The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-11 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
The paragraph in the Moniteur of yesterday, de-
scribing the revolt of about 40 men at Chalons-
sur-Saone, who surprised the military post to the
cry of " Vive la Republique ! "• has puzzled people
a good deal. Chalons is not so far from Paris that
a handful of men could hope to persuade an
entire population that the Government was
overthrown and the Republic restored throughout
France. And then the officers, it appears, first
ran (the Moniteur says) to the house of the Sub-
Prefect to know if the news was true, and, when
they found it was not, forced their passage, sword
in hand, to the barracks. There are various con-
jectures on this subject, exaggerated no doubt,
and contradictory. One is, that the affair was
more serious than is represented, and that the
resistance was greater. ALother account is, that
the eclutuffortree was only au attempt to rescue
some persons who had been arrested under the new
Penal Law, and who were in the act of being taken
off. Nothing is more likely than that tie friends
of the arrested raised a clamour, and that those who
are ready to profit by every opportunity increased
the disturbance.

Marshal Castellano had arrived at Chalons ; he
quitted Lyons, where he commands, the mowent
the news reached him.

The Patrie publishes further particulars. It
says: _ _

."
Under cover of the darkness of the night and a
heavy fall of snow, the insurgents, preceded by
some persons of inoffensive appearance, approached
a guardehouse occupied by a few infantry soldiers
in the Rue de Beaune. The greater number of
the insurgents remained at a distance, and a few
stole on the sentinel and disarmed him, while
some covered his mouth to prevent him giving an
alarm. They then rushed into the guard-house,
where the soldiers were sleeping. Tue assailants
took possession of some of the muskets, but the
sergeant of the guard drew his sword and attacked
them. They then fled towards the bridge, whore
they were met by:,a detachment of infantry, and the
greater number of the revolutionary party were
arrested.

Apropos of people arrested under the new law, a
person who has arrived from Marseilles mentions
that he saw a gang of 68 men embarking in that
place for Algeria. He adds, indeed, that several of
them were persons of notoriously bad character,
independent of political opinions.
It is again said that M. Pietri will cease to be
Prefect of Police after the execution of Orsini and
his accomplices. It is thought that his successor
will be a military man, indeed a general officer.
The Moniteur de l' Agriculture draws up a table
of the uncultivated moors and " landes" contained
in each department of France. The total amounts
to nearly twenty million acres, without reckoning
marshes, which by drainage might be transformed
into pasture land. Surely here is an opening for
capital and intelligence.
The Paris correspondent of the Daily News says :
"The authorities continue to give themselves the satis-
faction of seizing English journals very frequently. I
cannot find in the reading-rooms to-Jay either the Daily
New, Express, or Sea, but the attendants are strictly
enj•sined not to answer any questions about the missing
papers. Journals addressed to private individuals are
frequently purloined in the post-office by neinor officials,
who take it for granted that the persons to whom they
belong will suppose they are seized by authority."
A Paris letter in the Nord says :

" It is stated that a pamphlet on the relations between
England and France, prepared under the direction of
the Empercr himself, is about to be published. On all
important occasions we have had publications of the
same kind ; there was one, for example, on the revision
of the Constitution, jast before the 2d Dec., 1854, and
one on the Eastern question, on the eve of the Crimean
war. The pamphlet now ipoken of will, it is said, give
a summary of the just complaints ©f the nephew of
Napoleon I. against England. It will ask ho is the
English Government has responded to the confidence
shown in it I By allowing, it will answer, a series of
attempts on the life of the Emperor to be organised with
impunity during the last six years at London. The
pamphlet will then give a curious historical account of
all the plots of the refugees. The paper will terminate,
it is said, by a warm appeal to the English nation to
oblige its Government to carry out the alliance with a
sincerity worthy of two great nations. Such is what is
rumoured about the contents o; the writing in question.
The title will be, it is said, " Napoleon 111. devant
l'Angleterre."

BOURSE, March 10.—The following were the
quotations :

4,1 per Cents 92 25 Credit Foncier
Do. end month — Belgian 41
3 per Cent. .... ... 69 30 Piedmontese (5)
Do. end month 69 30 Roman —
Bank Shares ...... 3055 Austrian
Credit Mobilier ... 845 —1 Spanish Threes
Do. Account Bll 25; Home Debt .
Rau
(Mama
Northern
New Ditto 7BO

,WAYS.

Midi
Western 665
Strasburg
Grand Central
Sardinian
Austrian

Lyon and Moditerau. 810;

New Ditto 7Bl
Geneva

A letter from Ragusa of the 21 says :—" After
the combats between the Christians and the Turks
at Zubce, in the Herzgovina, which have been
already related, Voukalovic, chief of the former,
made a reconnaissance in the valley of the Sutorina,
and drove away the Turkish custom officers, com-
pelling them to fly to Castelnuovo, in Dalmatia, and
burned down their residence. The situation of the
Christians is described as deplorable, and they will
die of hunger, if their Montene.giri brethren do not
relieve them."

In the Belgian Chambers of Representatives yes-
terday the order of the day was the discussion on
the bill relative to transit dues.. The committee
to which the bill had been referred gave its concur-
rence to all the articles, with the exception of one,
proposing to levy a duty of lfr. 70c. per 1,000
kilos. on coal, and of that it recommended the sup-
pression. M. Frete, the Minister of Finance,
supported the article, saying that as France had
maintained the system of zones for coal, Belgium
was bound to keep the transit duty as proposed.
After some discussion, the proposition of the com-
mittee was put to the vote, and rejected by a ma-
jority of 44 to 35. The bill was afterwards adopted
in its emcinble.

The Madrid journals of the sth have arrived.
The Senate had again been occupied with the ap-
plication of Marshal Espartero to be allowed to re-
sign his place as senator, mid had again rejected it
by 50 votes to 21 ; but as 74 members are required
to take part in a vote in older to render it valid,
the matter was referred back to a committee. The
Congress was occupied with the budget. The total
amount of the debt of Spain is stated by the Espana
to be 15,614,110,969 rials. According to the
Epoca, the Duke do Valencia (Narvaez) has de-
cidedly resolve(l to leave Spain, and to remain
abroad until political affairs shall take another
turn.