The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-22 00:00:00

FRANCE.

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.—SITTING OF JAN. 18.
The President took the chair at half past one o'clock,
and immediately afterwards informed the Chamber that
he had received the following letter from M. Mcrmillio,
dated the 17th inst. :
" Monsieur le President—lnvested with an express man-
date to submit to the Chamber the protest of 12.000 of
our fellow-citizens established on the banks of the Plata,
and menaced not only in their interests, but also in their
personal security, by the consequences of the treaty con-
eluded on the 31st of October last, with the Government
of Buenos Ayres; and fecliag all the importance of the
duties imposed by this mission in presence of a perhaps
imminent ratification, I beg you will have the goodness to
inform the Chamber that the still feeble state of my health,
and above all the non-arrival of the private documents,
uhich have been promised to me, alone prevents my calling
its immediate attention to so grave an affair. At the end of
this week, without doubt, I shall have the honour, with its
assent, of fixing the day on which it may be convenient to
the Chamber for me to put to the Ministers the questions
which 1 am personally charged to put relative to the cir-
cumstances of the treaty in question, and the disastrous
consequences which would result from its ratification "
M. Baudin read the report of the Committee on the
Bill for the credit of sixty thousand francs in favour of the
library of the Arsenal.
M. Humann, the Minister of Finances, presented the
following Bill of Credits :
" Art. 1. A sum of 40 millions is appropriated to the
completion of the extraordinary works of the service of the
posits et chaussees, in augmentation of the sum of
188,296,000 f. remaining to be employed in 1842 and fol-
lowing years, and voted by special laws. These appropri-
afiOns, amounting altogether to 228,269,0001., shall be di-
vided under special heads.
" Art. 2. A sum of 254 millions, including 92 millions,
at which the expense of the fortifications of Paris for
1842 and following years is fixed, is appropriated to the
extraordinary works of the War Department for the en-
gineers and artillery, and for barracks and military maga-
zines.

" Art. 3. A sum of 52 millions is appropriated to the
extraordinary works to be executed by the department of
the marine and in the Forts and arsenals.

" Art. 4. Upon the grants fixed by the preceding
articles, credits, amounting to 75 millions, aro opened for
the expenditure chargeable upon the estimates of 1842, viz. :
Public works
Ministry of War 36,300,000
Ministry of Ali riae

75,000,000 f.

" Art. 5 refers to the classification of the credits, and
,be faculty' of carrying over the amount not employed to
;be next budget. . . .

" Art. 6. The expenditure Lr which these credits are
opened upon the estimates of 1842, up to the amount of 75
millions, is to be covered by a sum to that extent on the
produce of the loan of 450 millions, mentioned under the
head of Extraordinary Ways and Means, in the law of re-
ceipts of the estimates of 1842."
The Minister, in the course of his expose, stated that
of 254 millions mentioned in Article 2, seventy-five mil-
lions were destined for the completion of the defence of
the frontiers and the interior of the kingdom, indepen-
dently of the fortifications of Paris; seventy-five millions
were for barracks and military magazines, and twelve for
the artillery and powder. He stated that it was intended
to appropriate seventy-five millions annually for six years,
from the year 1842, for extraordinary public works. The
expenditure under this head would, he said, be more than
sixty millions for 1841. The total amount of the credits
now demanded would, he said, be 534 millions, which
would exceed by eighty-four millions the amount of the
proposed loan. The Illinieers had not chosen, he said,
to increase the amount of the loan, for it would be im-
proper to draw upon capitalists beyond their means.
On this point he added, political circumstances have
not influenced our determinations as to extraor-
dinary works, otherwise than by inducing us to
take into consideration the necessary precautions
which. sooner or later, in the present situation of
Europe, France must have adopted. It is not without
profound regret, however, Gentlemen, that, in order to
provide for the war department, we have bren compelled
to diminish by one.half the amount of grants to the ponts
et chausi'.ies, and to resign ourselves not to undertake any
new enterprise before the year 18.18. The emulation of
nations advanced in civilisation directs itself only in the
present day to the conquests of peace, and we must deplore
the still imperfect state of international relations which
compels them to consnme in sterile expenditure the capital
demanded for reproductive employment. M. Hamann
then read a ver3 long and detailed expose of the different
branches to which it is intended to appropriate the credit
for the war department.
The Bill presented by H. Hamann was ordered to be
printed and distributed.
The Minister of Public Instruction then presented a
Bill for the protection of literary property. It was ordered
to he printed and distributed.
The Order of the Day now was the adjourned discussion
upon the Bill for the sale of landed and house property,
under legal judgment.
The remaining articles were put to the vote and suc•
eessively adopted.
On the ballot on the ensemble the numbers were, for the
Bill, 148 ; against it, 12 ; but as the members present were
not sufficient according to the regulations of the Chamber,
a new ballot was ordered for the next sitting.
The Chamber adjourned et a quarter to six.

The General Steam Navigation Company's
steam-ship Ramona, Captain John .1‘1,9 bank, running be-
tween London and Yarmouth, on her passage up from
Yarmouth, on Wednesday afternon, saw a schooner off the
Sunk Light, with her colours in her main rigging, denot-
ing distress. Went to her assistance, end found she was
the James, of Selby, bound from London to Selby. Shc
had been run into by a light collier, was cut down to the
watet's edge, her larboard quarter completely cut away. and
very seriously damaged. The Ramona gave her every
assistance, towed her up to London, and left her in safety.
SUICIDE OF MR. A. GRANT.—Mr. Alexander
Grant, of Carnousie, the Ministerial candidate for the
Elgin burghs, committed suicide on Monday last, the 18th
inst. Deep speculations in tea arc said to have turned
out unfavourable, and to have prompted the unfortunate
gentleman to this rash act. Sir Andrew Leith Hay was
also in the geld for these burghs, hut Mr. Duff, of Haddo,
on the Conservative interest ha,, been the favourite since
the starting.v-Mornitg Post,