The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-24 00:00:00

ITALY.

PALERMO, AUG. s.—The sanitary state of our unhappy
city is daily improving, and but very few new cases of cho-
lera now occur ; and it is to be observed, that for the most
part such persons are attacked as were absent when the
disorder was at its height, and had ventured to return.
This is ascribed to the change of air ; and this circumstance
will probably deter the other absentees from approaching
the city, so that it may be long before everything returns
to its old course. Nobody thinks of business ; and as an
individual recovering from a severe sickness requires time
and repose to regain his strength, the great body of the
population equally needs rest, and many months will pass
before the return to health will be complete. Every one
in the narrow circle is in mourning, for where one person
out of six dies, there is no family which has not to deplore
the loss of at least one of its members. Otherwise, thank
God, we live in tranquillity and security under the protec-
tion of the laws.
MESSINA, AUG. 4.—Four Neapolitan steam-boats ap-
peared before our roads yesterday, with the ex-
pected Swiss regiments on board. The landing, how-
ever, did not take place here, but on the opposite coast
of Calabria, near Riggio. General Del Caretto sent an in-
vitation to our Intendant to go to the opposite coast and
have a conference with him, which he did, in company with
several other official persons. At the same time Deputies
came from Catania and Syracuse, to his Majesty's Lieute-
nant, whence it appears that the treasonable attempts were
not approved by the higher classes. It is said that the
Swiss will be quartered in our citadel, there to perform a
sort of quarantine, after which it is probable that part of
them at least will go to the Southern provinces.
The dread of the disorder is still very great, and prevents
all commerce.
ROME, AUG. 10.—I have delayed writing till to-day ex-
pecting to be able to say positively whether we have the
cholera or not ; but we are still in the same uncertainty—
the Government publishes nothing on the subject, and the
Romans still hopc., that the disorder exists only in the imagi-
nation of the physicians. The doubtful cases, though not nu-
merous, occur however hourly, and as the patients are con-
veyed to the hospitals, with which all communication is pre-
vented, nothing further is known. We see, ho never, that by
that system the people accustom themselves to the thought of
the disorder being really here, so that if it should spread,
we may hope that the public tranquillity will not be dis-
turbed. The Government continues to take all precautions,
and has fitted up hospitals in each of the fourteen quarters.
It is said that a new loan is negotiating to meet all those
extraordinary expenses, and that the house of Torloina has
already advanced large sums. It is hoped that when the
cholera really breaks out here, the expensive cordon on the
frontier of Naples will be done away with, and the com-
merce with that kingdom, which is so necessary to us, be
free again.
We learn that the Marquis Crora di Vergagui, Ambas-
sador of the King of Sardinia, will not return to his pos
here, :but go in the same capacity to Naples. Coun
Broglie de Mornbello, hitherto Charge d'Affaires at Flo.
rence, is spoken of as his successor.