The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-02 00:00:00

PIEDMONT.

In its sitting of the 24th, the Chamber of De-
puties at Turin voted the first article of the Con-
vents Suppression Bill, after a twelve days' debate.

THE GERMAN FEDERAL
ARMY.

The German journals furnish information as to
the efforts made by the different States to carry
out the resolution of the Diet of the Bth inst.

At Stutgardt, on the 22d, the Wurtemburg Go-
vernment laid before the Chambers a demand for a
credit of three millions of florins ; and an order had
been sent to Ulm to make up five regiments of in-
fantry and three regiments of cavalry to their war
establishments.

The five or six hundred thousand thalers requi-
site for the preparations ordered by the Diet appear
to cause considerable financial embarrassment at
Cassel, where all the resources of the Treasury are
so forestalled that the recent requisition for 17,000
thalers for the purchase of horses could not I e met.
It is thought that the Elector will personally make
advances, to bear interest.
The little State of Anhalt Bernburg has de-
manded 17,000 thalers for the equipment of its
contingent.
At Hanover a large number of cadets have been
promoted, so as to complete the staffs of regiments.
At Darmstadt a grand ducal ordinance authorises
a compulsory requisition for the horses necessary
for the army, in case they are not to be procured
by purchase or hire.
The Grand Duchy of Baden has addressed an
appeal to its medical subjects, offering the rank of
full surgeon, with a horse, outfit, and other in-
ducements, to such of them as may choose to ac-
cept service for the duration of the war.
The Bavarian Ministers of War and the Interior
tendered their resignations on account of the diffi-
culties imposed on them by the limited sum voted
for the military budget, but have consented to
withdraw them provisionally, at the express en-
treaty of the King.
The Grand Duchies of Luxembourg and Nassau
have communicated to the Diet, for ratification,
a convention between them, by which Luxembourg
is to furnish the detachment of cavalry, of about
850 horses, required from Nassau ; which State, on
the other hand, is to supply a much larger contin-
gent of infantry, artillery, and engineers.
A similar convention is to be concluded between
Oldenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, and Lubeck.
In communicating the last Russian manifesto
to the Diet, M. de Glinka, the Russian Envoy at
Frankfort, accompanied it with a note, in which
he urged that the general levy was only a legi-
timate measure of defence against the aggressive
proceeding and alliances of the Western Powers ;
that, notwithstanding, the Emperor of Russia con-
tinued to cherish the most favourable intentions
towards the re-establishment of • peace ; and that
his Majesty awaited calmly and tranquilly the re-
sult of the negotiations about to be opened at
Vienna."

The Kreuz Zeitung not long since informed its
readers that the greater part of the loan of
500,000,000 florins had already been expended,
but the statement is false. That the armaments of
Austria have been attended with a tremendous
outlay cannot be denied ; but as only 32 5.10 per
cent. of the loan had been paid in at the end of
the year
,1851, it becomes evident that the greater
part of it cannot already have been spent.

The Moniteur de la Flotte says :—" The French
fleet in the Black Sea consists at this moment of 24
ships of the line or first-rate frigates. All of them,
with the exception of five or six, have the full
complement of men fixed by the regulations, and
are ready to meet the enemy."

Several conferences have recently taken place at
Vienna between the Greek Minister, M. Skinas,
and Count de Boul, the Turkish Ambassador, Arif
Effendi, being almost always present. The Cabinet
of Vienna takes a very lively interest in the differ-
ence between the Porte and Greece, and is most
anxious to see it brought to a conclusion. Hopes
are entertained that the steps which Baron Koller
is authorised by the Austrian Government to take
with the Porte will tend to smooth down difficulties.

The Triest. Zeitung has received singular news
from Galatz. Although Moldavia forms part of
the Turkish territory, it is evidently now considered
neutral ground both by Russians and the Aus-
trians, as the communication between Rani and
Galatz is again open.

There is nothing of political importance in the
Madrid journals of the 24th ult. The Gazette con-
tains a royal decree which sanctions and promul-
gates the bill adopted by the Cortes authorising the
consolidation of 500,000,000 rears (125,000,000 fr.)
of the floating debt into 3 per cent. stock.

All the Austrian infantry regiments will he armed
with the newly-invented guns by the Ist of March.

THE GREAT ENCAMPMENT AT ALDERSIIOT.—On Wed-
nesday a considerable number of excavators left the me-
tropolis for Aldershot-heath, Hampshire, to construct
the roads and footways, and form the foundations of the
temporary wooden buildings for the great encampment
to be held there. _ _ .

SHIPWRECK IN THE BRISTOL CHANNEL.—lnformation
has been received at Bristol of the total wreck of the
barque Avon, Boatman, master, bound from Cuba to
Swansea, with a cargo of copper ore.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY RATE.—The committee appointed
in 1853 by the Middlesex magistrates to prepare a basis
for a new rating yesterday made their report. The com-
mittee propose an addition of 838,6001. to the county
rateable value, 'baking the total rental for rating pur-
poses 3,592,9281.
Tim MARCO POLO.—The celebrated Black Ball ship,
Marco Polo, Captain Wild, belonging to Messrs James
Baines and Co., left Port Phillip at 7 a.m. on the 4th
of December last, and on the voyage experienced a suc-
cession of light baffling winds as far as New Zealand;
from New Zealand to Cape Horn fine strong fair wind ;
from Cape Horn to the equator light baffling winds,
and did not get into the SE trades until in 14 S, which
she lost again in 2 S. She fell in with the N E trades in
SN, and lost them in 18 N. To Liverpool winds very
variable and baffling. Made Taskafon Monday, the 26th.
The Marco Polo never reefed topsails till she arrived
iu Liverpool, so that on the whole her voyage was a very
good one, at the time of her arrival she drew 22 feet
water.