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FRENCH PAPERS.

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.-CONTINUATION OF Tuu

SITTING OF TUESDAY.
M. gaugier insisted on the urgency of the Chamber's pro-
ceeding to the vote on the Customs' Bill immediately after
that on the Vicinal Roads Bill.=
The Minister of Commerce contended that'it would be
at present unseasonable for the Chamber to take M. Gau-
guier% proposition into consideration, as it was highly ne-
cessary that previously to the debate on the Customs' Bill
the Minister should have time to lay before the Chamber the
Custom-house Ordinances which had been issued since the
close of the last session. He added, that it was his (the
Minister's) intention to embody all those ordinances in a sin-
gle bill with as little delay as pessible.
M. L'Herbette was of opinion, that instead of presenting
a single bill on the customs, which must necessarily be long
and complicated, the Minister would do well to submit to
the Chamber several distinct and separate bills on the dif-
ferent branches of industry.

Lavielle thought it advisable, on the Customs' Bill,
to direct the attention of the Minister of the Interior to
the commercial state of some of the southern departments.
He was aware that political reasons might exist for the pro-
hibition issued against the importation of arms and ammu-
nition into Spain, but he was unable to imagine any sound
reason for a late Royal Ordinance against the exportation
of various merchandise to that country, such as cloth, &c.,
which was at present conveyed into Spanish ports by Eng-
lish vessels. In his opinion, the result of such an ordi-
nance was to ruin the trade of the French frontiers for the
benefit of England. He trusted that the ordinance would
be speedily repealed ; and, in the mean time, he formally
requested Ministers to explain the intentions of Government
on that point.
The Minister of Commerce replied, that the ordinance
in question, which had been issued by virtue of the law of
1814, was regular, constitutional, and legal, and would
shortly be made the object of a special Bill, to be presented
to the Chamber. He also explained that the ordinance,
which was intended to promote the political interests of the
country, had been promulgated in accordance with the
terms of the quadruple treaty, and at the express demand
of the Spanish and other Governments which had signed
that treaty, and which were desirous of putting a stop to
the transport of supplies to the Carlist forces. The Mini-
ster concluded by saying that the Chamber would shortly
be called upon to decide whether any modifications could
be introduced into the ordinance, but that, in the mean
time, the paramount consideration was the fulfilment of the
conditions of the quadruple treaty.—(Hear. hear.)
M. Gauguier, in consequence of the explanations just
given by the Minister of Commerce, consented to with-
draw his proposition, and the sitting was adjourned at half-
past 5.

COURT OF PEERS.--SITTING OF JAN. 19.

Baron Pasquier took the chair at half-past 12.
The whole sitting was occupied by pleadings in defence
of the prisoners, which presented very little interest, the
counsel dwelling principally upon their antecedent good
eonduct.

M. Ploque presented the defence of Delayen and Cre-
vat, and mainly argued, that after what had been seen in
the rise and fall of Governments within the last half cen-
tury, it was not astonishing that men should be found who
strive against Governments. There was no revolution
without a counterblow.

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M. Bivaux spoke in defence of Candre.
The prisoner Sauriac delivered his own defence at consi-
derable length, protosting his innocence, and reminding the
Court that in 1830 he was the first who planted the tri-
coloured flag in the Place de la Capitole at Toulouse, and
that too amidst the fire of the gendarmerie.
M. Sausnieres, the Counsel of Sauriac, addressed a few
words in favour of his client, showing that his whole life
had been devoted to public instruction, in which career he
had been eminently useful.
No defence was offered for Hubin de Guer, or Montaxier,
the Procureur-General having abandoned the prosecution
against them.

M. Routier, in offering the defence of Bastien, endea-
voured to prove that It's client was neither a politician nor
an agitator, but an honest, industrious man, who supports
his aged father.
M. Auguste Marie defended Roger and Cahusac, and
M. Chamillard addressed the Court in favour of Billon,
after which the sitting was adjourned.
(From the Gtizette des Tribunaux.)
On Thursday last, the Fifth Chamber of the Tribunal de
Premiere Instance decided a cause which is interesting to
diplomatic agents and to persons who have business
with them. Mr. Henry Greville, Secretary to the Em-
bassy of his Britannic Majesty, was summoned for pay-
ment of goods, on the part of Messrs. Vert, Sauphar,
and Levin. His Advocate, M. Cleemann, after having
observed that the demand of the claimants were so unjust,
that his client would not be afraid to go before any tri-
bunal in the world, maintained that in his diplomatic quality
he was not subject to the jurisdiction of the French tri-
bunals , and, in support of his position, quoted Vattel,.
Grotius, &c., and also a decree of the 11th Ventose, an 11.
M. Decagny, on behalf of the claimants, pleaded that this
exception in favour of diplomatic agents held good only in
the case of their having acted on behalf of the Ambassador
himself and in his service ; that, in the present case, Mr.
Greville had .a domicile separate from that of the Embassy,
and had acted on his own behalf, without making known
his diplomatic quality. He cited also a decree of the Royal
Court, which seemed to admit of this distinction. Not-
withstanding, after a reply of M. Cleemann, and on the
same conclusion drawn from the subject by the Government
law-officers, the tribunal pronounced the following decree :
Seeing that it is a principle of the law of nations recog-
nized in Europe, and especially in France, that persons
forming part of an Embassy participate in the rights and
privileges of the Ambassadors and diplomatic agents to whom
they are attached ; seeing also that Mr. Greville has esta-
blished that he is attached as Secretary to the Embassy of
his Britannic Majesty to the King of the French, the tri-
bunal decides that there is no ground for proceeding to
judgment on the demand of Messrs. Vert, Sauphar, and
Levin, and condemns them in costs.".

CHAMBER OF PROCURADORES.
SITTING OF JAN. 8.

The consideration of the Bill on the Electoral Law being
the Order of the Day,
The Minister of the Interior rose and said—The Go-
vernment, in the exercise of its right, has presented to the
Chamber the project of an Electoral Law, which has been
referred to the examination of a Special Committee. This
Committee has made several additions to the project, to
which the Government will or will not agree, according to
the turn the debate may take ; but it is right that the Go-
vernment should at the outset declare that the question
about to occupy the attention of the Chamber is not a
question of a political system, and that it is not a Ministe-
rial question.
Senor Caballero, Member of the Committee, said that
the Government proposed the principle of direct election ;
but the Committee, on the contrary, had, after mature con-
sideration, given the preference to a mixed election, because
indirect election had always been practised in Spain. The
Committee, respecting the usages of the country, thought
that the system of direct election ought not to be estab-
lished without sonic sort of transition.
Senor Puche spoke in favour of the system of direct elec-
tion proposed by the Government.
Senor Martinez de la Rosa thought that the plan pro-
posed by the Committee would comprehend all the incon-
veniences of the direct and indirect systems of election
without offering any advantage in return. Such a mixed
system had never been practised in Spain, and, he believed,
had never been adopted in any free country. It would not,
undoubtedly, be agreeable to the Spanish nation that it
should make the first trial of that system.
Senor Galiano replied to the objections advanced by the
preceding speaker, and defended the plan proposed by the
Committee.

SITTING OF THE 9TH.
The Marquis de Torremejia spoke in favour of the prin.
ciple of direct election.

Senor Arguelles maintained that the alterations made
in the project of law by the Committee were not essential.
He thought that the propositions of the Committee would
be assented to by the Government, inasmuch as they tended
to improve in several particulars the original project.
After the speech of Senor Arguelles, which occupied the
whole sitting, the discnssion was adjourned till next day.

SITTING OF THE 10TH.
Senor Lopez supported the plan of the Committee, and
the Marquis de Falces opposed it. Several of the Procu-
radores addressed the Chamber on the subject, and the dis-
cussion was adjourned.

BRUSSELS AND GERMAN PAPERS

HANovta, JAN. 13:--His Royal Highness the Duke
of Cumberland, during his late visit to this city, honoured
with his presence a supper, at which there were many re-
spectable men of different classes. Among the first toasts
on this occasion the healths of the Duchess of Cumberland
and of Prince George were drank. The Duke returned
thanks in nearly the following terms, which were afterwards
noted from memory by one of the company
You have -drank to the health of my wife and of my
child. The Duchess is a Hanoverian ; she was born in
Hanover, and sets a high value on this,dispensation of Pro-
vidence, for she esteems and loves you and your fellow-
citizens. I am not in the same case ; yet, I ne-
vertheless belong to you. Hanoverian blood flows in my
veins. Prom my fifteenth year, I received my education in
this country, and cannot but look on Hanover as my na-
tive land. My son is therefore a Hanoverian both on the
father's and the mother's side, and his love to Hanover is