The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-17 00:00:00

HAMBURGH.

An attempt was made to create a riot in Hamburgh
on the 12th, but the Burgher Guard dispersed the
mob, and restored tranquillity.

ITALY.

LOMBARDY AND PIEDMONT.

The Opinion of Turin, of the 11th, says during
the armistice Peschiera will be surrendered, the
Piedmontese artillery being first withdrawn from it.

Oa the arrival of the 'news of the surrender of
Milan at Genoa an inzeute occured of a very serious
character. The populace assembled in iminethe
numbers, and the cry of treason was everywhere
heard. The National Guard collected and proceeded
to disarm the Fort of Casteletto, which commands
the town ; the other forts were also seized, and the
artillery and projectiles were removed from all those
which commanded the town.

A telegraphic dispatch, received at Turin on the
12th at seven o'clock A.M., announces the arrival of
CHARLES ALBERT at Alessandria.
The Patria of Florence informs us that the Aus-
trians entered Modena on the 7th, and re-established
the authority of the former Government.

ROMAN STATES.

DEFEAT OF THE AUSTRIANS AT BO•

L 0 GNA.

The Bologna Gazette of the 9th contains important
news. It appears that, on the afternoon of the Bth,
the Austrian General, WELDEN, having levied a
heavy contribution upon Bologna, and demanded
hostages for the payment, and for the subjection of
the Bolognese, the people rose and the tocsin was
sounded. A conflict ensued, which is said to have
been terrible, but the details are not given. Under
date of the 9th, at six in the morning, we find the
following : " The Bolognese have driven the
Austrians out of the city, after making 27 prisoners.
Bologna is in the hands of the people, and ready to
receive another attack from the enemy, who must
have got reinforcements. The people, with their knives,
drove the Austrians to a distance of two miles from the
city. The curate of San Felix is at the head of the
people of the Contado." Under date of half-past
six we read :—" The bombardment has commenced,
and two palaces are in flames. The Faubourg has
already been pillaged and burned, but the population
have resolved to resist to the last drop of their blood."
—The Piedmontese Gazette of the 12th has the fol-
lowing from Bologna, dated the 9th:—" At half-past
three in the afternoon of yesterday an officer, bearing
a dispatch for the Pro-Legate, was killed by some
Bolognese as he was passing through San Felice.
Half an hour afterwards a soldier of the line, carrying
another dispatch, met with the same fate. The Aus-
trians on guard at the gates of San Felice, where a
cannon was planted, fired it upon the people, but
very fortunately no one was killed. Upon this the
Austrians went out of the town to Montagnola. They
amounted to 2,4500 men, and had with them a cannon
and a howitzer. In this favourable position they began
to bombard the town, setting it on fire in several places.
It was about five in the afternoon when the firing
began, and it did not cease till eight at night. On the
side of the Bolognese there were fifty carabiniers,
thirty custom-house officers, upwards of 500 porters,
and some national guards. All displayed the most
extraordinary courage, and in the end took Montag•
nola by assault, and drove away the Austrians, who,
on leaving the Galiera gate, lost an officer and forty
men killed and fifty prisoners. The carabiniers and
custom-house men pursued them for more than a mile.
The loss of the Bolognese was confined to fifteen
killed and wounded. In the evening there was an
illumination. One of the porters took an Austrian
flag. At six this morning the Austrians returned,
but their communications were cut off. The national
guard, on taking up arms, determined to fight to the
last drop of their blood. There is no want of ammu-
nition. The first thing thought of yesterday was to
keep the'powder magazine by driving away the Aus-
trians, who wished to gain possession of it."
The Piedmontese Gazette has the following from
Rome, dated the Bth :—" The Minister of Justice has
made the following declaration to the Chamber of
Deputies, in the name of the POPE. His HOLINESS
considers the entrance of the Austrians into the Pon-
tifical States a personal insult to himself in his cha-
racter of SOVEREIGN PONTIFF. His HOLINESS pro-
poses to send to the camp of General WELDEN a de-
putation composed of Cardinal MARINI and Princes
CORSINI and SIMONETTI, insisting upon his withdraw-
ing, and threatening the General of the Imperial
troops with employing all the means within his power
for obtaining this evacuation. His HOLINESS, it was
added, never intended to relax, and still less to prevent
the execution of the measures recently ordered by the
Minister of War for the defence of the State. The
Chamber of Deputies has unanimously decided that an
appeal shall be made to France. This vote has been
officially communicated to the Ambassador to be sent
to Paris. STERLINI moved this upon a petition, signed
by more than 6,000 Roman citizens." Another letter
of the same date, in the same journal, says :—" On the
news of the invasion of Romagna by the Austrians,
the excitement of the people became extreme. Last
evening the Minister of War published a proclama •
tion, by which, after announcing that the Austrians
bad entered the Roman States, he called to arms the
National Guard and all the regiments of the line
quartered in the capital, with the intention of direct-
ing them immediately to Catolica, as the only mili•
tary position from which it is possible to make a first
defence. The people cried out with reason, that if
the POPE had known how to send out an encyclic to
paralyse the enthusiasm of the people and serve the
cause of the Austrians, he ought now to mount his
horse, and, with the cross in his hand, repair the evil
he had done."
General WELDEN had published the following noti-
fication at Ferrara, dated the 4th inst. :
" My troops shall maintain themselves in good order,
and observe the strictest discipline, whilst they remain
on the Pontifical territory. Every act of violence against
peaceable persons and their property shall be tried by
courts martial. On the other hand, I will order for im-
mediate execution (as I do not intend to make prisoners)
whoever shall bear arms against us or manifest enmity
towards us in any manner whatever. Wherever the
troops of his Imperial and Royal Majesty hold garrison,
arms of every description shall be sequestered, and the
authorities are to be personally responsible for the exe-
cution of the measure, as also for the regular victualling
of the Imperial and Royal troops on the specification of
the rations to be furnished to the infantry and cavalry."
The Austrians have since evacuated Ferrara.