The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-20 00:00:00

PIEDMONT.

A letter dated Turin, Jan. 15, contains the
following :—This morning has been fixed by the
Emperor of Austria for his solemn entrance into
his Lombard capital.
The Emperor Francis Joseph has fared but in-
differently in his triumphal progress through his
Italian dominions. His sojourn at Venice was so
far from leaving an agreeable impression upon him
that he gave vent to his displeasure in some very
sharp and wrathful words addressed to the pDdesta
or mayor of tke city, whom he seemed to hold re-
sponsible for the evident disloyalty of his fellow-
citizens ; and when the luckless mayor tried to
er.ac-
count as he best could for t'-se absence of thep
sons who ought to have been present to
do
obeisanceand em-
to their ruler, and for the lukevrarnmes_se present,
barrassment of those who actilllY
the Emperor cut him short with
g Italian—
and the following burst
Of idiomatic,-, a vender lucciole
Italian—
" Signor Podesta, non mi v wreela t disdain,
.en'a,, Don't you try to
per laterne ;" in plain English, awder." The anec-
come over me with your
si°thority. At Vicenza it
dote rests on very good
a'ce of the Emperor at the
is a fact that the app
i efarrauthe whole population to
theatre was a signal
the pit and most o. f the
leave the house,
boxes remained
-p for one hour, because only
empty. At Brescia the
Emperor only stloep-of an old employe, was found in
oue lady,
the wit() wait upon the Empress..
.The
the whole
town
-of the whole Lombard population in
esn°tieraely
determination. .
11 11 to the Autocrat and to his
showing its ill-will

troops exceeds at,l belief. Lamp°6ns and pasqui-
nades, some of them so outrageous that they could
not be translated literally into English, and would
convey no meaning except to those initiated
in the worst slang of those Italian dialects, are
posted up es ery night at every street corner in
Milan. A triumphal arch made with hums
skulls, drawn with the very greatest skill iu the
Fischietto, the Italian Punch, was published in
Turin a few weeks ago. The Government here
deemed it right to seize the paper for that day, so
that we might be allowed to suppose that the ob-
noxious print is out of cirulation. Nevertheless,
hundreds and thousands of copies have found their
way into Lombardy ; they are stuck up at every
corner of the streets almost daily, and this morn-
ing they will be seen at every street corner where
the Emperor is to pass, whatever efforts the police
may make to tear them down. A crown made of real
human skulls has been hung in the night on one
of the many triumphal arches with which the
Lombard capital has been decorated for the occasion
A duel has taken place between a Milanese noble-
man, of the name of Viola, and an Austrian officer,
in which the former was severely wounded, and
the latter behaved towards his fallen enemy with
the greatest brutality, striking him repeatedly with
his sabre when he was on the ground. Many of the
Lombard nobles, well known for their antipathy to
the Austrian rulers have been ordered to absent
themselves from Milan during the Emperor's stay.
The exasperation on both sides is immense ; more
than 4,000 or 5,000 of the low©' t classes, many of
the most desperate characters in that town, are
armed to the teeth, especially with revolvers,
which have been smuggled across the frontier by
the same means by which prints, caricatures, and
all sorts of seditious writings are brought in under
the very nose of those keen-sighted bloodhounds of
the Austrian police.
. _ _

Under these circumstances it is felt that some
appalling news may reach us at any moment.
From Modena, from Parma, from Milan, from
most Lombard towns, incessant and lavish sub-
scriptions come in for the hundred cannon destined
for the fortification of Alessandria. Cavour and
his colleagues are in danger of being crushed by the
very excess of their popularity.