The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-06 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.
PARIS, JAN. 3.—We have received the following letter
from our Correspondent at Toulon, dated Dec. 30 :
" I have announced to you that Marshal Clausel was to
come to give an account to the Chamber of Deputies of
the causes which led to the unfortunate issue of the expedi-
tion to Constantine :my information was correct. A let-
ter, written on board the Montebello, which arrived in the
road the day before yesterday, says that vessel left at Tou-
lon the Castor steam-boat, with the Marshal on board.
" On its arrival here the Castor will be immediately ad-
mitted. The Marshal may, therefore, set out without de-
lay. It is to be remarked, that the packet on board which
the Governor-General of the North of Africa now is, sud-
denly left our port some days ago with despatches, which
were to be forwarded without delay, perhaps it carried to
the Marshal the order to return. The preparations for the
new expedition to Constantine occasion much bustle here.
We learn that Lieutenant-Colonel Delarue, Lieutenant-
Colonel Foy, and Captain Peilion, Aid-de-Camp to the
Minister of War, have arrived at Marsailles.
‘4 These officers are going on an extraordinary mission to
Africa—M. Delarue to Algiers, M. Foy to Bona, and M.

Pellion to Oran.
" These gentlemen, who are to embark on Sunday on
board the Ramar steam-boat, are commissioned, as we are
assured, to collect volunteers from the regiments now in
Africa who are inclined to join in the expedition to Con-

stantine.
" We have no news from the north of Africa, it is said
that there is no mail on board the Castor, which will very
soon arrive in the roads.—Constitutionnel, Jan. 4.
CADIZ, DEC. 19.—(From the Correspondence of the
Journal du ('ommerce.)—Don Sanchez del Villare, dean
of the Cathedral of Cordova ; Don Tadeo Pastrana, canon
of the same church ; Don Olalla Sanchez, advocate of Cor-
dova ; Don Martinez Brenez ; Don Maroto Ferrara ; Don
Istrias Calderon ; Don Celestino Labat, and Don Enrique
Lubets, who were arrested at Algesiras, and other parts of
Andalusia, have been conveyed to the prisons of Cadiz,
where they arrived on the 15th, to be there tried by the
Queen's orders. El Noticioso says that the first three in
particular, who formed part of the Carlist Junta of Cordova,
will be exemplarily punished, in order to awe other traitors,
and to revenge the blood of so many innocent persons, sacri-
ficed by the denunciations and perfidious instigations of
those partisans of the rebel Don Carlos.
PARIS, JAN 4.—lt is said that application will be made
to the Chamber for one million for the portion of the Queen
of the Belgians, and for a dotation of 200,000 francs per
annum for the Duke of Nemours.—Journal du Commerce,

Jan. 4.
CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, It --EDNESDAY, JAN. 4.
At 1 o'clock the drums of the National Guard announced
the arrival of the President, who was ushered in, in the
person of M. Benjamin Delessert, one of the four Vice-
Presidents. Not a single member was in attendance at
the opening of the sitting. M. Felix Real, one of the sec-
retaries, waited awhile before he ascended the tribune, and
read the proces-verbal in presence of five deputies.
The President next communicated to the Chamber a
number of letters written by members, excusing themselves,
on account of ill-health, for not having yet arrived i❑ Paris.
The sitting was suspended until 2 o'clock. In the in-
terval, the Ministers and Deputies entered the hall, and
there was about one-half of the number present, when

M. Duchatel, the Minister of Finances, ascended the tri-
bune, and read, in an audible voice, a project of law for
settling the accounts of 1834, and another for validating
the extraordinary sums laid out by Ministers during 1836
for unforeseen expenditures, and amounting to 19,000,000
francs, part of which, however, had been covered by a sur-
plus of revenues, exceeding 13,000,000 francs. The
Minister afterwards entered into a long justification of the
manner in which that extraordinary credit had been applied,
and demanded of the Chamber to sanction its application.
M. Duchatel afterwards presented the budget of re-
ceipts and expenditures for 1838. He prefaced this presen-
tation by a glowing picture of the state of prosperity which
the country had attained since the revolution of 1830,
which he ascribed to the wise system the Government had
followed ever since that period, and in which he hoped it
would persevere for the welfare of the country. He com-
pared the commercial situation of France in 1829, the
most flourishing year of the Restoration, and in 1835, and
stated that there was a surplus difference in favour of the
latter of 372,000,000 francs. The revenues had also con-
siderably exceeded those of the Restoration. With re-
gard to the conversion of the 5 per Cent. stock, he consi-
dered the measure to be perfectly just and legal, but
thought that the present financial situation of France and
Europe did not render the operation practicable at this
moment. It would be necessary, he said, to wait until
capital became more abundant to effect it with safety
and advantage. M. Duchatel then adverted to the late
embarrassments in the markets of the United States, London,
Amsterdam, and Hamburg, and contended that the state of
those places rendered the measure extremely precarious. The
Bank of France alone, in the midst of this crisis, had not
increased its rate of discount, and had rendered most im-
portant services to the Government during the last six
months of the year just elapsed, when, owing principally
to foreign causes, there was a good deal of langour
ob-
served in the commercial transactions, and the manufactur-
ing interests of France had likewise suffered from the same
law. That state of things, consequently did not admit of
Ministers coming forward at present to demand the neces-
sary powers to reduce the interest of the 5 per Cent.
Stock ; but the moment the commercial situation of the
country warranted their doing so, they would hasten to ac-
cede to the wishes expressed last year by the Chambers,
and which were also those of his Majesty's Cabinet. M.
Duchatel next explained the difficulties experienced by the
Government in preparing a bill respecting the manufacture
of beetroot sugar. It was his opinion that this article
should be subjected to a tax, like all other manufactured
articles, and he thought also that the entrance duties on
colonial and foreign sugars should be reduced ; but until
the law on this subject could come into operation, he pro-
posed an addition to the tax on licenses and liquors, to
cover the deficit in the receipts occasioned by the extraor-
dinary increase in the manufacture of domestic sugar.
M. Duchatel next presented—lst. A Bill having for its
object to demand of the Chamber to be authorised to apply
the reserve fund of the sinking fund to the construction of
public works , 2d. A Bill for reducing the duties on the
importation of colonial sugars ; 3d. Aother respecting the
caisse de consignations, savings'-banks, &c. ; and 4th. A
project of law regulating the pensions of officers of the
Government.
At half-past three o'clock, there being nothing more in
the orders of the day, the Chamber adjourned to Friday, to
receive a new communication from Government.

The preliminary proceedings in the case of Meunier are
conducted with the greatest secrecy, and it is impossible to
gain any information as to their nature or results. The
mystery, which is more strictly observed in this instance
than on any former occasion, is said to be intended to pre-
vent any warning being given to persons whose arrest may
become necessary for the elucidation of the truth. The
assassin is, it is said, daily visited by his uncle, who is al-
lowed to converse with him without witnesses ; and it is
added that several individuals have been arrested in conse-
quence of the disclosures made by the prisoner in these con-
ferences. Meunier was an habitual drunkard, and the erup-
tion supposed to be the itch is probably that which is fre-
quently found on persons accustomed to take quantities of
ardent spirits.—Messagcr.
On Monday evening the King transacted business with
the Minister of the Marine, and received the Marquis de
Villaflor, the Count de Montesquiou, the Count de St. Mau-
rice, and General Durosnel. Yesterday his Majesty granted
an audience to the Belgian Minister, and afterwards held a
Council of Ministers.
The following are some particulars relative to the accom-
plice in the late daring attempt at the Bank. His name,
as already stated, is Dubiez, and he is allied to an honour-
able family residing in the Jura. He is about thirty years
of age, and was formerly clerk to M. Besson, wine-mer-
chant, in the Place Royal, from whose service he was dis-
charged about three months since, for having lost, accord-
ing to his own account, several bank-bills out of his pocket-
book, which he had received in the course of business.
This story was, of course, disbelieved by his employer.
After his discharge he returned to his native mountains,
but came back to Paris incognito, about a month before
the attempt to rob the Bank was made. He then met
Martin, whose chamber and bed he shared in the Rue St.
Claude, in the Marais. Here the two friends saw no one,
spent but little
it money, came home generally late, and some.timestes not at all. After the discovery of their common re-
sidencewas searched, and a ball was found exactly cor-
responding with that extracted from the head of Martin.
The door of the room was forced open, Dubiez having
some days previously quitted it on some pretence, and
taken the key with him. We are assured that much im-
portance is attached to the capture of this individual, and
that, in the event of his retreat being ascertained, he will be
given up by the authorities of the country in which he may
be discovered.

The evening before last Madame Marillier, the widow of
an officer residing in the Rue du Cadran, having impru-
dently fallen asleep near the fire-place, the flames communi-
cated to her garments. In the alarm of the moment she
ran to an open window, to call for assistance. This incon-
siderate act increased the violence of the flames, and ren-
dered all assistance unavailing. The victim to her own im-
prudence was burnt almost to a cinder, and in a few hours
death terminated her sufferings.

RESENTATIONI OF THE ADDRESS FROM THE BRITISH
AND AMERICAN RESIDENTS IN PARIS.
Tuesday, at two o'clock, having been appointed by his
Majesty the King of the French for the reception of the