The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-13 00:00:00

ITALY.

A Turin letter of the 9th says :—" The letters
received here today from Parma are filled with
details of the late lamentable affair. It has been
asked how it was that the troops at Parma did not
interfere. The answer is that which has been al-
ready given, namely, that they occupy the citadel,
and that it is a good half-hour's distance from that
place to the guardhouse of the carbineers. If then
Colonel Doda, after having lodged Anviti in the
guardhouse, could have foresisen the assembling of a
crowd, it would have been difficult for the troops to
arrive in time ; and as it is probable that the colonel
did not think it necessary to call out the soldiers until
a certain time after the commencement of the popular
manifestation, it will be seen that the crime could not
be prevented by the troops. And what is true as
regards the soldiers, is still more so with respect to
the national guard. It appears that Anviti was
going to Piacenza, the principal centre of aristo-
cratic reaction, to promote a conspiracy; and that
he had previously received the mot d'ordre at the
Austrian head quarters at Verona, and had come to
an understanding with the known partisans of a
restoration at Ferrara, Bologna, and Modena. A
hundred gold pieces and notes for some thousands
of francs were found on him. As he is a count
and chamberlain it may not seem surprising that
he was in possession of such a sum ; but he was
known to possess no fortune whatever, and the find-
ing of the money on him is considered a serious
proof that he was on a political mission."
The Indipendezzte of Turin of the 10th is of
opinion that the political authorities at Parma
have evinced incredible weakness and incapacity.

The Piednzontese Gazette announces that from
the Ist of November next direct telegraphic com-
munications are to be reopened between the Sar-
dinian States and Venice and the Austre-Germanic
Confederation ; also that telegraphic communica-
tions already exist with Malta through Naples and
Sicily, as well as with Athens, Silo, the Pincus,
Smyrna, Syra, and Cape Hellas. The rates for
Tuscany, Modena, Parma, and the Legations have
been reduced in conformity to the Convention of
Berne, to which those States have adhered.

Count Cavour arrived at Turin on the 10th, to
act as president of the committee on the electoral
law, which was to meet on the following day.
It was lately stated in the Univers that two
Swiss deserters had been barbarously beheaded in
a slaughter-house at San Arcangelo, in Romagna.
The official journal of Bologna declared the state-
ment false, and the following additional contradic-
tion of it has now been addressed to the editor of
the Univers by the Municipality of San Arcangelo :
" Sir,—We have learned with great sorrow from
the official journal of Bologna the accusation
against a butcher of our town which you have in-
serted in your journal. According to you, that
individual, thilking that the punishment of being
skot, which some revolutionary soldiers proposed
to inflict on two Swiss deterters, was too mild,
chopped off their heads with an axe in his own
slaughter-house. Such a thing would be really
horrible. But for the honour of our country, and
for the honour of the brave men who have has-
tened to its defence under the order of General
Roselli, we most solemnly protest, and we hereby
do so, against this outrageous assertion, and de-
clare that it is an odious falsehood—a falsehood
all the more vile from the fact that the moderate
and exemplary attitude of Romagna now excites
the admiration of all civilised nations. We hope
that onr protest will induce you to contradict the
false news published in your journal, and that for
the future you will be less ready to listen to the
falsehoods spread by your pious correspondent at
Pezaro. Unless you do we shall have the right to
think that, in order to serve a fanatical jesuitical
party, you readily lower yourself so much as to
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practise the precept:—' Calumniate! Calumniate'.
Some of the calumny will always stick ln the
hope that you will think yourself bound honour
to do justic•J to truth by inserting this letter in
your journal, we are, &e.,
" L. MARINI, SACCIIINI ARCANGELO."

RUSSIA.
A letter from St. Petersburg, dated the 3d inst.,

says :
"I have just been informed that the Emperor has
telegraphed to his Ambassadors at Paris, London,
and Berlin to join him at Warsaw on the 15th of
October. This news has created some sensation
and much conjecture."
A telegram from Vienna, dated the evening of
the 10th inst., announces the departure of M. de
Balabine, the Russian Ambassador at the Court of
Vienna, for Warsaw.
A letter from St. Petersburg, of the 3d instants
states that a shipbuilder in that city is to construct,
by next spring, 150 screw steamers, intended fOr
the navigation of the Neva. Steam navigation on
that river being considerably developed.
It is stated that, notwithstanding the capture of
Schamyl, the Caucasus .is far from being entirely
subdued. The Iticalide Russe announces that the
mountaineers have another chief, named Mahomed
Amin, not less intrepid and fanatical than Schamyl,
and who may still resist one or two winters. The
Russian army in the Caucasus, which is composed
of 60,000 men, cannot be reduced for some time to
come.

WEST COAST OF AFRICA.

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY MORNING.

The Athenian has arrived with the African
mails to the following dates :—Benin, AuguAt
24th ; Fernando Po, 29th ; Cameroons, Sept. 2d ;
Old Calabar, 3d; Bonny, Bth ; Brass River, 9th;
Lagos, 10th ; Accra, 12th ; Cape Coast, 14th ; Cape
Palmas, 17th ; Sierra Leone, 21st; Bathurst, 25th;
Teneriffe,•Oct. Ist ; Madeira, 3d.
She has 2,500 ounces of golddust. Cameroons
River was unhealthy. The barque Mars, of Liver-
pool, Stone, master, was totally destroyed at Bonny
Aw.;ust the 10th ; she had on board 1,200 barrels
of gunpowder. Trade at a standstill at Bonny, in
consequence of disturbances in the Eboe country.
The new Governor, Don Gandara, had arrived at
Fernando Po, in the ;loutish frigate Ferrolana •
the late Governor, Don D. ClL.con, is a pissenge;
by the Athenian.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
Her Majesty s ship Falcon and the Susan were
at. Fernando Po.

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The Mary Hamilton left Fernando Po for Queens-
town, on the 15th of August.
The Moselle and the Invincible were at Came-
roons.