The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-24 00:00:00

compatible with the Catholic principles profesied by the
great majority of the people of Lyons."

Here we find the parti pretre again interfering in
the nomination of official personages. This is
another retrograde step towards the principles of the
restoration. Little did those who accepted Louis
PHILIPPE as la meilleure des republiques, in 1830, ima-
gine that the day would ever come when the parti
pretre would have a voice potential in the nomination
to offices under the Government of the revolution.

The following article from La Presse, on the sub-
ject of the corn trade and the harvest, will be read
with interest:—
" The situation of the markets remains always the
same, the price of corn varies from osie week to another,
according to the quantity of the arrivals and the appear-
ance of the weather; but definitively the average of prices
does not notably decline. It is evident that we must not
calculate on foreign corn for the regular supply of
France. The new law presented by the Minister pro-
duces, so to speak, no material effect; its greatest advan-
tage will consist in preventing forestalling in the inte-
rior, it will keep the amblers for high prices in check,
and tranquillise the people as to the future. That is suf-
ficient to cause the Chamber to vote it without hesita-
tion. Yet we must not be under illusions as to the bear-
ing of this law; it is a very feeble palliative, of which
all the virtue lies in the imagination of timorous people,
or people little acquainted with trestions respecting the
supplies. The trader will not incur the risk of hazard-
ing new purchases in the countries of great production
so long as the prospects of our own harvest shall not be
ascertained, and we are still far from the period at
which sound conjectures as to the yield of corn and
potatoes can be formed. If the harvest be good, the
price of corn will immediately decline ; the farmers
who possess threshing machines will suspeed 01 their
labours to thresh erain, and convey it rapidly to the
market, in order to profit by the exageeration of prices ;
on the other ban -i, the private individuals who have
mad, reserves will also hasten to sell cheat, teecete.,e they
will na longer have any interest to conserve them.
There will, therefore, re-ult a prompt tl-preeiatien in
the price of that .merchan lice. Now, hoe ever, feeble
that reaction was be, it Will Iffi,'e to render the tffeet
hoped for by the suspension of the protecting tariff im-
possible. The present prices re foreign corn have risen
so much, that they will be higher than the average of
our own markets, as soon as the new grain shall enter
into consumption. The trade knows well what
to thiak on this subject ; it will only pur-
chase abroad what it will be very certain to sell again
before the harvest, or very shortly after. At a late!'
period, when the decline which will take place at home
shall have reacted on Egypt, Russia, and America, the
importation will resume its course, if the interior de-
ficiency shall leave it a sufficient margin, and especially
procure it good profits ; for it is only on this condition
that the trade consents to speculate in corn. It re-
qtgres premiums of from 4f. to 61. per hectolitre to be
tempted ; and it has the right to exact a good deal when
it engages its fortune in a description of affairs of which
the most perspicacious mind can never see the results
with certainty. If the trade decided to profit by the law
proposed by the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce,
it would be a sad presage, and one of the highest gravity
—it would be the proof of a new" deficiency in our har-
itest—the announcement of a new scarcity. Has the
GoYerament foreseen this crisis, and what does it pro•
pose to combat it ? It demands that the Chambers
should confide to it the right to act as it may think
right, according to the circumstances. Thetis little as-
suring, when one remembers that it did not foresee the
scarcity of 1847. that it closed its eyes in order not to
see it when it was shown to it, and that it denied it at
the very moment at which it invaded the whole country.
We now know how formidable are questions of supply ;
shall we continue to abandon the study and solution of
them to clerks, whose ignorance, presumption, or some-
thing. else, have already 'cost us this year upwards of
50,000,000 ?"

The prospects of the coming harvest throughout
are, we rejoice to say, most cheering. •
The Chamber of Peers have adopted the St. Denis
Chapter Bin by a majority of 109 to 39.
The Constitutionnel contains a severe and not altoge-
ther undeserved attack upon the Ministry for their con-
duct in stimulating, instead of repressing, the railroad
mania, and for the egregious ignorance they have dig-
played of the commonest elements of calculation in
the ridiculously low sum at which they estimated the
cost of the construction of the various lines.

The police have discovered a plot of the " Material-
ists," one-of the secret societies of Paris, fox-carrying
into effect an organized system of plunder-: one of
the tenets of this sect is, that all property is a spolia-
tion of society, and that robbery, therefore, is essentially
virtuous, being merely a recovery of spoil illegally
extorted from the producing claffses. The members,
h ivever, quarrelled ; and in-furtherance of their prin-
cii les, they of course robbed each other, and thus the
police- acquired a knowledge of their existence. An
investigation was the consequence, in the course of
which it was discovered that several of-the members
of this society were also members of a political
society, having for its ohkct the as,,as,iflatiou of the
KING by throwing shells into carriage On his
road to Neuilly. M. CONSIDERE, and ten other
persons, have been arrested on this charge,

Queen CHRISTINA embarked at Toulon on the 17th
in the Panama for Naples. Don ENallaut; dined
with her before she sailed, and they had a long in-
terview together after dinner. Don Emircruz re-
turned to Marseilles immediately afterwards. •

For the sake of our common humanity we trust
that the following statement which appears in ieveral
of these papers is incorrect :

"Prince Jerome Bonapate, eldest son of the youngest
and last surviving brother of the Emperor, Jerome, ex
King of Wesphaliat died lately at Florence, aged thirty. 7
three. This young man had long been suffering from
disease of the spine. Dr. Lallemande, who was con-
sulted when the affection was first discovered, gave some
hopes of recovery, if the patient could be allowed to go
to Vernet (Basle PyreteJs), to take the waters. The
Prince's father and his uncle, the King of Wurtemberg,
hastened to apply to the French Government for the
necessary permission. This was refused without any
reason being assigned. On receiving this refusal the
question occurred—where will stop this blind animosity,
this want of judgment in pei scenting with so much in-
veteracy every being who bears the name of Napoleon?
This young man died in the arms of his father and his
brother, lamenting that he could no longer hope to see
that country which he e loved so much, and was so willing
to serve."

. The Journal du Huvre of Wednesday has the fol-
lowing :—" The whaler, John Cockerill, Captain
RENOUFF, which at this moment is coming into the
harbour, touched at the Society Islands, where she
was detained twenty days by Governor BRuAT. She
sailed' ar,ain on Feb. 7, and brings fOr the Govern-
ment the news of the submission of PoMa.aa. At
tbe•:departure of the John Cockerill, the QUEEN,
who.had come in a steamer which was sent for her
t.4.:-.giAaiQ6 was at Morea in conference with the
9..i)Yerncor,and she. was daily expected .at Papeite.r
The-Taris Bourse of Thursday was feeble. Little business
was, delnei and generally speaking at reduced prices. The
Three er -closed at 77f. 80c. , the -Five per Cents.,
-115-f. 55c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,218 f. 75c. ;
%inept.
.333 f. 75c.; Havre, 632 f. 50c.;, Great Northern,
590 f.; Avignon, 712 f. 50c. ; Vierion, 575 f.-; Bordeaux,
502 f. 50e. ; Boulogne' 40W. ; Basle, 185 f.; Dieppe, 315 f. •
Paris and Strasburg, 417 f. 50c. ; -Tours and Nantes, 407 f.
50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 436 f. 25c. ; Lyohs and Aiigtion,
445 f.; Bordeaux and Cette, 450 f.; Spanish Three per
Cents., 3514.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 21.
Boulogne and Amiens 16—Bordeaux, Toulouse, and
Cette (Constituted), 2'4—'Namur and Liege, 3%—Northern
of France, 11—Paris and Rouen, 351 h. ,

OVER LAND AIAIL

TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH.

'We
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tc:wveid the
Thursday. ththe Pu
following ik risl
telegraphic
of
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dispatch • -
" Thelipws.brought by flit. lt.diati ISIAII conies to
the 14th April. „ „

. .
" Lord Hardinge arrived at Simla the 27th
March. Sir Fredet ick Currie arrive ;at Calcutta, tin
the Ist of April, and took the oats as third member
of the Indian Council.
" Sir Willoughby Cotton, Commander-in-Chief of
the Bombay Army, had arrived at his post, and:lm—
mediately taken the command.
" The Governor-General had allocated 6001.- Per
annum for establishing schools in India.
" The Punjaub was perfectly tranquil, and nothing
new had occurred in Affghanistan. The death of
Akbar Khan was still attributed to poison.
" Considerable disturbances had broken out at
Undh and the neighbouring districts. The Govern-
ment of Nizam had given rise to complaints."
Notir 'he Bibb(

_notice was on Sa urday morning receive lat the . sop
of London's Registry that the assessors have decided
that the Sub-Dean of St. Paul's has not proved his right
to the vicarage of St. Giles's, Cripplegate. Archdeacon
Hale will hold the living.
THE THREE COUSINS, A NOVEL, BY MRS. TROL-
LOPE.—"The Three Cousins" is equal to any of Mrs.
Trollope'a former productions. The parsonages are well
discriminated. The Bisho of Solway, Whore virtues
are all of the negative character—the proud, crdfty, ty-
rannical; selfish, yet intellectual, Sir Jonah Lexington—
the. handsome roué, Mr. Edward, his nephew—the
pretty, heartless, eilw
ttish, Mrs. Cebhurst—the gay,
mischievous, Lord 13ri'tington—the meek Bishop's lady
—the subdu, d, broken spirited Frederic, brought up as
the natural son of Sir Jonah—and the lovely, natural,
unpretending Laura, the only child of Air. Edward Lex.
irgtonitukd the hfiress of Sir Jouili, make up a in, et_:
ffective cot ps of diariCters,- and are managed with
.8 i
great deal of constructive skill,—Prit2nnia.