The National Register.
London, England, 1819-03-22 00:00:00

411 E .NATIONAt. IhlGtaritit

the Deputies, and assert that Ministers have now
a majority in the Chamber of Peers. It is the in-
tion. it is said, of his Majesty to create thirty addi-
tional new Peers, to secure France against a Coun-
ter Revolution, which would inevitably have tap
place, had not the Ultra-R3yalists failed in their
late attempt. Ministers now consider themselves
sa secure, that there is not any intention to dissolve
the Chambers. The Law of Elections vests the
choice of the Deputies in the Majority of the Nation,
where it ought to remain. The object of the Ultras
was to transfer the choice to a plurality of suffrages
in the Electoral Colleges, that is, to a Minority
which is anxious to annihilate the Rights emanating
limn the Revolution. I lad they succee/ed, what
dretalital scenes must have ensued ; and yet the King
of France and his Ministers are censured in the Mi-
nisterial Journals in this country ihr having had re-
course to a prompt and bold measure, that has pre-
vented, in our opinion, France from being again
deluged with human blood. The intrigues which
occasioned the ex•raordinary opposition is the House
of Peers, it is said, are developing themselves daily
in Paris. Prince Talleyrand was nut, it is affirmed,
an idle spectator of the passing events. It is more
than probable he held the muster-key of the Miele
machinery, and directed the movements of his pup-
pets in iuoth the Chambers. They have, however,
failed in overthrowing the Ministry, and M. de
Tall-yrand has obtained leave to return to his
country estate. General Grouchy, it is said, has
obtained leave to return to France. The Queen of
Sweden, who has been fur a considerable time re-
siding in the French Capital, is preparing to take
her departure for Stockholm.

The Patis Papers to SVednesdny reached town on
Friday. The Chamber of Deputies on Monday
firmed itself into a Sestet Committee, and received
a Message from the Peers, relative to the Law of
Elections, which was read by the President. The
printing, distribution, and reference of the Message
to the Committees, were declared conforms* to
the regulations of the Chambers. The proposition
to modify the Law of Elections has produced con-
sidcrstble agitation at Nismes. On Sunday, the
7th inst. a crowd of persons assembled in front of
the Theatre, where menacing language was used,
and the disposition to riot was such, that the efforts
of the authorities to disperse the populace were in-
effectual. The patroles sent to restore order were
insulted and assailed with showers of stones, and it
was not until Lieutenant-General Bridle, arrived,
with five hundred of the military, that tranquil-
lity was re-established. ThC Journal des Debats is
not sufficiently explicit on the subject. It merely
states the bare fact without ce.mment, leaving its
readers to conjecture, with respect to the party with
whom the disturbances originated. The produce of
the Customs of France, estimated for last year at
eighty million► of francs, appeers, by a return of
the 'Minister of Finance, to have exceeded ninety
Milieus. The King of Naples has conferred on
Prince Metternich the title of Duke of Postella.
The plague has not re-appeared in Constantinople;
but meaty fires have broken out in the suburbs of
('era, and the house of an Armenian banker has
been burnt down. There has been a disturbance
among some convalescent Russian soldiers and the
iuhali tea ts of Weissensee. The quarrel °rig ioated
by the Russian surgeon striking the Magistrate in
whose house be was quartered, because he would not
submit to his extravagant demands. The Russians
were pot to flight, anti several were wounded on
both sides.—Freuch five per cents.—Shut price,
68f. 20c.—Monday ex. div. WE 40c.

The course of Exchange with the Continent con-
tinues to improve, and it is bt:ieved w4l shortly