The Sun.
London, England, 1832-05-31 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(From the Times Pr;vate Correspondent.)

PARIS, TUESDAY, FOUR O'CLOCK P.M.
It its now generally believed that at the interview which
is about to take place at Compiegne, between the Kings o'
the French and of the Belgians, the preliminaries of a
political as well as a matrimonial alliance are to be dis-
cusaed and settled. This belief appears to he entirely
founded on the late proceedings of the Chamber at Brus
eels, and the tone of M. de Meulenare's note to the Con
ference of London. The departure of Marshal Gera rd
too, at this moment, convinces many that politics have
more to do with the object of this meeting than family
en itters, which might have been settled in the way which
is usual among crowned heads. The movements of these
two Sovereigns, whatever be their object, seem to he
looked upon with a good deal of indifference here, and I
doubt whether a war undertaken for the mere defence of
the new King's throne in Belgium would have the least
chance of becoming popular in France.
The Opposition papers sound the tocsin of alarm in conse-
quence of the movemen's of the Chouans in La Vent'6e,
and are full of predictions about a civil war. It is true that
under the auspices of the Royalist cause, the bands of bri-
gands who for some time have been infesting the high roads in
that part of the country, have lately increased in numbers ;
but the real nature of their object is made sufficiently evi-
dent by their stopping all diligences, other vehicles, and
travellers, on the highways, and plundering them for
their own benefit, and not that of Henry V. The Op-
position Papers find it convenient to exaggerate or mis-
represent their proceedings, because they afford a fit pre-
text for accusing the government of incapacity to put
them down, or connivance. The genuine Carlists might
have made themselves by this time more conspicuous
in La Vendee than they have done, if the Duke of Wel-
lington had remained in office ; but his Grace's failure has
discouraged and dispersed them, and we shall probably
not hear much of their doings for some time. Those
who remain armed, and have assumed that name, know
nothing of what is passing out of France, and very little
of what occurs beyond their communes; they had risen
for plunder, and their numbers might increase had ener-
getic measures not been taken to put them down. Ge-
neral Solignac is exerting himself with great activity, as-
sisted by the whole National Guard of Nantes, who seemed
determined to hunt the brigands to death. A great num-
ber of arrests were made on the 25th and 26th. It was
reported yesterday that a troop of 500 Chouans, headed by
General Clouet, had appeared before the town of Mans,
the garrison and National Guards of which instantly went
nut and attacked them : that the rebels were entirely de-
feated, a great number of them killed or taken, and the
remainder were pursued, and likely to fall into the hands
of the victors. No confirmation of this statement has been
yet received, and its correctness is extremely doubtful.
You will perceive, by the reports given by most of the
morning papers of what took place yesterday at the Hotel
de Ville, that the company of bidders for the municipal
loan, represented by Mr. Rothschild, have been accepted
as the lenders. The interest proposed by them was 4f.
Sic., being 2 centimes less than the next bidders. The
preference thus obtained by the Rothschild company ap-
pears to hare occasioned very great disappointment among
the other bidders, and some expressions of anger were
heard among the crowds of spectators. Nevertheless, a
Ministerial paper bids France to be extremely grateful to
the foreign Hebraic capitalist for the vast pecuniary obli-
gations she owes him and his faini!y in affording them so
many opportunities of adding to their wealth at her expense.
Another meeting of opposition Deputies took place yes-
terday at M. Laffitte's, for the purpose of receiving the
report of the Committee appointed at the first meeting
to prepare one. A very long discussion took place, in
consequence of an objection made by one of the Deputies
present, to the wording of a passage descriptive of the
actual form of Government. General Lafayette spoke at
great length on the subject, and in the course of his speech
repeated what is already so notorious, that when, after the
fall of the old dynasty in 1830, it became necessary to
establish a new Government, he declared to the Duke of
Orleans, that though be was himself a republican at
heart, he conceived that a monarchy with republican in-
stitutions was the form of Government most suitable to
France. The veteran General added, that the Duke of
Orleans told him he was ready to accept the sovereignty
eo based, or upon any conditions that the welfare of the
country might suggest. He left it to be inferred that the
principles of the monarchy have since undergone consi-
derable alteration.
'We may expect another war between the Government
and the Opposition papers about this new meeting. The
former denounced the first one as a most revolutionary
proceeding, and spoke of the Government's power to lay
hands on those who were parties to it. By too much zeal,
they betrayed both fear and ignorance. They were asked
by their antagonists to point out a law which declared il-
legal the assemblage of forty or fifty persons in a private
house, and referred to their own approving language of all
that has lately taken place in England. It must be con-
fessed, tbat however violent the liberal papers are on the
side of liberty and equality, those which are more particu
larly considered as the organs of Ministers frequently sur-
pass them in boldness of assertion. They really injure the
popularity of the Government, and shake its stability, by
a continual and vehement vindication of attributes which
it should have ceased to claim after the revolution of 1830.
We are still without any positive information regarding
the Duchess de Berri. It appears that when the
Duke of Modena heard of the failure of her attempt,
and the capture of the Carlo-Alberto, he caused
all the French who happened to be in his petty
dom'nions, and who were not known as Carlists, to be
thrown into prison. This man, who is the declared
enemy of the present Government of France, which he
has not yet deigned to acknowledge, ought to be treated in
a different way than by mere diplomatic remonstrance.
lie has done all he could to assist the Duchess de Berri in
her insensate undertaking. That was little enough, to be
sure; but his conduct is too insulting to he passed over
with little notice,
The terms on which the municipal loan was taken yes-
terday, appeared so favourable to the public credit of the
country, that many of the spectators there proceeded to
the Bourse, immediately after learning them, and com-
menced operations in the expectation of a rise. Owing
both to the new loan and the speculations in the other
public securities which it has induced, a rise has taken
place in Three and Five per Cents., which has continued
to-day. The Vendean proceedings, you see, have made
no impression at the Bourse. Z.
Fittsmcm FuNns PARIS MAY 29.-Five per Cents., 97f 40c.
50c. 45c. 50c. 45c. 50c. 60c. 65c. 75c. 97f. 80c. 70c. 75c. 85e. 75c. ;
Four per Cents. 82f. ; Three per Cents., 70f. 70c. 60c. 65c. 60c.
65c. 70c. 75c. 80L 85c. 70f. 8 )c. 85c. 80c! 85c ; National Loan, 97f. 70c. 98f. - Bank Stock, 1,692 f. 50c. 1,695 f.; Route de Na-
ples, B'2f. 60c. 65c. 60e. '7sc. 90c. 83f. 82f. 90c. ; Roman Five per
Cents. 83 1 % 1,4 'l7, • Royal Spanish Loan, 79 % ► ; Rente Per_
petuelle d'Espagne, y. 59 58 Ta ; Belgian Loan, 77% ;
Ha ytian Loan, 210 f. Exchange on London, one month, paper,
25f. 75c.; three months, paper, 25f. 60c. ; money, 25f. 55c.-
Caters Authentique.

The Auxiliare Breton states, that upon the
news of the defeat of the WELLINGTON party reaching
Rennes, the tricoloured flag was hoisted in several places
in that town, and the Lieut.-General's hotel was illumi-
nated. A letter from St. Malo also mentions, that on the
arrival of the Cracker English cutter on the 18th, which
announced the continuance of Lord GREY'S Ministry, a
great number of the inhabitants, accompanied by the band
—of the National Guards, proceeded to the port, shouting
" Vive l'Angleterre! Vive la France ! Vive la Liberte !"
thus saluting the vessel. On the following day the
officers of the Cracker were invited to a dinner given by
several of the principal inhabitants and officers in garrison.
In the evening a serenade was given to the British officers
by the band of the National Guards of St. Servan.
THE TOWER HAMLETS.—Last evening a
numerous and highly respectable meeting of the inhabitants
of the Tower Hamlets district, took place at the George
Tavern, in the Commercial-road, for the purpose of taking
into consideration the propriety of forming a District
Committee, and insuring the return of two independent
and well-qualified members to represent them in Parlia-
ment : A. GoLE, Esq. in the chair. The chairman, in
a very sensible address, explained the object of the meet-
ing, and the benefits which the inhabitants generally
would derive from having two independent and thoroughly
qualified members to represent them in Parliament. They
did not waßt Bond-street dandies, Sr. James's lordlings,
nor creeping courtiers, for the purpose. No; they
wanted men of known talent, integrity, and independence,
and, above all, men of the world and of business.—
(Cheers.) It was also, he thought, essential that their
members should be quite conversant with the shipping in-
terest, from the vast property which was appropriated to
this particular branch of commerce in the district ; and
that they should be such persons as the inhabitants could
frequently have access to, that they might consult them
on the different questions of interest affecting their persons
or property. The best way of insuring the return of
such men, was, by forming themselves into a district com-
mittee ; and, above all things, not to give Promises of
their votes to any individual candidate, until they had
au
oopportunity
candidates of canvassing the principles and pretensions
f all the who offered themselves for their suf-
frages. Messrs. Offor, Newton, Norman, Clift, M'Cann,
and other inhabitants, addressed the meeting, and a com-
mittee being formed, and other routine business disposed
of, the meeting at a late hour dissolved.