The Sun.
London, England, 1824-04-30 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

Our Express this morning has brought us only
a private letter, which contains no political
intelligence. The French Renles on Wednesday
were 103 f. and firm, nor was there any expecte.
tion of a considerable fluctuation. Spanish Bonds
were at 19, and looking up.

In a preceding column we have given the only
extracts from the foreign Journals which possess
any interest. Our Readers will see that the
Special Committee of the Chamber of Peers has
reported in favour of the project for the integral
and septennial renewal of lhic Chamber of De-
puties.

CITY, Twelve o'Clock.—Cousols opened this
morning at NH, at which price they have kept
steady bp to this hour. For Money they are
90415, with little doing.

Fox.ErGN RIARKET.—Very little doing in the
above Market this morning. A report of the
French squadron at Rio Janeiro still causes
some depression in the South American Securi-
ties, although it is not credited, to the extent al-
leged, by the well informed.

We know, from undoubted authority, that
Lord COCHRANE is on his nay to this country.
This determination of his Lordship, we believe,
has been hastened by his Imperial Bra-
zilian AIAJusTy withholding the prize money due
to the brave tars who so gallantly cleared the coast
of his enemies. This also proves, in no small de-
gree, that his MAJEsTz- was aware of the arrival
of a powerful French naval aid, or he would
scarcely have ventured to incur the displeasure
of so brave and dauntless a commander, and of a
crew (principally English) devoted to his service.

A Contemporary is pleased to find fault with
the mode which the Brazilian Commissioners
have determined to adopt in contracting the
Loan now under negociation. It certainly was
originally intended that the biddings of the dif-
ferent parties should be all opened at once in
the presence of the persons offering for the con-
tract, and that that offer, which was found on
examination• to be the highest, should be ac-
cepted. This metl►od of proceeding, however,
has been since abandoned, as it was found that
numerous parties, many of whom were not of
sufficient respectability, were determined to offer
biddings for the loan, and that under the in-
tended arrangement, therefore, it was possible that
sltne very objectionable person might become en-
titled to the contract. It is very true, that the
Loans contracted by our own Government were
always openly bid for, but it is not less true that
no improper parties ever thought of presuming
to approach a CIfANCELLOa of the English Ex-
CHEQUER with propositions with which either his
character or his means were incompatible. The

parties making offers were al.ays, it is notori-
ous, of the highest respectability and perfectly
well known to the Governrrint. The case

is very different as respects 'he Brazilian
Commissioners ; and those Gentlervn, therefore,
have very properly determined on reserv-
ing- to themselves the right of exercising
the discretion, independently of any cmsideratioa
of the mere terms of the biddings, o, selecting
that offer which, under all the circumstances,,
may appear to them to be the most eligible.
—We are informed that the zca/ of one

of the parties desiring to contract for the

Brazilian loan,—a party well known 'a the
City' ,—made him so far forget the coiduct
due to the Representatives of the Bratiliaa
Governmeitt, as to induce him to offer a "
lain something" (the power of which he
had probably ascertained from past experience)
a, a consideration for a prefer ence. In this
instance, however, the proposal was indignantly
rejected.

In answer to inquiries which have been made
in the proper quarter, respecting the Spanish
dividend which becomes due to-►norrow, it has

been stated that no instructions have been re-
ceived from the Spanish Government." FEn-
DINAND VII., therefore, persists in refusing
to acknowledge a debt contracted under his
own royal signature ; and unless the future ne-
cessities of his kingdom, or the utter subversion
of his authority, by another and more successful
revolution, shall afford to the unfortunate holders
of Spanish Bonds some chance of obtaining justice,
we fear that they must submit to the ruin with
which they are threatened by an unprincipled
act of power.

No further information has as yet transpired
respecting the important and very serious intel-
ligence yesterday received from Rio de Janeiro.
Government, however, are understood to have re-
ceived dispatches by the ship Courier, and as Par-
liament re-assembles on INlontlay, questions will
probably be put to Ministers for the purpose of
eliciting such explanations as may enable the
Public to form an estimate of the real views
of France, in making a naval demonstration of
so formidable a nature in the Brazils. A Morn-
ing- Paper, which has been distinguished for its
consistent attachment to the cause of South Ame-
rican independence, and for the confidence with
which it has hitherto maintained that there was
nothing to justify the slightest degree of appre-
hension for the security of the new States, now
says that it has been for some titne in possessiiin
of information relative to the designs of France
on South America, which, however, it did not
feel itself , warranted to publish, in consequence
of the ruinous influence it-might have on the for-..
tunes of individuals, until the news from the
Brazils has rendered all further delicacy unne-
cessary. Our Readers are aware that we also
have for a l6hg time been in possession of unfa-
vourable information, the purport of which, how-
ever, we have never hesitated to state, from a
conviction that the ruinous consequences of de-
lusion upon so important a subject could only be -
aggravated by the concealment of the truth. The
Morning Paper referred to goes on to say,
" While we admit that we are at a loss to explain on any ra..
tional principle, the views against South America, of which
the French Ministers are accused, after this intelligence from
Brazil, we conceive ourselves at liberty to lay before our Readers
part of the communication to which we alluded in the outset of
this article.

" The following arc the principal measures which have been,
agreed on, and of which the execution is pursued with the
greatest activity :

" 4 That availing themselves of the declaration of the Cabi-
net of St. James, which delays the recognition of the indepen-
dence of the Insurgent States of South America, till it is con-
vinced of the firm determination of the inhabitants of these
States to preserve and defend their existing Governments, they
will adopt all suitable means for giving to the Royalist party
in America the power of protesting energetically against that
disposition, enabling it to rise on difierent points, to gain over
the inclinations of the soldiers, and to scatter alarm among ti e
influential Members of the different Legislative Assemblies.

" That by these underhand means, they will easily keep up
the spirit of discord which agitates the country.

" "Fhat they will take advantage of all the suce,-sslvt move-
ments which shall take place in consequence of this combi-

nation.

" And that at last the action of the diplomatic agents will
have a decisive influence when the events shall have arrived at
their point of maturity.'

" It is on this basis that the Spanish Cabinet is definitively
connected with France and Russia, and the plan of operation is
pursued without interruption since the signature of the treaty.
In order not to awaken suspicion, the agents of corruption have
all been directed towards the United States, and from thence
have repaired to their respective destinations. On the other
hand, the French Covemment, under the pretence of securing
the tranquillity of its West Indian Colonies, is incessantly
transporting troops thither.

" The following is a summary statement of those which have
been sent off, and of the places of embarkation :

" Six Colonial -Battalions, at their full compliment of M)0
men each, embarked from the Isle of Rile and Oleron ; three
complete regiments of infantry of the line embarked at Brest ;
field equipages, officer?of artillery and engineers were directed
on Guadaloupe and :Martinique, and the expedition which is
preparing at Cadiz will be re-inforced by,Genoese and Italian
seamen, which will serve as a screen for the embarkation of