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

FRANCE.

The Moniteur 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 i 6
now under tail with a north-west wind. The
weather appears favourable."
The Ilioniteur 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 vessels, frizateet
and corvettes of the Imperial marine assembled at
Toulon, has already sailed.

"This first convoy has been despatched, and divided
in the following manner :

'• The Montebello, the Alger, the Ville de Marseille,
Le Jean Bart-5,400 men.
"'The Astriodee, the Ulloa, the Labrador, the Colignls
the Meteore, the Gorgone-3,450 men, 225 horses.
" The Alouette the Eclaireur, the Laplace, the In'
fernal-1,495 men, 40 h ,rses.
"The Caffarelli, the Veloce, the Brandon-1,130 went
20 horses.
"The Napoleon, the Suffren-3,040 men.
"Toe 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 Chrhtophe Colombe, amounts to 20,078 men and
365 horses.

" Every day a portion of the 800 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 oil the table. Among thenl
was one relative to the jurisdiction of justices of the
peace, and another to the draining of marshes. The
Assembly afterwards voted, without discussion, o
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 a
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 such an application did not affect the in'
violable character of the deputy. The facts were
these :—M-
Dupin having delivered a speech at
M. de Montalembert wrote to him a letter
agricultural meeting in the department of the
on the re'subject, which was published in the Incle-
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 demand heard the
n ts
given by the Commissaries of the. Go'
m
relative to the publication of the letter,
el arnnat ieon
who declared that they could not affirm that it.we's
the act of the incriminated deputy. They add e 4:
that as the publication constituted an offence, iv
should be punished. The committee did not que9'
tion the loyalty of the intentions of the Attorue
General, but it had a right to inquire if the ;pub-
lication was the act of the writer of the letter.
heard M. de Montalembert, who repeated his de-
claration that he had been a complete strangerto its publication. He further stated that, '""
a man of honour, threatened with prosecuttoof
he could not disavow his letter, but that he sill-
cerely regretted its having been made public,
ticulArly moment when France, ou the e"