The Sun.
London, England, 1831-08-22 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(From the Times.)
PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING.
It is right you should be informed that the different
versions of Marshal Soult's speech have led to erroneous
conclusions respecting the intentions of the French Go-
vernment on the military occupation of Belgium. The
Marshal spoke a little too strong,—he is a soldier and
rather fond of war, it is congenial with his talents, and
though not the most fortunate of Generals, he still " burns
for glory." Besides this impulse, he is said to be a little
too prone to the exercise of patronage, and here that means
what is called in England jobbing ; but " all is fair in
war." It is, however, but just to the present Govern-
ment of the French King to announce that on the very day
when the despatch was received from Marshal Gerard,
communicating the retreat of the Dutch troops, a notifica-
tion was given even by telegraph to the frontiers, to stop
all the reinforcements then in movement on the line of the
French army. The actual force which did enter Belgium
was an army of 45,000 men. Yesterday a special courier
was sent off to Marshal Gerard desiring f)rthwith the
return of 30,000 of his corps. This courier will have
arrived in Brussels at four o'clock this evening. The
French Princes are likewise to return, and the remaining
French force is to be entirely at the disposal of the Lon-
don Conference. The only desire, lam informed, which
Prince Talleyrand has to convey upon this point is, that a
definite time shall be fixed for the adjustment of this per-
plexing Belgic question, which has begun in the machina-
tions of French faction, and is still continued by the same
agency, in the hope of breeding confusion among the
larger powers. It is here thought there will be an in-
superable difficulty in reconciling the pretensions of Holland
and Belgium, and that it will remain for the conference
to make an arbitrary decision between them.
The project of the new law for arranging the question
of the French Peerage will he completed to-morrow, and
submitted to the Chamber of Deputies on Monday or
Tuesday. The hereditary right will be abolished, and the
Crown will be invested with the prerogative of creating
Peers ad libitum; the Chamber to continue, as at present,
a branch of the Legislature, but the individual members di-
vested of their hereditary political privilege. It is not yet
determined whether there shall he any reservation for pre-
sent vested rights. This was what the King desired. The
impression is, that the Council have already decided in the
negative. I believe I may affirm that this decision has
been finally made.
Austria has lately united her efforts with France to me-
diate in the affairs of Poland. The cholera in Hungary
and G illicia became at length too strong for Prince Met-
ternich, but all mediation has been hitherto unavailing.
The latest intelligence here from Warsaw is to the night
of the 4th inst. There are despatches in Paris then dated
and which I am informed reached the Minister for Foreign
Affairs last night, announcing that councils of war were
daily held, at which the Government and the Military
Commander assisted, *ad that the final determination was
taken to defend Warsaw to the last extremity. Several
offers of negotiation have been mutually made by the bel-
ligerents, three of them between the Ist and 4th instant ;
but as the Russian offers stipulated for submission as a sine
qua non in the first instance, they were rejected. The
Russians were concentrating their whole force, and a de-
cisive battle was hourly expected.
It may be of use to commercial men to know that the
hasty return of the French Consul, M. Mollien (the well-
known African traveller), from Hayti has not been ap-
proved by his Government. The severe pecuniary
mulct imposed by the treaty of last April is now
admitted to have been too great for Haytian resources.
The Consul is at present under quarantine, but is
expected in Paris on Tuesday. There are several
French and Haytian agents with reclamations against
his conduct awaiting his arrival. All their respec-
tive statements are at present before the Minister
for Foreign Affairs, and the parties will likewise be heard
individually; there is, consequently, reason to conclude
that the decision of the French Government will be go-
verned by reason and moderation. lam the more de-
sirous to communicate this intelligence, because I am in-
formed that some anxiety has been felt in England lest
commercial relations should be interrupted with Hayti,
by the interference of the French naval force now recalled
from Lisbon. There is, I learn, ,ittle probability of such
an expedition, and the better view seems to be, that the
difference between the parent country and her colony will
be settled by negociation. France must still remember the
fare of her army under General Le Clerc, and the local
protection which the climate of St, Domingo still sheds
upon a sable population.
By the way, are you aware that there are several Mem-
bers of Parliament skulking here from the Reform Bill?

If your correspondent " Radical" wishes their names a
week hence, he shall have them for his list. I say a week
to give them the " penitential chance ;" the worst of it
is, that they are, with, I believe, two exceptions, persons
who voted for the Bill.

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There are still local disturbances in some of the pro-
vinces between Carlists and Republicans, but they are of
no moment. The Duchess of Berri is still endeavouring
to rally partisans, and send emissaries into France. She
is at present at Massa Carrara, the famous place for
statuary marble, where she employs herself alternately in
intrigues and frivolous amusements. The Dey of Algiers
is here, threatening, amongst other flights of fancy, to
complain to England of the treatment he has received from
the French Government. He complains that the pecuniary
stipulations of Marshal Bourmont have not been fulfilled
towards him, and if I am rightly informed, the Govern-
ment of Louis Philip have been playing rather fast and
loose with his Highness the Dey ; they have " taken" to
the treasure which the French Commander remitted from
the vaults of the Algerine treasury ; but they have not
paid up the instalment of the promised revenue of the
ejected potentate. The King has sent the Dey a carriage
and servants to assist him in surveying the capital. lie is
a stout and jolly visitor, apparently very fond of Parisian
manners and society ; but he says he can make no band of
the Minister for Foreign Affairs. lie wears a splendid
Damascus sabre, and often rides in the Bois de Boulogne.
Why not invite General Sebastiani to accompany him
thither to negotiate ?
In the Chamber of Deputies this day (Saturday) there
was nothing of interest up to four o'clock. M. D'Argout
had presented two projects of law for an alteration in the
' arrangements respecting the cud and whale fishery, and
the local transit duties. Y.

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.—SITTING OF AUG* 19.
The President having taken the chair at half-past two
o'clock, read two letters, one from M. Humann, who had
been returned for the Arrondissement of Schelestat, in the
Bas Rhin, and for that of Villefranche, in Areyron, elect-
lug to sit for the latter, and the other from M. Bory de
Saint Vincent, declining to take his seat in the Chamber,
on account of his engagement with his work upon the
Morea.
The Minister of the Finances, in rising to make a com-
munication from the Government, said—" Gentlemen, we
are enabled to lay before you the law for finally settling the
receipt and expenditure of the year 1831. You have al-
ready provided for the first ten months. This budget ought
to have been brought forward in 1830, but you are aware
how the natural course of affairs has heen interrupted by
events. 'The provisional state in which we have been kept
is injurious to all, and no less at variance with the rights
of the Chamber than with the regular proceedings of the
Administration. At the period of the year to which we
have arrived it is impossible to form a real budget for 1831.
This, however, is not our fault, but the result of circum-
stances. The greater part of the items to be regulated
have been already completed, and in this respect we have
rather an account to render, than a budget to propose.
To attempt to submit the services of 1831 to that long
and accurate investigation which ought always to precede
the grant of the budget, would only be to submit to the
controul of the Legislature facts already accomplished, and
the discussion would last till the end of the year. It is
a serious irregularity, gentlemen, for the Government of a
free people to carry on its administration without a
budget granted ; but there is only one means of put-
ting an end to that disord, r, which is to close the provi-
sional state of affairs as promptly as possible, and take
care to derive from the past benefit fur the future. These
are the motives which have induced us to 1 iy before you,
gentlemen, on the same day the law regulating the expen-
diture for the year 1831, and the bill for the budget of
1832. A prior budget for 1831 was presented on the
1 Ith of February last, of which we have preserved nearly
all the provisions. Three different laws have made as
many grants to the Itlipisters amounting to 825,000,000 f.
with authority as to the expenditure to conform to the
sums fixed by the budget of our predecessors. As to the
receipts, the direct taxes for the year were fixed by the
;.aw of the 18th April last. Add to these resources the
ways and means of the extraordinary budget, the tempo-
rary thirty centimes upon the !atipl-tax, the reduction of
salaries, the 300,000,000 f. to be rer.lbed either by loans
or by the sale of woods of the state, and the amount of
what has been granted for the service of the year 1831
will be seen. We have not, therefore, now the whole Of
the b,udg2t to regulate, but only, as it were, fragments of
the budget to organise and complete. What is it then
that remains to be done? To authoriF,e the receipt of the
takes for the remainder of the year, to convert the
provisioncil into positive grants, adding those that are
necessary fur the succeding months ; in fine, to

give a legal sanction to the extraordinary expenses,
the supplies for which have been voted. This is
the sole object of the law we this day lay
before you. The budget presented on the 11th of
February carried the ordinary expences for 1831 to
95'7,377,395f., and the extraordinary expences to
219,773,7001. The new budget carries the extraordinary
expences to 225,573,700 f., and the ordinary expences to
916,938,735 f. In this new account the civil list is noted
without inserting the amount. This portion of the public
expenditure is to be regulated by a law fixing the amount
of the endowment of the Crown during the whole of the
reign. We will proceed to account for the difference
between the first and this new project. A more exact
calculation of the various services has shown an increase
in the expenditure of 1,710,000 f. The floating debt
which has provided for so many wants demands 1,000,000 f.
, The civil pensions and the retired pensions in the depart-
ment of the Minister of Justice come to 110,000 f. The pre-
miums granted to the marine fisheries—a burden which
has been constantly increasing, but which the Mini-
ster of Commerce is arranging to reduce, have been
carried from 2,400,000 f. to 3,000,0001. The ex-
pences really new do not exceed the sum of 2,351,000 f.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs had estimated
the expences of his department too low, not having
calculated upon the renewal of our diplomatic inter-
course with all the Governments, and the extent of
our negociations. He requires an addition of 370,000 f.
In return, a considerable reduction is promised for 1832.
The Minister of War has transferred the sum of 650,000 f.
from his extraordinary to his ordinary estimates. The
works upon the roads in the West have imposed upon the
Minister of Commerce a charge of 1,600,000 f. The
other expenses of this office arise front the re-establish-
ment of the Ministry of Public Works, from the creation
of new professorships in the College of France, from send-
ing French physicians into Russia and Poland, and horn
the many rewards and premiums granted for the encou-
ragement of literature and the arts. In the department
of the Interior, the separation of the two Ministries and
the establishment of a line of telegraphs from Orange to
Montpelier, have occasioned an augmentation of 198,000 f.
Finally, in the department of the Finances, soire extraor-
dinary proceedings as to the taxes, and a delay in the
execution of the new system for conveying despatches,
have created a charge of 294,600 f. These extra charges
have lessened the reductions, which amount to about
4,a00,000f. With regard to the augmentation re-
quired for the extraordinary expenses, it will not
be difficult either to explain or justify them. The law
of the 15th March last granted a sum of 3,000,000 f.
for paying the creditors of the late Civil List. This
sum must form an item in the budget. By the law of
April 22, a grant of 1,500,000 E was made to the Mi-
nister of the Interior fur secret expenses. The same Mi-
nister required a special grant of 4,00,000 f. for the relief
of the Spanish, Portuguese, and other refugees. The
grant of 6,000,000 f. originally granted for the continua-
tion of the navigable canals, has been found to require an
augmentation of 2,000,000 f. This charge, the necessity
for which is evident, added to the expenses occasioned by
the ceremonies and festival on the anniversary of our glo-
rious revolution, will account for the grant required by the
Minister of Commerce. These, gentlemen, are all the
changes that have been made in the estimate of our ex-
penses since the presentation of the former budget. It
remains for me to speak of the receipts. The labours for
converting the present mode of assessing the personal tax
and those upon doors and windows into a rate, are nearly
completed throughout the kingdom, and the receipts upon
this new scale will shortly commence. The results have
hitherto fully confirmed the estimates. With ri Bard to the
indirect taxes, the product of the first half-year of 1831
has been less than the estimates by 25,561,0001. We have
consequently modified these estimates according to the
proofs of experience. The ordinary receipts for 1831 are
therefore set down in the budget at only 947,510,854 f.
instead of 973,000,000 f., as in the former estimates. Our
extraordinary ways and means, which are composed of
the resources already voted, are put down at 356,478,808 f.
Since the last session, a loan amounting to 120,000,0001.
has been negotiated. We have sold our stock at
84f., when only three weeks before the market price
was only 75f. The incessant variations in the F.ice of
the funds will at once show that a favourable moment was
chosen for executing this important operation. The zeal
of the public led them to come to the relief of the Treasury
with a national loan. By the improvement this made in
the general confidence, it was of greater benefit than by
the sums that were advanced—it produced a resource of
20,000,000 f. Our sales of timber are going on prospe-
rously. On the 10th of August we sold to the amount of
5,179,150 f. This sum exceeded the previous valuation
by more than a million. Sales to a much snore consider-
able amount will take place in the course of the present and
the ensuing month. We are already enabled to estimate
the product from the reduction of salaries, and find that it
will not he more than between 5,000,0001. and 6,000,0001.
The schedules for the receipt of the additional 30 centimes
are completed in till the departments, and the receipt is
commenced. According to the statement now laid before
you, gentlemen, you will perceive that two-thirds of our
extraordivary resources remain untouched, and though the
expences have increased since the first months of the year,
and there still remain 250,000,000 f. to be received, the
Treasury bar been able to meet all demands upon it with
the most religious exactness. The ordinary and extraor-
dinary expences for the service of the year 1831 are set
down in the bill we have the honour to submit to you at
1,172,522,4751. The resources amount to 1,303,979,702 f.,
of which sum 999,000,0001. will be supplied by the taxes.
Therefore, supposing that all the resources are realized, the
receipts will exceed the expenditure by 131,000,0001.
This excess we propose to transfer to the budget
of 1832, to meet the extraordinary demands of that
year, and to reduce the floating debt. It is un-
necessary, gentlemen, to inform you that the ex-
traordinary credit granted to the Government in case
of a war arising between the two Sessions has no place in
this account ; being given only to meet a contingency that
did not happen, it became as if it had never been made.
This, gentlemen, is the result of the service of the present
year, which has perhaps been more full of difficulties than
that of any other in times of peace. We have had to con-
tend with a commercial crisis, which is not yet at an end.
Though anxious for peace, we have been obliged to remain
constantly prepared for svar. We have formed and kept
up an army of four hundred thousand men, furnished one
million of National Guards with arms, augmented our are
tillery, and repaired our fortifications. Events have les-
sened the product of our ordinary resources, and at the
same time added daily to our expenses; and yet never was
the business of the Treasury conducted with more regu-
larity—not a single payment has been delayed. We have
required credit, and credit was immediately given to us.
We have had diminution in our receipts, and increase in
our expenses. But in the midst of all these difficulties,
which are happily drawing to a close, our engagements
have been fulfilled with inviolable fidelity, and confidence
has been maintained. Such is the history of our finances
during the past year. They have been saved and improved
by that good faith which is the support of all credit, and
it will not be one of the least glories of our revolution that
it has surmounted a political crisis unparalleled in his-
tory, free from financial derangement. You, gentle.
men, know to what principles France is indebted for
this glory, and to what principles she must remain faith-
ful if the wishes to preserve it.
The Minister then presented the Bill, framed in accord-
ance with the details which he communicated in his speech.
The Bill was ordered to be printed.
The Minister of the Finances, in making another commu-
nication, said " After submitting to you the Bill fur regu-
lating the expenditure and receipts of 1831, we now pre-
sent to your examination the budget for 1832, deeply re-
gretting that the burden it imposes on the country is not
less heavy. But if economy is the first duty of those whom
the King has invested with his confidence, they ought, ne-
vertheless, always to recollect, that economy is really bene-
ficial only when it strikes at superfluous expenses, and does
not compromise the public service. The expenses of the
State, when approved by reason, cannot be considered as
steril. It is through the assistance they lend, that public
works are peaceably accomplished, and bear their fruit.
Without Government, without an Administration, what
would become of our manufactories and our counting-
houses? In order to do away with the expense they occa-
sion the nation, let the judges, the soldiers, and the re-
ceivers of the public revenue be suppressed, and then
society would be delivered up a prey to disorder, and labour
struck with sterility and impotence. The 402 millions to be
substracted from the Budget for the Sinking Fund, the
Debt, &c., contribute to no public service, and yet of that
suns we can diminish nothing. There therefore remains
oritie the
necessary public service?to assign a
a sum
parti-
cular of
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for the expenses of the ordinary budget only 554,000000 f.
From this sum the expenses of collection, which: have
undergone important reductions, carry off 118,000,0001.
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plate to n°°rfemain s f
.Again,
the departmental expenses, of which a part
depends on the resources voted by the Councils-General of
departments. The distribution of these expenses is made
by the Councils-General, and it is the budget of the depart-
ments that profits by the savings, which are divided among
services too much neglected. Including the centimes of
registry, the departmental expenses amount to 60 000,000 f.
From the 376,000,0001. remaining, the army and nave
carry off 242,000,000 f., the bridges and highways
31,01)0,000f., end we ash from you 103,000,000 f. for all

the other expenses of the State, for diplomacy, justice,
public instruction, divine worship, the general expenses of
the Ministers of the Interior and of Commerce, the admi-
nistration of the finances, and the expenses of the treasury.
We do not make known to you, gentlemen, those calcula-
tions in order to resist the just demands for economy, but
to show you how difficult the situation of an administrator
is, between the desire of satisfying the public wish and im-
perious necessity. We place before you a sketch of the
obstacles that we have to struggle with. Voices had been
raised against the rate of various salaries, and since the re-
volution they have ben reduced. The Ministers of State
are suppressed ; a new rate has been adopted fur the ap-
pointments of Ministers, Ambassadors, Secretaries-General
of Ministers, First Presidents, Procureurs-General,Prefects,
and a great number of other functionaries. In the Ministry
I have the honour to direct, instead of Directors-General at
10,0001., the administrations have now head directors at
20,000 f. ; and sub-directors at 12,000 f. replace administra-
tors whose salaries amounted to double that sum. Numerous
suppressions of places have also been made in the financial
branches; look at the details, and every where we are cer-
tain the proof will be found that Government has not ne-
glectW the task of lessening the public charges. Let us
now pass in review, one after another, the various branches
of expence for 1832. The public debt demands for the
rentes already negociated, and for the rentes to be put in
circulation, in virtue of the laws of sth January, 25th
March, and Bth April last, an augmentation of credit of
8,300,000 f. ; for the loan of 120,000,0001., and for the
national loan, the budget of 1831 only includes one half-year.
We keep at 15,000,0001., the credit for the interest of the
floating debt, on the footing of a capital of 300,000,000 f. ;
but the return of security will permit us, we hope, to pay
an interest less high. The numerous suppressions of places
effected in the Ministry of the Finances, and in the adminis-
trations depending on it, force us to augment, by 230,000 f.
the amount of the retired pensions ; and this charge is the
condition of the considerable economy that has been
realized. If by the effect of the loans rendered necessary
by events, the burden of the consolidated debt is in-
creased, on the other hand, the life annuity debt, and
the pensions, bring us a diminutior of nearly 2,300,000 f.
As in the budget of 1831, the civil list is merely noted.
We now come to the various Ministries. That of justice
demands nearly the same amount as for 1831. In the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the establishment of new
legations augments the amount of the appointments
of political agents; but this augmentation is more than
compensated by the very important reductions made
in the other expences of the Ministry, the expences of
the establishment, extraordinary missions, and diplomatic
presents. The last item is reduced from 150,000 f. to
50,000 f. The net result is a saving of 628,000 f. Be-
sides, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs gives up 500,000 f.
of secret service money, inscribed in 1831 under the head
of extraordinary service. Since the revolution, the Mi-
, nistry of Public Instruction and of Religion reckons a re-
. duction of more than 3,000,000 f., amounting to about a
tenth of its entire budget. The salaries of the Cardinals
. have been suppressed,—that of the Archbishop of Paris
reduced one-half; and the expences of the diocesans of
every description, the aids granted to ecclesiastical esta-
, blishments, and the expence of the Chapter of St. Denis,
, .have undergone retrenchment. Like severity has been
carried to the expences for ecclesiastical instruction ; the
semi-bursaries no longer exist, and 500 bursaries will be

successively extinguished in the seminaries. These dif-
ferent reductions amount to 3,230,700 f. ; but on the
other band, it was necessary to pay the entire salary of the
young ecclesiastics who replace old priests, whose pensions
proceeded from a deduction in these salaries. New places
have been created for pastors of the Protestant religion,
and salaries granted to those of the Iraelitish persuasion.
In short, primary instruction has received a new aid of
600,000 f. Deducting all these augmentations, the Mini-
stry of Public Instruction and Religion presents a saving,
compared with that of 1830, of more than 1,200,000 f.
The re-establishment of the Ministry of Commerce has
diminished at least 3,000,000 f. of the budget of the
former Ministry of the Interior ; in the alteration which
has taken place, the principal services have been trans-
ported to the Ministry of Commerce. The Ministry of the
Interior asks for its ordinary service of 1832, nearly the
same sums as for 1831'; but it cuts-off 5,400,000 f. from
its extraordinary service. After the Ministries of War
and the Finances, the Ministry of Commerce is that
which presents the heaviest mass of expenses. Its attii-
butions embrace the entire Administration of the country,
all the public works, roads, canals, and cons'ructions of
every kind. It includes 96,000,000 of departmental
expenses, and those of the roads and bridges. You know,
gentlemen, he continued, that the funds employed in de-
partmental outlays cannot be better employed; they de-
mand rather new subsidies than lead themselves' to a dimi-
nution. The same thing may be said of the roads and
bridges. We now arrive at the Ministry of War. Since
the commencement of the present year, we have kept up
a military establishment beyond the ordinary measures of
a state of peace. We have above 400,000 men under
arms, and that demonstration of power is called for by
the state of Europe. It affords us the means of a peace
at once assured and worthy of France, and it demonstrates
to foreign Governments that we are so much the more
sincere in the desire of maintaining peace, seeing that we
are perfectly capable of making war. One great ques-
tion presents itself for 1832. 'lt is proper, at the sacri-
fice it occasions us, to maintain the same display of
military forces ? We have not hesitated, gentlemen, to
resolve the question in the affirmative. All the efforts of
our policy tend to a general disarming ; but so long as the
disarming is not decided on, France ought not to be the
first to diminish the number of her soldiers. There ere

no financial difficulties that ought not to be surmounted,
when the interest, honour, and safety of the country are
in question. We are assured, gentlemen, that you arc of
our opinion on this subject. We carry, then, to the war
estimates all the sums ❑ecessary to maintain our army
during 1832, upon a footing at least as respectable as dur.
ing 1831. The disarmament will reduce our charges ;
and the delay it might meet with would not augment
them. In 1831 the Minister of War asked 373,000,000.

For 1832 he asks only 307,000,000. With the
307,000,000 the Minister of War keeps up 14,188 men
more than in 1831, and furnishes arms to the amount of
10,000,000 to the National Guards. The reduction prin-
cipally bears upon horses, and the labour and materiel of
the artillery and engineer corps. I now pass to the esti-
mates of the Marine. The Minister of this department
had 60,000,000 f. in 1331. He asks 65,000,0001. for
1832. It isnot at a moment when the French flag has just
signalised itself by a glorious expedition, which attests the
bravery of our sailors and the ability of their chiefs,
that you would refuse to our navy subsidies scarcely
sufficient to keep France in the rank which she ought
to old upon the seas. The Ministry of Finances
comes the last, with its numerous details and
immense machinery. No man can be ignorant either
of the wants it is bound to provide fur, or the re-
ductions to which it has been obliged to submit for
several years. Its organization, I can venture to say, is
constantly improving, and its labours become less expen-
sive. This year it comes forth with a further reduction
of 300,000 f. in its central administration, and of
2,600,0001. in the charges of collection. The largest
portion of this last saving is in the indirect taxes and the
Post-office. Having at length come to the end of this
long enumeration, we have only to point out the results.
The ordinary credits we ask for the year 1832 amount to
956,000,000 f. and the extraordinary credits to
141,700,000 f. The amount of these two grants in
1831 are 1,172,000,000 f, Thus the budget of 1832,
although burdened with an increased debt, and notwith-
standing the augmentation of the effective force of our '
army, of the departmental funds, and the provision for the
navy, presents a diminution of 74,700,000 f. Gen-
tlemen, we have laid before you the extent of our necessities,
and will now make known the means of providing for
them. The ordinary revenue of 1832 is computed at
978,606,000 f. Our estimates are founded upon the pro.
duct of 1830. The receipts of 1831 have hitherto re-
mained below that estimate; but it is to be hoped that
such will not be the case in 1832. We do not intend to
propose ;:ny modifications in the taxes for 1832. Not
that we consider our sys'ent of taxation perfect, but
as the year is already far advanced, the ch rnges
could not be discussed in time, and we should be
again condemned to provisional grants. In the budget
of 1833 innovations may be made. The system of
our Customs may be modified with advantage. The
estimates of our ordinary revenue exceed those of our or-
dinary expenditure by 22,000,000 f. Our extraordinary
ways and means amount to 181,460,000 f., consisting ul
131,460,000 f. remaining unemployed from the service of
1831, and 50,000,0001. which we ask you to add to the
200,000,0001. granted by the law of the 25th of March
last. Our ordinary and extraordinary resources, compared
with the estimates of our ordinary and extraordinary ex-
penditUre, present an excess of more than 62,000,000.
This excess, with the consent of the Chamber, will be em-
ployed in reducing the floating debt. Such, gentlemen,
is the state of our wants and resources for 1832. We fully
endow all the branches of the public service ; we keep up
our army upon the full peace footing, which will subsist
till the general disarmament; and for this we neither asl•
for the renewal of the 30 temporary centimes on the land-
tax, nor any new impost. By adding some sales of timber,
the excess of the resources of 1831 will suffice. The nation
which in difficult times can thus support such charges, ha•
wait with confi-
a right to speak of its power. We may

dence for the moment when the consolidation of the pe
of Europe trill cause our expenditure to return withinritij
ordinary limits. Our noble country will have suPrviii
painful sacrifices, but will not have to regret them ; it tbt
find, in the vast career of prosperity opened before its
reward of its good faith and courage.
The Minister then presented a Bill in conformity Ott:
statements made in his speech, which was ordered t°
printed and sent to the committees.

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES-SATtmnAlr•
The Chamber met at a late hour, under the Preside
of M.•Girod de l'Ain, there being nothing on the orb"
the day but reports on petitions.
At three o'clock M. D'Argout, the Minister of Ce:il
coerce, presented two projects of law ; the one to 6%641
amount of premiums for the encouragement of the 601
and whale fisheries, and the other to regulate the uu
chargeable on foreign goods passing through France'
FRENCH FUNDS, PARIS, AUGUST 20.-Five per Cents, If' qsc.
75c. 85c. 89f. 88f. 95c. 89t 20c. 25c. 891. 89f. Sc. 15c. 25c•
20c. sc. 89f. 10c. 15c. 20c. 10c. 89E 88f. 90c. New LOAD, rtfsC4
88f. 85c. 89f. 20c. Isc. 88f. 90c. Three per Cents. 57f. 15c1014
65c. 75c. Sk. 90c. 85c. 90c. 95c. 58f 57E 75c. 90c. 75c• ICe
Actions, 1,5401. 1,520 f. Rente de Naples, 67f. 50c. 68E 70(
50c. Rente d'Espagne, 9. Royal Spanish Loau,63 62%;,
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Loan, 240 E-Exchange on London, one month, paper,
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