The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-05 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.
(From the Moniteur of Tuesday.)
PARIS, DEC. I.—The price of bread has just
bees raised to 19i- sous for the 41b. loaf. This rise
imposes on the city of Paris the duty to make use of
the stock which it has long had in reserve against
the time when the assize should exceed the ordinary
resources of some classes of the inhabitants. This
moment is come; and the Administration cannot
better justify its foresight than by making the state
of things correctly known. [Here follows the state-
ment, from which it appears that there is a reserve
equivalent to 103,000 sacks of flour, besides .50,000
sacks which the bakers are botual to have in reserve
in their magazines.]
In unfavourable years, the price of bread often
rises above 20 sous, and it is at that price that the
Administration has resolved to open its magazines,
and to reduce the price to 16 sous—to such of the
inhabitants as require this assistance—for the four
pound loaf. The Magistrates owe it to the rich to
give them the assurance, that subsistence will not be
wanting to those who will pay the price. It also
owes assistance to the distressed, to whom its first
attention is due. Seventy thousand individuals, in-
scribed in the Bureaux of Charity, have already
acquired a tight to this solicitude. Families who
are•not in easy circumstances, and whose distress is
increased by the augmentation in the prices, and
mechanics who are burdened with families, and are
for the present out of work, may successively be ad-
mitted to the same favour.
[The .llfoniteur has also a long account, dated
Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 10, of the visit of the Emperor
Don Pedro to his Majesty's ship the Jean Bart on
the preceding day.]
[Neither the Gazette de France nor Messager des
Chambres contain any foreign news which has not
already been received by other channels.)
(Prom the Courier Francais.)
PARIS, DEC. 2.—The news from Lisbon, received
through diplomatists, confirms what we stated yes-
terday of lion Miguel's critical situation, and the
danger he is in. Like Charles IX., he is on the
point of expiating, by a premature death, his anger
and his crimes. His accomplices arc very uneasy,
and tremble at the consequences which may ensue
from his death; and they neglect no precaution
-which may avert the catastrophe they dread. To pre-
. vent apostitricism falling with him, they have di-
rected their attention to the Queen Mother. Char.
)(Ate Joachime, a regular. party leader, is not dis-
mayed by nnea4ess, or her maternal grief; instead
of weeping for her dying son; she only thinks of
supplying his place,, and—conducting - with a firm
hand the intrigues, planned by her -ambition. The
Palace of Quelussisatgain -becOrne: the seat of go-
. vernment. The Regefiey of the Queen Mothcr is
already spoken or,Hatid:Donna Maria is to be got
rid of a second time for the advantage of an Infant
of Spain, whose name ;sin uttered lowly and in
secret. These results -haVebeen for a long time the
object of the intrigues to which the two Portu-
guese Princesses of the Court at Madrid are not
strangers. But hitherto. Don .Miguel being in health,
these intrigues languished ; now they are in full ac-
tivity. It is not, however; expected that they can
end in any thing decisive. The- death of Miguel
would be the ruin.of his party, and the triumph of
Donna Maria. •
A report was spread yesterday, on the Exchange,
that —, an ambassador,
.had received news of
Don Miguel's death.
At a meeting of the silk manufacturers at Lyons,
on November 27, it was resolved to have a general
meeting of all the manufacturers; and in the mean-
time a committee was appointed to collect all the in-
formation possible concerning the present suffering
state of the trade.

(From the Journal des _Debuts.)
PARIS, DEC. 2.—Vesterday, bread rose one sou
on the .41b. loaf; the price was fixed at 19 sous 2
herds. The following was the official notice on the
subject :—" The rise compels the town of Paris to
make Use of the supplies which it has had so long in
reserve for that period- when the price exceeds the
ordinary resources of some classes of the inhabitants.
The supplies, at present, amount to:-1st, 2;5,000
sacks of flour in the granaries; 2d, 146,000 quintaux
melriques, equal to 68,000 sacks of Sour—making
together 93,000 sacks. To which must be added
12,000 sacks in the' guarantee depot of the bakers.
The whole, therefore, immediately disposable, 'is
'105,000 sacks, besides the 50,000 sacks which the.
bakers are obliged to keep in their own stores. The
existence of such a large reserve, which might,
at any inStant, be brought to market, is sufficient
to prevent uneasiness, and check the exertions of
cupidity, without discouraging proper commercial
undertakings. In favourable years the price of
bread sometimes , rises above twenty sous for four
pounds. At this price the Administration has re-
solved to open the granaries, and lowering it then to
sixteen sons, which will supply, at that price, such
of the inhabitants as shall stand in need of that
-sistance. The Government is bound to assist the
unfortunate, and it will first attend to them. Seventy
thousand persons, whose names are inscribed in the
_Bureaux de CharitO, have already acquired a right to
this care. Measures are taken to organise in each
quaiter Committees of Benevolence, composed of
manufacturers and others, who will equitably decide
on the elaims of the poor, as they have children
and are deprive& of work. From the 15th of
December the reserve will, be sent to the market;
aid from that date the indi‘idnals•inscribed in the
-Bureaux de Churite will receive billets, by means of
.which they will pay no more for their bread than six-
teen sous the four pounds. Generally the distri-
butions of winter do not commence Ala the month
of December; this year they begin a month earlier;
and the relief of bread and money has been increased
one-third.. Funds have been provided to distribute
during the months of December, January, February,
and March, one thousand and sixty-seven sacks of
flour each month in place of 711, and that soup
shall be distributed to a greater number of persons.
The working classes will receive the most useful
assistance—that of employment. The administra-
tion of the town will not suspend any of the works
during winter which it has begun; and it will begin
some new works, in which nob Ody shall be em
ployed, but workmen of Paris."

The cause of the liberty of the press, which has
been gained in France, is now to be fought in Bel-
gium. The Government there is annoying the
Press. The decrees of 1815 have been revived, and
nothing fails of that time. We cannot be indifferent
to the contest; Belgium speaks our language, and
the cause of the Press is the cause of all civilized
nations. For six years the Netherlands have been
governed by one single principle—the fear of the
Jesuits. The example of France makes Belgium
tremble; for the•sight of the mistress of civilization,
curbed under their yoke, made all other nations
afraid. This fear made Belgium tractable; it
thanked the Ministers for keeping out the Jesuits,
and forgot to ask for liberty
,for the Press. It might
abuse M. de Villele; the French Clergy might- ri-
dicule the Spanish war, and reprint 80r,`„,g,,r,s
songs ; and this was liberty. Then it pitied us; now
the illusion is dissipated ; the Jesuits being no longer
an object of terror, liberty has disappeared.—
In giving Belgium up to Holland, the Congress
was not able to make it cease to be French.
Paris is now the great object of interest to the
Belgians; Brussels is the seat of a French Opposi-
tion. Our Ministers are there as much .censured
as at Paris, perhaps even more; the Opposition was
more free and more imprudent. Buonaparte is still
lunch admired there. The Opposition of Brussels
Was a particular politivakseq ; we must not, there-
fore, be surprised, that for several yeap the people
of Brussels thought that the French people were all
slaves, and they lauded themselves on having escap-
ed our fati. -.Th;s, was a sort of sympathy with us.
England never supposed herself free because she -
was not afflicted with the Jesuits: she never thought
her Ministers deserved praise for defendiog her
from them, because she was liQt allied to France,