The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-08 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Piedmontese oa7ctie given the following ac-
count of the King of Sardinia's stay at Nice on the
Ist and 2d inst. After receiving the visit of the
Grand Duke Constantino and the Prince of Wur-
tembnrg, H.M. went in company with the Prince
de Carignan to pay a visit to the Empress Dowager
of Russia, who invited him to partake of a break-
fast, her Majesty's sons and the Grand Duchess
Helena being among the guests. In the afternoon
the King gave audience to the chief authorities of
the town, and then proceeded to the Villa de
Orestis to pay his respects to the Grand Duchess
Olga. In the evening the town was splendidly illu-
minated. The King attended a soiroc given by the
Empress, where Mme. Boaio sang several pieces in,
Italian and French. On the following day his Ma-
jesty gave a grand dinner t the autl,rites.
A letter from Leghorn says that the Grand Duke

Constantine visited Elba on the 26th, and sought
out with"the greatest apparent interest all vestiges
of the residence of the Emperor Napoleon I. His
Imperial Highness afterwards loft for the Court of
Tuscany.
A letter from Rome of the 3d says :—" Car-
dinal Villecourt a few days ago consecrated
Mgr. Amanton, heretofore prior of the Order of
St. Dominick at St. Sabine, as Bishop of the mis-
sions in Persia and Babylon. The ceremony took
place in the church of St. Sabine, which was given
by Pope Honorius 111. to St. Dominick, and in
which the saint's cell it still pregerved ; and it was
a' tended by Cardinal Gaude, and the Bishops of
Nancy, Meaux, Toronto, andothers. A decree of
the Government, dated the 28th ult., makes reduc-
tions [in the duties on the importation of foreign
goods. The reductions in the impost duties
previously effected have produced excellent re-
sults, the value of the goods imported having
risen in the course of a'year from 2,211,277 Roman
crowns to 3,763,712. The municipality of Ferrara
has commenced the draining of a large portion of
the extensive marshes which exist in the province
of that name. The Prince de Syracuse, brother to
the King of Naples, has arrived here, and has had
an audience of the Pope. The King of Bavaria
has made a generous donation to the Society of St.
Vincent de Paul, and the society in gratitude has
caused a mass for the King to be celebrated by the
Bishop of Toronto. Queen Christina of Spain is
to leave this city for Paris at the end of April."
Another letter from Rome, in the Corriere Mer-
cantile of Genoa, states that the arrest of Prince
Simoneiti was unaccountably connected with that
of two functionaries of the Post-office at Bologna,
who had discovered, by opening certain despatches,
that Austria was making proselytes for a secret
society called "Sett:, Ferdinandea," the object of
which is to separate the legations from the Papal
States. The Austrian commandant having caused
these functionaries to be imprisoned, the Papal go-
vernment, according to this letter, has claimed
their liberation.

SPAIN.
The Madrid journals of the 3d have arrived. A.
royal decree in the Gazette enacts that the 16 bat-
talions of infantry of the army of Cuba shall be
formed into 8 regiments of 2 battalions each. An-
other decree authorises the provincial, deputation
of Madrid to raise a loan of 6,000,000 reals for
makiug roads in the province. A new election
having taken place for the district of Las Vistillas
in Madrid, owing to none of the candidates in the
first one having obtained an absolute majority
of the votes given, the Duke de Alba had been
definitively elected by 218 votes out of 321. At
Santander, M. Olozaga had been defeated.
Marshal Espartero had written a letter to the
electors of Barcelona to thank them for having
thought of him as a candidate, but he does not say
whet ler, if elected, he will sit or not. Six com-
panies of infantry and a small. detachment of
cavalry had left Burgos for Vittoria and Logrono,
to put down, as was supposed, an insurrectionary
movement. A project had been submitted to the
Government for establishing a company with a capi-
tal of 60,000,000 reals for working mines in differ-
ent parts of the country. A fire had destroyed a
vast tanyard in the vicinity of Madrid : it was sup-
posed to have been occasioned by some armed men
who had been seen hanging about the place. The
amount of !damage is not stated. The English
schooner Cheerful had been lost off Santander ; she
carried a cargo of flour, but all the crew except one
man were saved. A letter says :—" Very active
communications are taking place between our Go-
vernment and those of France and England on the
subject of the difference between Spain and Mexico.
Our cabinet hopes to obtain the moral support• of
these two powers ; and in the event of the question
going beyond a war between Spain and Mexico
their material support also."

The King of the Belgians went to the palace•at
Brussels on Sunday from Laeken, where his Ma-
jestywas waited on by a deputation of the National
Guard, who invited him and the royal family to a
grand fete to be given on the 13th in honour of the
22d anniversary of the birth of the Duke do Bra-
bant. The King accepted the invitation.

The Bund states that the Federal Council is over-
whelmed with demands from exiled royalists to be
allowed to return to their homes to put their affairs
in order. The Federal Council, it adds, is reported
to have rejected all these demands, on the ground
that it has not the power, except in very peculiar
cages, to modify the decree of the Federal Aw.embly
relative to those persons.