The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-17 00:00:00

TURKE Y.

Pirates continue their depredations in the Levant,
and with increcsed audacity. A fortnight ago a
piratical vessel entered a port near Smyrna, and car-
ried off a considerable quantity of booty, though an
Austrian schooner WEI in the port at the time. It is
chiefly Austrian ships which are attacked, the pirates
fearing to meddle with those of England, France, or
Russii. The Austrian Government accordingly in-
tends to send a frigate, two corvettes, and two steamers
against them. The Neapolitan Government also in-
tends to fit out some vessels.
Accounts from the Island of Rhodes say that for
a month past rain has fallen in torrents, and the wind
was so violent that it tore up the largest trees. On
one day hail fell so thickly that the atmosphere was
obscuro. The smallest stones were of the size of a
nut, and 301118 were even, it is said, as large as a hen's
egg.
The Trieste Gazette states that there has been very
boisterous weather in the Turkish waters during the
int month. At Adriar.cple the thermometer fell
several times three or four degrees below zero ; the
country around is covere I with snow, and tempests
are of frequent occurrence. At Salonichi the winter
had been extremely mild ;_ all the trees and shrubs
ware in hlostnra, when suddenly violent snowstorms
and cold set in, and caused immense damage< In
Betulia the snow was six feet in depth, and many
lives were lost. All the communications in this pro-
vince and in Anatolia are interrupted.

ITALY.
A letter from Florence, in the Journal de Turin of
the 12th inst., states that, owing to the inflammatory
placards lately poscd up in various towns of Tuscany,
the departure of the Austrian troops has been coun-
termanded ; and that a rumour is current that they
are to be increased in order to be ready for any emer-
gency that might arise from the presence of the French
at Rome.
All the preparations for tunnelling the Trenouve
on the St. Bernard route ere completed, and M.
GUALINI, the engineer appointed by the Sardinian
Government, will proceed at once with the works.
The tunnel will be 2,226 metres in length, and, on
account of the friable nature of the rocks, will not cost
more than 623,494 f. in making.

______CABINET COUNCIL.—
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assembled in council this afternoon, at one o'clock, at the
Foreign• office, for the first time since Parliament adjourned
(Dais DAT.)—The Ministers
for the recess. There were: present the Earl of Derby (who
ton, Mr. Secretary Spencer Walpole,
returned to town this morning from a visit to the Queen at
Windsor Castle), tt3 Earl of Malmesbury, the Marquis of
Salisbury, the Duke of Northumberland, Sir John S. Paking-
Lord John Manners,the
Right J. Warner Henley, the Earl of Lonsdale, the
Earl ofhardwicke the Lord Chancellor, and the Chancellor
of the Exchequer. ' Mr. Herries, the President of the Board
of Control, is still indisposed and was unable to attend.
The Countess of Powis and the Ladies Herbert
will arrive in Berkeley-square early in the ensu,ng week, to
be present at the marriage of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn,
81. P., with his accomplished cousin, Miss Wynn, daughter
of our minister at the Court of Denmark.
three judges
SUSPECTED MURDER.'—LEEDS, FRIDAY AFTER•
NooN.—A Mr. Harrison, of Woodlesford, has been found
of Orleans
the court
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bseufmo
ir.ne summer , for
which
dead at Hunslet, under circumstances that induce the sus-
picion that he has been murdered. Ile wes discovered in a
ditch with water in it, but only three inches deep. An in_
he
eilllivnags :.1:-.haJvoehnbeIe'rnostrtiiond
quest on the body will be held to-night.
Dr. Thomas Hunt, who was indicted at New'
has been discharged without a trial, each of the ah duel,
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