FRANCE.

Colonist, Volume II, Issue 191, 19 August 1859, Page 3

FRANCE.

"People have but little idea," says the Paps, " of the cost of transporting the materiel of the avmy fi'ora one place to another. To give one instance among a thousand, it requires 300 horses to remove a million of cartridges. We have already sent 10 millions to Italy. Three thousand horses, therefore, have been put into requisition for this simple service alone. Such an enormous mass of cartridges in these days of arms of precision, gives a terrible idea of the destructive power of our arms. It can no longer be calculated, as it was 50 years ago, that every enemy killed cost his weight in bullets. The means of destruction are now too formidable for war to last long." According to a Paris journal, the war in'ltaly costs France rather more|than three million fracs (£120,000 sterling) a day. On the 26th of May the great bodies of the state were received at the Tuileries by the Empress Regent previously to her departure for St. Cloud for the summer season. The Senate awaited the empress in the Salle dv Trone, the Corps Legislatif in the Salon <T Apollon, and the Council of State in the Salon Blanc. The empress passed through each of these drawingrooms leading the Imperial Prince by the hand and acompanied by Prince Jerome, the ministers, the cHamberlains, and the ladies of honor. M.

Granier de Cassagnac describing the, ceremony in the Pays says that " the young prince dressed in white, with his prettys^ir hair curling naturally, smiled and waved his little hand." M. Troplong in the name of the Senate,' Count deMornyforthe Corps Legislatif, and.M. Baroche: for the Conncil of State, pronounced addresses, to which her Majesty returned answers. After the speech to the Corps Legislatife, M. de Cassagnac, who was present, says, " Prince Jerome, taking, np the young prince in his venerable arms, presented him to the assembly, and all the deputies rushed towards the child, disputing with each other the honor of touching his little hands, which they .covered with kisses." The empress was moyed to tears, .jpd, says the some recorder, "every hody present cried, and diffused the general emotion'by convulsive shaking of hands." . " "The increase of the English Channel fleet," says a correspondent in ;;|he Independanco Bslgc, |'has imposed upon Frafpiithe duty of replacing in the western ports the; Sships which have been sent to the Mediterranean. There will therefore be armaments in those ports, but within the necessary limits for re-establishing the equilibrium of the. forces, and for giving an additional gage to maritime power. As to the levies of sailors, they have bsen fixed at the lowest, scale, and, as the journals of Toulon recently announced, the execution of the measures recently determined on are postponed." . • ■ The Moniteur 'says :—" The Emperor's Government has hitherto not regarded coal as a contraband object of war, and-we "are prepared to announce that it will conform during the present war to this mode of regarding it." . The Emperor has given orders that all the infantry regiments ip. the army shall receive instruction in artillery practice. The non-commissioned officers and select companies will be instructed first, and the system will be gradually extended to all the other companies. In every regiment there are officers educated at the Eco de St. Cyr,. who are competent to superintend artillery drill. It is expected that hereafter, when the artillery men who serve a gun may be killed or disabled, any troops in the service will be able to supply their place, and either go on with the "firing or move the gun as may be expedient. The Marquis Antonini delivered on June 7 to the Empress the notification of the death of King Ferdinand, and of the accession to the throne of King Francesco 11. The. marquis also presented letters accrediting him as Envoy Extraordinary. The Empress weDt into mourning for 21 days. The Monifeur says that the Imperial Government having, in concert with England, resolved on renewing diplomatic relations with his Majesty the King of INaples, M. Brenier has been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to the court of that sovereign On the 7th June, the Empress went in state to Notre Dame, to hear a solemn Te Deum for the victory of Magenta. Her Majesty was accompanied by Prince Jerome. The Princess Mathilde and the Princess Clothilda rode together in another carriage. After the news of the victory, there were tremendous rejoicings and brilliant illuminations for several nights in Paris.