The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-07 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Piedmontese Gazette of the 2d has intelligence
from Rome to the 27th ult. The French had es-
tablished a besieging battery in a vineyard at Ponte
Molle. It was said they would occupy Albano,
Frascati, &c., to avoid the malaria. French troops
continued to arrive at Civita Vecchia. The statues
and marbles of the Villa Borgbese have mostly been
transported to St. Peter's. The pavillions of the new
villa Borgbese are already pulled down.
By a decree of the 2d the King of SARDINIA. has
granted a full amnesty for all political offences an-
terior to that date committed in the island of
Sardinia.

The Milan Gazette of the lit states from Ancona
that the Austrian detached naval division had an-
chored at Fiumicino, near Ancona, and concerted its
operations with those of Lieutenant Marshal WIMP-
FFEN, who was on his march against the town. The
Austrian war steamers several times approached
within gun-shot of the batteries, and exchanged fire
with them. On the night of the 26th ult. the Cur-
tatore approached the port and began its fire against
the town, while a few shells were thrown into it from
the land side. The forts and batteries responded with
vigour. On the 27th the Venus frigate and Curta-
tore steamer recommenced the attack. The authori•
ties at Ancona gave up the hostages they had, among
whom were Count MASTAI FERIUTTI, a relation of his
Ilor.lNEss. They were taken on board the Bellona,
Austrian frigate.

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The Presse of Vienna has the following from
Milan, dated 24th ult.:—t6 The Commission ap-
pointed to assess and collect the war taxes has seat
into each province an officer of the staff accompanist(
by a civil functioriary as secretary. The Commis-
sion seems to meet with great difficulties, because it
appears that the assessments have been made without
any previous examination into the amounts of pro-
perties. Hence it has result d that many persons
have been called upon to pay more than they possess,
and consequently their property has been confis-
cated, which, however, is forbidden by the Consti-
tution. Consequently, the a,!essments must be re-
duced, and the property sequestrated treated accord-
ingly. The question is whether purchasers will be
found. If the large estates are parcelled out so as
to be sold to the farmers in lots, they must be sold
at such low prices that nothing will remain for the
Government after payment of the debts and the ex-
penses of measuring and litigation. The Princess
BELGtoaoso has sold her property to M. VICTOR
CONSIDERANT, at Paris, to escape confiscation. The
French Government demands that the sale shall be
declared valid, although it was not made before the
ordinary tribunals, the country being at that time in
a state of insurrection, and the tribunals closed. The
sale was made regularly before the French authori-
ties. To these difficulties must be added that the
execution of the measure often is met with a strong
resistance ; that troops have to be called out, as
occurred a short time ago at San Angiolo, between
Lodi and Pavia, and, more recently, two companies of
the regiment of La Tour were obliged to set off for
Bregenz."
The Corriere Mercantile of the Ist states that the
Austrians have seized all the forts of Florence; a
military contribution of two millions is expected to
be imposed. The city is nearly deserted. The Aus-
trians have retired from Pistoia.

The following decree, dated the 20th ult., has been
published at Florence, in the name of the GRAND
DUKE :—" Art. 1. The decrees of the 25th of March
and 17th of April, 1848, and the successive ordon-
nance of the 25th of October of the same year, are
revoked. Art. 2. The Tuscan State re-adopts the
colours and cockade it had at the time of the pro-
mulgation of the statute, 15th of February, 1848."
The Parma Gazette of the 30th publishes several
decrees of the Ducal Commissioner, Baron STURNIER.
Among them is a decree granting an amnesty to all
inferior functionaries and soldiers who belonged,
before the revolution, to the Royal Dragoons and
other corps, who had deserted in March, 1848, and
April, 1849.

FROM THE SUPPLEMENT TO
THE LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDAY.
DOWNING-STREET, JUNE 5, 1849.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders
for the appointment of Major-General Sir Joseph
Thackwell, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable
Order of the Bath, to be an Ordinary Member of the
Military Division of the First Class, or Knights Grand
Cross of the said Order;
Colonels the Honourable Henry Dundas, of the 60th
Rifles, and Colin Campbell, of the 98,h Regiment of
Foot, Companions of the said Most Honourable Order,
to be Ordinary Members of the Military Division of the
Second Class or Knights Commanders of the said
Order; and
Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Bradshaw, of the 60th Rifles;
Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Markham, of the 32d
Regiment of Foot;
Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander McLeod, of the 61st
Regiment of Foot;
Lieutenant-Colonel James Alexander Fullerton, of the
9th Light Dragoons;
Lieutenant-Colonel John Wallace King, of the 14th
Light Dragoons;
Lieutenant-Colonel George Dobson Young, of the 10th
Regiment of Foot;
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Vaughan Brooke, of the 32d
Regiment of Foot;
Lieutenant-Colonel William Jones, of the 61st Regiment
of Foot ; and
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Edward Doherty, of the 14th
Light Dragoons ;
to be Ordinary Members of the Military Division of the
Third Class, or Companions of the said Most Honourable
Order.
Her Majesty has also been graciously pleased to give
orders for the appointment of the following officers in
the service of the East India Company ; viz:—
Major- General Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert, Knight,
Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath,
to be an Ordinary Member of the Military Division of
the First Class, or Knights Grand Cross of the said
Order;
Major-General William Samson Whish, and Colonel
John Cheap, of the Bengal Engineers, Companions of
the said Most Honourable Order, to be Ordinary Mem-
bers of the Military Division of the Second Class, or
Knights Commanders; and Henry Miers Elliott, Esq.,
Secretary to the Governor-General of India in Council,
in the Foreign Department, to be an Ordinary Member
of the Civil Division of the Second Class, or Knights
Commanders of the said Order.
And her Majesty has further been graciously pleased
to make and ordain a special statute of the said most
Honourable Order for appointing the following officers
in the service of the East India Company to be Extra
Members of the Military Division of the Third Class, or
' Companions of the said Order, viz.:—
Colonel David Capon, of the 23d Regiment of Bombay
Native Infantry;
Colonel James Tennant, of the Bengal Artillery;
Colonel James Eekford, of the 56th Regiment of Bengal
Native Infantry;
Colonel Andrew Hervey, of the 52d Regiment of Bengal
Native Infantry;
Lieutenant-Colonel John Bennett Hearsay, of the 7th
Regiment of Bengal Light Cavalry;
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Fisher. Salter, of the 11th
Regiment of Bengal Light Cavalry;
Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Carnegy, of the 36th
Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry ;
Lieutenant-Colonel John Hoggan, of the 45th Regi-
ment of Bengal Native Infantry;
Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Sibbald, of the 15th Regi-
ment of Bengal Native Infantry;
Lieutenant-Colonel William Alexander, of the sth Regi-
ment of Bengal Light Cavalry;
Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Brind, of the Bengal
Artillery;
Lieutenant-Colonel Richard James Holwell Birch, of
the 17th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry;
Lieutenant. Colonel James Uray William Curtis, of the
37th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry;
Lieutenant-Colonel John Fowler Bradford, of the Ist
Regiment of Bengal Light Cavalry;
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Grant, of the Bengal
Artillery;
Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Jack, of the 30th Regi-
ment of Bengal Native Infantry;
Lieutenant-Colonel Stuart Corbett, of the 25th Regi-
ment of Bengal Native Infantry ;
Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Mercer, of ,the 69th
Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry;
Lieutenant-Colonel Griffith Holmes, of the 56th Regi-
ment cf Bengal Native Infantry ;
Lieutenant-Celonel James Steel, of the 2d Bengal
European Regiment; and
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas 11'Sherry, of Ist Regiment
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