The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-03 00:00:00

FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS.

Extract of a letter from Tunis, 6th inst., in the De-
bats :—" The Bey is still apprehensive of an attack from
the Porte : he continues to increase the fortifications on
the coast. The regular troops are kept in good condi-
tion, but it is not probable that they can stand, against
European troops."
A letter from Tripoli, 4th inst., says that an agent had
arrived there from Constantinople with the intelligence
that the present Bey Askar AU is shortly to be suspended
in the government of that regency. He had brought
money for the payment of the troops and other public
purposes : he hail not given this money to the Priebe, but
had distributed it himself. A Greek sailor, who was
under protection of the British Consul, had been seized
by order of the Bey for some slight offence, and had re-
ceived 300 strokes of the bastinado on the soles of the
feet. The Consul had demanded satisfaction, but in vain.
From a statement of the operations at the Mont-de-
Piete of Paris, during the last year, the following are the
results : Articles. Value. Average.

Pledges 1,220,692 18,576,029 f.
Renewals 241,130 5,763,827

15f. 21c.
22 90

Totals
From this it appears that one article and a half is annu-
ally, pawned for each inhabitant of the capital, and that
the average of each loan is 3Gf. At the end of 1840, there
were remaining at the Mont-de-Piete 832,742 articles in
pledze, and the sum lent upon them was 15,883,661 r.
Theuverage operations of each day were as follows:
'ledges : 3,840 ; sum, 59,655. Renewals :-755 suns

- ;
,605. Redemptions : 2,830 ; sum, 42,998. 'The L
`rectors of the institution have been obliged to refuse re.
(Plying any more mattresses, as in a short time its store-
houses would have been entirely filled with them. There
were at one time no fewer than 15,000 mattresses pledged.
The appeal of M. Ledru-Rollin in reversal of the judg-
ment standing against him, and M. Haureau, responsible
editor of the Courrier de la Sarthe, is before the Court of
Cessation. On Saturday it decided against a first objec-
tion to the execution of the judgment upon M. Ledru-
Rollin, on the ground of his being a member of the
ICliamber of Deputies, and adjourned the further hearing
'of the appeal for a fortnight, when it will proceed upon
the merits of the case.
According to an account of a debate in the House of
Representatives of the State of Alabama, immense pro-
perty is held by the English in the United States of Ame-
j rice, particularly in the large towns, and the Duke of
Wellington possesses a valuable mass of houses in New
York. The truth of the last part of the paragraph
would, we are disposed to believe, be very gratifying to
his Grace.
The Barcelona papers of the 22d. inst. state that all
the members of the late Republican Junta have returned
to that city, and have petitioned the Municipality that
they may be allowed to give an account of their financial
measures while in power. The Society of Workmen,
which has been dissolved, has protested against this step.
A Constantinople Correspondent writes on the 7th
inst. to the Univers :—." As soon as the intelligence of
the virtual abrogation of the Hatti-Scheriff of Gulhane
reached Erzeroum, the Armenians of the pachalic, as
well as those of Wan, moved en masse from these terri-
tories with the intent of settling in those of Russia. The
Turkish authorities had no power, and those of Russia
no will, to prevent this emigration. The plague is
nearly extinguished at Erzeroum and in the Kurdistan ;
not more than two new cases are reported per week.
The cold has greatly aided the sanitary measures. The
scourge has not reappeared in other parts of the Ottoman
empire."
The Swiss papers state that the Federal Directory has
opened negotiations with Portugal and Norway for the
abolition of what is termed the traite foraigne. The
Swiss Minister at Paris has already agreed with the
Portuguese Envoy that the convention lately concluded
by Switzerland with Spain to that effect, shall be adopted
as the base of the proposed treaty.
The Presse says that it is in contemplation to establish
in Paris a military Atheneum Club, similar to those of
Berlin, Vienna, and Stockholm. This journal adds, that
as the utility of such an institution is not doubtful, it is
hoped that the Government will either furnish a building
for it,
.or pay the rent of one.

THE KING OF PRUSSIA.—We have been in-
formed upon authority, that it is not the intention of
the King of Prussia to visit Matwhester during his pre-
lieut Oa/ IA g 1281444,