The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-27 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Paris Ordre has the following :
" It is positively asst rted that the Holy See has sanc-
tioned the project for carrying a line of railway through
the Roman States, and that a Congress is now sitting at
Rome for the purpose of determining the point where it
shall cross the Apennines, and the amount that the
Governments of Austria, Tuscany, Rome, Modena,
and Parma shall respectively contribute to this enter-
prise. The object of Austria is, as soon as these
means of communication are open, to make the Grand
Ducal Government itself the unconscious in-
strument of her design of impeding the progress
of the commerce of Tuscany, by imposing restrictions
which will insensibly destroy the very principle of
liberty. If Austria succeeds in persuading the Pope to
consent to aid in the construction of a railway from
Trieste to Leghorn, and to give up all the other projected
lines—such, for instance, as those from Rome to Ancona
and Bologna, or from 'Ancona to Civita Vecchia—she
will undoubtedly endeavour to obtain great facilities in
favour of merchandise destined for Trieste, and so to
establish new restrictions, to the prejudice of Tuscan
trade, in the hope of afterwards rivalling Genoa in the
Levant. It is evident that Austria neglects no means
of extending her influence in Italy, and Leghorn already
begins to feel the effects of the policy she follows."

The Milan Gazette of the 20thinst. publishes the
following proclamation :
Tho Emperor having, by a sovereign resolution,
dated the 10th, ordered the establishment of a military
cordon along the frontier from Sesto-Calende to Grave-
lona, and having granted the Customs officers who are
stationed along that cordon, the same right of using
their arms as the soldiers of the army, the inhabitants
are informed that the Customs officers have received pre-
cise orders to fire on whoever shall cross the line of the
cordon and not halt at the third summons, or who, on
halting, shall not instantly lay down the arms he may
have in his possession.
(Signed)
" Verona, March 12, 1851."

" Marshal RADETZIY.

The following is the House List of Governors and
Directors of the Bank of England for the year ensuing, viz. :

FOR GOVERNORS.
Thomson Hankey, Jun., Esq., Governor.
John Gellibrand Hubbard, Esq., Deputy-Governor.
FOZ DIRECTORS.
Thomas Baring, vsq. Alfred Latham, Esq.
Henry Wollaston Blake, Esq. George Lyall, Jun., Esq.
Edward Henry Chapman, Esq. Thomas Masterman, Esq.
Robert Wigram Cranford, Esq Alexander Matheson, Esq.
William Cotton, Esq. James Morris, Esq.
Benjamin Buck Greene, Esq. George Warde Norman, Esq.
John Oliver Hanson, E- q. John Horsley Palmer, Esq.
John Benjamin Heath, Esq. Sir John Henry Pelly, Bart.
Kirkman Daniel Hodgson, Esq. Henry James Prescott, Esq.
Henry Lancelot Holland, Esq. Thomay Charles Smith, Esq.
Thomas Newman Hunt, Esq. Thos. Matthias Wegnelin, Esq.
Charles Frederick Huth, Esq. Francis Wilson, Esq.
The Election for Governor and Deputy-Governor will be
held at the Bank, on Tuesday, the Bth April, and for Direc-
tors on Wednesday, the 9th April, from ten o'clock in the
forenoon till four in the afternoon.

NAVIGATION OF THE THAMES.—The opinion is
very prevalent that the intricacy of the navigation at the
mouth of the Thames renders it perfectly secure against the
approach of any foreign ships unprovided with pilots. For
the purpose of undeceiving those persons who entertain this
opinion, it may be mentioned that the Governolo (Sardinian
man-of-war steamer of 1,400 tons, and mounting 12 long 63-
pounders, lately arrived at Woolwich) found her way from
Spithead, through the Downs and up the river to Woolwich
without a pilot, though not a man or officer on board had
ever bean up the river before.

THE BURGLARY AT MR. HOLFORD'S.--Mr. Hol-
ford, whose mansion was, as it will be remembered, bur-
glariously entered some months ago, when a conflict of a
desperate nature took place, and who has recently returned
from America, has given 201. to the police and others em•
ployed in connexion with the burglary, in addition to what
they bad before received. He has also rewarded Mr. Paul,
the butler, and the rest of the servants who so bravely con-
duced themselves upon the occasion alluded to. _ _

The hew Vice-Chancellorship will he given to Mr.
George Turner, or to Mr. Kindersley ; but it was said yes-
terday in Lincoln's Inn that the chances are in favour of Mr.
Turner, who is at present Member tor Coventry.—Morning
Paper.