The Sun.
London, England, 1825-12-31 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Moniteur of Wednesday, Dec. 28.)

The official part contains a ItoYal Ordinance,
which prescribes the regulations to be observed
for franking letters and parcels by the post, de-
termining the persons who have the right of send-
ing or receiving letters or parcels by the post
free of postage. The Ordinance occupies the
whole sheet of the Moniteur.
(From the Etoile, dated Thursday, Dec. 29.)

The Christiania Gazette of Dec. 8, contains the official news
of a treaty concluded on the 9th of November last, between the
King of Sweden and Norway and the King of Great Britain,
relative to the slave trade. The King of Sweden engages to
cause penal laws to be passed as soon as possible against this
traffic._ The vessels which are respected as reciprocally liable
to be visited by the ships of war of the contracting parties, and
subject to confiscation in case the suspicion should prove to be
'well founded, are designated. Two tribunals shall be esta-
blished, one in the Swedish island of St. Bartholomew, the
other at Sierra Leone, on the coast of Africa, to decide in the
actions which shall be brought in consequence of the capture of
xhips, and to adjudge the indemnities to be given in case of
detensions without due grounds.
We read in a journal this morning, that every body draws
inferences from the accession of the Emperor Constantine to
the throne of Russia. As for us, we have thought it sufficient
to call to mind that this Prince has always manifested the most
lively horror of revolutionary principles. The following anec-
dote, the truth of which we can warrant the authenticity, is a
'proof of this:—
" A young French officer, taken be the Russians in the
fatal expedition to Moscow, had obtained, from the generous
commiseration of the Grand Duke Constantine, means to re-
turn to. France. When that Prince came to Paris in 1814,
this young officer waited on his benefactor, and was received
in the 'most flattering manner. The fatal 20th of March,
1815, having again brought the Russians into France, the
young officer again hastened to pay his respects to the Grand
Duke Constantine. But as soon as the Prince perceived him,
he cried—' Do not advance ! What have you been doing
since I saw you ?1-4 Your Highness, I have just come from
Ghent.'—' Well, then, come and give the your hand; I ac-
Iniowledge you for a loyal knight, since you maintain your
faith to your ligitimate sovereign. "

COMMERCIAL RELATIONS WITH FRANCE.
(From Galignani's Messenger.)
TO THE EDITOR.

Paris, Dec. 24, 1825.

" Sir—lt was not till to-day that I received from the hand of
a friend, the translation of an article that appeared in your
Journal of the 7th of November, in which I am pointed out as
having been one of the manufacturers the most opposed to an
arrangement of-the new commercial relations that Mr. Huskis-
son proposed at the time of his recent visit to France.
" Not only did I not employ, as the letters from Paris affirm,
any means to induce the French Government to reject the
,propositions that may have been made, hut I even had not
the slightest communication upon the subject with any of its
members.

" Neither had 1 the honour of seeing Mr. Huskisson, and
upon that occasion I sincerely regretted that custom, in France
M opposed to calling on strangers when one has not the advan-
tage of being known to them. Had it been otherwise, I should
have eagerly gone to offer my homage to a Minister of so
hoeourable a character ; and if it had been in my power to have
removed the difficulties he appears to have met with, I should
have aimed to have done so the more willingly, as I am con-
vinced that the reciprocal interest, established by men equally
enlightened and of good faith, might be combined and arranged
in a manner advantageous to both countries.
if
.The opinions that I have expressed in the Chamber of De-
puties, and particularly that upon the Custom Duties' Law of
the Jet of July, 182-2, might have rendered more circumspect
.the Paris correspondents, who have made assertions diametri-
eeally opposed to my views of this question. If I do not see
much difference between certain statesmen, of the present day
and those who made the treaty of 1737, so fatal to our industry,
I make a great difference between the English negotiator, who
then congratulated himself upon havingobtained for his country
a few millions at the expence of France, with the risk of alienat-
ing our nation, and thereby doing injury to the existing politi-
cal treaty, and the Minister who is sufficiently great, just, and
well calculating to know that in treaties we cannot procure for
ourselves substantial and lasting advantages without having re-
gard to those of others.
" I entertain so much confidence in, and esteem for the
manufacturers and dealers who received me with such marked
kindness upon my different visits to England, that I am de-
sirous they should remain convinced that I have in no wise de-
-viated from the principles and wishes that I expressed to them
of seeing commercial relations more intimate and reciprocally
advantageous to both nations established. For this reason you
would oblige me by the insertion of this letter in your journal.
I have the honour, &c.
" TERNAUX."

(Signed)

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.-This day week 13
the sth Jantiary, 1826, when the New Act regarding Weights
and Measures comes into operation, and yet we do not believe
there is a single weight or measure of the legal standard at pre-
sent in Glasgow, or that the citizens know where to make ap-
plication to obtain them. There is something extremely wrong
and negligent in all this. Standard measures ought to have
been received sufficiently early in this place, to have enabled
some person legally appointed, to make and to supply•the citi-
zens, as far as practicable, with weights and measures such as
the law requires. The want of these will occasion much incon-
venience and confusion.—(Glasgow Courier, Dec. 29.)