The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-28 00:00:00

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males

... 774

Females ... ... ... ... ... 747

Total ... ... 1,521
* In this number aro included 31 cases of death by
Cholera, 110 by Scarlatina, and 46 by Typhus Fever.

THE KING OF BAVARIA AND

THE POPE.

The King of Bavaria has sent the following auto-
graph letter to Count Spaur, his Majesty's Ambas-
sador at the Court of Rome :

"Dear Count Von Spaur,—l have read your
report of the 30th ultimo, respecting the happy escape
of his Holness the Pope and his arrival at Gaeta, with
the greatest interest. I was deeply grieved at the
intelligence of the acts of violence perpetrated against
the honoured head of the Roman Catholic Church by
a party of treacherous and undutiful men, and the
foul ingratitude with which they requited the abun-
dant gifts and acts of kindness which had flowed to
them from his benevolent heart; and though sin-
cerely lamenting with every true son of the Church
that the Holy Father is reduced to the necessity of
avoiding further outrages, by seeking protection
and security beyond his own dominions,
yet was my pain and grief converted into joy and
thanksgiving when I heard that the escape of the
vicegerent of Christ upon earth had been happily ac-
complished. Nor can I refrain from acknowledging
my especial gratitude to Divine Providence that my
Ambassador was the chosen instrument of this
escape.
" The zeal, the caution, and the fearless devotion
with which you, my dear Count, undertook, and
happily executed, the dangerous enterprise so highly
important, not to the Iloly Father alone, but to the
whole Catholic Christendom, are in strict conformity
with my views and sentiments for his Holiness the
Pope. You have acted entirely in the spirit of the
directions which I gave you on the 20th of May for
any contingency in which you might be of service to
the Holy Father.
"I have great plemure in expressing to you my
entire acknowledgments and gratitude; and while I
reserve to myself the gratification of giving you
some special memento of my grace and satisfaction,
I am anxious to assure you of the esteem and good-
will of " Your approving King,
"MAXIMILIAN.

" Nympbinburg, Dec. 16."
At the same time his Majesty sent the following
orders to Rome : to Count Sparn, the Grand Cress of
Merit of the Order of St. Michael; to the Cardinal
State Secretary Antonelli, the Grand Cross of the
Civil Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown ; to the
Envoy of the French Republic in Rome, M. d'Har-
court, and to the Spanish Ambassador in Rome, Mar-
tinez de la Rosa, the Cross of the Order of Merit ;
and to the Spanish Secretary of Legation, d'Arnao,
the Order of Merit of St. Michael. All these were
more or less concerned in effecting the escape of the
Pope.—. Russian Staats Anzeigcr, Dec. 24.

FRANCE.
The Evdnemcnt publishes the following letter, as
having been addressed by Abthel-Keder to the Presi-
dent of the Republic :
" To Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, President of
the Republic—The Emir Abd-el•Kader detained
with his family in the Chateau of Ainboioe.
" 'I will die in prison if unexampled rigours condemn
me so to do, but never will I be brought to lower my
character.'—Prince Louis Napoleon, at Han)..

" God is great, and Mahomet is his prophet. May
this God of clemency, under whose protection the Na-
tional Assembly has placed the French Constitution, in-
spire the chiefs of the Republic with an act of justice
and humanity, which will give to all the nations of
the globe a high opinion of the hospitality of France,
which country is already renowned by her bravery
and chivalrous spirit at all times. When, guided
by my confidence in the bravery and the promise
of the French, I came to place mysclf and mine under
the protection of France, by giving myself up to General
Larnoriciece, at that time Commandant of the province
of Oran, I received the formal promise that I should be
sent to the noble land of France, and be afterwards
conveyed to Egypt, and from thence to Syria, near the
sacred tomb of the Prophet, that I might enlighten
myself with new light, and my days be wholly devoted
to the happiness of my family, and far from the
hazards of war, the theatre of which I abandoned forever
to the domination of France, in execution of the will of
the Almighty, who lowers or raises empires as he
pleases. Fur from these sacred promises having been
fulfilled, I and mine have been subjected to captivity,
without being able to cause justice to be rendered to me.
Napoleon, after his abdication in 1815, went to seat
himself at the British hearth, and notwith-
standing the sympathies which his great defeat
inspired, English policy inflicted on him torture
on the rock of St. Helena. One of his noble
nephews has also been subject to exile and imprison-
ment! But moral tortures have an end. God so wills it,
and enlightens the temporal government. If the mis-
fortunes with which I have been assailed in my family,
which has been decimated since my captivity—if the
sufferings of my poor mother, old and infirm, can excite
some interest in the hearts of the French people, and

especially in those of wives end mothers, I demand of
the chief of the French Government to fulfil the pro-
mises that were made to me by the Generals of Africa,
and to accord me the liberty of going on parole, with
my family, into Syria to follow the precepts of our reli-
gion. Grateful for such an act of clemency and justice,
I would pray our God to bestow on France and her
chiefs all his great consolations and blessings. I rely on
the wisdom of the President of the Republic and of the
National Assembly,

"Thu Emir ABDEL-KADER.

" Amboise, 27 Moharrem, 1265 (llec. 23, 1848)."
The Journal des Debats says it is announced that
M. Guizot has written in London a work entitled
" De la D4mocratie en France," which will be pub-
lished in Paris in the course of the next month.

The Akbar gives the following es the result of the
votes irk the three provinces of Algeria :—Louis Na-
poleon, 38,314; l;avaignae, 20,854 Larnartino,
3,024 ; Ledru Rollin, 5,403; Raspail, 142.