The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-09 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Giornale di Roma of the 28th ult. publishes
a notification from the Government Commission of
Rome, informing the public that the lands belong-
ing to the State in the provinces of Bologna,
Ferraro, Ravenna, and Forli are to be publicly
sold. The same journal publishes the regulations
for execution of public works by the poor. Romans
only are admitted to these works; they must
besides be weak of body or mind, so as to
be unable to earn their bread otherwise, or else prove
their absolute inability to find work. The public
works in question are of a nature to be executed by
any one ; they consist cf earth- works and street-
cleaning. The workmen are divided into com-
panies of 100 men each ; they are under the
command of an inspector, of assistants, and
corporals, temporary officers, having no right
to retiring pensions. Every workman has fifteen
bajocchi (eighty centimes) a-day. The Giornale di
Ronza adds, that during the preceding week the work-
men were 2,131. Letters from Rome of the 29th
state that Gen. Fernandez de Cordova arrived there
on the 27th, and that the battallion Reyna Goberna-
dove embarked on the 25th fur Spain, with part of the
cavalry and half a battery.
Some cf the German papers publish a letter which
contains the fallowing passage
I an give.you the important news that the Pope has
come to an arrangement w;th the Catholic powers relati% e
to the Constitution to be given to the Pontifical States.
According to aat arrangement, the mete proprio of
last year, is to remain the basis of the new Consti-
tution. The St tte3 are t) be divided ii.t) four
legations, each of which will have at its head a cardinal
as political chief. A member of the Sacred College h to
be President c f the Council of Ministers, with the title of
Cardinal Secretary of State. The President and Vice-
President of the Consulate of State are to belong to the
same body. The relative proportion between the 'ales
and ecclesiastics in the other employments has not yet
been determined on." _

By a notification of Baron Puchner, dated the Isl
inst., the public of Venice is informed that the currency
of the communal paper of that city is definitively- con-
tinued to the 28th of February. From the 15th of
February the forced currency of this paper is to c( awe,
and the public offices alone will receive it in payment of
taxes, 84e., till the eni of March, when the communal
paper is to be without value.

THE MEDITERRANEAN.
SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY NIGHT, FEB 8.

The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Naviget: on Com-
pany's ship Euxine, C.iptlin R. W. Evans, has just ar-
rived here with ship letter bags of the f)ilowing date',
which were her days of sit:ling—viz., Constantinople,
January 19; Smyrna, Janu .ry 23; Multf, January 27;
Gibraltar, February 3.
She brings 22 passengers, amongst whom are Colonels
Peters and Leighton, Captains Rixon and Loader, Dr.
Carilieri, and Messrs. Robinson, Woclier, &e. Also,
the following Hungarian and Polish refugees—viz.,
Major Vem and MM. Bogclae, Liphay, Jehory, Nicatea,
De!inski, Ezechielle, and Erta.
The f, eight list comprises 20 package; of specie
(value 73,408/. sterling). 5 chests scamoey, GS boxes of
oranges, 2,036 boxes of raisins, 2,641 drums cf flgT, 20
cases of fruit, 57 oases of opium, 8 boxes of o!to of rose?,
4 boxes of Mastic, 328 bales of silk, 736 bales of goats'
hair, 33 bags of galls, 10 cases of gum, 29 bags of yel-
low birries, 57 tubs of leeche?, 2 cases of orange trees,
4 live sheep, and 81 packages of general merchandise.
The Sultan has experienced very bad weather through-
out the voyage, particularly at Smyrna, where she was
detained three days in consequence. On the 24th of
January, while steaming through the Greek Archi-
pelago, she spoke her ➢lajesty's steam-'2rigates Dragon
and Bulldog; with the latt::r she communicated, and
received dispatches for England. These two st2amers
were cruizing about, and looking in at the various Greek
ports to deta is Greek ships of war.
The English fleet was et the Pitaaus. The Fiench
fleet remained at Suayri.a, wind bound, up to the 23(1
ult., but was waiting an 'opportunity to proceed t 3
Athens to watch the movements of Admit al "'miter and
the British squadron.
Oa the 29th of January the Euxine signalled the
Peninsular and Oriental Company's ship Indus, with the
outward India and China mails of 20,1 ult., 60 miles W.
of the Isl.nd of Galite, steering for Malta. On the 3d
inst. exchanged signals off Cape Trafalgar with the
steimer Sultan, from Southampton, bound t) Constar•
tinople.
Our accounts from Gibraltar arc to the 3d instant.
The Board of Health had issued a notice taking off
the quarantine of three days recently imposed on ves •
sels from Great Britain, the northern ports, and North
America.

Exchanges were quoted as f Alows:—At 90 days'
date on London, 50i; Paris, 51. 34c. ; Marseille7,
sf. 37c.; Genoa, 51. 58c.; at eight days' sight on Ma-
drid, par ; Cadiz, premium. Paper scarce on the
following places, at respective quotations—Malaga,
par; Seville, dis.; Alicante, die.; Valencia, -a- die.;
Barcelona, par; Spaaisti pillared dolars, one per cent.
premium.
Her Majesty's steamer Scourge, Commander Lord
Kerr, arrived at Gibraltar, from Lisbon, on the let inbt ,
and sailed on the 3d for Malta. The Janus, Lieutenant
Powell, sailed on the 3d for Lisbon.

The schooner Kate and Jane, having repaired
damages, sailed on the 29th ult. for Messina. The brig
Zephyr, which arrived at Gibraltar from Odessa, bound
to Cork, on the 26th ult. (having touched on the Pearl
Rock), commenced reloading on the 29th. The brig
John Callum, from Leghorn for Cork, arrived on the
29th January, with part of her cargo damaged.
A Spanish vessel, El Paquate Malagneno, was lost on
the 14th ult., near the Cala Grande. The vessel was
bound to Malaga, and nine of her crew perished.
The screw-3tesmer Herespont lac Malta three hours
before the Eaxine, but the latter vessel reached Gibral-
tar thirty hours in advance of her screw competitor.
The Hellespont left Gibraltar for England a few hours
before the Euxine.

To-day the Euxine spoke the brig Clutha, bound to
Antigua, off the Start.
The following is the distribution if the British and
fore'gn ships of war in the Mediterranean at the latest
dates:—

In Malta Harbour—Ceylon, receiving ship, bearing
the flag of Rear-Admiral Edward Harvey, Superinten-
dent of Malta Dock-yard, and second in command;
Racer, 12, Captain C. Beddoes; Volage, 6 (survey-ship),
Csptain Thomas Graves; Porcupine, Lieutenant E. F.
Roberts; Sharpshooter, Lieutenant-Commander Bailey;
Oberon (laid up), troop-ship; Waverley, Captain J.
Morgan; Locust, in ordinary.
At Leghorn—Spitqre, Lieutenant Gardiner.
At Cephalonia—Frolic, 16, Captain N. Vunsittart.
At Salonica—Research, survey-tender to Volage,
Lieutenant Lord John Browne.
At Smyrna —None.
bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker, Bart.,
G.AC.t Al°
P.,tel.ne9 Commander-in-Chief(eiru')—glleen.ll6, Captain C. Wise,
; Caledonia, 120,
Captain T. W. Carter ; Howe, 120, Captain Sir J.
Stirling, Knt. ,• Bellerophon, 7s, Captain R. L.
Baynes; Powerful, 84, Captain the Hon. R. S. Dundas;
Vengeance, 84, Captain Sir 11. M. Blackwood; Fire-
brand steam-frigate, Captain T. O. Knox ; Bulldog,
Commander Key ; 'Rosamond, Commander Foote;
and Ardent, Lieutenant Nowell, steam-sloops; Gauges,
84, Captain H. Smith ; Spiteful steam-corvette, Com-
mander J. Carmicl.a. ; Odin, the Lion. F. Pelham; and
Dragon, Captain W. 11. Hall, steam-frigates ; and
Auxiliary, surveying tender to Volage, Mate Comman-
der J. H. Gover.

At Constantinople—Tartarus steam-vessel, Com-
mander Sir G. Webster.

At Tangiers— Crroviler, steamer, Commander Sod
daft,

MAIL STEAM-PACKETS.

At Malta—Merlin, Lieut neut J. H. Turner; Triton,
Lieutenant Glinn.
En route from Malta to Marseilles—Medina, Litute•
nant A. Darby.
En rout from Marseilles to Malta—None.
En route from the lonian Islands and Greece to Malta
—Antelope, Lieutoaant F. Smyth.
UNITED STATES SQUADRON.
At Baia—lndependence
_frigate, bearing the flag of
Commodore Charles W. Morgan.
At Naples—St. Lawrence, Captain Paulding; Mis-
sissipi steam-frigate, Captain Long,, to leave fur
Spercia.
At Genoa—Constitution frigate, Captain Conover.
At Spezzis—Jamestown corvette, Captain S. Mercer.
At Messina—Cumberland.

CABINET COUNCIL.—CIBIS DAY.)—The Ministers
assembled in Council this afternoon at the Foreign-
office. There 'were present the Marquis of Lans-
downe, who arrived in town this morning from a vi,it
to the Queen at Windsor C.;:stle, Lord John Russell,
the Earl of Minto, the Earl cf. Carlisle, Viscount
Palmerston, Earl Grew, Sir George Grey, the Mar-
quis of C!anricarde,- Sir John C. Ifobhouse, Mr.
Labouchere, and Mr. Fox Maule. Sir CharlEs Wuod
was absent through ind;sposition.

C.ITUEDRAL ItEroam.—We are glad to find that
the subscription for the support of the Rev. Mr. Whistcm
g
in the arduous struggle in which ho is engaged on behalf
of Cuthed, al Schools aain
;t the misappropriation of
the funds by deans and chapters, is progressing favour-
ably. It already amounts itz) upwards of 500 i. In the
list we find the names of the most respectable inhabi-
tants of Rochester, and other towns of Kent, including
S. Finnis, E;:q., Mayor cf Dover ; M. Forster. Eaq ,
M. 1); J. S. W. E. Dray, Esq., M.P.; Sir John M. rid-
den ; the lligh Sheriff of Cambridgeshire; William
Evans, Eq., M.P; the Right Hon. Elward Strutt ; the
High Sheriff of Derbyshire ; M. P. Bass, Esq. M p.;
and many clergy of the
_established church.— Kent
Herald.