The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-19 00:00:00

bey. In general lam not inclined to accuse functionaries of
dependence; there are almost as many in the Opposition as in
the majority who sustain Government; but they torment
the Administration with their small ambition; they are,
especially for their district, the most importunate solicitors,
and the most to be drea.!ed liy Ministers. Their number in-
creases every day, and, if care be not taken, the course of
events will bring to the Chamber such 4 number, that, instead
making two-fifths of the Chamber, there will soon be three,
and, perhaps, four-fifths of it compoed of functionaries. It is to
this tendency that a stop must be put, and I wuuld do this by
excluding more functionaries. There is in this nothing which
affects the honour of functionaries. The law has already ex-
luded a certain number, and assuredly the most considerable,
since the prefects are of this number; they are not insulted,
And why should others ?"
Other news of interest there is none in the
French Journals, save what is given in the sub-
joined extracts.
FJ NANCE.—The Commerce publishes a" circular letter ad-
dressed, on the 25th ult., by the Minister of Finance to all the
Prrfects, enjoining them to cause exact returns to be drawn up
of all the taxable buildings, windows and doors, and a all per-
sons subject to the personal tax, or to the payment for licenses,
comprised within their respective departments. The motive
assigned by the Minister for recommending that measure was
" that the receipts being no longer adequate to the ordinary
expentiture, it was indispensable to devise means for obtaining
from the existing taxes the full amount of what the Govern-
ment had a right to expect under the present laws of finance."
WAR PREPARATIONS.-The Journal de St. Etienne cf the
the 14th inst. state that the greatest activity prevailed at the
manufactory of firearms at St. Etienne. The slini,ter of War
4ent an order in the latter end of February to have 50,000
muskets finished within seven weeks, and 1,50.9 muskets with
percussion locks were f rwarded to Toulon on the 12th for the
use of the army in Africa. A considerable number of carbines
were forwarded at the same time to Vincennes, and " an idea
nay be formed," continues this journal, "of the works that are
In progress in the Royal manufactory when it is known that
the workmen's wages amount to 50,000 f. (2,000/. British) per
week."

v e have received the Moniteur Algerien of the Bth o
Alarch.

A resolution of the Governor-General, dated the 6th, orders
that henceforth no isolated submission of Arabs, or of families
,f Arabs, whether they have or have not belonged to the
ribcs of the Sahel or the Metidja, shall be received in the pro-
-ince of Algiers. None but the Chiefs shall be admitted to
.reat for the submis,ion of their tribes.
The Arabs who have yet been admitted to make their sub
mission shall be arrested and placed at the disposal of the mili-
tary authorities to be employed on public works.
The Governor-General set out on the 7th to visit Bona and
he province of Consiantine. He is accompanied by General
le Tarle and General Berthois. ~ •

During the absence of the Governet-General. Major-General
Baragnay d'Hilliet s, will take the command of all the troops
.n the province of Algiers and Titteny.
Letters from Oran received at Algiers on the Bth say, that
150 of Abd-el-Kader's red horse had shown themselves before
Mostaganem. The Commandant sallied out with 500, and
mused this body of cavalry to be charged by 80 Chasseurs,
Spahis, and Dollars. The charge, led by Captain Walsen Es-
erhazy, was completely successful. The Lieutenant of the
ted Itorre was killed, and their Captain taken prisoner, and
.:onducted to General Larnoriciere.— Le Coostitutionnet.
The truth begins to appear concerning the affairs of Buenos
kyres. It seems from the latest information in private letters,
.hat there have been two engagements between the troops of
Lavalle and those of Roses ; that in the first Lavelle, or rather
detachment of his army, was beaten, but that in the second,
m the 28th of November, Lavalle took his revenge, put Oribe
o flight, and recaptured Garzon, Granada, and other chiefs.
Such is the most probable account; it will explain why Roses has
not celebrated his pretended victory in his official Journal, and
shy he surrounds Buenos Ayres with ditches. Terror stillreigns
it Buenos Ayres new cruelties of Rosas are stated to us,
aid at the same time a Number of the official Gazette of
Bvenos !Ayres' is sent to us, published four days after the
convention of the 29th October, and containing a list of forty
persons deprived of their property without any form of trial,
only that they are designated as savage Unitarians. This list
s that of only one number of the official Journal ; we shall
doubtless learn successively the names of other victims.
'I he emigrations from Buenos Ayres, in one month after the
Convention of the 29th Oct., were 400. On the 30th Nov.,
one corvette, the Cornille, brought away' 24 emigrants, and a
Sardinian merchant-man 80. —Le Commerce.