The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-10 00:00:00

ITALY.

The cholera, says a letter from Turin of the sth,
is still committing great ravages at Genoa. The
King, accompanied by Count Cavour, Prime Mi-
nister, by General Alfonso Lamarmora, Minister
of War, and by General Dabormida, Minister of
Foreign Affairs, left Turin early in the morning of
the 4th for Genoa, to visit the hospitals.
The sanitary condition of Turin continues excel-
lent; but two or three cases of cholera have occurred
amongst the many thousands who have fled from
Genoa. One of these victims was the Chevalier
Adriane de Revel, well known in London society as
the secretary and charge d'affaires of Sardinia for se-
veralyears. At the period of the diplomatic rupture
between Austria and Sardinia, in reference to the
Lombard sequestrations question, Chevalier de Revel
represented this Government at the Imperial Court
of Vienna, and since his withdrawal from thence he
resided in a private capacity at Turin. Chevalier
de Revel was a perfect gentleman ; he held strong
constitutional opinions, and was a man of con-
siderable talent and of mild and amiable disposi-
tion ; his untimely demise has caused universal re-
gret in Turin. He was only 42 years of age.
Italian art has just sustained an irreparable loss
by the death of Paolo Toschi, the engraver, a
native of Parma, who died there the other night,
at the age of little more than 60. His best known
works are the engravings of " Spasimo di Sicilia,"
from Raffaello, and of all the admirable frescoes
of Correggio. Paolo Toschi was not merely a first-
rate artist, but was highly gifted in literary and
other topics. His conversation, like that of Ros-
sini, was one uninterrupted flow of wit and fi
humour.
Thy half -t

King came back from Genoa at ,ait-past
eight p.m., on the evening of the 4th. A groat
many people were waiting at the railway station
for his Majesty, who was loudly eheered. It was
known that the King had gone to Genoa in spite
of a slight indisposition, and a great alarm pre-
vailed there in consequence. There was more even
than the usual loyalty in the cheers by which the
King was greeted.
His Majesty visited all the hospitals of Genoa,
and left behind him a very handsome donation in
money for the relief of the cholera patients. A

most painful impression was made upon his Ma-
jesty by the aspect of the town of Genoa. Nearly
every shop is closed, and hut a soil is to be
seen in the streets. Popular prejudice is
strongly excited, and the druggist shops are con-
stantly guarded by gendarmes, lest they should
be laid waste as the laboratories of poison. Phy-
sicians are threatened as poisoners, while in the
performance of their duties ; and the other day one
of them was so maltreated that he died of cholera
produced by fear. It appears that both the ex-
treme radical and the clerical party are taking ad-
vantage of this unfortunate state of things, and,
instead of destroying popular prejudices, they are
doing their utmost to aggravate and foment these
prejudices. These disgraceful and wicked attempts
are energetically resisted by the " Intendente-Ge-
nerale." Signor Buffa, and he is strongly sup-
ported by the Archbishop Monsignor Charvaz,
who is performing his episcopal duties with true
Christian charity and zeal.
The Austrian Government is levying a fresh vo-
luntary loan ; but although nominally voluntary,
every one is compelled to contribute to this loan.
Even the bishops have issued circulars and pastoral
letters to recommend their flocks to subscribe to it.
The most remarkable of those letters is that ad-
dressed to his clergy by Monsignor Romill, Arch-
bishop of Milan. In 1848 the reverend gentleman
gave his benediction to the barricades ; half
I changed the times are !