The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-28 00:00:00

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FRANCE.
The Presse mentions the following nominations in
the diplomatic corps ;—Baron de Talleyrand, now
Secretary of Legation at St. Petersburgh, will be
named Minister Plenipotentiary at Weymar, a post
which has been suppressed since 1848; M. Engel-
hard, Consul of France and Member of the Rhenish
Commission, is named Minister at Carlsruhe ; M.
Menneval removes from Carlsruhe to Munich. M.
de Guitant-Cenuninge has just been named Secre-
tary of Legation at Turin.
Lient. Stack, of the English army, has had an
audience of the Prince President, for the purpose of
presenting to him a copy of a work on St. Helene,
with several engravings executed from sketches taken
by Lieut. Stack when in garrison on that island.
This work bad been dedicate.d to Louis Napoleon.
The Prince received tbe. author very graciously, and,'
after expressing to him- fits grateful sense of the
attention paid in the work to the memory of the Em-;
peror, gave an order for a considerable number of
copies for the public libraries and other establishments.
Bocher, ex-representative, underwent an inter-
rogation yesterday, from M. Lasbout, Procureur of
the Republic.
M. Adolphe Le Roy de. Saint Arnaud, only son of
the Minister of War, Who has been servingaince j
1851 in.the Ist Regiment of Hussars, has just died
itaitassi4r,— aged 19. They cause of 'death was ate

inflammation of the lungs from a cold taken by this
young soldier in assisting to extinguish a fire.
The mixed Commission of the Var has given a
great number of decisions. 620 persons compromised
in the events of December have been set at liberty
by the Prefect in virtue of the different decisions.
The Journal du Loiret states that M. Guinard,
who was condemned by the High Court of Justice of
Versailles fur taking part in the insurrection of June
13, has just been pardoned by the President of the
Republic.
General Lamoriciere, says the Presse, has just
fixed his residence at Brussels, where he has taken a
house.

In consequence of a dispute which arose at the last
ball at the Tuileries, and which occasioned much an-
noyance to the company, a hostile meeting took place
on Tuesday between the parties concerned—namely,
M. Pierre Peyris and M. Juan Jose Vidante. The
weapon chosen was the sword, and two sharp attacks
took place. The first passed over without either of
the combatants being hurt, but in the second,
both were wounded very slightly, M. Vidante
in the right hand,and M. Peyris in the right leg. The
seconds then put an end to the encounter. A state.
merit to the above effect has appeared in the evening
journals, signed by M. Amedee de Cesena and Dr.
Busscbaert, of the 6th regiment of the line, for M.
Peyris, and by Colonel Gaertner, of the Spanish ser-
vice, and M. Edouardo Jimenes de Montalvo, for M.
Vidante. M. Peyris is an officer of the French army;
M. Vidante is in the Spanish service.
The coinage of gold and silver pieces from the new
dies engraved by M. Barre, and which bear the effigy
of the President of the Republic, has commenced at
the Mint on an extensive scale.
The Bank of France having lately found that a
great number of the pieces of sf. which reach it are
hollowed and filled with lead, has been obliged to
have the contents of each bag examined separately.
The pieces so tampered with lose about two-thirds of
their value.