The Sun.
London, England, 1823-07-10 00:00:00

PARIS PAPERS.

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(Pewit: the Courier Francais.)
• PAILIR, JULY 6.—The General Direction of Posts. has
, adopted &measure useful to' commerce and the administration
at the sameliine. Paris was perhaps the only place in Europe
where the absurd practice was retained of dispatching couriers
before the opening even of the Exchange.
( From" the Constitutionnelq: •
PARTS, JULY 7.—We have already advised the Journal'
des Debats not in future to stultify the news which it publishes,
by accompanying it .by facts evidently false, and of which it
takes care itself to demonstrate the incorrectness:
How can the writ appear to it to be terminated, when it pub-
fishes itself the actions which have taken place in the Asturias
—when it announces that oar army of Catalonia is about to
make a movement to approach Barcelona ? How can all Spain
enjoy the most profound tranquillity, when it tells us every day
of massacres at Seville, of popular vengeance, and of guerril-
las, and when even the. Proclamation of the Corrigedor of
Madrid against the tumultuous movements of which that capi-
tal has heenitise theatre, may be read in all the Journals ? When
the Journal dci Debuts announces our sticcess, we willingly be-
lieve it; but when it tells us that there is no longer any war
except in Andalusia, and that all Spain enjoys the most pro.
found tranquillity, it risks having the most ccvrect intelligence
doubted, and losing every kind of credit.
Since Mina has been pursued, sword in hand, andbeen
every day on the point of being taken, every one endeavours
to ertillun in his own way how he has succeeded in escaping
our Generals. Some think that he liae,much activity and pre-
sence of mind, and great local knowledge. The Journal des
Dana:, says, that he has none of the talents which constitute
an able General. The Draprau illanclu9 for sonic time in-
sinuated, that if he is not attacked, there exist certain secret
reasons' for it, which will be revealed itv due time. One of
its correspondents, who asserts that though not a soldier, he
has followed the operations, and the march of the tenth divi-
sion of the Army of Spain' affirms, "with a little good sense
and much good faith, and without fear of being contradicted,
that die most complete success might have crowned the efforts
and the plan of Viscount Donnadieu, in the first pursuits which
he directed against Mina."
Amongst the toasts given on Saturday, at the fete of thelAn,
nivcrsary of the Republic of the United States, was the follow'.
ing, given by M. George Washington Fayette :—" To the
prosperity of the- United States, may it be an encouragement
to nations, and a proof. that public happiness is the necessary
consequence of liberty."
Ft is not merely Prefects and Sub-Prefects that arc dismissed
—it is not merely libraries chat are closed, or Journals sup-
pressed—the operations strike-at the most peaceable societies;
at establishments the roost tiseful and the most inoffensive
The societies of agriculture and the arts,—that centre of all local
experience, which hail particularly the valuable advantage. of
bringing together men of the most, oppiisite opinions by means
of the ties of science„—the agricultural societies are Ow epurated.
When authority gives all the' salaried,. places to its friends...—
what it dismissed without pity 11),Aliose,,ylioin it suspects—
when it dismisses them, even wit ioutA Motive, it has a right
to clh'so, and it exercises that right at its own risk and peril ;
but when it strikes at men who occupy themselves gratis with
the amelioration of our fields and our docks, and the prosperity
of our manufactures it 'in a manner which appears to u 4
to be not conformal& either to 'the interests of agriculture or
the interests of the Government, or the Administration. There
existed, for instance, a society of apiculture and 'the arts, in tbe
department of La Meuse. It consisted of 120• Members, chomitn
from amongst the most honourable and the most enlighteved
then. It has been disttolved by the new Prefect, irwas
tuted by the late Prefect.
Political opinions are not even mentioned as a ground for
the dissolution of this Society, which appears to be a strangely
contradictory measure. The Prefect dissolved the Society be-
cause it was too numerouir ; it consisted of 120' members, ands
is henceforth to have do more than sixty.
.It would seem,.
therefore, that it might have been merely reduced one-lialf, or
not at all;. only a part of its old members are preserved, and. 20
new ones have been appointed who never sat in it.
The chief place of the Department, the town of par le Due,
Which 30 years ago might be called a deserted town, has seen
since that epoch 200 manufactories rise, as if by enchantment;
It has become one of the most inthisfrious,lnwns in the king-
dom.; six of its manufacturers formed part of the Society of
Agriculture and the Arts, and five of theni are excluded; one
only remains. and he has quitted his establishment to act as a
.lustice of the Peace. Thus one of the- most manufacturing
towns of France will not have aivaigifacturer in a society of
the Arts of Industry. • ;