The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-05 00:00:00

FRANCE.
The number of young men who have inscribed
their names this year as candidates for admission, after
a severe examinat ion, 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 siingular question—namely, whether a
party to a law suit 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 ao, 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, for
having, contrary to the army regulations, been absent
from the country for more than a fortnight without
leave. The Hal took place on Friday ; M. Bruckner
did not appear, and the court sentenced him to be
dismissed from the army.
The numleer of travellers, who arrived in Paris
during the last month, exclusive of those from the
towns and corner-Ames in the immediate
neighbour-
hood, amounted to 30,648, of whom 24,598 came
from the interior of Fr :mace and 6,050 from abroad.
Among the former were 1,821 public functionaries,
1,715 military men, 4,208 merchants, 11,724 arti-
sans, and 4,2x13 proprietors and rentiers. Among the
foreigners were 2.313 English, 512 Americans,
38 Africans, 179 Prussians, 73 Austrians, 10 Bo-
hemians, 60 Bavarians, 53 from Baden, 33 Saxons,
20 Hanoverians, 44 Wurterobergers, 842 Belgians,
209 Dutch, 108 Russians, 64 roles, 5 Swedes, 9
Norwegians, 34 Danes, 80 Spanish, 6 Hungarians,
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454 Swiss, 241 Italians 15 Neapolitans, 44 Sardi-
nians, 242 Savoyards, 2lelaitians, 7 Greeks, and'23
Brazilians.
The amstitutionnel says—:
" The Charlemagne screw hne.of-battle ship has ter-
minated her experimental trip. The result responds to
wi'4dh respect to the simultaneous em-
the hopes formed
ployment of stiils.anh, steam on board large vessels. The
h left Toulon on 08th March last, was
Charlemagne, w- - • "
neake comparative trials of the two systems,
ordered to
and to show the French flag in the different ports of the
eau, Greece, and Turkey. She put into
Illediterr An
e and returned to Toulon a few days ago, after
having visited Algiers. The sailing of the vessel was
most satisfactory; with sails her average speed was
from eight to nine knots an hour, and with steam from
sine 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 Palms, she had to
tack and to employ both :team 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-
suit is, that in an army numbering 364,675 soldiers,
102,551. can neither read nor write, and 48,098 h could
ordered
barely read. The Minister of War
46,000 men to attend the regimental schoosid s. iv
respect to recruits, out of 167,548 young men who
had in 1.850 presented themselves for service, 60,947
had been refused either on account of delicacy of con-
stitution, or, Es in the case 11,712, not coming up
to the fall standard of h '
of
French service. height held sufficient in the
Of the whole army 92,674 are
renzpkeens,
Or, as the c" (ide calls them, mercenaries,
because they have been induced for money to take
the planes of
conscripts drawn for service.