The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-17 00:00:00

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FRANCE.

Marshal St. Arnaud left Paris on Saturday
morning, by the Lyons Railway, at 10.35, for Con-
stantinople, to assume the command of the army of
the East. He will embark at Marseilles. There
was a large bevy of officers of rank, with Marshal
Magnan at their head, in waiting at the station to
take leave of him.
The evening papers state that Lord Raglan will
not go to Marseilles till Tuesday.
The Duke of Cambridge was to go to Versailles
yesterday to see the waters play. It was said that
the Duke would leave on Monday (to-day).
Prince Napoleon left Marseilles on Saturday for
Toulon, accompanied by Vely Pasha, the Ambas-
sador of Turkey.
A speech made by the Prince at. Marseilles pro-
duced a great sensation. He declared that the
Black Sea should be open and free for all, and that
commerce should be the gainer by victory.
Letters from Brest of the 12th state that on the
preceding day 900 marines had been embarked on
board the Inflexible, the Tage, and the Jemappes,
which were waiting in the roads for orders to make
sail for the Baltic.
Five .other ships and three frigates will follow
them without delay.
The journals of Bretagne announce that a num-
ber of regiments, both infantry and cavalry, de-
stined eventually to take pait in the -expedition to
the Baltic, were being put in order of march.
St. Brieux will become the centre of a corps of
from 5,000 to 6,000 men.
Captiiin Galinier, Aide-de-Camp to the Gover-
nor-General of Algeria, has arrived in Paris, ac-
companied by the Algerian deputation, to offer to
the Emperor the flag which the Mussulmen popu-
lation destines for the Algerian sharp-shooters.
The Emperor has decided that this fine regi-
ment should, like all the other corps, receive
its flag from the head of the State. In consequence,
he directed that a deputation consisting of four
native inhabitants of Algiers should be appointed
to receive it. General Randon named for the pur-
pose El-Hadi-Mohammed-Ghurnavioth, mufti of
the Hunefi worship, who has made the pilgrimage
to Mecca, a man of great learning ; Abderrahmau
Auled l'Amin, first Iman at the grand mosque of
Algiers ; Ahmed-Boukandoura, assessor at the Im-
perial Court of Algiers, and Ahmed-ben-Abd-el-
Latif, a rich merchant of Algiers, already well ac-
quainted with the manners and language of France.
Troops continue to be embarked at Marseilles.
A battery of artillery was placed on board on the
12th., General Monet had embarked the evening
before.

Intelligence has been received from Algiers to
the 10th. The embarkation of troops was going
on. On the Bth and 10th two squadrons of the Ist
mounted African chasseurs were embarked on board
about 10 commercial vessels. • _ _

The Moniteur of Saturday promulgates the law
increasing the military contingent for 1854 from
80,000 to 140,000 men. •
The Moniteur also publishes the returns of the
indirect taxes and revenues during the first quarter
of 1854, which amounted to 196;165,000f. They
had produced during the same period in 1852,
185,266,000 f., and in 1853, 199,600,000 f.
The ships of war belonging 10. the Baltic squad-
ron at present in the roads of Brest are-1. The
ship of the line Inflexible, carrying the flag of Vice-
Admiral Parse val-Deschenes, Commander-in-Chief,
2. The ship Jemmapes, commanded by Captain
Robin Dupare ; 3. The ship Tage, Captain Fabre ;
4. The ship Breslaw, bearing the flag of Rear-
Admiral Penaud, and commanded by Captain
Bosse ; 5. The steam-frigate Darien, Captain
Didelot ; 6. The frigate Pourshivante, Captain
Prudhoname de Borre ; and 7. The frigate Sandi-
lante, Captain Chiron de Brossay.
The Moniteur contains the following para-
graph :-
"The Emperor accompanied by his Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge, went to-day, at three o'clock,
in an open carriage to Joinville.le-Pont, to assist at an
interesting experiment of bridge-making. In a second
carriage were Lord Raglan,General-in-Chief of the Eng.
lish army in the East ' • his Excellency Marshal Vaillast,
Minister of War ; and his Excellency Marshal Magnan,
Commander-in-Chief of the army- of Paris. His Ma-
jesty was received at the entry to the park of Vincennes
by the general in command of that place and the princi-
pal officers of the garrison, who escorted them through
the park and to the opposite gate. There his Majesty
quitted his carriage, and went on foot towards Marne,
700 or 800 yards below the point at which a bridge
of boats, of the invention of M. Janvier, the civil
engineer, had just been placed. A great crowd sur-
rounded his Majesty and the noble visitors, mixing their
acclamations with those of the troops, who were ranged
in battle array near the spot where the boat was placed.
This budge, which is 75 metres long, was composed of
45 boats, joined together, formed of a thin framework of
wood, covered with an impermeable cloth. Its hand-
some appearance, and the lightne-s of its materials, were
of_ a nature to inspire fears, which were promptly dis-
sipated when it was seen that it resisted, almost without
fluctuation, and without its producing a single accident,
the passage of a battalion of chasseurs Is pied, of a
squadron of cavdry, and of a battery of artillery of
twelve-pounders, completely charged. All these troops
nounted the bridge to the cry. -of 'Vive l'Empereor !'
repeated with enthusiasm by the population who en-
cumbered the two banks. The passage having been
completed, his Majesty visited in detail the different
parts of the bridge, and listened with interest to the ex-
planations of the inventor, to whom he war pleased
to testify his entire satisfaction with a system which
must have success, if future trials confirm the results
obtained to-day."
The Three per Cents. opened on Saturday at
63f. 30c•7 fell to 62f. 90c., and closed at 63f. for
the end of the month ; the Four-and-a-Half per
Cents. closed at 89f. 50c. ; and the New Loan at
63f. 75c. ; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,040 f. ; Rouen,
817 f. 50c. ; Havre, 407 f. 50c. ; Great Northern,
730 f. ; Strasburg, 710 f. ; New Shares, 522 f. 50c. ;
Paris and Lyons, 782 f. 50c. ; Lyons to the Mediter-
ranean, 650 f. ; Western of Fiance, 550 f. ; Bor-
deaux. and Cette, 501 f. 25c ; Great Central of
France, 397 f. 50c. ; Lyons to Geneva, 420 f. ; Bank
of Credit Mobilier, 475 f.
• .The -Three per Cents. were done on the Boule-
vard yesterday (Sunday) at 62f. 75c.