The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-17 00:00:00

The affliction of the Minister is excessive. His son was a
young man of great promise.
In the Chamber of Deputies, on Wednesday, a debate
took place on the subject of the French frontier blockade.
MM. DUGAGE and MAUGUIN denounced the blockade as
fatal to French commerce, inoperative as regarded the
Carlists, whom England (!) supplied with provisions, and in
every other respect vexatious and iniquitous. Count MOLE
and M. GARCIAS defended the blockade, and maintained
that since it was more strictly enforced, the Carlists had
been reduced to the greatest straits.
Letters from Bayonne of the 11th, and from Bilboa and
San Sebastian of the 9th inst., have reached us. They add
nothing to the accounts received from these places yester-
day. Operations have not yet commenced, but all is ready
for them.

PARIS, FEB. 15. —" A report has been spread," says Le
Siecle, "but we do not believe it, that the Duke of Orleans
will shortly take the place of Marshal Lobau, as Commander-
in-chief of the National Guard of the Seine."
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A Ministerial journal says that Major-General Beurmann,
commander in the departments of the Var, will command pro-
visionally the Bth military division, in the absence of General
Denys Damremont. Are we to infer that his nomination to
the Government of Africa is only provisional ? This would serve
to confirm what we have said of the fate reserved for our pos-
sessions in Africa.
M. Bertier, Sub-military Intendant at Oran, has been dis-
missed, and M. Sicard, Sub-intendant, appointed in his room.
An advertisement inserted in the Journal Generale d' Affiches
gives reason to suppose that the project of surrounding the
capital with forts is not wholly abandoned. It announces the
purchase by the Government of certain property situated in
the commune of Belleville, in the place called the Park of
St. Fargeau, or Les Tourelles, comprised within the peremeter
of the fort, to be erected at the said place, Les Tourelles,
Journal du Commerce, Feb. 15.

FRENCH } UNDS.-PARI9, FEB. 13.
Five per Cents., 109 f. 55c. 50c. 55c.
Four per Cent., 100 f. SOc. 90c.
Three per Cents., 79f. 50c. 55c. Coc.
Bank Actions, 2,400 f.
rtente de Naples, 9Sf. 60c. 70c. 230 e.
Roman Five per Cents., 152 102%
Spanish Actives, 27 27141,6%.
Spanish Differes, 1144%.
Spanish Passives, 7%.
Brussels Society, 1,555 f. 1,560 E
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 31%%Y,i.
EXCIIANGF. ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25c. 30c. ; money, 25f. 27qc.
"Tree months, paper, 251. 10c. ; money, 25f. 10c.
-Cours Authentiaue.
LAST PRICES,
Eve per Cents., 109 f. 70c.
Three per Cents. 79f. 70c.
Bank Actions, 2,400 f.
Rente de Naples, 9Sf. 95c.
Roman Five per Cents., 102%.
Portuguese Three per Cents., 31e,.
Spanish Actives, 27%.
Spanish Passives, 7%.
Spanish Differes, 9.
New Differes, 11%.
Belgian Society, 1,560 f.

Brussels and German Journals of the latest dates have
been received. In a letter from Smyrna of the 12th ult.
it is stated as the writer's conviction, that our Government
will take no concern in the capture of the Vixen, as Lord
DURHAM approved of the blockade of Circassia, and as
Lord PONSONBY caused a notice of the blockade to be
posted up at Smyrna and Constantinople. The entire
statement is a gross falsehood. Neither Lords DURHAM
nor PONSONBY recognized the right of any such blockade
as that established by Russia in the Black Sea.
The Brussels Papers state that some alarmists had
spread a report that 124 women had died of influenza in one
hospital in the course of a week. The report of the number
of deaths was correct, but the greater part of the poor
women had died in childbed, as the hospital was one into
which only lying-in women were admitted.
The following curious circumstance is quoted from a
Frankfort Journal
:
SWITZERLAND, FEB. 7.—The Chamber of Finance of the
Canton of Zurich has submitted a question to the Tribunal,
the solution of which may prove highly beneficial to it. An
extremely rich Englishman of the name of Matter diedlately, on
an estate near Winterthur. This man, after strange vicissi-
tudes of fortune, fixed his abode in the Canton of Zurich,
and had the rights of citizenship presented to hiin, in return
for his liberality to the State ih which he resided ; he was a
mysterious, reserved, misanthropic character, and with all his
wealth, apparently not happy. On his death, an inventory
was made of his property ; the Magistrates, ignorant of the
English language, were forced to make use of strangers ; and it is
believed that in this manner a will was forged which was found
some time afterwards among old linen, and by which distant rela-
tions in England are left heirs to the property. It is said to
be null and void, through defects of form, even if it were
authentic. The Tribunals will now decide ; should they de-
clare the will null, the property will come to the State, there
being no heirs ab inteskto. If the acquisition is legal, no one
will grudge it to a State which boasts that it manages its small
resources wisely, and for the good of the people, for, in pro-
portion, there is, perhaps, no country where so much is done
for schools, roads, and other public objects.