The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-27 00:00:00

ITALY.

The provincial. Council of Turin opened its ses-
sion on the 22d. ' One of its first acts was to de-
clare its readiness to contribute towards the con-
struction of the new road to Switzerland by the
defile of the Menouve.

The Genoa Gazette, of the 23d inst., announces
that the day before a mob, composed principally of
women, traversed the streets of Genoa vociferating
against the cornsellers and bakers, whom they re-
proached with being the cause of the high price of
bread. Their numbers increasing, and acts of vio-
lence having been committed against several per-
3011S on the square of Ponticello, the authorities
called out the Carabineers, the police, and two
companies of infantry, and dispersed the multi-
tude. On the 23d Genoa was perfectly tranquil.
Accounts from La Spezzia state that the inhabi-
tants and the refugees had testified to the Com-
mander of the corvette St. Louis, M. Ingraham,
their sympathy for his honourable conduct at
Smyrna. A number of boats surrounded the ship
and gave him a serenade. Two persons then went
on board and presented him an address. The po-
lice, however, had thought proper to summon be-
fore them and admonish some of the individuals
who made the demonstration.
A letter from Rome, of the 20th, in the Univers,
says :—" The Giornale di Roma has spoken of the
arrest of a certain number of the emissaries of secret
societies. It appears that on the day of the fête of
the Assumption, the place of concealment of the
principal members of the band was discovered,
when they were arrested and their papers were
seized. It is said that they intended to take ad-
vantage of the fetes in the evening in honour of the
Emperor of the French givenby the Frenckgarrison
and residents, to excite a commotion, assassinate
as many soldiers and officers as they should find in
an isolated state, murder some priests and digni-
taries of the Church and of the Government, and
plunder the coffers of the State and those of pri-
vate individuals. But this plan was baffled
the night preceding the fête. About forty
conspirators are at present in the hands of jus-
tice. Most of them are persons who were em-
ployed under the Mazzinian Republic in 1849,
and afterwards forced to leave Rome, but who
contrived to get back there some weeks ago. They
left Genoa with English or Piedmontese passports,
and, landing between Civita-Veechia and Fiumi-
cino, got into the city by means of the intelligence
kept up by the refugees of London and Turin, and
concealed themselves with their accomplices. It
is said that at their head is Salfi, one of the mem-
bers of the Republican triumvirate. Even Maz-
zini has been named, but men of that importance
do not venture to put themselves in actual danger,
and we cannot consequently believe in the truth of
this rumour. We are of opinion that the real head
of the expedition was a certain advocate named
Petroni, well known at Rome for his participation
in the revolution and crimes of 1848, and of whom
all traces had been lost since 1849. A certain
aumber of manifestoes in manuscript, which were
to have been posted up on the walls of Rome at
the moment •of the plot exploding, and a great
quantity of revolutionary proclamations, were
found in his drawers."