The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-16 00:00:00

constitute a navy. It does not join in the cry raised by
the other journals. On the contrary, it says:—

"Of what service can be the immense material which is
amassed at the cost of millions in our building-yards? Has
our mercantile marine increased to such an extent that we
need additional ships of war for their convoy? Have our
colonial possessions increased and enlarged insomuch as to
render it indispensable that the effective force of our naval
stations should be doubled ? Oh, no; our mercantile ma-
rine is rather lessened than augmented, aud, as to our co-
lonial possessions, not an inch of land has been added to
them fur ten years past Under such circumstances we ask
again—of what use will be a new fleet of warships? Pro-
bably to make pageants on the seas—unless, indeed, they
are left to rot in their ports. Again, were such a fleet only
useless! But it would not be only useless.- it would be in-
jurious even to the development of our naval power, It
must be manned and armed. Besides, a fleet, as all the
world knows, requires a great number of able sailors to man
it. To provide these our merchant ships must 14# soppi4
of their best seamen. Is our mercantile navy in a condition
to support such a privation? According to M. Gustave
Brur,et, one of tlio paiise:i of the decline of our navy is the
numerical inpepority p, o4F sr fq, $ p(4.0 Ft-1
1 '
1 crews of the abipo of other nations. Thus:77llle 74Y'
reckons only one man fow ovary .24, Oh toils i Mo. riA.y. of
the United States one man for every '2l tons;
navy one man for ever 16 tons; while the French nav y has
.opre man for 'tea; !tan every 10 tons. hence ariscs a consi-
dekable di#erenc,a in tlie 7id eonseauently in
the eiwgs: for freigtf, 4 ke prudent to iggialv,ate?
o still more this aiis;.. of interiority by depriving our meickar4
ships of a greater number Of abio tlian• the.v live
been accustomed to supply? Would 'it nOhoe
better tp increase our steam-ships, which require' man'y
good ni,xii;ertl ao.d t 8•414. picil,cliera than good sailors, and re-
duce rafter than in:;rea;e o-,4f ily o§ oi.7l4'ari {^..
Mthus, much money would, we beilefe,'beleft nilthe iieekersi
of our tax-payers, and an element of success, too much Want-
ing to it, would be left to our mercantile navy, by leaving to
it its .

The probable result of the debate will be, that the
steamers and the ships of the line will both be voted,
and the Minister of Marine will have given to him more
than he asked foe, oe expected.
The Government had received the following telegra-
phic dispatch from Toulon:—
" The Russian squadron was in sight off Toulon in the even-
ing of the 11th ; at half-past six it came to anchor in the
rocaist;-,4d, On the morning of the 12th, the Maritime „Pre,-
feet paid a visit to his imperial lirghness the urancl Duke
Constantine and to Admiral Lutke. Salutes were exchanged.
The sub-prefect, the general commanding the department,
and the mayor of Toulon, also went on board the vessel of
the prippe. His Imperial ll:gliness, wishing to preserve the
incognito that la 1144. eVeiTwilfare else,
that no official honours might be shown to him. The Grand
Duke has landed. He went first to the Maritime Prefec-
ture, and was next to visit the arsenal of Mourillon and Fort
Lamalguef. _

Qoprit Kisseleff, the Russian Chargé d'Affaires, passed
through gars fides on the IGtb, ,:fn his way tpl."'-puion:
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Algiers journals to the ith had been received at
Marseilles. Marshal BUGEAUD had been so ill that he
was unable to leave Algiers for Oran on the sth, as he
had intend!?d. Ann-EL-KADEn, it appears, has again
escaped the pursuit of General dfiosue. While all the
world supposed he was retiring towards the west, he
suddenly re-appeared in the east, and General Jussur
had, of course, to retrace his steps in that direction.
The nineteen workmen who bad been buried alive iA
the tunnel at Conrcelles for ten days, were rescued from
their perilous situation at two o'clock on Sunday,

The following aro miscellaneous extracts :--

M. Franceise Jean Sevestre, a member of the National
Convention for the Department of Ille et Vilaine, died at
Tournan on the 6th inst., in the 94th year of his age. M.
Sevestre was one of the most energetic members of that anent,.
bly. He voted the King's death, and, having been appointed
one of the Commissioners of Public Safety, he was charged
with the surveillance of the children of Louis XVI,, confined
in the Temple. It was he who made the report on the de-
mise of the Dauphin. M. Sevestre was subsequently at-
tached as state messenger to the Council of Five Hundred
and the Legislative Body; he was banished in 1815, and
only returned to France after the revolution of 1830, when
the Chamber of Deputies decreed that lie should be paid up
all the arrears due to him during his exile, and granted him
a pension of 3,600 f.
" The venerable M, Dupont de l'Eure ezperieneed on Sem. •
day afternoon a very serious indisposition, sapposed at first to
be caused by congestion of the brain. An active course of
treatment was immediately pursued, which produced a satis-
factory result, and on Monday he was considered out of
danger."
The prices at the opening of the Paris Bourse on
Tuesday were tolerably firm, but afterwards declined.
The Three per Cents. closed at 831. 60e. ; the Five per
Cents., 1201. sc. ; the Orleans Railroad shares, 1,226 f. 25c. ;
Rouen, 1,0401. ; Havre, 747 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 7671.
50c. ; Avignon, 9181. 75c. ; Vierzon, 672 E 50c. ; Bordeaux,
630 E ; Boulogne, 5101. ; Troyes and Montereau, 4221 50c. ;
Basle, 2321. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 528 f. 75c. ; Tours
and Nantes, 5481. 75c. ; Paris and Lyons, 5801. ; Spanish
Domestic Debt, 30.
The following are the quotations in the new lines :
Bordeaux and Cette (Mackenzie), 5021. 50c. ; ditto (Espe-
leta), 510 f. ; ditto Charleroi, 4951.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCKEXCIIANGE, APRIL 15.

Boulogne and Amiens, 12—Dutch Rhenish, 5% —East Indian, 1,,c
—Great Northern of France Constituted, 14%—Jamaica South
Midland Junction, Ili—Luxembourg, I%—Namur and Liege, 1%
Over Yssel, dis.—Paris and Orleans, 49 —Paris and Rouen, 4012
—Paris and Strasbourg Constituted, 534—Rouen and Havre, 29%—
Sambre and Meuse, 3.