The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-03 00:00:00

one extreme to another, and from a confidence without
cause to a pre mature terror. Two days ago a first alarm-
ing article produced a fall of one-half per cent., and a
second article occasioned to-day a similar depression.
This is the first time, perhaps, that a Ministerial journal
has ventured to frighten the country by such hazardous
predictions. The most vehement recriminations would
be directed against an Opposition journal, if, under
existing circumstances, it attempted thus to spread
alarm without any truly serious motives. It would be
charged' with tan intention to aggravate the present em-
barrassments, and revive a panic which was beginning to
subside. The most perverse designs would be imputed to
it, and the Government organs would say that it was
encouraging stock jobbing and riots. In whose name does
the Journal dcs Debats speak? Is it in its own name or
in that of the Government? If it be in the name of
the Governmont, why, instead of publishing prophetic
articles and creating uneasiness, does not the Minis-
try, if such be its convictions, carry immediately
to the Chamber of Deputies a project of law containing
an exposé of i ts fears, and at once adopt efficient mea-
sures ? If th e Journal des Dibats speaks in its own
name, we will reply, that the facts known and probable
are the follow ing :—A portion of the potatoes will fail ;
that is true, but nobody can exactly calculate the amount
of the deficit. Spring crops, wherever the potatoes have
failed, will decrease the deficit, whatever it may be. The
very scarcity of provisions has induced farmers to sow a
greater quantity of grain than last year ; we have not
even experienced this year that great augmentation in
the price of meat which is anticipated fur next year ;
finally, God alone in the world can tell, in the present
state of things, what will be the produce of the coming
crop."
The Patrfe has the following:—
"It was announced to-day at the conclusion of the
Bourse as a c ertain fact, that the Ministry would forth with
bring forward a Bill to extend, until the month of July,
1848, the per mission to import corn tree of duty."
This rumour, if true, will account for the alarmist
character of the articles which have recently appeared
in the organ of the Alinistry. The Protectionists are
strong in the Chamber of Deputies, and it is only by
exaggerating the difficulties of the present situation
that the Ministers can coerce them into giving way
on this question.
The National and the Presse both contain articles
on the present relations between Turkey and Greece,
which are valuable on account of certain admissions
made in them of which we take note, not only be-
cause it may be hereafter useful to recal attention to
them, but because they admit what heretofore the
French Government and its agents, and the Greek
Government have thought proper to deny.
The National says—
"ln hatred to our influence E t Athens, hitherto so
precarious, so disputed, and so little fertile in favourable
results, Great Britain allies herself with Russia, in order
to cast the latter on Greece, of which she is the most

implacable enemy. The question at issue at present at
Constantinople is, moreover, neither new nor unex-
pected. It arises from the position of the European
Powers on the Mediterranean. At Athens, as at Con-
stantinople, and as at Alexandria, we meet with Eng-
land ; between her and us there is a constant struggle,
of which the last word is in Algeria, and again, rerhaps,
on the road to the Isthmus of Suez. At present we are
attacked in Greece-it is France which Lord Palmerston
wishes to reach by striking Coletti."
Here we have it admitted that French influence is
paramount at Athens, that French influence is exer-
cised at Alexandria to close against us the road to the
Isthmus of Suez, and that the Greek Prime Minister,
COLETTI, notwithstanding his repeated asseverations
to the contrary, is the mere tool of France. How,
otherwise, could Lord PALMERSTON, by striking at
COLETTI, reach France ? Turn we now to the reve-
lations of La Presse. After stating that what ren-
ders the affair menacing for France is, that. the
British Government is preparing to overthrow the
COLETTI Ministry, it thus proceeds :-
" Everything appears to demonstrate, on the part of
Lord Palmerston, a return to those culpable manoeuvres
which he could not succeed in carrying into effect in
Spain. What means, for example, that mysterious de-
parture of General Kalergi, who having landed at
Malta on his return from England, quitted that island in
an English vessel, the L-cust, placed at his exclusive
disposal? Have they succeeded in prevailing on one of
the principal authors of the revolution of September to
make a new insurrection, this time to be attempted for
the advantage of England? We cannot too often repeat
that all this merits serious attention ; and if France does
not remain on her guard, she may find herself surprised
by events as grave as they are imminent."
If ConsTri be not the agent of France, why should
France remain on her guard lest he should be dis-
missed, and if he governs, in accordance with the'prin-
ciples of the constitution which he has pretended to
accept, and if France does not seek, in pursuance of
the counter revolutionary and retrograde policy
which her governors have adopted, since 1832, to
subvert that constitution, -which is the fruit of the
patriotic revolution brought about by KALERGI, and
in praise of which at that time none were so eloquent
as the French, why is that revolution now stigma-
tised by inuendo as an insurrection ? The Doctri-
naires have always accepted revolutions with the in-
tention of betraying them. These articles alone are
quite a sufficient justification of the bold policy
adopted by Lord PALMERSTON in 1840, and right
glad are we that the Noble Lord presides over the
Foreign•office at this time. If our foreign relations
had been now committed to the care, or rather no-
care, of the sleepy Earl who for the last four years
hybernated in Downing-street, the Mediterranean
would very speedily become a French lake.
The statement of the accounts of the Bank of
France, for the first quarter of the year, made up
to the 25th ultimo, shows the following results :-
Actif-The Bank had on that day, in cash,
79,535,819 f. 87c. ; in discounts and loans,
212,219,665 f. 67c. ; in branch banks' accounts,
78,459,960 f. 67c.; in Rentes, public securities, and
reserve funds, 64,261,181 f. 50c.; credits and various
items, 594,895 f. 98c. Passif-Amount of bank-
notes in circulation, 249,404,694 f. 91c. ; accounts
current, 98,412,463 f. 89c.; capital and reserve,
81,900,000 f.; different items, 5,351,364 f. 89c. Total,
435,068,525 f. 69c. The discounts, advances, and
loans made during the quarter amounted to
204,587,962 E 77c. ; movement of the accounts
current (private), 3,130,992,900 f. ; public,
274,849,000 f. ; general movement of the caisses,
3,741,631,100 f.
Corn experienced a very censiderable fall in the
Paris Halle on Wednesday. The wheat came down
Sf. a sack.
The Bayonnaise corvette is to sail on the 15th
inst. from Cherbourg for China direct. The new
French mission to that country is to be carried out
by this vessel, and will be established for the first
time at Canton, thus made the central point of the
French relations with China, Japan, and the Indian
seas. M. FORTY-Roumi, the KING'S envoy and
head of the legation, is to be accompanied by Count
ALFRED DE NOAILLES, M. HENRI DUCIIESNE, and M.
KI.RCZKOWSKI, interpreter of the Chinese language.
M. DE MONTIGNT, consular agent at Shanghai, in the
north of China, is shortly to embark at Havre.
The Three per Coats. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Thursday at 78f. 55c.; the Five per Cents., 116 f. 55c.;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,275 f. 25c. ; Rouen, 861 f.
25e. ; Havre, 672 f. 50e. ; Great Northern, 623 f. 75c ; Avignon,
790 f ; Vierzon, 560 f.; Bordeaux, 507 f. 50c. ; Boulogne, 415 f. ;
Troyes and Montereau, 290 f. ; Basle, 203 f. 75c. ; Dieppe, 320 f. ;
Paris and Strasburg, 420 f. ; Tours and Nantes, 413 f. 75c. ;
Paris and Lyons, 426 f. 25c. ; Lyons and Avignon, 4.60 f. ;
Cette, 445 f. ; Spanish Domestic Debt, 30f.
The following are the quotations for other
LYONS, MARCH 30.-Paris and Rouen, 870 f.; Avignon
and Marseilles, 821 E ; Northern, 637 f.; Paris and Lyons,
442 f.; Orleans, 1,277 f. 50c.

HOLIDAY EXCURSIONS.—Notwithstanding the dull
appearance of yesterday, various railway termini were
crowded at an early hour by " pleasure seekers, all
seemingly anxious to get from the smoke of London to
inhale the fresh breezes of the country. About eight
o'clock an excursion train (at half fares) conveying
nearly 300 passengers, started from the London bridge
terminus to Brighton.' The South-Western and Great
Western Railways also had a fair sprinkling of " ex-
cursion folks." The Gravesend steam-packets were not
much crowded, owing to the coldness of the morning,
many preferring to go by the Blackwall Railway, which
saves at least half an hour in the journey. The Rich-
mond boats began running, but were not much patronised.
The Richmond Railway had trains running every half
hour, which were numerously filled by the holiday folks.
CI uncit PASTORAL AID SOCIETS.—Last evening
a sermon was preached on behalf of this institution at
St. Anne's Church, Blackfriars, by the Rev. Edward
Auriol, M.A., rector of St. Dunstan's in-the-West. The
Rev. Gentleman cited a very large number of cases in
which clergymen had been completely borne down under
the labours of their ministry, having large and unma-
nageable districts to attend to, but whose incomes were
so small that they were unable to avail themselves of
the services of a curate. To assist in such cases, the
Church Pastoral Aid Society was formed, and although
it had aided a vast number of clergymen, its funds would
not allow it to respond to the numerous and pressing
applications constantly made from all parts of the coun-
try. A liberal collection in aid of tho society was made
at the close of the Bev. Gentleman's eloquent appeal.
THE POET AND THE PUBLISHER.—A poet was
once asked by his publisher 11'.-,w many copies of his
poem, then in sheets, he would like to have put in
boards?" " The whole edition," replied the confident
author. "Humph!" said the publisher, "just us you
please; but, if you will take my advice, you will only
have a dozen or so." "Why not the whole?" asked the
indignant poet. " Because," answered his adviser, "it
spoils them for waste paper."—Fraser,