The Sun.
London, England, 1857-02-07 00:00:00

jects. It is also said that Col. Manteuffel will
shortly be chArged with an extraordinary mission
to Paris. He has arrived here."

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, FEB. 4.—The Vienna Presse of this
morning contains a brief, well written, and digni-
fied reply to the violent attack made by the Con-
stitutionnel, in its number of the Ist February, on
the Austrian political papers. Instead of defend-
ing itself and its colleagues against the charges
made by the Paris paper, the Presse acknowledges
that it was never a great admirer of the acts and
policy of the present Emperor of the French.
"No one," says the Vienna paper, "has ever
been able te influence our opinions on questions of
general importance, because we have always when
requisite made use of our rights to remain silent.
The innuendoes of the Constitutionnel cannot,
therefore, apply to us, and such being the
case we are not obliged to take notice of
their coarseness. We must, however, remark,
that if we subject the inconstant and co-
quettish policy of France to dispassionate,
though plain-spoken, criticism, it is because
we feel, and feel deeply, that such policy is
most pernicious to the whole of Central Germany,
and that it is a duty which we owe to our native
country freely to express our opinions on a point of
such extreme importance. We shall continue in
the path which we have so long trodden ; and if
ever we should attend to a mot d'ordre, it will be
to one coming from a voice which, unfortunately,
is no longer heard in France—we mean, the voice
of public opinion."

ITALY.
A letter from Naples of the 23d ult., in the
Piedniontese Gazette, gives some fuller particulars
concerning the attempt upon the life of the Arch-
bishop of Matera. It says :
" While Monsignor Rossini, after saying mass in
the cathedral, was kneeling efore the high altar
together with a canon of the name of Bonsanto, a
priest named Ancona rushed upon the prelate with
a dagger to murder him. Bonsanto warded off the
blow • upon which Ancona drew a pistol from his
pocket, tired at the canon, and killed him on the
spot. The assassin then ran after the archbishop,
who was endeavouring to escape; both fell, and
fortunately the fall prevented the miscreant from
using his poniard, and enabled the persons who
were on the spot to disarm and secure him. The
motives which induced the assassin to attempt this
odious crime are still unknown."

A letter from Naples, of the 26th of January,
informs us of a new device of the police authorities
of that city to persuade the people that the King's
Government is generally approved throughout
Europe. They have permitted the circulation of a
pamphlet entitled " Political situation of England,
and her machiavelical conduct with regard to the
European Powers, and particularly towards France,
her ally in the war in the East." It purpor's to be
printed at Genoa, by John Fassi Como. This
pamphlet is a gross and stupid lampoon against the
British nation. The following is a specimen
" If poor Paris knew what use is made of her
name, and the object to be marked under it, she
would be the first torepelso hypocritical an interest.
Naples is Italy, and Italy is in our days, thanks to
Austria, the point most menacing for the repose
of Europe. The vulture is attracted by the dead
body. The instinct of England tells her that there
is something to be done there, and she is at work,
acting, threatening, and not knowing to-day what
she will do to-morrow, but most decided to take
every advantage of the situation of Italy. Some
persona are astonished that France would not follow
England to the end—they ought rather be asto-
nished that she did not interpose her veto at the
first step."
The words "thanks to Austria" were effaced
with ink by the police agents, who circulated the
pamphlet by thousands.