The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-20 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

The following is the answer of General WRANGEL
to the petition of the proprietors of the Zeitungshalle,
praying for the removal of the suspension of its pub-
lication :

" The reasons stated in your request of the 12th are
not such as to permit me to recal the renewed prohibi-
tion of the puLlication of the Zatungshalle during the
existence of the state of siege. It was your duty to
observe those limitations which it became necessary from
the circumstances of the time to prescribe, to the
freedom of the press, and by observing it to
secure the interests and existence of your work-
men. In what manner you have kept your given pro-
mise that facts and events only should be published in
the journal' is proved by the letter of the Lite Deputy
Jung, printed in No. 265—a letter intended to present
the re-establishment of public order, and to destroy the
returning feeling of confidence in the Government.
" It rested with you to insure the continued existence
of your journal, and with it the occupation your
printers. You could he.ve effected both; but you have
violated your promise and forfeited the confidence re-
posed in you. On yourself therefore falls the whole
responsibility.

" VON WRANGEL.

ITALY.

Letters from Rome of the 11th say that a Pro-
visional Government has been proclaimed. It is
composed of the senators for Rome and for Bologna,
and of the Gonfalonier of Ancona. The POPE has
been declared as deprived of all temporal power.
The Minister STERBINI has addressed the people; he
said that the POPE alone, under the title of Bishop,
would have the right to enter Rome, but that all the
cardinals and prelates would be strictly prohibited
from entering the city. The people, in their enthu-
siasm, ran about the streets, crying "Death to the
POPE," "Death to the Cardinals." GARIBALDI has
been called to Rome by the Ministry.
From Bologna we learn that, on the 7th instant,
General Zuccni and the Marquis CARLO BEVILACQUA
received their nomination as members of the Pro-
visional Government, instituted by the POPE, at
Gaeta, November 27. The Prolegate of Bologna has
published a letter from them addressed to him on the
subject, in which they state, they consider they
should fail in their duty were they to refuse their
assistance to his Holiness, and that they accept the
office, and will repair to Gaeta to consult their SOVE-
REIGN, in order to effect an arrangement for the
good of the country on the basis of Italian nationality.
Mag. RICCI DE lAIACERATA, another of the commis-
sioners, has also, it is said, accepted the office. Gene-
ral Zuccni and Mug. BEWILACQUA left on the 9th for
Gaeta. On the 13th General Zuccni arrived at
Speziza. He sent immediat2ly for the Roman Consul,
and inquired if he could remain with safety at
Speziza. The Consul told him that he could.
The Alba, of Florence, states that the commission
of five members, named by the Chambers of Rome
on the Bth, were to wait upon Cardinal CASTRA-
CANE, who was invested with the Papal Alter Ego.
The people, however, were dissatisfied with this mea-
sure, and cried, " Down with the Chambers ! We
want a Provisional Government !—a popular Go-
vernment !" Several influential persons however in-
terposed, and Minister STERBINI, having gone to the
Popular Club, expressed his approval of the measure
adopted by the commission, so that tranquillity was
at last restored. After the commission had had a
conference with Cardi:,al CASTRACANE, the latter
immediately dispatched a courier to Gaeta. It
ears that the Roman Ministry intend naming GA-
RIBALDI General in-Chief of the Papal forces in the
Legations.
The city of Florence was the scene of a disturb-
ance on the evening of the 12th, on account of two
persons who had proffered seditious cries against the
Ministry. A crowd assembled, and the two indi-
viduals were ill-treated, and even in danger of a
worse fate, when Minister GUERRAZZI, who was for-
tunately passing that way, interposed in their behalf,
and recommended the people to be calm. M. Nico-
Lim, a Roman, then harangued the crowd in the same
sense, and order was restored. The National Guard
had been called out, but its services were not re-
quired.

The National Savoisien gives the following defini-
tive constitution of the Cabinet of Turin :
Gioberti—President of the Council, without a
portfolio.
Sines—Justice.
Ratazzi—lnterior.
Ricci—Finance.
Montezimolo—Public Works.
Durini or Paleocapa—Agriculture and Commerce
I3ixio—Public Instruction.
La Marmora retains the portfolio of War and
Marine.

On the 13th Genoa was again irk, a state of agita-
tion. The troops station( d at the Ducal Palace
began to cry " War or home 1" The people cheered
them. More troops were ordered to the spot by the
authorities, but they evidently sided with the people.
The cheers continued, and were responded to by
the troops. The Civic Guard refused to act unless
the troops were withdrawn ; the authorities complied,
and order was restored.

The people of Avenza, near Carrara, called on to
declare if they would prefer to be united with Pied-
mont or Tuscany, have declared in favour of the
latter.

In the sitting of the Chamber of Turin, on the 14th
instant, the law for the reunion of the Duchies of
Placentia, Parma, Modena, Guastalla, and Reggio to
Piedmont, was adopted.
The Milan Gazette, of the 13th instant, announces
that the state of siege had 'been removed without
any restriction, and that ten individuals on their
trial before the Council of War had been rektored to
liberty.