The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-16 00:00:00

A letter from Menton (Monaco) announces that
the Prince DE MONACO had arrived there, and has
promised to examine the question of the taxes and to
organise a communal system. In the meantime he
is making considerable reductions in the Customs'
duties.

The Florence Gazette of the 6th inst. announces
the termination of the affair of Fivizzano, by the
cession of that territory to the Duke of MODENA.
The POPE and the King of SARDINIA, who acted on
the occasion as mediators, declared the claim of the
Duke to be well founded, but condemned the manner
in which he had enforced it.

' Letters from Berne of the 11th state that the Diet
had ordered the canton of Neufchatel to pay
300,000 f. Swiss (18,0001.) for refusing to send its
contingent to the Federal army. Neufchatel, it was
considered, would pay the money, and thus the affair
would be ended. The reply to the Prussian note,
which is in the same terms as the reply to the notes
of Austria and France, was agreed to. Sir STRAT-
FORD CANNING has had frequent conferences with
M. OCHSENREIN. The most amicable relations ap-
pear to exist between the British Minister and the

Diet. There is a great deal of talk about important
documents discovered at Friburg and at Lucerne,
and which throw precious light on the proceedings
and veritable views of the chiefs of the Sonderbund.
These documents show, with the fullest evidence,
that the existence of the league, attributed to the
formation of the corps francs, preceded by more
than two years the two fatal expeditions which

took place against Lucerne, and that it had been
even disapproved of in its origin by Bale Ville and
Neufchatel. At Lucerne, papers not less edifying
have been seized, without ceunting what we are pro-
mised by the seizure of the seventeen boxes which
were to have followed the famous SIEGWART in his
flight. It is now averred that the Sonderbund had
s'licited foreign intervention, that is to say, the in-
vasion of Switzerland. The discovery of this
fact has excited the profoundest indignation even
among the partisans of the extinct Sonder-
bund, who are outrageous at the idea of having
been so completely duped as they have been
by SIEGWART MULLER and his Jesuit associates.

The Swiss Federal Council of War has just pub-
lished a list of the killed and wounded of the Federal
army. According to this document there were in
all 48 men killed and 222 wounded; at the affair of
Gislikon 23 killed and 92 wounded ; at Entlibuch
(the Ochsenbein division), 7 killed and 30 wounded;
at Friburg, 10 killed and 41 wounded—all Vaudese.
The loss of the Sonderbund is not known, but the
Federal journals have always represented it as three
or four times more considerable. Two members of
the former Government of Lucerne, M. TSCHOPP
and Dr. SCIIERER, placed under accusation of high
treason, have been thrown into the prison of that
place.

Madrid letters of the Bth have arrived. That day
being the Feast of the Conception, was kept as a
close holiday.

The dispute between OLOZAGA and BERMUDEZ DE
CASTRO has been arranged.

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday.
The Presse has the following on the proposed ap-
pointment of the Duke DE Dui° as Ambassador Ex-
traordinary to the Schah of PERSIA :
"We announced recently the appointment of the
Count de Sartiges to the post of Minister Plenipoten-
tiary of France to the Schah of Persia. We suppose that
M. Guizot does not find that representation sufficient,
for it is proposed at this moment to send shortly a new
embassy to Persia, attended with extraordinary pomp,
as a reminiscence of the fashionable mission of M. de
Sercey. The avowed object of this extraordinary mis-
sion is to send presents to the Schah of Persia, but the
true motive is simply, as it is reported, a desiro to give,
without delay, a high diplomatic position to a young
Duke, who partakes, with M. de Bacourt, the favours
of the political salons of the Rue St. Florentin. It
remains to be known how the Chamber of Deputies
will receive this new addition to the expense of extraor-
dinary missions in the budget of the Minister for Foreign
Affairs."

The gerant of the National, M. DELAROCIIII, was
on Monday condemned to eight months' imprison..
ment and a fine of 6,000 f. (2401.) for the publication,
on the Ist of October, of an article personally offen-
sive to the KING.

M. GUIZOT is confined to his room by the grippe.
The Union .2fonarchique says—" M. SAUZET will
be again presented this year by the Conservative
party as a candidate for the Presidency of the
Chamber. It is not yet known who will be the can-
didate definitively named by the Opposition. All
that is known is that N. Duple and M. DUFAURE
have both declined the somewhat pressing proposi-
tions which were made to them in that respect."
Letters have been received in Paris from Goritz,
which announce that the young Duchess DE BouR-
DEAUX is in an advanced state of pregnancy.
The hearing of the application of Count MORTIER
to be restored to liberty was continued on Monday
and Tuesday before the Tribunal of the Seine, and
had not concluded on that day. The evidence pro-
duced in support of the application is of a most
astounding character, and furnishes additions' proof,
if any were wanting, of the utter state of demoraliza-
tion of the Court society of the French capital.
A Brest journal publishes a letter dated Treguier,
the 9th inst., which states that the American merchant
vessel Robert Shaw was struck with lightning on the
night of the 6th inst., off the island of Bata. The

patroness of Palermo, and shouted 'Long live the King
Long live Italy !" Long live the Constitution !' He
then harangued the crowd on the political condition
of Italy, and made it promise to confide in the
councils of the intelligent classes. The object
which you propose,' said he, is also their object, and
it can only be secured by unanimity. When
justice and moderation shall have been tried in
vain, if it be necessary to have recourse to arms,
you will do so with dignity and resolution !' The
people declared with enthusiasm that they would follow
this wise counsel. Whilst this was going on in the
square, the elite of the population were deliberating at the
Casino on the means of pacifically utilising the popular
enthusiasm. Some instants afterwards the crowd
stepped in front of the Casino, to learn the decision of
its members, the principal of whom had been sent for
by General Viale, commandant of the garrison and
chief of the police, who invited them to call on the
King's lieutenant. This personage declared to these
notables that he was ready to grant the institution of a
civic guard, and recommended them to call on the fol-
lowing day with the municipal council to receive the
authorization. This decision satisfied the people, who
withdrew in the greatest order. But, in answer to the
instructions demanded from Naples by the tele-
graph, the King's lieutenant was positively ordered not
to authorise the formation of a civic guard, and enjoined
to repress with the greatest energy every popular de-
monstration. On the 30th these instructions were com-
municated to the popular committee and the municipa-
lity, who withdrew in consternation, and would no longer
show themselves to the people. Placards were posted
up, prohibiting under the severest penalties all public
tueetings and cries of every description ; but these pla-
cards were immediately pulled down. During this time
a group was passing by the office of .the Commissariat,
and, without any provocation on his part, was fired upon
by the soldiers on guard. One person was killed, and
four were dangerously wounded. The population of
Palermo no longer seeing its Chiefs, cries of treason'
were raised, and the agitation increasing, the Chiefs at
length resolved to show themselves. Alter grt at eff,trts
to restore confidence, the Chiefs succeeded in calming
the people, by promising constantly to aid them with
the same ardour in their struggle for reform."
A letter from Rome of the sth announces the
death of M. SILVANI, of Bologna, Member of the
Consulta, and one of the first lawyers in Italy. He
was Member of the Provisional Government of Bo-
logna, and Minister of Justice in 1831. During his
,rile of fifteen years, he had principally devoted
himself to studying the legislation of other coun-
tries, and his loss will be severely felt in the Con-
sulta.

The Diarie of Rome publishes the following as
the reply of the POPE to the address of Prince COE,
SINT, in the name of the municipality :--
" The words which you have just addressed to me, my
fiord Senator, are a source of consolation to me; for
hey give me the assurance of the good sentiments
which animate the municipal magistracy, whose duty it
is to watch over the interests of a city so remarkable for
its souvenirs, by the cultivation of the fine arts,
and by so many other qualities, and which is
:.0 me the object of so much love.. I have
already said many times, and I repeat it, in order
that it may be remembered, that I instituted the
communal representation for the welfare of the Roman
population. Your administration will, I doubt not, pro-
duce happy results for industry and commerce, but
especially through you will flourish what is the greatest
all possessions—true religion. I pray God every day
.or the public prosperity; to day I will pray Him spe-
cially that he will deign to guide your labours, and
that he will maintain among you union and concord,
which are the most solid basis of society. May God
especially maintain concord, and make peace to shine
ever all Italy! Nothing is so necessary as peace to
Anse industry, commerce, the arts, and public felicity to
flourish."