The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-26 00:00:00

ITALY.

"Letters from Italy," says the Indepenclance of
Brussels, "state that the Austrians feel some
anxiety with respect to their situation there. The
effective of their troops in the Roman States
has been greatly diminished, but it has latterly been
remarked that the artillery, the engineers, and the
materiel have been augmented. Verona and Man-
tua are now stored as if a campaign were to be com-
menced to-morrow ; and all the stores that were
considered too old have been replaced by new ones.
The Archduke Maximillian gives a great impulsion
to the administration. If it were possible to effect
a union between the Austrians and the Italians, no
one would be better qualified for the tasty than he.
A new attempt at reconciliation is about to be made
by him this winter, and we shall see whether or not
the Milanese aristocracy will reply to his advances.
SPAIN.

The Madrid journals of the 20th eontain no
political news of interest. The editors of the prin-
cipal newspapers had proposed to have a grand
banquet, as a manifestation against the late Cabi-
net, but on reflection had determined not to carry
out the design. According to the Epoca, the
change of Ministry has been received with marked
favour at Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, and Sara-
gossa. A despatch of the 23d says that the Gazette
contains an announcement that it is to be the ex-
clusive organ of the Government, and it asserts
that no foreign Miinistry exercises any influence in
the internal affairs in Spain.

A letter from Celtinge of the Bth, in the Agram
Gazette, says :—" It is well known that the inha-
bitants of Kuci were attacked last year by the
Montenegrin., and completely ruined by pillage.
They have been since left unmolested, but they re-
cently sent a deputation to the Pacha of Scutari to
ask whether he would protect them or not against
any future attack, and begging him, in case Turkey
wished to preserve her rule over Kuci, to place a
garrison there to defend it against the Montene-
grins. As the Pacha could not promise them as-
sistance, they sent a deputation of their principal
chiefs to this town to make their submission to
Prince Danilo. The latter received them very
courteously, and named one of the chiefs, who had
before been the most opposed to him, a senator,
and the other chiefs wero made woiwodes and
captains."

A letter from St. Petersburg of the 17th says :
—"The Emperor and Empress are at this moment
at Kiew, and their return to St. Petersburg is fixed
for the 25th. Prince Gortschakoff arrived here in
the night of the 14th, and has resumed the direc-
tion of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which dur-
ing his absence was confided to M. de Malsoff.
CJunt de Nesselrode, Chancellor of the Empire,
arrived in this city on the 13th.

The Pope, on the 15th, granted an audience to
Cardinal Villecourt, who had come over to Civita
Vecchia for that purpose from Genoa. The Pope
afterwards visited Corneto, and after a few hours'
stay in that place, returned to Civita Vecchia.

Accounts from Naples of the 20th announce the
arrival in that city of the Prince de Joinvillo.
The prince immediately paid a visit to the Countess
de Tripani, his sister-in-law.

A lettPr from Naples, in the Opinione of Turin,
states that the marriage of the Duke of Calabria
with the Emperor of Austria's sister will not take
place this year. The Duke is about to visit Vienna,
in order to pay his respects to his future consort.

Count de Buol will, it is said, leave Carlsbad on
the 30th for Dresden, where he will be jo ned by
the Countess. The minister is to resume tht duties
of his office on the 10th November.

THE BELFAST CUSTOMS' FRAUD.—A rumour has
reached us (Evening Post) that Moore has been captured
in one of the Channel Islands, and that he bal taken
poison either at the moment of his capture or when he
found that escape was impossible,
AN ENGLISH TOURIST ON THE CASPIAN SHORES.—The
Northern Bee says that an English gentleman, Mr. Sey-
mour Kerry Wodehouse, nephew to Lord Wodehouse,
the British Ambassador at St. Petersburg, arrived at
Astrakhan on the 6th September, and thence proceeded
to visit Prince Tumenew, the chieftain of a tribe of nomad
Calmucks in Tartary. He has since returned 'to Astra-
khan to examine the Russian fisheries there established,
and intended to embark on the Ist inst. to go to Bakou
by the steam-boat Tarki. Mr. Wodebouse designed also,
on his way borne, to visit Georgia, the Crimea, and South
Russia, and then to return to Landon by way of Con-
stantinople.
SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.—A return to
the House of Commons made on the motion of Mr. Grey,
M.P., shows that during the session of 1857, which oc-
cupied six months, or a part thereof, the House of Com-
mons sat 110 days—viz, in February 19 days; in March,
15 ; in April and May, 21 (the dissolution causing an
interregnum ; in June, 19 ; in July, 24 ; and in August,
19. The tote; number of hours of sitting was 9031 hours
and 4 minutes. The house eat altogether 91i hours after
midnight. There were 7,963 entries in the " Votes" of
the House (published diurnally.) The average duration
of each sitting of the house throughout the session was 7
houre 47 minutes and 29 seconds, or the beat part of the
third of a civil day. The House was reluctant, or bad
no occasion to sit after midnight in February, March,
April and May, but in the last three months (June,
July, and August) the " midnight oil" was far more
largely consumed.
GENERAL HAVELOOK.—At a meeting of the Hibernian
Bible Society held in Belfast on Tuesday last, the
Rev. Mr. Graham, of Bonn, mentioned this fact :---He
had to tell tbem that General Havelock, who is now so
distinguished in India, although a Baptist, was a mem-
ber of his (Mr. Graham's) missionary church at Boor,
and his wife and daughter were members of it for seven
years. He could also narrate an anecdote regarding
that great and good man, which he had heard from the
lips of Lady Havelock, When General Havelock, as
colonel of his regiment, was travelling through India be
al ways took with him a Bethel tent, in which he preached
the gospel ; and when Sunday came in India he usually
hoisted the Bethel flag, and invited all men to come and
hear the gospel—in fact, he even baptised some. He
was reported for this at head-quarters, fur acting in a
non-military and disorderly manner ; and the Comman-
der-ia-ChieF, General Lord Gough, entertained the
charge, but with the true spirit of a generous military
man he caused the state of Colonel Havelock's regiment
to be examined. He caused the reports of the moral
state of the various regiments to be read for some time
back, and he found that Colonel Havelock's stood at the
head of the list ; there was less drunkenness, less flog-
ging, lees imprisonment in it than in any other. When
that was done the Commander-in-Chief said, "Go and
tell Colonei Havelock, with my compliments, to baptise
the whole army,"