The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-17 00:00:00

ITALY.

The trial of Count COSTA for an offence of the press
took place at Turin on the 12th. The court was
thronged. Count COSTA. arrived at about half-past
10, and took his seat on the prisoner's bench. He
was received with profound silence by the audience.
The clerk then read the indictment, from which it
appeared that out of 500 copies of Count COSTA'S
book only 74 were seized by the authorities at the
house of the defendant, and that 27 pages of the book
were incriminated. Advocate TEOMBETTA supported
the prosecution, on the part of the Government, on
the three counts of offence to the person of the KING,
disrespect of the laws, and fervent wishes for the
destruction of the Constitutional Government. The
first count was proved by passages representing the
KING as a mere tool in the hands of a party, and
also
accusing him of bad faith, for
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broken the the existing concordats without the
consent of the Holy See. The other counts were
proved by passages written with great acrimony,
in a clerical spirit, and others insulting to
the national representatives. After an able de-
fence by Advocate FEanAnis, and a paper read
by the defendant, to show that his book was not hostile
to the Government, the jury retired about eight P.M.,
and soon after brought in a verdict of Guilty on all
the counts. The defendant was sentenced to two
months'imprisonment and 2,000 francs fine. The
audience behaved throughout the trial with the greatest
decorum.

The Risorgimento states that immediately after his
condemnation, Count CosTA. sent in bis reignation as
counsellor of the Court of Cassation at Turin.
The installation of the Jesuits at S. Giovanni di
Verdara of Padua took place on the 3d, in the presence
of the authorities. The Bishop of PADUA, Monsignor
was absent on the occasion, and sent a dele-
gate to represent him.
The Official Journal of the Two Sicilies announces
that the prize of 300 ducats (1,290 francs), offered
last year by the Royal Academy of Naples for the best
essay on the elliptical motion and perturbations of
asteroids, not having been awarded for want of com-
petitors, the Royal Academy has decided that the
above prize shall be awarded to the royal astronomer,
M. DE GASPARIS, for his discovery of the planet
Pysche, being the sixth planet discovered by this emi-
nent astronomer.

POLAND
The Boersen-Halle of Hamburgh of the 13th states
that the cholera continued to make dreadful ravages
at Warsaw. On the 9th, there were 478 new cases,
and 172 deaths.

The German Journal of the Empire, under date of
Warsaw,
9th, says :—" The journals announce that
the increase of electricity in the air, and the fact that
the birds which had disappeared at the first approach
of the cholera are now coming back, gives hopes that
the scourge will soon cease. A committee of Russian
physicians had crossed the frontier to give assistance
to the sufferers by the cholera. General HACKEL,
the director of the customs at Kalish, on being in-
formed that they had crossed the frontier without pass-
port,,, had addressed a sharp reprimand to them,
which obliged them to proceed to Warsaw to give
explanations. This severity, under existing circum-
stances, had.produced a considerable sensation."

THE WEST INDIA MAIL.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY MORNING.
The Royal Mail Steam Ship Magdalena, Captain
Vincent, has arrived with the West India and Paci-
fic mails, 180 passengers, and on freight specie value
1,100,000 dollars, 548 serous cochineal, 28 bales to-
bacco, 108 serons sarsaparilla, 60 serons indigo, and
th ; Thomas,
marti3n
a large general cargo. Her dates are Chagres, July
24th ; Carthagena, July 26th ; Jamaica, July 26th ;
St.es
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the
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markets there was no improvement, the spread of,
30th
the small-pox in Kingston and in most of the
agricultural districts having caused a more than
ordinary degree of languor in the trade. Produce
was improving. Sugar firm, at a small advance.
Coffee and pimento in scarce supply. The weather
was unsettled and showery. Food for the natives very
scarce. Exchange on London ninety days par.
Our correspondence from Jamaica gives a gloomy
picture of the agricultural prospects and distress of
the colony, aggravated by the disease prevalent in
various parts. The island had been visited with some
severe shocks of an earthquake, which greatly alarmed
the inhabitants. The emigration movement to Aus-
tralia had somewhat subsided. St. Lucia was healthy,
and seasonable rains had fallen.
Accounts from Barbadoes state that the sugar crop
of 1852 is entirely closed. The young canes for the
next crop continued to wear a healthy appearance.
A fearful accident had occurred in Trinidad. The
boilers of the steamer Victoria burst on the passage
from Port of Spain to San Fernando, killing and
wounding several persons.
Some rich specimens of
gold, found at the Upata
diggings, in Venezuela, had been exhibited in Trini-
dad, and sold for 2241. sterling.—Times.