The Sun.
London, England, 1834-05-12 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

PARIS, MAY 9.—The Mmorial Bordelais of the
6th inst. announces the arrival at Marseilles of the
Albert et Eugenie from Senegal, with intelligence up
to the 24th March, and gives the following letter of

that date from St. Louis
M. Quesnel, the Governor, has made a successful
expedition against the Moors. He has carried off 400
head of cattle, and captured 30 Moorsj_ s.ll._of whom
are Chiefs, and four those brigans
(blacksmiths), generally residir

the Dabagies
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who had joined the Moors against
immediately shot. This coup de ,
have a good moral effect, but will
on the final decision of the contest. -
remains open, time runs on, and the pi
accumulating ; the Governor does not di:
intentions. It appears that he does not mei re-
ascend the river, since the steam-boat is in of
many repairs, and the soldiers are very much led.
It is said that despatches from the ministry, rep fed by
the Reyean, recommend peace. We merchants are
all most anxious for it. If it be not obtained soon
this will be a most ruinous year, and, unfortunately;
we have little hope of it."
On the celebration of the King's fete at Toulon, the
following melancholy accident occurred :—At twelve
o'clock, all the batteries and the ships in the roadstead
fired salutes. The two American frigates here also
paid the same compliment to the day, but unfortunately
the gunners of the Constellation forgot that some of
their guns were loaded with shot, and firing within
pistol-shot of the Suffren, one of the balls entered a
port-hole, killed one of the sailors, and carried away
the leg of another. Some of the shot entered the hull,
and five or six men were wounded by the splinters,
and obliged to be taken to the hospital.
Extract of a letter of the 4th inst. from Toulon :
" The Maritime Prefect went yesterday on board the
American frigate, the United States, accompanied by
Count de Labrettoniere, Major-General of the Marine
at Toulon. The master-gunner of the frigate was in
irons, and about to be tried by a Courtmartial. The
Commander of the ship has, it is said, sent 5,000 francs,
as relief for the families of the men killed and wounded
by the deplorable occurrence of the Ist, but the Prefect
refused the money, saying that it was an affair to be
settled by the two Governments. This morning a
boat with Americans came on shore. The authorities,
having timely notice of her arrival, placed a picket of
gensd'armes on the quay, in order to prevent their
being assailed by the French sailors, who were in a
state of desperation."
A letter from Madrid of the Ist. inst., speaks of a
sitting.of the Council of Government in the presence
of the Ministers, in which the proposals for the loan
were discussed with great warmth. As in general the
offers made comprise a plan for acknowledging in part
or altogether the loan of the Cortes, the most influen-
tial member of the Council expressed himself in the
following terms :—" We must either pursue the errors
of the restoration in its financial system, and conse-
quently reject the Cortes debt, or if we acknowledge
the, debt we must immediately reduce the whole of the
National Debt into Three per Cent. Consols ; for it
would be impossible for the Treasury to provide
400,000,000 reals per annum, which would then be
required for the interest of the legitimate funds, and
the sinking fund, as has been clearly demonstrated by
the report of the Director of the public Treasury, M.
Gargollo." This opinion, expressed with energy,
made a great impression on the Council, and has had
an indirect influence in inducing it to reject the offer_
of a foreign capitalist of a temporary loan of
20,000,000 of francs, on condition of certain engage-
ments being entered into, favourable to the Cortes

Bonds.
By a decree, dated the 26th ult., the Queen of
Spain grants to the whole army a remission of one
year's service, that is, the soldiers will have completed
their term at the end of five years instead of six. This
decree contains five articles, all of which are calculated
to encourage the troops, to attach them more firmly to
the Queen's cause, and protect them from being se-
duced by the Carlists or other anarchists.

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, MAY 7.
M. Escha;seriaux, after some general observations
on the navy, begged leave to remind the Chamber of
an unfortunate event which took place at Toulon, the
day of the King's fete, when an American frigate in
that port fired seven times upon a French vessel called
Le Suffren, and killed two of the crew. The hon.
deputy added, that he was inclined to think that this
misfortune must have been the result of mistake or ac-
cident.

The Ministe of Marine, after entering into some
details upon the navy, said, with regard to the fact
mentioned by the preceding speaker, I have no hesita-
tion in saying, that it was the result of accident. As
a proof of this,- I will read a letter written by the
Captain of the American frigate to the. Maritime Pre-