The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-24 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Risorgimert(Rif Turin publishes a letter from
Rome of the 12th,lAim which it would appear that
the tri-coloured Betigal lights let off in that city on
the 9th were much more numerous than could have
been supposed from former accounts, several having
been seen on the squares of St. Peter, Venice, and
Farnese, and even in the court-yard of the palace of
Mount Citorio. The POPE has dispensed with the
French and Roman troops for the ;ward of his palace,
and only retains the Swiss guard.
A letter from Bologna of the 13th, in the Corriere
Mercantile of Genoa states that Marquis NrccuLo DI
SCARANI has protested, in a most energetic manner,
against the revocation of the communal func-
tionaries by the commission named for the purpose by
the Papal Government.
The Piedinantese Gazette of the 18th announces
officially that the resignation of Count SICCARDI has
been accepted, and tha he has been nained-Virst Pre-
sident of the Court of Appeal.
On the 16th the King of SARDINIA. received M.
CONSTANTIN MUSSURIJS, Envoy Extraordinary from
the SULTAN, on a special mission.
A letter from Trieste, of the 13th, says—

" The difference which has arisen between our Go-
vernment and England on the subject of the consulship,
has not yet been settled. Austria refuses to accord
an exequatur to any consuls who do not reside iu a mari-
time town. A consul has already taken up his residence
at Venice, but the English Government persists in main-
taining its consul at Milan. Mr. Dawkins, however, has
declared that he was willing to establish his residence at
Venice, but Austria will not allow even the slightest
indication of an English consulship to be fuund at
Milan."

STATION FIAT OF THE ItAllmAys OF GREAT BRI-
TAIN.—Very recently a map of this character has been
published by the Messrs. Smith and Ebbs, of Tower- bill,
according to the original and ingenious design of Mr.
Zachary Macaulay.. o„up)ina in dimensions a space
of four feet four inches high, by three feet wide. The
engraved plate represents the various railroads in Eng-
land on a scale of ten miles to an inch, the different
stations being
au-
thenticity of the whole work is assured by the circurn-
stance,patronage, soy.thaTto tahlierpaudbwlistcyaorffie
that in all its details it has undergone a scrupu-
lousaccurately marked throughout. The
revision at the hands of the respective companies.
Corrected by them, it also appears to have secured their
commercial es-
tablishments, and officials, commercial
to view with
the map presents
some confidence the facts put forward thus admirably by
Mr. Macaula
irresistible attractions in its very numerous advantages.
.No other publication at all comparable to it has been
issue.d. of a similar character. In regard to clearness,
travellers generally,
precision, and unimpeachable accuracy, it is entitled to
our emphatic commendation. And we doubt not that
Macaulay's Sta a
lien Map Will very shortly wsume for
itself a standard position on ll the railways of the
United Kingdom,
OFFICIAL ANNouNCEHENTS.—The following reduc-
tions have been made in the expenses of the diplomatic
service, to take effect from the 6th of April next :—There
are to be in future but two British Ministers abroad with the
rank of Ambassador namely, at Paris and Constantinople.
The Paris embassy reduced' from 10,0001. to 8,000/. a year.
The Madrid is reduced from 6,0001. a year, and 550/.
ission
fur house rent, to 5,0007. a years and 700/. house ridnt. The
Vienna mission is reduced from 9,0001. a year, and 9001.
house rent, to 5,C001. a Year, and 9001. house rent. The
Secretary of Legation of Vienna to have 5501, instead of
OUO/., hitherto paid to the Secretary of the Embassy. These
reductions, in addition to the. abolition of the Consuls-
General at Syria and Algiers, and other reductions, which,
we have already announced in the e conSular department,
will effect a considerable saving, in the expenses of the
Foreign-office.
APPOINTNIENrs.--W. D31.1g al Christie, Req., Con-
sul-General at the Mosquito Shore, is appointed Secretary of
Legation in Switzerland. The consul•generalship at Alos-
quit° will probably be abolished. Mr. George Aiken, a resi-
dent merchant at that port, is appointed her Britannic Ma-
jesty's Consul at San Francisco, California.
The Right Hon. Sir John Cam Ilobhouse, Bart.,
is created a Peer, by the title of Baron Broughton de Gyf-
ford, in the county of Wilts.
NOVEL INDUCEMENT TO VISIT THE GREAT Ex-
Illll7loll.—Anzious that his Yorkshire friends should make
a respectable appearance at the World's Exhibition in Lon-
don, a tailor and clothier of Leeds is offering a new snit of
clothes, and a railway ticket to Loudon and back, for 01 •' ,
payable by weekly instalments.