The Sun.
London, England, 1830-09-03 00:00:00

PRANCE,

CHAMBER OF Auau*T

The order of the day was the discussion of the
law project relative to the oath of public functioneries,
Count Duleitichage coesidered that the Peerage
being bereditary, was one of the main points of its
existence; this privilege was totacked by the laW
in question; the Chamber of Deputies- bad con e
mitted so error. • The-privilege of hereditary Peerage.
might certainly -be- ettacked but it should be so ,by
a law well considered and proposed by one of the
three branches or :the legislature. The Noble Peer
then examiner} the difference which existed between
the functions of a Peer and those of x Deputy. In
his opinion it was the duty nrDepeties to sit in the
Chamber, because they were appointed by their estr
atituents to watch over ail that concerns them
to the Peers, it Was a right which they might use
at their pleasure. When a Deputy was absent, his
absence was prejudicial to his constituents; it wits
slot so with a Peer of France. -The Cliettaber of
Deputies might therefore consider as Whig resigned
his post any one of its members, who, during a cer-
tido time, had abstained from. attending ; but it
could rtf4t inflict the same punishment. upon a Peer
of France. The only right it could exercise was to
declare that the Peers should not take their seats
till they had token the oath, hit there wits a Still more
striking reason—namely, that a Deputy who had
been declared to have forfeited his seat might be re-
elected. • He could then take his seat again, on taking
the oath, but this was not the case with the Peet's.
Ike concluded by proposing that the Chamber should
strike out the provision relative to the Peerage.
The Minister of Public Instruction, in litn.Wer to
the assertion that the rights of the Peerage could not
be attacked, said that this might he true, if the mea-
sure were unjust ; but it was impossible to grant to
the. Peerage a dispensation whirls -roue of the three
powers hod a tight to enjoy, If such a courseiwere
adopted, there would be two Chambers of Peers,
one belonging to the present goyernment, loathe
other to another government; this consideration was
conclusive. He therefore voted for maintaining the
provision in question,
'- The Duke de Cues thought that the delay of
ORO Month. was not stiflicient

Count Roy inquired wit, titer in case a Peer should
not have taken the .oath within the time prescribed,
hi. successor would he received immediately.
After some discussion, in which the Duke de
Broglie, the Duke de Crillon, Count Portal's, end
Baron Seguier,. took part, it wes resolved that the
successor should be received immediately, without
prejudice to the effects of the law to be proented
to 1831.

Previous to the ballot, the President invited the
Count de St. Prie.t to road a proposition, which he
had just laid on the table, for repealing the sacrilege
law. This proposition was ordered to be ►aken into
consideration, and its discussion fixed for Friday.
The whole of the law Wi►h then put sad adored
by a majority of 87 against 11.—Adjourned.

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, AUGUST 30,

The President took the chair at one o'clock, and
read n letter front U. de Guernissar, tentlei ing hiir
resignation.-7 Referred tothe MiniSter of the interior.

The order of the clay was the prilect of a laiso on
the mcde of providing for the elections now vacant.
M. de Salverte expressed his doubts, that the
project would satisfy the desires of the country.
The Committee had sought to improve it, and had
even introduced some important modifications; but
there were others which seemed necessary to be
added to the provisional law about to be voted, The
amount of taxes required to become an elector should
be fixed et 200 francs. AS to the Deputies, the
only qualification necessary was the confidence of the
electors. However, it would be well to fix for the
present the qualification at 500 francs. Instead of
dangers being likely to arise out of these changes,
1w (tbellow. Deputy) saw nothing but.. advantages;
for the changes were called for by the Charter, anti
looked for by the people. These changes would
make known to the Chamber the effects of the new
Charter by the new electioni.
M. Mauguin inquired *bother the preservation of
the present Chamber was legal ? The Chamber of
Peers Was mutilsted ? the Government of Charles
N. was overthrown; and when the whole system
was subverted, could a part subsist alone P A diffe-
rent view Would lead to inconsistencies. Some de-
partments were Abut to exercise the rights granted
to' them by the new Constitution, end by the side
of a member elected under tho old system would be
seated on& who derived his seat from the new system,
and the ChaMber would thus be formed of different
elements.

M. Rambuteau said that a new and complete law
would require mature deliberation, which It was im-
possible to accomplish till the Chamber was complete
M. Da Podenint was of opinion that it would be
useful to grunt the right of voting to all citizens
who, by their capacity, were called to be jurymen,
excepting, however, functionurick who received
salary, and who were alwayi dependent on Govern-
ment, when they did not otter the guarantee of
certain amount of taxes to qualify them for voting.
M. Benjamin Constant was desirous that the
ChaMber should be made complete, in order that a
definitive law of elections might be enacted.
Matiguin was of opinion that the mission of the
lion. Deputies was extinct. When they saved
France by expelling a dynasty which had oppressed
her for fifteen year', and Which had fired upon her
citizens for three successive days, they certainly ex-
eeeded the limits of their authority; but when the
streets of the capital were covered with blood, when
despotism was repulsed on every side,' and citizens
were falling beneath the bullets fired upon them, the
Deputies had a genuine warrant for their 'proceedings.
M. Mauguin replied, that the lute Oovernmein
had fallen beneath the blows of the Parisians, and
the Deputies bad been contsequent!y culled titian to
vote a new. Charter ; their acts had beett approved by
the country, and it was never his (the floa. Deputy's)
intention to call in question the legality of what they
had hitherto done.

M. Dupla sen. said, " You are either invested
with full powers, or you have none at all. If the
latter, you have no more power to limit the age for
an elector at nyetity,five years than you hove to
make a law that a candidate fora Member is qua-
lified at thirty years. The Um% Dilinty thin went
into a lengthened apology for the acts of the Chamber,
and the vation4 instances Of eourette it had displayed,
and concluded by saYing,'" No, gentlemen, we will
not quit oar seats. Wellave given liberty to Prance,
ant) it belongs to us to maintain it;' if the revolution
be good, we are the only parties called upon to Born.
plete it. Let us continue with the same spirit. We
hove said such-modifications in the law are necessary;
let us revise the law, and make the modifications re.
Lired, proceeding al way s withprudence and firmness,
et us consummate the revolution, and we shall de.
serve web of our country. If some chttnours be
raised against us now, France and posterity will.
justify
The Chamber then went through the law project
article by article, and various ameadments which
were made were rejected, and the articles adopted,
as were several additional att;Cles Mating to forma.
lilies at elections, which had been proposed by the
(tmornitree. The whole of the law project was then
Put, snit tarried by a majority of 231 agittt 12.
Adjourned. -

(Funn 411uni(eur,t4)f Ttiesday, Aug. SI.)

PAWS, Auti. 30.
We have reecived.an invitation to publish the to!.
lowing note
"'the Committee of the Chamber .Deputies
appointed to examine the plopoilsl of an act:libation
tigain4 the Fot-Mitilvters disavow* every thing that
has been published, and every thing that may he
ptat.lidtod In future, respveting the interregatorie*.
" For the Committee, " ►Proditvat.
" IJI 1t l tt lt, secr,,t4r
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A fatter frotn Toulon, says—" Yestettiay strict
orders arrived for the reorganization of Ail tin autho.
cities. M. Cagneard, the cona.titutional eatitlidatcat
the late election, who exercises provlsionsily, the