The Sun. — 1849-01-03 (London, England)

FRANCE.  The Gazette des TriLunaux says—" A journal has announced that a seizure of five or six hundred ball cartridges had been made in the residence of M. Bastide, ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs. The following is perhaps the cause of this rumour :—At the period, somewhat recent, in which every member of the Government thought it necessary to take precautions for his defence, a numerous post was established in the hotel of the Rue des Capucines, and a certain quantity of ammunition Wa s there deposited. When the effervescence of the first political commotions had calmed down, the depots from which the arms and ammunition were taken required that they should be sent back, and it was then ascertained that a very small number of the cartridges of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were missing. This circumstance, which is explained by the successive removals which took place, has not excited any observation."  The Evenement states that M. Marrast has announced his determination not to present himself again as a candidate for the presidency of the National Assembly. The Akbar of Algiers gives an account of a fatal quarrel in the circle of Bathna. A detachment of twenty-one Spaniards and Germans having a dispute about the cooking of their provisions, the Germans complaining of the cook, who was a Spaniard, and the corporal who was in command of the detachment having decided that he should be changed for a German, the Spaniards fell upon the German cook and murdered him, and then, in their fury, wounded several other persons in a serious manner. An armed force having arrived, three of the Spaniards shut themselves up in a crenelated house, and finding some muskets, prepared for a seige. Before they could be subdued, two of the Spaniards were killed ; the third was taken prisoner. The price of bread for the first fortnight of the present month remains fixed at 28 centimes the kilogramme. The Moniteur publishes a decree of M. Louis Napoleon, appointing 14 prefects, all of whom either filled these functions, or those of sub-prefect, under the Government of Louis Philippe. The Moniteur also contains the returns of the corn trade in the different markets of France, during the first fortnight of December last, from which it appears that the hectolitre of wheat then sold, on an average, for 16f. 29c. at Toulouse, Gray, Lyons, and Marseilles ; at 14f. 94c. at Marans and Bordeaux ; 15f. 60c. at Le Grand Lamps and St. Laurent ; 15f. at Mulhausen and Strasburg; 15f. 3c. at Bergues, Arras, Roye, Soissons, Paris, and Rouen ; 13f. 92c. at Saumur and Nantes ; 12f. 66c. at Metz, Verdun, and Charleville ; 15f. 35c. at St. Lo, Paimpol, Quimper, and Hennebon. The Reforme contains the following version of the cause of the resignation of M. Leon de Malleville : " According to certain reports the Minister of the Interior obstinately refused to deliver up to the President of the Republic the evidence collected relative to the affairs of Strasburg and Boulogne, because that evidence was collected by a certain Minister of the Repub, lie himself when he was Under-Secretary of State and Director-General of the Police of the kingdom under Louis Philippe. Amongst those documents are, it is said, several curious letters written by police agents against the present President of the Republic. The scruples of the Minister may well be imagined, and that consequently ho would rather resign than deliver up his own work."