The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-29 00:00:00

TALLOW TRADE IN IARIS,

An important case relative to .a (menopelt, of the
tallow trade in P'ai'd} Cte§cri.bed iii tbitie 8l tlid
French papers. The defendant, Itiom, a dealer iri
tallow, was titecl before the Cbliiictiiitial
three bitteheia, ilailil@cl Purget, ana Dak-
delle. In the course of the year 1836, according to
the plaintiffs' case, M. Riom entered into a contract
with the Parisian butchers,' for the purchase of tal-
low, and the contract was executed in. ári irrepreacht
able manner for several years: After watris M. it i oth ,
on the plea that he had incurred great loiss, Com-
plained of the contract, and asked for certain indem;
nities, which were refused by the parties: The report
then spread abroad that M: Morn had agreed with the
tallow-melters of Plugs:, teSerVing to himself the
monopoly of the artiCle of talhOW; of ,t 4 trade in
which he had alr'ead,ir tkV6-thirds. domes
plaint§ Watt titAt to the butchers on the part of the
consumers of tallow, who; from the seAreity cf
raw material exposed to sale *brb tO make
their purchases. The btiteheri,*fote ,tti, the brokers
to obtain an explahatiOni, and; en their autlidrity
s 1 A
posted tip bills that the eidotatiBris for tallow
were not correct. Being at last Convinced that M.
Riom had deceived them, they instituted ooCeedings
against him. He admitted the exi.qlie'e df the
tract, but c-ontendM triat 'it'COoraing to its terms he
was Mita tti tarnish weekly a large quantity of tal.•
lOW, and as out of 500 butchers in Paris only 42 had
signed it, he was always forced to buy tallow.wherever
he could procure it, and thus bane inierat ii iqiiirc
or depressing the Market: bilk*-gialinlers
complained that he haaidlik h.s taiiow too dear; while
as to the charge et exposing but a small quantity of
tallow fir sale, he said that he was at pOrfeFt ,liberty
to expose what quantity.h'e,pleiteth The judgment
of the Court Riom was, that as, having
beeeinkt tht principal holder, he had agreed with the
ether melters that they should only buy thrpUgh him 3
so that there was in fact but 'Ott-, ''tie. Setter in the
market ; as he had toittpellecl the Chandlers to IAV 13,f.
tile
at r
a price above that 'of the bOurse, or find Article re-
ttoti eit ataeldl
fused altogether under an okarbitatit ;as he,
be
another6f'
th
priceir rIZ
s rite t,
as, harthe h nadly thus sold small
quantities on the 6WD-se by weans of his, brokers', the
rest illg
beinghus soldruler
fictitious prices, he should p# of 6,000 f, and
he imprisoned for four ititnths, besides ' •
paying heavy
damages to the there plaintiffs:

Anis.—R is said that there has ilitA been for many
years past so few English residents in Paris as during
the present summer. The hotel-keepers complain bit-
terly of the absence of their best customers, and
many of the shopkeepers have no cause for rejoicing.
The improved facilities for travelling on the continent
cause tourists to explore Germany and the Rhine in
preference to France, and the " war fever" caused by
M. Thiers has not yet subsided sufficiently to induce
the English to make Paris their abode as of old. The
absence of our countrymen is, however, in some de-
gree supplied by the Russians, of whom there are
great numbers in the French capital. They are notl
however, very popular with the Parisians, their habits
and customs being so widely different to those of our
gay neighbours, •