Italy. No. 30, 30 June 1848 Neue Rheinische Zeitung. Naples, 15 June. The state of siege was lifted yesterday; the elections are being held today. How they will turn out requires, of course, neither explanation nor prophecy. The government is putting about the rumour that it intends to restore everything to the condition before 14 May; the relevant decrees are expected at any moment. Only, “it is too late!” The movement in the two Calabrias and the other provinces is too strong and too united for the knaveries and lies of a crowned executioner and his infamous accomplices ever to have any effect there. The provisional government in Cosenza enjoys the full confidence of the entire province; war preparations are under way, as in a country firmly constituted. Paola is fortified; Colonel Altimari is marching with 8,000 men against General Busacca, who is stationed in Maratea and is threatening Castrovillari. Twenty-two guns of various calibres have arrived from Messina. In Catanzaro the provisional government has armed the citizens, mobilised 3,000 National Guards from the district of Nicastro, had bridges demolished, roads destroyed, villages and market towns barricaded, and various observation camps set up. A price of 7,000 ducats has been put on Nunziante's head. Nunziante is positioned between Montelesne and Pizzo with 3,000 men, unable to stir. He tried, with an advance guard of 300 men, to take a bridgehead at Bevilacqua, but was beaten back by the citizens with a loss of 37 men. A girl, the sister of Tancredi de Riso, has set aside 4,000 ducats from her dowry for Nunziante's head. The number of royal troops in Calabria amounts to about 10,000; the insurgents' force at least to 30,000 men. The insurgents' war chest contains 90,000 scudi. According to reports received here, Potenza, Cilento and Lecce are also in insurrection. * Rome, 16 June. The Chamber of Deputies had indeed adjourned until Monday, but it was convened as early as this morning because of the reports arriving from Vicenza and the official communications from Durando. Great agitation prevails among the deputies. Durando's capitulation has made a painful impression on them, as on the whole people. The President emphasises the purpose of today's sitting: in the face of the extraordinary circumstances, corresponding measures must also be taken. Farini proposes two things: 1. that the war be carried on with the greatest eagerness; 2. that all the Swiss, who distinguished themselves so greatly in the defence of Vicenza, be granted Italian citizenship and that, moreover, recognition of their bravery be expressed to all the heroic defenders of the city. Sterbini makes four other motions, of which the second demands a vote of confidence for the ministry, the third the voting of 2 million scudi for the continuation of the war. Before the debate on this is opened, Orioli directs an interpellation to the ministry regarding the actual cause of the capitulation of Vicenza as well as of the recall of General Ferrari. The ministry replies on the first point, but in such a way that the matter is not yet entirely clear; on Ferrari it remains silent. Bonaparte demands that the minister also explain himself on this. The majority of the Chamber is in favour of Bonaparte's demand. Thereupon the Minister of War gives as the reason concerning Ferrari that disunity existed between the two leaders and disharmony in both corps; therefore the ministry had wished to hear an explanation from Ferrari's own lips; Orioli is not satisfied, finds the cause of the misfortunes in the poor choice of the higher officers and presses for a thorough investigation of all the circumstances connected with the capitulation. The ministry does not oppose this, likewise wishes an investigation. On the vote, however, Orioli's motion is rejected, thereupon, however, the above-mentioned motion of Farini is unanimously adopted. Sterbini now obtains the floor on his earlier motions. By somewhat modifying them in accordance with the debates that have just taken place and by referring to the reply of the Austrian Emperor to the Pope, emphasising the necessity that “our soldiers be present at every feat of arms in the Lombard plain and that this powerful moral and material aid must constantly stand by our Italian brothers,” the Chamber was so enthused that it unanimously adopted his proposal and thereby declared that the war would be carried on by the Roman side with all means and all the energy at the disposal of the Roman people, until the Austrians are driven out of the whole country. – Reports from Venice of 14 June show that the provisional government is doing everything to counteract the Austrian plans. It is said that the commandant of the important fort of Malghera has been arrested for secret correspondence with the Austrians, to whom he intended to betray the fort.