The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-04 00:00:00

FRENCEI PAPERS.

(From the Journal des Debuts.)
PARIS, OCT. I.—.TRADE OF MARSEILLES.—The Garde
National de Marseille, of Sept. 25, contains the follow-
ing:—" Never during the Restoration was the commer-
cial activity of Marseilles carried so far as at present. The
Customs during the first eight months of 1832 show a re-
ceipt of 17,520,832 f., which is more than for several
years which have been regarded as years of prosperity. In
1820 the receipts of twelve months amounted, on imports,
to 12,871,5051. ; those of 1825, to 19,505,715 f. ; in
1832 they will amount, according to the proportion al-
ready received, to more than 23 millions. The bounties
o❑ exportation during the same eight months amount
to 8,259,378 f., of which nearly seven millions were
given for refined sugars, 400,0001. for soaps, the rest for
cotton yarn, cotton cloths, straw hits, sal ammonia, and
salted provisions. There entered the port during the first
eight months of 1832, 5,036 vessel, and there left it
4,650. The proportion for the whole year will be, ar-
rivals 6,714, departures 6,200. During the year 1826,
the epoch of the greatest commercial prosperity during the
Restoration, there arrived in this pot t only 6.458 vessels,
and left it 6,458 ; in 1827 the arrivals were 6,510; in
1828, 6,294.; in 1829, 5,096.
The departures were in 1826, 6,207 ; 1827, 6,210 ;
in 1828, 5,985 ; and in 1829, 5,001. But the re-
sults are still more gratifying when weight and measure
are considered. In 1829, the guagiug duties were, for
the whole year, 97,655 f. ; the measurage duties, 32,708 f.;
while already, for the first eight months of this year,
these two duties amount to 313,985 f. It is said that
the same augmentation is observable in the Octroi duties,
and that they exceed the duties of last year by 35,000 f.
These are facts, and they answer many declamations.
The prosperity of our town cannot do otherwise than
increase under mi Government of order, peace, and liberty.
(From the Constitutionnel.)

PARIS, OCT. 1.-When the law of elections, which
fixed the qualification at a contribution of 300 fr. direct
taxes, was proposed, the aristocracy raised a loud cry
against this demagogical project. To believe them, the
electors plying 300 francs of direct taxes would expose
France to fire and blood, or, at least, to pillage. Men of
great property were indignant at seeing trade and industry
exercising political rights. Nobody has forgotten with
what contempt they spoke of those who voted by right of
paying for licenses. They made so much noise that they
succeeded in inducing the Government to require a modi-
fication of the law, and the establishment of the double
vote, for the bent fit of men of property. Eight years after
the law of the double vote had been passed, they found it
not aristocratic enough, and they wished to overthrow it
by a coup d'etat. To satisfy them, it would have been
necessary to have no other electors than Prefects, Re-
ceivers-General, Chamberlains, and Court Bankers. The
Revolution of July put an end to these aristocratic extra-
vagancies. The times are now changed. Men of great
property are no longer the arbiters of our destiny, and the I
public would not hear of the re-establishment of the great
colleges for them. The writers in favour of the legiti-
mates no longer advocate the necessity of placing the in-
terests of France in the hands of a rich aristocracy. They
now desire that political rights shall be given to every hu-
man being. The Gazette de France writes daily against
our Election Law, which it considers as a monopoly, and
declares that France will not be faithfully represented Ror
well governed till universal suffrage shall be established.
In comparing the wishes of the legitimates under the Re-
storation and since the Revolution of July, we might be-
lieve that there was between them a manifest contradic-
tion. When the thing is closely examined, however, we
see that the partizans of the ancient aristocracy always
tend to the same point. What, in fact, were the senti-
ments which animated them when they atticked with vio-
lence the election law of 1817? Envy, jealousy, and ha-
tred, inspired by the middle classes. They were humiliated
by being governed by the middle classes, and they cared
less for the monopoly of political power than the exclusion
of people whom they considered as part enus. Not hays
ing been able to despoil the middle classes of their poli-
tical rights for their own advantage, they are now anxious
to despoil them for the advantage of the lower orders.—
They imagine, probably, that if they can succeed in throw-
ing society into disorder, they might effect, by means of
foreign arms, a third restoration. Perhaps they flatter
themselves, either by means of the clergy, or by their own
means, of being able to exercise some influence over the
classes to whom they would give the right of voting, and
that by means of such an influence, they might obtain that
power which directly they cannot reach. Whatever may be
their secret views, they ought to inform us how they will
carry their plans of universal suffrage into effect. Do they
propose to give the right of voting to women as well as

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men? If they mean to confer-electoral rights on the
females, they will doubtless also declare them eligible to
public employments, subject them to the conscription, and
allow them to command the army, Rights being equal,
duties and burdens must also be equal. The Saint Simo-
nians, who are in search of the freewomen, have not yet
demonstrated to us the necessity of forming regiments of
women. We do not suppose that the Gazette de France
would go further than them. Thus the system of universal
suffrage must begin by excluding the half of society from the
exercise of political rights. Will the partizans of this system
give a share in the elections to all the male population ?
When Paris is to elect its Deputies, will they open the
jails, that nobody may be prevented from voting ? Will the
prisoners at the Bicetre, at Poisoy, on board the hulks at
Brest, be led to the hustings? They will carefully avoid
such an extravagance. Not only they would exclude cri-
minals and madmen, they also would not allow school-

masters to compel their scholars to vote. At least we
cannot believe this, unless they shall positively declare
such to be their intentions. But the system of universal
suffrage excludes children, women, criminals, and mad-
men ; and if it only allows men arrived at mature age
and of sound mind to vote, it loses thereby the character
give❑ to it, and it no longer merits the pompous name of
universal. If we are not in error, the partizans of uni-
versal suffrage require that, for the exercise of political
rights, an individual shall be endowed with a certain de-

gree of intelligence. Besides, they require of the electors
a certain degree of independence. Now we do not hesitate
to say that we have never required other conditiocs
than these. It is only necessary that we should under-
stand each other as to intelligence, independence, and
morality ; and on them points there can only be question
as to facts about which no disagreement will long con.
tinue when the disputants are sincere and honest. A vote
given by an individual does not influence his destiny
merely ; be exercises his influence over every member of
society. All, therefore, have a right to demand that
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nion also, if the reproach which they cast on our elec-
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Electoral Colleges twiny citizens who are well worthy of
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ought to point out clearly which men our laws unjustly
exclude, and not speak of universal suffrage. Above all,
it is necessary to speak of our actual institutions with less
contempt, unle-s they wish to provoke reform by other
means than the law. They ought not to forget, moreover,

that the present electors, come what may, shall remain

electors.

(From the Quolidhnne.)

BORDERS OF THE RHINE, SEPT. 22.—(Private COD-
respondence.)-1 am convinced that it is necessary to study
local p„litic., in the places themselves, ana I have studied
the Dutch-Belgian question on the banks of the Scheldt
and the Maerdyk. I must take another means of inform-
ing you, as I should like to do, how much admiration 1
feel for the heroic Dutch. What a people !—What a
King ! Their Royalty is sacerdotal. William, the father
of his country, has not got an enemy. In the canal boats
—in the coffee-houses—in the farms—on the high roads—.l
have spoken to people of all descrip,ions. All of them
spoke of "our William" with tears in their eyes, and told
me a multitude of moving anecdotes, such as that the
King reads whatever is sent to him, and sends every
memorial to the proper Minister, with directions in the
margin —that every Wednesday he gives audience to
whoever asks it—that there is not, perhaps, an un-
fortunate person in the kingdom whom the King
has not aided with his purse—that at the last ser-
mon the Clergyman having requested the congregation to
offer up their prayers for the King, and having spoken of
the ingratitude of the Belgians, suddenly great tears rolled
down the wrinkles with which the weight of the Crown
has covered his venerable countenance, and soon. Looking
from France, where Royalty has made itself a subject of
mockery, where Louis Philippe has not inspired one affec-
tion, see Holland, where Royalty is worshipped, and though
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flame, you must not believe it. Agitation may be on the
surface, but it has not penetrated into the Imes. I was

present at the meetings of the society of the press at
Frankfort ; a pitiable parohy, without the smallest in-
fluence. The famous protests against the decisions of the
Diet have only received a very small number of signatures ;
partly apothecaries, and partly students of law. I was at
Cassel on July 28th, alter the dissolution of the States.
A banquet was prepared for Jordan, a la Odillon Burro!.
The prudent professor avoided the dangerous honour ; and
receiving, at the Hotel of the King of Prussia, where I
was living as he was, a deputation of students, he said to
them several times, " Gentlemen, do not let us compro-
mise ourselves. Our enemies desire nothing more than to
see us guilty of such follies, in order that they might de-
stroy us. Reflection and patience ought to be the motto
of the Germans." But we know that, when a German
reflects, he has enough to do for half a century. The ab-
sence of centralization—the physical pleasure which these
people enjoy—the admirable Municipal Institutions which
all the States possess—are, in my opinion, so many causes
prohibiting Revolution.
(From Galignani's Messenger of Tuesday.)
PARIS, OCT. 2.—The Ministerial arrangements occupy
almost exclusively the attention of the papers. The non-
appearance of the new nominations in the Moniteur is
generally attributed to the circumstance of MM. de Broglie
and Humann, who are intended to replace MM. Sebas-
tiani and Louis, not having given their final answer. In
the case of AI. Humann, the delay is occasioned by his ah-
t.ence from Paris ; in that of M. Broglie, it is attributed by
Le Temps to his requiring the admission of M. Guizot
into the Cabinet with him, to which there is no objection
in principle, except so far as it would render the retirement
of one of the other Ministers necessary to make room for
him. Le Journal des Debats is quite silent on the sub-
ject, and La France Nouvelle merely renews its general
defence of the system of the 13th of March, without refer-
ring at all to individuals. The opposition papers, in ge-
neral, express their conviction that an Administration
founded on doctrinaire principles can have but an emphe-
meral existence ; and Le Constitutionnel, after complain-
ing that the Journal des Debuts, in announcing that
M. Dupin was not to form part of the Administration,
said not also state that it was because he had peremptorily
refused the offers made to him, thus characterises the doc-
trinaires :—" It was they who, under the Restoration,
undertook to conciliate legitimacy with a set of semi-libe•
ral semi-aristocratic institutions, imitated from the English,
which contributed to weaken and ruin the restored dy-
nasty, without any profit to liberty; it is they who, per-
petually pre-occupied with English traditions, saw only in
the revolution of 1830 a parallel to that of 1688, in the
erection of a popular throne, and the creation of a Royalty
springing from the national sovereignty—a mere deviation
from the hereditary principle, and a transmission of the
crown from the direct to the collateral heir: in a word, it
is they who have invented quasi legitimacy. The word
alone has been fatal; still more fatal would be the thing
itself.

"A letter of the 21st ult. from Ancona, states that a re-
port was current that the officers of the French garrison had
signed a petition to be submitted to the Chambers on the

opening of the next session, and that it had been sent off
to Paris. It is said to be a protest against the proceedings
of the French at Ancona, as being at variance with the
principles of the revolution of July. A contest had taken
place between the young men of Minerbi, near Bologna,
and the Pope's carbineers ; fire-arms were discharged on
both sides ; two carbineers were killed, and two wounded.
The contest arose from an opposition to the young men's
singing the Marsetllaise.

The Patriote du Puy de Dome states, that serious
disputes having arisen between the inhabitants of Mont-

ferrand and the Spanish refugees, the latter have applied
to the Government for the removal of their depot to ano-
ther town. The same piper announces that an associa-
tion in favour of the liberty of the press, has just been
formed at Clermont.
" The Duchess of Angouleme, accompanied by Made-
moiselle de Berri, arrived at Cologne on the 24th ult.
" M. Ulric Pelloutier, an advocate, was arrested on the
28th ult. at the residence of Madame de Coutances, near
Nantes, whe❑ a pocket-book, with some important papers,
was found upon hint. He is charged with having carried off
the documents relative to the case of Aubepio and others,
from the register-office of the Royal Court of Rennes, in
conjunction with M. Clemenceau, an advocate of Nantes,
who was lately set at liberty, but for whose apprehension
a new warrant has been issued.

" The Propagateur du Pas de Calais contains a let-
ter from Bethune of the 27th ult. stating that a plot,
formed in the company of engineers stationed in that town,
broke out on the 26th, whilst the company was exercising.
Sixteen of the men suddenly rushed out of their ranks,
seized the drum, and proceeded towards the frontiers of
Belgium, amidst shouts of Vive le Roi !en Belgique !'
It is added that they have already passed the frontiers,
which appears rather extr 'ordinary, as they had to traverse
a part of the department du Nord.'
" The Nuremburg Correspondent of the 27th ult. has
the following, dated Frankfort, Sept. 24 The Presi-
dent of the Military Commission of the Diet, General
Count Latour, has been recalled from his post. He is
one of the best engineers in the Austrian army, and is to
be appointed Chief of the Engineer Department, in the
room of the Archduke John, who retires from public af-
fairs. His successor at Frankfort is not yet named. The
victualling of the federal fortress of Mentz is now almost
completed, and, according to a decision of the Diet, it is
to be maintained in that state.' The same paper says :
All the elections for the Second Chamber of the States
of Electoral Hesse are concluded, excepting about six.
Not one of the Government candidates have been stle.
eessful.' "

FRENCH FUNDS, PARIS, OCT. 2.-Five per Cents., 951. 70c.
65c. 60c. 50e. 55c. 60c. 55c. 50c. 45c. 95f. 40c. 55c. 45c. ; Loan of
1832, 96f. 60c. ; Three per Cents., 67f. 75c. 80e. Ze. 70e. 50c. 95c.
55c. ; National Loan, 95f. 85c. ; Rente de Naples, 81f. 801. (Sic.
Rente de 1' Etat Romain, 8034 iY ; Rente d'Espagne, F 2% ;
Royal Spanish Loan, 773 % 78; Rente Perpetuelle d'Es-
pagne, 55% 3y ~,;; lA, ; Belgian Loan, 7754 ; Ilaytian Loan,
200 f. Exchange on London, one month, money, '23f. 80c. ;
three months, money, 25f. 65c.-Cours Authentique.