The Sun. — 1853-08-27 (London, England)

ITALY.  The provincial. Council of Turin opened its session on the 22d. ' One of its first acts was to declare its readiness to contribute towards the construction of the new road to Switzerland by the defile of the Menouve.  The Genoa Gazette, of the 23d inst., announces that the day before a mob, composed principally of women, traversed the streets of Genoa vociferating against the cornsellers and bakers, whom they reproached with being the cause of the high price of bread. Their numbers increasing, and acts of violence having been committed against several per3011S on the square of Ponticello, the authorities called out the Carabineers, the police, and two companies of infantry, and dispersed the multitude. On the 23d Genoa was perfectly tranquil. Accounts from La Spezzia state that the inhabitants and the refugees had testified to the Commander of the corvette St. Louis, M. Ingraham, their sympathy for his honourable conduct at Smyrna. A number of boats surrounded the ship and gave him a serenade. Two persons then went on board and presented him an address. The police, however, had thought proper to summon before them and admonish some of the individuals who made the demonstration. A letter from Rome, of the 20th, in the Univers, says :—" The Giornale di Roma has spoken of the arrest of a certain number of the emissaries of secret societies. It appears that on the day of the fête of the Assumption, the place of concealment of the principal members of the band was discovered, when they were arrested and their papers were seized. It is said that they intended to take advantage of the fetes in the evening in honour of the Emperor of the French givenby the Frenckgarrison and residents, to excite a commotion, assassinate as many soldiers and officers as they should find in an isolated state, murder some priests and dignitaries of the Church and of the Government, and plunder the coffers of the State and those of private individuals. But this plan was baffled the night preceding the fête. About forty conspirators are at present in the hands of justice. Most of them are persons who were employed under the Mazzinian Republic in 1849, and afterwards forced to leave Rome, but who contrived to get back there some weeks ago. They left Genoa with English or Piedmontese passports, and, landing between Civita-Veechia and Fiumicino, got into the city by means of the intelligence kept up by the refugees of London and Turin, and concealed themselves with their accomplices. It is said that at their head is Salfi, one of the members of the Republican triumvirate. Even Mazzini has been named, but men of that importance do not venture to put themselves in actual danger, and we cannot consequently believe in the truth of this rumour. We are of opinion that the real head of the expedition was a certain advocate named Petroni, well known at Rome for his participation in the revolution and crimes of 1848, and of whom all traces had been lost since 1849. A certain aumber of manifestoes in manuscript, which were to have been posted up on the walls of Rome at the moment •of the plot exploding, and a great quantity of revolutionary proclamations, were found in his drawers."