The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-28 00:00:00

having protested against the illegality of the pro-
ceedings, retired from the ballot.
A new Ministry is appointed with SALDATSHA at
its head, but without the CABEALS being included in
the Ministerial arrangements. _ _

The new currency has been established by a
Ministerial decree.

Lisbon was perfectly tranquil, and the election
;ook place in the most perfect order.;

Madrid papers of the 20th have arrived.
The Gaceta publishes dispatches from Catalonia
of the 12th and 15th inst., announcing that several
rebels, and amongst others the Cabecilla Pacaroba,
had made their submission, and that a party of in-
surgents, under the command of the Cabecilla
Estartus, had been put to flight by a column of
royal troops, and forced them to swim across the
river Ter, after having lost some men.
It is said that NARVAEZ, disgusted with the con-
duct of CHRISTINA. and the Afrancesados in pressing
forward the impeachment of SALAMANCA, was about
to tender, his: resignation, and that a Mon and Pidal
Ministry would be appointed.
Intelligence has been received from the Canary
Islands, announcing that the epidemic which had ap-
peared at Las Palmas had not spread, and that it was
beginning to subside.
MADRID BOLSA, DEc. 20.—The Three per Cents.
closed on the 20th at 27 5-16 cash ; the Five per
Cents., at 15k cash; Passives, 4 cash.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
The Reform banquets continue to be held in all
parts of France, and increase in frequency as the
opening of the Chambers approaches. Banquets
have recently taken place at Grenoble and Vienne.
At the latter the KING'S health was not drank, but a
toast to Governmental Probity was substituted for it.
The KING is completely recovered.

It is said that his MAJESTY has received a letter
from Queen CHRISTINA announcing that her influence
is now paramount in Madrid, and that she intends
to appoint a purely Afrancesado Ministry, with
MoNZand PIDAL at its head.
Lord BROUGHAM left Paris on Sunday for his
chateau at Cannes, after having had an interview
with the KING.

The Three per Cents. were done in the Passage de
l'Opera, Paris, on Sunday last, at 75f. 65c. The
belief was general that the forthcoming Speech of the
KING would be of a popular kind.
MARSEILLES, DEC. 22.—Marseilles and Avignon,
571 f. 25c.; Nortbern, 556 f. 25c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
_ LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 27.

Boulogne and Amiens 14(—Dutch Rhenish, 21/i—
Northern of Frame, 124—Orleans and Bordeaux, 5%
—Paris and Lyons, VA—West Flanders, 1%. -

THE PRINCE DE GONZAGA, AND

THE DYNASTIC CHANGES OF ITALY.

[Solicitous, as we are, to witness the perfect
emancipation of the Italians, and sympathising, as
we do, in the misfortunes of an illustrious Prince, we
have much satisfaction in transferring to our columns
the following article from an Italian Contemporary, the
Alba. Whatever advantage we have anticipated from
the elevation of the ex-Duke of Lucca to the Grand
ducal crowns of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla is, as
we observed yesterday, at the best, as yet but hypo-
thetical and supposititious. In the event of the
transference of the sovereign authority of Guastalla
to the last descendant of the Gonzagas, a new advo-
cate will be added to the Royal League of the Pe-
ninsula, whose heart is with the people, and whose
ambition is kindred to that of Pius, of Charles Albert,
and of Leopold.—ED. Sun.]
" Recent events at Lucca, the incorporation of the
greater part of that state with Tuscany in conse-
quence of the abdication of the last Duke, and also
the proposed annexation of the Duchies of Parma
and Piacenza, will soon attract the attention of the
high Powers of Europe. It may be asked whether
this is not a favourable opportunity for repair.
ing a great injustice by re-establishing in
the inheritance of his fathers the last offspring
of a celebrated family, who was excluded
by an incompetent tribunal (the Diet of Ratisbon,
held in 1708), composed of the creatures of Austria,.
which, judging its own cause, declared Charles IV
de Gonzaga, Duc de Mantoue and de Montferrat,
&c., a rebel to the Emperor, and deprived him of his
estates, because he had pronounced with France in
the war of succession in Spain. It is well known
that Charles IV. was neither cited nor judged, he
having died, poisoned, at Padua, July 5, 1708. It
is, consequently, by a manifest violation of the rights
of nations, that the house of Gonzaga has been de-
prived of its sovereignities. Since that epoch all the de-
scendants of the Gonzaga, Dukes of Guastalla, &c., and
after the extinction of that branch, in 1746, all the
princes of Gonzaga de Castiglione have continued to
protest against the arbitrary sentence which deprived
them of their rights, and against the usurpation of
their states by Austria. The treaties of Rastadt, in 1714,
and of Cambray, in 1723, those of Turin and of
Baden, and especially that of Vienna, of November
18, 1738, may be adduced as evidence. The absence
and the minority of the true heirs of the Dukes of
Guastalla and Castiglione alone prevented them from
making their voices heard at the treaties of Vienna,
in 1815, and other times.

" The Emperor Leopold, struck with the injustice
manifested towards the sovereign house of Gonzega-
Castiglione, so closely united to him by ties of blood,
had resolved, in 1792, to reinstate them in their rights
to the duchies of Mantua, Castiglione, Guastalla, and
others, when his death frustrated his design. Prince
Joseph Louis de Gonzaga received from Napoleon an
equally promising assurance in 1812. That great
captain, after a careful examination of the rights of
the Princes of Ganz Aga-Castiglione, declared to Prince
Joseph Louis that he considered them incontestable,
and solemnly promised that he would see justice done
to him. The fall of that great man, and the death of the
Princes of Wilna, in 1818, again overthrew these
expectations. The Prince Alexander, the present
claimant, is too well known for it to be necessary for
us to pen his eulogy : an intrepid soldier and ex-
perienced general ; created an officer of the Legion
of Honour at the age of fourteen, on the field of
battle, by Napoleon himself ; a participator in the
policy of Pius IX.—a policy which unites liberty
with religion ; brought up in the school of misfortune
and exile—Prince Alexander unites all the qualifica-
tions desirable to insure the happiness and tranquillity
of the numerous population who would, without
doubt, rejoice in the government of so worthy an heir
of their legitimate Sovereigns.
"If Europe, again assembled in Congress,
were about to occupy herself with a par-
tition of the Italian sovereignties, which
popular agitations, and the retrogression of some
states seem to render necessary, the great Powers
would have a grand duty to perform by restoring to
Prince Alexander a part of those territories which have
been so unjustly usurped. Such a compensation
would be an act of policy also, for the cause of the
Gonzagas is the cause of all sovereigns—an act of
injustice against the :rights,of one:establishes a pre-
cedent which may be acted upon against any
other in
the time of adversity."
Since the date of the above article, the death of the
ex-Empress Maria Louisa leaves the opening reserved
to the Great Powers in the Treaty of Vienna, 1815,
and justice may be rendered to the claims of his
Serene Highness Prince Alexander de Gonzaga.
Besides that, the treaties of Vienna have been broken
with regard to all the nations concerned in t
execution, and what is enacted in the minority of the
true heirs, without their consent, is null, according to
the laws of nations and of equity.

THE RAJA BROOKE.—We are requested to state
that the new work on Borneo, entitled " SARAWAK ; its
INHABITANTS AND PRODUCTIONS," by Hugh Lowe,
Esq., Private Secretary to his Highness the Raja
Brooke, is published this clay by Mr. Bentley (pub-
lisher in ordinary to her Majesty), and may now be had
of all booksellers throughout the kingdom, iu Bvo., with
numerous plates, price 14s. bound.
DEATH FROM THE CHOKE DAMP AT DOWLAIS.—
Three men, whose names we have not heard, fell victims
to this insidious enemy on Saturday last, in one of the
pits at the above place. It appears that there was an
opening from some old work, through which a consider-
able quantity of gas escaped, and the men, in going into
it, fell senseless. So powerful was the gas, that Mr.
Martin, and some men who went down to examine the
place, had a very narrow escape. They were obliged to
be left there until Sunday morning, when it was found
that they could be reached with safety. Death had taken
place from the effects of carbonic acid gas, and a verdict
of " Accidental Death" was returned.—Monmouthshire