The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-23 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Opinione of Turin, of the 17th, states that
Alessandria is to be occupied by the Austrians, not-
withstanding the hopes that had been entertained to
the contrary.
This statement is confirmed by the following official
announcement, which appears in the Paris Patric of
Saturday evening :
" According to dispatches receiv,d to day, Austria
is increasing her demands upon Piedmont, end the
French and English Ministers have been obliged to
send information to their Governments of new diffienities
being rai,,e(t by General Rcdetzky."
The Tuscan Monitore announces that a body of
2,000 men, under General KOLOWRAT, has entered
the territory Pontremoli, in the name of the Duke of
PARMA. The General has written the following
letter to the Tuscan officer in command at Pontre-
moli

" To the Commander of the Troops of the Pontremo-
lese Territory—The undersigned in command of a bri-
gade of Imperial and Royal Austrian troops, now at
Berceto, which is destined to occupy, in the course of to-
morrow morning, the Pontremulese territory, in the
name of his Royal Highness the Duke of Parma, being
informed that the said territory is occupied by foreign
troops, the commander of the said troops is invited to
evacuate the afore-mentioned territory immediately, in
virtue of existing treaties, and in consideration that no
declaration of war exists between the Austrian empire
and other Italian powers; otherwise the most vigorous
hostile measures will be resorted to against the aforesaid
troop?. An officer, with a flag of truce, is at the frontier
of Cisa in expectation of an answer.—Berceto, April 11.
" The Imperial and Royal General Major commanding
Brigadier, Count KOLOWRAT."
The Saggiatore of Turin of the 16th, gives the fol-
lowing intelligence as the latest from Florence, but
without mentioning any date. According to this
paper, the Constituent Assembly has been dissolved
by the new Government, and its members have had
to seek safety in flight. The Municipal Council has
resumed the posssession of the Palau() Vecchio and
other Government buildings, and proclaimed the re-
establishment of the Constitutional Government; an
announcement hailed by the people with loud shouts
of applause. Guerrazzi is a prisoner in Fort Belve-
dere ; Gino Capponi has saved him from the fury of
the people by promising he should be strictly
guarded. The new Ministry is composed as follows :
—Foreign Affairs, Tometti ; Finance, Chevalier Mar-
tini ; Public Instruction, Tabarrini ; Interior, Alle-
gretti ; Justice, Duchequez ; War, Belluomini.
The Conciliatore of the 15th, says, the Constituent
Assembly dissolved itself.
Several proclamations have been published by the
new Government : one, addressed to the troops, in-
viting them to take their oath to LEOPOLD 11. ; an-
other, dissolving the Municipal Guard, for the pur-
pose of reorganising it; a third, praising the National
Guard for their conduct; and a fourth, closing the
clubs and political assemblies of all denominations.
The illba of the 13th says that on the 11th the law
of the conscriptions was issued, and a military com-
mission named at Modena. Austrian troops have
come in to replace the garrison which left on the 12th.
The city is as quiet as the tomb, and every one is sus-
picious of his neighbour. Numerous searches are
made, and many persons have been exiled.
The latest accounts from Rome state that great
agitation prevailed in the city. There were many
attempts at a reaction, and numerous arrests continued
to take place.

SICILY.

RUMOURED DEFEAT OF THE NEAPO-

LITANS.

We have received official accounts published by
the Provisional Government of Sicily of the f4ll of
Caknia.

The Saggiatore of Turin, of the 17th, gives the
following telegraphic dispatches, the hitter of which
bears the date of the 9tb, published at Palermo,
and signed GAETANO CATALANO, Minister of the
Interior :

" The Commissary of the Executive Power of Castro•
reale to the Minister of War and Marine:—Many per-
sons of the vicinity, besides those I have expressly sent,
confirm the intelligence that Catania fell into the hands
of the Royalists on the 6th. From Castroreale this day
at fourteen o'clock (half-past nine A M ): —As the Go•
vernment is firmly convinced that nothing is to be con.
coaled from the people, it adds to the dispatches hitherto
published the following dispatch it has just received;
not that the people should blindly believe it, but that the
people may know all that is known to Government."
" The Commissary-General of Castroreale to the
Minister of War and Marine, and to all the authorities:
—The rumours that had been spread have been proved
false by intelligence received directly from the environs
of Catania. Yesterday, at half-past fourteen o'clock (ten
A.m.) there was fighting in that town. Outside of the
town a general action has taken place, and our troops
fought with advantage. From the telegraph of Cis-
troreale, this day, twelve o'clock (half-past seven, ♦.m.)."
The following is from the Genoa Gazette of the
16th :

" The steamer Sully, arrived this morning from
Palermo and Leghorn, announces that the Neapolitans,
who had already occupied Catania, have been obliged to
retire, the Sicilians having been reinforced by a French
legion."

This intelligence of the retaking of Catania by the
Sicilians is further confirmed by the following intel-
ligence brought to Genoa by the French steamer
Bosphore, and published in the Corriere Mercantile
of the 16th :

" The inhabitants of Catania had opened their gates
to the Neapolitans, who began to pillage., the town.
Upon which the people rose, and, aided by a body of
regular troops, massacred the Neapolitans. The tele-
graphic dispatch that had conveyed this news to Palermo
at the moment of the departure of the Bosphore, added,
that the royal army, 12,000 strong, was surrounded by
the Sicilians, and in a desperate condition. The batteries
of Catania bail sunk a Neapolitan steamer, and severely
damaged other ships."

It will be recollected that the Neapolitans stormed
Catania from the land side, therefore it is
probable that the coast batteries may have
remained in the hands of the Sicilians ; and that
an attack upon the Neapolitans was intended
is evident tram the dispatch of the chief of the execu-
tive of the valley of Catania to the Government at
Palermo, dated Regalbuto, 7th of April, in which he
states that General MIEROSLAWSICI had retired to
that town with the garrison of Catania, where he was
being reinforced by the National Guards of the in-
terior towns, and by the armed peasantry, and as
Regalbuto is but twenty-five miles from Catania,
MIEROSLAWSZI probably has found himself suffi-
ciently strong to advance and expel the Neapolitan
garrison from that place. The Neapolitans had not
arrived in Syracuse on the 10th.