The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-19 00:00:00

A letter from Naples dated January Bth says—

" The news of the entrance of the Austrians into
Modena has produced the most lively sensation. The
two English frigates are still in the bay, and, having
delivered the dispatches which they brought for the
British Minister, they seem to remain stationary as
waiting in expectation of events. The King continues
to preside daily at councils. The state of the kingdom,
the deficit in the finances, the necessity of changing
superannuated political forms become no longer prac-
ticable, were discussed with great animation at the
sittings on the 3d and sth, but, as usual, no resolution
was come to. M. Forttanato, Minister of Finances,
has formally declared that the deficit already amounts
to 2,500,000 ducats, notwithstanding the suspension
of the annual drawing for the extinction of the public
debt. This Minister has proposed a reduction of the
army, and a part of the numbers of the law courts as
means of restoring a balance between the receipts
and expenditure. The King, however, is said to have
replied to the proposal for reducing the effective
strength of the army, that instead of doing so he
was firmly resolved to increase it by three regiments.
The Duke de Sierra Capriola still resists; but it is
generally believed that the King, in order to induce
him to go into Sicily, will grant him certain discre-
tionary powers for setting at liberty prisoners
detained upon suspicion, or absolved by justice, but
who are still kept in custody, and to grant within
certain districts a species of civic guard."
A letter, received from Italy announces that a san-
guinary collision had taken place at Pavia, between
the students and the Austrians. A number of persons
were wounded, and an Austrian killed. Subsequent
to that affair the celebrated University of Pavia was
provisionally closed, and most of the students had
left the town. According to the same letter, the
police of Milan sent 150 men of infantry and cavalry
to surround the house of the Jockey Club, at two
o'clock in the morning, and to summon the members
present to retire. The establishment was afterwards
closed. The grand theatre was entirely abandoned.
It was said that a still more vigorous demonstration
than that of the 3d would shortly be made. The
young men belonging to the Lombardo-Venetian
Noble Guard, instituted in 1838, at the coronation of
the EMPEROR at Milan, had all tendered their resig-
nation. Magistrates, and even the Fiscal, loudly re-
proved the police and the Government. ,
Other letters from Milan, of the 11 th instant,
mention that six or seven persons had been killed
in the collision at Pavia, and upwards of 30 wounded.
Our accounts from Turin of the 14th instant state,
that on that-day a grand funeral service was cele-
brated in the church of La Gran-Madre-de-Dio, in
commemoration of the patriots murdered at Milan
and Pavia by the Austrians. The most respectable
inhabitants of the city, all dressed in deep mourning,
assisted at the ceremony. On the same day the He-
reditary Prince of PsnriA left Turin for Parma.
Pontremoli, was surrendered to the Duke of PARMA
on the Bth. The Commissioner, sent to take posses-
sion of the town in his name, had published a procla-
mation, informing the inhabitants that the Tuscan
laws ..bocaLs pruvislonally continue in force, and
confirming the public functionaries in their offices.

The Patria of the 10th mentiuns that Parma would
most probably enter the Customs union. The Arch-
ducess MARIA LOUISA had appointed Prince LEO..
FOLD, eldest son of the Archduke RaNIER, her uni-
versal legatee.
The official Gazette of Turin, of the lath instant,
publishes a proclamation of the Marquis DE LA PLA-
NARGIA, Governor of Genoa, in which, after energe-
tically condemning, in the name of King CHARLES
ALBERT, the disturbances which took place at Genoa
on the 3d and 4th instant, he declared that the
Government was determined to repress with vigour
all similar demonstrations. The same journal an-
nounces that the King of NAPLES had abolished
certain duties on wood and oil.

According to the Italia, Pisa journal, of the Bth
instant, a number of Piedmontese Bishops had pro-
tested against certain reforms accomplished by King
CHARLES ALBERT.

Letters from Rome of the 10th inst. announce that
the Pontifical Cabinet was composed as follows :
Cardinal Ferretti, President of the Council and
Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Monsignor Amici, Minister of the Interior.
. _ _

Cardin—al Mezzofanti, of Public Instruction.
Monsignor Roberti, of Justice.
Monsignor Morichini, of Finance.
Cardinal Riario, of Commerce, Agriculture, and
Fine Arts.
Cardinal Massimo, of Public Works.

Monsignor Ruscoin, of War.
Monsignor Savelli, of Police.
The Consulta of State had voted, by a majority
of 20 to 4, a loan of a million of scudi.

At the sitting of the Swiss Diet on the 14th, the
report of the Commission appointed on the note of
the Papal Nuncio was taken into consideration. • The
Commission proposed that no answer should be re-
turned to the note, although it would be easy to de-
monstrate that all the accusations contained in it were
without foundation ; that no such sacrileges as those
alluded to in it had been committed ; that those who
had been guilty of disorders had been prosecuted ;
that the Nuncio and clergy had excited the
fanaticism of the inhabitants of the canton of the
Sonderbund against the Federation ; and that
the Nuncio had blessed the colours of the rebels
of Lucerne ; but, inasmuch as the Nuncio stated
that he spoke in the name of the POPE, not as
a temporal prince but as an ecclesiastical chief, the
Diet could not treat with him on matters purely
ecclesiastical. The proposition was agreed to after
some discussion, in the course of which the Deputies
from the different cantons gave an emphatic denial
to the accusations which have been so perseveringly,
yet so falsely, brought by the Jesuits and their sup-
porters against the federal troops.
A letter from Sion (Valais), .of the 11th, says :
" Yesterday the Grand Council terminated the
new constitution, which is to -be submitted to the
people on Sunday, the 16th. To-day, it was decided
unanimously that all the property of the clergy and
of all the religious orders should be secularized. The
provisional Council of State, which has been augmented
by two members, is to continue its functions until the
20th. You are aware that the hospice of St. Bernard
has been abandoned by the monks ; they have with-
drawn to a villa, which they had built in Piedmont
four years back, in anticipation of the events which
have since taken taken place. Their flight, notwith-
standing all the calumnies which have been circulated
on the subject, was purely voluntary ; the provisional
Government of the Valais did not by any means
expel them, and they are perfectly free to return.
They have not either been despoiled of their property,
but merely condemned to a fine—a measure common
to them with all the favourers of the revolt against
the Diet. The fine, besides, imposed on this convent,
one of the richest in Switzerland, does not amount to
more than some dozens of thousand francs, and will be
covered, and even more this year by the offerings of
travellers visiting the hospice, and by the gifts of the
nkoulitain• inhabitants ; for it is well known that the
hospitality,gra-
tuitously by the which is to all appearance exercised
monks, in reality brings them in a
eery considerable revenue."
The Nouvelliste Vaudois says :—" We have only
just learned that an envoy extraordinary of Al.
utzuT, the Count PASTRELLA, or DE FINISTREI.,
for he takes both names, arrived on the 24th of No-
vember at Sion with dispatches from the French Mi-