The Sun. — 1853-09-08 (London, England)

LATEST FOREIGN  FRANCE.  'v ~ i  The Emperorhas granted pardons to 68 prisoners, and also to 60 others who were sentenced by courtsmartial to transportation to Algeria after the insurrection of June, 1848. The Emperor and Empress will return to Paris on Saturday, and again set out about the 15th for their long-announced journey to Boulogne and the north of France.  Letters from Algiers, of the 30th ult., state that the cherif of Ouargla, and some other insurgent chiefs, were at Rouissat and its neighbourhood, with about 300 horsemen. The populations, which have furnished these contingents, are described as suffering dreadfully from want of corn, since the Souf and the Oued-R it have ceased to supply them ; in fact, they live at present almost altogether on dates. Selman, the murderer of the family Ben-Djellsh, and the friend of the cheriff, had contrived to impress the insurgent tribes with the idea that Tuggurt, the principal town of the Oued-R'ir, is the last bulwark of Islamism in Algeria, and has induced them to undertake some defensive works around that place. The intelligence from Beni-Mzab represents them as still divided into two parties, one faithful to the French, and the other in relation with the cheriff of Ouargla. The latter lately made an irruption on the Beni-Isguen, who remain faithful to the French, and a considerable number of men were killed on both sides. On the frontiers of Morocco, the Mzaouirs and Mais have committed so many, acts of brigandage as to excite the serious attention of the authorities on the frontier. General Pelissier, to protect the tribes of Tlemcen against their turbulent neighbours, has lately ordered certain measures of surveillance which, it is thought, will be attended with satisfactory results. General Changarnier arrived at Interlaken some days ago. He subsequently proceeded to Bellinzona, and left that place on the 2d, with Baron Nathan Rothschild, for Piedmont. Gen. Bedeau is at present in Switzerland ; he was recently at Thoune.  M. Calderon de la Barca leaves Paris for Madrid on Friday. It is not at all certain that he will definitively accept the portfolio that has been offered to him in the present cabinet.  A letter from Laon (Aisne) of the sth inst., states that the price of flour declined considerably in those towns on Saturday, but not in time to influence the price of bread for the first 15 days of Sept. The price would consequently have risen at Laon not less than. 40 centimes the 5 kilogrammes. The Prefect of the Department, imitating the course pursued by the Prefect of Paris, has assumed the responsibility of reducing the 40 centimes to 20 centimes, proposing to the bakers to compensate them for their present loss by permitting them to continue the present rate after a fall in the price of flour. A letter from Nantes, of the 4th inst., states that the price of wheat in that town was quoted at the beginning of last week at 28f. the 78 kilogrammes, with little demand, and with a prospect of a fall. Good fresh flour was sold to the bakers at 80f. the 159 kilogrammes, and inferior flour at from 75f. to 78f., according to quality. But the news of the measures adopted by the Government surprised everybody, and stopped all business. The buyers withdrew, and the orders given for the purchase of wheat abroad were countermanded.  The speculators at the Bourse yesterday, alarmed at the substance of the last dispatch received from Constantinople, and likewise by a report that the French Government would shortly require a loan of 500,000,000 f., offered Government rentes and railway shares for sale, both of which consequently declined. The Three per Cents. opened at 78E 50c., and closed at 78c. 35c. for the end of the month ; the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. closed at 102 f. 10c. with the coupon detached ; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,250 f. ; Rouen, I,loof. ; Havre, 520 f. ; Great Northern, 875 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 935 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 942 f. 50c. ; Western of France, 750 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 627 f. 50c. ; Great Central, 542 f. 80c. ; Shares of the Bank or Credit Mobilier, 830 f.