The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-23 00:00:00

FRAN CE.

Viscount Edouard Walsh, a Legitimist, bas writ-
ten to the newspapers from Vienna to state that he
has declined to receive the sum of 22,000 f. awarded
to him by the Directeur des Beaux Arts, for the re-
storation of his chateau of Chaumont, on the banks of
the Loire, which is considered an historical monu-
ment. His reason is, he states, that his acceptance of
the money was malevolently misrepresented in a
political point of view ; and that be is anxious to prove
that he has not ceased to be devoted to the principles
he has defended all his life.

A telegraphic dispatch from Constantine, of the
13th, addressed to the Governor-General of Algeria,
announces that the insurrection of the Haractas has
been put down. The principal part of the insurgents
had come and pitched their tents near the French
troops, having sent delegates to ask for the Aman.
General d'Autemarre, who has taken the command of
all the forces in the east, is to regulate this affair on
the spot. Communications have been re-established
with Tebessa. The revolted tribes in the vicinity
of Guelma are divided, and uncertain as to the
conduct they ought to follow. Colonel de Tourville,
commander of the subdivision of Bona, was to enter
the country of the Ouled Dhan on the 13th. Their
insurrectional movement appears to have been caused
by the secret schemes of the Mussulman religious
associations. It began in the environs of La Calle,
and has been propagated by the excitations of the
Cherif of Ouargla. The Tanger, which left Bona on
the 12th, at eight o'clock in the evening, and touched
at Collo on the 13th, conveyed to Algiers the news
that the situation of affairs had improved in the sub-
division of Bona.

VENEZUELAN BONDHOLDERS.
The Venezuela bondholders will feel disappointed, we
apprehend, at the supineness of the Legislature atCarac-
cas in not adopting the agreement made by theirGovern-
ent with Mr. Lord, but, on the other hand, they may
be gratified to learn by the correspondence annexed
that the Finance Minister is likely to use proper exer-
tion to meet all engagements. The mistake which Mr.
Lord points out in respect to provision being made twice
over for the same dividend is a singular example of
loose account keeping, that we should imagine to be pe-
culiar to Spanish American States
The following is from Mr. Lord's letter, dated " La
Guayra, 25th and 26th of May, 1852," received by the
Committee in London:—

"To the foregoing duplicate of my respects of 10th
in st., I now beg leave to add that the Extraordinary Ses-
sion of Congress closed ou Sunday, the 23d, without the
least notice having been taken of the agreement since
the sth of April, the day on which the Chamber of Re-
pt esentatives postponed the further consideration of it
for four days; and thus it remains, neither approved nor
disapproved, to abide the course of events between this
ar d the Congress of next year! Meantime in the law
of ways and means' for the ensuing financial year, com-
mencing on the Ist of July next, there appears this
its m—' For the payment of the dividends on the Foreign
Dobt 700,000 dolls.'

" The project of law, as sanctioned by;the Lower
Chamber, provided as follows:—For the current late-
r,.st on the Active Debt at 31 per cent., cad for interest
on the Deferred at 1 per cent., the sum of 495,554 24,;
on account of arrear dividends 200,000; and it was al-
tered as above in the Senate. The former of the just
mnntioned sums was composed of interest on Active
Debt, at 3i per cent., 64,048,164, at 61 dolls.---400,305
dolls.; ditto on Deferred at 1 per cent., 15,239/. 173.3 d.;
ditto ditto-=_95,249,26—total dolls. 495,554,26.
Bat as the latter commences from lit Ootober, 1852,
clear it is that the half-year's interest due on Ist April,
1853, should alone find place in the ensuing financial
year.
" I intend shortly passing another note to the Minister,
aim ply to date that, under existing circumstances, I