The interest of the foreign intelligence is limited to Switzer-
land and Italy. In Switzerland, one Canton of the Separate League, Friburg, has succumbed to the troops of the Diet, and agreed to abandon the League, without any very prolonged reluctance.
In Italy, a customs convention between Rome, Tuscany, and Sardinia, is formally announced. The preamble declares that those three states, being "animated by the desire to contribute by their union to the increase of the dignity and prosperity of Italy, and being persuaded that the true and essential basis of the union of Italy consists in the fusion of the material interests of the po- pulation of their respective dominions, have agreed to form an as-
sociation on the principle of the German Commercial League." • is true practical wisdom. The long-dreamt " nationality of I $ is now laid upon a solid foundation.
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