The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-09 00:00:00

ITALY.

Accounts from Genoa of the 2d of April state
that the people had complete possession of the city,
and had entrusted the Government to a triumvirate,
composed of General AVEZANNO and Signori RETA
and Alocctlio. General MARMORA was advancing
to attack Genoa, while the Lombard division of the
Piedmontese army was advancing to its assistance.
RADETZKY has consented not to insist on the occu-
pation of Alessandria by the Austrians.
The Piedmontese Gazette publishes several decrees
and notifications of the Government relative to the
late events. By a decree of the 3d, a commission
to inquire into the events of the late campaign and
the causes of its failure is instituted; it is composed
of General Saluzzo, Major-General Dabormida, Count
Lisio, Deputy Nollard, Colonel Pastore, Engineer
Fromis, and Deputies Lanza, Ravine, and Josti.
The three latter were the movers of the
most energetic propositions of the day that were
passed by the Chamber of Deputies on the sitting of
the 27th ult. Another decree of the 2d regulates the
punishments to be awarded to those non-commissioned
officers and soldiers whose behaviour in the late cam-
paign has been disgraceful. In a proclamation, dated
Parma the 28th ult., General LA MARMORA takes a
sorrowful farewell of that city. The Piedmontese
Commissioner PLEZZA, however, remains.
We read in a letter from Florence of the Ist—
" The defeat of the Piedmontese has thrown the Re-
publicans into a sort of stupor, and filled the partisans
of the GRAND DUKE with hope. In the country dis-
tricts the cry of Long live LEOPOLD has been
raised, and at Arezzo the people have re-established
the grand ducal arms. ROMANELLI, the friend of the
Dictator GUERRAZZJ, has set out from Florence in the
hope of calming the effervescence by conciliation.
At Camuccia the people have also risen with shouts
of Long live LEOPOLD !' A report is current that
GUERRAZZI, who has never been in favour of a re-
public, has only made himself Dictator in order to be
the better able to restore the authority of the GRAND
DUKE?'

By a decree of the 29th ult. GUERRAZZI has ac-
cepted the resignation of General D'APICE, as pro-
visional Minister of War, and named Lieutenant-
Colonel MANGANARO in his stead.

The Duke of MODENA has issued a proclamation,
dated from Brescello, 29th ult., announcing to his
subjects the events of the campaign, calling upon all
good citizens to assist him in maintaining order, and
directing that those persons who had in this short in-
terval attempted acts against his authority shall be
tried by a military commission.
An idle rumour having been spread that the Tuscan
Government had sent a deputation to Gaeta, the
Tuscan Monitore of the 30th ult. officially, contra-
dicts the statement.

The Positivo of Rome states that the POPE intends
going to Barcelona, with the whole of his suite.
The news of the defeat at N ovara having been
known at Rome on the 29th ult. the Constituent
Assembly has named a triumvirate with unlimited
powers, composed of MAZZINI, AM ELLINI, and SAFFI.
The following is the latest intelligence from Ge-
noa :—On the 2d, after a murderous combat, which
lasted for several hours, the Piedmontese General de
Azarta, who had the command of the garrison, was
obliged to capitulate. The combat commenced on
the evening of the Ist, about four o'clock, and con-
tinued, without interruption, during the whole of the
night, the inhabitants having been forced by the in-
surgents to illuminate their houses, in order to enable
them to carry on their operations. Both sides seem
to have fought with great energy; and, in consequence
of the strong positions held by the troops, the result
was for a long time doubtful ; but at length, towards
ten in the morning, General de Azarta, finding that
the strength of the insurgents was rather increas-
ing than diminishing, while he himself was cut
off from all hope of reinforcements, was obliged to
capitulate. The lives of the troops were spared, and
the whole of the men were allowed to quit the place,
with their arms, and with all the honours of war.
There are, consequently no troops now in Genoa,
which is entirely in the hands of the insurgents.
Lord HARDWICKE is spoken of with praise, by the
Genoa papers, as having contributed in obtaining
favourable terms for the troops, and having prevented
the horrors and excesses which might be expected as
the consequence of the popular triumph.
General DE LA MARMORA was at Ronco, but his
men were knocked up by forced marches, and
diminished by desertion. Genoa had closed its
gates against him, and it is not supposed that he
will be able to recover the city without additional
troops.