The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-19 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Opinione of Turin, of the 16th inst., pub-
ishes a Royal decree of amnesty, with the follow-
ng preamble :
"Report, addressed to the King by the Keeper of the
Seals, Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs, Grace and

Justice, at the audience of the 7th inst. :
" Sire,—Oae" of the -first acts by which the reign of
your Majesty was inaugurated was an act of sovereign
clemency. The Royal decree of the Bth April, 1849,
amnestying the persons implicated in the insurrec-
tionary movements, which occurred that year, at
Genoa, was a-presage of the mutual affection and
admirable union between the King and the nation,
which has distinguished your reign. Political necessity
did not allow that Sovereign benefit to be extended.
Nevertheless, and in order that too rigourous an inter-
pretation should not be given to the Royal decree,
another decree was issued on the 26th of May fol-
lowing, declaring that the amnesty extended to all
those who bad committed political offences, even out
of Genoa, and to the authors and accomplices of the
movements of Lerico, Recco, and Chiavari. All those
excluded from the amnesty emigrated to foreign
countries, and shortly afterwards the Court of Ap-
peals of Genoa pronounced a condemnation against the
contumacious. Several among them petitioned the
throne for pardon, but the generous disposition of your
Majesty's heart was paralysed by a doubt as to the legality
of the position of the petitioners. The Council of State
was consulted on the subject; and all the sections of that
body, together with several of the most distinguished and
respectable members of the judiciary department, unani-
mously replied to the Crown, that, if amnesties can be
granted to do away with effect of judicial sentences, and
even to cancel them, individual pardons cannot be
granted to oontumacious persons visited with crimi-
nal condemnations. In order, however, to reconcil e
the imperioui exigencies of legality with one of the
most precicots prerogatives of the Crown, which em-
powers the Sovereign to do away by a general par•
don the effects of condemnations for acts, the painful
recollection of which may be said to have been ob-
literated by time, and to comply with the intentions
already manifested to me by your Majesty, I have the
honour to submit to the Royal sanction the decree, in
virtue of which the amnesty granted by the decrees of
the Bth of April and 26th of May, 1849, is extended to
those who bad been excluded from its benefit.
"VICTOR EMMANUEL 11., &c."

" On the proposition of our Keeper of the Seals,
and after consulting the Council of State and our Coun-
cil of Ministers, I have decreed—
" g The amnesty granted by our decrees of the Bth
April and 26th May, 1849, on the occasion of the politi-
cal movements which took place that year at Genoa, is
extended to all the persons who• bad been excluded from
it by the first of those decrees.—Given at Turin on the
7th September, 1856.
(Signed) " VICTOR EMMANUEL.
(Countersigned) " DE FORESTA."

A letter from Alexandria, of the 13th inst., an-
nounces that the Russian envoy, Count de Stackel-
berg, had visited that citadel, accompanied by the
Governor-General of the Military Division.