The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-03 00:00:00

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FRANCE.
The number of young men, who have inscribed
their names this year as candidates for admission after
a severe examination into the special schools, amount,
for St. Cyr, to 628 ; for the Polytechnic, 314 ; Wood
and Forests, 43 ; and Naval School, 145.
The Civil Tribunal was this week called on to de-
cide a rather singular question—namely, whether a
party to a lawsuit has a right to sue his advocate for
damages for real or fancied neglect. The Tribunal
held that there is no remedy in such a case, the advo-
cate being responsible to his conscience alone.
Captain Bruckner, of the artillery, representative
of the people, quitted France after the events of De-
cember, and when called on some time after to take
the oath prescribed by the Constitution, he refused
by letter to do so, in terms very insulting to the Pre-
sident of the Republic, and he also neglected to re-
turn to France. The Minister of War accordingly
ordered that he should be tried by court-martial, fore
having, contrary to the army regulations, been
absent
from the country for more than a fortnight without
leave, The trial took place yesterday ; 3g. Bruckner
did not appear, and the court sentenced him to be
dismissed from the army.
The number of travellers, who arrived in Paris
during the last month, exclusive of those from the
towns and communes in the immediate neighbour-
hood, amounted to 30,648, of whom 24,598 came
from the interior of France and 6,050 from abroad.
Among the former were I,Blel public functionaries,
1,715 military men, 4,208 merchants, 11,724 arti-
sans, and 4,813 proprietors and. rentiers. Among the
12 Americans,
foreigners were 2,313
38 Africans, 73Eng11sb' Austrians,s
10 80-179
179 rrussians' Baden, 33 Saxons,
20 60 Bavarians, 53 from
42 axons
20 Ranoverians, 44 NFurte m 64 rf
.oeress,,
1 5 Belgians,Swedes, 9
209 Dutcb, 108
Russians,Bo Spanish, 6 Hungarians,
Norwegians, 34 Danes,
454 Swiss, 241 Italians, 15 Neapolitans, 44 Sardi-
thins, 2.42 Savoyards, 2 Haitians, 7 Greeks, and 23
Brazilians-
The Constitutionnel says—
„ The, Charlemagne screw line-of-battle ship has ter-
minated her experimental trip. The result responds to
the hopes formed with respect to the simultaneous em-
vioyment of sails and steam on board large vessels. The
bharlemagne, which left Toulon on 28th March last, was
ordered to make comparative trials of the two systems,
and to show the French flag in the different ports of the
Mediterranean, Greece, and Turkey. She put into
Smyrna, and returned to Toulon a few days ago, after
having visited Algiers. The sailing of the vessel was
most sattsfactory; with sails her average speed was
from eight to nine knots an hour, and with steam from
nine to ten in a dead calm. It was at first supposed that
with the latter she would only go seven knots. When,
in order to reach the anchorage of Palma, she had to
tack and to employ both steam and sails, her speed with
a fresh breeze and little sea was from 11 to 12 knots.
Doubts had been raised as to the solidity of the vessel,
which, to admit of the screw, had to undergo a transfor-
mation, which might have shaken her after-part; but
these fears have been entirely dissipated."
The Siecle has an article upon the army- for the
purpose of showing the deficient state of education in
France. Out of 242,104 soldiers of the line 73,471
"can neither read nor write, 32,726 can barely read,
leaving only 97,270, independent of sub-officers and
corporals, who could read and write. The cavalry is
better instructed, hOwever, out of 55,922 there are
14,132 in complete ignorance, 7,629 could barely
read. The proportion of men Who could read and
write is greater in the artillery. But the general re-
sult
is, that in an army numbering 364,675 soldiers,
102,551 can neither read nor write, and 48,098 could
barely read. The Minister of War had ordered
46,000 men to attend the regimental schools. With
respect to recruits,
had in 1 800 ' out of 167,548 young men who
presented themselves for service, 60,947
had been refused either on account of delicacy of con-
stitution, or, as in the case of 11,712, not coming up
to the small standard of height held sufficient in the
French service. Of the whole army 92,674 are
remp/acens, or, as the Siecle calls them, mercenaries,
because they have been induced for money to take
the places of conscripts drawn for service.