ITALY.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XV, Issue XV, 7 January 1857, Page 4

ITALY.

The Parma Gazette announces that the state of siege .will be raised on the 10th instant. The uncondemued prisoners will be sent before the ordinary tribunals. A letter from Lucca, of the 3rd, mentions the condemnation of several persons by the Supreme Court of that town to various degrees of imprisonment for having formed part of a republican conspiracy. The chief members thereof, a schoolmaster named Martinelli, and a tailor named Peruzzi, have been condemned to sixty-three months' imprisonment in irons ; the others to much shorter periods of the same punishment. Letters from Tuscany state that subscriptions for the hundred guns of Alessandria had been opened at Leghorn, Florence, Pisa, Pistoja, and other towns, and that the Government had Hken no measures to prevent them. The reigning Grand Duke was said to have declared, in a private conversation with an influential personage of the liberal party, that he would abdicate, should the least disturbance occur in Tuscanv.

A letter from Trieste, iv the New Prussian Gazette, says : — Tho Port of Pola is about to be raised to the rank of a military port of the first order, and the Government has charged an American engineer with the works which will be required there. He is to receive an annual salary of 24,000 florins, and at the termination of the works, fixed at three years, a further sum of 50,000 florins. The Archduke Maximilian, who is at the head of the imperial navy, uses every effort to increase its strength and put it on a par with the Sardinian navy. A naval school is to be established at Fiume, the first stone of the building having been laid in March last. Austria, it is thus seen, will become the first naval power of Italy.

The municipality of Venice has received official notice that the Emperor and Empress of Austria will visit that city at the beginning of November.