Italy. 14 September 1848
Italy.
* The report in our issue of yesterday concerning a new uprising in Leghorn is confirmed. The fight was long and fierce.
The firing began in the evening at 9 o’clock on the 2nd of September and
lasted until the morning of the following day. The artillery used only case-shot. It
had succeeded in seizing two important streets. It could not hold them, however, owing to the fire from the houses and roofs, which grew steadily worse. The cavalry
fared similarly. The greater part of the line troops went over after a two-hour
fight. What has become of the extraordinary government commissioner
Cipriani nobody knows. Some say he fled to the citadel with the troops that remained loyal, others that he escaped on to a French steamer. The people are besieging the citadel.

According to correspondence from Naples, Ferdinand’s troops
are said to have effected their landing in the vicinity of Messina, but to have been driven back by the
Sicilians and forced to re-embark. A bomb sent by the Neapolitan squadron struck an
English ship and killed a sailor. The Sicilian government has, through a deputy, requested the assistance of the English admiral.

The Austro-Jesuit party in Rome has discovered a new means of winning the people for its purposes. It assures them in its
journals and placards that the liberals want to preach and introduce Protestantism.
The Pope recently – in his latest allocution – voiced the same accusation. The organs of the liberal party: “Il Contemporaneo” and “L’Epoca” protest against this perfidy and set out—