The Sun.
London, England, 1830-10-07 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

CHAMBER OF DEPI/TIER, TUESDAY, OCT. 5.
'The debate opened by the discusSion of the law
concerning the duties to he levied on corn.
The President read a letter, in which M. Vassal,
the banker, resigned his post as deputy, in conse-
quence of his present unfortunate circumstances.
M. Alexandre de la Borde spoke as follows on the
law respecting corn :—Gentlemen, with regard to
provisions and means of subsistence, it is necessary
to have too much in order to have enough : and in
this matter the monopoly of bread and corn is the
greatest evil that can befal those who make use of
those articles; it is also diametrically opposed to the
Ist article of the charter, which declares that all men
are equal. The monopoly is the reason why 50
bushels of corn are sold for 26 francs at Marseilles,
and 16 francs at Nantes,—why the farmer is obliged
to send his corn from Nantes to Marseilles, arid al-
ternately from Marseilles to Nantes, in order to sell
; for such is indeed the nature of the laws of 1819
and 1821, which it seems now to be the intention
of the Government to soften and to reform. This
end would be attained with great efficacy, if the
amendment proposed by our honourable colleague
were adopted. The degenerated Romans asked for
bread and spectacles; the French, regenerated as
they now are, ask for labour and liberty—labour to
have bread, and liberty not to pay for that bread at
too dear a rate.—(Laughter.)
M. Anisson Duperron pretended that every kind
of tax laid on corn is a heavy burden for the people;
however, the Government does not seem to have
understood the question, and we have been threat-
ened with entrepots of corn, as we have already en-
trepots of tobacco. After having entered into some'
details concerning the project of law, the orator con-
cluded by voting for the project, rejecting at the
same time the amendment proposed by the Com-
mission relative to the sth article.
M. Cabanon, the author of the amendment, was
of opinion the ameliorations in question ought to be
grounded on experience; and it was to be appre-
hended that hasty reformations in the present corn
laws would only aggravate the evil. It was to avoid
such a calamity that he bud proposed an amendment
to the first article of the project. The orator con-
cluded by supporting the amendment.
M. Demarcay—The question now before you is
very different from any of those which generally at-
tract your attention, so that when any one intends
to speak on this subject, he ought, first of all, to re-
call to his remembrance a great number of facts, not
to substitute without reflection an inconsiderate
system, and badly constructed, for another grounded
on facts and experience. I confess, that though
this question is somewhat familiar to me, 1 have not
had leisure to prepare all I should wish to say on
the subject. The new law still maintains the same
obscurity by referring to the old law. I intend to
propose certain amendments when the diicussion of
the different articles shall mice place.
The discussion of the whole body of the law
being closed, it continued on the different articles,
Art. 1. "On the frontier* and coasts the maximum of,
the variations on duties leiied on the importation of corn
will be 3 francs per hectolitre, and the minimum b soh.
'Moe duties, and the intermediate degrees between 2 francs
and 1 franc, shall remain in force, according to the legal
price of corn, conformably to the laws of the 15th of juiv,
1819, and the 4th of July, 1821. This duty shall be.'
franc more for corn imported into France by foreign
vessel* under a foreign flag. It shall be levied without
any other surtax, and without any distinction Of the place
from which it Cannes."
M. Cabanon proposed the following amendment
to the first paragreph.:—

, .
"The maximuril of the duty shall be if, 60c., and the
minimum 25c. The intermediate degrees between lf. and
2f. arising from the rite of the legal price of corn, will
henceforward determine the diminution of the duty in the
proportion of 10 sous to ft"
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opinion, that if any thing ought to be changed in it,
the modification ought to effect a still greater dimi-
nution of the duty.
The amendment was rejected by a strong majority.
Another amendment of M. A.nision Duperron
was already re4ected.
The Commission proposed the following amend»
merit to the second paragraph
44 These duties shall be levied without any distinction of
the place front which the corn comes, and with the surtax
of If. Tor the importation of corn in foreign vessels."
This amendment was adopted.
The Commission proposed another amendment,
which ran as follows
" The maximum of Sf. shall he applied to
rye and In-
dian corn, when the price of first•rate corn shall have
risen to 10f, ; that of the second class to 14f. ; that of the
third to 12f. ; and, In line, that of the fourth class in 101.
The minimum of the duty, or 2bc.,
the prices pass iSt, lot:, If., and Isj." "e-
'Mel'
when
" The minimum of the duty oil flour, when imported

in French vessels, shall be 50e. on every 100 kilogrammes,
without distinction of the place from which it came. The
minimum shall he 2f. 50c. when the importation shall
take place in foreign vessels. The supplementary taxes
shall continue to be levied in the proportion determined by
the fourth article of the law of the 16th of July, 1819."
These two paragraphs were adopted.
" Art. 2. The legal regulating price of corn of the
first class (frontier of the south extending from the depart-
ment of Var to that of the Eastern Pyrenees inclusively),
shalt be fixed according to the medium between the prices
of the markets of Marseilles, Toulouse, Gray, and Lyons."
M. Dugas Montbel proposed to reduce all the
different classes to one, in order to obtain one single
regulating price.
M. Guizot—The only object of the law is to fa-
cilitate the importation of corn. The question is,
does the law attain that end Y In the present legal
prices, no corn can come in by the southern frontier.
The project of law proposes a diminution of five
francs on the duties of importation; and this mea-
, sure appears to me sufficient to ensure a considerable
importation of corn.
M. Demarcay proposed the establishment of two
classes instead of four,—that is, the suppression of
the first and last class.
The discussion continued between MM. Humblot-
Conte, Delaborde, Demarcay, Duvergier de Hsu-
ranne, and St. ricq. Several amendments were
proposed and rejected.
Demarcay proposed that the markets serving
as regulators should be reduced to three, and Lyons
excepted,
M. Guizot opposed the amendment, and Demar-
cay withdrew it.

M. Dugas•Montbel proposed a second paragraph,
which was rejected, and the 2d article was adopted.
Art. 3. 44 When, in consequence of the legal price, im-
portation ceases in a sea-port, the cargoes which have not
arrived in due time in that port, they shall be received, if
it be proved that there he no deception, but they shall pay
the maximum of the duty of importation."
This article was adopted with an amendment of
the commission.

The 4th article was then read, and the discussion
continued.

(From the Times.)

PARIS, OCT. 4.

The Prussian Government Las sent fresh cre-
dentials, which arrived last night, to its Ambassador,
and it is said that the message accompanying them
was of the most conciliatory and satisfactory nature,
importing not merely a frank recognition of Louis
Philip, but a decided determination to imitate the
example of France in abstaining from all interference
with Belgian affairs. Now that all Belgium is
in arras, owing to the mad policy of those who
advised the settling a political question by grape-
shot instead of argument, the interference of a third
person would, even if successful, have merely the
the effect of compelling a hollow reconciliation, to
be broken the moment the compelling force was re-
moved. I take it for granted that the most absurd
of " legitimate" politicians do not contemplate the
perpetual presence of a compelling force. How the
great and important problem of Belgian politics is
to be solved, it is in this crisis of furious excitement
idle to attempt to predict; but I may mention two
rumours which are indicative of the feelings or
wishes of some of the actors in this deeply-inte-
resting drama. One party, consisting of some of
the Nobles and wealthier citizens, would have no
objection to see the Prince of Orange at their head,
but the mass of the population would not, it is well
understood, assent to such an arrangement. Another
party has suggested that the young Duke of Nemours,
second son of Louis Philip, should be the chief of
the Government; but there is not a Power in
Europe more disinclined to so impolitic an appoint-
ment than the French King and the French Go-
vernment.

Every day there seems to be a greater disposi-
tion to support the Government, though no decisive
opinion can be pronounced on the real sentiments
of the nation till the result of the appeal about to
be made to so many departments shall appear.
About 130 new elections will take place, from
which a tolerably correct judgment may be formed
of the general inclinations of the elective body.
You will see that the Peers will not commence
even the preliminary proceedings in the trials of the
Ex-Ministers till the let of November; and one
main motive of this delay is to ascertain the dispo-
sition of the country, before they embark in an in-
quiry of such vast moment to themselveP, as a
tribunal on which every eye is turned, and to the
kingdom, whose tranquillity depends in no small de-
gree on the issue.

I observe that you speak with contempt of the
suspicions which the report of the committee into
the conduct of the Ex-Ministers has promulgated,
with respect to the fires in Normandy. You are
probably correct in exonerating the Ministers of the
blame of such monstrous atrocity, but it must be
remembered that some ground of distrust was na-
turally laid by the circumstance of all the official
correspondence relative to those conflagrations hav-
ing been destroyed.
There seems some doubt whether Marshal Maison
will go to Vienna after all : Mortier, who was in-
tended for the St. Petersburgh embassy, it is now
found cannot go, because he was the officer em-
ployed in burning the Kremlin. The Ministers
wish Maison to go there, but he hesitates, thinking
it a sort of indignity to be transferred so cavalierly
from one capital to the other. Sr. Aulaire bus been
spoken of, but the appointment is not very probable.
The Duke de Choiseul will, it is said, go to Rome,
and his mission is quoted as another instance of the
strange principle of selection by which Count Mole
is actuated. lie would have sent the burner of the
Kremlin to Petersburgh, and he sends to Rome a
philosophic Liberal, the son of the roan who expelled
the Jesuits, and who inherits all his father's hatred
against political priestcruft.
But these blunders are rather objects of jokes
than of serious indignation. Indeed, generally
speaking, the mind of France may be said to be m-
ustied with its present condition, which it considers
a full indemnity for past mortifications. The taking
of Paris, the defeat at Waterloo, the occupation of
France by foreign troops, were all sources of painful
regret, but at the same time were the not unnatural
consequences of war. It was the imposition upon
them of the infatuated Bourbons which was felt as a
revolting injury, a result too intolerable to be for-
given. They have now delivered themselves from
the burden, the night-mare of that dynasty; they
are pleased with themselves and all the world, and
are ready to go quietly to work in consolidating
their own Constitution, and to be at peace with all
mankind. N.
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Two great failures were spoken of yester-
day. The great house of Vassal has broken up,
and the debts are said to be 12,000,000 of francs:
the respectable house ofJacques Lefevre and Coulomb
is insolvent to the extent of 5,000,000 f. Both
Vassal anti Coulomb are missing, and are thought to
have destroyed themselves—a catastrophe not un-
common here with great bankrupts. In France,
more even than in Englund, the bankers and mer-
chants affect an expensive and magnificent style of
living, and the transition from a palace in the
Chattasee d'Antin, to a fourth floor in the Rue
Montmartre, is a mortification which neither their
habits nor their principles enable them to endure.
N.

PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.
Notwithstanding the loud denunciations by the
Society of the Friends of the People against the
sentence passed last Saturday in the Pettis de Jus-
ticeupon their leaders, accompanied with threats of
a h
arrangement for continuing to hold their
mefiedextings in defiance of the law, t ere was no as-
fourthly of these clubbists last night at the hour
when they have heretofore usually met at the riding-
house, nor is there any reason to believe that their
sittings will be prolonged. The attempts, too, to
convene mobs of the unemployed workmen appear
to dwindle into inefficacy. Placards were issued
yesterday for the purpose of collecting one of the
bodies upon the Boulevard du Temple, but no
meeting took place. The Patriot, a paper lately

established upon the ultra popular side, is making
a desperate effort to induce the wounded Pa-
risians, who are now fast recovering from the
injuries which they received in the memorable
combat of July, to assemble in a body, and pro-
ceed to the Chamber of Peers, to implore vengeance
upon the devoted heads of Polignac, and his criminal
associates; but although this journal makes its best
effort, 1 understand this call has been very feebly
obeyed; and there is certainly in every class of so-
ciety, and in none more than that which has tri-
umphed during the late revolution, as anxious desire
that the momentous trial of the ►ate Ministers should
be conducted with as little of popular excitement as
the circumstances of their case will admit. M. de
Martignac is constantly engaged with Prince Polig-
nac at Vincennes, in making the necessary prepara-
tions for ins defence, and the Prince is, ►t is said,
resigned to his fate.

The Freemasons will on Sunday next give a
grand dinner at the Town-hall to General Lafayette,
and 50 of the wounded patriots are invited to par-
take of this festival. The commercial embarrrass-
ments of the capital are very great. lam credibly
informed that among the bookselling trade alone
there have been within the last month 180 failures.
Y.