The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-26 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Roman journals of tile 15th contain a notifica-
tion informing the public that the Roman bank-notes,
to which the Republican Government had given a
forced currency, will continue to enjoy that privilege
for another year. They will be received in payment
at the public offices, the Government reserving to
itself a right of reimbursement on the capital of the
Bank.

A letter from Naples, in the Univers, says :
" The fete of December 8 was exceedingly brilliant.
The people and the troops manifested in the most
enthusiastic manner their sentiments or devotedness
to the Porn. There were about 12,000 troops col-
lected on the public square at the moment that the
Pores, after having said mass, gave his benediction.
The KING was most gracious towards General
BARAGUAT 'MILLIREM, whom he kept by his aide
whilst the troops filed off. Fourteen Cardinals were
present at the ceremony. Two of them left to-day
for their dioceses of Viterbo and Corneto. It appears
that there is some agitation at the former place. M.
DE RATNEVAL is still confined to bed with gout."
The KING of Sardinia has addressed the following
order of the day to the National Guards of Turin

" Officers and soldiers of the National Guard,—Your
presence under arms on the solemn occasion of the
opening of Parliament is the expression of my thoughts
—namely, the exercise of liberal institutions as the
foundation of the happiness of the people. All my
cares are turned to this object. You have never refused
your assiaiance in maintaining order; you have not
ceased to give proofs of affection and devotednes to the
throne and my family. My gratitude and affection
towards you shall never cease, be sure of it. I address
these words to you all who have assembled at Turin. I
wish they may be heard by all the National Guards of
the kingdom, with whom you form but one family, and
in whom I have the same confidence. Officers and sol-
diers, continue to fulfil your duties as you have hitherto
done; let order and liberty be your motto, and I shalt
always be with you, as my son is from this moment in
your ranks.

" VICTOR EMMANUEL.

" Given at Turin, Dec. 20,"

The Chamber of. Deputies met on the 21st inst.,
under the presidency of its senior member, M.
FRASCHINI. The number of elections known was
196, but 14 being double, there were only 182 depu-
ties returned. Several who were not present at the
royal sitting were sworn in, after which the As-
sembly retired into its standing committees.
The Stabil° of Florence has the following letter
from Rome of the 17th :

" We are expecting a change of policy on the part
of the Govenrnent. It seems that even the most ob-
stinate are yielding to the dictates of commo❑ setts-.
We learn from Purtici that the Pope has sent for Car-
dinal Lambruschini, and offered him the anpreme direc
Lion of the state. The Cardinal is reported to have
answered that he had been minister under Gregory
XVI., and that he was opposed to a Constitution, but
that he was obliged to coaleas that now it was impos
Bible to refuse it."

The Roman Observer of the 15th inst. announces
the conclusion of a loan with France.

The same journal quotes a letter from Rieti, of the
10th inst., from which we extract the following :
"At 10 o'clock this morning our Spanish garrison
left La Marittima; one company of infantry has remained
to await the arrival of the troops from Umbria to em-
bark with them. It is probable that Neapolitan soldiers
will replace the Spaniards in the Sabina and the portion
of Umbria which extends to Spoletto. This, at least,
seems to be the consequence of the aecumulation of
Neapolitan troops on the Pontifical frontier."
The Costituzioizale Toscano publishes the follow-
ing, under date Leghorn, 18th inst.:—
The steamer Madrid hus just arrived from Civita
Vecchia. Her passengers mention as cTrtain the con-
clusion of the Roman affair. The Pope, they say, is
to re establish the Constitution, as it existed when he
left Rome. The amr_eity is to be extended, and,
by a mutual agreement among the auxiliary Powers,
5,000 Spaniards are to occupy Home, 10,000 French
Civim Vecchia, and 10,000 Austrians Ancona and the
Legations."

Letters from Venice of the 17th annmince that the
Italian Tyrol is to be united V) the Lombardo-Vene-
tian kingdom.

TO MISS VANDENHOFF,

ON THH ANNOUNCEMENT OF HER ENGAGEMENT AT
DRURY LANE THEATRE.

Chief Priestess of the Drama's stateliest dome—

Informing Spirit of its rescued shrine—
Ten thousand welcomes to thy proper home,
Our best, our own, Antigone divine!--
There be the music of thy voice enspher'd,
The beauty of thy mind and features seen;
There, where the spells of genius were rever'd,
Renew those spells, and reign—our tragic Queen!
Thou com'st of one, a Titan of the time,
A model of the truthful and the grand—
Majestic Creon—and thy task 'a sublime,
Daughter and Sire, to re-arouse the land,
And of its native Drama's priceless worth
To ring the triumphs far o'er Britain—o'er the earth!

THE AUTHOR OF " RURAL SONNETS."
Inner Temple, December, 1849.

IMPROMPTU ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF A RAILWAY FRIEND'S
PRESENT OF POULTRY AND GAME.
Accept, dear George, my Christmas thanks
For the turkey and goose, the hare and pheasant.
Let's think no more of cooking accounts;
Cooking THESE is the way to make things pleasant

THE Paucce or W&LEs.—A paragraph has been
going the round of the newspapers with regard to an
asserted narrow escape of the Prince of Wales at
Osborne. We are authorised to state that there is
not one word of truth in the whole of the very cir-
cumstantial narrative. There are no preserves at
Osborne, and consequently no battues, and Lord
Canning has never been out shooting there under any
circumstances. The whole foundation for the exag-
geration is, that several weeks since, at a shooting
party in W indsor Park, Colonel Grey was struck by
a stray shot, and Lord Canning was amongst the
shooters, and was not very well. All the statement
about the hare, the danger of the Prince of Wales, and
Colonel Grey's throwing himself baore the young
Prince, is pure invention.

DE A.TII OF SIR THOMAS GITION CARMICHAEL,
BART.—We have to record the demise, at Naples, on the
13th inst., of the above baronet. Tho deceased, who
was son of the eighth baronet, and grandson of the late
Sir James Gibson, of Thule' N. 8., was born in 1778, and
was twice married; first to Janet, the daughter of the
late Major-General Dundas; and, sccondly, in June,
1816, to the Hon. Anne Napier, daughter of Francis
eighth Lord Napier. lie succeeded his brother in the
baronetcy and family estates in Peebles-shire, in 1803.
Ho is succeeded by his eldest son, issue of the second
marriage, now Sir Alexander Gibson Carmichael, born
in MO.