The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-19 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Ticino Gazette of the 12th inst. states that it
was reported at Turin that the English Minister had
presented to the King an ultimatum, in which he
offered to annex to Piedmont the duchies of Parma,
Piacenza, and Modena, to give Lombardy to the Duke
of Leuchtenberg, and to declare Venice independent
for the present. " Should Charles Albert," adds that
journal, "refuse to accept these terms, England would
withdraw from the mediation." General Chiodo,
Minister of War, had addressed an order of the day
to the army, cautioning the soldiers against the at-
tempts made to seduce them from their allegiance.
The brigade of Savoy was to leave Turin on the 15th
for Alexandria. The Hungarian Legion, all the
cavalry depots, and two battalions of Savona had been
ordered to that capital.
We have accounts from Venice to the 3d instant,
on which day the session of the Assembly was
regularly opened, and M. Benvenuti Bartolomme
elected President. The Assembly, after the elec-
tion of the standing committees, received a message
from the Tribunes, declaring themselves ready to
resign the executive power into the hands of a new
Government. Atter a conversation on the mission
of M. Tommaseo to the Republic of France, expla-
natory of the reasons why that Power had not
afforded to the State of Venice the assistance ex-
pected, the Assembly discussed a project of address
to the Governments of Rome and Tuscany, the com-
mittee charged to draw up a similar one to the Go-
vernment of Piedmont having decided that such a
measure would be inopportune.

THE ARMY AND NAVY.
(From the United Service Gazette of Satur,lay.)
INCREASE TO THE ARMT.—The following regi-
ments have received orders to complete their rank
and file to 1,000 each, viz. :-26th, Cameronians,
15th, 30th, 41st, 47th, 49th, and 69th, and to hold
themselves in readiness to embark for foreign service.
BOUNTIES TO SOLDIERS.—To complete the regi-
ments in India, as well as those about to proceed
there, as quick as possible, the Government has sanc-
tioned payment of a bounty of one guinea to each
man who shall volunteer from other regiments, to
enable him to defray the expense of altering his
clothing and appointments.
STAFF.—Captain Follows, late of the 53d Regi-
ment, has been appointed Staff Officer of Pensioners
rat ,Thurso, N. 8., vacant by the decease of Quarter-
master Macdonald. Lieutenant-Colonel Hope is to
act as Staff Officer of Pensioners at Edinburgh,
during the absence of Captain Tulloch in North
America.
OVERGROWN FRIGATES, OR SMALL ROOFS.—The
proportions of the Nankin, building at Woolwich, a
50-gun frigate, have so extended, that the slip, No.
7, is not large enough for her; or rather the bounda-
ries of the roof so interfere with the progress of the
massively-framed ship, that the Admiralty have been
obliged to order a portion of it to be removed, to
make room for fitting the knee of her head.
THE FIRST LIEUTENANT OF TILE VICTORY. By
the appointment of Lieutenant R. E. Bullen (1830),
as Senior Lieutenant to the Victory, vice Herrick,
promoted, another act of justice has been done the
service by Sir F. Baring. Lieutenant 13ullen has
served upwards of seventeen years afloat, the greater
part of that time in the West Indies and coast of
Africa, and has already held the position of Senior
Lieutenant of various ships for nearly five years. He
is the nephew of a most distinguished officer,. Vice-
Admiral Sir Charles Bullen, &c., and has
been Second Lieutenant of the Victory for the last
15 months.

MANNING THE NAVY.—Notwithstanding the num-
bers of seamen that have been paid off during the
last nine months, and the numbers of extra men
borne in the books of the guard ships, there has been
the greatest difficulty experienced in filling up the
complement of the Caledonia to 960, that is of en-
tering some 300 blue jackets; and at length the Ad-
miralty were compelled to open a rendezvous at Ports-
mouth, and go to the expense of sending steamers to
and fro between Devonport and Portsmouth for their
conveyance. It appears that Captain Carter has been
very particular in his selection, refusing to enter any
man who had not a " very good " certificate up to the
last moment; when, finding that the " very good''
had been starved away out of the ports to seek some
other mode of livelihood than that of service on board
man"cif-war, he at length felt disposed to accept
to
.i, good" seamen. It was now, however, Jack's turn
refuse, and refuse. numbers did, swearing that they
would rather j the merchant service or follow
their shipmates to
i,3l.merica than accept such offer.
The Caledonia was
0 sail tomorrow
short yesterday, but it is
expected that she Will ai
to-morrow for the Mediter-
ranean nevertheless.
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salvage
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of her Maje3ty's steamer Dragon,
Ireland, having been lately awarded
money from tLe Admiralty Court there, for
at great risk and peril, a Spanish vessel in dist assisting,
resit,.
has munificently given 2001. of this money to open a
subscription for the endowment of a Sailors' Rome at
the port of Dublin. Among the benefactors to so
truly humane and national a work we find recorded the
names of those steady, liberal, and persevering friends
of seamen—Admiral Dudley Oliver and Sir Charles
Forbes, Bart., of ; the R• London ht Hon. Sidney
Right
Herbert, ,
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• Captains JanuS, Coote, Sotheby, and
Rawdon McClean, of the Navy ; and Henry Scovell,
Esq., E. Hayes, LL.D., and G. Roe, Esq., of Dublin.