The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-14 00:00:00

ITALY.

The following proclamation has been addresaed by
the Chamber of Deputies of Rome to the people of
the Pontifical States : . ,

A document, said to bn signed by the Sovereign
Pontiff at Gaeta on the 27th of November, has been
published, containing a protest of nullity against the acts
of his Government, and naming an administrative
commission, some members of which have already left
the country. This document has aw,ketad the at-
tention of the deputies, to provide fur the protection
of constitnikinal rights and public order. With this in-
tention the Chamber, in the public sitting of last night,
came to the following resolutions :-1. The Chamber
of Deputies, finding that the act alleged to be signed by
the Sovereign Pontiff at Gaeta, has no character, either
of -authenticity or regular publicity, and thut even iv it bad,
it would not bear the character of constitutional right,
to which the Sovereign is subject as well as the nation,
could not therefore submit to it; and, moreover, as
the Chamber must submit to the law of ne-
cessity of having a government, declares that the
actual ministers shall continue to exercise their func-
tions till further orders; 2. A deputation of the Chamber
shall be immediately sent to his Holiness, to invite
him to return to Rome; 3. The High Chamber shall be
invited to make a similar declaration, and to add some
of its own members to the deputation which is to be sent
to his Holiness; 4. A proclamation shall be addressed to
the people of Rome and of the Pontificial States, .to in-
form them of the measures taken by the Chamber of
Deputies, and another to the Civic Guards, to invite
them to protect public order. The Chamber of Deputies,
while it publishes the resolutions it has thought it its duty
to adopt in the general interest, in the midst of the pre-
sent serious circumstances, hopes with confidence that
the people will preserve the firm, virtuous, and calm
attitude ,by which it has up to this moment belied
calumny, broken the weapons of hatred, and deserved
well of the country."
The Marquis SCCHETTI has been sent to the POPE
to announce to him that order and tranquillity pre-
vailed at Rome and in the provinces, and to learn his
HouDiEss's final determination, in order that public
business might not suffer any impediment from the
absence of one of the three powers of the State.
The Alba of Florence states from Rome, 4th inst.,
that the five deputies sent to the POPE to invite him
to return to Rome are, FUSCONI, Vice-President of
the Chamber ; the Abbe Num ; Prince CORSINI,
senator; PIERRI and ARRIGHI, members of the High
Council. The people seem to desire an Executive
Commission or a Provisional Government.
The Genoa Gazette states from Rome, 4th inst.,
that when the protest of the PorE, and particularly
the members of the commission of Government, who
are all of the retrograde party, became known, a cer-
tain agitation was perceptible among the people,
as the forerunner of another storm. The Chamber
declared the protest unconstitutional, but the
Ministry offered to resign notwithstanding. The
Chamber expressed itself in favour of their remaining
in (Ace, so that a mere modification took place,
SERENI and LUNATI retiring, and their portfolios
being give❑ to STERBINI and MAZZARELLI. Zuccui
and Lis partisans have organized their opposition to
the Government at Bologna. The Roman Ministry
take no decisive steps either to find money or arms,
but limit their action to the mere maintenance of
order.

The Conciliatore of Florence, of the 6th, has the
fol!owing :—" We can state positively that a treaty
has been concluded between France, Piedmont, and
Naples. Official intelligence to this effect was brought
by couriers to our Government yesterday morning.
This treaty, offensive and defensive, between Russia,
Prussia' and Austria, appears to be a thing decided
upon. We can give a positive assurance that it is
not true that the Government has received news
on the subject of the treaty between France, Pied-
mont, and Naples, as the Conciliatore affirms. Five
delegates have been sent to the POPE, to invite
him to return to Rome. They are Messrs.
FUSCONI, Vice President of the Chamber
of Deputies ; Nizzt, Deputy ; Prince COR-
SINI, Senator; PEIRRI and ARRIGHI, members
of the Upper Chamber. We learn from Civita
Vecchia, under the date of the sth, that on that
morning a French steam-boat hat arrived, which
had left Marseilles on the evening of the first, having
on board a member of the French diplomatic body,
M. DE LA TOUR DU PIER, who, it was declared, was
proceeding to Gaeta."

WEST RIDING ELECTION.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
At eleven o'clock this morning, the numbers, accord-
ing to Mr. Denison's committee, were—
Denison ... ... 1,823
Radley 1,297
A dispatch, dated one o'clock, states that Mr. beni-
son's numbers were improving in all the districts except
Wakefield and Birstal.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE,
Cape of Good Hope journals of the 6th October
have reached us, which represent the frontier as
quiet and satisfactory. Pretorius was still at large,
but with few followers. His Excellency the Go-
vernor, Sir H. Smith, was expect€d back at Cape
Town between the 24th and the 28th of the month.
All cause of uneasiness had subsided, at least for the
present, and the people looked forward with con-
Hence to more peaceable and prosperous times, the
commencement of which they had already somewhat
realised.

LIABILITIES OF SPAIN.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sia,—ln your estimable paper is given yesterday,
in your mention of Spain, a statement from Madrid,
that the Government is intriguing with a resident
banker, to effect, at length, something for the unfor-
tunate creditors of that State, to supersede the neces-
sity of Palmerstonian interference, or a revival of
agitation, that my successors of the line assumed by
the late Lord George Bentinck, may contemplate.
The article in question is verbatim and evidently
originating with a morning paper, the political predi-
lections of which render their announcements of
Spanish intelligence open to grave suspicion; and, in
the present instance, the mischievous absurdity of the
whole statement will be evident, by reference to the
recent meeting of Spanish bondholders, on Monday,
the 27th of last month, where an application of Bri-
tish merchants, on behalf of creditors, strengthened
by cordial continental co-operation, was unanimously
adopted, and transmission iu due course assured.
.s.ucli as I feel interested on this subject, I should
not have presumed to solicit your notice, but for a re-
markable letter in your impartial paper (the 14th Jan.,
this year), in reply to your numerous readers at
Plymouth, and which contains wholesome and incon-
trovertible truths of the position of bondholders, to
which all may refer.
Since that period severe visitations have still more
reduced the nominal value of bonds, but strong hopes
of fair adjustment are now entertained, from men of
unquestionable honour and standing in the commer-
cial world temperately, but firmly, advancing their
claims on the attention of Spain.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
A SPANISH BONDHOLDER.
London, Dec. 13, 1848.

ERRATUM.—The rental of 10,000 acres of land in
the first table in Mr. Rigby Wason's letter, published
yesterday. was, by a typographical error, mentioned as
being Si.-in place.of ss. per acre.;
TIIE DISCOVERER OF NEPTUNE.—At the anniver-
sary meeting of the Royal Society the Copley medal
was awarded to J. C. Adams, Esq., for his investiga-
tions relative to the disturbances of Uranus, and for his
applies tion of the inverse problemof perturbations thereto.
—Cambridge Advertiser.
AWFUL DESTITUTION IN LEICESTER- SQUARE.—
Leicester-square, for the last month, has been disturbed
in its length and breadth by a rising of the Poles. These
Poles have maintained their ground stoutly for a few
weeks, but the strong arm of the law has been called in
to disperse them, and those who refuse to " move on,"
will very quickly be taken up, and bound down not to
disturb the small piece of vegetation in Leicester-square
any more. The interior shows all the signs of a civil
war: here a barricade with an overturned wheelbarrow,
there a summer-house turned inside out, and everywhere
there are heaps of stones, remnants of clay pipes, paper
caps, and abandoned pickaxes ; whilst oyster-shells
strew the ground in every direction, and a flattened
pewter-pot, the shape of which is seemly recognisable,
shows at one coup d'ceil how fierce has been the strife.
The poor King, too, whose name is buried in the dust
of ages, looks sadly forlorn and ashamed of himself,
pointing in melancholy dumbness to the Poor Man's
Guardian Society, as if he should like a basin of soup
unconarro.ily, to comfort him in these hard times.—Punch.
CATTLE BONES.—There have been within these
few days an unusually large number of arrivals of vessels
from Buenos Ayres. They have, in more than one in-
stance, inc:uded several in one day. One vessel, the
Mary Queen of S 0 s, which has just arrived from the
place, has brought, besides a large quantity of tallow,
hides, skins, and horns, the large quantity of 75,000
bones of cattle, a remarkable proof of the productive-
ness of the district fur such supplie?.
Among the timber sold by auction in London last
week were 3,980 pieces of oak from Mount Olympus.