The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-03 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

COUNT DE MONTALEMBERT

REFUSES. PARDON.

PARIS, DEc, 2.
The following appears in the Moniteur of this

morning :
"M. de Montalembert lodged an appeal after
having become cognisant of the decision of the
Emperor relieving him from the penalties involved
in the sentence passed upon him. The competent.
tribunals will give due consideration to the gnus-
lions to which his appeal may give rise.
" We see no harm in publishing the Protest :
" Paris, Dec. 2, 1858,
" M. le Redacteur,—The 3loniteur of this morn-
ing contains, in its non-official part, intelligence
which reached me otherwise while I was reading
it. It is in these words:—" The Emperor, on
occasion of the anniversary of the 2d December,
has relie'ved M. le Comte de Montalembert from
the penalties involved in the sentence passed upon
him."

" Condemned on the 24th November, I lodged
within the time specified by the law, an appeal
against the sentence of which I was the object. No
power in France has the right to remit a penalty
which is not definitive. I am one of those who
still believe in right, and will accept no favour. I
request, and if need be I require, you, in terms of
article 11 of the law of 1822, to insert this letter in
your next number.
" ' Accept, sir the assurance of my distinguished
consideration.

(Signed) " D. MONTALEMBERT.

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

The following telegram was received at Mr,
Reuter's office, Dec. 3:
PARIS, FRIDAY, DEC. 3.

The Moniteur of this morning announces that the
Count de Montalembert, after having been informed
of the pardon granted to him by the Emperor,
still insists upon his appeal to the superior Court
of Justice.

Competent tribunals will decide whether the
appeal can be sustained.
The 3foniteur also publishes the protestation of
the Count de Montalembert against the pardon,
saying " That having made his appeal against the
sentence passed upon him within the time fixed by
law, no power in France is at the present time
able to remit a sentence which is not yet definitely
decided." Count de Montalembert concludes thus :
I am one of those who still believe in Right, and
do not accept the pardon."

The following telegrams have been received al
Mr. Reuter's office :

MADRID, DEC. 1.

The Queen -has opened the Cortes to-day, and
was received with great enthusiasm by the mem-
bers and the people.

PARIS, THURSDAY.

The following is the increase in the receipts of
the principal French Railways for the week ending
Nov. 25 :

Paris and Lyons 303,000f.
Paris and Strasbourg
Midi

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY MORNING.
Shortly after midnight the screw steamship Kan-
garoo arrived at this port from New York, with
advices to the 20th ult., 181 passengers, and the
United States mails. Her advices contain little
beyond what the Indian, from Quebec, brought
yesterday.
Walker's movements were closely watched, and
it was not expected his emigration expedition
would be allowed to sail from Mobile.

There was a report current in Washington, hav-
ing its birth in Madrid, that France and England
intend creating Cuba and Porto Rico into a semi-
independent monarchy.
The Indian's advices give the commercial news
with the exception of cotton and freights. The
sales of cotton embraced 1,300 bales on the bases of
111 c. for middling uplands, with a firm market.
There was little doing in freights, and nothing
new to London and Glasgow.

FRANCE.

PARIS, THURSDAY.

What value is set by M. de Montalembert on the
" act of grace " announced with affected face-
tiou4hess may be seen from the following letter
just received by his Eminence the Cardinal Arch-
bishop of Paris :
" Paris, Nov. 29, 1858.

" Monseigneur,—The number of the Indepen-
dance Beige received this day in Paris announces
that your Eminence, ' after having already taken
various steps in my favour, intended to intercede
with the Empress in order to obtain a remission of
the penalty which has been pronounced against
me.'

" I am aware that entire credit should not be
attached to assertions of this nature, but the im-
mense publicity of the journal that contains them-
' and the emotion produced among my friends, im-
pose on me the duty of pointing out this language
to your Eminence, and of protesting, if need be,
against the intentions it supposes.
" Proud and honoured by a condemnation which
proves my fidelity to the political principles of my
whole life, and which comes so opportunely to
justify in the eyes of Europe and of posterity all
that I have said or thought on the actual condition
of France, I have at this moment no other desire
than to leave to my judges the responsibility of
their acts, and I could only regard in the light of
a real wrong (injure) the slightest favour emanating
from the Imperial Government.

" In the midst of the changes of Which I have
been the witness, and of the trials of Which I have
been the victim, my honour has remained intact.
It is to preserve it from all attempt, even in appear-
ante, that I take the liberty of expressing to your
Eminence a disquietude perhaps superfluous, but
perfectly legitimate.—l have the honour to be,
Monseigneur, your Eminence's very humble and
obedient servant, CII. DE MONTALEMBERT."

The Cardinal Archbishop replied to the foregoing
in a letter dated the 30th of November, to the
effect that he never had the intention attributed to
him by the Independance Beige.
The following letter has been addressed to the
llloniteur

" M. le Redacteur,—The Moniteur of this morn
ing contains in its unofficial part a piece of news
which I learn on reading that paper. It is to this
effect—

• " H.M. the Emperor, on the 'occasion of the an-
niversary of the 2d of Dember, has remitted, in
favour of Count de Montalembert, the penalty pro-
nounced against him.'

" Condemned on the 24th of November, I have
appealed, within the term allowed by the law,
against the sentence pronounced against me,
" No Government in France has had, up to the
present the right to remit a penalty which is not
definitive.

" I am of those who still believe in right, and
who do not accept a favour.
" I pray you, and, if need be, require you to be
good enough to insert this letter in your next
number.

" CH. DE MONTALEMBERT."

The illegality of this remission of the sentence is
clear. It is possible that the upper Court will
reverse it, and until it be either reversed or con-