The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-12 00:00:00

PIEDMONT.

MARCH 6.—Since the passing:, of ,the convention,
loan in the Senate, and- the Convent Suppression
Bill by the Deputies, there has been a lull in the
public interest in- Parliamentary proceedings. The
business has been confined to the passing of a bill.
enabling the Minister of War to Add '5OO trieli to
the navy by the Sen Ate, and a bill:noted by the de
puties for establishing tribunals of Commerce at
Turin, and Nice, The feeling through the country
against the attempts at Papal intervention is daily
developing itself,
.and before the Convent Bill
comes on for discussion by the Senate will be shown
by hundreds of petitions i 1 Avou; dof that measure
It is aic,l that already between twenty an tnirdk
thousand signatures have been attached to these
petitions, and the system oncethoroughly explained
there is no doubt the idea will gather rapidly. '
Prince Frederick of Wortemberg, has been ap
pointed to. the command of the Bth cOrps of the
federal army. •

The Ministers of War of Baden, Hesse, and.
Wurtemberg held yesterday a conference at Hei-
delberg. • ---

Letters from Berlin mention a rumour which was
prevalent there of Prussia intending .ta propose aii
armistice, in order to allow the Emperor Alexander
11. time to seriously examine' theinterestsof,his
empire with respect 'to the Eastern question:

A lettet.fibmlassY, lg.:the 26th ult., says', "The
news of the raising of. the bleekaftle of the mouths,
of the Daßul.le,was,received. here with, great delight
and lively gratitude the whole population. (The
sale of corn, the export of which forms, the princi-
pal source of revenue, and ,which has. been put a
stop to during the last twelvemonths will now.re-
stme its regular course.

We read in the Germ tit JOurncil of Frankfort :
"Baron de ProkendhOSten had pre*ved, as a
Souvenir, the- remainder of the water of the Jor-
dan, which was . blessed
.at NaZareth, and with
which the Emperer.Franeii Joseph was christened.
He )2 a s charged , M. BedaWeber, the first eure,at
Frankfort, to, fill a small, vessel with it, which he
has confided t 9 the care of „M. A. .da Bethmanito
carry to!Vienna,rand.deliver it to the.Archducheas
Sophia:, i fori.thei baptism of the pun g Princess of
Austria."

A letter from Vienna, in the Silesian Gazette,
says :--" The 'Archduke William' is to•go tO'St.
Petersburg, not only to offer condolence, but" alio
for political 'reasons." He has been charged to
make to the CouFt of Petersburg the most con
fidential communications as to the impossibility
which Austria is under of changing: her policy in
confortnity with
.European interests. ,Diplomatists
place tbe greatest ,hopes in this mission, and: the
Russian Embassy, also hopes for peace." •

A letter from Berlin says :--It is' stated from
St Petersburg that the Empress Dowager stood as
chief mourner in this chapelle ablerite where the
body of the Emperor Nicholas has been placed, and
where. it will: remain a week. It will be carried
from thencqn.and re99,i!“or
,Nnoth,p,r week,* the
bitadel, after which it will be deposited in the
+-h. imperial family, •

On Saiurday last reports 'were current in:Londbit
thht serious,' disturbances had broken, but at St;
Petersburg. ' The': on 'the telegraph
by' the Russian Government, While, iFoircourages
speculation as to thePprobable state bf the Russian,
capital, makes it impossible ekther yerify"
fate the Aiiiibitis inTideetibn.

. The 'Ce/ognie'. qaz44e . contain*. a Jotter, from
Odessa, which .states that the :aspect Of the ,plane
was quite melancholy,. All the iirhabitaatts,- whose
fortunes.permitted thew,. were quitting the town'
for the interior, of the' country, -es' a ,betabictdmelit
by the Allied fleets was considered' quite f‘"Oei•-'
taint'Sr. '" '

AUSTRALIA.

summary of the, following, received by ~clOctli9,
,telegrapli, appeared in our impression-Of Saturday:—].
By the arrival of the Arabian we have ad.vices
from Melbourne to the 16th of. Deceraber inclu-
sively. The " strike" of- thp diggers—for ,".insun
rection".is too strong a term—was, over; and order
restored. The firm attitude-assumed by Sir Chas.
Botham and the local Government ,has been ,at-
tended with thehappiest results. After the skir-
mish between the Military and the diggers, unhap-
pily attended.*ith. much loss of life, martial law
Was proclaimed at the goldfields at Ballarat on the
6th of December.- Order was, hoirever, so far re-
established on the Bth that another proclamation
was issued by Sir Charles Hothara, revoking the

In the Legislative Council of Melbourne, on the
6th •of Decentber, Mr. Millers a member-of the
-counbil, moved
"That the Lieut.--Governor, having been placed. in a
painfully enibarrassing position sinee'biti *firma! in Vic-
toria,, is entitled"to the- sympathy and support of this
botincil, and it pledges' itself, by every means ,in its
power, tanid hiin in restoring and maintainibg law' and
order." ' ' •

. •
In seeending.this motion, the Colonial'Secretary
made the. following statement
" Most of the disaffected, who did not _form the bulk
of the diggers, and many of the leaders, were foreigners,
while the real hard,working diggers were clplighted with
the timely ixtervektion of the Government. He'read ex-
tracts from despatches received _that day, from. Captain
Pasley and Commissioner Rede, showing this to be the.
case ; that order was now entirely reaorecl, and that 417
licenses had been issuecl•irt one day. He was also, truly
happy to say that the majority of the prisoners, as well
.as of those killed, we're foreigners.".
Thd principal leader of tho refractory had been
arrested. The Legislative Cinincil has passed a
vote of thanks to the nailitary.

A correspondent of the Melbourne 4rgus writes
as follows :

"All remains perfectly quiet on the goldfields, and
there is obviously, from day to day, an increase; of the
number of .those at work in the different shafts. Trade
is recovering in some measure from its paralysis, and'
things are resuming the aspect they presented before-the
unhappy outbreak. Amid the superficial quiet, there'is
a constant undercurrent of reports which tend to keep
all en the alert. I may quote one or two of these reports
which I have ascertained to be completely unfounded;
but which were communicated to me so seriously as to
lead me to institute careful inquiry. It was stated that
a trooper on his way to Melbourne had the other evening
been shot at Bacchus Marsh—it was hoped by a bush-
ranger, but it was feared by one of Colonel Vertefi out-
posts. It was stated that a pirty of troopers who went
out yesterday license-hunting had been hooted and
pelted, and compelled to abandon their prisoners and re-
treat ; that the escort this morning had been insulted in
a similar way ; that an unfinished tent belonging.to Mr.
Humffrays had been appropriated by the police, Without
its owner's knowledge ; and that an application to Mr.
Hackett to hold an inquest on one of those who died
from wounds received on the Sabbath morning had been
contemptuously refused by that gentlemen. TheSe are
statements which have been made to me' with all con-
fidence in the course of the last two days; and by those-
whom I would have expected to find well informed. I
cannot say in what form of exaggeration these reports
may be' circulated among the windlasses, but, from what
I know; of their influence on my mind, lean believe that
they would tend very much to postpone the tranquillity
which all must wish to be restored at Ballarat.
" I have been inquiring lately into the extent-to
which the population of this gold, field may be regarded
impregnated with the convict element. I am infOrmed
that 10 per cent. of the entire people may be regarded
as belonging to this class, but that a large proportion of
them are tolerably respectable and industrious men. I
can easily understand this. Gold mining is quite the
pursuit in which• men of this class might be expected to
enza, and find in it the charm without. the 'danger hf
their previous employments. Though Iliti'lab'd'ut otthe
miner is toilsome enough, and is, even apart from fro..