The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-19 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Moniteur publishes the following letters which
have passed between General Cavaignac and the
Pope :
"FROM GENERAL CAVAIGNAC TO HIS HOLINESS.
" Paris, Dec. 3.
" Very Holy Father,—l address this dispatch and
another from the Archbishop of Nicea, your Nuncio to
the Government of the Republic, to your Holiness, by
one of my aides-de-camp.
" The French nation deeply afflicted at the troubles
with which your Holiness has been assailed within a
short period has been moreover profoundly affected at
the sentiment of paternal confidence which induced
your Holiness to demand, temporarily, hospitality in
France, which it will be happy and proud to secure
to you, and which it will render worthy of
itself and of your Holiness. I write to you therefore in
order that no feeling of uneasiness or unfounded appre-
hension may divert your Holiness from your first reso-
lution. The Republic, the existence of which is already
consecrated by the mature, persevering, and sovereign
will of the French nation, will see with pride your Holi-
ness give to the world the spectacle of that exclusively
religious consecration which your presence in the midst
of it announces, and it will receive you with the dignity
and the religious respect which becomes this great and
generous nation. I have felt the necessity of giving
your Holiness this assurance, and I heartily desire that
your arrival may take place without much delay.
" It is with those sentiments, Very Holy Father, that
I am your respectful son,

" General CAVAIGNAc."

The following is the reply of his Holiness :
" Monsieur le G6Kieral,--I addressed you a letter
through the medium of M. de Corcelles to express my
feelings and my extreme gratitude to France. That gra-
titude increases more and more in seeing the new steps
you are taking towards me in your own name and in that
of France by sending me one of your aides de-camp with
a letter, offering me hospitality in a land which has
been, and ever will be, fertile in characters emi-
ninently Catholic and devoted to the Holy See. And
here my heart feels the necessity of again assuring you
that a favourable opportunity will not fail to present
itself when I may extend with my own hand my apos-
tolic benediction over the great and generous French
family.
" Although Providence has conducted me by surpris-
ing. roads to the place in which I an 3 at present, without
the least premeditation or the least concert on my part,
that does not prevent me, even here, from prostrating
myself before God, whose Vicar, though unworthy, I
am. supplicating Him to shed llis grace and his bene-
dictions on you and on all France.
" Given at Gaeta, 10th December, 1848.
" Pius PAPA NoNus."

BANK OF FRANCE.
The following is a return of the situation of the Bank
of France on the 14th of December, 1848:

ASSETS.

Cash and ingots
Ditto in branch banks
Bills past due ••• ••• •••
Bills falling due in Paris, of which

. . ... f. 138,067,641 82
... . . 111,246,545 00
153,677 67

14,761,242 f. 47c. are from the branch
banks
Bills in the branch banks . 107,766,955 45
Advances on coins and ingots... ... 15,062,825 00
Ditto on French public securities ... 33,603,746 65
Ditto by branch banks... ... 1,529,338 00
Ditto to the State on Bons du Tresor... 50,000,000 00
Ditto on the loan of 150 millions ... 50,000,000 00
Rentes of the reserve fund ... 10,000,000 00
Rentes, disposable funds ..• ... 34,766,288 62
Investments of the new branch banks in
the public funds ... 12,806,741 39
Hotel anti furniture of the Bank ... 4,000,000 00
Real property of the branch banks ... 2,478,824 00
Loan of 10,000,000 f. to the city of Paris 5,500,000 00
Interest in National Discount Bank ... 200,000 00
Ditto branch banks ... 230,000 00
Bills protested at Paris ... ••• 11,948,890 95
Ditto at the branches ... ... 6,607,663 00
Expenses of administration of the Bank 1,081,673 00
Ditto of the branches ... ... 510,193 00
Miscellaneous ... ... 570,118 46
Consolidation of Treasury Bonds ... 7,848,847 36

f. 665,972,744 84