The Sun.
London, England, 1832-05-17 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Times. )
Ws last night received the Paris Papers of Monday
and Tuesday, and find that though they contain no specific
news, their contents are not devoid of interest. From
them it appears, that our French neighbours regard the
late events in England as almost domestic occurrences,-.-
that they consider the danger with which the Reform
Bill was threatened as a danger not confined to England,
-that they looked upon the spirit of freedom displayed
by the members of our public-minded community as a
spirit which to fleeted honour on every free people,-and
that they esteemed the victory which the English were
about to win or lase, as a victory won or lost for Europe
and mankind. The firm and patriotic conduct of the
House of Commons, in voting Lord Ebrington's resolu-
tions with so great a majority, seems particularly to have
attracted their admiration ; and they appeal to the
spe,ches delivered by several lion. Members on that oc-
casion, as worthy of the best days of English eloquence
and independence. " Honour," exclaims one of them,
"to the English House of Commons! It has understood
the full extent of the duties which grave circumstances
imposed. It has entered at once with firmness and mo-
deration on the only path of safety left for England--on
the only path which can save it from the chanced of a
bloody revolution." The cordial congratulation and high
eulogy of the French Journalist are but echoes from the
shores of England.
This burst of popular enthusiasm among mar country-
men,-the numerous meetings and immense assemblages
whom political danger summoned to the defence of their
menaced rights,-the unanimity of the Reformers in all
parts of the country in support of "the Bill,"-the lan-
guage of reproof and defiance uttered with respect to the
aristocratical faction, which, in their imagination, held
the destinies of England in their hands,-the freedom
used with the names even of the highest parsonages in the
realm, when viewed as in league against the national inte-
rests, combined with the strictness with which, amid this
mighty fermentation, public order has been preserved, ap-
pear to have astonished our less stanch, and more mob-
loving, neighbours. They seem not to have known the
energies of the English mind, when acting on settled con-
victions, and strengthened by mutual sympathies. They
could not calculate the force or value of that discipline of
freedom which the English have acquired, by having ma-
naged their own affairs for centuries,-by being accustomed
to arrange themselves under their local authorities or
local elliefo,--by sneering in parish vestries-in com-
mon-halls-at county meetings-at political festivals!,
and general elections-by executing judicial functions
(like that of Jurymen), and combining in municipal
corporations. They could not estimate the power of
the press in this reading country, nor give their due weight
to those means of rapid communication by which a politi-
cal b'ow struck in London to-day, calls together 100,000
men in Birmingham to-morrow, and resounds through the
empire in GO hours with the quickness of a 'telegraphic
despatch. Their wonder is therefore natural, at finding an
organized legal resistance to the coup d'etat of the Tories
over a great part of England, in less time than the news
could hive travelled to the central towns of France.
The importance of the present crisis in England they all
attempt to estimate with a view to their own affairs ; but
none of them overrate it. They seem as convinced as we
are, that the enemies of all Reform at home must have be-
come the enerni sof all freedom abroad. They therefore
apprehended, from the change of the English Ministry,
plots for the overthrow of the French charmer, and for the .
restoration of the exiled Bourbons. They looked forward
to an absolutist crusade against the recently established
constitutions of France and Belgium, headed by the Cos-
sacks and subsidized by England. Some of them, there-
fore, press under their Government the policy of meeting
the danger with becoming promptitude, by despatching an
army to Belgium and the Rhine, and by displaying the tri-
colour from the top of the Alps.
It cannot scarcely be doubted, that whatever might be
the immediate effect of the return of an English Tory
Ministry on the internal order or external relations of
France, it could not fail to be ultimately disastrous to the
tranquillity of all recently established Governments in
Europe, and consequently destructive of the general peace.
As we mentioned yesterday, the partisans of Anti-Reform
have taken every opportunity for the last eighteen months
to abuse every change,-every proceeding-every measure
which had any connexion with the revolution of July,
1830. They would, therefore, have connived at the in-
vasion of Belgium by the Dutch-they would have en-
couraged the Emperor of Austria and King of Prussi i in
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Germany--.they
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support from that alliance by which the Roman provinces
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are to receive a new political organization; and the same
men who in 1829 ordered a vessel of the young Queen of
Portugal to be attacked on entering the chief harbour of her
own island at Terceira, would have employed the British
navy in opposing the expedition about to arrive
tin the coast of Portugal, and have supported one
of the moot odious tyrannies which ever oppressed and
brutalized mankind. At any rate, all the liberals under
the absolute governments of the Continent, who are now
looking forward to England for the watch-word of free-
dom, arid who regard the Reform of our institutions as
the pledge of political amelioration among themselves,
would hare desisted from their laudable pursuit in despair,
or have become a prey to their native despotisms.
From all these evils we hope we are saved by the re-
:ection of the Duke of Wellington's services, and the con-
tinuance in power of a reforming Government.
These papers contain scarcely any news north extract-
ing. We have only room to say, that the scientific world
will hear with regret of the death of Cuvier, the greatest
naturalist of his age.
FRENCH FUNDS, PARIS, MAT 14.-Five per Cents., 95f. 25c. 30e;
50c. 45c. 40c. 35c. 30c. 20c. 15c. 931. sc. 961. 95f. 10c. 15c. 10c. 95C.
94f. 95c. 90c. 95f. 94f. &c. 70c. 80c. 75c. 80c. 95c.; Four per Cents.,
81f. 50c. 81f.; Three per Cents., efif. 25c. 20c. 25c. 30c. 35c. 25c.
30c. 25c. :10c. 68E 20c. 10c. sc. 681'. 68f. sc. 68f. 67f. 90c. 67f. 80c.
75c. 70c. 45c. 50c. tiOc. 65c. 60c. 70c. 15c. ; National Loan, 95f. 60c.
20c. ; Bank Actions, 1,680 E; Rents de Naples, 80f. 40c. 50c. 40c.
20c. 80f.; Roman Five per Cents., 81 81N 81; Royal Spanish
Loan, 77% ; Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 56 g 57 56%. % 'aa
% 56y,, ; Belgian Loan, 75% 34 75 74.74 3 74. Exchange on Lon-
don, one month, paper, 25E 70c. • money, 25f. 65c. ; three months,
paper, 25f. 5!.c. ; money, 25f. eoc.-Cours Authentique.
FRENCH FUNDS, MAY 15.-Five per Cents., 95f. 94f. 90c. 80c.
90c. 75c. 70c. 75c. 70c. 75c. 70c. 65c. 70c. 65c. 70c. 75c. I.oc. 95f.
94f. 95c. 95f. 95f. sc. 23c. 50c. ; Four per Cents., 81f. ; Three per
Cents., 68f. 67E 900. 60c. 55c. 70c. 65c. 60c. 75c. 68f. 08f. 10c. sc.
67f. 95c. 68f. 68f. 15c. 20c. ' • National Loan, 95f. 10c. ; Bank
Actions, 16701 16656 1670 f. ; Rente de Naples, 801. 79f. 115 c. 80f.
79f. 95c. 80f. 25e 20e. 10c. 25c. 20c. 25c.; Rentede Romain, 80%
80 7”, 80 ; Itente d'Espagne, 10 ; Royal Spanish Loan, 77%
77 763 i • Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 56% gas Sa ai 56
56!S %VI. 57 ; Belgian Loan, 73 7234 IS 73 74. Exchange on
London-One Month, Paper, 25f. 70c. ; Money, 23f. 65c.-Three
Months, Paper, 23f. 55c.; Money, 25f.

Lord Frederick Fitzclarence returned to town
unexpectedly on Saturday last, in consequence, it is said, of the
unfavourable state of the weather, which prevented his Lord.
ship from proceeding on his route to Berlin, whither he had
been appointed, in company with Captain Lord A. Fiticlarence,
to convey the Royal Louisa model frigate.

BURIAL OF THE DEAD AT PA RI S.-A
writer in one of the French Papers animadverted severely on
the manner of performing the last rites of the dead since the
cholera morbus reached Paris. The priests have a tariff of
prices for their attendance kept in the vestries, in which the
lowest is 25 francs, and the highest, perhaps, 10,000. The suns
is, perhaps, disputed by a parent, who has lost a beloved child.
I am very sorry, Monsieur," says the priest, " that we cannot
arrange the matter, but the price is fixed ;go elsewhere—l defy
you to find a brother more accommodating." The men em-
ployed in carrying the biers to the cemeteries toss the dead
bodies about like bundles •f dirty linen. When the coffins
arc too short, they thrust the bodies in by main force, making
the bones crack. They occasionally strike the coffins, in the
street, several blows of a hammer, to make them lie the closer
on the bier. " What," says the writer, " must strangers think
of these things ?"

The remains of the late John Taylor, Esq.,
for many years proprietor and editor of ne Sun newspaper, were
interred yesterday, in the burial ground of Bloomsbury church.
Mr. Taylor had been connected with the public press of this
metropolis for forty years, and was known, not only to a very
extensive circle of acquaintances, but to the public in general,
as a writer of considerable literary attainments. The amusing
little poem of Monsieur TOtiSOn has given rise to a dramatic
version, with which all play-goers are familiar ; and the stage
is also indebted to Mr. Taylor for a great number of prologues,
and epilogues, and occasional addresses. which he had a great
facility in producing. His affability in private life will long be
remembered by those who had the pleasure of his acquaintance,
and who are capable of appreciating the acquirements an 4 the
principles of a gentleman.

OLD WHITE-LION TA VERN, GREAT YAlt•
sior rit.—At the above tavern on Tuesday morning a party
sembled, and on receiving The Sun newspaper announcing the
" recall of Earl Grey," it was proposed by Mr. John Shelly
Clarke, seconded by Messrs. James Conyards and James Drake,
and carried unanimously, that a subscription purse should be im
mediately raised, to defray the expense of setting out .the
bells in expression of their patriotic spirit, and to commemorate
the glorious event; which have been done accordingly.
PERSEVERANCE.—" I recollect," says Sir
Jonah Barrington, " in Queen's County, to have seen a Mr.
Clerk, who had been a working carpenter, and when making a
bench for the session justices at the Court-house, was laughed at
for taking peculiar pains in planing and smoothing the seat of
it. He smilingly observed, that he did so 'to make it easy for
himself,' as he was resolved he would never die till he had a
right to sit thereupon , and he kept his word. He was an in
dustrious man—honest, respectable, and kind-hearted. He
succeeded in all his efforts to accumulate an independence ;
he did accumulate it, and uprightly. His character kept-pace
trate upon that very bench that he sawed and planed."
with the increase of his property, and he lived to sit as a magic