The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-05 00:00:00

THE AUZTRIAT'.TS IN ITALY.

The Moniteur, of yesterday, publishes the fol-
lowing under its latest intelligence
" ROME, OCT. 30.

" no arrangement concluded recently with the
Vienna Cabinet for the evacuation of some points
of the Pontifical territory, hitherto occupied by
Austrian troops, has just been carried out. The
withdrawal of the troops commenced a few days
since, and terminated yesterday. The Austrian
troops recrossed the Po, taking the direction of
Padua. They are replaced by detachments of the
2d Swiss Regiment in the service of the Holy
Father. Ancona and Bologna are now the only
points in the Papal States which remain occupied
by Austrian troops. Thus is accomplished a mea-
sure which, by diminishing the corps of occupation)
likewise diminishes the expenses of the Papal Go-
vernment, and restores it to the full enjoyment
of its rights and action.

" For some time it has been felt that it was ne-
cessary for the Papal finances that the indirect
taxes should be rendered more productive.
" The Government has boldly entered into this
salutary path., and, encouraged by the results ob-
tained, not only is it preparing further reductions
in the Customs' tariff, but it has just promulgated
a decree with a view to the reform of the stamp
duty, which, under former regulations, was imper-
fectly carried out, and brought in very little to
the Treasury. The rate has been reduced and its
circle of action increased. Everything leads to the
hope that on this point, as well as regards the
Custom-house dues, salt, and tobacco, both the
Treasury and the contributors will find themselves
equally benefited by the introduction of the true
principles of political economy."

Accounts from Constantinople, of the 27th
ult., state that the English squadron had been
reinforced.

The Commission on the navigation of the
Danube was about to re-assemble at Vienna. The
Porte will be represented at it.
The Boundary Commission had still two months'
work before it.

A letter from Vienna of the 31st ult., in
Voss's Gazette, says :—" Baron de Budberg, Rus-
sian ambassador here, has had several conferences
in these last few days with Count de Buol, rela-
tive to the occupation of the principalities. M.
de Bndberg has received instructions to support
the note of Fiance, in which the evacuatioli is
demanded. It is said that a despatch has been
sentlence to St. Petersburg, in which the occu-
pation is justified."

It is whispered that a treaty of commerce
between Russia and France, and very favourable
to the latter, is on the tapis. If this be true it
would explain the amenities exchanged between
the two Courts. It may also explain the post-
ponement to 1861 of the tariff reforms.

The Paris correspondent of the Times (second
edition), in his letter dated yesterday, says
" Baron Brenier, whose arrival I announced
yesterday, had his first interview with the Minister
for Foreign Affairs to-day, and he and Count
Walewski have proceeded to Compiegne. Under
all circumstances, it is not difficult to guess the
sort of report which Baron Brenier will have to
make about the King of Naples. Notwith-
standing the hopes and expectations of some
change c:Jming over that amiable specimen of
the Bourbons, I have learnt nothing in any
respectable quarter which would justify them.
I do not believe that at this moment Ferdinand
11.. has the slightest intention to listen to
reason or humanity, or that lie will not con-
tinue hardened, false, insane, or hypocritical to
'the last. It is his destiny, and he niust fulfil' it.
He declared up to the last moment that ho would
concede nothing, and change nothing, in his sys-
tem of government. The allies might bombard
his capital, cut down his people, depose. or even
kill him—but yield he will not. Ho admits his
weakness in presence of the force that can be
brought against him—he will endeavour to defend
himself as best he may against his enemies—but
change be will not, neither now nor hereafter.
Such are the latest declarations known to emanate
from his Majesty ; how he will abide by them
time only can tell.

" The individual who will feel not the least
sorrow at so stern a resolve is the Marquis Anto-
nini, the Neapolitan Ambassador hare. The poor
gentleman hoped all along to be allowed to re-
main in his beloved Paris, in spite of the with-
drawal of Baron Brenier, or at all ovents not to
be compelled to go further than Brussels, which
in his mind is Paris in miniature. Reports
reached his ears that the French Government
would send him his passport. To his great delight
he learned that the Government had no such in-
tention, and that his stay or departure depended
entirely on the will of his Royal master. But his
joy was of short duration. He has acquired the
certVude that he will soon receive (if he has not
already done so) a peremptory order to return to
Naples—at all events to quit this city ; and, once
leaving, he will most probably return no more.
"The movements of the Austrian troops in the
Legations, as announced in the papers, are not
considered by some persons as a withdrawal, but
rather as a concentration, to prevent surprise in
case of an insurrection in Italy. Those that have
retired behind the Po may very speedily.recross
it, and that Austria apprehends a movement is
gathered from this, and from the increase of her
army in her Italian possessions.
" The Paris papers have been invited not to
make any allusions to the festivities of Compiegne,
nor to transcribe in their columns whatever
might be said of them in the Belgian papers.
The ridicule excited by the description of these
fetes with the women sportsmen, dressed
somewhat like viva,ndieres and the men like
monspetaires, while discontent and poverty reign
in Paris, it • is not surprising_► that people get
ashamed of such harlequicades. Le Rol s'am,use'
is the heading to some of the placards posted. up
by night in the fauborgs. It is considered doubt-
ful whether the Court will now go to Fontaine-
bleau as intended. The Emperor would have
done wisely in not going to Compiegne, as he
would have escaped much unpopularity.
46 I am informed that five persons have been
arrested in Paris, in consequence of disclosures
made by the now celebrated Carpentier."

The Vienna correspondent of the Times (second
edition), in his letter dated Nov. 2, says :

" In my letter of the 25th of October it was
said that the violent attack made by ono of you.:
morning contemporaries, on the policy of this Go-
vernment in the Neapolitan question, had produced
a very disagreeable impression here, and it is now
necessary to return to the subject. As soon as the
Austrian and British Governments observed that
the French Cabinet was coquetting with Russia
they felt that it was necessary to let by-gones be