The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-09 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

THE WAR IN ITALY.
The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

TURIN, May 7.
The following official bulletin has been pub-
lished to-day :
General de la Marmora has made the river Dora
his strategical line.
The enemy has made no movement of any im-
portance.

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According to advices received from Ancona the
municipality of that town has addressed a petition
to the Pope against the increase of the Austrian
garrison, and against the construction of fortifica-
tions by the Austrians. .

TURIN, MAY 8.
The following official bulletin was published on
Saturday evening at 7 o'clock :
The Austrians have hastily evacuated Voghera,
and after recrossing the Po at Gergia (?), remained
in the wood on the left bank of the river.
The Austrians who were at Vercelli directed
their march this morning towards Gottinara, under
the command of one of their generals, and have
been replaced at Vercelli by other troops.
The Austrians are endeavouring to fortify their
position on the Sesia.

TURIN, MAY 8.

The Austrians continue to commit ravages and
depredations along their line of march. They have
imposed on the town of Vercelli a contribution of
300,000 francs.
The Council of War at Bielle has ordered an
Austrian spy to be shot

TURIN, MAY 9.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN.

The Austrians have advanced from Vercelli to-
wards Buronzo and Saluzzola. They continue to
fortify themselves on both banks of the river Sesia
and also at San Germano. The Austrians threw
out reconnoitring parties, which advanced as far as
the head of the bridge of Casale ; but being at-
tacked with energy by our soldiers they with-
drew.

PARIS, MAY 7.
The Emperor 'will leave for Genoa on Tuesday
next.

PARIS, MAY 8.

The Moniteur of to-day contains the following :
—" The Emperor has decided upon increasing the
cadre of the general staff by 30 generals, and the
cadre of the major staff by 50 officers."

PARIS, MAY 8.

The subscription to the new loan of 500,000,000
francs was opened this day, and 300,000,000 franca
have already been subscribed.

PARIS, MAY 8.

The journals confirm the report that the Em-
peror will leave Paris on Tuesday next for Mar-
seilles en route for Genoa. The Duke of Malakoff
has arrived here.

The Patric states that Count Persigny has been
appointed Ambassador at the Court of St. James's.

MARSEILLES, MAY 8.

Letters from Rome, to the sth inst., state that
the French garrison has been maintained entire,
and that 10,000 Austrians are at Ancona.

The inhabitants of the Romagna are greatly
agitated.

Letters have also been received from Naples to
the sth inst.

The emotion of the King on learning the situa-
tion of affairs in Italy has very much aggravated

his disease.

MUNICH, MAX 8.

The Government of Bavaria has ordered the
raising of a loan of four millions of florins at four
and a half per cent. and at the price of 97, to meet
military requirements.

BERNE, MAY 8.

A revolutionary movement is expected at Como ;
the tricolour flag has already been hoisted before
the Castle.

1,000 Croats have arrived at Como, and a contri-
bution of 5,000 florins and of provisions has been
imposed upon the town.

STATE OF PIEDMONT.

A letter from Turin, dated May 4, says :—" Since
yesterday afternoon a heavy, soaking rain has been
falling with little intermission—excellent for the
crops, but most disastrous for the camps and their
occupants. The Austrians, who are in the low
grounds, must suffer the most ; on the other hand,
the passage of the Alps must be rendered very
fatiguing and painful to the French troops coming
to Piedmont by land. The road over Mont Cenis
is described to me as in an extremely bad state ;
even in fine weather it is not a model of well-
kept highways, and now the soldiers have to wade
through a lake of mud and melted snow. The
mail from Paris was nearly 12 hours late yester-
day, and to-day it was some hours after its time.
May is frequently a moist month here, and is the
more likely to be so in 1859 that, during the first
four months of the year, we have had no rain to
speak of, and latterly everything had got as dusty
and dried up as in the height of summer. If the
present weather continues it must seriously impede
military operations in the heavy plains of Piedmont,
intersected as they are in many parts by streams,
watercourses, and irrigation canals. Every gully
must by this time have become a rushing torrent,
and the lowlands can be little better than swamps.
There is some appearance of a clearing up this after-
noon, but the Collina, the range of low hills to the
east of Turin, is still heavily cloud-laden, and affords
small hope of a permanent improvement."

FRANCE.

PARIS, SUNDAY.

The Ministerial combination will probably remain
as it is, though as the moment for the Emperor's
departure draws nearer private influence is at work,
and may, at any moment, be successful. The
cainarilla, which has thought to be the appen-
dage of old dynasties, apparently flourishes under
new ones. In spite of the relatively unimportant
position which a Minister fills in the present
system, in the eye of the public, yet attention
has to a certain degree been excited, and some
curiosity felt as to who was to be the official ad-
visers of the Lieutenant of the Empire during the
absence of the chief. On Tuesday morning the
Emperor sent for M. Laity, former Prefect of the
Basses Pyrenees, and a devoted Bonapartist. His
Majesty informed him that in consequence of a
conversation some days before with M. de
Persigny, he had made up his mind to dismiss
his advisers, and before setting out for the
army, to construct his Cabinet anew, with M.
de Persigny, M. Laity, and Marshal Itandon for
his principal Ministers. M. Fould was not to be
included in the new Cabinet. The Emperor
handed to M. Laity a list of the Ministry drawn
up with his own hand, which he directed him to
communicate to M. de Persigny, and to return with
him in the evening to the Tuileries in order to de-
cide definitively as to the Ministers. Before, how-
ever, the hour came the scene had changed. One
of the Ministers menaced with exclusion turned
hie influence with the Cowl party to good account.