The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-18 00:00:00

measure which marks the sincere attachment of
the Court of Madrid for the Holy See. The
Due de Sotomayor, Spanish Ambassador at Paris, has
been charged to intimate to the French Government,
that a flotilla, composed of eight Spanish vessels
of war, was ready to leave for Gaeta, in order to
follow the Holy Father, either to Civita Vecchia,
or to Ancona. In declaring that Queen Isabella, in
order to respond worthily to the title of Catholic Ma-
jesty, had no other intention than that of protecting the
inviolability of the Pope and of the Sacred College
against the eventual attacks of the revolution, the Duc
die Sotomayor was also commissioned to iuvite the
French Government to take part in an enterprise, the
object of which was rather religious than political. Louis
Napoleon, in answering to the amicable appeal of the
Court of Spain, testified his eagerness to cover the lloly
See with the efficacious protection of the French Re-
public, with the reservation, however, of not acting until
formally called upon to do so by the Pope himself, and
M. de Latour d'Auvergne was immediately dispatched
with the necessary instructions for the Due d'Har-
court, the French ambassador at Gaeta. In the mean-
time orders have been sent by telegraph to Toulon, for
arming a flotilla, as the French ♦essels of war are
now stationed at different points along the coast of
Italy, in consequence of the events of which that
country i 3 the theatre, there were found but
few disposable ships at Toulon. Hence the necessity of
taking ships from Cherbourg and Brest, and of that
activity which has so much excited the imagination of
some journalists. With regard to the pretended Austro•
Neapolitan intervention, we have already observed that
the Pope did formally decline the offers made by the
King of Naples. With respect to Austria, we believe
we are in a position to state that the French Govern-
ment has received the most positive assurance that the
Cabinet of Vienr a will adopt the principle of note iiiter-
vention in the affairs of Rome. If, however, an inter-
vention should become indispensable in order to save,
for the sake of the interests of Europe, the capital of the
Christian world from anarchy, then Austria declares
beforehand, that sho will only interfere collectively with
France and the oth4r Catholic powers. It is in this
sense that are drawn up the instructions of the Count
Maurice d'Esterhazy, charged by the Emperor of Aus-
tria with an extraordinary mission to the Sovereign
Pontiff—instructions previously communicated to the
French Government—in order to testify the desire of
the Imperial Cabinet to proceed in perfect accordance
with the French Republic in the question of Rema.”
HumariN has just been dispatched by the PRE-
SIDENT of the Republic to Austria to settle the basis
of an active armed intervention in the Roman States,
preliminary to the arrangement of the question of
Lombardy. We regret to hear of this appointment—
M. HIJMANN is a member of the old obscurantist
party, and was sent by M. GUIZOT to Vienna to
arrange with Prince METTERNICH the basis of the
proposed Austrian and French intervention in Swit-
zerland in support of the Sonderbund.
The Parliamentary Club of the Rue de Poitiers
held a sitting yesterday, which was devoted to the
approaching general election. It was agreed to form
an electoral committee of 30 members, to be organised
by Messrs. MOLE, TRIERS, and BERRYER, names
which indicate the union of the Legitimatists and
Urleanists.
The banking-house If BAUDON and Co., which had
been forced by the revolution of February to suspend
payments, has just issued a notice that on the 29th of
the present month it will be prepared to pay all its
creditors in full—capital, interest, and costs.
BOURSE.—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 17.
THREE O'CLOCK.—The question of the speedy disso-
lution of the National Assembly affects the Public
Funds more than any other; and it being understood
that the Committee has shown a disposition to restrict
the number of organic laws, and to dissolve if possible
about the 15th of April, the Rentes showed from the
commencement of business a disposition to rise. The
Five per Cents. closed ultimately fully 65 centimes above
the closing prices of yesterday. Exchange on London
(30 days), 25 40; ditto (90 days), 25 30.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, JAN. 17.
Boulogne and Amiens, B—Luxembourg (10/.), 21/2--
Namur and Liege, 6--Northern of France, 7% ex int.—
Paris and Rouen, 171/2—Rouen and Havre,9 Y2—Sambre and
Meuse, 3'4.