The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-07 00:00:00

DENMARK.

It is now publicly announced that the fortress of
Rendsborg will be dismantled. This step is about
the wisest which could have been taken, and does
honour to the present Cabinet. The position of .
Rendsborg suchthat it is the natural stronghold of
Holstein and Geruany, the dangerous wasp's nest of
Schleswig-Holsteisism. Immense quantities of arms
and ammunition have been removed, including an
incredible number of cannon, partly of Prussian
model, and partly copied from the Danish.
On August 26th was held the usual quarterly
meeting of the Rork' Society of Northern Antiqua-
rians. The Vice-President, Privy Councillor WEGE-•
NEB, exhibited drowings of three stone monuments
'inland, one of which wss a rune
i s ed ,
in
hitherto little known. CARL SCEVE, Lector in
Archm logy in the University of Upsala, afterwards
satton Teh,
read a sketch of Boise of the most remarkable antiqui-
ties in the Swedish island of Gotland. We wonder
that so few of our countrymen visit this highly in-
teresting island. It is a perfect mine for the anti-
quarian. It has searly 100 ancient churches most
of them in excellent preservation, and abounding in
magnificent sculptsre and all the.rich forms exhibited
by the architecture of the thirteenth and fourteenth
centuries. Many of them have also preserved their
windows of painted glass. We hope that so.ne ex-
cellent ecclesiologists will pack up their portmanteaus
and visit Gotland ere it is too late, for modernisations are
already creeping into this distant land, and in a few
years many things now extant may be objects of tra-
dition. They must not be content with the treasures
of ruined
W isby, the capital, where secular buildings
still exist in great numbers from the early middle
age ; but must boldly wander through the country
and visit the antique village churches, which are ge-
nerally perfect. They will find abundant hospitality.

ITALY.
An order of the day of the Ist in the Piedmontese
Gazette directs that the National Guard of Turin
shall, from the 9th inst., do the service of the garrison
of the capital, which i 3 to assist part in the great
man ceuvres which are to take place on the Bth, 9th,
and 10th.
In the sitting of the 30th ult. of the Royal Court
of Florence, advocate PANATTONI, one of the counsel
for GIIERRAZZI and the other defendants, moved that
the amnesty granted by the decree of the 21st of No-
vember, 1849, be extended to all his clients, seeing
that the exclusions mentioned in that decree were in-
tended as safeguards of the constitution ; which being
now aboliahed, all motives for exclusion had disap-
peared. In support of this argument, the Learned
Counsel quoted the motives detailed in the report of
the Minister on the question of granting an amnesty.
The Advocate-General having opposed this motion
the Court, after a long consultation, rejected it.—
Another incidental motion was then brought forward
by the counsel of MONTARIO, which related to him
alone, and was intended to show that he had been
prosecuted after the date of the amnesty. This ob-
jection was also overruled, and the Court adjourned to
the following day.
A letter from Mantua states that the persons on
trial for being concerned in the society of death have
been sentenced to capital punishment. This sentence
has been sent to Marshal RADETZKY for his signa-
ture. It is believed that the ringleaders will alone be
executed.