Italy. June 24, 1848
Italy.
* Turin, June 15. To Herr Moritz Wagner, in No. 161 of the *Augsburger Allgemeine*, *la Concordia* replies in the following manner:
“To Herr Wagner we wish to say only a couple of words. With the slightest effort he could convince himself – should he feel the inclination to look the naked truth in the face – that the Austrian state treasury drew the enormous sum of 40 million annual net revenue from Lombardy; that all that money flowed into the deep vortex of Vienna; that the old and unchangeable debt of the Lombardo-Venetian
*Monte* was, contrary to all divine and human law, knavishly saddled with Austrian debt; that therefore Lombardy neither can nor may bear any part of the monstrous state debt, that fruit of the ‘wise’ Austrian administration. But if the intention were absolutely to force upon exhausted Northern Italy a large part of that debt, which is completely alien to it: we should answer with Yes! but add that that large part has long since been paid. Meanwhile,
let Signor Wagner be given to understand that Venice and the Venetian provinces, like Lombardy and Piedmont, will carry through their freedom, or Lombardy and Piedmont will sooner go completely to ruin.”
† Turin, June 16. Yesterday the union of Lombardy with Piedmont was carried out. The Minister Vincenzo Ricci presented the Chamber of Deputies with the solemn treaty drawn up for this purpose by the provisional government at Milan and the Sardinian ministry. At the same time he delivered a short speech in which every word bore witness to the deepest enthusiasm for the unity and freedom of Italy.
* Milan, June 12. News is arriving here that Count Montecuculi, the former Austrian minister, was taken prisoner by the National Guard yesterday evening at Campo Dol-

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cino and carried off to Milan.
§ Milan, June 14. Despatches from headquarters lead to the conjecture that Charles Albert intends immediately to attack Verona, although it is asserted that Radetzky has entered that city with 10,000 men. The attack is said to commence today.
** Rome, June 12. In today’s sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, after lengthy debates, the credentials of all the 52 members present were recognised as valid. Thereupon Advocate Sereni was elected president with 31 votes.
* Naples, June 8. The new law on the reorganisation of the National Guard has appeared. We shall return to it tomorrow.
† Palermo, June 10. During yesterday’s sitting of the municipal chamber, the Minister for Foreign Affairs gave notice that he had received despatches from London informing him that England was inclined to recognise the independence of Sicily, provided it chose itself a king from the circle of Italian princes. He had likewise received the most friendly despatches from Paris.
Venice, June 13. I consider it important enough to report the following to you without delay. Already earlier, after it was thought that the hope of a satisfactory mediation on the part of the German Parliament had to be abandoned, the government here is said to have turned to the French Republic to ask for its intervention. At this moment (2 o’clock in the afternoon), addresses posted up in all the parishes are being covered with signatures for the same purpose. You see from this that the intention is to defend oneself long and to the uttermost, even as all around the fortresses are furnished with everything and well armed. Every moment new troops (seemingly imbued with determination) are marching in. The news of the surrender of Padua and Vicenza is causing growing exasperation with every moment and producing the opposite effect from what the Austrians may expect. (A. A. Z.)
Rome, June 9. The *Pallade* makes pointed remarks about the fact that on the list of ecclesiastical estates, upon which the newly raised state debt of two and a half million is mortgaged, there is not one of the properties belonging to the Jesuits. The popular train of thought, of course, does not stop there, but moves forward and sideways, and would like to lay hands not only on these fine possessions but also on all those which, as this paper strongly suspects, have been fictitiously alienated by the Society of Jesus for a year and a day.