The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-06 00:00:00

ITALY.

In its sitting of the 28th ult., the Royal Court con-
tinued
the examination o' Guerrazzi. An order of his
was produced, directing the Minister Adami to pay
60f. to Nicolini. Guerrazzi stated it was the price
of a carbine which Nicolini had made a present of to
his nephew, which he (Guerrazzi) disapproving of, he
ordered the price to be paid. He added that Adami
had erroneously put that sum to the account of
the public treasury, it being a private debt,
which defendant would have paid had be had
time to think of it. The decree by which the
Provisional Government declared itself consti-
tuted and named its Ministers, being then read
in court, Guerrazzi called the attention of the bench
to the fact that the Provisional Government had made
every effort to maintain as much as possible of the
constitutional form of government. The clerk next
read the proclamation addressed by the Provisional
Government to the Tu. cans, and collectively signed
by the three members of the Government. The
expressions were moderate, and the document
was chiefly intended to remove any uneasiness
existing among the inhabitants, as to the
possibility of acts of violence from conflicting
parties. As to the removal of the Grand Decal
escutcheon, Guerrazzi maintained he had not ordered,
but only consented to, its removal in those places
where collisions might have arisen on account of it.
Whereupon the President of the Court asked him to
explain a letter addressed by Mordini, Minister of
Foreign Affairs, to the governor of Leghorn, direct-
ing him to communicate his nomination to that de-
partment to the Tuscan consular agents, and
to command them to remove the Grand
Ducal army. Guerrazzi answered that the said
letter was no act of hie, and could not be laid
to his charge. To the charge of having imposed the
oath of fidelity to the Provisional Government upon
the troops, defendant replied that he had not imposed
that oath, since every one was free to take it or leave
the service ; and that in many places the taking of the
oath was deferred, in order to prevent the troops from
disbanding. This statement was also borne out by
the next document read by the clerk—viz., a letter
from the Government delegate of Massa, under which
were written the following lines by Guerrazzi :
" My dear Prefect,—Hold out by all means; do what-
ever you may think proper; organise riflemen, defend
the frontier, flatter, praise, and excite De Laugier's sen-
timents of honour. Let him be deeply convinced that
Leopold IL has abandoned the country to anarchy and
invasion, without a pretext or plausible motive. He has
taken as much gold with him as possible, and on the
very utmost border of the coast he is meditating civil
war, with one foot on a British vessel, and the other upon
land. We will create an army, we will find money, and
if we can do nothing we shall all be blown up (andremo
all' Aria)."
Guerrazzi explained this letter by stating that it was
written on the 14th of February, one ;of the most
tempestuous days of that period, when the republican
hordes were really strong, owing to the weakness of
the Government that had no troops on which it
could rely. So it happened that the chiefs of the
faction were constantly
besieging the Ministers,
imposing measures, and dictating their
Here the defendant's counsel protested against that
letter being produced in court, when it was not
proved that it had ever been dispatched to its ad-
dress. Guerrazzi, on examination, answered he did
not know whether it had been sent or not; but
that it often happened that dispatches were written
under the pressure of the demagogues, and then never
sent off.—To the decree, directing that instead of
Leopold 11., the Provisional Governmod should be
named in public acts or sentences, defendant stated
that that decree was caused by the magistrates having
abstained for two days from pronouncing sentences,
not
knowing in whose name to pronounce them, and
added, that by so doing they indirectly admitted the
legitimacy of the Provisional Government. The
President of the Court then rose, and solemnly denied
that the Tuscan magistracy had ever acknowledged
the Provisional Government as a legitimate one.
The Court adjourned to the following day.
A letter from Naples of the 25th ult. states that on
the previous day his MAJESTY and the Royal Family
same to the capital from Caserta to offer up his devo-
tions at the shrine of St. Januarins. On returning in
the afternoon, the railway train which carried his
MAJESTY ran into another train which had started
about three-quarters of an hour before, but which had
been stopped by
some impediment on the road. The
driver of the second train stopped
his engine in time
to prevent the shock of the collision being very great,
and no injury was received by any of the royal party,
with the exception of a slight bruise on the head of
one of the Princes Royal. The engine-driver was
slightly wounded on the shoulder. The KING on
leaving the carriage said—" It is nothing, no one is
njured. Providence has protected us."

HEALTH OF LONDON DURINGTHE WEEK.
(From the Registrar-General's Report.)
In the week that ended last Saturday 1,2,51 deaths
were registered in the metropolitan districts. It is
necessary to state that the increase which this return
exhibits over previous weeks is not the effect of an in,.
creased rate of mortality, but is produced by an ac-
cumulation of cases, principally violent and sudden
deaths, on which inquests had been previously held,
but which had not been formally registered till the
close of the quarter.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1842-
E 1 the average number of deaths was 1,000, which,
with the addition of a tenth for increase of population,
and for the sake of comparison with last week's return,
would be 1,100.
The following are the fatal cases, as enumerated in
this week's table, under the several kinds of zymotic
disease :—Only 6 cases, 2 of which were in the
Smallpox Hospital, occurred from smallpox, 5 from
measles, 13 from hooping.cough, 8 from croup, 2
from thrush, 2 from influenza, 4 from purpura, 1
from agua, 2 from remittent fever, 1 from rheumatic
fever, 4 from puerperal fever, 51 from typhus, 6 from
erysipelas, 2 from syphilis, 72 from diarrhoea and dy-
sentery, and 2 from cholera, while 81 were caused by
scarlatina. The fatal effects of this last complaint in
particular instances are noticed both by registrars and
medical men.