The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-23 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

FRANCE.

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The last number of the Courrier de la DrOnie con-
tains the following account of the proceedings of the
Commission appointed to decide on the fate of the
insurgents arrested in that department :
" The mixed Commission, constituted by the Ministers
of Justice, the Interior, and War, is performing its
duties without a moment's delay. It has set 383 indi-
viduals at liberty, who are placed under the surveillance
of the police. 900 are to be transported to Africa for
five years, 84 to Africa for ten years, 14 to Cayenne, 11
to be expelled the French territory; tha residence of 21
to be restricted to determined portions of the French
territory; 11 are to be tried by court-martial, and 16 by
the police-court. One individual who used seditious
language after he had been set at liberty was immediately
ordered for transportation to Africa."
A letter from Valenciennes mentions that the
Princess Naraki, granddaughter of the Emperor
Nicholas of Russia, had arrived in that town. She
is accompanied by the Lady Superior of the Order of
Se. Vincent de Paul. The object of her visit is to
become a member of the Sisters of Providence.
During a journey to Paris after the death of her
father she abjured the Russian-Greek faith, and
became a Catholic. The Princess was edified by the
exemplary life of the Sisters of the Congregation of
St. Vincent de Paul, and she has resolved to finish
her life among them.
The first procession of beeuf gras took place yes-
terday, and was not inferior to any before the revolu-
tion of February. The Bouvelards and the streets
through which the cortege passed were thronged
with people. At ten o'clock the cortege issued from
the Hippodrome in presence of an admiring and oven
then crowdediattendance. It was opened with the
fanfares of trumpets ; then came the car of industry,
drawn by six white horses, and led by an allegorical
personage representing France, and having at his
side two persons, also allegorical, representing the
arts and sciences. Behind the car banners were
borne by operetlees, who had volunteered for the
duty. A band of military music preceded the Car
of Agriculture, drawn by two oxen with gilded horns,
and containing the Goddess that presides over the
harvests, accompanied by her mythological cortege,
and followed by banners borne by persons represent-
ing the various branches of the agricultural art.
The animal himself destined to be the great
ornament and the victim of the fete moved along
with much majesty ; he was a fine specimen of his
kids—large, but not too unwieldy, and well-propor-
tioned. The streets he passed throught it would be
too numerous to mention. The cortege stopped at
the Elysee, the English Embassy, the Russian Em-
hasay, the Foreign Office, and the hotels of the other
Ministers, the Prefecture, and other public establish-
meats, to receive the usual gratuity. The beeuf Bras,
after a second preoesnade on Tuesday, will be trans-
ferred to the abattoir, and'his earthly career ended.
The Moniteur contains a long report from the
Minister of Marine end Colonies to the Prince PRE-
tIDENT of the Republie, on the removal of the bagnes
out of France. He considers it desirable that French
Guyana should be choien as the seat of the new peni-
tentiary establishments, the climate being more tempe-
rate than might be supposed from the latitude, the ma-
lediee usual to hot countries very rare and not severe;
the average deaths at Cayenne are fewer than in the
tedjecsnt English colonies ; and there being vast
forests capable of supplying wood for civil and mili-
tary conQtructi3m, and there are no hostile tribes.
The Miaister then states that in order not to subject
eeviets to transportation against their will, wheb
would have been adding to the severity of the law,
he caused registers to he opened in the bagnes n;
Brest, Teulon , and Realtefera for receiving the mites
of these willing to go, and that already about thrze
thousand have voluNtrered. All, husv,:nz‘r, are not to
he sent oft at once; but are to go in detachments ;
and to prevent their escepe or, incoueenience to the
colony, they are to lot: deposited in islands near
the coast 7.2 71 the establishments on the
mainland s'n . be prepared. The convics
may, he Fii:y ', be
_employed in cultivating
the land, and to those woo conduct themselves well
concessions of land may be made. He has resolved
that the convicts shall he fed like prisoners of war, be
lodged like the troops in the colonial garrisons, and
be clothed as the climate may require. They will
not be required to wear chains, except as a means of
punishment. They are tar be kept in order by a
military force, gendarmes, police, &c. They are to
be accompanied by a chaplain, and an hospital is to be
established. The expense of the removal, es-
tablishment, &c., is estimated at 4,245,000 f,
for which credits were opened by the decrees of the
20th December and 9th January. The Minister
concludes by stating that a commission, nominated
by the departments of Justice and Marine, is engaged
in collecting the elements of a decree for regulating
for the future the transportation of convicts to Guyana,
and that after zuch a decree shall be passed the bagnes
will cease to ex: ee The PRESIDENT of the Republic
has expressed approbation of all the details of this
report.

We learn," says the Pays, "that the governors
of various provinces in Spain have forwarded to the
Ministry proclamations which had been seized, and
which were all worded in the view of a change in the
Spanish Government. These proclamations arrived
in the various provinces on February 2, the day of
MERINO'S attempt on QUEEN'S life."