The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-23 00:00:00

PXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(From the Timee.)
PARIS, SATURDAY, FOUR O'CLOCK, r. 3i., APRIL 21.
Agreeably to official notice both Chamliers met to-day
for the purpose of receiving a communivation from Go-
vernment which was announced for one o'clock. In the
Chamber of Deputies, however, the chair was only taken
at half past one, by the President, who inwlediately
menced signing passports for the Deputies who werd
about to return to their respective departments. In thid
businece. he was engaged till ten minutes before two, fiord
which time Until halt-past two, nothing was done, and tbd
members present remained in anxious expectation of the
Government message, announced officially for one o'clock.
It was a quarter to three when at last M. Barthe made his
appearance, in full dress, and immediately ascended the
tribune, from which he read the ordinance of the King, by
which the legislitive session is declared to be closed. This
was received with a few cries of " Vice le Rol!" after
which the President left his scat, and all the members
withdrew.

The rumo-Ins relating to an approac'ting change of Mi-
nistry, which have been lately gaining ground every day,
seem to have acquired sonte consistency. It is certain that
M. C. Perier's ability to resume the direction of ptilolic
affairs is by this time nearly despaired of by his political
adherents, and that his nearest relations and most
mate private friends have resolved to use every means
capable of dissuading him from the intention of doing so,
which up to this moment he seems to entertain. Yester-
day and the day before M. Perter was much worse than he
had been for some time. To-day he is rather better.
His wife is in a very bad way with the cholera, and his
son Paul has been attacked by the same disease.

General S,bastiani is still in a hopeless state as to any
pros,.ect of returning to an active life ; and as to M.
d'Argout, who, since my last letter, has been attacked by
the prevailing di..easc, his life is in danger, therefore no
one can say that he will remain a member of the present
Cabinet. Under all these circumstances, it is efident to
every one that the Pvrier Adininistrati,.n is tumblifd
pieces, and that the chances of a change of men, at leasfi
if not of measure, almost amount to a certainty at the
present moment.

Great eagerness is, of course, evinced to learn the in-
tentions of the King as to the formation of the Cabinet in
perspective. The Decazes party have, for several months,
laboured constantly to prepare the way for their chief to
the Ministry. The difficulty of finding a well-qualified
successor to the Premiership of France, at such a moment
as tlis, gives, in fact, some colouring to the hopes of the
friends of the Duke Decazes, that the choice will fall on
him. Many p-rsons are induced to expect it for that
same reason only ; but there are others who will not ad-
mit the possibility that a Minister of the Restoration, and
the Counsellor and private friend of Louis XVIII., can
be selected to form a Ministry under the Citizen King.
Another party give nut that M. tie Talleyrand is on the
point of being called to Paris for the purpose of being
charged with the formation of a Ministry out of the ele-
ments of the present one, and others compatible with them.
M. Talleyrand, it is added, will only be appointed to the
Presidency of the Council, without having any portfeuille.
The King's decided penchant for the s)stem of policy
pursued by M C. Paler, probably lead to a choice
of men who have either shown themselves its supporters,
or who have become sincere converts to it. Hence, if a
change does become unavoidable, there is no reason to be-
lieve that the movement party have the smallest chance of
getting into cffice.
Another indication of an approaching change in, or
modification of, the Cabinet, is in the temporary arrange,
merit made for the administration of public affairs, and the
suspense in which a great deal of public business is left to
remain until there are chiefs in the bureaux to which they
relate, officially authorised to despatch the sates. In ad-
dition to Messrs. Barthe and Montalivet's momentary di-
rection of the affairs of the interior and commerce, the
Count de Heyneval, who, as you know, was porceeding t*
Madrid, has been recalled from the quarantine at Bayonne,
for the purpose of assuming the temporary direction of
foreign affairs. Nis recall was announced to him by
telegraph, and lie is already on his way bock to Paris.
Some say that lie arrived this morning.
The decline of the cholera is still apparent from the
official and other reports, but it is not quite as rapid as it
promised to be when it first began. Among the most re-
cent victims of the disease is Mr. Philipp, the Hanoverian
Charge d'Affaires. On Wednesday afternoon I met him
on the Boulevard,—he was then in high spirits and per-
fect health. Last night he was a corpse.
Letters from Switzerland, received to day, state that
the Cantons of Valais and Giiions had just signed, at
Lucerne, a treaty with the Pope's Nuncio, for the use of
janctoir,pes ofsam 3,000
~,ap Swiss troops, troops,osho
troops
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to erhsesre a.methe Pope
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served the former Bourbons of France.

(From the Morning Herald Correspondent.)
Paris, April 21.
You will have seen that a series of official bulletins w,
published daily in the Moniteur, purporting to give the
numb r of deaths occasioned by the cholera in Paris and
the Banlieu since its appearance here. The " Official
Bulletin" published on the 10th instant states the num

her of deaths on the preceding day at 385. A " more
official" statement, published last Thursday, raises the
number of deaths on the 9th instant (the day in question)
to 861. The official bulletin of the 16th instant stated
the deaths on the 14th at 214—the " more official" report,
since published, states it at between five and six hundred.
Guverninent may have acted wisely in withholding the
real returns, but what credit can it expect for its new
bulletins, so immediately connected with the avowal that
the former was false ? Much of the show of desolation
which marked the early days of the malady is no longer
perceptible, hut the knowledge that it spreads throughout
the city cannot be withheld from the people. The deaths
of severe! persons among the easier classes are an-
nounced daily in the journals, and prove—to those who
know the manner in which the French live—that ;
previous bad habits predispose even the well-clad and the
well-lodged for the reception of the disease ; but you '
might as well reason with a stone wall, against which in •
the dark you knocked your head, as with a Frenchman or
Frenchwoman, on any point whatever on which they had
previously made up their minds. The lowest chiffonniers
time most abject drudge of a servant, would not hesitate to
give you the lie direct were you to tell him that the streets
of Paris were unclean—the fool of its inhabitants un-
wholesome—the manners of the people rude—or the liquor
called wine execrable. All the remonstrances of ioreign-
era are, therefore, lost upon them. The Parisians observe
that (thank God!) " the English have escaped the cholera
almost miraculously ;" and they say, " Oh ! 'tis to the
use of Ito that they owe this impunity." I write in a
house in which there are three persons at present ill. I
found the owner of it a few minutes since preparing break-
fast for herse'f and family. The first dish I noticed was
composed of bouille (beef boiled to the consistence of -
oakum) mixed up with onions, oil, and vinegar. The
next was a salad composed of chicoree (endive, I believe) •
the leaves of dandelion, and cold boiled potatoes, which,
in order to their being well saturated with water, had been
left steeping in it since yesterday. This mess, when
floated in oil ant vinegar, will form one that appeared to
me so pregnant with danger for those for whom it was ,
destined, that I implored of the lady to throw it into the
streets. A laugh and a sneer were my recompense.
Go into the first families, or frequent the first-rate re-
stGurants, and you will find the upper classes not better
instructel on these matters ; and in the proofs I ant about
to give I shall speak of men and women. The first item
called for or set before them is oysters; the next, Raw'
artichokes ! The next, hot water, called soup, in the
proportion of et least a pint to each person. The next, a
patty of some sort or other, the paste an indigestion for a
ploughman. Then come some tolerable articles—fish, -
flesh, or fowl. Then some green trash called a salad.
To these succeed fritters, omelettes, cakes, fruits, cheese,
in incredible qaantities; the whole 'washed down with
from three to ;oar pints to each nerson of cold water—in
all a trifling admixture of poisi;n, under the name tin
ordinaire. Such is the ordinary course of a French
dinner. There is an exception, however—that is, when
some unhappy Wight is the entertainer of the party ; and
then, it not being at their own expense, men and women
ern and do gulp down with infinite promptitude Burgundy,
Ilmrsleaux, and Coampaigne, coffee, and strong liquors to
a vary considerable extent. This is no overcharged pic-
ture; but persons who know not the fact wall hardly be-
lieve that what I have said applies not to a single meal in
the d wily, hut to two—breakfast and dinner. The
quantity of food consumed by a Parisian, nude er female,
is, without exaggerteion, twice that of a London dray-
man ; the quantity of cold water equal nearly to the por-
ter swallowed by a coalheaver in time dog-day.
These being facts, can you wonder at the spread of the
disease among even the better class of the Parisians? Tha
official returns admit that eight thousand persons have
already been carried off by the cholera. I am assured
the number of deaths up to Thursday, last exceeded 16,000.
I have referred to the providential escape of our country-
men and women hitherto with comparative impunity. 1
orn sorry, however to find that two " English" have
died of the epidemic within these 48 hours—tamely, Mr.
penliss, a Secretary of the Haeoverian Minister, and Mrs.
McCarthy, wife of Ale. D. 111•Crrdry, of the Rue de Bit— I
A lady deeply and de-ervedly regietted. Many, very many
Loglkh have ktti attacked ; but thank Heaven the above

are the only deaths that h. vc occurred among them, as far
83 I have been able to learn. Among the French peopl,
of rank tlte cholera continues to make progress ; but I an
aseurei that among them also it begins to diminish in in
tensity, as it had previously done among the lower classes.
M. Perier is better to-day. The report of his relapse
which rsterday operated so unpleasantly on the Funds
was, it is now said, founded only upon his having beet
bled in the morning. Come what come may, the exi•
gency is provided for. 111. Guizot would be immediately
appointed Minister of the Interipr, should M. Perier
b.
obliged by a relapse or other event to relinquish his portfollio :
or rather Guizot has received the appointment in ad
"'nee. A similar preparatory step has been taken in the
case of that excellent man and Minister, M. d'Arg.o t. Th.
Due de Broglie would instantly receive the portfeuille of
the 'Ministry of Commerce should M. d'Argout's illnes-
terminate fatally, but which, I trust, will not be the case.
M. de Rigny is not ill, as had been reported. Several
deaths of distinguished persons have taken place since my
LA last, among which may be mentioned those of the lady
of General Pajol (daughter of Marshal Oudinot, Dim de
Reggio,) M idatne de Vauguyan, Madame Dacier, and Al.
Berthois (Deputy) ; but I am happy to repeat that the in-
tensity of the malady diminishes everywhere, while I ad-
tit that the number ofsick continues to be very great indeed.
FRENCII FUNDS, PARIS, APRIL 20.-Five per Cents., 96f. 95c•
90c. 95c. 90e. 8.5 c. Ode. 80c. 85c. 80c. 96f. 85c. 90c. 55c. ; Four per
Cents., 83f. ; Three per Cents. 70f. 40c., 35c. 20e. 40c. 50c. 40c. ;
National Loan. 97f. 15c. ; Bank Actions, 1,677 f. 50. ' • Rents de
Naples, 81f. 20c. 10c. 20c. ; Rente d'Espagne, 1014 ;
;
Spanish Loan, 801 i Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, '57% 14%
11 % % ; Belgian Certificates, 78 53. Exchange on London,
one month, paper, 25f. 6.5 c.; money, 23f. 65c.; three mouths,
Money, 25f. 45c -Cozies Authentique.
FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, APRIL 21.-Five p?r Cents. 96f. 90c.
95e. 97f. 9tif. 95c. 97f. 95f. 95c. 90c. 961 95c. 90c. 80c. 75c; Four
Per Cents., 8.3f.25c. ; Three per Cents. 7013 40c. 45c. 55c. 60c. 70c.
(15c. 60c. 50c. 40c. 70f. 50c. 45c. 40c. 35c. :10c. ' • National Loan,
97f. 20c. ; Bank Stock, 1,682 f. 50c. 1,580. ; Rente de Naples, 81f.
40c. 30c. 81f. 81f. 10c.; Roman Five per Cents., 8014 34; Royal
Spanish Loan, SO% IA IA 80; Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 575's
)4 %1l % ; Belgic Certificates, 78% T 4 79. Exchange on
London, one month, paper, 25f. 60c. ; money, 25f. 60c. ; three
months, paper, 25f. 45c.; money, '2sf. 15c.-Cours Authentique.
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Bank Long Ann. to expire
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_-67
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Ditto Account 3l/!4 301
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