The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-18 00:00:00

PIEDIVION T.

The Risorgimento of Turin of
the 11th contains a
programme of the National Society, just founded, for
the promotion of an Italian Confederation. Its prin •
• les are the absolute independence of Italy from opfo-
reigners; the maintenance of the union of Piedmont
with the Duchies, and with the Lombardo•Venetian
provinces, forming the kingdom of Upper Italy, un-
der the constitutional sceptre of the house of Savoy ;
and lastly, the maintenance of the territorial inte-
grity and political prerogatives of the other Italian
states, viz., the Papal States, the kingdom of Naples,
the kingdom of Sicily, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany,
and the Republic of San Marino. Gioberti is Presi-
dent of the Society. By a decree of the &h, the Loin-
bardian troops now in Piedmont are maintained in
active service during three years; the same is said of
the Parmese and Modenese troops; and the Poles
now in Piedmont are to be organized in two companies.

TUSCANY.
A letter from Florence of the 7th says :—" The
events of Leghorn, although they begin to be calmer,
cause a profound disquietude here; the complete
powerlessness of repression in which the Government
is placed, unless it has recourse to foreign assistance,
has caused it to be feared that a movement would be
attempted at Florence. In the state of discourage-
ment in which the population is placed, a hundred
audacious men could easily make themselves masters
of the city. The French residents yesterday met
at the residence of the Minister of France to devise
means for their own protection, but nothing was de-
cided. The Chambers, on the proposition of Count
Conini, have voted a law, to authorise the Mi-
nistry to take into its pay a foreign legion of 4,000
men. That will be very useful for the future, but
for the present there must be measures of immediate
efficacy. It is said that the Government has addressed
itself to the mediating powers, as also to the Kings
of Naples and of Piedmont, to demand their assist-
ance. At the beginning of the insurrection at Leg-
horn a demand was made on the Ministers of
France and England that sailors' should be landed
to protect the French and English residents, the
Tuscan Government having declared itself unable
to protect property. It appears that the English
Minister at Florence gave orders to Captain Cod-
rington, of the Thetis, to send 200 English
sailors to occupy one of the forts, in conjunction with
the Tuscan soldiers, in order to afford a place of
refuge to foreigners in case of necessity ; but, before
the embarkation could be effected, the soldiers who
guarded the fort had all deserted, and the fort was
already in the hands of the insurgents."
Advices from Leghorn, of the 7th, state that tran-
quillity is restored here. General Torres has been
disavowed by Chodzko, the commander of the Polish
Legion ; he still tried, however, to renew the agita-
tion in that quarter of the Capuccini, the most
populous of the town, by haranguing the people and
telling them that the new Committee were betraying
Leghorn. But the protest of the Poles against him
being already known, he had to make his escape.

OCEAN MONARCH.—On Thursday last an inquest
was held at Carnarvon, on the view of two bodies which
had been brought to Carnarvon by the Orion steamer
on the previous evening. They had been, as appeared
in evidence before the coroner, E. G.Powell,Esq., picked
up about ten miles to the east of the Great Orme's Head.
'I hey appeared to be those of persons of the age of 60,
or thereabouts. These bodies are supposed to be those
of Samuel Fielding and William Scamborough. Upon
the person of one, supposed to be Fielding, were found
thirty-nine sovereigns and a half and some silver coins;
also a silver watch, maker's name Bradford, Liverpool,
No. 2,612, having inside the ticket, " Knight, watch-
maker, 28, Oldham-street, Manchester." He had also
about him three passengers' contract tickets, showing
that he, together with William Scamborough and severe
others, were passengers on board the ill-fated vessel the
Ocean Monarch. On the other body were found ill.,
with the initials " B. S." on the inner case of a silver
watch, which appears to have been made by Clowes, of
London, and is numbered 8,091. Evidence was given to
prove the finding of the bodies, and the jury in each
case returned a verdict " That the bodies were those of
persons who had perished on board the Ocean Monarch;
names supposed to be as above described." The coroner
has taken charge of the money and goods; and the re
latives will be furnished by him with every requisite
information.