The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-04 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Parlamento of Turin announces that on the
27th ult. the Sardinian corvette San Giovanni, 28
guns, Captain Juccia, arrived at Villafranca, to
take the refugees on board who are to be conveyed
to America. They are 82 in all. The Piedmontese
Government gives them free board and passage,
and 70f. per head on landinv.
In the sitting of the 30th ult. of the Piedmontese
Chamber of Deputies, M. Lanza moved that the
sale of a villa named Montalto, formerly belonging
to the Jesuits, and now to the State, might be post-
poned, in order to see whether it might not be use-
fully applied to the purposes of education ; but, on
the observations of the Minister of Finance, the
motion, after an animated debate, was withdrawn.
The hamber then proceeded to discuss the
Slavery Repression Bill, Art. lof which declares
every slave to be free as soon as he touches
the Piedmontese territory, or sets his foot on board
a Sardinian vessel. The discussion was adjourned
to the following day.
We have received accounts from Rome to the
24th ult. The labours of the Consulta of Finance
had been concluded some days before. After having
given the most scrupulous attention to the exami-
nation of the budgets of the different branches of
the Administration, they have proposed various
reductions whieh have been approved of by the
Pope, and which together amount to 830,000 Ro-
man crowns a year (the crown is a trifle more than.
5f.) As however the amount of certain receipts
might vary, the saving is set down at 630,000
crowns. Another operation, not only important,
but absolutely necessary, has also been under con-
sideration—namely, the calling in of all the paper
money. This operation will, it is said, be effected
by means of a loan of seven millions of crowns.
The amount of the paper money in circulation has
been calculated at only six millions, but it now
appears to reach seven ; and as the amount of paper
money already paid off and replaced by the conso-
lidated route created three years since will be in-
cluded in the present operation, the 600,000
crowns devoted annually to the paying off the
paper money by means of that consolidated rente
will be applied to the payment of the interest of
the new loan. The question of railways was also
brought under the consideration of the Consulta by
order of the Pope. The ministers had already en-
tered into engagements with the representatives of
two companies, one for the grand line from Ancona
and Bologna to Rome, and the other for that from
Rome to Ceprano, in the kingdom of Naples. The
latter is the old Via Latina, revived after getting
rid of the old directors and shareholders. The re-
presentative of the new company has offered 25 per
cent. to the holders of the old shares, and if his
offer be accepted, he will be authorised to make the
line as far as Frascati, and he will then have two
years to decide as to whether he will continue it on
to Ceprano. It is thought that these advantages
will be conceded to him, as he demands n• subven-
tion from the government. It is not, however,
thought that the shareholders of the old Via Latina
will be disposed to accept the 25 per cent. offered to
them. Great doubts are entertained as to whether
the line from Ancona and Bologna to Rome will be
executed, particularly as Bologna will be hence-
forth less interested in the question, as the Central
Italian line will put that place in free and rapid
communication with Trieste and Leghorn. The
thecat ioTnibfeorr will the
be
suspension bridge which has been constructed
d.
by M. Bodin, and which will form a communi-
cationinhabitantstohfe publicthetwoinbaanksveryof
short time. The works have been very much re-
tarde
two b the state of the weather, which for the
last
rain and stonths has been a constant succession of
now at R0:10 s* The Bishop of Munster, who is
sor to the rae, is talked of as the probable succes-
of which lateltropolitan see of Breslaw, the holder
ster that the 13;0 died. It is to the Bishop .of Mun-
at the pr the the palm which he carried
ing the unfavourable alstin Sunday. Nothwithstand-
flux of strangers into at of the weather, the in-
amounted to upwards of 35131(pring Easter' week
The New Zurich Gazette contains a letter from
Barre of the 30th ult., which says
commissioner the canton of rcln:o
has " The federal
to the federal council that no Ticino
troubles announced
now be apprehended, and that consequently tl needthe
three companies quartered at Locarno had been
be
ordered away. Ile adds, that numerous desertions
had taken place from the Austrian service, which
had been a source of expense to the canton of
Ticino. The council has given orders to the com-
missioner to guard, as much as possible, against the
inconvenience in question. That will be difficult,
inasmuch as the commissioner has no direct rela-
lation with the Austrian authorities. This week
the Government of Ticino received the first delivery
of salt from the Lombard stores of Maragno."

REPORTED SHOCK OF AN EARTHQUAKE AT PORTS-
MoUTH.—A shock of an earthquake is said to have been
felt at Portsmouth, between 11 and 12 o'clock on Friday
night. It was, it is said, of about two minutes dura-
tion ; those who .experienced it stating that their beds
were sensibly shaken, whilst the walls of the rooms ap-
peared to crack. The phenomenon was not, however,
of such a character as to procure for it any general ob-
servations.