The Sun. — 1842-03-23 (London, England)

THE ARMY.—Consequent upon the augmentation of six Regiments, the following corns are to Le brought borne from North America, viz., tie Foot Gua drs, he 44th, 67th, 69th, and 70th Regiments.  Thomas Forster, Esq., of Adderstone House, near Alnvvick, a gentleman of coniderable landed property, committed suicide last week by hanging himself on a tree in a plantation on his estate at Ratchwood. The lamentable event has caused a deep sensation in the neighbourhood. A very numerous deputation of timber merchants had a long iuterview yesterda; morning with Sir R. Peel, at the Right Hon. Baronet's official residence in Downing-street, on the subject of the proposed alteration of the duty on timber. The. price of bread in France, for the remainder of the present moth, is fixed at 34 Centimes the kilogramme.  " Who runs may read."  THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 23, 1842,  PAV OF MEWS  AIND Viiblit (Opinion.  portraGN. The Paris Opposition journals continue to make objections to the proposed treaty of commerce between France and Great Britain, and which, it would appear, would encounter catch difficulty and delay. The National discredits the reported impending break up of the present Administration, "because," says the National, " the Ministry would only be changed for a worse, and there would be great difficulty in finding for it such a successor." A return of the commercial navy of France is published in these papers, from which it aprears that the total number of merchant vessels afloat is 15,U17 ; of this number 133 are stesmers. These returns show that there are in the commercial navy of Frar.ce only 24 ships the tonnage of which exceeds 500 tons.  Al Benjamin Delessert, Prrsid( nt of the Administration of the Savings' Banks of Paris, presented his recoil of the operations and situations of tho.e banks during the year 1841, on the 19th inst. According to that document, the investments amounted in the year to .... 40,041,548 f. 30c. and the re.mbursements'o 26,911,458f. 78c.  leaving an increase of which, added to the sums deposited in tie Treasury on Dec. 31, 1811.  13,130,09 f. 52c.  constituted a total of 83,485,427f. 30c. invested in the savings' banks •of Paris. As compar'd with 1840, the investments showed at, increase in 1841 of 5,215,000 f., and the reimbursements a diminution of 6,883,000 f. The Committe of Deputie4 on the Budget heard on Saturday the explanations of the r for Foreign Affairs respecting the increase of salaries to diplomatic agents, and the new Cunsulats proposed for that department. '1 he Committee agreed to the nomiLatien of Consuls for Canton, Mazatlan (Mexican * vort), lioscow, Belgrade, Jerusalem, Monterey (Mexico), Newcastle, Panama, Erzeroun, Mossoul (Mesopotamia), and Port. Louis (Mauritius). These for neiro (Ottoman Empire), and Djedda, were refused. The Committee also declined to increase the salaries of the Marquis de Dalmatia, it 'furls, and M. Chasseloup Laubat, Minister at Frankfort. The creation of a diplomatic post at Buenos Ayres was approved of, as also an increase of salary for Monte Video. The increase asked for the Consul at Edinburgh was accorded, but refused to I) üblin and Liverpool. The Patriots states, under date Algesiras, the 7th instant, that a Dutch schooner, having on board 250 musket-biro-els, and bound for Marseilles, had put into Gibral:ar, but that the Governor, at the request of the Spanish Consul, had ordered her to weigh anchor and disyart. The insurrectionary Junta existing at Gibraltar had lately received remittances amounting, it was said, to $13,000. The Eco del Comercio publishes a notice from the first Alkalde of Xtmena de la Frontera, dated the 4th instant, announcing that 2,700 muskets -and a quantity of ammunitiim had been seized by the B. itish authorities, in the Bay of Gibraltar, on board a vessel belonging to the enemies of SpaniSh liberty.  Bank Stock 3 per Cent Bed 3 per Cent Cens B9i 3' ^r Cent Red  Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares Anglo-Russian Loan. Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Inscription, Ist series.. Russian 5 per Cent. llOpe and Series . Ditto in Certificates — New 4 per Cent. ( £4O) Dutch .%ctual. Debt, per Cent. Ditto 5 per Cent. Polish Borth New Ficketr Anglo-Dan,sh Lo..n, 3 per Cent. Spanish, New 5p r Cents.