The Sun.
London, England, 1829-04-24 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.

From the Gazette de France, dared April 22.)

PARIS, APRIL 21.—1 t seems that the leave of
absence asked by M. de Chateaubriand was dis-
patched to him yesterday, by a courier. It is said
that the Committee of the Budget will not make its
Report on the LatVs of the Finances before the
middle of the month of May. It is affirmed that
towards the end of the month the Minister of COM:
merce will present to the Chambers a Project of
Law on the Duties of Customs.
M. de Royer, Prussian Ambassador Extraordi-
nary to the Sublime Porte, has set out from Berlin,
for Vienna.
A letter from Trieste says t---" The Greek troops
have made themselves masters of the Castle of Lc=
panto. Missolonglii is negotiating for a capitulation
with a brother of Count Capo d Istrias. General
Church is in possession of the defiles of the moun-
tains, so that the communications of the Turks with
the garrisons in Livadia are intercepted. The Turks
are under some uneasiness respecting Albania."
(From the Messager des Chambres of Tuesday.)
PARIS, APRIL 20.—The staff of the four Regi-
ments of the Line which remain in the Morea are to
return to France for the sake of economy; it is said
they will leave' only one battalion, in which all the
soldiers will be incorporated. Two Lieutenant-
Colonels will remain to command the four battalions
of the 27th, 42d, 54th, and 58th Regiments of the
Line, which will each consist of 1,000 men. Major-
General Schnieder will have the chief command of
these troops.
(EXTRACT FROMTHE GERMAN JOURNALS.)
The Russian Journals publish the official Report
of the taking of Sizeboli, of which we have given the
particulars. But it has been said that this position
had been retaken from the Russians by a division of
Hussein Pacha's army. Hitherto there is nothing
to confirm this assertion, which appears to be false.
The fortifications of the place were repaired imme-
diately after it was taken, and the Russian flag is still
hoisted there.

From the Courrier Francais of Monday and Tuesday.

PARIS, APRIL 21.—RUMOURS AS TO A NEW PLAN
OF FINANCE.—A financial project has become the
subject of conversation in some Ministerial circles, of
which we have no certain datum, and of which we
shall for the present avoid judging.
The idea is, we are informed, to reduce to four per
cent. all the rentes which are inscribed in .the Great
Book at five per cent.
A sort of premium would be granted to those
holders who should consent to this reduction ; the

four per cent. would be granted them at 95, reduce-
able at par.
Those holders who should not within a given time
submit to this reduction might be paid off either by
a loan or by any other mode, the time of which might
be determined by the law.
It is presumed, by the projectors of this law, that
few persons would be found who would not yield to
this arrangement, when a Kate investment of money
cannot take place at more than four or four and a half
per cent.
The advantages anticipated by the Minister of
Finance in this vast operation are :-
1. The gain of thirty millions annually on the re
duction of from 5 to 4 per cent.
2. The power of lowering forty millions, the sup-
ply of the Sinking Fund, which amounts now to
about eighty millions, entirely absorbed by the three
per Gents., since the law does not allow the redemp.
tion of the five per cents. beyond par.
3. To apply these forty millions of economy to
the necessary repairs of tke high roads, or to the
formation of canals.
4. To make use of the sum, arising from this re-
duction, to the diminution of the most onerous part
of the indirect taxes, so as to ease the cultivators of
vines, and every other equally suffering class.
Report says, that M. Roy is hastening to com-
plete this plan, so as to present it to the Chamber
this Session, and to put it into effect either totally
or partially within a fixed time.
FRENCH FUNDS. —Rentes Five per Cents. 107 f. 35c.
30c. ; Four and a half per Cents. 1011. 50c. ; Three per
Cents. 79f. 15c. 10c. ; Royal Bonds Three per Cent. ;
Bank Shares, 1860 f.
FOREIGN FUNDS.—Neapolitan Rentes, Cert. Fal. S6l.
SOc. 87c. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 83 sei ; Interminable
Spanish Annuities, 541 7 ; Haytian Loan, 495 f.

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