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the snlYlerers by the inundadon of the Valley of
Bailie. amounts to 29,891 Swiss frolics, exclusive
4,000 francs previously granted by the Govern-
Men, of Berne to the unfortuinit- inhabitants of
that Valley : 30,000 francs have been contributed
by the Canton of Zurich.
kis.Ootinance has been published in the Canton
of Neufchatel, respecting hawkers and Jews,
After several preliminary observations on the in-
jury done to the subjects of the Cantor,. by the
interference of these people. the Ordinance forbids
all hawking from house to house, except on market
days. mot in places where market is held, with
She eseeption of some articles necessary fur rgri-
. Vulture and domestic use, which are not to be
purchased iu the shops. Itinerant tinkers. kiitre-
grinders, basket-makers, cobblers, and the like,
are not considered as hawkers. Conformably to
this ancient Ordinance. no Jew is permitted to
settle in the city. Those who are furnished
with good passports may travel through it, but
isikhout making any stay in it :.but with respect
to the Jews actually established here, they shall
• leave this state before the lst day of May neat.
Every Jew or foreign hawker who transgresses this
Ordinance shall be arrested, delivered over to the
police. condemned to pay the expenses caused by
bis arrest. and escorted beyond the frontiers. with
a prohibition never to return to tins btiair under
pain of severe punishment.—(./run (iazene, Au-
'ember se.)

PARIS PAPERS.

PARIS. DECEMBER 8.
We read in the Joanna of the Upper Rhine,
that " All the town of Mulbatmen bus reissued
these words of the Duke of Angouleine's reply to
the speech of the President of the Cosiiisitory
:
• The King, like Henry IV. desires a complete li-
beeky of couscience.. the free exercise of every kind
of worship. This priticiple 1 bold with all the
Princes or the Royal Fanny':..
Accordirtg to some papers which have been found
on the era-shore, it is understood that the ship
Which perished, with the crew and freight, on the
• 15th of November hurt, on the west of the Bay of '
Dairies,- was the English brig Betsy. of Lotieloil,
C•iplairi John Richards. of 186 tuns. She -had
laded from Youghal, in Ireland, with • cog.. of
oats, and was bound fur Loudon. The Admit-
nistration of the Marine has saved whatever part
Of the wreck has come on shore.
lit the differeot provinces of the kingdom of II ta
*Geer, the Provincial Estates assembled during the
month of November to deliberate on the future
organiustiou or the New Representative Body,
which will, it is understood, be divided into two
Chitabers. The States' Gement here been con-
voked fur the Ist of December at Hanisser. It is
thought that in this Session the new Cuitstitirtion
will be proposed. The Lower Chamber will, it is
said, consist of the Deputies of the towns, the
Clergy, and the Peasants.
Of all the great European States, France is the country
whose bemires are the saw easy to comprehend and to study.
But the indispensable necessity of credit has compelled tier
thick veil which covered them to be torn open. Publicity,
which attracts mod merits confidence, has procured an-
other advaatage; it has sustaisted the seal and vigilance of
all the agents of authority ; each one, thinking that his pro-
mediae will be know., has employed more care to avoid
immure, and more diligence to deserve praise. Our Goan-
fiat system is wow level to the comprehension of the meanest
capacity : and it may he easily asderstood, that although it
may be susceptible of important improvements, at least,
the bases are solid, the principles just, and the means
rat ismal.
As a proof of this assertion, let us look to results. It
is au undeniable fact, that the ordinary revenues are sum.
cient fur the expetests of every branch of the public ser-
vice, as well as fur the payment of the a of the old and
new debt ; they are sufficient likewise fur the charges of the
Sinking Food, which augments with all the progressive forte
of compound interest. It is equally notorious, that the
taxes, the totality of which would out appear excessive, if
the distiihution of them were less deftetive, affect reproduc-
lion so little, that agriculture and manufacturing ballasts y
never were more flourishing. To this it may be added, that
the estimated produce of the revenue was mask with so
much moderation, that no one branch has yielded less than
was calculated, while, in three of them, the united exec,.
beyond what was cakalated will amount to twenty-niae
. Hence, awl we repeat it with pleasure, the service
of the Treasury is secure; all whom the State employs,
all to *hum it a indebted, are certain of being paid; they
will he so, the moment their respective claims are due.
With regard to the MU/ of persous who are assessed to the
taxes, they behold, in the rapid extinction of annuities, in
the reduction, according to law, of forty millions upon
pensions, mid lastly, in the progressive amelioration of the
tae, the consoling prospect of a considerable diminution
in the bunks of taxation which they have to support.
Such is the real picture of our Silences' situation. We
must ascend very ligh into user annals to find an epoch of
greater prosperity; we must pass through the glorious reign
of loins XLV. aud not stop till we arrive at the days of the
good Iliary. What country except this, aided by the carte
of a paternal Guvernakat, could have recovered itself so
quickly after so many faults and so enemy misfortunes?
How meth is it f d its the distribution of the gifts of
Yrovideuce!
If, however, we pass from the question of finance to
eossigoratims of a more general order ; if we ascend to the
Very sources of wealth, that is, if we examine attentively
the quantity of disposable capital, its temporary employ-
went sad its distnbotioa, appe .are less satisfying.
We must pro ive, the., that the channels of eirentatioa are
emberrasaed ; aud that various obstacles check the &we
ligament and coestilidatios of credit; to destroy this Rai-
barnismesi, to overcome these obstacles, are subjects worthy
the &liberalism of every man who loves his country, but
particularly of those who' form part of the Government.
It (moot be dissembled. The principal reeve of these
stifficisities arises from the issuing of Mari, to so large sea
ainuast, sad su sear each other : necessity compelled them
to be created, to first, to avoid the greeter( evils ; suit re-
cently, to obtain the liberation of our territory, so ardently
desired. The Feelich capisailists were not sufficient to ab-
sorb this enomous 1111.4, nsure especially as the depart-
ments still feel a repugnance fur a species of security from
which they have so severely 'offered. It must also be Sr.
membered, that the excessive division of property (an evil
which increases indefinitely) &impolitely retards the court- u-
trot ion of disposable sums a bich might be thus employed;
while they are of trifling amount, they do not flow towards
the erotic, like those petty rivulets, whirls lose themselves
in the earth wke., their source is not sufficiently abinedsot
to supply their course. Foreign capitalists have piafited toy
this state of distinct and difficulty; tempted by the luw price
of our funds, whets offered considerably more advantageous
imrestenents than their own, they purchased the greatest pier-
tom of the sew vertles and yet in this point our intriesis
were nut injured. It had its compensation—the mousy
y brought into the market replaced that %Inch we verse
pay to the Allies. With mpg tt to the a
they w. re amply compelisated by the exile-114liter,, which
r.eh travellers fruin vary country make sinoopi sued
by thy produCtion* ..r our suit suit industry, %hid, are- in
Oil taut de mend. But this is silent is really gen anus :
Tile price at which foiriguers purchased the reeSe was ve ey
low ; they could, nu its s tor, realise great profits by st-mtlii.ig
then' etude. lists operation ut cease ily leads to a declha