The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-08 00:00:00

ITALY.

A Turin letter has the fo',,owin
" The month now co-imencing, appears likely to
be a dull time in po':itics. Tho Ministry has decided
..ste consideration of the grave ques-
on postponing 1.
tion of the ',sections until September. It appears
probable that the present Parliament will meet once
more for a few weeks, for the purpose of voting
r.rgent laws and Effacing, if possible, the impression
produced by the closing sittings of the late session.
Should the Ministry again obtain the support of the
Chambers, it could appeal to the country with more
authority. The alliance, or understanding, of the
Northern Powers has not yet manifested itself in a
manner directly hostile to Italy; the attitude of the
Powers, so far as
regards this country, being
strictly defensive, it would appear that the new
kingdom is not ttie immediate object of the league,
the existence
which is universally believed there,
though n
'','oody seems to be at all alarmed. Mean-
while, 'she clerical party make a great noise about
it, 'a n d express their joy and hones without the least
reserve. Their principal organ, the " Unita Cattolica"
makes the league the constant theme of its articles,
which, as usual, are written with great talent. But
all the talent in the world could never counterba-
lance the anti-national character of those hopes
whose roots are beyond the Mincio, nor the anti-
patriotic feeling displayed in the scarcely indirect
appeal to bayonets,
which certainly are not those
of Italy. The excessively hot and dry weather
which has prevailed here for nearly two months
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makes people very willing to indulge in the far
niente. The sun is this yearoverwhelmingly
bright ; while not a storm, or a cloud, or
Another letter from Turin says:--"
of air, ever comes to cool the burning atmosphere."
and the Minister of Marine have both returned to
former Turin. A Council of Ministers sat on Sunday last, at
which Gen. Lamarmora and Gen. Cialdini were pre-
and the second had been
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Genoa with the
called from Bologna, the centre of his command,
whither he returned the same evening, M. Peruzzi
starting for Florence. The simultaneous presence
at Turin of these two generals, and their participa-
tion in a Council of Ministers, are circumstances
which have excited public curiosity, and given rise
to various surmises. I will merely remind your
readers that Generals Lamarmora and Cialdini are
those whose military commands skirt the Pontifical
frontier. Gen. Cialdini's division lies north of Rome,
and Lamarmora's south of the Eternal oity• The ter-
ritory still under the sway of the Pontifical Governs
ment is enclosed between those two divisions, and
perhaps the simultaneous arrival of those generals
at Turin is connected with the respective positions
of their corps."
The Cologne Gazette confirms the intelligence
that the ex. King of Naples is about to leave Rome.
He hesitates, that journal asserts, between Venice
or Salsburg as his future residence. The continued
indisposition of the ox. Queen is one of the principal
causes of the determination taken by Francis IL to
remove from Rome.

PRINCE ALF ItED.—The 20th birthday of his Royal
Highness Prince Alfred Ernest Albert was celebrated
at Windsor on Saturday last with the custoralry honours
paid to members of the Royal family. From an early hour
in the morning, and at intervals throughout the day, joyous
peals were sent forth from the towers of the Chapel Royal of
St, George and St. John's Church, At 1 o'clock a Royal
salute of 21 guns was fired in the Long Walk from the
Corporation Ordnann by the town bombardier, and a
Royal salute was also fired from the Adelaide frigate on
Virginia Water, which was answered at Fort Belvedere.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales
are expected to arrive at Marlborough-house this (Monday)
afternoon, and on Tuesday their royal highnesses leave for
Scotland, where it is expected they will reside for about six
weeks.

PRINCE XEROME NAPOLEON AT GREENOCK,—
Early on Friday morning the French screw steam corvette
Jerome Napoleon, of 900 tons, arrived at the tail of the
Bank, from Havre, having Prince Jerome Napoleon on
board. Prince Jerome and a party of gentlemen came ashore
during the day, and put up at the Tontine Hotel, but re-
turned to the ship in the evening. It is expected they will
take their departure twill the Clyde immediately.