The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-15 00:00:00

TUSCANY.

A letter from Florence, of the 7th inst., gives
some interesting details relative to the lately de-
ceased Signor Bologna, Minister for Ecclesiastical
Affairs to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, which demon-
strate what a retrograde movement the Duke's
government has made since the year 1148. Signor
Bologna was during a long time previous to 1848
the Chief of the Tuscan Police, or, as it was then
called, Presidente delbuon-governo. He fulfilled his
functions in such a manner as not to incur the re-
proach of being too indulgent, so that when the
times changed his fall was regarded as a triumph
for the Liberals. Signor Bologna filled no politi-
ca Mee from the revolution of 1848 until the
restoration took place, and foreign troops oc-
cupied the Tuscan territory. Signor Bologna
was then summoned by the Duke to form part
of his Cabinet as Minister for Ecclesiastical
Affairs. It was expected to find in him a fiery
Reactionist. He was no such thing. He certainly
did not renounce his old reactiouist principles, but
he left to others who belore and after 1848 had
figured in the ranks of the most furious Radicals
the unenviable privilege of rushing into the extreme
ranks of the Reactionists. In 1851 an arrangement,
somewhat like a concordat, was concluded between
the Tuscan Government and the Pope, but Signor
Bologna attenuated and nearly destroyed the effect
,of the arrangement. During the winter of 1854
much conversation took place among a certain co-
terie at Florence relative to the war in the Crimea,
and it was boldly asserted that the allies would
be cast into the sea by the Russians, and
take a bath—faranno un bagno—and this phrase
became proverbial. One day in the year 1855 a
law on the press was being discussed in the Council
of State for the purpose of establishing a preven-
tive censure. Each member who had spoken ex-
pressed an opinion favourable to the law. When
Signor Bologna's turn came, to the astonishment of
all the Councillors, ho said, "The law may be
good, but it is better not to promulgate it at pre-
sent." " Why so ?" cried the Councillors. " Be-
cauE9," replied he, smiling, "it is better to wait
until this bath (2nd certo bagno) shall have been
taken."

The Patric announces, on the authority of a
letter from Kalisch, that the troops of the last
Polish levy but one have received orders to leave
immediately for the CAucasus. It is believed they
are to reinforce the army of observation of 40,000
men, which it is asserted is assembled on the ex-
treme frontier of Persia. "It appears," adds the
fatrie, "that serious operations are expected in
the beginning of spring, to counterbalance the
probable results of the English expedition "in the
Persian Gulf."

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The following changes have lately taken place at
St. Petersburg. In consequence of the illness of
the Minister of War, the chief of the staff, General
Kotzebue, at Warsaw, has been appointed to assist
the Minister. Baron de Meyendorff has been
named head of the Imperial Chamber. The De-
partment of Commerce and Manufactories is about
to be separated from the Ministry of Finance, and
will constitute a new Ministerial department.

--
The amounts which are to be paid by the various
maritime powers to Denmark in compensation for
the removal of the Sound dues are stated in a
Copenhagen letter to be as follow :—England and
Russia, 34 million francs each ; Prussia, 12 mil-
lions ; Sweden, 7 millions ; France, 4 millions ;
and Belgium, 1,200,000 f.

A letter received from Algiers announces that
very tempestuous weather had been experienced
on that coast since the beginning of the year. The
steamer which rups,u
ton from Oran to Algiers had met
the andhad been driven by
Balearic Islands. She
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galeli s
suffered considerable injury, and after much danger
she was enabled to seek shelter at Arzow. The
French mail from Marseilles had not reached Algiers
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on the 2d inst.

A subscription, headed by Messrs. Rothschild, Baring,
and Gurney, was opened yesterday for the family of Mr.
Mortleman, who perished in the mail steamship Violet,
and who is ascertained in the midst of his danger to
have floated the mail bags, so that even after the loss of
the vessel and all on board there might be a prospect of
their recovery. They were picked up on the following
morning, and much inconvenience to the commercia
community was thus prevented.
MOHAMMEDANS IN PARIS,--A special enclosure for
the burial of persons of the Mussulma❑ religion has just
been formed in one part of the cemetery of Pere-
Lachaise, having been found necessary, in consequence
of the number of persons, and especially Arabs of that
reigion, who die in Paris. The enclosure contains
building for purification and for other ceremonies pre•
scribed by the Mussultnan religion. It has been built on
plans furnished by Vely Pacha, when Turkish ambits
eador.

CENTRAL CATTLE-11IARKET AT SWINDON.—It is pro'
posed by the Great Western Railway Company to es:ab-
lish a fortnightly market for the sale of cattle at swirl-
don, their object being to make a grand central market
for the sale of all the cattle coming up from South Wales
and Ireland by the South Wales line and the Irish boats.
The increase of this traffic has of late been very greats
and, joined to the enlarged supply brought by the
various new lines which have been opened, has led to
the conclusion that a market at Swindon would be Well
supported.