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PARIS PAPERS.

The audience of the PetsiiinArnbalosador has
not taken place in consequence of some successive
difficultieg in matters of etiquette. It is thought
that these difficulties will be overcome.
The approaching publication is announced of a
new Concordat with the Pope. whereby the bases
of our previous negotiations with his HoLiners will
he modified.

CHAMBER OF PEERS, MAocit 20.
The Chamber met at three o'clock, (or the pur-
pose of hearing the Report of the Committee on
the Sinking Fund. Three new Peers took their
Rratr—the Duke dr llouchy, in place of Ilia father,
the late Prince de Poi% ; and the Counts Moines-
quints and De 14 Vilie-Gunthier, two of the Peers
named iii the Ordinance of the sth of this month.
Three other Peers named in the same Ordinance,
the Marquis ll'Arragon, Baron Dubretoo, and
Count Maurice Mathieu, presented their titles,
which were verifiaii by the Special Conimissiini. It
was ordered that they should lake their seats in the
next Sitting.—Adjourned to Tuesday.

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, MAIM,' 20.
M. Roy reported from the Committee of the
Sinking Fund, which he stated to amount et pie-
sent to ten millions of francs a-year.
Baron Louis, the Minister of Finance. then
dressed the Chamber. We have apprised you, lie
said. that the State rsgaires 889,410,000 francs, for
the service of the year 1819; and we have announ-
ced that it was possible to inert this um without
adding to the existing taxes. ‘Ve come now to de-
monstrate our assertion. After passing sotue COW..
Aliments on the firmness and loyalty of the people
of France, whose resources were unshaken, he pro-
ceeded to enumerate the produce of the several
taxes, its.
Francs.

The direct contributions he expected world
produce
The administration of the Denuders, the Re-
gistry, and Stamp ditties
The Forests
The Customs 113,013,000
The indirect contributions inclin:ing the pro-
duce from the sale of Tobacco

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The Post duties 2!,460,000
The Lottery (more necessary fur its r minor
than desirable in its nature) 12,500 nor;
Sall 5,296,500
iteessining in the Treasury
Reduction from Peasiuua and Salaries .

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After some further observations and details of
minor import, the Minister proposed a project of a
law fur carrying his statement into effect.
The Chamber then resolved itself into a Secret
Committee, to deliberate oil the resolutiou of the
Chamber of Peers relative to the Elections.
M. Martin de Gray, the first speaker inscribed,
in en energetic speech, opposed the Resolution.
The vague terms of it, he said, were only a veil to
culpable intentions: it was a dangerous whinge-
ment upon the representative system : the
ton of the Charter was preferable. It was au insult
to two-fifths of the Chamber, elected by virtue of
the law. In support of the injudicious teudency of
the proposition, lie called the attention of the
Chamber to the numerous petitions with which
they were assailed. " Observe," said lie, iii conclu-
sion, " that public confidence is shaken, thousands
of electors are bonneted with indignant feelings,
as are also the inferior classes, who look to them
for support. May I never Within* the troubles to
which tins inconceivable atteaapt may leuil t''
M. De Bourdonnaye deprecated the conclusions
of the Count Besignut, and spoke in favour of
the Resolution. He said the Commission had Ar-
cided, without discussing the proposition, snider the
influence of views foreign to the question. A ma.
jority of the Peers had decided upon the neces►ity
of useful changes in the elective system, and this
was a strong presumption in reply to the raucorous
epithets which had been lavished upon the proposed
amelioration. He could prove, that the present
Law of Elections was vague and arbitrary in its
tenor, and that it enabled the King's Ministers to
exercise an influence in that Chamber hostile to
public liberty ; and in support of digs assertion he
referred to the abuse of fraudulent patents, and
affirmed, that by payments of 25 francs, ►ndividual■
were eligible to exercise the rights of an elector;
by which means legitimate electors were deprived
of their rights, inasmuch as only a tenth of the lat-
ter presented themselves at the. Electoral Colleges,
and consequeutly the patentees were masters of die
elections.

M. 8010 defended the Law of Elections is; the

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principal points which had lirtn made piilikets of
attack, mid dilated upon the ill-judge.: rt forms
which were attempted. itisi,ting upon tilt. einigrr
of a division of the Electoral Col-lege% Le said, that
►t would he condemning them to &lA.
M. de Villele next succeeded to the tiihune : he

declared. that he wished to appeal to the reitsqlt,
not to the pau•iorts of the Chamber. Ur would re.
ject all discussion foreign to the stilij-ci. Ile
-complained, that the :first article of the Low of
Elections was dangerous in its prisiciple ; inas-
much as it removed real, and admitted tic titious
electors ; it permitted, by patents, the porrhoge
or the right of voting, which the Charter bsd re•
served to lauded proprietors; to judge of the those
of this system, he referred them to the list; they
would there see the validity of the rights of the
electors inscribed. After stating, Out the system of
ceittrelisation by Electoral Colleges w►s inciner.
Meld, and precluded the attendance of numerous
electors, that Prefects had too much ll.euestet iu

LONDON,
THURSDAY. MARCH 25, 1119.

Paris Papers of Sunday last have arrived at our
Ofr.ce. The prnceedings which took place oil Sa-
turday in the Legislative Chambers eruhrace matter
of much interest, both financial and constitutional.
The Committee of the Sniffing Fund communi-
cated their Report III) the subject to both Chsin.
berm, :mil *Warded a strung proof, if any were re-
quired, that the resources of France, if wisely ad-
ministered, tire fully equal to disburden her in e

short period of all her peseta encumbrances. The
foods applicable to the redemption of her debt ate
stated at ten millions of renter, and bear such a
proportion to its amount, as to hold out a certaits
assurance of its rapid liquidation.
Oir the rouclusion of the Report on the Sinking
Food, Baron Louts, the Minister of Finance,
rocended the tribrne, and gave a detailed reposi-
tion of the Ways and Newts necessary to meet the
exigencies of the present year. Tete estimates of
expeosea, as stated in his recent exposition, aintsusit-
ed to 889,210,000 Ganes, or something more data
37,000,0001.—m0d this sum, although farexceeding
the estimate of the preceding year, the Nliiiister id
enabled to raise without a loan, or any increase of
the existing taxes. A detailed accnuor of the
respective produce of each tax will be found in oar
extracts ftun► these Papers.

We have often had occasion to remark on the
unshaken solidity of the resources of France, and
on the excellence of the system by which Ii
finances appear to be administered—not, surely,
with the idle view of contrasting either with the
financial state of this' country, but with the hope of
drawing such public attention to our own resources.
and our system of management, as gamy induce *41.-
sire to husbaud the one, and correct, by a fair compa-
rison with the practice .of our immediate rival, what
may be found er emu in the other. The pre•ert
suument, while this cutintry is yet in suspense *on
regard to her linatices, is pro Kips the most fiemie-
able that could be selected for pressing thelec vf wts
more immediately upon the attention of liar
The uggreKate sum required to be raised by tl e
French Government within the year. amounts, Ns
we have already stated, to something more ttnio
37 unlhens sterling—that which is required by tfr
Briti,li Governmetit, wi,ll probably amount t
nearly ISO millions. The proportion applicalik u.
France to the payment of interest and liquidato...
of the debt, is one-third, while in Great iliits,o
isis ni>t less Ilion twoethirds, h the same isrupo.
lion IS the application of the money in Frinicr
injurious to the public interests than it as in Eog-
bold ; but there is alsn this vast difference betweeti
the two countries, that the action of the
Fund in Fniuce is a Lana fide operation,
must, year slier year, conduce to the iebef of the
country, while in Geat Britain the Siiikiiig Fund
to a inere illusion,
.having no other ettict thou to