The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-07 00:00:00

ITALY.

" The Ministerial accession of M. Ratazzi," ob-
serves the Opinion Nationale," coinciding with the
discussion and vote of the Senate, will appear to all
politicians a fact of happy augury and high impor-
tance. Whether right or wrong, it had been believed
that with M. Ratazzi the accord between France
and Italy would be more easy than it was during
the time of his predecessor. If the solution pro-
gresses at Paris and Turin, Rome will only remain
stationary so long as it pleases France and Italy."
A letter from Turin of the 2d, in the Nord of
Brussels, says :

" Every one asks himself why Baron Ricasoli,
who had several times declared that he would not
retire except on a written order from the King, or
after a Parliamentary vote, should, without having
received either, have waited until the Chambers did
not sit to quit the direction of affairs. You are aware
what has been the situation of the Ministry for some
time past. In the first place, the members of the
Cabinet did not all regard the great questions of
home and foreign policy from the same point of
view. M, Migliotti and M. Cordova are the friends
of M. Ratazzi ; M. Bastogi war strongly opposed to
the direction given to the affair of the Committees
of Provvedimento, and all this bad rendered poli-
tical relations extremely difficult between Baron
Ricasoli and his colleagues. Add to those difficul-
ties the very doubtful conduct of the majority of the
Chamber, and the effect produced by his late speech
on the subject of the committees, and you will have
the solution of the enigma. The first idea of Baron
Ricasoli was to complete the Cabir et, and to apv";"'
a Minister of the Interior a 0 )u, wh ;-1
for on all sid@O. For
was called
Nll^3 purpose he sent M.
—.Aster of Public Works, to beg Count
Pasolini, the prefect of that province, to accept the

post. Count Pasolini refused, as might have been
foreseen, knowing that he had three times given his
resignation under the former Ministry. It was then
that the Baron determined to resign."
Another letter of the same date says :

" The Ricasoli Cabinet is reproached with having
compromised itself at its very first installation in
power by promises and engagements relative to the
speedy solution of the Roman question, promises
which were disproportioned to the means it had at
its disposal and to the state of the question itself, and
which, moreover, the attitude of the Cabinet of the
Tuileries did not authorise it to make; next, with hay
ing without sufficient motive compromised at home
the strength of the new kingdom of Italy, by conces-
sions made to parties, and then for having relied
too much on the complaisance of the majority of
the Chamber—that majority which, at every mo-
ment, manifested by its votes the decided idea of
supporting the Ministry on all occasions. As to
the first charge, I think the Ricasoli Cabinet might
have deceived itself, without having had an idea of
deceiving the country. Although the Ministry may
not have merited any other praise, patriots will
always remember how nobly and courageously it
acted in accepting the inheritance of the late Count
Cavour, doubtless at a moment of transition, when,
near the tomb of the great man, all the hopes of
the enemies of Italy were revived, and when a cer-
tain discouragement had taken possession of the
public mind. It was perhaps in order to tranquillise
the populations, and show that the Italian cause
survived Count Cavour in all its grandeur and in
its integrity, that Baron Ricasoli was obliged to
deliver the words with which he is now reproached.
As regards the Opposition in its home policy,
need I point out the secret intrigues on
all sides ; the false friends who paid court
to it while they were at the same time placing
snares in its path, or the impossibility of struggling
against antipathies in the high regions of power,
and which it was obligcd to bear in order not to
compromise the safety of the whole nation ? As to
the complaisance of certain deputies, the Ricasoli
Ministry has not to reply to such a complaint since
it has done nothing to secure to itself the individual
support of 200 or 300 persons from different parts
of the Italian Peninsula who were on the benches
of the Chamber, and whom it did not call there."

The Correspondance Italienne gives a few details
concerning the explosion of a bomb before the
theatre San Carlo at Naples on the 27th ult. The
explosion was so strong as to break all the window-
panes, and put out the gas in front of the play-house,
but it did no other harm. A National Guard on
duty perceiving a fellow, dressed in the uniform of
an artilleryman, alight from a cab with something
apparently heavy in his arms, which he deposited
on the ground a few seconds before the explosion,
conceived some suspicions, which were strengthened
by the fact that the man was making off. Mean-
while the explosion occurred, and the National
Guard fired at the fugitive, whom he wounded so
severely as to prevent his escape, and afford the
carbineers time to come up and arrest him. He
was taken to the hospital.