The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-09 00:00:00

FRANCE.

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, SITTING Or DEC. 7.
FINANCIAL PROJECT OF M. HUMANN.
The President took the Chair at a Quarter past Two.
After the admission of Messrs. Guizot and Martin (du
Nord) as Deputies, and the granting of leave of absence
to several Members on account of ill-health,
M. Humann (Minister of Finance) ascended the tri-
bune to make a communication from the Government. Ile
read a project of law and an exposition of motives, tending
to obtain extraordinary cred.ts to the amount of
240,000,000 f., on account of the insufficiency of credits
in the divers Mini Aerial departments, and principally in
the departments of War, Public Works, and Marine.
These credits are destined partly to cover the expenses
occasioned by the military and naval armaments, and by
the fortifications of Paris. The Minister proceeded to
show that the Treasury lizs a deficit at this moment of
280,000,000 f. ; that the expenditure for the year 1841
being estimated at 1,200,000,000 f., and the receipts
amounting but to 1,133,000,000 f., a &felt of 45,000,000 f.
would take place next )ear; and that if the armaments
were to be maintained during 1842, the deficit would
amount to no less than 832,000,000 f., which might be re-
duced to 675,000,000 f., by divers resources belonging to
the Treasury, and by employing the money reserved as a
sinking fund.
After this exposition, the order of the day was the re-
port of the commission charged with the examination of a
bill for the opening of a supplementary credit of 700,000 f.
for foreign refugees. This report being read, M. Angels
demanded that the project of law respecting the regulation
of the accounts of 1838 be resumed. This demand was voted.
M. Delessert moved that the Bill relative to the labour
of children in manufactories, &c., be proceeded with.
The Minister of Commerce stated that he was preparing
important documents on the subject, and that he would
communicate them as soon as the Committee should as-
semble.
After a few words on the subject from M. Grandin, the I
Chamber adjourned.

(FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS.)
The result of the division in the Chamber of Deputies
has produced from some of the Opposition journals an out-
burst of violence against the English Government for hav-
ing, as they say, broken off the alliance with France, and
placed her in a position to be compelled to submit to a Go-
vernment which accepts dishonourable peace and national
shame. This is very exciting language, and is calculated
to produce a strong effect upon the susceptibility to which it
is addressed. It is hardly necessary, for the purpose of
showing that excitement of this kind is of a nature
to be regretted, to say that the French arc more suscepti-
ble on the point of honour than any other nation. All
nations arc susceptible on this point, and all could be
roused with equal facility by impassioned appeals, if by
climate, habits, and the nature of the education received,
the imagination of some were not more vivid than that of
others. In the affairs of private life thousands have daily
cause to deplore having listened first to susceptibility and
appears, the
excitement.
with reason first.
then to reason, instead of beginning
What is the case with individuas is the ease with the mass,
the difference is only one of extent ; and the e gene-
roustake theto
remove
Ins susceptibility greater time does it
The violence of
the opposition journals is on the present occasion increased,
perhaps, by the victory which the peace policy has just
pthtiebieiffiteycat
obtained. Having so long opposed that policy, this is not
the moment to expect any diminution of anger in the jour-
nals which had advocated war. If the editors of these jour-
nals have written under the influence of susceptibility, and
it should appear with time that this susceptibility was
roused without sufficient cause, time also will producsi
a more moderate tone, if tip., were purely, those
of party, the anger will rather increase than subside. In
the r,gtice of the Eastern question, as connected with the
recent discussion in the Chamber of Deputies, two of