The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-05 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Bilancia, a Catholic journal of Turin, states
that several persons of rank have just been arrested at
Verona and Venice, on political grounds.
The Milan Gazette announces that the Emperor of
AUSTRI3 has named Monsignor MUTTI, Bishop of
Verona, to the patriarchal see of Venice.
We read in the Official Milan Gazette that a
youth of seventeen, named TORRI ACHILL; a student
of medicine at Milan, has been condemned to a year's
imprisonment in irons, for having committed violence
upon a person, for the purpose of preventing him
from smoking.

THE FETES AT PARIS.

(From Gali gnaw" s Messenger.)
VISIT TO VERSAILLES.

The next part of the programme of the fetes pro-
vided for the distinguished guests was a visit yester-
day to Versailles, to see the palace and waterworks.
The official invitations to the Royal Commissioners
and other gentlemen honoured with special attention
intimated that the rendezvous was fixed at the palace
at eleven o'clock-. The trains of the two railways long
before that hour poured into the town an immense
multitude of fashionably-dressed persons, amongst
whom were a vast number of English, with no in-
considerable sprinkling of Germans, Italians, and
other foreigners. It was intended that the Royal
Commissioners and the Lord Mayor should precede
the public in oasiting the different galleries of the
palace ; but, having delayed their arrival long beyond
the expected time, it became necessary, in order to
satisfy the impatience of the public, to open the
doors, and immediately after the extensive saloons
became thronged to excess, while a great portion of
the visitors spread themselves over the gardens.
A space in front of the palace was reserved for
the ladies and gentlemen who had received
invitations. Outside these limits, several hundred
persons, French, English, and others, waited with ex-
emplary patience for the arrival of the Lord
Mayor, as the principal guest. It was not until ten
minutes after three o'clock that his Lordship arrived.
A military band immediately struck up a lively air.
He was accompanied by the Prefect of the Seine, the
Prefect of the Police, and several of the Royal and
foreign Commissioners of the Exhibition. The greatest
curiosity was manifested to see the Chief Magistrate
of London, and as he passed almost every head was
uncovered, but there were no cries of any kind. Neither
of the two prefects, or his Lordship, nor, indeed, any
person except the subordinate officials, wore uniforms
or decorations. _ _

The late hour of the arrival prevented the two
prefects, the Lord Mayor, and their party, from visit-
ing the galleries of the Palace. They accordingly
proceeded at once to the gardens, where the water-
works had begun playing. They examined in detail
all the principal pieces, and the English visitors were,
it is needless to say, delighted and astonished.
The crowd which thronged the gardens during
this time was immense. But, though the escort of
the official visitors only consisted of a few gendarmes
and keepers, there was no inconvenient crowding on
them—notwithstanding the desire which almost
every one manifested to see le Lordlaire was extra-
ordinarily great. His Lordship was almost constantly
occupied in returning the respectful salutations which
were made to him on all sides, and the further he ad-
vanced the more his train increased.
The weather was beautifully fine; the waterworks,
recently repaired, were in admirable order, and
the
effect they produced in the sunshine was brilliant in
the extreme. The majority of the English, who had
not only never seen, but had never pictured to them-
selves anything of the kind, were almost dazzled with
admiration; and they gave expression to their senti-
ments in the most enthusiastic terms. The vast
crowd hurrying to and fro, relieved as it was by the
toilettes of the ladies, added to the eclat of the scene ;
and, that the ear might be pleased as well as the eye,
military bands stationed at intervals in the shrubberies
played inspiring airs.
The Prefects of the Seine and Police having caused
the Lord Mayor and their other guests to admire the
last and greatest of the waterworks—the piece of
Neptune—which was really magnificent, proceeded
with them to Trianon, which they visited in detail.
One portion of the public then hastened to the rail-
ways, where they took the carriages by assault; the
others besieged the various restaurants in the town.
The galleries in the Palace were in the usual order,
but in one of the principal of them there were placed,
as a mark of delicate attention to the English visitors,
large portraits of the Queen of England and Prince
Albert, together with a grand painting, by Alaux, re-
presenting the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common
Council of the City of London presenting an address
of congratulation to King Louis Philippe, on the occa-
sion of his visit to England in 1844. All the person-
ages figuring in this painting are accurate portraits,
and many of the civic visitors recognised themselves.
In addition to the English and French Commis-
sioners of the Exhibition, were several of Germany,
the United States, and other countries, as also the
Chinese Mandarin, in full costume. The latter at-
tracted universal attention.
After visiting Trianon, the Lord Mayor, the two
prefects, and their party, returned to Paris.
The day passed off without, we believe, a single
contretemps. It was really delightful to see the friendly
feeling which the French of all classes displayed to
their English visitors, and the gratitude which the
latter evidently felt to them for their hospitalit
A considerable number of the English v y.isitors
yesterday inscribed their names or left their cards at
the Elysee, for the President of the Repuhc•

THE LATE CHARGE OF REMOVING TFIE DANGER-
LIGHTS ON THE Ersom RAILWAY.—our readers may recol-
lect, that about the latter end of May last a young gentleman
was tried at the Surrey Sessions,.and sentenced to nine
months' hard labour in the House of Correction for remov-
ing the danger-lights from one of the carriages on the
Croydon and Epsom Railway, at
a late hour at night, while
returning from the " Oaks,' with several hundred pas-
sengers, but was fortunately seen by two guards who were
returning home, which prevented a collision, and probably
a frightful loss of life, as another train was a short distance
behind. He gave the assumed name of Crawford, but it
was soon ascertained that he was related to many of the
nobility, and officers of high authority in the army. Great
interest was accordingly used to obtain a remission, or a
commutation of his sentence, and after being two months
in the House of Correction (we understand in the infirmary)
he was liberated, by order of Sir George Grey, the Secretary
of State Or tin acme Department, in The early part of last
week,