The Sun. — 1858-08-24 (London, England)

ITALY.  425 650  TURIN, AUG. 20.  Polities for the moment are enjoying their doke far .niente. Some of the Ministers of the King are on furlough. Signor Deforeeta, the Minister of Justice, is gone to spend a few days at Nice, his native town. Gen. Lamarmora, the Minister of War, is  ,DA:  about to make a tour to Spezia and other maritime places. Count Cavour goes often to see the King at Sommariva Perno, the summer seat of his Majesty. Sir Charles Eastlake was here the other day en route from Venice home. English travellers are not so numerous this year in Italy as they were formerly, and especially as they were in the last two years.  The sad adventure which happened some time ago to that unfortunate Jewish family at Bologna (Mortara), deprived by order of the Holy Office of a young son, six years old, has produced everywhere in Italy a feeling of indignation. The Liberal press of this country immediately took up the cause of the Bolognese family, but no man of sense can expect any favourable result from the exertions of the Sardinian free writers. It is too well known that the Court of Rome is not in the habit of listening to the outcry of public opinion, and there is no doubt that she—if not compelled—will neither give way to the prayers of the poor family nor to the remonstrances of the press. It is curious to observe that the clerical papers here which have recently so warmly espoused the cause of the six Swedish females who embraced Catholicism, and were in consequence condemned by the criminal court of Stockholm to banishment from their country, and have eTen gone so far as to open a subscription in their favoir, should not have raised a single voice in behalf of the Mortara family. These pious writers seem to believe that the principles of religious toleration are only to be applied when their peculiar tenets are concerned. I am informed that 'he Jews residing in this capital have made an aplication to Count Cavour in order to obtain the weight of the influence of the Sardinian Government to rescue the child from the grasp of the Holy Office ; but their application, which met of course with sympathy, could elicit no further support. And this must be evident, for as this country is actually under the displeasure of the Popish Government, and the Sardinian Ministers are well known to be the friends and supporters of enlightened religious toleration, the cause would be hopeless in their bands, and only tend to rouse the worst passions against the victims of the Roman Inquisition. It remains now, therefore, to be seen how far the public opinion of the civilised world will endure such a violation of the laws both of nature and reason, and whether it will be borne, in the nineteenth century, that such an outrage to the rights of humanity should be suffered to pass without redress and with impunity. The Israelite community in every part of Italy have got up addresses to the governments and to their co-religionists in Paris and London, and if sympathies are so strong here in their behalf from all classes and all persuasions, what will they not be in those emporiums of civilisation ? The last atrocious murder committed at Locarno (Switzerland), through the agency of the Mazzinian sect, has produced here a general feeling of horror and of indignation which I need not describe. Several arrests have been made by the Sardinian police, but up to this moment the assassin appears to have escaped. The victim, whose name is Parodi, although grievously wounded, appears to be in a better state now than was expected, and the doctors begin to hope that he will recover.  Count Giulio Gropello, the Sardinian Charge d'Affaires at Naples, has just passed through Turin on his way to Munich, where he is going to marry the daughter of a distinguished Bavarian diplomatist. The absence of Count Gropello from Naples will not be long.  THE lONIAN