THE AFFAIRS OF ITALY.

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 203, 10 May 1848, Page 3

THE AFFAIRS OF ITALY.

Foreign Intfli-igencc. —The Pan's papers nrc occupied with reports of Reform banquets, and proli\ cs*n\& on the conduct of France :n the aftair- ot the Jbwiss cantons. From Spain we have not a sin»lc item of interest. In Portugal the elections hnve tei mm .tjd ii? favor of the Costa Culira party. A change oi ministiy may therefore be looked for. This fine poitiou of the Peninsula, appears to be in a most diM>u;ani/.ed state. The dispute in Italy between the Duke ot Tuscany snd the Duke of Modeua, has been amicably auanged thiousjli the intervention of the Pope and the Kins of Sardinia. The light of the Duke ot Modena to Fivizzano was conceded, but ihe manner in which lie took possession of the city was strongly condemned. The Auyslmrgh Gazette of the -2nd Instant, states that the French Ambassador at Rome had i;iven un audience to Lord Miii'o, to which he had invited the members of the new Coutitil ot State. llis LoriUhip had been received by the Pope at a private audience. A letter from I'rnguo in the Cologne Gazette, states that an order had been received to place all the troops of Bohemia immediately on a war-footing. This order had excited a gr<>at sensation. It was supposed that a body of troops would be marched to the Archduchy of Austria, to take the place of those who have been sent to the frontier of Italy.—Bell's Messenger, Dec. 18.

(From the Times, Dec 31.) Letters from Rome of the 18th instant, state that the liberal and retrogade paities were respectively making desperate efforts to secure the support of the Pope, and that Loid Minto had taken a decided part in favour of the former, and nearly succeeded in persuading his holiness that the war in Switzerland had been diiectcd, not against the Catholic religion, but against the Jesuits. The celebrated preacher Father Ventura himself, had an inteiviow with the pope on the lGth, at which he did not hesitate to condemn the marked predilection his Holiness had lately evinced towaids that religious oidcr, and obscivcd, that if he wished to serve the Jesuits, he should not do so ostensibly, because his alliance with them would destroy his cause and that of Catholicism, by involving both in the unpopularity attached to that older. The Pope, who is under the influence ot his new confessor, cut the convocation short by requesting Father Ventura to drop the subject. Lord Minto was still at Rome, vainly cndeavouiing to pievail on the holy Pontiff to revoke the bull against the Irish colleges, not from any objection on the part of his Holiness, but fiom the unconquerable opposition of the sacjed conclave. The attempt of his lordship to establish diplomatic relations between England and Rome appeals to have been equally unsuccessful. The Pontifical Government was well disposed to agree to the proposition, but on condition that a nuncio should be accicditcd in London. To this Lord Minto objected, in the name of his Government, which would only consent to receive a lay repicsentative. Monsignor Coiboli Bossi was to be elevated to the dignity of Cardinal, and would, in all probability, succeed Cardinal Ferretti in the post of Secretary of State. Our private letters from Naples of the 18th instant, announce the arrest of Don Camillo Caraccolo and the ])ukc d'Albauetto, for having joined in the popular demonstration of the 15th instant. Other rather serioi s indications of Liberalism are mentioned in these lettcis, the details of which we are compelled to hold over. Lctt ars from Genoa of the 23rd instant, announce an insuircctionniy movement in Sicily. It is staled that 17,000 armed peasants had descended fiom the mountains, and entered Palermo, and that the garrison had in consequence retreated from the city into the citadel.