The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-10 00:00:00

POLAND.

A letter from Frankfort, dated April 4th, says :
" Glorious news has just arrived here from Russia,
NICHOLAS has consented to re-establish the nationality
of ill-fated Poland, and to place upon the throne of
the new kingdom Duke LEICUTURTEN. At last Po-
land will be free! France holds the destinies of
Europe in her hands. An awful responsibility will
rest on her, should she prove recreant to her princi-
ples. But Ido not fear any such result. All Europe
I look on as good as free. The first act of Germany,
under the new constitution, will be to disband her
overgrown army.
posEN.—The Commander of the archduchy and
town of Posen, General COLOMB, has, according to
a document published in the Allgenzeine Preussische
Zeilung, declared that fortress to be in a state of
siege.

ITALY.

LOMBARDY.

Intelligence from Milan of the Ist inst. has been
received. The Provisional Government has published
an official contradiction of the report that the English
Minister at Turin had protested against the entrance
of Sardinian troops into Lombardy.
The Risorgimento of the 3d instant announces that
the Austrians had evacuated the Castle of Piacenza,
carrying with them, by agreement, six pieces •f
artillery. The people found in the castle 48 guns,
200 shells, 2,000 cannon balls, 547 grenades, 500
muskets, a large quantity of gunpowder, and 100,000
ball cartridge,. The Municipal Council of Piacenza
had resolved to offer six pieces of artillery to Plus
IX., and two others to the city of Milan.
It is probable that Marshal RADETSKI will occupy
Verona, Mantua, and the line of the Adige. Two
divisions of Neapolitan troops of 10,000 men, are
advancing towards Lombardy ; one will advance by
way of Romagna, the other will be conveyed by
steamers to Leghorn. _ .

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Venice and_ the Italian Tyrol have sent in their
adhesion to the Provisional Government of Milan.

NAPLES AND SICILY.

The Ministerial crisis still continued at Naples on
the 30th ult. Prince PIGNATELLI DI STRONGOLI,
Commander of the National Guard, having been
charged with the construction of a new Cabinet, had
at first composed it of heterogeneous elements. The
Marquis DRAGONNETTI apprised the KING of this
circumstance, and, having had an interview with
Prince PIGNATELLI, prevailed upon him to admit
into the Ministry General GUGLIELMO PEPE, who had
just returned from exile, GIovANNI ANDREA Romeo,
and the Councillor of State FRANCESCO GAMBOA.
His MAJESTY, however, would not acquiesce in this
combination, and, on the morning of the 30th, ho
sent the Minister of the Interior to General PEPE,
to request his attendance, in order to form a
coalition Ministry. The result of their interview
was not yet known, and the people anxiously awaited
the return of the General from the Royal residence.
The following was the programme of the new
Ministry :-1. Full power for the Chamber of
Deputies to revise the constitution on a more liberal
basis, and, consequently, the suspension of the ap-
pointment of peers, it being the intention of the
Cabinet to replace the Chamber of Peers by a
Senate elected like that of Belgium ; 2. A new elec-
toral law ; 3. The dispatch of commissaries to the
provinces, with full powers to remodel the provin-
cial and municipal administrations ; 4. The sending
of three plenipotentiaries to the Italian Governments
belonging
to the Italian League ; 5. The prompt
departure of a body of troops for Lombardy ; 6.
The
organization of the civil, military, and judiciary
departments.

Letters of the 31st state that the Ministry has been
reformed with Prince CARINTI, as President and
General PEPE as Minister at War.
The Sicilian Parliament was opened at Palermo on
the 2ith ult. with extraordinary pomp in the Church
of St. Dominic. At 11 o'clock A.m. the Senate of
Palermo, the Supreme Court of Justice, the high
functionaries of the State, all the superior officers of
the land and sea forces and of the National and Mu.
nicipal Guards, the archbishops, bishops, abbots, and
clergymen present in Palermo, marched in procession
to the church. '.lyre the Parliament, the peers Fwd