The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-14 00:00:00

cntoplaint of the small quantity of corn in the store-
s houses. we rely at trust, and above all, upon Ame-
rica to supply sufficient for tha consumption of Europe?
Alas ! no,and we have already found a re-
doubtable competitor ira th,. English. The rise of price
in Great Britain has assumed an alarming proportion.
At Marseilles it has had an initience upon our market,
for even at the preselit time, the English overbid us
for American flour. Till lately, on the contrary, France
ruled the price of her neighbours. But this state of
things is changed. Thus the barrel of 83 kilogrammes
sold at Havre for 42f. and 43f., finds purchasers in
London at 46f. and 49f. The same rise has extended to
all the markets of the Baltic, and the demands from
London have caused a rise in price exceeding our own.
Consequently, wherever we find ourselves outbid, we
must either yield, and suffer the corn of which we are
in need to be carried off by the English, or, beaten by
necessity, we must submit to the exorbitant increase
which their own distress imposes upon our neighbours.
We neither wish to exaggerate nor extenuate circum-
stances. We state them without comment, leaving the
public to draw its own correluiions. We will, however,
add but one word. Yesterday the intention of
the Back of France, to lessen the term of the
bills to be discotinted by it, was talked of.
This measure, which we have this morning character-
ised, will appear, if possible, still more inopportune
when the peculiar state of our markets is considered. It
is evident, in fact, that France will be constrained, in
order to procure sufficient for her own food, to make
large purchases from abroad. We cannot estimate at
less than 200,000,000 f. the sum we must pay for corn
from America, the Black Sea, and the Levant. Thus
two millions of money must be again sent out of the
country. Transactions in business, already cramped,
will become more and more difficult. Is this, then, the
moment, we again ask, that the Bank ought to choose
to render the terms it imposes upon trade moreand more
severe? And the Government, what has it done? What
will it decide upon in order to avert the evil with which
we ar, threatened ? How does it manifest its foresight?
By what acts does it reveal this ? M. Cunin Gridaine
has published two circulars to demonstrate that the
public inquietudes are without foundation, and that we
have more corn than we can consume. Nevertheless the
price of bread continues to rise, and it is impossible to
foretell to what height it will go. Never mind, take
courage ! we shall have a third, and even a fourth cir-
cular, if need be. It is to this, in every great crisis;
that is limited the part of a constitutional Minister,
saving the interposition of the Procureurs du Roi and
the gendarmes, if by chance some ill-intentioned people,
having but little taste for the prosing of the Minister,
venture to complain too loudly of dying from hunger."
The speech of Senor MENDIZABAL in the Cortes,
which we gave in The Sun of yesterday, appears to
have given as much satisfaction in France as it has
in Spain. The Constitutionwl says—
" The noble and moderate language on the part of the
chiefs of the Progressist Faty produced a great sensa-
tion in the Cortes. It was expected that the Opposition
would indulge in declamations and in virulent recrimina-
tions, and great surprise was felt to find its language
calm and measured, like that of a party certain of its own
strength, and feeling that it had a people at its back.
The entire Chansber we'comed with visible approbation
the speeches of MM. Lujan and Mendiaabal, and M.
Fidel, the Minister of the Interior could nat refrain from
rendering homage to the generous sentiments which
they expressed."

It is stated, says the Courrier Francais, that an
aide-de-camp of the Minister of the Marine is about
to be sent on a special mission to the Marquesas, the
object of which is not known.

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It is reported that one of the commercial delegates,
who accompanied M. DE LAGRENEE in his mission to
China, has just been appointed General Agent for
French Commerce at Canton. He will have under
him a deputy, who will reside at Macao.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Monday at 79f. 45c. ; the Five per Cents., 118 f. Sc.;the
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,240 f. ; Rouen, 897 f. 50c. ; Havre,
690 f.; Great Northern, 631 f. 25c ; Avignon, 855 f. ; Vierzon,
592 f. 50c.; Bordeaux, 557 f. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg, 481 f.
25c. ; Tours and Nantes. 485 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 507 f. 50c.;
Lyons and Avignon, 485 f.
MARSEILLES, JAN. 6.—Marseilles and Avignon, 867 f. 50c.;
Northern, 640 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 508 f. 75c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JANUARY 12.
Boulogne and Amiens, 15%—Bordeaux, Toulouse and
Cette (Evelee), Al—Jamaica South Midland Junction, 134
—Luxembourg, 2.43—Namur and Liege, 3'4—Northern of
France, 104—Paris and Lyons, B—Peris and Rouen, 35%
—Rouen and Havre, 27—Sambre and Meuse, 4%—Tours
and Nantes, 414.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS, January 11.
Parliament was further prorogued to• day until Tues-
day, the lath instant.
The Lord Chancellor and the other Lords Commis-
sioners took their seats in front of the throne, at two
~'clock. In a few minutes afterwards the officers of the
House of Commons appeared at the bar, when the
Commission having been read and the usual forms gone
through,
The LORD CHANCELLOR declared that the pre-
sent Parliament .tool prorogued until Tuesday, the 19th
of January instant, then to meet for the dispatch of
divers urgent and important affairs.
The ceremony only occupied a few minutes.