The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-03 00:00:00

BELGIUM.

BRUSSEIS, &TAN. I.—The of this day
promulgates the law adopted by the Chamber, and
sanctioned by the KING, by which the budget of the
expenditure for 1849 is fixed at 11,620,000 francs lo
the Department of Finance. By another law, pro-
visional etedits tire opened in the budget for 1849 as
follows :—ln the Departirient of Justiee; 1,000,000
francs; Department of the Interior, 990,000 francs j
Public Works, 2,175,060 Niles; War, 5,000,000
francs ; Finance, 2,200,000 franc& To the -Same
department, for divers services comprised in the
budget, 160,000 francs.
13y another law the Government permits the entry
of corn-grain, whether by Belgian or foreign ships,
at 50 centimes per 100 kilogrammes. Considerable
reductions are also made in the entrance dues on
potatoes and other vegetables, on horned cattle, dried
meats, &c.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, 10 30, A.M., TDIS DAY.
Arrived—Daniel, Copenhagen ; Rosalind, Princ•
Edward's Island.
A good business is doing in cotton.

ITALY.

NAPL ES.

The following is the answer returned by Prince
CABIATI, the Neapolitan Prime Minister, to the note
presented by the French and English Governments
on the affairs of Sicily :

" PRINCE CARIATI TO MR. TEMPLE.

" In the absence of his Majesty, from whom I am yot
unable to receive direct orders, but of whose formal in-
tentions I am perfectly well advised, I hasten to reply to
the communication with which your Excellency has
favoured me. The desire for peace which it expresses,
and the assistance it offers in the name of your Govern-
ment, appears difficult to me to be reconciled with the
opinion it presents.

The icing, who comprehends all the grave duties
which Providence has imposed on him, can never lend
himself to any combination which does not, in the most
absolute manner, secure the national rights, seriously
endangered.

"Its Majesty is perfectly convinced that this et-
iect cannot be attained but by the amalgamation of
the Neapolitan and Sicilian forces, who must form
but one army, and be composed promiscuously,
as it ever has been, of Neapolitans and Sicilians.
Our language otherwise would be in contradiction
with the necessities of the country, nod I believe I am
his faithful interpreter in testifying to you his regrets
at the nature of the proposition. This first point being
acknowledged, I will suppose for an instant that you,
being better informed on the subject of those rights
which you assure me you have so much at heart to de-
fend, will become a partaker of the opinions which I
have thought it my duty to 14y before you, and that this
Government has nothing more to do than to profit by
the kind assistance you offer, for the purpose of settling
with your official concurrence all the other questions
now pending, and I therefore ask you what you will do
if the insurgents of Palermo should refuse to submit to
your ultimatum, of the propriety of which you are so
tully convinced. The attitude assumed by the forces of
France and England on the 11th of September cannot be
entirely forgotten, as Admirals Parker and Baudin then
menaced to arrest by force the victorious expedition in
Sicily. I therefore feel I have a right to ask if, in case
of need, you will take an attitude copable of solving this
difficulty.
" Permit me now to clear up an error which appears
to have escaped your attention. You seem to believe
that for a moment the King had consented to the propo-
sitions you made to us. I hasten to protest against a
supposition of that nature, which nothing authorises,
and which is absolutely contradicted by the reality of
the facts. It is sufficient without doubt to recall these
circumstances in order that you may avoid in future
falling into a similar error.
" I have, before terminating this note, another obser-
vation to make to your Excellency. You are aware that
the Duke of Rivas, Minister of Spain, has notified to the
Government of his Majesty the King, on behalf of the
eventual rights attached to the dynasty of the family
reigning in Spain to the throne of the Two Sicilies, his
claim to intervene in any conference that may be held.
The orders of his Court are formal, and we cannot re-
fuse our consent to a desire so perfectly legitimate. The
question being neither Spanish nor English, but exclu-
sively Neapolitan, Sicilian, and dynastic, no objection
arising from the actual situation of existing diplomatic
relations between Spain and Great Britain can be urged.
His Sicilian Majesty could not of himself, and at once,
resolve this pending question, if he were willing to do
so, therefore it ought to be placed on such a footing that
he may either respect these rights, as legitimate and
just claims, or have the power to cut them short by a
complete disclaimer. " CARIATI.
" Naples, Dec. 20th, 1848."
In a subsequent note the Neapolitan Government
asks that ,the representatives of all the Powers who
were parties to the treaties of 1815 should take part
in the conferences on the affairs of Sicily.
On the night of the 20th several vessels laden
with ammunition sailed from Naples for Sicily, but a
stop has been put to the further transport of troops
to that Island for the present, in consequence of the
excitement produced in Naples by the intelligence of
the election of Louis NaroLEorr BONAPARTE as
President of the French Republic, of the formation
of a GIOBERTI Ministry at Turin, and of the ap •
preaching convocation of an Italian Constituent As-
sembly. There has been a rising in the Celabrian
Provinces of so serious a nature that Marshal STA-
TELLA, at the head of a large force, has been dis
patched to endeavour to suppress it. The finances of
the Neapolitan kingdom are in a most desperate con-
dition.

The object of the visit of Mr. TEMPLE to Gaeta
was to offer the POPE an asylum in Malta. Pius IX.,
in acknowledging the attention, declared that he in-
tended to remain at Gaeta for the present.
An ordonnance prescribes a quarantine of twenty-
one days for persons and merchandise from London,
Hull, Edinburgh and Leith, and fourteen days from
any other port in England.
On the 24th the Fives closed at 821.