The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-25 00:00:00

ITALY.

On the 14th an order vas issued at Rome by
General OUDINOT suppressing all journals except the
Giornale di Roma, the French official paper.
OUDINOT, it appears, offered the Ministry of the
Interior to GALETTI, and on his refusal to accept
office ordered him to leave Rome within eight days..
GARIIIALEI has taken up a strong position at Toth;
he is at the head of 3,000 men, and has two pieces of
artillery. The Austrians have dispatched a corps
darinee to attack him.
The Pops is endeavouring to raise a loan of fifty
millions of crowns.
his HOLINESS received the deputation from Bo-
logna, asking him to take up his residence in that city
very graciously, and in reply he intimated that his
future movements had not yet been determined on,
but that it was not improbable he might visitl3ologna.

COLONEL THOMPSON AND THE
SHIPPING INTEREST OF HULL.
(From the Hull Advertiser.)
We are indebted to the Hon. and Gallant Member for
Bradford, Colonel Perronet Thompson—a man held in
grateful remembrance by the Reformers of Hull—for the
earliest intimation of certain Government measures of
much importance to the shipping interest of this
port. The first of these is a Bill which has
been read a first time in the House of Commons,
granting permission to vessels, navigated by competent
masters and mates, to be relieved from the payment of
pilotage; and the second is a Bill for the examination of
masters and mates on a plan similar to that proposed
two or three years ago, but not then carried out. We
have not received copies of these Bills, but Colonel
Thompson is anxious that his old friends in Hull should
look sharply about them, and see whether they
are exactly such measures as Hull shipowners
and Hull mariners ought to petition for. Other
Members of Parliament express surprise at the apathy
with which the shipowners receive intimations of a wish
on the part.of the Government that they would seek the
redress of proved grievances. In a letter which we
yesterday received from Mr. James Clay, one of the
hard-working Members for this port, that Honour-
able Gentleman says :—" Our Hull Chamber of Com-
merce ought to occupy the recess by concerting
a combined action with the other principal ports,
so as to agree on terms which may be fair and
acceptable to them, as to pilotage, light dues, marine
insurance, and the general provisions of Mr. Labou-
chere's measures, so that a combined influence may be
brought to bear on the Board ef Trade." We cordially
concur in this opinion ; but will the Hull Chamber i
of Commerce and Shipping act upon t ? As
the annual meeting is to be held in a short
time, we may leave the directors to give an answer.
On the part of the town generally we are grateful
to these Members ef the House of Commons for
theiraattention to such questions in connexion with
the trading and marine interests of the port of Hull.
Colonel Thompson tells us he considers himself in the
light of an auxiliary Member for this borough, as
being an important branch of the Bradford family, and
early interwoven with his kindest political associates.
Their is not a public man in Hull whose respect for the
town will net be increased by this intimation. Of the
veneration in which he is held by the working classes of
this port, Colonel Thompson requires no newspaper at-
testation.