The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-03 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Gazette des TriLunaux says—" A journal has
announced that a seizure of five or six hundred ball
cartridges had been made in the residence of M.
Bastide, ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs. The follow-
ing is perhaps the cause of this rumour :—At the
period, somewhat recent, in which every member of
the Government thought it necessary to take precau-
tions for his defence, a numerous post was established
in the hotel of the Rue des Capucines, and a
certain quantity of ammunition Wa s there de-
posited. When the effervescence of the first political
commotions had calmed down, the depots from which
the arms and ammunition were taken required that
they should be sent back, and it was then ascertained
that a very small number of the cartridges of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs were missing. This
circumstance, which is explained by the successive
removals which took place, has not excited any obser-
vation."

The Evenement states that M. Marrast has an-
nounced his determination not to present himself
again as a candidate for the presidency of the National
Assembly.
The Akbar of Algiers gives an account of a
fatal quarrel in the circle of Bathna. A detachment
of twenty-one Spaniards and Germans having a dis-
pute about the cooking of their provisions, the
Germans complaining of the cook, who was a
Spaniard, and the corporal who was in com-
mand of the detachment having decided that he
should be changed for a German, the Spaniards
fell upon the German cook and murdered
him, and then, in their fury, wounded several other
persons in a serious manner. An armed force having
arrived, three of the Spaniards shut themselves up in
a crenelated house, and finding some muskets, pre-
pared for a seige. Before they could be subdued,
two of the Spaniards were killed ; the third was taken
prisoner.
The price of bread for the first fortnight of the
present month remains fixed at 28 centimes the
kilo-
gramme.
The Moniteur publishes a decree of M. Louis Na-
poleon, appointing 14 prefects, all of whom either
filled these functions, or those of sub-prefect, under
the Government of Louis Philippe.
The Moniteur also contains the returns of the corn
trade in the different markets of France, during the
first fortnight of December last, from which it
appears that the hectolitre of wheat then sold, on
an average, for 16f. 29c. at Toulouse, Gray, Lyons,
and Marseilles ; at 14f. 94c. at Marans and Bor-
deaux ; 15f. 60c. at Le Grand Lamps and St. Lau-
rent ; 15f. at Mulhausen and Strasburg; 15f. 3c. at
Bergues, Arras, Roye, Soissons, Paris, and Rouen ;
13f. 92c. at Saumur and Nantes ; 12f. 66c. at Metz,
Verdun, and Charleville ; 15f. 35c. at St. Lo, Paim-
pol, Quimper, and Hennebon.
The Reforme contains the following version of the
cause of the resignation of M. Leon de Malleville :
" According to certain reports the Minister of the
Interior obstinately refused to deliver up to the Presi-
dent of the Republic the evidence collected relative to
the affairs of Strasburg and Boulogne, because that evi-
dence was collected by a certain Minister of the Repub-
, lie himself when he was Under-Secretary of State and
Director-General of the Police of the kingdom under
Louis Philippe. Amongst those documents are, it is
said, several curious letters written by police agents
against the present President of the Republic. The
scruples of the Minister may well be imagined, and that
consequently ho would rather resign than deliver up his
own work."