CENTRAL ITALY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 202, 2 August 1860, Page 4

CENTRAL ITALY.

Doubts are entertained as to the likelihood of a Congress being held to settle the Savoy question.

The Turin Gazette states, that the portion of the national debt which the French government will have to make good to Sardinia as the share of Savoy and Nice, will be 150 millions of francs (£6,000,000 sterling), which France engages to pay in cash at short dates. The parliament of the new kingdom of Upper and Central Italy is composed of 162 senators and 315 deputies. The Espero of Turin states that Russia intends giving up its* establishment at Villafranca, and has applied to the Sardinian government for some place near the Gulf of La Spezia instead. The Florence correspondent of the Times gives some interesting statistics of the population of the new Regno Itaiico united under the sceptre of King Yictor Emmanuel The Grand Duchy of Tuscany covers a surface of 22,345 square kilometres, and its population in 1859 was 1,807,000 souls. The population of the principal towns is—Florence, 114,000; Leghorn, about 80,000; Sienna, 21,000; Lucca, 22,000; Pisa, 25,U00. The revenue in 1859 was 39,860 lire (the lira equal to 84c. French); the public debt in 1851, 90,000 lire. The army was 20,000 men, with 2000 gendarmes. The merehaui shipping employed 959 vessels, with 59,000 tons.

T\. ie area of the Duchy of Parma is 5872 square kilometres, inhabited by 507,000 souls. The city of Parma numbers 41,000 inhabitants; Piacenza, 29,000. The revenue in 1859 was 9,500,000 francs; the army, on the peace footing, 4000. Modena has a surface of 6036 square kilometres and a population of 605,194 souls. The capital boasts of 32,000 inhabitants; lleggio, 19,000. The revenue-in 1851 was nearly 8,500,000 f.; the debt, 12,000,0001'; the army, 5000 men.

Tiie lour Legations, constituting the main weahh of the Pupal dominions, have a population of 1,014,105 souls. Bologna numbers 74,421 inhabitants. Altogether the populalion of Central Italy amounts to 3,084,105 souls, which, added to the Sardo-Lomhardian stale of 7,977,547, makes a whole of 11,911,652. Deduction being made for Savoy and .Nice, the population would remain 11,246,618, embracing by far the soundest, wealthiest-, and most thriving division of the Italian peninsula. The military lorces of the new Italian stales are to be divided into lour corps d'annee. 7'lie first, called the corps of the iViincio and Lombardy, and commanded by General de la Marmora, will have its head quarters for the present at "Milan. This army will be charged with covering Lombardy. The second, the corps of Etrura, will take up its position" in Tuscany, under the commaud of General Durando, with his head quarters at Sienna. The third, the corps of iEmilia, will uecupy the Duchies of Parma and Modena and Ilomagna, under the command of General Cialdinl, with its head-quarlers at Modena. ’And the fourth, the corps of the Po and 7’icino, will be commanded by General Mollard, with its headquarters at Casale. The four corps d'armee were to he constituted by the Ist April. Each will be composed of three divisions of infantry, one of cavalry, and the usual proportion of artillery, forming a forced 150,000 men.