The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-03 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The IVloniteur says, 20,078 men and 365 horses
have now sailed for the Levant.
The Minister of Marine has received the follow-
ing telegraphic despatch from Admiral Bruat :--
" Toulon, March 31, a quarter past two p.m. The
troops have been just embarked ; the squadron is
now under Lail with a north-west wind. The
weather appears favourable."

The 111;ctitear of yesterday morning (Sunday)
contains the following :
"His Majesty having ordered a body of troops to be
sent to the Levant, the first convoy of vesQels, frigates,
and corvettes of the Imperial marine assembled at
Toulon, has already sailed.
"This first convoy iirei been despatched, and divided
in the following manner :
The Montebello, the Alger, the Ville de Marseille,
Le Jean Bart-5,400 men.
"The Asmodde, the Ulloa, the Labrador, the Coligny,
the Met6ore, the Gorgone-3,450 men, 225 horses.
" The Monett°. the Eclaireur, the Laplace, the In-
fernal-1,495 men, 40 h,irses.
"The Caffarelli, the Wloce, the Brandon-1,130 men,
20 horses.

"The Napoleon, the Suffren-3,040 men.
"The Montezuma, the Panama, the Albatross, the
Canada, the Titan-4,663 men, 80 horses.
"This total, to which is to be added the contingent
of the Christophe Colombo, amounts to 20,078 men and
365 horses.

" Every day a portion of the 300 vessels freighted at
Marseilles sets sail with cavalry, munitions, provisions,
and articles of encampment.

The Legislative Body met on Saturday, under
the presidency of M. Billault. Several projects of
law were deposited on the table. Among them
was one relative to the jurisdiction of justices of the
peace, and another to the draining of marshes. The
Assembly afterwards voted, without discussion; a
project of law granting leave to the department of
the Two Sevres to borrow a sum of 375,000 f. for
the execution of a portion of the Poitiers, La Ro-
chelle, and Rochefort Railway. M. Perret next rose,
and read to the house the report, on the demand of
the Attorney-General, to be authorised to prose-
cute Count de Montalembert. It was the first time,
he said, that the Legislative Body was called upon
to decide on such a question. The committee had
accordingly
thought proper to examine, first,
whether
an application did not affect the in-
violable such
character of the deputy. The facts were
these :—M. Dupin having delivered a speech at
an agricultural meeting in the department of the
Nievre, M. de Montalembert wrote to him a letter
on the subject, which was published in the Inde-
penclance Beige of the 16th of March last. That
journal, however, was stopped in the post-office, and
the only copy distributed in France was the one
submitted to the Legislative Body. The committee
appointed to examine the deinand heard the ex-
planations given by the Commissaries of the Go-
vernment relative to the publication of the letter,
who declared that they could not affirm that it was
the act of the incriminated deputy. They added
that as the publication constituted an offence, it
should be punished. The committee did not ques-
tion the loyalty of the intentions of the Attorney'
General, but it had a right to inquire if the pub-
lication was the act of the writer of the letter. It
heard M. de Montalembert, who repeated his de-
duration that he had been a complete stranger
to its publication. He further stated that, as
a man of 11;mour, threatened with prosecution,
he could not disavow his letter, but that he sin-
cerely regretted its having been made public, par'
tivularly at a 410 Mt) 11 t WllOll France, 033 the eye of