The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-21 00:00:00

ROME.

Advices from Ferrara of the Bth at noon announce the
arrival at that hour of an estafette from Rome to the
Prolegate, with dispatches ordering him to intimate to
the Austrians to evacuate the Pontifical States; arid to
state that, in case of refusal, measures have been agreed
to between the French and English Ambassadors to ob-J
Lain the execution of the order.

In the sitting of the Bth, of the Roman Chamber oft,
Deputies, Cardinal SOGLIA read the following declara-
tion, signed by all the Ministers:—
"Ills Holiness has firmly resolved to defend his States
against the Austrian invasion, with all the means that the,
State and the well-regulated enthusiasm of his people mar.
furnish. His Holiness loudly denies, by our organ, the words/
of Marshal Welden, protesting against whatever sinister in-1
terpretation may have been given to his expressions, and de-1
daring that the conduct of Marshal Welden is considered by!
his Holiness as hostile to the Holy See and to the Pontiff.
who cannot intend, nor intends, to separate the cause of his
people from his own, and considers every insult or damage
done to the people as done to himself; and his Holiness has
already declared this by solemn acts, and with all the autho-
rity of his supreme rank of Prince and Pontiff, as may also be
proved from the following Aispatch.
(Signed) " CARDINAL_SoarAA, President;;

fABEEI;"DE Rossi; LAURI ; GUARI ; PERFETTI.

The dispatch alluded to is dated the Bth, and ad-
dressed to Cardinal MARINI, Legate of Fedi, command-
ing him to proceed immediately, accompanied by Prince
cosiNx, senator of Rome, and Prince SIDEONETTI, t
Marshal WELDEN, and demand of him an explanation of
his congmt, and intimate to him the immediate evacu-
ation orThe provinces ; or his HOLINESS will employ
all the means in his power to repulse the unjust occu-
pation.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PRIZE MONEY FOR THE ACTXON.

Mr. Chippendale has annpunced to Captain Mansel and
the officers and company late of the Actwon, 26, that a dis-
tribution of the nett proceeds of the brigantine, name un-
known, captured on the 3d of April, 1846, will be made at
the officef the agent, No. 10, John-street, Adelphi, on and
after the Bth of September, 1848:--
Captain ... £9l 18 9
First class (lieutenants) ..• ... 20 19 7
Second class (surgeon, purser, master, and war-
rant-officers) ... 12 11 9i
Third class (midshipmen, Ist class petty-
offioers, &c.) ... 6 510
Fourth class (2d class petty-officers) 4 3 11
ifth class (able and ordinary seamen) 2 1
Sixth class (landmen and marines) ... 1 711
Seventh class (boys) ... 013 11
This distribution is made under the old order in Council,
which is much more fair and equitable than the new distri-
bution of prize money, a specimen of which we gave on
Wednesday, in the announcement of prize money for the
officers and men late of the Styx. Above it will be seen
that the captain has one-eighth of the whole, and about 4}
times more than the officer next in rank to him, the lieute-
nant, and about 30 times more than the able seaman ;
whereas, according to the new allocation, the captain
gets 7i times more than the lieutenant, and nearly 70 times
more than ;the A.B. According to the old scale the
lieutenant gets 1 2-3 times more than the surgeon, purser,
mate, &c., and 10 times more than the A.B. ; but the new
scale gives him twice as much as his subordinate officers.
What indiced the Admiralty to "amend" the old scale of
distribun of prize money, after this unjust and dispro-
portionate fashion. we cannot, at the present moment,
divine. Commanders were plentiful enough for coast of
Africa or any other service ; lieutenants, however, were, as
they are now, certainly with good reason, very shy of the
station. The alteration, indeed, in giving the commander
7 times more than the lieutenant, instead of 4 2-3 times
more, which he was, under the old scale, entitled to receive,
was certainly rather a novel method of inducing men of corn-
iisense to volunteer to serve on the most deadly station
iirTaz world. The inconsistency here, however, is something
more than ridiculous—it is, to use the mildest term, a posi-
tive injury, which we trust will soon be repaired by the pre-
sent Board of Admiralty.— Herald.

PRWAOTIOIIII.

Mates—Henry Anson Ford (1847), senior of the St. Vin-
cent, 120, and senior but two of the mates eligible for pro-
motion ; Rowley Lambert (1847), who has just passed ; and
Arthur Bessell Hodgkinson, recently passed, have been pro-
moted to the rank of Lieutenant.