The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-28 00:00:00

ITALY.

Count CAVOUR, the new Minister of Agriculture
and Commerce of Sardinia, has addressed a circular
to the Syndics of the kingdom recommending them
to lay the question of the bread. tax before the Muni-
cipal Councils, with a view to decree its suppression
if possible. In this circular Count CAvoux strongly
advocates the principles of free trade in corn, and
quotes many instances of other parts of Europe, where
the unrestricted system works well.

Letters of the 16th from Pontremoli, in the
Stututo of Florence, give an account of the Duke
of PARMA'S visit to that town, from which it ap-
pears that he received the authorities with
unusual affability, and had an interview with
the Bishop, who gave him some salutary advice
on the necessity of a change of system ; the cor-
respondence further says that the words of the Bishop
seemed to have produced some effect, the Duke
having immediately after ordered the military auditor
to show him the proceedings relating to the me of
a man who had been bastinadoed for having laughed
at a soldier. The Podesta, a man generally hated by
the people, had been unable to obtain an audience;
and, immediately after the Duke's departure, he (the
Podesta) received a notification that he was di.smi•sed
from office. These acts had produced a good effect
upon the public, and it was expected that on the
Duke's return from Massa, whither he had proceeded,
he would be greeted with cheers.
By a decree of the Tuscan Council of Ministers,
dated the 18th, the Florence journal II Nazionale has
been suppressed.

THE PALACE OF GLASS IN HYDE PARS:Yester-
day being so fine a day Hyde Park was visited by numbers
of persons anxious to see the progress made in the building
for the exhibition of arts and manufactures in 1851. The
pillars and preparations give but a faint idea of what the
finished erection will be, and though this erection is from the
best design amongst the plans sent in for competition, yet it
is not a new one, as the Messrs. Turner, of Dublin, had pro-
posed and erected buildings of glass several years since, and
plans proposed by him were adopted at the Regent's Park
Botanic Gardens, and at the Royal Gardens at Kew; a similar
plan being adopted by Mr. Paxton at the magnificent gardens
belonging to the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth.

The British and North American Royal Mail
steamship Africa, Captain Ryrie, sailed from the Mersey on
Saturday morning for New York with the usual a large
freight, and 120 passengers. The
United States' mail steam-
snip Atlantic, Captain West, will sail for New York on Wed-
nesday next.

A chronometer has been picked up on the beach,
aboutlour miles from Port Dynllaen harbour, also a wreck
of a large long boat ; the chronometer has been identified as
belonging to the Jeinima, which sailed from Liverpool for
Africa, Ist October.—Norl4 IVales Chronicle.

WHITECHAPEL CHURCHYARD.--The parish of
Whitechapel is setting an excellent example to the metro-
politan parishes whose churchyards will be closed under the
operations of the new Interments Act. Under the superin-
tendence of Mr. Curtis, who planned and planted the new
Victoria-park, the churchyard is now being planted with
evergreen and deciduous shrubs and trees. As it is a well
ascertained fact that trees absorb and convert the noxious
gases given off by the process of decomposition, we hope
that so laudable au example will be universally followed.