The Risorgimento of Turin, of the 16th instant, publishes the
text of a decree by the two Chambers of the 11th instant, provisionally depriving the Pope of temporal power. It declares there shall be elected, by an absolute majority of the Chambers, from persons not members of either, a " Pro- visional Supreme Junta," for the purpose of carrying on the Government in the absence of the Executive. "The Commission shall discontinue its functions on the return of the Sovereign Pontiff, or when he shall himself appoint, according to constitutional forms, a substitute of his own selection." Three couriers arrived from St. Petersburg at Naples, in the week be- fore last, says the Times correspondent, one of them with autograph letters from the Emperor to the King, and to the Prince of Se.triano. The Emperor assures the King that distance only prevents physical interference by Russia in his behalf. He " has instructed his representatatives at Loudon and Paris to remonstrate in an energetic manner against the continuance of
that interference, and above all to express his indignation at the conduct of the two Admirals in interfering with the military proceedings of the King's General."
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