The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-27 00:00:00

VIE NEW SARDINIAN MINISTRY.

A letter from Turin dated, Jan. 22, says that
Count Cavour, whom the King had invited to form
a new Ministry, was able on Friday to announce to
his Majesty that he had succeeded in performing
the task entrusted to him, and yesterday morning
the new Ministers were presented in order to be
sworn in. They entered singly the bedroom of the
King, who is still sufferinz from rheumatic gout,
the result of a cold caught when his Majesty was
out shooting. The King received with great affa-
bility these new counsellors, some of whom he had
become acquainted with on other occasions—with
General Fanti, for instance, on the field of battle,
not to speak of Count Cavour, who for a number
of years had been no stranger at court.
You have already been minutely informed of the
causes of the fall of the late Ministry; therefore
you will certainly not be deluded by the polemical
writings of those imprudent friends that did it so
much harm. They wish to insinuate that the fall
was owing to an intrigue, and they represent Sir
James Hudson, the resident Minister of England,
as one who took part in it. But in truth there was
no intrigue at all, neither French nor English ;
it was owing solely to the pressure of public
opinion, which found expression in the festivities
in Central Italy as soon as the people heard that
Count Cavour had come back to office. Similar
festivities are beginning here, although we are far
less excitable than the Tuscans. Yesterday even-
, ing accordingly several thousand persons assembled
before the count's residence to cheer and welcome
him.

It is superfluous for me to enumerate the reasons
why this statesman is valued so highly by the Ita-
lians. His name is now celebrated all over Europe,
of course most so in England, where it is well known
the Count studied deeply your political institutions,
and that he was always devoted to the English al-
liance rs far as this was compatible with the inte-
rests of the King and of Italy. You know well it
was his ardent desire to send our soldiers to fight
by your side in the Crimea. He never swerved from
this policy, unless it was when the Derby Cabinet
inclined to show itself the friend of our enemies, and
gave symptoms of forcing liberal and constitutional
England into an alliance with the brutal despotism
of Austria. Warm admirer as Count Cavour was
and is of your governmental system, it grieved him
so much the more to see the Derby Cabinet favour-
ing that Austria which had but just concluded the
Concordat with the Pope for enabling her to increase
her tyranny twofold. Events, however, have shown
that the compact was in fact a source of weakness,
and as bad a political device as could well be. You
know the count to be a political economist, and you
have followed the great reforms he effected here—
reforms attempted now in France by Napoleon 111.,
who will have to contend against old prejudices.
We see with the greatest pleasure in those projected
reforms of his a new bond between France and
England, and we trust the two powerful nations
may the more readily favour the Italian resurrec-
tion, which, apart from the abstract justice of the
cause, may be of great practical utility to those na-
tions that are her friends.

Doubtless you are familiar with the name of Gen.
Fanti, seeing with what intelligent zeal he has been
organising the army of Central Italy. The proof of
his worth which he has given us there assures us
that he will be a worthy colleague of Cavour's, as a
sound and liberal Minister of War. The general,
like almost every other meritorious Italian, has been
persecuted in his time. He is a native of Modena,
from which place, having become mixed up with a
liberal plot when quite a youth, he had to fly. He
gave there great promise as a mathematician, but,
being an exile, he first.served as a soldier in Spain,
where he won on fields of battle his steps of promo-
tion and his honours. He became a colonel and chief
officer of the staff. In France he acquired reputa-
tion as an engineer ; but in 1848 he abandoned
everything to come and serve in the revolutionary
war for the independence of Italy. Although be
was now a general, the anarchy was so great, that
he had no scope for his high military qualities, and
accordingly he withdrew into the shade. It was
General La Marmora who again brought him into
public life by employing him in the Crimean expe-
dition, on which occasion your generals -recognised
him to be a superior officer of no ordinary merit.
Neither at Magenta nor at San Martino, though a
general of division, had he any opportunity of bril-
liant exploits, and common fame neglected him
then. But he is a man of sterling qualities, and his
selection for the post he now holds is of good omen
for the cause of annexation.
The Count Terenzio Mamiani della Rovere is to
be the new Minister of Public Instruction. He was
born at Pesaro at the beginning of the century, and
he is older by about ten years than his two col-
leagues whom I have already mentioned. The cele-
brated poet Leopardi was his cousin. As a politi-
cal man Count Mamiani is known on account of
the persecutions lie endured from and after the
year 1831; having been arrested during his .flight
he was thrown into prison with other Romagnols,
and then transported to Venice. For fifteen years
he was an exile in France, but in 1848 he returned
to Italy, and became at Rome Pio Neno's Minister,
but that was in his Holiness's reforming days.
Having once more emigrated in 1849, he came to
Piedmont. At Genoa he foinded an academy of
Italian philosophy. Then he acquired the rights
of Sardinian citizenship, and was elected deputy
for Genoa, and shortly afterwards filled the chair
as professor of the philosophy of history in the
University of Turin. He is a brilliant orator and
an elegant poet. He has been known to philo-
sophers for a quarter of a century through a work
of his entitled " On the Renovation of Philoso-
phy," and now his work, "Di un Nuovo Diritt
Europeo," adds celebrity to his name. The choice'
of this man reveals the enlarged views of c
since his colleague will not be merely a Piedmon-
tese, but also an Italian Minister.
The Minister of Finance is a worthy Piedmont
lawyer, Signor Vegezzi. New as a Ministereso/
Finaisce, he has in his capacity of advocate in civil
causes, and as a general director of the Demanie,
shown more than average ability. The office he
now assumes is a most thorny one, but no one of
course will expect impossibilities frome' him. Gifted
with eloquence, he will be able to defend himself
in Parliament, should,he ever be attacked ; but his
character is so estimable that he will be respected
by all.
There is another advocate, Signor
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deputy of old standing he belongs to the moderate
party, which always supports the Governmeit in
the cause of order.
Signor Jaccini is from Cremona; he is still a
youn g man, but well known for his statistical la-
bours.One of these was undertaken and com-
pleted at the request of the Archduke Maximilian,
and it created some murmuring among the Liberals,
but as Signor Jaccini had gone through the labour,
at the :.)lovernor of Lombardy's request it is true,
but not for honours or patronage, being in fact
rich, and as his sale motive was to benefit the Lom-
bard mwinees, the matter was speedily overlooked.
die 1,14.1 many friends among the Milanese political

party, and will now represent in the Ministry that
element.

The new Cabinet will be this day for the first
time presided over in Council by the King. Its
first official act was to dissolve the Chamber of De-
puties and prepare the new Parliement. It will
endeavour to send as Governor to Milan a man of
reputation and consideration, I mean M. Massimo
d'Azeglio, the uncle of the Sardinian Minister resi-
dent in London. It is hoped that the noble and
celebrated personage in question will accept the
post, as he will be sure to satisfy Milan, a city hard
to please.

FUNERAL OF CAPTAIN HARRISON.

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY.

The mortal remains of the lamented Captain
Harrison were removed from Southampton to Liver-
pool to-day, preparatory to interment in the family
vault at the latter town to-morrow.

Early this morning the bells of the various
churches were rung a muffled peal, by order of the
mayor and corporation, and during the progress
of the funeral cortege from the late gentleman's
residence to the railway minute guns were fired
from the Platform Battery, imparting a melan-
choly interest to the solemnity of the scene. Flags,
half mast, floated from all the public offices, private
dwellings, and from the whole of the shipping in
the docks and river. To testify the esteem in
which the late captain was held the shops in
every part of the town were closed, with few
exceptions, and the private dwelling-houses showed
evidence, by the blinds being closely drawn, that
the occupants were not insensible to the loss the
port, and indeed we may add the entire nation, has
sustained.

Shortly after half-past one o'clock the mournful
procession moved from the deceased's intended
residence at Hill, about half a mile from the town,
and slowly wended its way up the Commercial-
road, passing down Above Bar and High-streets,
Bridge and Oxford-streets, to the London and
South-Western Railway Station, where the coffin
was placed in the railway hearse and conveyed to
Liverpool by the three p.m. train, amidst the un-
feigned regrets of some thousands who witnessed
its departure.

One mourning coach followed the remains, con-
taining Mr. Towers, the father-in-law of the cap-
tain ; Mr. Lynn, his brother•in-law ; Mr. M'Guffy,
and Master Harrison, eldest son of the deceased, a
youth about fourteen years of age. Following the
mourning coach was the carriage of Dr. Wiblin
and Captain Lay. Then came Dr. Watson, sur-
geon of the Great Eastern, and the whole of the
officers, with the exception of one, who remained in
charge of the vessel, and a great portion of the
crew.

The body was enclosed in a shell, lead and oak
coffins, the outer one of which was neatly covered
in black cloth, with the following inscription en-
graven on a brass plate :—" William Harrison,
died Jan. 21, 1860, aged 46."
The funeral arrangements were entrusted to Mr.
Charles Brooks, undertaker, of this town, in con-
junction with Mr. Mayes.
Mrs. Harrison still remains under the hospitable
roof of Dr. Wiblin, from whom and from Mrs.
Wiblin the bereaved lady is receiving the kindest
attention.