The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-13 00:00:00

PRICE OF GOLD.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about at par, and
the short exchange on London is 25f. lye. per £1 sterling
On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of
g 3 r;i3.104d. per ounce for standard gold, It appears that
gold at the etoffe price is slightly dearer pans than ic
Lotadostl

We copy the warning which follows from the Law Times:
—" Are our readers aware of the burden that will very
soon be put upon them,and are they making the necessary
preparations to meet it? On the Ist of January all the
taxes for the next year will not only become due but be
payable, and must be actually paid. For all their assessed
taxes, except the Inhabited House Duty, they will be com-
pelled, under severe penalties, to take out licences .from
the Excise, precisely as now for the keeping of dogs. There-
fore the whole of the year's taxes must be paid in advance.
instead of being collected half-yearly at the end of the
year as hitherto. Nor is this the worst of it. The income
tax is to be collected in like manner; the whole year is to
be paid at once, in the same month of January, already
severely burdened by the compulsory payment in advance
of the assessed taxes, and when all the Christmas bills
present themselves clamouring for settlement. We give
our readers this notice that they may make early prepara-
tion to meet a demand whose existence the public does not
appear to have yet realised, but which, when it is under-
stood, will create a commotion such as has not been seen
for many a day."

M. P.REVOST PA.RADOL IN EDINBURGH;

On Friday night M. Paradel lectured to the Philosophi-
cal Institution, Edinburgh, on the local condition of
France. The peasantry were, he said, as a whole, a nation
of meritorious and hard-working proprietors, but at the
same time small proprietors, and as such at times without
the power to stand against the Government. The State was
all to the peasant—the modern centralised State. Born of
the French revolution, they had inherited an unseen treasure
of obedience and fear which had been accumulated in the
heart of the French peasant by centuries of feudal
despotism. Universal suffrage had, however, instilled some
life into this inert part of the nation, and a change was
being effected. The Democratical party had begun to hit
hard at taxes and the army, and to impress upon the mind
of the rural voter that he should do something to
throw off or alleviate the old yoke. If that were
to take possession of the peasant's mind, the country
would be threatened with new and unforeseen danger,
and there would be increased difficulty in providing
for the wants of the State. Turning to the small towns,
M. Paradol said the classes did not mix, and there
was no trace of that public life wl ',') was constantly
stirring in British towns. There %\ them, too, an
influence which never slept. 'll ~lence of the
Catholic Church, which was more in the small
towns than in purely rural districts, had been increasing
for thirty years, and the influence of the clergy progressed
wonderfully among that bourgeoisie which had formerly
thrown off its allegiance so decidedly to the Church. It
was deemed now in provincial towns a blemish and a
fault, not only if you were an opponent of the Church, but

if you were not reckoned among its friends. The cause
of this increase of the influence of the Church was a
political cause. It aroso from the resentment and fear
which the Revolution of 1848 and the threats of socialism
had spread among the Conservative part of the nation.
The old struggle between the Church and the Revolution
had begun again, and was at no time so virulent as now ;
therefore the Church was in danger if and when a new
Revolution came. Its best chance, then, was to be cut
away from the State. The lecturer concluded with some
mention of the domestic and intellectual condition of
Franca

IMPERIAL LAND COMPANY of MAR-
SEILLES and CONSOLIDATED LAND COM-
PAN Y of FRANCE.
The Holders of Debentures and other CREDITORS of
the above-named Companies are requested and advised to
COMMUNICATE, without loss of time, the amount and
other particulars of their CLAIMS to the Directors of the
CREDIT FONCIER of ENGLAND, who were appointed,
at the Meeting of Creditors held on the lst instant., a
Committee for giving effect to the resolutions then passed
for the removal of the present Liquidators of the Mar-
seilles Company and the appointment of others in their
place.

F. MO WATT,
Chairman of the Credit Fonder.
St. Clement's House, Clement's-lane, London,
9th November, 1869.