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London, England, 1831-01-03 00:00:00

CHAPTER Iv.-or THE ELECTORAL COLLEGES.

37. The number of Deputies of each department will
bit regulated by a scale which forms part of the present law.
3S. Each Deputy shall be elected by an Electoral Col-
lege.
39. The division of departments into Electoral Arron-
dissements is regulated by a table which forms part of the
40. The Electoral Colleges are to he convoked by the
King. They shall meet in the town of the Electoral Ar-
rondissement which the King shall appoint. They will
be pret-ludc.,d from interfering in-my other matter but the
election, and they are forbidden to enter into any discus-
sion or any deliberation.
4L The electors shall assemble in a meeting i.a t 11.• ac
roodissement, in which their number does not exceed 600.
When it amounts to raoce, the CollegesEallbe divided into
alctilna, each of which cannot be less than 300.

Each section shAil concur specially in thenotnicAtiuri

the Deputy, who is to be elected by the Coßev.

4,2. The President of the Tribune! of the First Instance,
or, in hie ,:beence, the Mayo:, shall be President of the
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C!.*APTETt zumrtuTy.

No one shall be eieeLed to the Ci hi,. of Deputies who
is not thirty years of age, and who does not pay 500
francs for direct taxes, except in cases mentioned in the 33d
Article of the Charter.

61. No authority but the Chamber of Deputies can be
a judge of eligibility.
67. Members of the Chamber of Deputies shall not re-
ceive any salary or indemnity.

(From the Gazette de France, dated Saturday, Jan. 1.)
Patois, Dac. 31.—. M. Gendebien, Envoy from the
Belgian Government, hod yesterday the honour of an
audience of the Kine. He was presented to his Majesty
by the 111inister for Foreign Affairs. The audience lasted
three quarters of an hour. It appears certain that M.
Odilion Barrot remains Prefect of the Seine, and that the
resignation which he tendered has not been accepted.
The Ex-Ministers, Messrs. de Polign4c, Peyronnet,
Chanttlause, and Guernon Ranville, have been removed
to the Castle of Ham. Several carriages with post-horses
came to take them from Vincennes at ten o'clock in the
evening of the 29th. In the carriages were Lieutenant•
Colonel Delpiec, who is appointed Governor of the Fort of
Ham ; Lieutenant-Colonel Lavecat, of the National Guard
of Paris ; Captain Guibout, an officer attached to the
Department of the Minister of War, and a superior officer
of the National Guard.

General Daumesnil delivered up the prisoners to Lieut.-
Colonel Delpiec. Immediately Messrs. Ile Polignac and
Chantelause got into the first carriage, and with them
Lieut.-Colonel Delpiec and Colonel Lavecat. In the
second were Messrs. Peyronnet and Guernon de Renville,
and with them the other two officers commissioned to ac-
company them to the place of their destination. The
escort was composed of two squadrons of hussars, who
were relieved between La Villette and Le Bouget by two
squadrons of chasseurs. Detachments were also stationed
on the road to the fort of Hans, where the prisoners were
to arrive on the 30th at noon.

While the carriages were passing through Paris to go
to Vinceanes, a inao, without being observed, got upon
the seat behind one of them. He was taken at first to be
the servant of one of the officers who accompanied the
prisoners. It was not till they got to Vincennes that be
was found to be a stranger. He was immediately arrested
and put in prison. He was the bearer of several letters.
News has been received this evening that the Ex-Mi-
nisters bad arrived at their destination.
The Conclave which commenced the 14th December,
will not be of long duration. It is hoped that the new
Pope will be elected by Epiphany at the latest. Cardinals
Rudolph (Archduke of Austria) and Fesch are out of the
question, being ineligible from their situations.
The Cardinals qualified for the Papacy in public opinion
are Gregorio, Paces, Capillari, Oppizoni, and Zurla, and
people weigh, at this moment, not the incontestible merit
of each, but his preceding career, his alliances, his family,
&c. in order to choose him who shall appear to combine,
in the highest degree, the qualities which are essential for
this, opposed to the prosperity of the Church, and the
triumph of religion in all states.
Public opinion seems especially to point out Cardinal
Zurla, one of the most pious and learned members of the
Sacred College. TheEmperorAlexander, just before his pro-
motion, bad selected him for the important commission of
surveying the limits of his empire. England admires his
scientific work, On Marco Paulo, and the Ancient
netian Travellers, two vols. folio, published in 1818.—
"uce has always appreciated his virtues and his talents,
tliSe good spirit which is observed in all his works,
esppkialiy his Latin Theology. Cardinal Capillari enjoys
tl,:e same reputation for, his extensive knowledge and ex-
/alted piety.
FaArix roar, DEC. 27.—1 t is said that the Lithuanian
tromps have asked to be led against the insurgents, in
order to be able to give proofs of their fidelity to the Em-
peror. There have lately been some fresh disturbances at
Warsaw : on the opening of the churches, the people went
in crowds to prevent the Clergy from reading the usual
-prayers for the Emperor and King, and his family, and
forced them to pray only for the welfare and independence
of Poland. But the National Guard interfered, and 6-
vine service proceeded as usual.
(From the Constitutionnel.)

EXPLANATION OF THE ELECTION LAW.-
SPEECH OF M. MONTALIVET.

Such, Gentlemen, are the essential parts of a project
of law which we submit to you--those which may b
considered as its principles. We have endeavoured to em-
body and animate the device of the revolution of 1830—
order and liberty. We have endeavoured to do as much
for one as for the other of theme principles, for the solution
of them, well combined, contains all our present, all our
future happiness, and France claims both with a powerful
voice. Whatever may be the decisions of the various par-
ties, it will not be denied that our work is one of frank-
ness without one of timid apprehensions, and adventurous
condescension ; and, above all, without any Machiavalian
projects in the hack-ground. The great principle of the
iut of the ;Win it its ow, le laid

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down broadly and truly, in the eleraeuts of our politic:
fabric, as that which gives life to all the other principles.
Every ministerial interference has disappeared from tL
electoral labours, and in consequence from choosing tb
representatives of the people ; all the restrictions whicl
impede the free exercise of the right of choice are re
moved ; the bases of the franchise have been extended t.
that degree which appeared to us compatible with the
interest of a great State, of which tranquillity at house is
necessary to its independence and its strength abroad.
The intellectual power, the most direct representative
of civilization, and of which our successive reforms have
been the fruit, has recovered the place which belongs to it
in the Electoral Colleges, for by the new Charter the de-
gree of eligibility has been lowered. Finally a direct an 1
immediate representation is assured to the different local
interests, without the general interest being likely to suffer,
and in this better distribution of electoral power, the gene-
ral representation gives to the Chamber of Deputies a
greater number of Members than at present, even includ-
ing the double votes, which in place of creating a more
extensive expression for the country, on the contrary
counterbalance to the profit of some, and restrain to the
injury of all, the representation of France.
To those who still think the law tuo restrictive, not-
withstanding so many rods have been opened or widened,
we say, look to England, and tell us if you have the right
of voting so lowered, that it can be purchaseJ ? Has
general prosperity made sufficient progress? Is educa-
tion sufficiently extended to allow the right of voting being
carried further There, for example, where he who
receives it would regard it as useless, and society as dan-
gerous. Gentlemen, though France is firm under our
feet, prudence is yet a duty for all, and particularly fin the
Government. The conquests of liberty are immense, and
they are well worth guarding by some precautions; if the
present leaves for the future something to accomplish,
our regeneration is so fruitful as to bring it about without
trouble.

Those who may be terrified by the liberality of our
electoral system, we will remind that all the rights of our
revolution have not been destroyed by other rights.
Prompt, like victory itself, it was magnanimous; like cle-
mency, it is composed if an equal sentiment, of an equal
passion for order and liberty. At the least symptom of
trouble—at the least cry of alarm, the society turns to the
threatened quarter. Since we have been enfranchised, has
not liberty taken upon herself the task of repressing die-
order and anarchy? We can—we ought to be confident,
with a revolution, unique in the history of the world. Look
at the citizen soldiers, who have, under your eyes, solved
that problem hitherto inexplicable of order and liberty,
and who have augmented the glories of July by the virtues
of December. At this sight, Europe laid down much of
her mistrust of liberty, and all France, which on every
side applauds the National Guard, will not conceive any
against the liberal consequences of a revolution , which has
such pledges to give of its prudence and wisdom.
You are assisting, Gentlemen, to develope the system of
government; you see gradually rising all the institutions
of which its origin was the promise. Very soon it will
have planted the principle of popular election in every
part of our social system. The nation will interfere in
every thing—by means of the National Guard, it will de-
fend both the soil and the town ; by the electoral law, it
will controul the constitution ; by the law of departments
and communes, in which the same principle of popular
election will prevail, the nation will watch over the nar-
row but snore immediate interests of every district.
Thus will gradually be completed the patriotic task at-
tributed to the Government of the King by the Charter
of 1830, in which are planted all the germs of a complete
organization for liberty, and out of which there are no pro-
misee to make, nor condition's to impose. Thee will the
hzsis already immovable of a throne elevated on the suf-
frages of all the people of Frame:, be snls.rged red strength-.
ended, and on it seated one of those. pure poiitical- probl-
ties which allows of no doubt as to the execution of a pre-
mise, and no hope for any legel pretension. Thee, for
the f.ret time in the elorld, that magnificent spectacle of a ,
revolution, which is not l.eerd of beyond itself, except to
attain its end, will be continually Riven—of a revolution
which has not seeded measeres of e.seet.eicr, s.zeeesne
dinary tribunals, to secure the triumph of its priatn.ples ;
so true is it that the revolution of elely is nothing else
than the spontenceus, unanimous movement of a whole
people, sericealy and soiemnly resuming a sceptre which it
appears to have, from fotgetfulnees only, left on long in the
hands of Princes who used it to inflict blows. It is in the
hands. 4 a King, who is an honest roan, that the nation
has now placed this sceptre, end the nation will cow re-
pose secure of the: feLure, to provide for which this King
is charged.

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