The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-23 00:00:00

ITALY.

The army of CHARLES ALBERT, consists of
120,000 men, and is stationed as follows :—" Avant
garde, 3,500 strong, at Castel-San-Giovanni, Fravan-
guola, &c. First division, commanded by General
DURANDO, at Valenza, Mede, Lunullo. Second divi-
sion, Gen. BES, at Mortara, Vigevano, Gumbolo, & c.
Third division, Gen. PERONE, at Casale, Gattinara,
Tornio. Fourth division, the Duke of GENOA, at
Novara Vercelli. Fifth (Lombard) division, Ge-
neral RAMOBINO, at Alexandria, Bosco Solero. Re-
serve, commanded by the Duke of SAVOY, at Casale,
Vercelli, Trino. Sixth division, General LAMAR-
MORA, at Sarzona. Seventh division, General
SOLAROLI, at Arona; artillery, at Alexandria.
Each division is composed in general of
two brigades of infantry, two batteries of
artillery, a regiment of cavalry, a company
of tirailleurs, a company of engineers, and a
company of guides. The first, second, third, and
fourth divisions and the reserve have each 10,500
men ; the second (Lombard division), has only 7,500 ;
the 6:h, 7,000 ; and the.seventh, 5,000. The Avant
grade, 3,500; the engineers, 2,300. The active army
then, shows a force of 80,000, of which 15,000 are
good troops. The artillery is composed of 21 batteries
of 8 pieces, of which 18 are Piedmontese, and 3 Lom-
bards. The cavalry counts six Piedmontese regiments
of from 600 to 700 horses, making from 5,000 to
6,000 horsemen. The KING, according to this account,
is commander-in-chief. CuzaoNowsKi is major-
general, assuming the responsibility of the military
operations ; General LAMARMORA is chief of the staff,
and General COSSATO second ; General lia.ssr com-
mands the artillery, Colonel ALBERTI the engineers.
There is a park of siege artillery, composed of 80
pieces of heavy calibre."
From this it appears that the Piedmontese army
has its left wing at Novarra, its right at Voghera,
and its centre and reserve at Alessandria and Casale.
The Austrian army in Italy is composed of 105,000
troops and 190 pieces of artillery, but, as it is divided
into two divisions, it does not appear that Marshal
RADETZKY has more than 50,000 men directly avail.
able against the Piedmontese. RADETZKY'S army
has its right at Magenta, its centre, with a part of
its left, at Pavia, and the rest of its left at Piacenza.
It is rumoured that the Austrians have been driven
out of Pi•cenza, as well as out of Parma,
but the report needs confirmation. It is certain,
however, that they have been driven out of Modena,
and that the GRAND DUKE has fled, and it is probable
that hostilities have commenced in the Roman
Legations. The following official announcement of
these facts appears in the Corriere Mercantile of
the 17th :

" Citizens of Leghorn, I hasten to transmit the follow-
ing dispatch, which I have just received:—
" The Duke of Modena has fled, leaving behind a
proclamation, in which he states the cause of his depar-
ture is the resumption of hostilities between Piedmont
and Austria. A loud cannonade is heard on the side of
Bologna. lam in conference with the envoys of Pied-
mont and Rome. The time has come—the people
must have but one will. Let them take up arms and
fight for their country. Victory is certain, tor a people
never dies.'

" GUERRA ZZI.

" Leghorn, March 17."
The latest intelligence received at Genoa on the
[7th states that the Austrians were withdrawing their
roops on the left bank of the Po.
The Neapolitan Chambers were dissolved on the
[3th.

• The following is the official account of the sup-
pression of a reactionary emeute at Rome.
" Yesterday the law of the Republic was not re-
spected. Three commissioners, conformably with the
deer( c of the Assembly, having demanded of the heads
of the congregation of St. Philip, the delivery of certain
useless bells, they refused, not directly, but they dis-
played hypocritically the H&j Sacrament, as if to avert
a plague, and as if the religion of Christ depended on a
bell the more or less. By these means the said coegre-
gationists succeeded in assembling round the establish-
ment a crowd, composed of the most uneducated part of
the people. _

" The commissioners, not wishing to employ force,
suspended their proceedings, thus giving a proof of the
prudence and humanity of the Republic in discharging
its duties.

" But the Roman people, indignant at this perfidious
and hypocritical act, determined that the law should be
respected, so in the evening a large number of brave ci-
tiz as presented themselves at the said establishment to
demand that the decree of the Assembly should be exe-
cuted. No one answering their summons, and the gates
being barricaded inside, the people set fire to them, and
soo❑ opened a passage. The authorities now interfered,
assisted by the National Guards and Carabineers, and
the fire was extinguished. On entering the house it
was found that the young priests had been confined and
chained by the old ones, and the former being liberated
rushed with eagerness into the arms of the citizens and
soldiers who had released them.

`• Finally, everything has been religiously respected
and the law upheld; the bells are in the power of the
Republic, except that of St. Philip, which has been left ;
but the sons of lying and malignity, who have endea-
voured to mislead the people, will be severely punished;
,hey are now in the hands of the Republic I
" Rome, March 11." " F. MEUCCI, Director.

The Minister of the Interior has issued a proclama•
ion, stating that the Government have no intention
of despoiling the churches of the necessary bells, they
only require the useless ones to be surrendered for the
public service.

- Accounts from Bologna of the 13th state that a
loud cannonade was heard that day in the direction of
Piacenza.

The Ministry of Venice is composed of the Presi-
dent Manin, for Foreign Affairs ; Pesaro Manro-
ganato, Finance; Calucci, Justice and Interior; Da
Conin, Public Worship; Graziani, Marine; and
Cavedalis, Minister of 'War. Citizen Milonopulo has
been appointed provisionally to the command of the
Navy.