The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-23 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.
(From the Etoile, dated Paris, April 21. )

PARIS, APRIL 20.—Thanks to the precaution
taken by the Authorities, yesterday evening saw
the termination of the popular moveroent which,
the day before yesterday, the Liberal faction had
encouraged (active) in some quarters of the capital.
The armed force was, however, obliged, in the
streets of St. Denis and Pollatins, to check s -me
stragglers of the faction, who wished again to force
the peaceable shopkeepers to illuminate their houses
spontaneously, and who, in consequence, made use
of the accustomed argument—throwing stones at
the houses of those who were backward, and at the
armed force ; but this disorder was of short duration.

HONOURABLE CONDUCT OF THE FRENCH YOUTH

—A multitude cf young men, of all conditions,
among whom were a number of students of law and
medicine, proceeded yesterday morning in the
greatest order, crying 'Vice le Rai! Vice la Liberte
de la Presse! to the residence of the Deputies who
have opposed the law now withdrawn. Some were
absent, MM. Rover Collard and Sebastiani were at
the Chamber. MM. Cassimir Perrier and Benja-
min Constunt being at home, acknowledged to these
fine y )uths the gratitude which they felt for their
honourable testimony; they exhorted them to che-
rish those generous sentiments which rendered them
the hope of France, and that respect for the laws
and public order which their conduct then displayed,
never to despair of the triumph of a cause which
the Royal wisdom had defended against the errors
of the .Ministry ; to look fur the triumph by legal
means of this cause, threatened in vain by a small
number of men destitute alike of power and intelli-
gence ; and they renewed their pledge to labour
Without intermission to merit the approbation of
their fellow-citizens, and to prepare, as far as lay in
their power, that future security, prosperity, and
constitutional liberty, which the French youth,
worthy of them by so many honourable titles, ought
to enjoy after such long and severe storms. The
young men afterwards went to General Lafayette,
to offer him the homage of their veneration, and
congratulate him on an occurrence useful to liberty.
(From the rtifonitelir of Friday.)

PARIS, APRIL 19.—0 n the evenings of the 17th
and 18th several persons were injured by the ex-
plosion of fire-works; a young woman was severely
wounded; a M. Martaux was wounded in the
shoulder, by some fire-arms loaded with large
shot, in several places; and especially in the street
of St. Denis violence was used towards persons who
had not illuminated, and the windows of their houses
broken; the armed force was insulted and struck.

The King's Attorney-General has ordered pro-
ceedings to be instituted against the authors of those
disorderly proceedings.
M. Desmortiers juge d'instruction, is to conduct
hia affair.

(From Galignani's Messe-nger of Friday.)
Yesterday a number of the pupils of the Schools
of Law and Medicine paraded the streets with flags,
and uttered cries of rive le Roi. Their intention
was to have presented themselves at the Tuilleries,
to c press, in the hearing of his Majesty, the public
joy on the recall of the Law of the Press ; but be-
ing prevented entering the garden, they collected un-
der the window of the Palace, towards the Pont
Royal, and reiterated their acclamations. They
then proceeded to the Rue de Tournon, and at the
moment when they were about to separate, a posse
of gendarmes care up, and pursued the pupils, who
took refuge in the houses, many windows of which
were broken by the violence of the shock. A spec-
tator received a sabre wound on the head, and seve-
ral persons were hurt by the capering of the horses.
(From the Constitutionntl.)
PARIS, APRIL 20.—What has passed around us
within a few days, is at once a curious display and a
great lesson. Will those Statesmen, who thought
themselves indispensable .for the management of
affairs, comprehend it ? We doubt it very much.
It appears as if they were blind to what strikes all
other eyes—at least they have the appearance of
seeing nothing or comprehending nothing. The
;Weaning of all this, however, is very dear, and it
sloes not require to be explained to any person except
7o those to whom it is addressed. What is most
astonishing, after the unpopularity of the present
Ministers, is, that the nation is forming to itself very
sinsible constitutional manners. It does not borrow
them—it does not go abroad to seek and imitate
them—they have their root in the character of the '
nation : they belong to the soil, but they take the
Impression of our new institutions, and adapt them-
„•yes to our present situation. We find, as the
four:lati°n' the characteristics of Old France ; that
France _so good, so easily governed, so ready to go
as the Gov: rnment wishes, so prompt to forget, or
pardon its fau:,..13. But we also find New France:
more enlightened, ,:ore fortunate, or more mixed up
with the general good--strong by the social state
ly the Revolution, and
which she has conquered
satisfied with that state ; favoura:_i'le to ii industry and
all undertakings, es to all merit ; final;;'; that France
which possesses fundamental institutions sd'?enThly
swore: to by two Kings, and which does not believe
that it is possible for any length of time, to
escape, alter, or violate the execution of them, but
which is convinced of the impossibility of govern-
ing otherwise than by the representative system.
With what tranquil joy the immense population
of this capital have shown their opinions. See how
they have triumphed with decency—with dignity—
and even good taste ; and how they have inflicted,
with mildness, the only punishment which Ministe-
rial responsibility has hitherto incurred. We must
not judge of this matter by the language of some
drunken people, any more than we must judge of
the Press by some libels. A small number of per-
sons, either hired o--not understanding liberty, for
they did not know how to respect it—is no evidence
against the mass of the citizens; but let us admire
the order which prevailed in the midst of this re-
markable outbursting of enthusiasm. In England,
-ander similar circumstances, the people amuse them-
in breaking the furniture of the Ministers, and
eernetimes in demolishing their houses. This is a
sort of revenge, which does not enter into the
thoughts even of a single Frenchman ; the people
go and si.:4 a couplet or two under the windows of
the man whom they like the least. The armed force is
ridiculously oppc;:ed to them, and there the matter
e ids. But in the rn,',ist of these populous streets
where the public sentiments show themselves in such
different manners, and sometimes so picasantly, the
gendarmes did not find the least disorder to repress.
This time the police did not provoke any. They
were able, with some exceptions, to walk about tran-
quilly in the midst of the crowd around them ; they
even took an interest in the brilliant and gay spectacle
which was before them ; for after all, the gendarmes
f ema a part of the population of Paris, and are al-
ways in contact with its sentiments and affections.
Who, then, will shut their eyes to the brilliant light
which the public opinion has just cast on obscure
calumniators ? Only Ministers as tenacious as those
who at present hold office, are capable of that.
STATISTICS.—One of the Journals states, from
the Almanaek Royale of 1827, that there are 175
Functionaries in the Chamber of Deputies, who are
-paid and removable at pleasure, and 162 not paid,
and not removable. This is remarkable enough, and
makes is acquainted with the reasons which were
opposed to the adoption of the proposition of M.
Boucher, and who caused its rejection. It must not
be forgotten, that upon the system avowed by M. de
Corbiere, at the Tribune, every functionary being a
Deputy, must vote for the Ministry, on pain of dis-
misret We believe that it wouldl;e cocaistent with
the Chamber to put an end to such a state of ti;ings,
which if it does not compronnas its independence,
makes it doubted which is the greatest misfortune
possible for an elective power.
NOMINATION OF M. ROYER. COLLARD TO THE
ACADEMIE FRANCAISE,—W e are happy to announce
the nomination of M. Royer Collard to the Academie
Francaise, as successor to M. La Race. This ho-
nourable defender of public liberty, who unites to
the virtues of the citizen the profound knowledge of

the philosopher, and the superior eloquence of a
Statesman, has been unanimously appointed; 26
Members, among whom was Count de Segur, hardly
resorted to health, were present. This choice is a
piece of news which will be agreeable to all the
friends of literature, and to ail those citizens who are
devoted to liberty. It is another protest against that
brutal vandalism which promised to annihilate the
press, and to stop the progress of the human mind. It
was the Academie which gave the signal of a noble
and courageous opposition to an unheard-of system
of barbarism ; and the appointment of M. Rover
Collard is a striking manifestation of public. opinion.

(From the Journal (1...3 Deb7ts of Friday.)
PARIS, APRIL 19.—The Project of the Law re-
lative to the Press is withdrawn. Let us acknow-
ledge, in this act of beneficence, a new gift from the
Royal hand, which relieved us from the Celsor-
ship, but let us not confound, in our gratitude, the
magnanimous act of the King with the involuntary
act which necessity Las forced from the Ministry.—
In the utter impossibility of explaining the with-
drawal of the law, except as a spontaneous effect of
the Royal will, one would in vain seek in it the com-
mencement of a new system. It is supposed that
the President of the Council, as the imitator of Mr.
Canning, will pass over to the interests of commerce
and freedom, and that he intends immediately to ac-
knowledge, on the part of France, the independence
of the Spanish Colonies; and that he has formed the
design of supporting and increasing our liberties ?
But then he must commence, like Mr. Canning, by
obliginz one half of his colleagues to retire : but
could he, after prosecuting oppressive laws, in 24
hours change to a system diametrically opposite ?
It is not by talking black and white in the same
week that confidence can be inspired : yesterday
against liberty, to-day for it. No! the Ministry is
worn out : worn threadbare : it has excited the opi-
nion of all France against it, by presenting laws as
badly conceived as inopportune : it has been deceived
particularly as to the Three per Cents., the indem-
nity of the Emigrants, the affair of St. Domingo, the
law concerning the Jury, which it was necessary to
re-mould it now attacks its own peculiar party, by
withdrawing the law respecting the Press. Let us
hope that the same hand which has delivered us
from the law will also deliver us from its inventors.
The spontaneous and general illuminations of yes-
tersay evening, the lively demonstrations of public
feeling constituted an important event which had
its causes and its effects. It is sufficient to say that
it contained a lesson to every one.
The Chamber of Appeals of Correctional Police
this day quashed the judgments of the 6th Chamber
condemning M. Barba, formerly a bookseller, and
M. Grandin, a bookseller in the Palais Royal, to
500 f. fine, for having lent their brevets to persons
not commissioned by the Government.
" LISBON, APRIL 4.—Dr. Abrantes arrived two
days ago from Rio de Janeiro, after a voyage of 50
days. He landed at four in the evening, and im-
mediately waited on the Princess, with whom he
had an interview, which lasted two hours. In the
evening the Council of State and the Ministers met,
respecting which meeting the following reports are
in circulation :

" In the first place, it is said that Dr. Abrantes
is the bearer of an Imperial Decree, whereby the
Chambers are constituted permanent, until certain
laws regulating the execution of the Charter, which
the Decree specifies, be promulgated.
" He has also brought with him a proclamation,
in which his Majesty declares that he will return to
Lisbon in June. These are the most important re-
ports, to which the arrival of Dr. Abrantes has given
birth. I can add to them, that yesterday the Doctor
told a friend of his, who is also my friend, that he
was very well pleased with this voyage, and that
the friends of the Charter—that the Portuguese
would soon have the full ; enjoy-moot of ito bon.oao,

" On the departure of Dr. Abrantes from Rio de
Janeiro, a ship of the line and two frigates had re-
ceived orders to take in provisions for three months.
This seems to give some corroboration to the report
of the Emperor's voyage.
(From the Constitutionnel.)
" MADRID, APRIL 9.—lt is reported that a fresh
attempt has been made by .500 Carlists against Tor-
tosa ; and the Bishop, the celebrated Don Michael
Saez, has disappeared.
" General .Sarsfield, on his part, has sent an ex-
press, announcing the discovery of a new plot for
the desertion of a regiment. The same express
brings the news of the army chests being completely
exhausted, and that it would be very dangerous
to leave the troops without pay for a fortnight. All
the money that could be collected has, therefore,
been sent off to Gen. Suffield ; but the monks,
finding that the Government does not make the army
pass into Portugal, have drawn in their purse-strings.
" A fact which anywhere else would be insignifi-
cant, strongly engages the public attention. The
King has determined that the Court shall spend the
holy week in Madrid, and invitations have been
gent to all the grandees who are absent from the
Court in consequence of political opinions, to take
part in the processions in which the King, Queen,
and all the Royal family, are to appear. Though
this invitation is not obligatory, it is still an affair of
consequence."
FRENCH FuNns.—Five per Cents. 100 f. 40c. ; 4 per
Cents. 92f. ; 3 per cents. 71f. 15e. ; Bank Stock, 2035 f.
Reittes 4e Naples, 77f. 90c. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 55k.