The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-07 00:00:00

It was generally believed in Paris yesterday that
the POPE had gone to Naples, and that his Holiness
would take up his abode for some time in that city.
"We have reason to believe," says the Presse,
" that a dispatch has arrived from Turin, urgently
desiring to know what will be the attitude of the
French Cabinet in case the Austrians, without attack-
ing Bologna, should advance towards Rome by
Faenza, in accord with the King of NAPLES, in
whose states the HOLY FATLIER has sought his first
asylum."

The Debats says 31. D (aux has been for the
last three weeks in the department of the Nievre,
where he went to take some repose, after six months'
agitation and continued labour. He has written to
several friends to say that he should certainly have
voted for the order of the day motive in favour of
General CAVAIGNAC."

The Socialists of Lyons refuse to be bound by the
decision of the Democratic and Social Congress of
Paris on the question of the Presidency. They will
not accept LEDRU ROLLIN as their candidate, but
intend to start RASPAIL, who will, it is calculated,
poll 30,000 votes in the department of the Rhone
alone.

It was reported yesterday that the steamer, on
board which M. DE COECELLES had embarked for
Gaeta, had been compelled to put into Corsica by
stress of weather.

In a " communicated article" on the Italian ques-
tion, the Presse says, that in consequence of the ne-
gotiations, Austria and Sardinia hare undertaken to
refrain from all hostility with respest to Venice
during the winter.
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The Rtforme publishes the following letter from
M. CAUSSIDIERE to the Presse :
" Monsieur le Redacteur,—ln an intention, very
laudable without doubt, of claiming the arrears of pen-
sions and salaries of your Royalist friends, you stated in
your number of November 20, that the identity of repre-
sentation was religiously paid to MM. Bares, Caussi.•
diem, Louis Blanc, &c. The assertion is completely
false as far as Louis Blanc and myself are concerned.
We each of us charged a representative to draw the
money for the last fortnight of August. They received
at the Questors'-office the indemnity for eleven days, the
night of the 25th, in which we were the principal actors,
reckoning for a whole day. Since August 26, we have
received nothing from the present Government, and I
am not aware that my colleagues at Vincennes have been
more favoured. Like us, they have not voted the Con-
stitution.—Receive, &c. " CAUSSIDIERE."
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, DEC. 6.
Boulogne and Amiens, 6—Luxembourg (71.), %
Ditto (1.1. ), 2—Northern of France, 61A— Orleans and Bor-
deaux, 13%.

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 29th ult. have been re
eeived.

The Carlists have gained another important vic-
tory in Catalonia, having completely routed General
LORSUNDI'S column, and cut off four companies.
They, moreover, fell upon CORDOVA'S army, as he was
retreating on Barcelona, after his recent defeat, and
cut off his rear guard.
A party of Carlists have entered Mataro, a town of
more than 15,000 souls, and were in complete posses.
sion of it when the last accounts left. The town of
Vich, in Gerona, which has a population of 11,000
souls, is closely blockaded by the Carlists, and a large
party within the town are desirous of delivering it
into their hands. Carlist Guerillas are appearing in
Castile, and an outbreak may be shortly expected in
Navarre. EL ESTUDIENTE has increased his band to
100 men, 60 of whom are well mounted. They
keep the QUEEN'S troops in the neighbourhood of
Burgos in a perpetual state of alarm.
It appears, from an official statement, that the re-
gular troops in Catalonia last month consisted of
thirty-one battalions of infantry of the line, thirteen
battalions of light infantry, three regiment of cavalry,
viz., 9th and 11th Lancers and Ist Chasseurs ; the Ist
regiment of Artillery and 2 mountain batteries, and
four companies of Sappers and Mine's. In a paper,
evidently drawn up to show the necessity of the large
increase conceded to General CONCHA, it is stated that
the whole force in Catalonia amounts to 33,430 soldiers
and 1,324 horses, commanded by 141 chiefs and 1,375
officers ; but it is stated that of these soldiers 40,000
will have been discharged ere this from their term of
service having expired ; and that although the same
number of conscripts will have supplied their places,
they cannot be of any service as yet. It is further
stated that 15,383 men and 506 horses are employed in
garrison duty; that 3,390 men and 118 horses are " not
disposable ;'' and 693 men " out of the district ;"
and, in short, it is stated that the force actually ope-
rating against the Carlists, at the end of October, was
not more than 3,964 soldiers, with a proportional al-
lowance of officers, and 624 horses.

MADRID BOLSA, Nov. 29.—The Three per Cents.
191 11-16 sellers; and 9-16 i buyers after the close.
Five per Cents. 9 7-16 buyers, sellers Coupons,
5i buyers. Passive Debt, 8 9.16 buyers, sellers.
Bank Shares, 46 buyers, 50 sellers. Discount on
notes 14. Exchange on London, 48 35.

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

PRUSSIA.

It was rumoured that it was the intention of the
KING to dissolve the National Assembly. The The intelligence from Berlin is to the 4th instant.
ma-
jority, under the Presidency of UNRUH, have, in
consequence, issued the following proclamation to the
people of Prussia, denying the right of the KING
to dissolve the Constituent Assembly until its labours
shall have been completed. This most important pro-
clamation is as follows :
the
" Fellow-citizens,—When, by the March revolution,
long enslaved popular will acquired influence, you
sent hither the Prussian National Assembly with the
e new missioned to lay the foundation, legally and orderly, of
done for you by
ifies of the constitution. Nothing could be
an empty scheme of a constitution, one
wherein the old arbitrary system; the old tools of aris-
tocratic, bureaucratic, and military predominancy (that
which arrested ever
y pulsation of pop tar life) should
ab.2nseuwtfebraesdis,tonstremonaii
only i nfo rf utllli the ept iovliittL a 11n:i system,dem parnodpnedr lya'
sp2aking, but for communal, administrative, judicial,
and military affairs. It was in that sense tho
National Assembly understood its task, and ear-
nestly
,and perseveringly devoted itself to its

powers, and extraordinary influence in the Legisla-
ture, but it may find, that for once it has reckoned
without its host; that it has been guity of the
" vaulting ambition that overleaps itself," and that the
public will view with extreme jealousy any aggression
on the rights and interests of any portion of the com-
munity. A strict investigation into the circum-
-stances must take place, and if the directors should
be proved to have acted in violation of the terms of
their charter, they must be taught that even their
extraordinary powers cannot shelter them from the
consequences of their own acts—that they should have
recollected and acted upon the old adage—
" Ne sutor ultra Crepidant."

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
There was a report circulated in the lobbies of the
National Assembly on Tuesday night, to the effect
that CHARLES ALBERT had been poisoned. The
Gazette de France alludes to this report, but gives
no particulars. The rumour did not meet with ge-
neral credence.
The expedition to Civita Vecchia has not sailed,
and has been countermanded in consequence of the
arrival of the Pors at Gaeta.
The Debats says—
" Letters received yesterday in Paris state that the
Holy Father is gone to Malta. Malta, as is well known,
is an English island, the general population of which is
Catholic, and the Governor, M. O'Ferrall, is Catholic,
and there is also a Catholic Bishe p. Nevertheless, we
doubt the truth of this news. We think that it is more
probable that the Pope has sought an asylum in the
kingdom of Naples. It is easy to believe that Pius IX.
would be unwilling to quit the soil of Italy till the last
extremity. All Governments, not only Catholic but
Christian, will have contended for the honour of offering
pious hopitality to the Sovereign Pontiff; but Italy has
naturally the first claim. Pius IX. cannot have re-
nounced the hope, however illusory it may be, of seeing
the Romans come to a repentance of their own suicide.
At all events, if the head of the Catholic world has
thought of waiting in Naples the effects of the remorse
of a people as ungrateful as they are blind, we feel con-
fident that he will have gone under the protection of the
flag of the French Embassy, which was due to him, and
will not have failed him."
We read in the Credit:—
" A rumour has prevailed that the Pope had arrived
at Malta, on board the Tonnare. In reproducing this re-
port, which must be received with a certain reserve, we
consider it our duty to make every inquiry into the
matter. The following is what we can affirm on autho-
rity worthy of all our respect :—Pius IX., before the
sacrilegious attack of the Quirinal, which followed the
murder of M. Rossi, foresaw in a future, which we, how-
ever, did not think so near at hand, the necessity which
he might be under to quit the States of the Church; and
as we have already said, he turned his eyes towards
France. But, in the last moments which preceded his
unexpected and precipitate dispossession of power, he
perceived, we are informed, a difficulty in the way of
the realisation, at least immediately, of his desire.
Pius IX., driven from Rome by a Bonaparte, could nut
demand hospitality in France from a Bonaparte. His
Holiness, in consequence, resolved, it is said, to await
at Malta the result of the election of the President of
the Republic ; and, according to the choice which
shall be then made, he will proceed to Majorca, which
the Queen of Spain places at his disposal, or repair to
Paris."