ITALY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 190, 10 May 1860, Page 3

ITALY.

A proclamation of the Governor of Venice, announces that Yenetia is placed under martial law. The state of the whole province is becoming worse from day to day. Count Bessingen, the Austrian governor.iu Venice, lately addressed the authorities of: Venice as follows : Gentlemen, —Do not indulge in the illusions of the revolutionists. His Majesty, with whom I have recently had the honour of conversing, assured me “that Venetia should never be ceded, nor sold, nor separated in any way from the A ustrian monarchy, and should never be detached from the- Austrian empire so long as a musket remained to defend it.”

The emigration westwards from Venetia has been recently revived on a larger scale than ever before, not only from the places near the frontier, but likewise from the farthest points on the Adriatic where the Italian tongue is spoken. • ■ ■ : ' Great military preparations are going forward in Austrian Italy. Four new forts are being constructed round Peschiera, where a, large hospital has been established. Sixtyfour rifled cannon of large calibre lately arrived at Mantua and have been placed in the fortresses of the Quadrilateral, lie avy rifled, bronze cannon have been substituted for the cast cannon.

In the course of one day seven officers were attacked and wounded at Verona by the people. The cavalry wero ordered to clear, the streets.

Attempts have been made to hoist thetricolored flag at Chioggia, Portosecco, and, Balestrina.

Rome has been more than once on the point, of witnessing a. great popular outbreak during the last two or three weeks. Several demonstrations of the feeling which is at work have been of the most violentdescription; and the French general, who is in Rome for the preservation of order, has found it no easy task to suppress open and loud manifestations of the general hatred of the Papal rule. A ministerial crisis has lately taken place in Naples. The Filangieri Cabinet has been displaced by another, the precise character of which it is impossible to define. Several insurrectionary movements which have occurred in Naples and Sicily appear to have impressed the authorities with an acute sense of danger ; and a reign of terror has become the order of the day.

SPAIN.

Spain and Morocco—Capture of Tetuan. The Spaniards have captured Tetuan, and Madrid is in ectasies. Pursuing the safe line of action which he initiated at Ceuta nearly three months ago, Marshal O’Donnell secured his communications with the sea on his arri* val in front of Tetuan. His army, weakened by the loss of 10,000 men, was reinforced by a fresh division, and the Spanish navy brought; him provisions, stores, and a siege train,, i lie Moorish camp lay over against Tetuan, There were but comparatively few Moors, within it, but the brother of the emperor was there to command. On the 4th of February, all his preparations completed, O’Donnell attacked the camp, and powerfully aided by artillery, drove out the Moors, with a loss to himself of some 900 men. The effect of this victory was the surrender of Tetuan. Thus, in little short of three months, the Spaniards have fortified the approaches of Ceuta, marched from that place to 'letuau, and lost nearly a third of the army lauded in Africa. A despatch from Madrid says that the Spanish cabinet will listen to no proposals of peace from Morocco until Tangier has been taken, against which place military operation* are to commence immediately.