silver coin, value 40,590/.
After the address of the Lord Chancellor, the Jury retired
to make the necessary assay of the coins which had been given
to them, and the Council adjourned.

THE WEATHER.—(From a Correspondent.)—The
farmers and gardeners in the Isle of Wight will be serious
losers by the continued dry Weather. With the exception of
two or three slight showers, there his been no rain since March.
The hay crop is a failure; the oats, barley, peas, &e., are in
a miserable state; some farms have hardly anything green upon
them. Yesterday (21st) the mercury fell to 29.32, and great
hopes were entertained of rain, but to-day it has risen to 29.42.
A Railroad Company has been formed chiefly by
the King of Naples and Grand Duke of Tuscany, for a railroad
between Naples and Florence Cevita Vecchia. The Comte
party will require a million's sterling-worth of gugliali rails.