The Sun.
London, England, 1825-03-22 00:00:00

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Exirca,zfroin the Morning Papers,Marchtc2,lB2s.

iNEw TIMES!

We do not often trouble ourselves with the
debates of the French Legislative Chambers.
Indeed, in the course of the present Session they
have presented little that is interesting to an En-
glish reader. All are satisfied that the Emigrants
ought to obtain restitution of at least a part of
the property of which they were plundered by
the Jacobins ; but how it i$ to be done the mere
English Politician neither knows nor cares.—
SometimFs, however, a topic starts up, which is of
more general application. Thus we find aM. de
Boudreau on Thursday vehemently attacking the
French Finance Minister for having had recourse
to the aid of the house of Rothschild, and again
attacking the Rothschilds for making the best bar-
gain in their power for themselves. This is
really very childish reasoning ; but we confess
we have heretofore heard something of the same
kind from our own countrymen. Yet a moment's
relection, one would think, might convince any
hody that it ;is preposterous to quarrel with a
Money Dealer for making the most he can of his
commodity in the fair way of trade ; and equally
preposteroui is it to blame a Finance Minister for
applying to a large Capitalist when he -,vants a
large sum of money. We remember several years
ago to have heard an excellent Judge in
those matters remark, that the great Capi-
talists of this country had saved millions of
money to the public by taking the Loans at a
much lower rate than could possibly have been
obtained from persons of more limited means. In
such transactions M. de Villele no doubt acts
exactly as Mr. Robinson would do. He deals
with those who can serve him cheapest and best.
As to the operations in the money market,alluded
to by M. Boudreau, there is nothing wonderful
in them. Indeed a reference to a recent letter
from our Paris Correpondent will spew, that
the public were well aware of the large sums
employed, at a high rate of interest, in the
" Report" of Rentes. The protracted agitation
of these topics, however, is bad. It tends to
produce an undefined sort of discontent. The
friends of the French Minister, if they were wise,
would long since have Settled both the Law of
the Indemnity and the Law for the Conversion
of the Rentes. Calm lookers-on remark, that
there has been a change for the worse in the
state of opinion on these subjects in Paris since
the opening of the Session ; and several Deputies
have been gained over by the intrigues of the
Salons hostile to M. de Villele. Our opinion,
nevertheless, is, that the laws in question will
certainly pass. A little hook lately published
in Paris, " Rodet, du Commerce exterigur,"
is %veli &policti of as containing matter cal-
culated to enlarge the ideas of the French
on the subject of Trade. Unfortunately,
in France, the Reading Public is very limited,
and the Reflecting Public much smaller. Were
it otherwise, M. Rodet might render his country-
men an important service, by convincing them,
that it is not the Rupees of India, nor the Sugars
of Jamaica, which have made us what we are,
bat the patient and persevering industry of our
own swarming Beehive.