The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-19 00:00:00

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans 1370 1370
Northern
New ditto BB5 887 50
Lyons and Mediterranean 900 .. 900
Geneva 370 .. 366 25
Southern 505 .. 50i 75
Western -
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Loirbard . 463 75 .. 463 75

ITALY.

A letter from Turin, of the 15th, says :

" The policy adopted by Count Cavour is already
known to you; he does not renounce Rome aid
Venice, but he desires to obtain them by arrange-
ments and by the pressure of public opinion, and
on no account to excite a war which might com-
promise the immense results obtained within the
last two years. The Minister of the Interior, M.
Minghetti, has adopted energetic measures for
carrying out the policy of the Government. For
some time past enrolments had been made for an
unknown destination ; but the Minister, in a circu-
lar to the intendants, has directed that they shall be
prevented, and that persons effecting them shall be
prosecuted. This circular has already produced a good
effect. The journals of the advanced party beat a re-
treat, and affirm that no enrolments were made---a
statement which certainly is not true. It has been
said that \lazzini is endeavouring to raise a loan
on the security of Rome and Venice ; but a second
Ministerial circular peremptorily prohibits the issue
of one."

Another communication from Turin, of the same
date, says :—" General La Marmora arrived here
yesterday, the attitude assumed by the Cabinet
necessitating explanations with him as Commander-
in-Chief of the two armies which protect the fron-
tier of Venetia. Austria is continuing to augment
her forces in that province, and they arc so nume-
rous that the entire territory may be compared to a
huge entrenched camp. General Benedek dis-
plays indefatigable activity; he has only just
returned from inspecting the troops in the Tyrol,
and he already announces that he is about to set
out to inspect those on the Po, in the direction of
Modena."

A letter from Turin, dated Jan. 16, says :—The
popular agitation on the subject of the approaching
elections increases as the appointed day, the 27th
inst., draws near, and this general stir of men's
minds supplies us with good evidence that free
institutions have cast deep roots, at least in these
old provinces of the kingdom, and that the whole
population takes a lively interest in a crisis which
is to have so great a weight on the future destinies
of the peninsula. All parties show great anxiety
to husband their own forces, and only a few of
the vainest men are likely to be indulged
with the luxury of a double election. Turin
sends four deputies to the Chamber, and, faith-
ful to its old traditions, and proud of having the
precedence over all other colleges or constituencies,
will choose only Ministers, or at least well know'
Ministerialists. The candidates almost certain of
success in this town are Count Cavour ; Cassinis,
Minister of Grace and Justice ; Miglietti, the ablest
Ldvoestte in Turin, a man who had always a high
standing in public life, though his manifold profes-
sional engagements hardly allow him to take a very
active part in Parliamentary proceedings; and,
finally, Chiavarina, an efficient member, though Et

an orator, who has a hand in the official man agemeßt
of the Chamber. Of the other Ministers, Vegezzi,
who is at the head of the Finance Department, will be
returned by Borgomanero, a town in the province of
Novara ; Jacini, the Minister of Public Works, will
reappear as member for Piczighettone, in his native
province of Lodi; and Corsi, the Minister of Agri-
culture and Commerce, will again represent his own
obscure Tuscan constituency of La mporecchio,
Mamiani, the Minister of Public Instruction, hesi-
tates between Pesaro, his native city, and Cuorgne,
in the Canavese, or province of Ivrea, his former
college. The Minister of War, Fanti, is a senator.

The Ministers being thus disposed of, the tug of
war comes for minor mortals. Garibaldi is said to
have sent forth his electoral list, which freely circu-
lates under his name, and which, from whatever
source it may spring, will be received as his
real handiwork, unless he takes good care most
formally to disavow it. Garibaldi himself, or his
party for him, has published a declaration that they
will, to the best of their abilities, oppose there•elec-
tion of all the 229 members who voted for the cession
of Nice to France. Bofferio, who describes himself
as being closely allied with Garibaldi, and a sharer
of his secret wishes, has first broached this all-
sweeping resolution in anew journal edited by him,
and entitled Roma e Venezia. He publishes a list
of all these proscribed candidates, with the names
of the colleges which they represented at the time
of the discussion of that famous Bill, and, in most
fanatical language, warns the electors against them.
Strange to say, were the ideas of this party to gain
ground, and were it indeed possible to shut the
doors of the Carignano Palace against those 229
men, who were and are the cream of Italian intel-
ligence and character, not only Garibaldi, who is
unacquainted with persons in Italy, but even his
supporters, Bertani and Bofferio themselves, would
be at a loss how to draw up a full list of candidates
of their own, and how to fill the 443 sofas of the
new National Parliament. It would not even do to
bring in the blind, the lame, and the cripple, for
the deputation is an expensive job, especially for
members living far away from the capital, and few
men not possessed of independent means can afford
to neglect their private affairs to attend discussions
on public business.
From all I hear of Piedmont, the iEmilia, Tus-
cany, and Lombardy, the elections will turn out in
favour of the moderate party, and friendly to Count
Cavour's Government. At Genoa the candidates
are the old mild and rational Democrats Marquis
Lorenzo Pareto and Marquis Vincenzo Ricci, who
have sat for Genoa for the last 12 years, and the
only new element arising from the great Ligurian
seaport will be Bixio, Garibaldi's bravest hero, the
Ajax of the Lombard and Sicilian campaigns.
Neither Bixio, nor Turr, nor Cosenz, nor Sirtori,
nor Medici, nor any of Garibaldi's Generals, nor
any of the best officers of his army are in any
manner disposed to make common cause with
Bertani, Crispi, or the other leaders of the Maz-
zinian faction, who have made the trusting and
loving Garibaldi to some extent answerable for their
grievous errors and extreme subversive political
views. Out of Naples and Sicily, in short, the mis-
named Garibaldian party will have no chance of a
strong muster, unless at least Garibaldi himself
steps forward as a popular agitator, a part for
which he has no inclination, and which would suit
him least of all men. It is well known that he
himself withdraws from all electoral contest, and
declares that he will certainly not sit in Parlia-
ment under any circumstances whatever.
His fixed idea is the war against Austria in
Venetia and Hungary, and this, however imminent
some people may fancy it, can certainly not come
off before the new Parliament meets on the 20th of
next month. Without Garibaldi's personal inter-
vention it is more than likely that the pretensions
put forward in his name by the Mazzinians, their
unblushing abuse of his name, and their underhand
intrigues, will founder against the sobered sense of
the people.
The members likely to be returned for Milan are
Trezzi, Tenca, Restelli, and Masserani. Tenca and
Restelli are literary men of distinction.