The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-07 00:00:00

FRANCE.

A letter from Biarritz, of the 4th in the Moni-
teur, says :—" The Emperor and Empress yester-
day made an excursion to Saint Jean de Luz. The
influence of the climate and the baths is very salu-
tary for the health of her Majesty." Their Ma-
jesties have gone into mourning for eight days,
from the Ist inst., on the occasion of the death of
the Princess de Wasa, daughter of the Dowager
Grand Duchess of Baden.

The Emperor has addressed the following letter
to the Minister of War :

"Monsieur le Mardchal,--I call your attention to
the distressing •accidents which every year take place
when it is found necessary to move troops during extreme
heats. If they take place in spite of every precaution that
could have been adopted, no reproaches can be made to any
one; but if, through an excess of zeal and in order to exe-
cute too much to the letter a general order transmitted
from a distance, the health and even the life of the sol-
diers be compromised, I wish that the chiefs should be
severely blamed. I shall not quote any examples, but
in several military divisions the generals have not per-
haps as they ought to have done, taken on themselves
to carry into execution with prudent circumspection the
orders emanating from the Minister of War. In time of
war, when the commanding officer of a corps arrives at
the hour fixed at a particular point assigned to him be-
forehand, he should be loudly praised, even should he
have left the half of his men behind, for then military
interest is the first of all ; but in time of peace, the first
duty of a commanding officer is to spare his soldiers and
to avoid carefully everything that may uselessly com-
promise their lives. I therefore beg you to addressto
the commanders of military divisions a circular, remind-
ingas
them of the precautions to be taken to prevent
much as possible the recurrence of similar misfortunes.at
Written May God have you in his holy keeping.
Biarritz on the Ist of August, 1854.

" NAPOLEON."

Some deaths which occurred recently in a bat-
talion of Chr.sseurs from over marching during the
intensely hot weather in Paris some days ago, and
from the same cause in a battalion stationed near
Cubzac, have, it is said, occasioned the above
rather angry letter.
Since it appeared in the Moniteur, it is rumoured
that Marshal Magnan, in -Whose district the oc-
currence took place, intends giving in his resig-
nation. It is thought that the publication of such
a letter may occasion discontent not only among
the generals, but even among the regimental
officers.
The Emperor has granted the exequatur to MM.
Grar, as Belgian Consul at Valenciennes ' • Day,
-United States Consul at Lyons ; Strobl, Consul
for Bavaria at Strasburg ; Hasenclever, for the

ra-n l Duchy of Baden at the same Place ; Roul)i on,
Vice-Consul for Sardinia at Arles ; Jouve, Vice-
Consul for the Two Sicilies at Toulon ; Bronde,
Vice-Consul of Prussia at Bona ; and Yemenis,
Vice-Consul for Greece at Lyons.

The Emperor, on the conclusion of the literary
and commercial treaty between France and Bel-
gium, has conferred the Grand Cross of the Legion
of Honour on M. de Brouckere, Minister of Foreign
Affairs in Belgium, that of Grand Officer on M.
Leidts, Belgian Minister of Finance, and other
decorations on some eminent functionaries in Bel-
gium who took part in preparing the treaties.
There are again rumours •of the recall both of
Prince Napoleon and Marshal St. Arnaud. A re-
port circulated on Friday night that the late Min-
ister of the Interior, M. de Persigny, was ex-
pected to arrive in Paris on Saturday, and proceed
soon after to Biarritz. There are some who see in
this journey the probability of his return to the
Cabinet.

The Marseilles journals publish the following
" A report has been spread, both in France and
abroad, that other epidemic or contagious diseases
besides the cholera existed at Marseilles. There
has been a talk of the plague, the typhus, and the
yellow fever. These reports are without any
foundation. No case of the kind above referred to
has occurred, and there is not a single patient in
the lazzaretto."

A marked change has taken place in the weather
for the last few days. Instead of the intense heat
which prevailed, the temperature has become cool,
as well as moist. These changes in the atmosphere
have been so sudden as to affect the public health.
It would appear that the late accident on the
Sceaux Railway was of a more serious character
than was at first imagined. The following are the
names of the persons injured :—M. Bayados, em-
ployed on the line, both legs broken ; Madame
Cagniat, schoolmistress at Sceaux, both legs broken;
M. Menard, jun., of Sceaux, both legs broken ; M.
Buchere, secretary of the School of Mines, both
legs so badly broken that amputation was consi-
dered indispensable ; M. Petit, merchant, Place
des Victoires, at Paris, one leg broken ; M. Picard,
of Sceaux, one leg broken, and the other so badly
bruised that it has not yet been ascertained whe-
ther there is a fracture or not ; M. Pascal, mer-
chant, Rue due Sentier, one leg broken ; M.Delage,
slightly bruised. A stoker on the line, named
Caboche had his thigh broken ; a second employe
was badly bruised in the side, and two others,
though hurt, were able to walk to the station. The
whole number of passengers was about 150, but no
others were injured. The cause of the accident
appears to have been a miscalculation as to the
time that the single locomotive which left Paris for
Orsay would require to go over that distance. The
stoker imagined that he would arrive before the
train for Paris started, but unfortunately he was
mistaken, and hence the accident.
The Three per Cents. closed on Saturday at 71f.
for the end of the month, the Four-and-a-Half
per Cents. at 98f. 85c. ; Orleans Railway Shares,
1,165 f. ; Rouen, 1,005 f. ; Havre, 565 f. ; Great
Northern, 820 f. ; Strasburg, 775 f. ; New Shares,
617f.50c. • Paris and Lyons, 941 f. 25c. ; Lyons
to the Mediterranean, 842 f. 50c. ; Western of
France, 640 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 607 f. 50c. ;
Great Central of France, 492 f. 50c. ; Lyons and
Geneva, 502 f. 50c. ; ank of Credit Mobilier,
683 f. 75c.