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

ITALY.

A Turin letter of the 9th says :—" The letters
received here to day 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 foreseen 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 Indipendente of Turin of the 10th is of
opinion that the political authorities at Parma
incapacity.
The evinced incredible weakness and
The Piednzontese Gazette announces that from
the Ist of November next direct telegraphic com-
munications are to be reopened between the Sar-
dinian Siates and Venice and the Austro-Germanic
Confederation ; also that telegraphic communica-
tions already exist with Malta through Naples and
Sicily, as well as with Athens, Scio, the Piraeus,
Smyrna, Syra, and Cape Hellas. The rates for
Tuscany, Modena, Parma, and the Legations have
been reeucea 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 Univer•s 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, thinking 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
practise the precept:—' Calumniate! Calumniate !
Some of the calumny will always stick !' In the
hope that you will think yourself bound in honour
to do justic9 to truth by inserting this letter in
your journal, we are, &c.,
" L. MARINI, SACCHINI ARCANGELO."