The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-12 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The day for the entry of the Prince President into
Paris has been again changed. It is now decided,
until further orders, that the ceremony shall take
place on the 16th, as originally intended, and not on
the 17th. It has been suggested that it were better
to make no change in the original programme, as no
event of sufficient importance was likely to occur to
justify it, and to avoid giving greater proportions to
the act than naturally belonged to it.
In the meantime ihaemizipreg.arations for the entry are
actively going, on
triumphal arch of the
Pont d'Austerlite'will before
blong assume regular
proportions. Workmen have been busily employed
for some days in preparing the eernoudnd, and several
trees that stood in front of the Jarding Plantes have
been removed for the purpose. It is stated that the ope-
ratives who were employed in the constructioneeavi of the
new Circus on the Boulevard des Filles de re have
requested to be allowed to erect on the same spot a
triumphal arch, on the model of the one of the Pont
d'Austerlitz. The civic force will participate in the
military character of the spectacle, and the National
Guard of the departments of the Seine, the Seine-et-
Oise, the Seine-et-Marne will form the double line
alternately with the regular army. The Prince Pre-
sident__ will, it is now believed, proceed at once to the
Tuileries, and then in a day or two to St. Cloud or
Fontainebleau.
Ths inquiry into the affair of the gunpowder ma-
nufactory is the Dordogne is actively going on.
Besides the seven persons arrested, 30 others have
been examined by the magistrates, and it is ru-
moured, but as
that important disclosures notbipg more than rumoured,
urea have been made. It is at
a town called Vergt that the inquiry is conducted,
and the Prefect will not return to Perigueux till
the informations are completed. These discoveries,
on the
following close Marseilles plot, have been
followed by very rigorous measures in some of the
would
departments ; and itthat the number
of persons arrested at Lyon:PPeldur
journey was 77, of whom, however,
the Preaident'seve
44, after un-
dergoing an examination, have been sre tat liberty.
The Journal du Barre announce; ce that the French ,
ship Minos, from Panama to Havre,wee")7en the sth
west lon-
September last, in latitude 13 north and
gitucle, fired into by an English three-masted ship,
supposed to be a transport with convicts for New
South Wales. The masts, sails, and rigging of
Minos bore marks of the English vessel's shot.
captain of the Minos says that he was the more e
sur-
prised at the unprovoked aggression as he bad spoken
with the commander of the unknown ship in friendly
terms, and bad informed him that be was a French-
man- a very few minutes before the shots were fired.

ITALY.
A letter from Rome of the 2d inst. announces the
return to that city of Mr. Freeborn, the British Con-
sular Agent, and the departure for Civita Vecchia of
Viscount Pietro de Casablanca. The privilege granted
to the inhabitants of Civita Vecchia by a Papal decree,
to import foreign wines for their own use free of
duty, is further extended to the 30th September,
1853. 140,000 crowns' worth of old paper money
was burnt on the Ist inst., in front of the palace of
the Mont de Piet6.

A letter from Mantua of the 4th inst. states that
forty one individuals bad been arrested in th2t city
last weeks ebargel with high tromp.