25 APRIL 1840, Page 9

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SATURDAY.

The Paris papers of Thursday are very bare of news. The Chamber of Deputies had decided that the holders of the Five per Cent. Stock should be paid off, or take Four-and-half per Cent. Stock at par : rejecting that portion of the bill which proposed to give them the op- tion of taking Three-and-a-half per Cent. Stock with an augmentation of capital.

It appears that although the provinces are generally tranquil. in some parts of France the people continue to assemble tumultuously to prevent wholeoale purchases of wheat ; and that although the last harvest was very productive. the continued dryness of the weather raises apprehen- sions for the crops of the present year.