Committee of London. The Italia e Popolo was seized
at Genoa on the 5th of this month.

The daughter of the notorious popular leader
Ciceruacchio died at Rome of consumption on the 3rd, and
his wife is in a hopeless state from the same malady.
With respect to the fate of Ciceruacchio himself and his
sons, it is hitherto wrapped in the profoundest mystery;
but as no authentic accounts of their death, capture, or
emigration have ever been put forth, it is conjectured
that they are safely concealed in some part of the
Roman States.

The Austrian authorities in Lombardy have given a
fresh instance of their brutality. An English gentleman
was quietly sketching the picturesque Amphitheatre of
the old city of the Montagues and Capulets, when he
was accosted by an Austrian sentry, who commanded
him to desist. Upon declining to comply with this
military prohibition he was arrested and thrown into
prison, where he was detained for several days. After
his liberation, this martyr of the pencil was thrust
unceremoniously out of the city, and conducted by Austrian
gendarmes out of the territory, subjected to the mild
sway of Marshal Radetzky. The Augsburg Gazette says
that the Englishman called upon the commandant of
the fortress to apologise to him, but that this demand
was refused. He then applied to the Earl of Westmoreland,
at that moment at Venice, for redress.

Intelligence from Parma announces that the resolution
has been taken at Vienna to deprive the Duke of
Parma of the administration of his states, and to create
a regency, of which Ward is to be the head. The
motives for this extraordinary act have not yet been
assigned with any degree of distinctness by any source
of intelligence, public, or private. The present Duke,
a young man close upon 30, received the sovereignty of
Parma, Placentia, and the annexed states by virtue of
the abdication of his father, Duke of Lucca, in March,
1849. He is said to have left Parma, to defend himself
at Vienna, where it appears he is regarded as a minor,
although considerably older than the Emperor. That
his journey might not be anticipated, he set out secretly
and suddenly with two aides-de-camp, and when he
reached the frontier of his small territory he handed to
each a great despatch with an enormous seal, which
looked as if it contained matters of gravest import, but
only notified in the briefest terms his departure.

The elevation of Ward to the regency is more like one
of the turns of fortune under an Asiatic despotism than
anything that occurs in European affairs. Ward was a
Yorkshire groom. The late Duke of Lucca, when in
England, took him into his service, and, perceiving his
merit, promoted him through the several degrees of
command in his stables, to be head groom of the ducal
stud. Upon Ward's arrival in Italy with his master, it
was soon found that the intelligence which he displayed
in the management of the stables was applicable to a
variety of other departments. In fact the Duke had
such a high opinion of Ward's wisdom that he very
rarely omitted to consult him upon any question that he
was perplexed to decide; and the success, which never
failed to crown Ward's advice, gave him in the eyes of
the feeble descendant of; the Spanish Bourbons the
prestige of infallibility. The expenses of the stables
having been reduced to less than half under the administration,
while the Duke's horses were the envy of all
Italy, it struck the prince naturally enough that it
would be a good thing if the same economy could be
introduced into other departments. So Ward tried his
hand on one thing and the other, continually enlarging
his sphere of influence, until from household matters
he passed to those connected with the state. Ward,
now become the factotum of the Prince, won in the
disturbances which preceded the revolutionary year of
1848 a diplomatic dignity, and was despatched to
Florence upon a confidential mission of the highest
importance. He was deputed to deliver to the Grand
Duke the act of abdication of the Duke of Lucca. At
first the Grand Duke was doubtful whether he could
receive in a diplomatic capacity a messenger of whom he
had only heard in relation to the races of the Cascine,
where Ward had been in the habit of riding as a jockey.
But it soon appeared that the Lucchese envoy had in his
pocket a commission making him the viceroy of the
Duke's estates, which was to be acted upon in case the
Grand Duke made any difficulty, or even if he refused
to receive Ward as the ambassador of the states of
Parma at the capital of the Medicis. Soon after, in
1849, when the Duke of Lucca resigned his other states
to his son, Ward became the head-counsellor of this
hopeful prince, who has thus been able to follow out a
sporting bent under the best auspices, while he had a
minister whose shrewd sense was more than a match
for the first diplomatists in Italy. Ward was on one
occasion despatched to Vienna in a diplomatic capacity.
Schwarzenberg was astonished at his capacity; in fact,
the ci-devant Yorkshire stable boy was the only one of
the diplomatic body that could make head against the
impetuous counsels, or rather dictates, of Schwarzenberg;
and this was found highly useful by other
members of the diplomatic body. Among others,
Meyendorff, the Russian ambassador, cultivated him greatly.
An English gentleman, supping one night at the
Russian ambassador's, complimented him upon his
excellent ham. ''There's a member of our diplomatic corps
here," replied Meyendorff, "who supplies us all with
hams from Yorkshire, of which county he is a native."
Ward visited England. The broad dialect and homely
phrase betraying his origin through the profusion of
orders of all countries sparkling on his breast, he rarely
ventured to appear at evening soirées. Lord Palmerston
declared he was one of the most remarkable men he had
ever met with. Ward, through all his vicissitude, has
preserved an honest pride in his native country. He
does not conceal his humble origin. The portraits of
his parents, in their home-spun clothes, appear in his
splendid saloon of the prime minister of Parma.

Destructive fires occur daily in Constantinople. From
the 1st to the 6th of August, eleven great fires raged, the
city being on the first day on fire at five different places.
The Turks believe that incendiarism is instigated by the
Russians, in order to excite an insurrection, and so much
the more that several noted Greek desperados from the
Peninsula have been seen in Constantinople. There are
now three different parties in Turkey—the Sultan, the
army, and the reformers, led by Reschid Pacha, are the
first; the second is the conservative party of old Turkey,
with the Muftis and Ulemas, priests and lawyers, under
the guidance of the Sultan's brother; they enjoy now
the patronage of Russia, and denounce the Sultan so
openly for his reforms, that it became necessary to arrest
on the 4th three Turkish priests, who incited the people
to insurrection. The third party are the Greeks and
Armenians, all of them tools of Russia. The wealthy
Turks are frightened out of their wits; they firmly
believe in an outbreak towards the end of the month,
which would give a pretext to the Russians for an armed
interference, and many families leave town on account
of the apprehended crisis.

Intelligence has just arrived from Constantinople
that Ali Pasha is appointed Grand Vizier in place of
Reschid, who withdraws completely from affairs of the
state. Achmet Feshi also retires. It is believed that
Fuad Effendi will be appointed Minister for Foreign
Affairs.

Adrianople has been ravaged by a dreadful fire.
Above 700 houses, and several public buildings, have
been consumed.

A great earthquake has occurred at Erzeroum, in
Armenia. Three hundred buildings have been thrown
down, many lives have been lost, and most of the
storehouses of the city have been damaged.

A firman of the Porte has mitigated the criminal law
in Egypt. In consequence of the Sultan's aversion to
capital punishments, the penalty for political offences,
punishable by death under the Ottoman law, will in
future be commuted to hard labour for ten or fifteen
years.

In Moldavia and Wallachia all the Austrian subjects,
Hungarians and Transylvanians, all who have emigrated
since twenty years, have been arrested, fettered, and
driven to Transylvania at the request of the Austrian
authorities.  Many of them died on their way on
account of the bad treatment, and more than half of the