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

ITALY

An edict of the Pro-Secretary of State, dated
Rome, 224 ult., contains a law, comprising four
chapters and 98 paragraphs, regulating the govern-
intnt of the provinces and the provincial atiministra•
tion. By this -law, the territory of the State i 4 divided
into five parts:-Ist, Rome and its districts, know n by
the name of La C tnarca ; 2.11 y, the legwions of Bo-
logna, Ferrara, Forli, and Ravenna; 311 y, those of
Urbino, Pesaro, Macerata. Loreto, Ancona, Ferraro,
A,coli, and Camerino; elt.tAy, those of Perugia,
Spekto, and Rieti ; 5 hiy, Velletri, Frosi-
none, and Benevento. Each division is to be.- governed
by a Carditid Legate, who is in every respect the
vicegerent of the Sovereign, his alter ego; he is to
maintain public order by every efficient measure both
of high and low police. His residence is to he fixed
by the HOLY FATHER ; he is named by a brief, in
which the duration of his office is fixed. He has f ur
councillors named by the SOVEREIGN, au(' forming
the Council of Legation, a reuretary, 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. Etch 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 11,.ve no administrative
power. .1 he provincial administration is regulated
by a provincial council, and conducted by an adminis-
trative commission. The provincial councillors are
named by the S•WEREIGN from a list of three names
propo,ed by the municipal councils, after this list
has been purified, first by the delegate, and to-xt by
the legate. The, provincial council can only di,cuss
matters of administration ; if 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 PINTOR 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 been 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 raked to
4,000 men, that the tirailleurs 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
putd.hment of the offenders. These explanations
were declared satisfactory by the imrnen'e majority of
the Cnamber, which afterwards proceeded to the elec-
tion of a new vice-president, in consequence of the
resignation of Signor DEMARCHI. Advocate Bowan
obtained the majority of votes.
The Risorgimento of Turin quotes letters from its
correspondent at Rome of the 24,h ult., mentioning
a rumour of disturbances which were said to have
taken place at Perugia after the departure of the Aus-
trian troops.

AMERICAN NE WS.

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MIDNIGHT.

The United States mail steamer Washington, Cao-
tain Roy d, arrived off Cowes at e-gtit o' clock this
evening, and has sent her mails for ,England and
France to this port. She will proceed to Bremen at
daylight.
IL he Washington left New York at 3 p tit. on the
20th ult., three houre) before the British and North
American mail steamer Africa. Her inteliiwune is
therefore anticipated by that vessel. She brings about
forty-five passengers, and specie value 5,000 d.,118 ,
for Havre. She ha on freight for Bre men, 60 tons
tohacco, 20 tons skins and tors, 35 tuns whalebone,
500 packages sundry merchandise, and 8 packages
specie, value 5.600 dolls.

During the voy age the Washington has experienced
very heavy gales from the southward. On the 211
ult., 11.45, A.M., she spoke the Royal Mail steamer
Niagara, bound to New York, Sandy Hook hearing
W. VV, 184 miles distant, and on the Ist Dec., in
lat 49.31 N., long. 25.10, the British brogue Elm.
London, bound to the eastward.
The Washington proceeds on her voyage to Bremen
at da) break.

THE FOG.—During the whole of this morning the
metropolis
%d i.a
counting-housesr hasl
d nenvelopedhavgin a thick fog, and in all the
p
has been lighted all the morn-
il as
occurred ecurred and the log is increas-
smihg eot.rsa sleachceieents
increas-
ing in density every hour.

NORTH AMERICAN AND UNITED STATES'
MAlLS.—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 steatn.packet, via Liverpool; on
the evening of the 13th inst, by the United States' packet,
eitto; 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 the even-
ing of the 27th inst., to New York direct, via Liverpool, by
the
oh n
t instant,tie23d
in from
st.,
ti overland
the United States' packet. Next packets due at Liverpool
on
New the
York;l
l thand n the2sth
inst., fronto Boston; on
ins!.,
from Boston. For Fo rthe
Mediterranean, Egypt, India, &c.:—To-morrow evening, the
cilt(h)seinismt.,ailasr
viatshleart4itihiesinstN., byNext
m
the fortnightly
due 9t
for
and on the morning of the 20th inst., via Southampton;
next packet due on the 28th. Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon. Cadiz,
and Gibraltar, on the mornings of the 7th,l7th, and 27th inst.,
by their packets from Southampton, due on the 7th, 16th,
and ,1-111 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 Brazilian 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 Company'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 Peri el in Febru-
ary; and en 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 tOr a long series of years was the p
mail-packet station in the countr3, will cease to be so for a
single vessel. This event will consummate the triumph of
steam naVigaticu, for steamers will then have completely su-
perseded sailing vessels in the mail-packet service.
S,,RIOUS ACCIDENT Ti) B. B. WILLIAMS, ESQ
OF BL'SCOT PARE, IN THE COUNTY OF BERKS.—The lovers
of the cha'e 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 f, x
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 large covers, and dis-
persed over the adjacent country. Mr. Williams, yho very
rarely joins the hounds, was ilduced to do so on Alonday last,
and bad taken several fences in pretty good st 3 ; but, on
coming to a high hedge, wi•h a ditch on the o. her side, and
riding with very long stirrup, his feet were thr wn out, and
before he could get them replaced another wide ditch had 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
lie tomid in a field, 13 h)g prostrate and unable to stand. Ile
was with great difficulty removed to Buscot Park. Mr. I
Maskill, surgeon, of Fatrittgdon, was fortunately on the
spot, and accompanied Mr. Williams home, rendering every
possible service in his power:
11
The Eatl .m'and the Ladiei Wentworth
Fitzwilliam arrived at Milton Park; near Peterborough, at
the dos.° of last week, from Wentworth House, Yorkshire,
where the Noble Earl and family are expected tc. reside Until
the end of January.