The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-31 00:00:00

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ITALY.
Letters from Venice of the 22d, in the Augsburg
Gazette, state that an emissary of Mazzini has been
arrested there, and treasonable correspondence has
been found about him. The municipal council of
that city has voted an address to the Emperor of
Austria, to express the regret of the population of
Venice at the circumstance that there were three
Venetians among the persons lately executed at
Mantua. The town of -Udine has sent a deputation
to Marshal Radetzky to thank the Emperor for
having directed the railway now in construction to
pass close to that town.
We read in the Gazette of Savoy, under the
head of Turin, Dec. 24 :—" In reply to a ques-
tion of M. Pescatore in the Chamber of Repre-
sentatives, that gentleman expressing a wish for
the immediate presentation of the second part
of the bill on administrative reform, the first part
of which is now under discussion, M. de Cav our
observed that the Chamber having only six weeks
to run of the present session, could not have time to
discuss it within that period. The new session will
commence about the middle of March. It appears
that the Ministry is now disposed to grant letters
of naturalisation to M. Mamiami, the ex-minister
of Pius IX. It is stated that the difficulties on this
subject have been entirely removed. M. Mamiami
is to arrive here next month to open with a speech
the sitting of the Committee of Italian Philosophy
and the letters of naturalisation will then be given
to him, as has already been done for Professor
Scialoja, the Neapolitan exile, whose name is so
well known to all men of science."

TURKEY.
The Porte has finally decided that a military ex-
pedition against Montenegro shall take place, in
order to punish the lawless mountaineers, who come
down from their recesses and plunder the villages
of Herzegovina.
Ismail Pacha has received instructions to march
into that province, at the head of 14,000 men.
Seven districts bordering on the confines of Mon-
tenegro have declared against the authority of the
Sultan ; they are Grahora, Saguia, Piva, Djupa,
Nishishska, Drobnack, and two districts of Bihor.
Thd Arnaout districts to the east have sided with
the Government, and have demanded arms and
ammunition for 4,000 men. Notwithstanding that
Russia has officially declared that it will guard a
strict neutrality, the presence of General Koudri-
affsky and a staff of officers greatly annoy the Porte.
All parties now look in that direction.
A letter from Constantinople states that the Sul-
tan has had a suitable house purchased for Abd-el-

Kader at Broussa.
The Porte has not yet decided on renewing the
charter of the Bank of Constantinople, which ex-
pires the 13th of March. Consequently, the direc-
tors have publicly announced that henceforward
they cannot give bills on London or Paris. The
pound sterling, which was regulated at 11 weo has
risen to 118, and would go ultimately highere
it not kept down by the large quantities of bills in
the market on account of the shipments of grain
and produce to Europe. The Government has
communicated to the commercial body, however,
that the exchange will be regulated by`a new sys-
tem. What this is to be is not yet public. It is
stated positively that the wealthy banker, T. Bal-
tazzi, has made proposals to furnish bills at 110
piastres' per pound for the year 1853, on condition
of receiving an indemnity of 60,0001. By the bank
operations the Government lost three times this
amount.
The Porte in its reply to a note complaining of
the intended restrictions in the navigation of the
Bosphorus, declares that it cannot depart from its
recently announced decision. Reschid Pasha, the
Governor of Bosnia, has advised the Porte to make
an exception to the prohibition of foreign coin in
favour of that province. It is alleged that the
new law, if carried out, would have a ruinous
effect on commerce, as all the hard cash in circula-
tion in Bosnia consists of Austrian ducats and
zwanzigers.

GREECE.
We read in the Moniteur :--" The news of the
proclamation of the Empire in France reached
Athens, rid Trieste, on the 15th inst. A few
minutes after this news had been communicated by
the French Minister in Greece to the Commander-
in-Chief of our naval forces in the Levant, the
French vessels of war anchored at the Piraeus were
dressed out with flags, amidst cries seven times
repeated of Vivo l'Empereur and a salute of
101 guns was fired. A Russian corvette and brig
of war, two Greek vessels, and a Neapolitan cor-
vette, the captains of which had only a few minutes
before been informed by the French admiral of
what had taken place, also dressed themselves out
in flags, and their cannon saluted at the same time
as ours the Sovereign proclaimed by France. The
two Russian commandants showed particular
eagerness in,coming to compliment the commander
of the French squadron, and the latter on the fol-
lowing day responded to their courtesy, by cele-
brating like them the fête day of the Emperor of
Russia."
M. Paicos, the Minister for Foreign Affairs at
Athens, has (says the Moniteur) officially announ-
ced to M. Forth-Rouen, the French Minister there,
the lively satisfaction with which the King of
Greece had received the news of the accession of
the Emperor to the throne. New letters of cre-
dence were immediately transmitted to M. Mavro-
. cordato.