The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING,

The Piednwntese Gazette (4 the 20th publishes the
proclamation of the Parma Ministers notifying to the
people the death of the Archduchess MARIA. LOUISA,
and the accession of the Infant CHARmis LOUIS BE
Botranor; (the ex-Duke of Lucca), to whom a
courier has been dispatched. It would appear that
the day after the death of the Archduchess the people
gathered before the palace, crying " Viva Reform !"
and that a deputation went up to the Regency and pre-
sented an address, demanding a new constitution, with
various reforms, and the organization of a " National
Guard." The Regency are stated to have answered
that nothing could be decided upon in the absence
of the new Sovereign. The Piedmontqe Gazette
also states that a serious riot took place at Lucca
on the Bth. The English squadron is stated to have
left Leghorn on the 18th. Disturbances are said
to have also taken place at Modena, owing to the
Duke's refusal to enter the projected Italian Customs
League. At Naples, on the evening of the 16th
inst., a riot of a political nature took place, which
required the interference of the military. Several of
the rioters were severely wounded ; two gendarmes
were seriously hurt; another had been killed; a
police soldier had also been slain, and two more were
suffering from dangerous wounds. At Messina great
agitation prevailed. Marshal LANDI had retired to
the fort, and the troops had scarcely any more inter-
course with the inhabitants. The Duke Da SERRA
CAPRIOLA arrived at Naples, from Paris, on the 16th.
A letter from Rome of the 13th says—
" The Sovereign Pontiff has this day received Vice-
Admiral Parker and the English General Adam at a
private audience. They are to return to-morrow to
the Build, g, which is at present stationed in the
port of Civita Vecchia. In reply to the expression
of sentiments of admiration and respect felt towards
him by these gentlemen, Pius IX. said that he was
proud of the sympathies which his Government had
met with in Great Britain. These sympathies, joined
to the love of his people, and to the loyal and sincere
co-operation of all good citizens, would, he trusted,
give him strength to overcome all obstacles, and to
accomplish the task which he had commenced. I
walk with God,' he added, and I shall therefore
succeed I' "

A letter from Turin of the 16th says—" Important
measures are expected for the new year. It is thought
that a general amnesty will be pronounced. The
KING has solemnly promised it, and nothing warrants
the supposition that he will violate his word. It is
stated also that the Jesuits are to be expelled, but
this is doubtful ; as is the assertion that a constitu-
tion is speedily to be granted. This latter event is
very seriously spoken of, and it is affirmed that
CHARLES ALBERT said to Lord MINTO, If I were
absolutely free in my acts, I should long since have
been a constitutional King.' "

Madrid papers of the 18th and 19th have arrived.
At a meeting of the Moderado Deputies, held on
the 17th, it was determined, by a majority of 105 to
14, to impeach SALAMANCA for his administration of
the finances. Many of SALAMANCA'S adherents voted
for the impeachment, as the ex-Minister himself
courts a public inquiry into his conduct.

MADRID Botsa, DEC. 19.—The Three per Cents,
were done at 27f, at fifty days; the Five per Cents.,
at 154 for paper; and the Debt without interest, at
at 5, for cash.

We have received the Paris papers of Friday and
Saturday.
On the subject of the KING'S health we find the
following in Galignanes Messenger of Friday :
"The report which has been current for the last
two days of the King being seriously unwell is, we
are assured, destitute of truth. His Majesty has, it
is true, been attacked by a cold with hoarseness, to
which he is very subject at this season of the year,
but which is never of long duration; and, we under-
stand, that on the present occasion, notwithstanding
the prevailing influenza, the symptoms are so mild
as not to excite the slightest uneasiness. Generally
speaking, his Majesty does not, when under the in
fluence of these attacks, feel it necessary to change
his ordinary habits, but as his present hoarseness
might, if not removed, render it painful for him to
deliver the Speech at the opening of the session, repose
has been recommended, and therefore his Majesty did
not, on Tuesday and Wednesday evening, receive
visitors. The Queen, however, received as usual."
The Dibats of Saturday announces that the health
of the KING is completely re-established.

The Court will go into mourning twenty-one days,
on the occasion of the death of the Archduchess
MARIA LOUISA. The unexpected demise of the
Archduchess will seriously complicate the 'affairs of
Italy. The Constitutionnel says—
" The unexpected death of the Archduchess Maria
Louisa causes a new complication in the affairs of
Tuscany. The treaties of 1815, explained by one of
1844, stipulated that on the death of the Archduchess
the Duke of Lucca should abandon his states to Tus-
cany, take possession of the Duchies of Parma,
Placentia, and Guastalla, and receive Pontremoli and
its territory from Tuscany. When the Duke of
Lucca, in anticipation of the heritage of the Arch-
duchess, ceded his duchy of Lucca to Tuscany, for a
revenue of 1,200,000 livres, it was agreed that Pon-
tremoli should remain attached to Tuscany until the
decease of the Archduchess should bring about the
case foreseen by the treaties. The inhabitants of
Pontremoli rejoiced at an arrangement which main-
tained them for some time longer under the authority
of liberal and enlightened Prince. This joy will not
have been of long duration, and the sudden death of
Maria Louisa renders inevitable the change of Go-
vernment against which the inhabitants of Pontremoli
had talked of rising in insurrection."

A large body of Poles assembled on Friday at the
Hotel Lambert, to present to Prince CZARTORYSKL
the medal which the Polish Historical Committee
has had struck in homage to the eminent merits of
the Prince, and in commemoration of the important
services he has rendered to his country. The Prince,
surrounded by his family, received the deputations
from the Literary Society, from the Historical Com-
mittee of Paris, and from that of Londcn, which
readily concurred in this national manifestation,
The remnants of the old army of Poland, as well as
of the Polish Diet, who were present, represented
the struggles of Poland, her sufferings, and her rights.
A group of young Poles, brought up at the Hotel
Lambert, and the pupils of the school at Chaillot,
were also present. M. T. MoßAwsk.r, Vice-Presi-
dent of tho Historical Committee, formerly Minister
of Foreign Affairs, having presented the medal, M.
RAVRY/COWSKI, formerly a member of the national
Government, read the address of the Literary So-
ciety of Paris, and Colonel SCIRUSA that of the

the reply of the Diet, in which it denies the right of
intervention by the great Powers in the affairs of
Switzerland. The right of intervention is insisted
upon from the fact, as the writer says, that the Fede-
ral Government has given no guarantees to the can-
tons of the minority for the maintenance of their
independence. This independence, he says, is stipu-
lated by the federal compact, and, having been violated,
the cantons of the minority have a right to form a
defensive league for their own security. He says—
" The violators of the compact may consider them
selves the legal and acknowledged representatives of
Switzerland, but it must be permitted to the Great
Powers of Europe to entertain a different opinion.
If, with a numerical superiority of six to one, the
Diet has trodden under foot the Catholic league, that
changes nothing in the character of the affair consi-
dered in point of right, and the Helvetic Confedera-
tion of 1815, the neutrality of which was guaranteed
by the Congress of Vienna, no longer exists.
Europe will now decide to which of the
two elements into which Switzerland is di-
vided this political privilege is to be accorded."
It is evident from this passage, if the Austrian Observer
is on this occasion the organ of the Cabinet, that it is
really intended to insist upon guarantees from the
Diet as regards the sovereignty and independence of
the cantons of the ex-Sonderbund, and to insist upon
the right of intervention on the ground that the Diet
has violated the conditions on which the independence
of the Helvetic Confederation generally was gua-
ranteed by the great Powers in the Congress of
Vienna.

Letters from Berne of the 22d state that the
canton of Neufchatel, instead of paying the 300,000
Swiss francs, in obedience to the decree of the Diet,
in money, had sent bills of various descriptions to
Berne, and only 120 francs in money. The Diet had
ordered all these bills to be returned to Neufchatel,
and had demanded bullion instead. Unterwalden
having paid its share of the expenses of the war, had
had its Federal garrison reduced. Friburg had de-
clared its inability to satisfy the demands of the Diet
at present. Dr. STIEGER has been elected Deputy of
Lucerne. Sir STRATFORD CANNING gave a grand
diplomatio dinner on the 21st to the officers of the
Directory and to the Foreign Ministers.