The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-27 00:00:00

OLDEN BURG.

The State Gazette announces the dissolution of the
Diet. The writs for the new elections will be issued
immediately, and the Diet be convoked for the 16th
February, 1850. There will be a change in the law
of elective franchise.

SWITZERLAND.
The Federal Assembly at Berne was prorogued on
the 22d to the 4th of April.

ITALY

We have no news from Rome of any interest. On
the 16th General BARAGUAY D'HILLIERS passed a
review on the Piazza San Pietro.

In consequence of further disturbances and out-
rages which have taken place at Leghorn, the
following notification, dated the 17th, has been
published by Count FOLLIOTT DE CRENNEVILLE,
Austrian Commandant of that city :
" Any person who shall offend an Austrian or Tuscan
soldier of the line, police-force, cr any other body,
whether alone or patrolling, whether in the performance
of his duties or not, by word or deed, or by signs of con-
tempt, or by acts of violence—and any person guilty of
uttering insults or expressions of ridicule against the
persons of his Imperial and Royal Highness the Grand.
Duke and his family, or against the repre-
sentatives
of the Tuscan Government, or any other
authority, shall be placed under the Austrian military
jurisdiction. The inhabitants are further informed that
henceforward the Austrian military authority, taking
advantage of the powers it possesses in virtue of the
state of siege, will act according to its own laws against
all conventicles, meetings, or crowds, which have not
evidently a legitimate cause. The notification of May 11,
in virtue of which the wearing of cockades or other tri-
coloured signs is forbidden, is again put in force."
The Nazionale of Florence, of the 18th, states
that the Tuscan Government intends convoking the
Chambers about the beginning of February. The
Minister of Finance has decided that no more Trea-
sury bonds for the new loan shall be sold under 90
per cent. This decision is to be attributed to the
offer of a great banking establishment to buy all the
remaining bonds at that price.
The same journal states from Bologna, 17th inst.,
that the municipal artillery-men of that town have
again been allowed to wear their swords, and that a
number of muskets is to be distributed to a sort of
urban guard, which is to replace the civic guard, and
whose officers are to bear the title of Knights of Malta.
A letter from Milan states that the Borromee family
are going to leave their country, and are selling their
estates, to the great sorrow of the Milanese, who
revere in them the memory of St. Charles and Cardi-
nal Frederie Borromeo.

THE CHIEFS OF INDIA.
3, Gloucester-gardens, Dec. 14, 1849.
MY FRIEND RUNGO BAPGATEB,—I have received a
copy of The Sun to-day containing an article on the
Sattara case, and thank you for it. I was not aware,
until I read your letter in the same paper, that the
Herald had answered your excellent address to the
native chiefs of India. There can be no doubt that
the spirit which pervades men in high places is to
dispossess the chiefs of India of all power, and when
they have done this they will be dispossessed them-
selves ; for, slow as the natives of India are to act,
they will certainly be roused from their inactivity
when a common danger stares them in the face. But
the case of the Sattara Raja is not worse than that
of the Mysore Raja, who is deprived of his territory
for the sake of the patronage which it affords. We
hold India now not for the benefit of the people, which
is the object of all government, but to enrich our
selves, and in doing this we have impoverished th
country wherever we have planted ourselves. So-
litudinem facimus, pacem appellanats. There is an
old French proverb, "Aide tot et la ciel t'aidera." I
do not counsel the chiefs of India to rise against the
British Government, but I would counsel them to
unite and combine for their safety ; this they
may do without violating the law, and
without resorting to any measure which an honest
mind would disapprove of. I wish that every nation
would resist oppression, and take the legal way of
removing from power their oppressors. The chiefs of
India shouldengage as their agents some Members of
Parliament to advocate their interests. Unless they
do this they will, ere long, find themselves awkwardly
situated. The Court of Directors, that is, the ma-
jority, will do whatever the Ministry wish, in the
hope of baronetcies, G.C.B.'s, and so on. The people
of India will be the last considered in any measure
of justice.

We have in our Indian rule verified the fable of
the wolf and the lamb—we have always found a pre-
text when we wanted to plunder a neighbouring
country. There never would have been a disturb-
ance in the Lahore country if we had mt shown a
determination to take it. The same of Si:Y.lde, and
there would have been no conspiracy against Sat-
tara if we Lad not wanted to take possession of it.
You may make any use you like of this letter ; it
might serve as a helping warning to the Chiefs of
India.—l remain your Friend,
To Rungo Bapoj,:e, &c. &c. M. LEWIN,

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—Notices of an intended
application to Parliament have been given for a new
telegraph company, to be called the " British Electric
Telegraph Company." The extension of the telegraph
to Preston is WAY completed.