The Sun.
London, England, 1830-02-18 00:00:00

EXPRESS FRONI PARIS.

\Ve here received by. express the Gazette de
France, dated. Wednesday, the 17th instant; the
Messager des Chanibrcs, the Moniteur, and other
papers of Tuesday, the 16th inst.
The Rfoniteur contains, in its oitcial part, a
report of the Minister of Publit Instruction to the
King, upon the state of schools for primary instruc-
tions. The Minister advises the establishment of
these schools in all the communes of the kingdom,
and the establishment of a. preparatory model school
in each academical iiistrict of the University of
IFrAlice, for the. purpose of forming schoolmasters;
the Minim- v., likewise advises the providing of funds
for the purpose of enabling the poor communes to
stwort schools, and for giving pensions to aged
echoolmasters. The report is followed by a Royal
ordinance for the carrying into effect the recommen-
dations of the report.

The Duke de Levis has died after a very thbr
illness.

Tha Constitutinnnel of the 16th zontains the lot
owing article respecting thy expedition agains'
Algiers

" It is stated, that at the Council of Ministers,
held on Sunday, theaprimment of tha Commander-
in-Chief of the expedition against Algiers was dig-
cussed. AMongst the candidates were Marshals St.
Cyr, Marmont, and Molitor ; and Lieut.-Generals
Claniel, Reille, and Gerard. It is said that M. de
I3ourmont did not hesitate to place his own name
on the list. Should he be selected, Field-Marshal
Collet will naturally become the head of his staff;
and it is reported that M. penile will be his chief of
the civil administration of the army. M. Deni6e
has never before been employed in any maritime
expedition."

" The 21fonitcur of to-day contains a letter ad-
dressed to the editor by M. Royer Collard, in which
he declares, that a statement of the Gazette de
France, on the 14th instant, that meetings of De-
puties had been held at the house of the late Pre-
sident of the Chamber, to be positively false, and
that no 'meetings whatever have been held there
since the close of the last Session.

" The Journal de Commerce of this morning
says—' It is rumoured that the following is the plan
formed for the reduction of the Five per Cents:—
Four per Cent. Stock is to be created, not reim-
burseable before the expiration of fifteen years, and
which, after that term, can only be reimbursed with
premium of five francs for every huudred of capi-
tal. The holders of Five per Cent. Stock are to
have their option between the new stock or the re-
imbursement of their capital : the reimbursement of
the whole is to take place at once, and according to
the order of the numbers of the inscriptions. 111
order to meet the demands for reimbursements,
which, on these condition*, cannot be many, Royal
bonds to the amount of 2,000,0001. are to be created.
In the details of the above plan, nothing is said of the
*inking fund. The new Four per Cents. would evi-
de•ntly be above par from the moment of their crea-
tion ; consequently, the sinking fund could not act
upon them. It is highly improbable that it would
continue to be applied exclusively to the Three per
Cents. unless it be wished to raise them immediately
to par. Perhaps a portion of it may be devoted to
pay off the Royal bonds nececsitated by the demands
for reimbursement.

" We extract the following, dated Banks of the
Neva, Jan. 20, from the Hamburg Correspondent:
---` It is reported that our Government has trans-
mitted to Lord Ileytesbury a detailed note respect-
ing the affairs of Greece. It is also asserted, that
the Russian Government insist on the principle,
that as yet no elteration he made in the Government
of Greece, and that the administration of that
country shall continue to be entrusted to the indefa-
tigable zeal of the disinterested and philanthropic
President. The choice of the Sovereign, it is
added, is to be left to the wishes and will of the
Greek nation, without any interference on the part
of the Allied Powers. The Sultan himself is said
to have expressed himself in this sense. Well-in-
formed persons assert, that these and many other
European questions, will be discussed at a General
Congress next spring, to be held at Berlin. The
greatest activity is employed to complete our army
in the east ; the new troops and officers, recently
appointed, are required to hasten their march as
much ac the severe winter will permit; and, as has
been before stated, no furloughs are to be granted to
officers.'

" It appears by accounts from different parts of
Spain, that A second expedition against Mexico has
been definitively resolved on by the Spanish Go-
vernment. The vessels freighted at Cadiz to trans-
port troops will convey 1,200 infantry, a squadron
of cavalry, and 11-0 artillery-men, to Manilla, and
3,000 infantry to Havanna!).
" Extract of a private letter from Lisbon of the
!Act ult. r---c Our Ministers have no hope of effect-
ing- a loan in Holland, arid it will be no longer pos-
sible to meet the current expences of the country;
for according to the Treasury account, the charges
for the year will be 40,000,000 francs, and the re-
venue does not produce 18,000,000. The receipts
of the Customs for the last year were deficient
4,000,000. The. Treasury is so entirely exhausted,
that the Bank has not yet received the interest on
the loan of 1827, due oir the Ist instant, and paper
money has fallen to a discount of 30 or 31 per
cent. A contagious disease has made its appearance
in the lazaretto and in the castle of Limoero, and
five or six persons, confined there for political
offences, die daily.'

" In a letter of the 4th instant from Madrid, in-
serted in the Courrier de Bayonne, we read the fol-
lowing passage:—` The project of putting up fur
sale,4'or in lottery, the Baldios and Realengos, will
produce nothing. Agriculture is at too low an ebb
for any speculation upon the waste lands ; even the
proprietors of good estates neglect their cultivation
for want of a market for their produce. The Go-
vernment is by, no means deceived in this respect.
Every one knows the facility with which land of the
above description has hitherto been granted to such
as,„chooso to dcroantl it, and thac the demanders

e .--.

War-Office, Feb. 10, 19. T.

H. HARDINGE.

CHURCH ESTABLISHMENT.—The follow-
ing is a copy of a note addressed to Mr. SAINTSBUAT by
his Grace the Duke of WaLuNorosr, and sent to a gentle-
man in the neighbourhood of Wooodbridge
" The Duke of Wellington presents his compliments
to Mr. Saintaburc, and has received his letter of the
28th inst.

" The Duke assures Mr. Saint.bury that what he
reads respecting him in the newspapera is not true.
" The Duke has no intention of interfering with the
Chnrch Establishment.

" London, Jan. 29.
" S. Saintsbury, Esq., 35, Red Lion-square,"—
Bury and Suffolk Herald.

Tho reply of the Duke of WELLINGTON to
the Grand Jury of Kent has not yet been published. We
are now enabled to subjoin a copy, by which our readers
will perceive not only that it is equally laconic with the
reply to the Magistrates of Sussex, but that the reluct-
ance of the Pretuier to acknowledge the distress of the
country appears to b• unconquerable. Conviction will,
we apprehend, he notwithstanding forced upon his Grate
ere long:—

London, Dee. 17, 1829.

My Lottn,—l have had the honour of receiving your
Lordship's letter of the l 6th instant, communicating to
me, for the information of his Majesty's Government, the
deep and unprecedented distress which the Gentlemen of
the Grand Jury of the County of Kent are enabled to
etate exists among all classes throughout that county.
I have the honour to be, my Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient, humble servant,
(Signed) NV Y. L L 1 N GTO N.

To the Lord Marshasn. (Brighton Gazette.)
MANNERS OF THE DAY.—It has been said
that since the publication of Lady Citaatorrx BURY'S
novel called " Flirtation," no work has appeared which
for wit anel a certain air distinguj, is likely to compete
with the forthcoming sketches of " The Manners of the
Day." Dress, affectation, scand.l, amusement, flirtation,
the more serious, though too often guilty, affairs of the
heart, with all the dangerous varieties of dissipation com-
mon to splendid mansions and gilded palaces, are the sub-
jects which, with a highly moral purpose, have been chosen
by the fair writer as materials for her tale.
We have seen a letter from a high official per-
son connected with the army, which places beyond all
doubt the fact of the intention of Ministers to make ex-
tensive reductions in that department of the service.—
Dubliu Register.

In looking back through the lives of the most
illustrious poets, the class of intellect in which the charac-
teristic features of genius are, perhaps, most strongly
marked, we shall find that, with scarcely one exception,
from HostEn down to Lord BYRON, they have been, in
their several degrees, restlm and solitary spirits with minds
wrapped up, like the silk worms, in their own tasks,
either strangers or rebels to domestic ties, and hearing
shout with them a deposit for posterity in their souls, to
the jealous watching and enriching of which almost all
other thoughts and considerations are sacrificed. How-
ever delightful may he the spectacle of a man of genius
tamed and domesticated in society, taking docilely upon
him the yoke of the social ties, and enlightening without
disturbing the sphere in which he moves, we must, never-
theless, in the midst of our admiration, bear in mind that

it is not thus smoothly or amiably that immortality ha
been ever struggled for, or won. The poet thus circum-
stanced may be popular, may be loved ; for the happiness
of hims,lf and those linked with him, he is in the right
road—but not for greatness. The marks by which fame
has always separated her great martyrs from the rest of
mankind, are not upon him, and the crown cannot be his.
He may dazzle, may captivate the circle, and even the
tines in whirls he lives; but lie is not for hereafter.—
Moora's Life of Bui.on,

LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18, 1830.

Brussels and German Papers have been re•
ceived this morning, but their contents are un•

nteresting.

Vir.xxA., Fan. 5.--Metalliques, 1021; Four per
Cents., 96i; Bank Shares, 1282.
Frs. 1021; Four per Ceuta., 96k;
Bank Shares, 1280.

We have given extracts from the French
Papers in another column. The following is
from our Paris Correspondent :

" PARIS, FEB. 16.
" The following, I understand, is the plan
about to be adopted for the reduction of the
French Five per Cents. :—A new Four per Cent.
Loan is to be created, not reimbursable for 1
years,—and even after that term, not without a
premium of five francs on every hundred francs
of capital. The holders of Five per Cent. Stock
are to have an option between the new stock and
the repayment of their capital, the whole of
which is to be paid up at once, according to the
order of the numbers inscribed. In order to
meet the demands which 'may arise, and which
probably will not be numerous, Royal Bonds are
to be created, to the amount of two millions of

francs. In these details nothing is said of the
sinking fund. The new Four per Cents. would
evidently be above par, from the moment of their
creation, and, consequently, the sinking fund
could not act upon them. It is very improbable
that this fund would continue to be applied ex-
clusively to the Three per Cents., unless it
be wished to raise them immediately to par.
Part of it may, perhaps, be applied to the re-
payment of the Royal Bonds, created by the new
arrangement.

" A general Congress is spoken of to be held
at Berlin in the course of the spring, one of the
objects of which is said to be the settlement of

.he affairs of Greece.

" It is stated in letters from Cadiz of the 29th
of January, that several vessels had been taken
up in that port to carry out the troops which are
about to be sent to Manilla and the Havannah.
To the Manilla there are to be dispatched
1,200 infantry, a squadron of cavalry, and a
party of 140 artillery ; to the Havannah, 3,000
infantry. These troops will embark in the
month of March next.

" From these letters it appears that no doubt

is entertained at Cadiz of a second expedition
being sent out against Mexico. The King's
head is said to have been so raised on the sub-

ject, that it is he personally who now chiefly
desires the object to be realized, and insists on
the expedition being formed on a great scale.

It will not sail, however, till towards the months
of September or October. In the mean time
barracks are preparing at Cadiz for the troops as
they arrive in detail, and who are formed as
they come into expeditionary corps.
" The Moniteur of this morning contains a
letter from M. Royer Collard, the late President
of the Chamber of Deputies, denying a statement
which has lately appeared in various forms in the
Gazette, that meetings had been held in the house
of this distinguished Deputy, of the Members of
the Opposition . The sting of the statement was
contained in an insinuation, that an individual
at one of these meetings, whose name was not
given, had allowed himself to indulge in obser-
vations which had for their object the change of
the dynasty.
" M. de Lavalette, whose life was saved in

1815, by the extraordinary exertions of Sir Ro-
bert Wilson, and of Messrs. Hutchinson and
Bruce, died yesterday at his residence in the Rue
Matignon. His funeral takes place to-morrow."

The destruction of the English Opera House
removes the only obstacle which stood in the
way of effecting a great improvement in, the
Strand. The want of a street leading directly

to the North from Waterloo-bridge has been
long and seriously felt. We understand that
the Commissioners of Woods and Forests
have had a plan in contemplation for making
a street towards the North as far as Holborn,
which would afford a facility of communication
with the West end of the town by Oiford-
street, I>tli Ole P.':! crib by Tottenham Court-
road, and with the North-East by Holborn, and
the other leading thoroughfares. The time has
now arrived for taking advantage of the late
calamity, by carrying such a plan into effect.—
A very noble street might be made to the
British running in a direct line be-
tween Covent-garden and Drury-lane Theatres
Nor is the value of the property through which
it is to pass, so great as people imagine. It

would pass through Charles-street, Bow-street,
Charles-street, Long-acre, and the extreme end
of Drury-lane to Museum-street ; or, if the
expense were an object, it might be car-
ried through Hanover-street, Belton-street,
into the Broadway, thus forming a junction
with the grand line of new street from St. Mar-
tin's-lane. The advantages which would result
from the formation of such a communication,
are too obvious to require any comment. The
proprietors of Watcrloo-bridge would then stand a
fair chance of remuneration for the capital sunk
in that truly national work. We trust Lord
Low.rxma will take up the business with his
usual spirit, and " the work is done."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY).

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Their Lordship sat this morning at Half-past Ten
o'clock on Scotch appeals.
The Lords in attendance were the LORD CIIANCELLOIL,
and Lords Noarnwrcz and WHAIINCLIFFX.

FORBES V. 1511 AW.

Thii was an appeal from tke judgment of the Court of
Session.

Mt. Forbes (whose representatives were the appel-
lants) was for many years previous to his dealt a heritor,
or land-owner in Falkirk, the church of which
parish in the year 1800 was in a considerable state
of dilapidation; after several meetings between the
heritors, a committee was appointed, and it was deter-
mined to enter into a contract with persons to repair the
church, the expense of which (4,7001.) was to be defrayed
by assessment upon the heritors of the parish. Mr.
Forbes objected to any contract being entered into till
the necessary sums were raised ; this objection, however,
was overruled by the committee, among whom were come
of the respondents, and the contracts were entered into.
Mr. Forbes immediately paid his proportion of the
assessment, 1,4001. Many of the other heritors were back-
ward in their payments; the building of the church went
on, and the committee were obliged to give bills and get
them discounted at the Falkirk Bank, for the purpose
of meeting the expence of the repair.. It ultimately
turned out that many of the persons assersed were totally
unable to pay ; this caused a great deficiency in the funds,
to obviate which another assessment was made upon the
solvent heritors, and among the rest, upon the appellant.,
who resisted the payment upon the ground that though
Mr. Forbes had paid the whole of his previous assess-
ment, he had done so protesting against any contract
being entered into for the repairs of the church
until the necessary sums for those repairs were
raised. Upon the case coining before the Court
of Session, they declared that the representatives of
Mr. Forbes were liable for this re-assessment. Against
this decision the present appellant appealed.

Mr. CAMPBELL and Mr. Wll:sCliti were Counsel for
the appellant, and Mr. Serjeant Srearictic and Er. Nam.
appeared for the respondent.
The arguments were not concluded when we left.