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

withdraw her troops temporarily from the interior of the
town, on condition that the Papal Government gua-
ranteed to the Imperial troops quartered in the citadel
the free exercise of their military functions, and such
treatment as would respond to the relations of friend.
ship existing at that period between the Court of Vienna
and the Sovereign Pontiff. Since the commencement
of the Lombard war, the Austrian garrison of Ferrara
having had to complain of the hostile spirit which the
population of Ferrara did not cease to manifest towards
it, two successive conventions were concluded between
Austria and the Holy See, for the purpose of maintain-
ing in force the arranger.,ent of August, 1845. The first
of these was signed it duly, 1848, between the Austrian
pro
-Legate
Bologna,ce
rl..e Lichtenstein and Count Lovacchi,
and some months later it was
confirmed P;nd amplified by stipulations come to at Ro-
vigo betwrJen General Welden and the Cardinal Legate
of his P,oliness. We have no necessity to speak of the
sangr:inary collisions which are well known to have
taken place of late between the Austrian garrison and
t;ne population of Ferrara. Marshall Radetaky, looking
on it as a systematic violation of the arrangement and
the conventions just spoken of, charged General Hay-
nard to demand satisfaction from the local authorities,
and in order to support his representations with energy,
General Haynard brought with him a division of 6,000
men. Such is the real meaning of the military occu-
pation of the town of Ferrara—an occupation which, it
cannot be denied, will probably have the result of
caw,ing Austria to again bring forward her pretensions
ot: keeping up a garrison in the interior of the town,
on which subject she made her reservation in August,
1847.

The Moniteur states that a mistake in the issue of
the cards of invitation was the reason why the mem-
bers of the Diplomatic Corps were not present at the
religious ceremony celebrated in the Church of the
Madeleine on the 24th ult. " That mistake," adds
the .1/oniteur, " had been repaired, but having been
discovered too late, it was found impossible to inform
all the members of the corps diplomatique in time,
that seats were reserved for them in a special tri-
bune."

The same journal states that several abortive
attempts were made in the provinces to create disturb-
ances on the 24th February.
L. A. BLAN QUI has addressed a letter to the editor
of the Peuple, dated "Donjon de Vincennes," on
Monday, in which he states that on Sunday last, the
last day allowed by law, he was served with a copy
of the depositions taken against him, but that he has
not received a copy of the indictment on which he
is to be tried. The consequence of such neglect, he
adds, will be to render all defence impossible. The
object of the prosecution, be says, is to enable the
Royalists, while they are sacrificing in the name of
the Republic its oldest defenders, to overthrow that
same Republic against which they are conspiring in
the face of the country.
The Memorial Bordelgis, of the 25th instant, men-
tions the passage through Bordeaux, on the 24th, of
General ZARCO DIM VALLE, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary of Spain to the Northern
Courts, on his way to Madrid.
The club of the Rue de Poitiers, in consequence of
the split between the Legitimatists and Orleanists
has abandoned the plan of forming an electoral com-
mittee. The Legitimatists complain much of the
manner in which they have been treated by M.
TRIERS and the Orleanists. Although unlike their
ancestors, the Legitimatists may have forgotten
much, yet, like them, they hare,learned nothing, or
the experience of the last twenty years would have
taught them that no trust could be reposed in an
Orleans or an Orleans Minister.
The bustle and turmoil of foreign politics do not,
however, render the French inattentive to those re-
forms which are required to ameliorate the social con-
dition of the great bulk of the industrious and com-
mercial classes. The Journal des Debate, for instance,
in an admirably argued article calls for a reduction
of the postage with foreign countries, more particu-
larly with England. It says—
" The postage of letters from abroad has become ex-
orbitant since the adoption of the uniform rate. Why
is a letter from Paris to London charged at lf. for the
minimum, while the postage of a letter in England is
one decime (one penny) and two decimes (four sous) in
France? This exaggeration, instead of favouring the
reciprocal receipts, can only have a contrary effect. The
journey from Paris to London is only twelve hours. It
is evident that if the correspondence be not clogged by
too high a postage, the interchange of letters between
these two great metropolitan cities, aided by peace and
order, will become immense."
The case of Count MORTIER came on yesterday
for judgment before the Court of Appeal. The Ad-
vocate-General entered into an elaborate examination
of the facts brought forward in this case by both
parties, and concluded by submitting to the Court
that the interdiction on the Count ought to be re-
moved, and his liberty restored. The Court, after
half an hour's deliberation, gave judgment, in which
it laid down that, though the different acts alleged
against Count MORTIER showed that he gave
way to great violence, and .to unjust prejudices
against different persons, yet that those acts were
not sufficient to prove that his mind was permanently
diseased, and that, as to the hallucinations under
which he had laboured, they had arisen, not
from a derangement of the intellectual faculties,
but from a nervous crisis. With respect to the sus-
' picions of the Count against his wife, the Court held
that, though they might at times have amounted to
wildness, yet they did not form a fixed idea, and were
followed by repentance; that as to the scenes between
the Count and his wife at Berne, LaVillette, and Bruges,
they arose not from madness, but, as the Count had
stated, " from the resistance of the wife in the most
intimate relations authorised by marriage ;" that the
scene at the:Hotel Chatham found a logical explanation
in the fear occasioned to the Count by the scandal of
the threatened demand by the wife for a separation de
corps, and that, even during that scene, he had never
seriously intended to kill his children; and, finally,
the Court laid down that the interrogatories before
the judges, and the explanations given by the Count
himself before the Court, show that there now exists
no point on which he does not express the calm judg-
ment of a man in possession of his faculties, and
capable of soundly appreciating the morality of his
acts. For all these reasons the Court quashed the
judgment against the Count, discharged him from the
condemnations pronounced against him, and ordered
that he should be immediately set at liberty.
The Echo du Midi of Montpellier of the 23d pub-
lishes a letter written by CABRERA to a friend, in
which he states that he is cured of his wounds. The
letter is dated St. Jarnie, the 15th. The _Eclaireur
des Pyrenees, of Bayonne, of the 25th, states that
CABRERA had resumed the command of a band of
insurgents.
The Journal du Peuple of Bayonne, of the 25th,
says that the Madrid mail, which ought to have ar-
rived on the 23d, had been stopped near Burgos by
an insurgent band, who burned the vehicle and its
contents : but did not injure the conductor or the
passengers.

BOURSE—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, FED. 28.
THREE O'CLOCIL—The speculators have recovered
from the fright into which they were thrown by the
news received from Italy yesterday, and the Funds have
consequently risen 1 per cent. It is thought that the
King of Sardinia will ultimately take back Gioberti, and
that he will agree to send troops to the assistance of the
Grand Duke of Tuscany. This was the day for the
reponse des primes. They were declared for the Five
per Cents. at 81f. 90e., and for the Three per Cents. at
50f. 20e. It was after the declaration of the primes
that the Funds rose. The Railway Shares are firm.
Exchange on London (30 days), 25 20; ditto (b 0 days),
25 07k.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, FEB. 23.
Anglo Italian (late Italian and Austrian), 114—Bou-
logne and Amiens, 95X—Central of France (Orleans and
Vierzon), 12% Luxembourg 2—Namur and Liege, B%
Northern of France, 9%—Orleans and Bordeaux, 3%—
Paris and Orleans, 32 4—Paris and Rouen, 2114—Paris
and Strasbourg, 33/4—Rouen and Havre, 12% Sambre and
Meuse, 5 lA—Tours and Nantes, 21/2,