The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-27 00:00:00

' PXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING. JULY 27, 1850.

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OUTGOING MAILS
The smile kw British North Aunties and the United
States will be made up ea the ovestiug of August 2.
Tho West India Malls, Meddles( Bermuda. Havanna,
Kaman, Mn. duds, Now Orleans, and Matte°, and deluding
these ier Madeira, St. Juan-do-Niesragua. Now Granada,
Ch wad Peruorill bit Runtimes the morning of August 2.
The mails for hiadoria, the Brasil., and flumes Ayres, will
s• leakiest ea the dudes of August 4.
The malls MI Marseilles, to Ms Iledltsrranoan, Egypt,
0 )loe, ledie. Hens-Kong, ike., will be made ep ou the
*Teeing of August 7.
The mails lor Lisben. Spain, sad Gibraltar will be made
go on the morning of August 7.
Tie weal tor Gibraltar, Malta, Green, the lonian Islands,
Egypt, Ceylon, India, and China. win Southampton, will
be mad* ap on the amain( of August 20.

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LONDON, 84771.RD4Y, JULY 27.

IT is not our intention to follow the bid example
set yesterday by Sir Ron Isonis in the House of
Commons. It may be becoming in the representative
of Oxford to refuse to those opposed to him on the
question of the artmission of the Jew. to virliament
the courtesy which one gentlemen owes to ar other.
He may talk of " individuals" after the fashion of
Mrs. 81;palop —we leave him in full possession of that
field of elettant amenities. We admit that there is

enough of 'difficulty in the forma question raised by
Baron RerrusentLes claiming his seat to warrant
others in holding a different opinion from what we
do, and we treat them with the civility due to all who
may be presumed to be sincere and in earnest in the
views they profess.
The ground we take is this, that there is
no express law excluding Jews from parliament.
They are only kept out by the circumstance that of
the oaths exceed from a member previous to his
taking his seat one is couched in phraseology that it
would be makers- in a Jew to utter, and all are ac-
companied by a ceremony which no Jew can con-
sistently go through. Tt e terms of the one oath,
and the form of administering all, were not adopted
for the purpose of excluding Jews from parliament ;
that is only an accidental result of their peculiai Wes.
We maintain, therefore, that if the oath■ are so admi-
nistered as to render the substance of the things
sworn to b:nding on the conscience of him who swears,
V at is all that is required.
It is re quired by statute that all members of parlia-
meat shall previous to taking their seat mike certain
declarations upon oath. From that obiigation the
House of Cummins cannot relieve them without the

consent and co operation of the other branches of the
legislature. But the very circumstance that it is im-
perative upon the House of Commons to exact these
solemn declarations from its member., renders it alto
imperative upon it to exact them in such a form and
with such solemnities as shall afford the best guaran-
tee for the sincerity se.d good faith of tLe parties
making them. On this ground we hold .het it is
not only the right but the duty of the Hattie of Com-
mons on occasions so to modify the acoestsries, the
non-essential., the mere forms of the ours, as to
render them as stringent and obligatory as possible.
The House of C 'Damon. owes it to t e other
branches of the Legislature to bind their mem-
bers by :the most solemn obligations on the heads
of allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration. But
they are not bound to administer those oaths in
a way that lull render them a mockery. Baron
ROTHSCHILD tors not believe that the scrip-
tures of the New Testament are of divine inspiration,
but he believes that the scriptures of the Old Testa-
ment are. To give greeter solemnity to their oaths,
English Christians have been in the habit of taking
their oaths upon the scriptures ; Baron Rome-
Map, to give greater solemnity to lire, requires
to take them upon those scriptures which are the
exc:usive objects of his belief. He offers, if possible,
a be-ter guarantee in his own individual case than the
customary form could be 'apposed to genre!. Again.
one of the owlis contains the words, "upon
. the tsith
of • Christian;" Baron Roritscitimi Justly thinks
that this phrase in his mouth would derogate from
the grave decorum due to the occasion—would pre-
sent the appearance of trifling with La solemn a cere-
mony ; he therefore requests to be allotted to omit
it. All that the House of Commons is asked to
once& to Baron ROTHSCHILD and his fellow-wligi,
octets would, if granted, only teed to make their
oaths more solemn, more certain to be observed—
would only tend to afford better guarantees for the
faithfulness of the promises which the three branches
of the legislature concur in exacting from members
of the Howe of Commons. In the eye of common
sense the House of Commons is fully warranted to
make the motifications required.
Not only is this the view of common sense : it is
the view upon which the House of Commons has
acted on an analogous Genesi n. We pies over the
case of Mr. O'Coresigu, as not in point. In that case

the express terms of a statute, enacted for that very
purpose, forbade the House of Commons to take the
oaths from Mr. O'CoNsatt. in the form in which he
offered to take them. But in the case of Mr. PEASE
the Mu.. of Commons not merely asserted its autho-
rity to modify the phraseology of the oath so as to
suit the circumstances, but absolutely dispensed with
the oath altogether, and eubstituted a mere affirmation
in its stead. The House of Commons knew that Mr.
Pa seta affirmation was as good a gnaran'ee of his
sincerity in making the required declarations as the
oath of another man, and therefore they accepted it.
The House of Crimm-ns knows that the oaths taken
by Baron ROTHSCHILD in the form he proposes will
be as binding upon him as oaths taken by his fellow
members of the Christian faith in their way are upon
them; and it may by precedent, as well as in confor-
mity with the dictates of equity, allow him what he
asks—a less latitude than was conceded to Mr. PEASE.
A majority of the House of Commons has declared
that the Jews ought to be admitted to parliament.
The Jews are excluded from parliament by a mere
form—a mere accident. The Quakers were similarly
excluded, but the obstacle was removed by the single-
handed act of the House of Common., without ask-
ing the aid of the other branches of the legislature.
The Crown and the Lords acquiesced in this act of the
Commons, thereby acknowledging it to be perfectly
constitutional. The House of Commons, therefore,
owes it not only to itself, but to its constituents,
carefully to guard this its acknowledged privilege.
If it refuses to comply with the request of Baron
ROTHSCHILD it will shrink from the exercise of a
privilege established in the case of Mr. PEASE. Bat
we hope better things of ►t.

The landlord party in parliament have accom-
plished another piece of unmitigated mischief. They
have prevented the passing this session of Sir JOHN
ROXILLY'S Securities for Advances Bill. The practi-
cal consequences of this proceeding are as worthy of
note as the deliberate purpose with which it has been
effected is characteristic.
About three months ago the bill in question was
first brought under the consideration of the House of
Commas.. Its avowed object was to meet the
great difficulty and grave danger which had
always been foreseen in the working of the
Encumbered Estates Act. The best friends of that
experimental measure, felt from the outset apprehen-
sive lest a sudden relaxation of the bonds by which
landed property had been for generations held in
hereditary monopo!y, might produce a glut in an
already depressed market, and lest a great depre-
ciation of the selling value of estates, thus artifi-
cially caused, might occasion total and irredeemable
less to the numerous class of creditors, whom the
sums realised would not be sufficient to pay. The
new court of sales had hardly commenced its opera-
tions before this danger manifested itself, in a miti-
gated form, but with an obvious tendency to rapid
and widespread aggravation. All things considered,
we are not disposed to say that the average
prices obtained by the commissioners fell far below
the worth of the properties sold. But instances of
great sacrifices are undeniable; and what is of much
more moment, these instances have daily grown more
numerous and striking. If supply has a tendency to
a certain extent to create a demand, it is no lees clear
that in the face of an appirentl; illimitable supply,
competition will gradually subside, and the demand
lose all its enterprise and buoyancy. So long, in-
deed, as the delusion lasted, of vast investments about
to be made by English capitalists in Connaught and.
' Munster, there was room for doubt; and there wire
not wanting those who eagerly clung to
that preposterous phantasy, and who zrAtiously
strove to cosecs( the ridiculous failure of thir

nations, by mitera'ed assurances that the fertilising
overflow of Bases gold in a westerly direction wee
only adjourned for a time.
But the plain matter of fact becoming soon palpa-
ble, the authrui of the Encumbered Bastes Act
of last year wisely set about the task of endea•ouring
to provide some efficient method of alleviating the
pressure of sales beyond available capital. If the
um of money belongtog to those who, from various
masons, had no mind to adventure in the risk, and
labours of Irish landed property, but who were
anxious to find facilities for profitable and
terminable investment,—if this could be ob-
tained even to some extent, prices for the present
would so far be sustained, ann innocent thousands
would not have their little all placed in jeopardy. It
was a humane and politic design. But it has been
defeated. For the present session at least there is no
hope of its completion. Estates may remain for
another year ante, receivers, waiting to be sold; or if
sold in an exhausted market the paten* creditor, may
lose all they possess on earth. What matter P Fac-
tion has had its triumph ; the bigoted opponents of
fafdtse have succeeded in thwarting the Advances
uring the present session ; and confessedly with
the view of preventing the Act of 1849 working
harmlessly, the supplemental measure of 1850 has
been arresti.d in its passage towards becoming the
law of the land.
The banner of obstruction has in this instance been
borne by Mr. JOHN STUART. Aided by some of his
usual folios ere, ho had contrived soon alter the intro-
duction of the bill, to get up such a show of opposi-
two to its progress through committee, that ministers
hesitated to press it forward during the months of
May and June, influenced by the hope, perhaps, that
more sane views might penetrate even protectionist
skulls, or that wiser clause-Is might arise in thelandlord
camp. But as no lucid interval was observable, and
no change of purpose appeared, the an-hors of the
project reluctantly surrendered it to the tate
reserved fur other immature " hopefuls ;" and when
the Slaughter of the Innocents took place the Sorority
for Advances bill was found amongst the slain. Where-
upon a cry of consternation rose from the other side
of the chancel. Vendors and purchasers, clients, and
solicitors, inheritors and creditors, unanimcusly joined
in bewailing the event ; and when a doubt was mug-
Rested whether life was wholly extinct, or whether
animation might not be still restored to the collapsed
frame, an earnest request was made to the Premier,
that he would put forth all the resources of his
potent art ; and once more endeavour to cum_
plete an act so full of benefit and blessing to
the sister kingdom. To do him justice, Lord
JOHN RUSSELL met the application cordially and
frenkly. He agreed to waive all points of form and
precedent. He told the Irish members who waited
on him to request the re-introduction of the bill, that
though such a course had seldom if ever been taken
before, he would nut under the circumstances shrink
from adopting it, provided sly reasonable expectation
could be entertained that all factious opposition
would be withdrawn. But no power of reason or
remonstrance could avail aught with Mr. &ruttier and
his associates. To all entreaties and all arguments they
continued obdurate. No promise could be extracted
from them that any ordinary opportuni y of fair de-
bate on the principle of the measure would content
them Frustration and faction is bound up in the
heart of genuine toryism, and nothing but that poli-
tical correction which we fear tl.e present whigs
have not the courage to administer will ever drive it
forth.

.;._
For four long years Ireland has been virtually
sacrificed to the party of whom Mr. STUART and
Lord STANLEY are the willir.g champiens in their
respective spheres. Timidly fearful of exasperating
the enmity of men like these, the present ministers
have suppressed their own convict inns of what justice
to Ireland required—allowed the church question to
sleep, sod the popular conetituetc'es alaost
to die out. Nay at this very hour they
are tampering with the most solemn pledges
they ever gave u • party when bidding
for power, on the subject of most vital importance to
the great body of the people of that country—the
tenure and occupation of land. While nothing is
done, or is likely to bs done, towards effecting the re.
dress of any one of the religious or political grievances
of the nation, and while permis,ion to pass a merciful
and wholesome measure of an economic kind has, as we
have shown, been contemptuously refused by the
landlord party,—is it not itconcelvable infatuation in
a whig government to lend their help and aid to that
very parry to carry new me atones f agrarian coercion
and exaction ? The swarm of anti-tenant bills hatched
in the House of Lords, and which have recently ap-
peared in the Commons, is an ominous sign of what is
at trend. There was a time when this pestilent brood
would have been summarily bruehed away from the
table of what is called the P. ople's house by the hand
of a courageous minister. We have said before, and
we say gain, we believe the heart of the Premier has
in it abundant sympathy for popular suffering and
courage to grapple with the enemy of popular right.
But his bands are held, and his good intent remains
abortive. How long shall these things be?

THERE is, it seems, quite a squabble between the
Queen's government ai.d the directors of the East
India Company, on tie subject of steam communica-
tion with the Australian colonies, the importance of
which every one admits. The CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER plain!y charges the directors with pre-
venting the establishment of such communication in
order to keep up a costly marine of their own; and
Sir JOHN Hotta, their deputy-chairman, warmly re-
taliates that the Treasury was prepared and desirous
of jobbing at the serious cost of the public the
whole question of eastern steam navigation in favour
of the Peninsular and Oriental Company. These are
grave accusations, made by grave personages. They
cannot rest whefe they now do; further investigation
is indispensable. So the sooner the whole dispute is
examined into, the better for the public ; and the few
remaining weeks of the see,ion could not be more
usefully employed. To let the matter tide over to
next session is, in all probability, to ensure some
compromise that will be hurtful to the country.
Steam navigation with the Australian colonies can,
it is obvious, be most readily and cheaply carried on
by an extension of cur Indian steam navigation. At
present that navigation is made up of two services—
ihe Bombay service, which belongs to the East India
Company itself; and the Calcutta service, which is
contracted for by the Imperial and the Indian Govern-
ments conjointly with the Peninsular and Oriental
Company. The whole tendency of modern experi-
ence is against a government, and in favour of a con-
tract service; in point of fact, the Bombay service
is the only great line of our steam communication in
the hands of • government ; and some notions of the
system on which it is conducted may be gathered
from Sir JOHN HOGG% statement that it cannot be
terminated except at a cost to the Indian government,
that is, to the cultivators of India, of 83,0001. a year
for superannuation and retired allowances! A state-
ment strongly confirmatory of the exclamation as to the
ludian service—" It's the best in the world, boys ! "
But, says Sir JOHN HOGG, there are political
reasons why the Bombay service should be govern-
mental : the India Company would, he lets out, have
opposed steam navigation unless that route were
in their hands. They made it, he adds, a con-
dition precedent to its establishment, that they
should have it: ergo, he concludes, to supersede
them is a breach of faith. What these political
reasons were, the Deputy Chairman keeps, however,
to himself. Whether they were connected with the
military command of the Red Sea, or were merely an
excuse to keep up a marine force, does not appear.
If the former, however valid they might have been
fifteen years ago, such reasons are worthless now that
the Red Sea has, in point of fact, become a British
navigation ; when all fears for the safety
of Aden have away, and when the
policy of both the Red Sva and the Persian
Gulf has become imperial, is governed by
imperial considerations and will be protected, when
necessary, at the imperial cost. It the latter, Sir
JOHN Ilixio forgets that the maintenance of the pre-
sent
Indian marine has been condemned, not only by
the highest authoritjge unconteeted with India, but
by a commission appointed by the Indian govern-
ment to investigate the subject. Such reasoning is, 1,
therefore,, mere official twaddle: the people of India
are net to pay for a costly steam service because three
or four old quidnunc., some twenty years ago per-
'traded themselves there wire political remain for
...enacting it unnecessarily expensive.
Sir Jonllocto—skilful tactician—felt, however,
the weakness of this reasoning ; and whilst insisting
that the people of India should, on political grounds to
be kept secret, pay inordinately for a Bombay steam-
service, he advocated its continuance for

some time longer, as a means of cheap-
ening the rate of communication and
conveyance between Europe and India.
The But India Company have, then, it would seem,
no sorapks of conscience in making their Indian sub-
jects pay largely for a Bombay line in their own
hands; bat they are quite shocked at the notion of
Europeans paying high fares in tee Calcutta line in a
private company's hands; and they insist on keeping
up their costly Bombay line to break down the profits
of the Peninsular and Oriented Company's Calcutta
line. "We give our servant-," says Sir Jonn HOOO,
"the best salaries and the highest retired allowances
in the world; we are the must liberal of masters.
But we cannot think of this company paying a divi-
dend equal to our own : it is mocstrou. and Intolera-
ble." In all this there is a churlish hypocrisy for
which we should be sorry to think the responsibility
extended further than the present deputy chairman
of the East India Directors. Such boasted liberality
and generosity to their servants contrasts unpleasantly
with their economy and stinginess to the Peninsular
Cbmpany.
No doubt that that company has bad a most pro-
fitable take of the Calcutta line; to doubt its fares are
high (!he Nepaulese mission paid, it is stated, 6,0001.
for their passage); no doubt in 18.52 the terms it now
ham must bs revised. But considering the advantage
that company has rendered' to India; considering
how great a risk the speculation originally war, con-
sidering how liberally its service is conducted, com-
plaints against it come with • very ill grace from the
India blouse. They might well have been spared in
the face of the offer the company has made, to con-
duct and carry on steam navigation with Australia,
and by its means to belt the whole eastern seas with
steam communication. At present the Bombay
service, Sir CDARLEB WOOD says, coats India and
England in squat portions, on nu average, 110,0001.
a year. Now, the offer of the Peninsular and
Oriental Company was for 6,0001. a year lees than
that sum—for 106,0001.—t0 do not only the Bombay
service, but from B ,mbay to carry a steam service on
to Singapore, and from Singapore to branch off two
lines—one to Hong Kong, the other to embrace all
the Australian colonies; and carrying a line of
parkas from Calcutta to Singapore, so to istablish a
direct steam communication between England and
Calcutta, Bombay, the Eastern Archipelago, China,
and Australia. This offer was deemed by the trea-
sury so advantageous that it was at once accepted in
Whitehall ; but, on being sent on to Leadenhall-
street, it was rejected because of political reason., on
the one hand, and a new-born zeal for economy on
the other.

Sir JOHN Horn was very indignant because Sir
CHARLES WOOD tol3 a plain matter of fact story how
the India Company had selfishly interposed between
these advantag, a. But the house listened coldly to
his warm re clamations ; n.t a speaker but deplored
the course the Irdian authorities had taken ; not a
suggestion in defence of the India Company was
made. In truth none can be uttered : their conduct
in this matter is altogether indefensible; even Sir
Joint HODIIOUSE had not a word to say for them.
Every one felt that the liberality was with the
Peninsular Company ; that obstruction to a great
public benefit was the policy of the East India
Compn.
It is,
however, impossible for a moment to suppose
that tte views of the East India directors in this
matter can prevail. And if the matter were referred
to half a dozen practical men on a committee of the
House of Commons, the whole affair would, we are
confident, be arranged in as many hours.

FRANCE.

PARIS. FRIDAY ETZNINO,

An incident of much significance has marked the
first sitting of the council of arrondissement of Cha-
teauroux. On the motion of M. Adon, member for
the canton of Chatillon, the council has expressed the
wish that in the interest of the conellidation of the
executive power, the constitution should be revised in
the third year r.f the legislature. Two members of
the council, MM. Piltareau-Francceur and Desmous-
' :Rau, protested, and gave in their resignations.
sterday the Minister of the Interior was called
on by the committee of initiative to give his opinion
upon the proposition of M. Leverrier for purging tke
department where the Assembly hol 'a its sittings, of
vagabonds and persons without ostensible means of
subsistence. M. Barcche having declared his belief
that such a measure would be inopportune at a mo-
ment when the stAte of the capital was so satisfactory
as far as public tranquillity was collet rned, the com-
mittee decided by nine votes against Fix not to take
the proposition into consideration. The report by M.
Grimault wili be presented to-day.
The motion cf the mountain for repealing the elec-
toral law of May 31, and returning to that of March,
1849, has been referred to the committee of initiative.
The ultra legitimitists disapprove the motion of
the mountain for the repeal of the electoral law, as
too radical. M. de Tinquy, a palates of the right,
had presented a motion for instituting an icquiry into
the result of tte new law during the prorogation,
bat has withdrawn it to bring forward the subject
later with more general consent from his party.
The agitation produced yesterday by the article of
the Moniteur du Soir continued to be visible in the
groups of the couloirs to-day, and much vehemence
was manifested in the couversatiou of a variety of
members, who thought that the time was come for
taking some decisive step for checking the repetition
of these scandalous attacks upon the legislative body.
At length, after the budget of public works had been
voted, M. Dupont de Bussac read the two articles of
the Montleur of last night and the night before, and
demanded the institution of a parliamentary inquiry
for the purpose of reaching not only the journalist,
but the real offender. The president of the Assem-
bly said that propositions of this nature ought to be
seat to the bureaux, and that he could only consult the
house upon a citation to the bar of the Assembly.
M. Jules Fevre interpellated the ministry, which he
censured vehemently for its apathy in presence of the
attacks to which it was incessantly subjected through
the organ of journals of which it authorised the sale.
To keep silence longer would be treason. M. Ba-
roche, Minister of the Interior, repelled the insinua-
tions directed against the government. He said
the ASH mbly might do what it deemed suitable to
its dignity in what concerned the Illotaiteur du Soir ;
but the government was not prepared at present to
withdraw the authorization for sale of the journal
complained of. M. Bsze, questor of the Assembly, ex-
pressed himself in terms of much indignation at this
declaration of the minister, and demanded that under

circumstances of so much gravity, when the parlia-
mentary powtr was menaced in its rights, the As-
sembly should retire to its bureaux and appoint a
committee to make a report Ounce townie. (Pro-
longed movemen..) M. Baroche protested energe-
tically against the idea of the government patronising
any Journal, and against the notion of any coup Vint
being meditated. After a fresh assault on the
government from M. Bsze, and further explanations
from M. Baroche, the Assembly voted that it would
pass to the order of the day. Lamoriciere, many of
the tiemparli, and the Icons Druite, or ultra-legiti-
mists, voted against the order of the day.
In the sitting of today the Assembly discussed the
budget of public works. M. Triehon demanded an
augmentation of 600,000 fr. for the railway from
Chateauroux to Limoges. This amendment was
opposed by MM. Berryer and Fould, and rejected. ,
An augmentation for the line from Clermont to the
Bee d'Allier was also rejected. Thirdly, the proposi-
tion to allow 3 millions for the Western Railway was
thrown out. In each case the figure proposed by the
committee was allowed.
Yesterday General Changarnier repaired to the
Elyeee, to represent to the President the agitation and
shatter impression which had been produced on the
minds of the representative by the hostile defiance to
the Assembly expressed in the Muniteur du Soir, an
official organ of the government.
I have already mentioned that the sole prerogative
of the Committee of Permanence r‘ aches, according
to the 32nd article of the constitution, to convoking
the Assembly in ease of urgency. This definition of
its powers has been deemed by many representatives
too vague, for great differences of opinion may arise
as to what would constitute a case of urgency. Ex-
ternal war, insurrection at home, grave disorders in
Ithe departments, are not the only events which might
leu:jisiflyatureth.e Teohismrett7of
tiwnewealrlvniteistiongetheart the
l
composed of men who regard with such a lynx-
eyed jealousy the movemeuts of the executive, that
the least overstepping by the President of hie consti-
tutional prerogative, even in a formality, would give
rise to conflict, of the most serious deseription. The

formation of the campomptaustianVlviertrzesaarrreitlolkesitselo2rrbioeanrireglgrbenakantteedowtheeanoen:
eillextvanpolnoegasioon.rfathier3ranhe:peesthrtie
serious motive for apprehension ; for, if the should
lead to the dismiss il of the former, which is far from
impossible, the main guarantee for the supremacy of
the power now dominant, which is the party of
Thies and Montalembert. would be completely
broken. The committee will hold its sittings once a
week during the prorogation.
A letter trom Cassel (Nord) states that on Monday
last two Englishmen, accompanied by their second;
arrived from Calais at Waton, and there fought a duel
with pistols. One received a ball in the right
shoulder, the ball coming out behind. His adversary
at once at off for Calais As soon as the wound had
been drested, tbe other principal and the two seconds
followed by the same route.
The Conseil General of the Ponts•et-Chaussees has
just approved of the plan of execution of the part of
the railway from Paris to Strasbourg comprised be-
tween Varanreville and Lemont (Meorthe), to an ex-
tent of 11,350 metres. The execution of this portion
of the line will complete the section between Nancy
and Leineville, the other parts of which ore in a very
advanced state.

A trial of some interest his occurred at Brest.
Three of a crew of 18 ir grnes 6..1,e been sentenced to
death for mutiny and murder of the captain of the
brie Adele.
The metallic reserve of the Bank of France has de-
clined about 100,000;r. in Paris, and increased nearly
24 millions in the country. Tne discount accommo-
dation shows an augmentation of 1 million in Paris,
and about three.qartcrs of a million in the branch
banks, the amount of the former being 50,891,476 fr.,
and of the latter 75,800,0401 r. The protested bills
are about 23,000 fr. leas in Paris, and about 40,000 fr.
more in the provinces; the amount r f the former
being 301,141 fr., and of the latter 1,390,883 fr. On
the side of the liabilities, the notes in circulation have
increased in Paris about 2 millions, end in the country
about a quarter of a million. Ths account-current of
the Treasury has advanced about 71 millions, the
present amount being 55,070,137 fr. Private accounts-
current in Paris have fallen cif about 4 millions, and
in the departments have iccreaeed about 1 million;
the amount of the former being 66,394489 fr., and of
the latter 23,818,976 fr. The wi.cle amount of the
metallic reserve is now 4504 millions to 516 millions
of notes in circulation.