The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-06 00:00:00

ITAL

An edict of the Pro-Secretary of State, dated
Rome, 22d ult., contains a law, comprising four
chaptErs and 98 paragraphs, regulating the govern-
ment of the provinces and the provincial administrae
tion. By this law, the territory of the State is divided
into five parts:-Ist, Rome and is districts, known by
the name of 1.4.1 COMMA ; 211 y, the legations of Bo-
logna, Ferrara, Forli, and Ravenna; 3rlly, those of
Urbino, Pesaro, Macerata, Loreto, Ancona, Fermo,
Ascoli, and Camerino ; 4ttkly, those of Perugia,
Spoleto, and Rieti ; 544, Velletri, Frosi-
none, and l3enevento. Each division is to be governed
by a Cardinal Legate, who is in every respect the
vicegerent of the Sovereign, his alter ego ; he is to
maintain public order by every effiAtut measure both
of high and low police. His residence is to be fixed
by the HOLY FATHER; he is named by a brief, in
which the duration of his office is fixed. He has lur
councillors named by the SOVEREIGN, and forming
the Council of Legation, a ,!eeretary, a director of
police, and other officers. The provinces remain as
they were hitherto ; they are governed by delegates
named by a Papal brief, and subject to the authority
of the Cardinal Legate, under whom they govern
and administer the laws. E.cil delegate has four
councillors, named by the POPE, and forming the
Council of Delegation. The governments remain as
they were; the governors are under the control of the
delegates, and exercise as before judicial power in
civil and criminal cases, but have no administrative
power. The provincial administration is regulated
by a provincial council, and conducted by an adminis-
trative commission. The provincial councillors are
named by the SovxstEiGN from a list of three names
proposed by the municipal councils, after this list
has been purified, first by the delegate, and next by
the legate. The provincial council can only discuss
matters of administration ; it it discusses any other
subject its sitting is considered as an illegal riotous
meeting, and punished as such upon the members.
The HOLY FATHER may dissolve the provincial council
at pleasure.

In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies of Turin
of the 29. h ult., Signor SIOTTO PIATOR addressed a
question to Ministers on the state of the island of
Sardinia, and the recent disturbances that had taken
place there. The Ministers of War and of Agricul-
ture and Commerce answered that the last informa-
tion received from that quarter was satisfactory,
that matters were not so bad as had heen repre-
sented by the Hon. Deputy, that the Government
knew the wants of SArdinia, and would take prompt
measures to satisfy them ; that in the meantime the
number of troops in the island had been raised to
4,000 men, that the tireilleurs and light-horse had
been increased, and that 20 commissaries of police had
been sent there with instructions to the Advocates-
Royal to take immediate and severe measures for the
punishment of the offenders. These explanations
were declAred sati,factory by the inamen,•e majority of
the Cumber, which afterwards proceeded to the elec-
tion of a new vice- president, in consequence of the
resignation of Signor DEMARCIII. Advocate Botizo
obtained the mjerity of votes.
The Risorgimento of Turin quotes letters from its
correspondent at Rome of the 24hh ult., mentioning
a rumour of disturbances which were said to bare
taken place at Perugia after the departure of the Aus-
trian troops.

AMERICAN NEWS.

SOUTHAMPfON, THURSDAY MIDNIGHT.

The United States mail steamer Wallington, Cap-
tain Roy', arrived off Cowes at e'ght o' clock this
evening, and has sent her mails for England and
France to this port. She will proceed to Bremen at
daylight.
he Washington left New York at 3 P at. on the
20th ult., three hours before the British and North
American mail steamer Africa. Her intelligence is
therefore anticipated by that %e6sel. She brings about
forty-five passengers, and specie value 5,000 dolls ,
for Havre. She has on freight for Bremen, GO tons
tobacco, 20 tons skins and furs, 35'tors whalebone,
500 packages sundry merchandise, and 8 packages
specie, value 5,600 dolls.

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During the voyage the Washington has experienced
very heavy gales from the southward. On the 21st
tilt., 11.45, A.m., she spoke the Royal Mail steamer
Niagara, bound to New York, Sandy Hook hearing
W. 1 W., 184 miles distant, and on the Ist Dec., in
lat 49.31 N., long. 25.10, the British barque Esc
London, bound to the eastward.
The Washington proceeds on her voyage to Bremen
at day break.

THE FOG.—During the whole of this morning the
metropolis has been enveloped in a thick fog, and in all the
shops and counting-houses gas has been lighted all the morn-
ing. Several accidents have occurred. and the fog is increas-
ing in density every hour.

THE NORTH AMERICAN AND UNITED STATES'
Marns.—Notice was issued yesterday at the General Post-
office that the following mails for British North America,
Bermuda, and the United States, will be made up during the
current month :—This evening, the 6th inst., to New York
direct, by the British mail steam-packet, via Liverpool ; on
the evening of the 13th inst, by the United States' packet,
ditto; on the morning of the 20th inst., by ditto, via South-
ampton ; on the evening of the 20th inst.. by the British
packet, via Liverpool, Halifax, and Boston ; and on -he even-
ing of the 27th inst., to New York direct, via Liverpool, by
the United States' packet. Next packets due at Liverpool
on the 1 lth inst., from Boston; on the 19th instant, from
New York; and on the ssth inst., from Boston. For the
Mediterranean, Egypt, India, &c.:—To-morrow evening, the
7th inst., and the 24th inst., by the fortnightly overland
closed mails, viallarseilles. Nests mail due on the 23d inst.,
and on the morning of the 20th inst., via Southampton ;
next packet due on the 28th. Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon. Cadiz,
7th, 17th.
on the 7th, 16th,
17th. and '27th inst.,
ab3n.d
their Gibraltar,
packets on the
trolmn
Troiuntgiis
mo f the
pto 7
n,
d
and ..c.th inst. For the British and foreign colonies in the
West Indies. &c , on the morning of the 17th inst., via South-
ampton ; next packet due on the 20th inst.
THE MAIL PACKETS —The Br,z-lian and Buenos
Ayres mails, which leave Falmouth to-day, in her Majesty's
brig Seagull, are, there is every reason to believe, the last
mails that will be sent fr m Falmouth. The next mail for
the Brazils will, it is expected, be made up in the General
Post-office on the morning of the 9th of January, and will be
conveyed from Southampton by the Royal West, India Mail
Steam-packet G.mpany's steamer Teviot. The steamer
Severn is intended, at present, to take out the Brazilian mails
on the 9th of February. Her Majesty's brig Crane will
bring home the Brazilian mail this month; her Majesty's
brig Linnet in January; her Majesty's brig Petrel in Febru-
ary; and on the 12th March the return of the Teviot will be
expected, and the first homeward mail by the West India
Company's steamers will be due. After that period Fal-
mouth, which for a long series of years was the principal
mail-packet station in the country, will cease to be so for a
single vessel. This event will consummate the triumph of
steam navigation, for steamers will then have completely su-
perseded sailing vessels in the mail-packet service.
St RIOUS ACCIDENT Ti) B. B. WILLIAMS, ESQ
OF BUSCOT PARK, IN THE COUNTY OF BERKS.—The lovers
of the chase in particular will be sorry to hear of an accident
which occurred to Mr. Williams on Monday last. Since Mr.
Williams has taken the mansion, domain, and far-famed fox
covers of Buscot, he has preserved to such an extent that, at
the last meeting of the Old Berkshire hounds, no less than
ten foxes were driven out of one of the I trge covers, and dis-
persed over the adjacent country. Mr. Williams, who very
rarely joins the hounds, was induced to do so on Monday last,
and had taken several fences in pretty good style; but, on
coming to a high hedge, wi:h a ditch on the other side, and
riding with very long stirrups, his feet were thrown out, and
before he could get them replaced another wide ditch heel to
be crossed, but as he could not regain his seat he was thrown
off, and in falling received a violent blow from the hind hoof
of the horse, which rendered him insensible. His horse fol -
lowed the hounds; but being well known, Mr. Gould, of
Thrupp, very kindly came back in search of the rider, whom
he found in a field, lying prostrate and unable to stand. lie
was with great difficulty removed to Buscot Park. Mr.
Blaskill, surgeon, of Farringdon, was fortunately on the
spot, and accompanied Mr. Williams home, rendering every
possible service in his power.
The Earl FitzwillEm and the Ladies Wvntworth
Fitzwilliam arrived at Milton Park, near Peterborough, at
the close of Jast.week. from. Wentworth House, Yorkshire,
where the Noble Earl and family are expected to reside until
the end or January.