The Sun. — 1838-12-15 (London, England)

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE  FRANCE.  The Moniteur contains a Royal ordinance, dated yesterday, which, in honour of Marshal Gerard's accession to the command, remits all the punishments adjudged by the Councils of Discipline of the National Guards of the Department, and suppresses all preceedings commenced previous to the promulgation of this ordinance. " The Municipal Council of the department of the Seine," says the Siecle, " yesterday set aside the demand of the Pro. curcur du Roi for a manifestation from that body to afnrd grounds for the prosecution of M. Altaroche, for an article in the Charivari, in which the grant of 20,000 f. for the funeral of Marshal Lobau was strongly criticised. The Council expressed great dissatisfaction at the paltry manner in which the Church of the Invalids had been decorated on the occasion of Marshal Lobau's funeral, sad intimated not only that the Government should have fulfilled its promise of contributing towards the expense of the ceremonial, but that the gallant veteran's obsequies might have been appropriately solemnized for the 20,0001. expended on them. In the course of the discussion it was stated that 1,500 f. of the money had been paid to the Clergy of the church of St. Germain l'Auxerrois, and it was added that the Archbishop of Paris had demanded 10,0001. for honouring the solemnity with his presence. Several of the members objected altogether to the vote of 20,0001." A quartermaster of the 4th Lancers committed a most determined suicide a few days ago, in the general hospital at 'Fours, whilst taking a bath. Having made an ineffectual attempt to cut the artery of each arm with a table-knife, he next stabbed himself to the heart, and previously to expiring endeavoured to divide the crural a:tery. His desperate act is attributed to the sufferings which he had long felt from a cancer in the stomach, produced, it is supposed, by an excessive indulgence in spirituous liquors. He was in other respects a man of good character, and was 47 years of age. The dignity of Marshal of France dates back as far as 1183, when Albric Clement, Seigneur of Metz, was appointed to that office, second only in rank to that of Connetable. There have been 295 Marshals of France during the 653 years that have elapsed since then until the present time. The first edition of M. Casimir Delavigne's new play, La Popularite, has been purchased, it is asserted, for 8,000 f., by M. Dolloye, the publisher. The responsible editors of the Gazette de France and Temps were yesterday summoned before the Tribunal of Correctional Police, •for having given an unfaithful account of the proceed ings in the case of the prosecution for libel recently brought by Messrs. Perier, sons of the late M. Casimir Perier, against several Journals of the capital. The Editor of the Temps was also charged with having, in his account of the case in question, inserted various expressions insulting to the Crown lawyers. After a long hearing the Editor of the Gazette was acquitted, but the Editor of Temps was condemned to one month's imprisonment, 2,0001. fine, and the costs of the proceedings. The France is facetious on the subject of M. Dupin's alleged intention to publish a pamphlet explanatory of his political opinions, "which," observes this Journal, " have remained best known to himself ever since the Revolution of 1830." The Legitimatist organ then applies to the Hon. Deputy's case an anecdote told of Talleyrand, who, when under the necessity of explaining to Louis