The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-13 00:00:00

banish them from their country, the landlords w
- - -

_ -
have Anti-Corn-law doctrines preached in every
hamlet, and their very halls will resound with the

epithets of bread-taxers—of plunderers of the poor,
with which these new missionaries will assuredly

brand them.

Already Mr. FINNIGAN, a hand-loom weaver,
is lecturing in the villages of Devonshire, convincing
the peasantry of their oppression, and convicting
the bread-taxers of being the direst enemies of the
multitude they pretend to protect. If we are not
misinformed, Anti-Corn-law placards have, in more
,han one place, been stuck on a village church and
on the parsonage, and have excited the astonishme.nt
and admiration of :the labourers. Eloquent speakers
now abound among the working classes. They
will supply many missonaries, who will speak to the
rastic population in their own tongue and
after their own manner. They will not
need, as Mr. BROTHERTON said, to doff the
Saxon and put on Fustian, they wear it
already ; and the indignation they feel in their
hearts against not one only, but many oppressions,
will lend eloquence to their tongues which will
kindle a fire in every por man's breast.
Have the landlords duly weighed the conse-
quences they will have to encounter ? Are they
prepared to meet a hostile population in every vil-
lage. such as they now find in every manufacturing
t awn ? Can they fairly meet, and fairly refute,
these Anti-Corn-law missionaries, or must they
call out the yeomanry once more to put down the
truth ? From what we can learn of the rural dis-
tricts, notwithstanding the petitions signed by the
landlords, the parsons, and their immediate
followers, they are not in a condition which will
justify committing anything to the hazard of the
people: remaining passive spectators of the use of
physical power by the taxers of their bread. Po-
verty and discontent are quite as prevalent there,
if not more prevalent, than in towns. Theft is, we
believe, much more frequent, and thieves, conse-
quentry, more numerous. Driven from our towns
hy an improved and watchful police, the class which
main! v live by shifts now betake themselves to the
count.ry, and spread their habits amongst the rural
poptt.at ion. A spark may explode the whole; and
let the landlords beware how they throw a firebrand
into the now scarcely slumbering mass.
Vigorous anitation is the .first consequence of
the. 'landlords having busked the late debate. For
the 7 n it would be better to confine, as much as pos-
sib] e, the discussions to the House of Commons,
wh ere Gentlemen are very much averse from speak-
inl the truth boldly. There, however, the landlords
wt iuld not have discussion, and they have sent it
over the land. They have told the Anti-Corn-law
eague, " Here you shall not be heard, here you can
have no hope of justice," and the League appeals
jfrom the House of Commons to the nation. The
ultimate effect of such an appeal we'need not pre-
6et. If Catholic Emancipation were, as Sir It.
PEEL has admitted, inevitable, in spite of repeated
votes of both Houses of Parliament, and in spite of
st tearing the King, though the Catholics were de-
pt ived only of political rights, how much more
in evitable—if we may use such a comparison—is
e repeal of the Corn-laws, which are a violation of
e common rules of morality, and steal the bread
of the people ? Sir ROBERT PEEL knows that
the decision of Parliament is only final when it
agrees with justice and right. It is not the last nor
the highest tribunal. Frequently have its decrees
zen overruled ; and as sure as it was forced by
;itation to concede the abolition of the Test Acts,
e: mancipation of the Catholics, the annihilation of
a iany rotten boroughs, so sure will it be obliged to
accede, by agitation, the abolition of the Corn-laws,
tl ioufill that now sacred cause may have been be-
ts aged by treacherous friends as well as impeded
y dishonest and arrogant enemies.

Our readers will find, in another part of The Slat,
copied from the April Number of the Colonial i'Vlaga-
zinc, an official statement of the strength of the French
Navy at the beginning of the present year. When it is
considered that the defensive arm of France is not her
navy, but her army, while the only security of Eng-
land consists in her supremacy on the waves, no
Englishman, alive to the welfare of his country, can re-
gard with indifference a naval armament so alarmingly
disproportioned to the defensive necessities of our Gallic
neighbours. The navy of France cannot, with any
truth, be described, as a Noble Lord described the
navy of Russia in the Black Sea, namely, as a paste-
board fleet—an imperial toy—a source of national ex-
pense, not of national security, much less a formidable
means of national aggression. On the contrary, the
French navy is constructed, manned, and maintained on
principles suggested by a matured system of aggressive
policy. Now, as England is the only power in the
The Tories continue to clamour about the opium world against which the naval aggressive force of France
traffic. The trick of ousting the Ministry having can be directed, we may well, without being supposed
to be influenced by a vulgar jealousy, express our re-
failed, they fall back upon the previously rejected
gret that she should thus, by giving us cause to suspect
topics of morality and religion. As a test of their the purport of her ulterior designs, oblige us in self-
sincerity they ought to tell us by what means they defence to incur an expense which must have a ten-
propose to put an end to the contraband trade in decay to weaken the good understanding which the
opium. Sir JAMES GRAHAM had no remedy to Revolution of July so happily established between the
propose ; Sir ROBERT PEEL could suggest no two countries. If the intentions of Franco be really
improved system and their supporters, during a pacific, it is obvious, from the limited extent of her Co-
'three nighte' debate, were not able to furnish any Jovial possessions, and from her security against all
extricate itself from danger from without, that her fleet is not only execs-
clue by which the nation couldthe labyrinth of crime in the mazes of which they rice, but that the cost of its maintenance must fall
with ruinous severity upon her already poor and over-
pronounced it to be lost. The Times, the Post, taxed population. Of all national toys the dearest is a
eand the Herald appear to know quite as little on fleet, especially when there is no real occasion for it.
the subject of a remedy as the leaders of the faction Besides, in the case of France, no naval superiority
of which they are the organs. which she might acquire would enable her to dispense
Now, with all due respect for the potency of the with the services of a single regiment in the number of
Government of Great Britain, we may he allowed her land forces ; whereas a good fleet is all that
to say that there are many things which it could is requisite to the defence of England. With
not do, even with Sir Rea ERT PEEL and the Duke an extensive land frontier, liable to be invaded
of WELLINGTON at the head of it; and one of by every Power on the continent, France must
support an army so numerous as always to press
.three impossibilities is the putting down of the lieesily upon the finances of -the State, independently
traffic in opinan The Government might put of the great number of troops which her dear-bought
down, at an enormous sacrifice, the cultivation of conquests in Africa have imposed upon her for the
the poppy in British India, but it could not inter- maintenance of her acquisitions in that cemetery of civi-
-1 fere eilli its growth in independent states • , and it 1 lization.
. _
is a notorious fact that British India does not pro I A powerful navy, without colonies and commerce,
duce one half the opium smuggled into China. I must always indicate hostile intentions somewhere, and
has a tendency to awaken suspicions in every quarter
Ont of 42,000 chests of opium produced in India
i n ow! year• and exported to the Chinese waters, open to invasion. When it has the effect of so putting
other nations on their guard, as to compel them in self.;
.9;2.030 chests were from territories independent of dcfence to build fleets ler which otherwise- they; would
Great- Britain. Besides, the reports of the Chinese have no use, the consequence is a general, wasteof. the
1. Minisecrs of State addreseed to the Emperor in 1836 'public money, and a common injury to international
est.:3llhp the fact that opium is grown in six out of good faith. Some years ago the mania of having the
finest and most formidable navy in the world seized the
the twontv-four provinces into which that vast em- Emperor of RUSSIA. Russia wanted no navy, either
1 hire is divided; that its growth was, up to that
I as an instrument of offence or defence, unless it was her
i recent (site, not only connived at, but encouraged , intention, as indeed it was, to acquire an ascendancy
with a view to discourage the foreign traffic, and over England. Since that period the treasures of the
Ikeep alie Sycee silver from "oozing out," enriching ' ' Imperial Exchequer have been lavished upon the crea-
' r, foreion. Barbarians ; and, in fact, that the poppy tion of fleets which have never produced any other re-
• stilt than the fiendish satisfaction of knowing that they
covered hill and dale to such an extent as to discou-
till cultivation of rice, so as to threaten a great have caused some uneasiness, and a trifling addition to
rage t
n
proportion of "the central flowery land" with fa- the expenses of Great Britain. Acting on the same
raine. But the foreign opium being in more request principle with respect to each other, the late SULTAN
and the Pasha of EGYPT loaded their subjects with
with the wealthy smokers, the smuggling continued taxes to create fleets, which, when created, they found
'• to increase ; and as a natural consequence, the Syce they could not employ without the permission of other
i silver, the great object of imperial solicitude, " oozed
Powers, and thus they became sources of weakeess,
out" in an equally increased proportion. The native not elements of conquest. This mania for ships has,
poppy growers, like our corn growers at home, cla- ' in turn, seized upon France, and nothing can exceed the
moured for protection ; the political economists of ti delirium of the whole nation upon this subject. To
the Celestial Court, like our own economists of a ' such a pitch of extravagance it risen that we are per-
former day, discovered that the " balance of trade" suaded that any one attempting to moderate the public
against them, and that silver was disappearing; feeling, on the score of the necessity of acquiring an
was
and a Mandarins, being
Council of the High andarins, after laying The proceedings in Parliament on Saturday, absolute naval ascendancy, would at this moment stand
a chance of branded as a traitor to his country.
their grave heads together, decreed, by a majority o ;though brief, were important. Lord PALMERSTON And yet this has become the duty of M. TRIERS, if
one voter that the best way to put an end to the stated that the Order in Council would authorise her lie desire to cultivate these friendly relations with
foreign opium trade was to prohibit it altogether, and Majesty's ships to detain Chinese vessels wherever England, which are essential to the realization
to enforce the prohibition by strangling all the opium they might fall in with them. The Noble Lord in France of the principles of the Revolution
smokers. Had the smugglers taken tea, or any na- supposes, as the Chinese are not known to have of July. Peace, and the cordial sympathy of
tive commodity in exchange for the opium, there is any trade beyond the islands in the Chinese seas, England, are necessary to the obtaining Electoral
no doubt whatever but the trade would have been that practically this order would only apply to her Reform—to the breaking up of that all monopolizing
I' legalized in spite of the representations of the home ;Majesty's ships on the coast of China, but Sir shopocracy, which since the 18th Brumaire has,
!Nippy ouitivators. But when the traffic was found ,tI.OBERT PEEL is of opinion that, under the new under one shape or another, wielded the power, and
-to produce a scarcity of silver, the fears of the Go- circumstances of the case, exceptions to this rule grasped the wealth of France. It was that shopocracy
h whose support sustained, whose desertion ruined NAPO-
verurnent were excited to an incalculable extent. :mem occur. It was further stated, that, no procla- LEON. It was the countenance of that shopocracy
Tire protection demanded by the home-grower of :matron had yet been issued on the subject of which led CHARLES the TENTH to promulgate the
i . tive poppy was readily conceded, and as the fo- ,
7prize-money, which is only issued after a declara- fatal Ordinances, and though the Revolution of July
re _igners were supposed to be ignorant of all that tic ea of war. Lord JOHN RUSSELL added that the suspended its power for an instant, it soon contrived by
'
~' • passed in the interior of the empire, morality was -ne at news from China might cause him union and fraud to snatch the elements of power out of
I made a chief ground of prohibition, although still to bring down a message from the throne, the hands of the gallant but giddy multitude. Tilsit
shopocracy
the Government could not conceal the fact, that no- the lugh at present Ministers had no such
keeiac, up
ansoyw monopolizes the franchise, and by
system of high protective duties taxes the
thing troubled the EMPEROR so much as the int ention. They mean, therefore, to pro- wholei community for its exclusive benefit. As all mis-
leaking out of his beloved silver. cec :t1 vigorously in the exertion of their plans, but government at home, and foreign wars, are sources of
Nor, ,as was well argued by Lord PALMER- we hope that they will not leave Capt. ELLIOT at profit to this omnipotent faction, our wonder at the
sToN, could the British Government, even were it Cain ton to mar them. His attack on the junks in- French folly of aiming, without sufficient corn-
ever so willing to do so, interfere with the opium (Loa tes that he is more like a daring, unthinking merce or
naval power the colonial possess
world,ions,
in at a
be
great ing themeasufirsre
wt
smuggling of other nations in the Chinese waters. midi Chipman, than a grave Superintendent, whose ceases. But in
TRIERS is neither the tool
The Emperor of CHINA does not ant to hear ofM. of
c oreiluct may compromise the lives and properties of
this ;faction, nor is he blind to the fact that the
our revenue cutters appearing in the Yellow Sea. destruction
many hundreds of her MAJESTY'S subjects. of its power is essential to the triumph of
His Celestial Majesty will not accept any assist- Besides this all-important subject of China, Lord the principles of that Revolution of which he boasts of
ante which we may offer him, in the way of em- J. RUSSELL gave an important notice, namely, that
being the legitimate offspring. We know how hard it
ploving force to put down smuggling on the coasts •he would early after Easter, move for leave to bring is for a Minister to deprive himself of the immense pa-
of his empire. Much as the Tories pretend that 'in a Bill to amend the laws relating to elections in tronage which any mania for a national expenditure of
he hates opium, he hates British vessels of war
still more. Without, therefore, engaging in a war Ea island and Wales. On that occasion the Noble wealth places at his disposal, and especially a Minister so
ostentatious as M. TRIERS. But it is by such semi-
I ac .rd is to explain his views on the registration ques-
'. with China capable of no adjustment, we cannot ti ion ,as concerns Ireland as well as England. Such fires that his patriotism must be tested, and it is by
prevent the opium trade, however mischievous it t„riiu.mphin.g over those in favour of them that Europe
may be. We may deplore it, as we do the folly of a. me asure, if it go to simplify registration, will be
harvest. t t receive a guarantee that France will reap the rich
Hindoos in worsl • • hailed as a benefit by the great body of the electors,
upping three hundred and thirty avid may make the English system less obnoxious
millions of gods, I the C 11ofthe P
ant. worshipping
.0.. y
himself in officiating as the High-priest of the god
Fo, but we have 11(), Rower whatever to remed it
le responsibi ity of our. •To talk, therefor tl • •l• • y vir tea
_applied to Ireland. That Lord JOHN RUS-
t'. se Lt., who .
siasctqouiredbthe unlucky nickname of
such
brine, forward a measure, people
hertrhamedematehtaeonfteinlmetaev,iaangecessity is imposed on the entire
nothing undone to satisfy the
entire efficiency of the national arm of'
-tovermnent, is either the sheerest absurdity,
F :ialety Johhna,
cat ties with it a double recommendation. defence. We cannot accept in lieu of a powerful and
or the
evilest hypocrisy. ome scribbler in the Times of
S prt )owell-eqruippecl fleet the friendly professions of a nation
p ishine itself to dispute with us the empire of the
f that the Noble Lord does not mean to hold
y all the follies of the Reform Act, but has
lomceanve Were France, Russia, Turkey, and Egypt as
1 iaturday, whose knowledge of history does not
.twenty years, de- it to amend them.
a period of fg"attldbs'ense to see and spirit
quite extend over---. 40.---- destitute of shipping as Spain, their power of self-
defence would hardly suffer a shadow of diminution,
flounces Ministers as having, for the first time, oc- 'Ale Pro-Corn-law Journals are also anti- while on the part of England it is impossible for her ever
casiotied the stoppage of our trade with China'. c Timm Journals. It is, however, nothing singular, to become a second rate naval power, without compro-
' This is a sample of the accuracy of the canting t hat tmen should see the mote in another's eye, raising her very existence. First, one by one, she
Tories, both in and out of the House of Commons. 1 while they cannot see the beam in their own ; or would lose her Colonies ; next, her commerce would
To talk about the moral influence of England
smuggling on the a .
being exercised to prevent opium a, amst the opium traders, because some persons
coast of China may do very well in an assembly destroy their health by the drug they import into disappeayr ;
.and in the state of misery that would could
To ver freedom of her constitution would accelerate
her destruction. Thus, it matters not from what consi-
deration—whether from vanity or ambition—other na-
of Missionaries or old women, but \ the idea will be Cl nina, while they think nothing of annually doom-
_scouted by every sensible man having the faintest ire g many hundreds of their own countrymen, coup-
cessity of always being in a condition successfully to
keiowledge of commerce. If the moral influerce ti- ywomen, and their helpless children, to the tions build fleets, they impose upon England the ne-
compete with them. This will explain to French poll-
of :England cannot prevent smuggling at honTa 'in Bering horrors of starvation. A sad picture is ticians the true secret of what they are daily in the
withoset a strong coast guard, and an army Gf re - drawn of the opium smoker, given up to the fatal habit of attributing to national jealousy—namely, the
venue officers scattered over the kingdom, it is non - indulgence, losing his property, losing his friends, serious remonstrances of the British press against the
sense to sehppose that it could have the least elf i- losing his health, and sinking into premature decay. 1
racy fifteen ,thousand miles from our shores. It But: that picture, he it as sad as it may, never
naust also be Lorne in mind, that the smugglers i
the inner waters of China are all native Chinese e
with the exception of a handful individuals a can
of frog i°F equal the sufferings of the peasantry, of
Enaland, destitute of clothing, not having
te
the coarsest food to satisfy the "►•
~, . overwhelming naval power of France. The French
nation has undoubtedly an abstract right of wasting its
revenues in any way the Legislature and the people may
i approve. If it have the means
if .
enoug i •
cravings T it may equally support
ll.of soldiers, or build, possible, an equal
, a mi ion
India, in the employ
. ment of tl-. is E ture stinting themselves that
of iia ; their f vessels of war. But surely that (lees not
number ID
4 : rican residents at. Canton. Before
, of the smugglers, without exc • eption,
no opium vessel ever ascending the river
than Lintin, where the drug uropean and Arne- .
1836 the whole
was placed were Chinese, save theta
mese,. ;
_ higher
ced on board
the receiving ships. When opium was not t
had at Lintrn these smugglers conveyed • - 1
various stations along the coast of India to ci • '
in elery case paying s
against silver for it, and
,always sett,;. 'cry for food, andyet
children may not
nourishmentscantyl.
smoker, lollinr, ing a •
to ty . 1 -Out look at the
lt irctl ,limbs of our agricultural deprive a neighbouring friendly power, compelled in self-
defence•to vie with it in extravagance, of the right ef
from the terrible diseases which pr • against such ofthe • i
The luxurious causes. opium resources ?
otestmg
Directly France only taxes her own
t his ease, kills himself by pleasure . people, but indirectly she adds to the increased taxation
sharp and bleached
"Ina; , ", bet:t double long be _
*-1° , complaining of those
• t the risk the enormous profits which the • they are
never failed to realise.
Emperor of CHINA. Is it supposed that
would suffer us, without Y ;which are faces and thin'
• ultural population ; see them ,
fore they are aged ; hear them
cramps and rheumatisms to ,
continually a pr.ey,
the that a life of hard, and only halt r
9t hay.. likely miserable, compared to the case of
and he convinced I
meat, we must
,reward toil, is inii- forward, and
of Great Britain. M. Tunas, we are sure, will not
be the person to tell us " You need not follow our
! example. in building ships unless you please," for he
, knows right well that if France build ships for amuse-
b 'id ' from..
_ build tnem pacessity,
It would be well, we think, if this siruPley Str4ig-lit,
. t, , economical view of the question occqpie4
e thou u
• the op; ern o 10 ghts and pens of statesmen and pablic writers
......._____ .--

The Publiee.tion of the Evening Edition of THE Strx corn.
monced at 20 minutes after Three.

r
;75-; 4

<VW

LONDON:
MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1340.

Brussels Papers of the latest dates have been re-
ceived this morning, from which the following is an
extract :
BRUSSELS, APRIL 11.--ThC Observateur says—" M. de
lleulenaire left Brussels on Thursday. It is said that he
mentioned his intention of returning on Thursday, but it
is probable that his return will depend on the accounts
which he receives at Bruges.
The interview which M. d'Huart was to have yesterday
with the King will doubtless have great influence in the
approaching Ministerial arrangements.
General Brazen will, it is supposed, be the new Minister
of War.
The library of the Chamber of Representatives has just
received from the British House of Commons a magnificent
collection of Parliamentary Documents of 1834, 1835,
1836, and 1837, consisting of 217 volumes in folio, magni-
ficently bound, and gilt on the upper edge. They contain
bills, reports, inquiries relative to a vast number of impor-
tant subjects, as education, commerce, manufactures,
finances, &c.
DINANT, APRIL 8. —M. Rogier, and another Member
of the Chamber of Representatives, passed through Dinant
to-day, on their way to Hontaine to persuade M. d'Huart
to make part of the new Ministry.

The Madrid Journals received are of the 4th inst.
Oa the previous day the Minister of Finance, SAN
MILLAN, tendered his resignation, which was not re-
ceived, although his colleagues circulated a rumour that
it was. Many and clamorous were the candidates for
his place, but it was believed that the whole was a ruse
got up to protect the existence of the DE CASTRO Mi-
nistry. There is no political news of any moment in
'these journals. The Five per Cents. were on the 4th
at '2l3i for casb.

The Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday have
all been received. In the Moniteur of Friday we find
the following official intelligence from the Spanish fron
tier :

" BAYONNE, APRIL 9.
" THE SOUS-PREFECT OF BAYONNE TO THE MINISTER OF

THE INTERIOR.
" The sixth and seventh battalions of the rebels of
Aragon were surprised and destroyed by Colonel Zurbano,
on the Oth inst., at Petrarque. 419 officers and soldiers
were taken prisoners."
The Cellists have recently encountered such a suc-
cession of defeats that we are of opinion, had the
Queen's Government promptly fulfilled the conditions of
tl►e Bergara Convention, the whole of the officers would
ere this have gone over to ESPARTERO. But a sort of
fatality seeems to hang over the Madrid Cabinet.
With their usual procrastinating policy,the Ministershave
allowed the pay of the Carlist officers to run so far in
arrear that General MAROTO has been obliged to me-
morialise the Government, praying for the fulfilment of
the conditions of the Convention of Bergara. This is
a death-blow to the hopes which ESPARTERO has enter-
tertained of the desertion of the Carlist officers, who
must now see that no reliance can be placed on the
most solemn assurances of the QUEEN'S Government.
The Moniteur of Saturday contains the following
telegraphic despatch from Toulon :
"THE PREFECT OF THE VAR, AT TOULON, TO THE MINIS•

TER OF THE INTERIOR.

" Toulon, April 10, 1840.
" The Princes (the Dukes of Orleans and D'Aumale)
left for Algiers to-day, at three o'clock, after having in-
spected the vessels in harbour."
Besides the Five per Cents. Rentes Conversion
Bill, prosented in the Chamber of Deputies on Satur-
day, an outline of .which is given in another article, M.
THIERS presented the draught of a Bill for a supple-
mentary credit of 1,800,000 francs to cover the ex-
penses of the blockade of Buenos Ayres. M. THIERS
observed at the same time that the Buenos Ayres Go-
vernment still resisted the demands of France, in conse-
quence of which it was become necessary to render the
blockade more vigorous and effective, in order to bring
to a prompt conclusion a state of things so disastrous
to commerce.
The Journal du Havre states that Prince CHRIS.
TOPHER of Hayti and his family are staying for some
(lays in that town.
A private letter in the Constitutionnel states that the
Emperor of MOROCCO, SO far from declaring war
against France, has sent an armed force to the frontier
of his territory, to prevent his subjects from furnishing
the EMIR with supplies of any kind.
On the railway question we find the following para-
graphs in the Presse :
Railroads have received a new impulse in France. M.
Guizot has written to the Minister of Public Works that
the Directors of several English Companies have agreed
to furnish twenty-five millions towards a railroad between
Rouen and Paris. On the other hand the house of Roths-
child offers to construct the road to Lille. One of the
firm has had an interview on the subject with M. Thiers."
The following paragraphs are extracted from the
Journals of Friday and Saturday
ARREST OF CAnisTs.—Generals Elio and Alzaa were
arrested in Paris on Saturday, and carried off to Amiens
by the police, as it was suspected that they were engaged
in fomenting the insurrection which so many Carlists say is
about to break out in the Basque provinces.
DEATH OF M. MARTIN LAFITTE.--M. Martin Lafitte,
brother of M. James Lafitte, died on Friday, in Paris, of
stock bank established by the celebrated M. Lafitte.
MORE CARLIST ARRESTS.—CoIoneI Aguirre, the Carlist
apoplexy. He was one of the Directors of the
greatjoint-
commandant at Bergara at the time of signing the trFaty,
has been just imprisoned at St. Sebastian, with ten pri.e!ts,
who are said to be implicated in the plot now organising
13, Carlisthas
in the Basque provinces.
chief Balinaseda, and beheaded by orders of the
C t
beeCno o 1 os
surprised
re
pl r
iPs
ee
dt r o,
by one
a fl ;iifn g Mpaarrot tyo 'as tt aa icdhees
attached
d e.
_
to-
cathne
_adis

chief.
SPANISH BONDHOLDERS.—The Committee of Spanish
Bondholders at Paris have issued the following notice :
" The holders of Spanish bonds are invited by the
members of the Committee to call at No. 15, Passage
Ste, Marie, Rue du Bac, for the purpose of making ar-
rangements for the filling up the vacancy of President of
the Committee, occasioned by the death of Dr. Paradis.
It is very important to comply with this invitation,
as early as passible, in order to complete the Com
of
_
mittee, and enable it to defeat the
loans which are at this moment put forward, and
which, if successful, would seriously compromise the inte-
r,sts of the old bondholders. A project of the Committee,
of immense interest for the credits upon Spain, and which
%tin soon be carried into execution, will be also communi-
cated to the bondholders."
SwiTzERLAND.—The Basle Gazette of the 7th instant
1 inserts an address of the Executive Council obody f tee Lower
1 Valais to the Vorort, notifying to that th sstion
of hostilities in the Canton. The volunteer troops had
been disbanded. The Directory, by a circular dated the
4th instant, convoked an extraordinary session of the Fe-
deral Diet for the 2.4 th instant.
130 URSE.--PAKIS, SATVIIDAY, APRIL 11.
tirst Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
' . reach '• per Cent 5............ 113 30 ... 113 ... 113 20 ... `
10
1•6," (Pllts ............ 103 ... ... 103 la;
p„ lints . .. 84 84
5 84 8
:4