The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-18 00:00:00

" The war which continues, and which, in fact, has never
ceased between Monte Video and Buenos Ayres, was brought
on by the Government of Monte Video. It was the emi-
grants from Buenos Ayres who brought the Monte Videans
into their private quarrel with the Government of Rosas,
and in i:-s turn Monte Video wishes to get France into the
same quarrel. The real and evident interest of the French
residing in those countries was not to mix themselves up
with any of those foreign discords. That is what the home
country wished, and still wishes. But the Monte Videan
Government has succeeded in drawing in a portion,
though the weaker portion, of our countrymen. M.
Thiers, in regard to this, has fallen into the most
unheard-of errors and exaggerations. It is very easy
for a man of his fertile imagination to excite the public mind
with regard to the fate of 20,000 Frenchmen exposed to
all the evils of war and the horrors of famine. The truth is,
that the greater number of the French (8,000 or 9,000) are
in the province of Buenos Ayres; that there are 5,000 or
6,000 in the country of the Oriental Republic • that is to say,
with that portion of the province of Monte Video which is at
war with the town itself, so that in the town cf Monte
Video, properly so called, there are not more than 4,000
French, of whom only 1,500 have chosen to take arms.
These are the 18,000 or 20,000 men whom M. Thiers reduces
to the last extremity in Monte Video."
The Military Pensions Bill was passed on Friday, in the
Chamber of Peers, by 124 to 18, and on the same day, in
the Chamber of Deputies, the Supplementary Credit Bill was
passed by 138 to-3.

Numerous incendiary fires have occurred of late in the
department of the Cote d'Or, and the mayors of many of the
communes in the department have received threatening
letters.

The strike among the miners at St. Etienne has been re-
newed. Those whose duty it is to pump the water out of
,the mines are among the persons who have struck. Unless
they resume their occupation many of the mines will be so
flooded that it will be impossible to work them.
The Courrier Francais has the following:—
" General Comman arrived yesterday morning in Paris,
bringing, it is said, the formal resignation of Marshal Bu-
geaud, with his reasons for that step. The General left Al-
giers without any notice of his departure by the Moniteur
Algerien of the 10th, and it was also with the intent of con-
cealin- g this sudden, though not unexpected determination,
that the Marshal, notwithstanding his failing health, put
himself at the head of the expedition against the Ouaren-
Senis before General Commau left Algiers. It is certain that
the Ministry will accept the resignation of Marshal Bugeaud,
and it is already said that he is to have the command of the
fortifications of Paris. The Duke d'Aumale is to be ap-
pointed Commander-in -Chief of the army of Africa, but
without any other function or title."
This report of the retirement of Marshal BUGEAUD from
the Government of Algeria is in substance confirmed by the
Epoque.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Satur-
day at 84f. 20c.; the Five per Cents., 120 f. 15c.; the Orleans
Railroad Shares, 1,250 E; Rouen, 1,032 f. 50c. ; Havre, 757 f.
50c. ; Great Northern, 760 f.; Avignon, 912 E 50c.; Vierzon,
660 f. ; Bordeaux, 622 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasbourg, 507 f. 50c. ;
Tours and Nantes, 526 f. 25c,; Paris and Lyons, 545 f.
The following are the quotations in the new lines :

LYONS, MAY 14.—Marseilles and Avignon, 918 f. 75c. ; Paris and
Orleans, 1,245 f. ; Rouen, 1,028 f. 75c. ; Lyons, 552 f 50c.; Vlerzon,
6661. 25c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE