The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-16 00:00:00

The Earl of MINTO arrived in Rome on the 3d.

Cardinal FERRETTI, in reply to a demonstration on
the part of the people, requesting him to continue in
office, declared that, though anxious for retirement,
he would retain office for the present, and would not
quit it as long as he considered his continuance in the
administration of affairs of advantage to his country.
The Modenese troops took possession of Fivizzano
on the sth instant, in spite of the protestations of the
inhabitants, who wished to remain incorporated with
Tuscany. It is said that Austrian troops entered the
state of Modena at the request of the GRAND DUKE,
in order that the Modenese troops might be at liberty
to act against Fivizziano.
The Prince GONZAGA, of Mantua, who is now at
Rome, has been received with great distinction by the
PorE, and has had offered to him by an illustrious
personage the Duchy of Modena, in compensation of
the territory of Mantua, of which his ancestors were
deprived. The Prince of GONZAGA has been long
known in this country, and we rejoice to find that his
claims are at length about to be even partially
acknowledged, and that some compensation is about
to be made to him for the injustice of which for years
he has bee❑ the victim.

A letter from Aarau of the 9th, in a German jour-
nal, says that at two o'clock in the afternoon of that
day distinct sounds of a heavy cannonade were heard
in the direction of Friburg, which lasted for more
than an hour and a quarter. The sound of heavy
artillery was also heard in the direction of Gillikon.
The same journal adds that America had offered to
advance three million francs to the Diet at the usual
rate of interest. The Diet has contracted a loan at
Frankfort at the rate of seven per cent. The Ger-
man journals contain reports of skirmishes in dif-
ferent parts of Switzerland. Lieutenant-Colonel
AUFDERMAITY, of Schwytz, commander of the first
battalion of the Landsturm, was found assassinated
in his bed at Lachen on the evening of the Bth.

Madrid papers of the Bth have arrived. They all
contain allusions to the probability of some further
changes in the Cabinet so soon as Senor MoN shall
arrive in Madrid, but nothing certain is known on
the subject.

MADRID BoLqA, Nov. B.—The Three per Cents.
closed at 26 9-16, at sixty days; the Five per Cents.
at 14i for paper ; Passives, cli., paper ; Coupons, 11,
paper.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
The remains of Count BRESSON arrived on the
11th at Marseilles, on board the Magellan steam-
frigate. The Couhtess BRESSON and the on of the
deceased statesman were on board the Magellan, and
will accompany the body to Paris.

The Journal des Debats makes the following cor-
rections of some inaccuracies which have appeared on
the subject of Count BRESSON in some of the Oppo-
sition papers :

"However painful it may be to come back upon
he circumstances which preceded the cruel and re-
gretted death of Count Bresson, we nevertheless
think it right to correct some inexactitudes which have
been committed on that occasion. Thus, it has been
said that Count Bresson, at the time of his journey to
London, had met with an excellent reception from
Lord Palmerston, and had made that a ground to
demand on his return to Paris the London embassy,
on account of the favour with which he expected to
be received by the English Ministry. On this point we
will limit ourselves simply to reply that Lord Palmers-
ton at that period was not in London, and that M.
Bresson had no occasion to see his Lordship during
the time he passed in England. It has been said that
M. Bresson, after refusing the office of Minister of
Marine, accepted the embassy of Naples with regret,
and that it was only with bitter displeasure that he
went to fill a post inferior to that which he had quitted.
We believe that we know, on the contrary, that the
embassy at Naples had been given to Count Bresson
at his own desire. If we are well informed, it was
M. Bresson himself, after having in fact refused the
Ministry of the Marine, which he had at first ac-
cepted, requested M. Guizot to propose to the King
that the Duke de Montebello should fill that post, and
that he expressed at the same time a wish to be the
successor pf the Duke de Montebello at Naples. It
is, therefore, entirely untrue to say that the sending
of M. Bresson to Naples was even the indirect cause
of the annoyance which led to his deplorable end.
It has also been said that M. Bresson had written
from Rome to M. Guizot, asking to he sent back to
Madrid, but that in answer he received a formal order
to proceed to Naples. This assertion is as inexact as
the others. The answer of the Minister of Foreign
Affairs to M. Bresson left Paris the very day that the
frightful news which has caused such deep and una-
nimous grief was received."
The following observations on the formation of the
Italian Customs' Union are from the Presse :
The creation of an Italian Zollverein is not
merely a great event in a political point of view; it
is one of high interest considered commercially.
Here is Austria caught as if in a vice, with the German
Association on the one side and an Italian one on the
other. She evidently must surmount her old dislikes
and join one or other. As far as France is con-
cerned, she ctinnot but see with a lively satisfaction
the Italian populations uniting together under the
same customs' legislation. Italy will thus become a
market which will merit being in demand on account
of ita importance. What interest had we to unite
ourselves commercially with nations which only
offered us a few thousand consumers ? None. There
has hitherto been too great a disproportion
between them and us, for us to find it
our advantage to enter on an intimate con-
nection with their microscopic markets. But in face
of an association which appears destined to increase
and to gradually absorb all the States, and to put an
end to the small divisions into which the Peninsula is
broken up, the situation becomes completely changed,
and holds out the germ of an useful alliance. It re-

mains to be seen if our Government will know how
to reap advantage from this new situation. If we are
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the Italian Zollverein."
The reform movement progresses, notwithstanding
the momentary check which it received at Lille. A.