The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-15 00:00:00

ITALY.

It was announced officially to the Chamber of De-
puties at Turin, on the 7th instant, that ill health
alone had been the cause of the resignation of Gen.
Colli.

In the same sitting the Minister Rattazzi delivered
a discourse to the Assembly, in which he demanded,
on behalf of the Government, extraordinary powers
to meet the present exigency of public affairs. He
began by stating that the sacrifices already made by
the Chamber and the country satisfied the Govern-
ment that it could rely upon their utmost exertions in
the approaching struggle for Italian independence,
and that the KING'S Ministers would be doubly culpa-
ble if they did not call for special powers to meet the
gravity of their position. It was, he said, their pro-
found conviction that they would not be able to
triumph over foreign foes unless they were first em-
powered to put down internal factions, which would
not fail to profit by the defenceless state in which the
country would be left by the necessity for sending all
the disposable force to meet the foreign foe. It was
under this impression that the Government submitted
the following project of law for the approbation of the
Chamber : _

Arts. 1 and 2 demand the power, during a period to
be determined, to make domiciliary visits, and to arrest
and imprison persons, although not accused of flagrant
crimes, if they should think proper for the safety of the
state; the person so arrested to be brought within 24
hours before the competent tribunals to be judged ac-
cording to the ordinary rules of law. They also de-
mand power to banish suspected individuals from the
kingdom, even although able to prove that they have an
assured means of existence ; also to send all beggars and
vagabonds to their native places, putting them under sur-
veillance or sending them to the depots.
" Art. 3. Empowers the Government to prevent or
dissolve all me etings, assemblies, or associations. under
whatever denomination, which they may think dange-
rous to the safety of the State, even although held in
open or public places.
" Art. 4. During the said period all publications, of
whatever character, treating upon the army or the pro-
gress of the war, unless of an authentic nature, ac
knowledged by the Government, and which shall have
been inserted in the official journal, are strictly prohi-
bited.
" Art. 5. Prohibits all papers containing news to be
hawked about, and all attempts to post bills or procla-
mations, whether printed or written, unless the same
shall be done by authority.
" Art. 6. Forbids any person from spreading intelli-
gence respecting the fumy or military affairs, or affairs
of state, whether by writing or speaking in public.
" Art 7. Punishes the contravention of Articles 1 and
2, with imprisonment of from 15 days to six months, and
a fine of from 15 to 500 livres. Those who contravene
Articles 4 and 6 shall be punished with from one month
to two years' imprisonment, and a fine of from 100 to
2,000 livres, besides the sequestration of all such printed
or written papers.
" Other articles inflict penalties of varying character
for the infraction of the other articles."
The Chamber by a majority of 113 votes against
10 adopted the project of law thus submitted to them,
and decreed that the Minister of the Interior should
be empowered to take a credit of 2,000,000 of livres
on the budget of 1849, to meet the expenses of the
armament of the National Guard.
The Roman Assembly in the sitting of the 4th
voted a subsidy of 100,000 crowns to Venice, and
authorised the Minister for Foreign Affairs to nego-
tiate with Tuscany for a political and administrative
union.
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SICILY.
THE NEW CONSTITUTION.
The following is the proclamation of the King of
NAPLES, offering the terms agreed on with the me-
diating Powers to the Sicilians :----
FERDINAND THE SECOND. By THE GRACE OF GOD
KING OF THE KINGDOM of THE Two SICILIES, &C.
Sicilians—lf the errors of a few have sufficed for a
moment to induce some amongst you to become alien-
ated from the attachment that your forefathers had to
our dynasty, whiah has presided with so much affection
posed upon us by our
over your destinies for more than a century, we who
have passed our infancy amongst you, and have never
ceased. to love you with the tenderness of a lather, are
willing to delay no longer telling you, that we satisfy
1.E411. Return, therefore, the deaires of our hearts and fulfil the dearest duty im •
we assure you that we have forgotten, and will consider
which have brought upon you so much
august and holy religion, wben
as if they had never happened, the faults and political
offences
misfortune from the beginning of the past year,
lions, cultivate in peace Your fruitful fields, restore to
to him.
the laud of Ceres b the force of your constant toil, its
former feral' ' •y
erefere at once to your private occupa-
tions,
which Divine Providence always yields
to man as a recompense for the labour that it prescribes ,
thence to anarchy,
Give back its former activity to your industry, 1
to your traffic, to your mercantile navigation, and shut
your ears to the seductions of those who are seeking to
delude you and lead you to sedition, to rebellion, and
which is their inevitable consequence.

After the moi it mature reflection and accurate examina-
tion of your • at:cessities, and of those wishes which can
with utility a nd equity practically satisfy them—consi-
dering all th a acts which have appeared in Sicily since
the 12th of . January as not having occurred, and of no
effect, either • in right or in fact—we henceforth grant a
statute, the basis of which is the Constitution of 1812,
with the ex ception of th.,se modificati.ins demanded by
the change of circumstances and by the law now in
existence.

This statr ite, which we reserve to ourselves to put into
ample form before the end of June of the present year,
shall confab i in substance the following disposition:-
1. The re ligion of the State shall be only and solely,
exclusively of every other, the Catholic, Apostolic, and
Roman.

2. Indivil 3ual liberty is guaranteed, and no one shall be
arrested or proceeded against except in cases provided by
the laws, at id in the manner presertbed by them.
3. No on e shall he forged to give up his property, ex-
cept for the sake of public utility, and after being pre-
viously inde m,nified. A special law shall be made by Par-
liament, in a ,C cordance with the King, for the purpose of
determining , the competency and form of their forced ap-
propriations ; made for the public good.
4. The Sine ilians have the right of printing and pub-
lishing their opinions, conforming to the dispositions
which exist fa r the repression of abuses of this liberty.
The King real !rves to himself the plenitude of his power
to publish thl aforesaid dispositions in a special law.
5. Sicily, ct mtinuing to make an integral part of the
united kingdo, m of the Two Sieilies, shall be governed by
a constitutions tl monarchy, with a division of powers as
follows:

MARCH 15, 1849.