The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-24 00:00:00

FRAN CE.

The English steam-boat which brought Prince Louis
and his attendants to France, is
going to be restored ti
its owner, by an order of the President of the Glam.
ber of PCM. which has ordered the sequestration under
wh.oh this :vessel has been detained in the port of
Boulogne, to be taken off. It is to be sent back to
England as soon as its owner has ;rr;ved from London. •
The Seidinelle de la Marine, a Toulon Journal, of
the 18th, says--“ We are assured that the reserve
squadron will be increased to nine ships of the line, and
will have several frigates. It will be called the Me-
diterranean Squadron of Evolution, and will remain
separate from that of the Levant.
Admiral Lalande will arrive at Toulon on the 25th
of this month, and will, it is said, take the command
of a division of our second squadron.
It is said that Rear-Admiral Hugon will shortly be
promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral: • •
Captain Burand, commander 6-f-theUranie,,has re-
turned to this port, to superintend the armnag• of that
frigate. . • •
Admiral Leland° is derfainly. - -leek Paris
to-day for Toulon, where he will Wait,for the-mission
which is promised hinr..• Admiral Duperre, it is said,
has not yet r..ceived any communication from thc Mi-
nistry.

The Univers of to-day says—" The armaments which
have been commenced within these three months give
us an army of 450,000 men ready to take the field. At
the opening of the session the Miniger is to apply to
the Chamber for a vote of credit to raise our army to
600,000 men."

All this looks very grand on paper, but from the
450,000 men spoken of we must deduct first the
60,000 men employe,: in Algeria, then the 100,000
men that are going to be assembled about Paris ; then
the garrisons of Lyons, and other great centres of popu-
lation, where matters have been so well managed that,
instead of National Guards, which would have sufficed
to defend such towns as Metx and Strasburg, lit-
tle armies are required to keep in check a population
which should constitute one thought, but which has
been made an obstacle.—Lc Commerce.
The Gazette des Tribunaux states that a frotteur,
lodging in the Rue Montmartre, was arrested yesterday
morning on a warrant from M. Zangiacomi, the examin-
ing Magistrate. It appears that, from what has been
elicited by the interrogatories in the prosecution of
Darmcs, great importance is attached to the securing
of this man, who was an old and intimate associate of
his, always participating in his extravagant notions.
Another man was taken into custody the day before
yesterday on the spot where Darmes made his attempt.
He had excited attention by his violent and incohe-
rent expressions, among which was " The mur-
derer of the last of the Condcs shall be punished,
and die as he deserves !" On being taken into
the guard-house, he gave his name, and said
he was a journeyman tailor. The man was partly
drunk. The DrUit says :—" Darmes, when he made
his attempt, was in the utmost state of destitution.
He had been for twenty-four hours without a morsel
of food, and thus pressed by hunger, borrowed of a
wine-dealer, whose house he frequented, 10fr. upon a
ticket from the MOnt de Piete. A porter who assisted
him in his removal from his preceding lodgirg, declared
that there were no arms among the articles he carried,
and every person who was in the habit of visiting him
have attested that they never saw any in his possession.
Others, who lived in the same house, have deposed that
they saw Dames go out and return several times till
twelve o'clock in the day. on, which he committed his
crime, but not one of :them observed him to have any
weapon. In the various low cafes in. the neighbourhood
frequented by him, he
.WAS. accustomed.to talk politics in
terms so violent that,lae was, frequently turned out of
doors. Among the persons arrested is said to be a man
established in business who was known to be intimate
.with Darmes, and also to have bid some connection
with Alibaud, for whom at one time he obtained em-
ployment. Nothing, however, has transpired to prow.
that he was in any way cognisant of the crimes of his
two associates."

The Toulonnais says that never, since the occupa-
tion of Algeria, have ,tive•-rv,.-tttiops been 44; tacked
arta prr:nreranee by the Arabs that,
(luring the march of General Changarnier's column to
Milianah and back. The enemy, was enntinually close
round the rear of the column in a body ofS,onnß,.hp...
and from 7,000 to 8,000 horsemen, and the French had
continually to fight with the armies blanches, that
with sword and bayonet. At times, it adds, the Arabs
and the French rear-guard were all mixed up together,
in confusion, fighting hand to hand. The garrison of
Milianah, this journal also states, had only 150 men
capable of doing duty when the column arrived. AU
the 'regular battalions of Abd-el-Kader's own division had
taken up a position on the Col de Teniab, in order to
binder the French from re-victualling that place, and it was
thought that it would requireall the disposable force of the
Governor-General to enable them to get a convoy to
that place. A letter in the Commerce says that some
of the muskets taken from the regular troops of Abd el-
Kader are of English manufacture, with heavy barrels
and bayonets larger than the French, and that the
bear the Tower-mark on the breach. A correspondent
of the Capito/c writes :—" There were left in garrison at
Milianah 550 of the foreign legion and 600 of the 3d
Light Infantry, of these 220 have been brought back
sick, 180 of them belonging
to the Legion. Out of
1,170 men who occupied l‘tilianah, 700 found their
graves there, in the short space of four months, 250. re-
main there dangerously ill, and of the 220 who were
sent away, 40 have died on the road, and 80 have been
placed in the hospitals at Douiera
and Belidah. Out
of two battalions which left Algiers four months ago to
garrison Milianah, scarcely 100 have been brought
back, and these more or less sick, and in the most de-
plorable plight."

RESIGNATION OF THIERS' MI
MS FRY.

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We have received
Paris Papers of
Thursday, with a letter from our correspondent dated
Thursday afternoon. Our correspondent says—" I
have already sent you, by special courier of this morn-
ing, the fact of M. Thiers and his colleagues having
tendered their resignation on Wednesday evening.
Ministers had brought 1 heKing a draft of the Royal Speech.
His Majesty objected, not to the warlike wording of
the speech in general, or to that of any part of it,
but to the announcement in one paragraph of the im-
mediate levy of 150,000 troops more. This included
the atvicipated levy of the conscription class of
1841
• It seems that the German Powers have
made strong representations against the increase
of the F •
rencn army, pointing out its inevitable re-
sult to be, not to settle the Eastern question, but to
disturb the peace of Europe. The King, therefore,
objected to
- any such great addition for the moment to
the
military force of the country. Ministers imme-
diately tendered their resignations. Whether they
would be accepted by the King persisting in his objec-
tions, or whether his Majesty would consent to the an.
nouncelnent, was to he decided this afternoon, when a
personage on behalf of the Ministry was to wait upon
the
King at St. Cloud. The Bourse, however, and the
Parisian public had already decided the question ; and
it was universally asserted that the King bad accepted
the resignation of Ministers, and had already appointed
Marshal Soult to form a Gibinet. Count Mole, it was
said, would join Soult. Great efforts have certainly
been making
to bring the Marshal into an understand-
ing with Count Mole ; but the combination did not at
all seen, to have succeeded hitherto."
(Prom the Times.)
We have received also the following latter from an
occasional correspondent :
" Marshal Soult and MM. Duchatel and De La-
martine have arrived in Paris. Immediately after, a
meeting of the principal Conservatives took place, and
decided on the formation of a new Ministry, which is
already agreed upon between the principal leaders.
The Ministry will be composed as follows :
" President of the Council and Mi-
ter of War ................... Marshal Soult.
Minister of Foreign Affairs •••••• M. Guizot.
" Minister of the Interior NI. Duchatcl.
" Minister of the Marino Admiral Duperre.
" Minister of Public Worship .... NI. Teste.
" Minister of Justice
Minister of Public W0rk5........ M. Dubuc.
Minister of Commerce ...
..... M. Cunin Gridaine.
" Minister of Public Instruction ••• bl. Viilernain.
" Minister of Finance
" In a word, it is the Ministry of the 12th of May,
minus General Schneider and with the addition of
M. Guizot and M. Martin (du Nord), the latter as
a gage to the political men of the 15th of April. M.
De Lamartine, without any personal conditions for him-
self, has undertaken to support this Ministerial combi-
nation, which, it is considered, will be infallibly realised,
should the adhesion of M. Guizot bo obtained. Most
of his friends advise him to adhere to it, and in that
case the new Ministry will appear to be certain of a
majority of 30 in the Chamber of Deputies. In case ,
even M. Guizot should not break with M. Thiers
se bornercit d laisser faire, which 1'
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