The Sun.
London, England, 1831-06-20 00:00:00

,ow know better that, ever where arc their sure,t 'r'ends,
is well as their most ean;erous enemies.

(Signed) " LOBAU."
Tl.e Dueless de S'. Lett (Queen Hortense) arrived at
Paris a few days ago.
General Bertrand, whose name is so honourably allied
with the misfortunes of Napoleon, has presented himself
to the electors of Oaateattronr, as a candidate for the re•
presentation of the Indre.
A telegraphic de,patch has announced the arrival in tin
roadstead of Marseilles of a French frigate, with 120
Bllouin Arabs, sent from Algiers by General Berthe-
zene, for the purpose of studying agriculture. They art.
to be placed under some of the best farmers in the south,
and employed in agricultural pursuits, until they are able
to apply the French method to their own country.
The following is an abstract of the very reduced condi-
tion of the French shipping trade, as given in the last
Marseilles Semaphore which we have received :-
In one put of the port of Marseilles are seen 200 dis-
mantled ships, laid up in three rows, while in another is
to he seen the active bustle of the commerce of Mar-
sei.les, but carried on entirely by foreign vessels. Tht
French colonial commerce does not occupy 1-10th of their
own prime shipping, and the greater number of the lat-
ter, the smell ships of 100 to 200 tons, find no employ-
ment whatever. Forced by successive losses to renounce
distant voyages, the marine of Marseilles still had hopes
to preserve its natural share of the trade to the Levant,
and of the coasting on the shorts of Spain and Italy. In-
deed, the navigation of the Mediterranean seemed to be its
domain; but foreign shipping had taken away even that,
and what was worse, they had been assisted in doing so by
French maritime regulations. They were exempted from
the tonnage duties which they rtquired in their own
ports from foreign vessels, and likewise freed from all
local chargi s in bringing their provisions and stores on
board. The salary of French sailors (45 to 50 francs a
month) was twice that of the foreigners, and always,
from the system adopted by the Government in their rates
of payment increases in the ratio that the price of freight
diminishes. The protection of the tariff of customs is
become quite inoperative, since the reduction by. fo-
reigners of their freight to one-half that of the French
offers a sufficient compensation for the difference of duty;
besides the tariff is so framed,. as to admit of repeated
evasion. It is thus that the immense transit of oil is
borne by foreigners front all parts of Italy to Nice, and
then it is merely left to French coasters to finish the trans-
fer from Nice to Marseilles. It was only some months
ago, that upon the lucky alteration of Villele's absurd le-
gislation upon corn, some activity was introduced into the
commerce of Marseilles ; but not a single one of the local
ships could vie with the foreign freights. Austrians,
Russians, Neapolitans, Sardinians, were alone the carriers
of corn from the Black Sea ; the French marine could
not cover their charges under a rate of two francs and a
half, while foreigners could for one franc. Even the
French Government employed foreign freights for Algiers,
for the paltry economy of two or three francs per ton, and
they continue up to this time to employ such vessels for
that colony at eleven francs per ton, while the French at
their present pressure of expences could ncit do that work
under twenty francs.
FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, JUNE 17.-Five per Cents. 90f. 891.
75c. 60c. 80c. 90c. 90f. 89f. 95c. 90f. 89f. 95c. 90c. 75c. 90f. 89f. 95c.
90c. 80c. 75e. 891. 60c. 50e. ; Loan of 1831, 89f. 60c. 75c. 70c. •
Four per Cents., 76f. ; Three per Cents., 62f. 61 f. 80c 90c. 80c!
62f. 62f. Sc. 61f 90c. 80c. 85c. 90c. 85c. 60c. 50c. 61f. 30c. 25c.;
Bank Stock, 1,600 f. ; Rente de Naples, 69f. 25c. 69f. 68f. 90c. 95c.
68f. 90e. 60c. ; Relate d' Espagne, 13% I.g ; Royal Spanish Loan,
673` 68 67%; Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 52 5234 % %lea
%523 %y, ; Haytian Loan, 275 f. Exchange on London,
One month, paper, 25f. 10c. ' • money, 2.5 f. 10c. ; three months,
paper, 25f. , money-,.241... 95c.-Coors Authentiquc.
FRENCH FUNDS.-..PARIS, JUNE iB.-Five per Cents. WE 65c.
55c. 5,c. 40c. 50c. 89f. 891. 10c. 20e. 89f. 25c. 20c. 25c. 30c. 25c.
10c. 15e. 40c. ; Loan of 1831, 89f. 20c.; Four per Cents., 751. •
Three per Cents., 61f. 70c. 65c. 60c. 40c. 25c. 61f. 15c. Sc. tine.
90c. 61f. 60f. 90. 61f. 60f. 95c. 611.; Bank Stock, 1,600 f
1,590 f. ; Rente de Naples, 68f. 60e. 30c. 25c. ; Rente d'Espagne,
1334 ; Royal Spanish Loan, 66; Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne,
5234 % 52 521,;, h 52 5214 ; Exchange on London, one month,
paper, 25f. 10c. ; money, 25f. 10c. ; three months, paper, 231. ;
money, 24f. 95c.-Coors Authentique.