The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-29 00:00:00

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" Who runs may read."

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The Monitemr contains the Bill which has lately passed
the two Chambers, for calling out 80,000 men in 1846. It
is signed by the King, and countersigned by the Duke of
Dalmatie, Minister of War.

The mine journal states that M. Guizor drove out in his
carriage on Friday to the Bois de Boulogne, where he walked
for some time ; and adds, that the general state of his health
was most satisfactory. On Saturday he paid a visit to the
King.

In the Chamber of Deputies, on Saturday, M. Dozon
brought forward his proposition for preventing, by fine and
imprisonment, the practice of duelling, and asked the
Chamber to appoint a day for his bringing the matter before
it formally. The Minister of Justice opposed 1134 proposition,
on the ground that the common law was sufficient for all the
purposes which the Hon. Deputy sought.
Letters from Romagna announce that the military com-
mission sitting at Ravenna had condemned to death three
political prisoners, and a number of others to the galleys.
Among the former was a young man, under eighteen years
of age.

The Commission on the railway from Tours to Nantes, and
from Paris to Strasburg, is composed of Messrs. Richond des
Brus, Gillon, Larabit, Dutier, Combarcl de Leyval, Hallez,
D'Hunolstein, General Paixhans, and De L'Epee. The Com-
mission is favourable to the scheme, two only of the members,
Messrs. Larabit and Conibarel, are opposed to it.
The Legislative Chamber of Portugal was prorogued on
Sunday, the 20th, by the Queen in person, preparatory to a
dissolution.

The Swiss Diet on the 22d inst. prorogued its sittings in-
definitely. The whole of the diplomatic corps left Zurich for
Berne after the day's proceedings.
The following is the distribution of the Mediterranean
fleet, according to the accounts from Malta of the 15th of
April :—At Malta, the Formidable, 84, bearing the flag of
Vice-Admiral Sir E. W. C. R. Owen, the Commander. in-
Chief; Ceylon, 12, receiving-ship, bearing the flag of Rear-
Admiral Sir L. Curtis, second in command, and Superinten-
dent of Malta Dock-yard ; Amazon, 26 ; Snake, 16 ; Locust,
war-steamer, and Beacon and Bonetta surveying vessels. At
Gibraltar, the Scout, 18 ; Fantome, 16 ; Medea and Flamer
war-steamers. On her way to Malta from the West Indies,
the Inconstant, 36. At Barcelona, the Devastation war-
steamer. At Corfu, the Orestes, 18. At the Pirwus of
Athens, the Tyne, 28, and Geyser war-steamer. At Smyrna,
L'Aigle, 24. At Constantinople, the Hecla and Virago war
steamers; and at Beyrout, the Warspite, 50.
The Smaphore de Marseilles contains a letter from Con-
stantinople of the Bth inst., stating that the affairs of Greece
continued to occupy the Divan. Chekib Effendi had lately
addressed a note to the representatives of the three protecting
Powers, in which he set forth the complaints of Turkey
against Greece, and declared that if the latter continued to
menace the peace of the neighbouring Ottoman provinces,
the Porte would be under the necessity of adopting energetic
measures and stationing corps of observation alone the Greek
frontier. This note was forwarded to the Ministers of Eng-
land, France, and Russia in Athens, by whom it was sub-
mitted to the Hellenic Government. Coletti gave the three
Ministers the most satisfactory explanations, which con-
vinced them that the apprehensions of the Porte were un-
founded.

According to a letter from Constantinople, Russia is
making great exertions to increase the Circassian army to
the amount of 180,000 men. 100 transports 2re to be col-
lected in the Black Sea, for the transport of troops and
stores, and the command of the whole force is to be given to
Count Woronzoff, the Governor of the Crimea. This army is,
it is said, to be concentrated at Sebastapol and Stavropol, to
operate by sea and by land.