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he consented to their erection, on the conditions
which we yesterday quoted from his Report.
The great misfortune, too, is, that the popular
delusion about the walls is not like any other act
of popular folly which terminates with a return
to common sense. The miserable legacy which

it will bequeath to France will be a lasting one.
It will be nothing less than to restore to France
that despotism which it cost her two Revolu-

tions, and the Wood of a million of her subjects,
to shake off. But to avert such a calamity to a
great and gallant nation by sober argument is
no longer possible.

It is remarkable that while only three of the
nine Committees of the Chamber of Deputies
voted on Tuesdayin favourof M. MAUGUIN'S pro-
position for excluding public functionaries from
the Chamber, an absolute majority of 20 votes on
a division of 310 Members were given in favour
of it. All the Ministers opposed it, and of course
all those whose seats were threatened by it, and

yet there was a majority of 20 votes in its fa-
vour ! As this proposition will now be the sub-
ject of an animated debate in the Chamber of
Deputies, we quote it for the information of our
Parliamentary Reformers at home :

" There is an incompatibility between the duties of a de-
puty and those of a prefect, sub-prefect, receiver-general, or
receiver of taxes, general officers and commanders of the land
or sea forces on active service, Magistrates pe-forming the
duties of public officers in the Royal Courts, and chiefs of di-
vision in the public offices.

" No public functionary ought to be eligible for the depart-
ment in which he exercises his functions. Ministers, Under
Secretaries of State, and Councillors of State are to be ex-
cepted from this rule.
" If the abovenamed functionaries should by resignation or
otherwise become eligible, they cannot be elected for at least
six months from the date of their resignation."

We stated yesterday that this attempt to reform
the representation was supported.by M. TRIERS.
It was only conditionally so. M. TRIERS is for
keeping in the Chamber that class of function-
aries who always support the Court, and to ex-
clude those with whom the Government must
compound, in the shape of local roads and
bridges, for a constant vote. The following ex-

tract from his speech explains this very clearly :
"It always appeared to me to be necessary to diminish the
number of functionaries in the Chamber. I woull not go
further than to diminish them, for the presence in the Cham-
ber of the higher order of functionaries is indispensable.
Ministers, Ambassadors, Generals, Councillors of State, Judges,
musthave seats. Their experience is necessary for the Cham-
ber. In general lam not inclined to accuse functionaries of
dependence; there are almost as many in the Opposition as in
the majority who sustain Government; but they torment
the Administtatson with their small ambition; they are,
especially for their district, the most importunate solicitors,
and the most to be dreaded by Ministers. 'Their number hi-
e:eases every day, and, if care be not taken, the course of
events will bring to the Chamber such q number, that., instead
making two-fifths of the Chamber, there will soon be three,
and, perhaps, four-fifths of it composed of functionaries. It is to
this tendency that a stop must be put, and I would do this by
excluding more functionaries. Mete is in this nothing which
affects the honour of functionaries. The law has already ex-
, eluded a certain number, and assuredly the most considerable,
since the prefects are of this number ; they are not insulted,
and why shots d others ?"
Other news of interest there is none in the
French Journals, save what is given in the sub-
joined. extracts.

FINANCE.—The Commerce publishes a circular letter ad-
dressed, on the 25th ult., by the Minister of Finance: to all the
Prefects, enjoining them to cause exact returns to be drawn up
of all the taxable buildings, windows and doors, and of all per-
sons subject to the personal tax, or to the payment for licenses,
comprised within their respective departments. The motive
assigned by the Minister for recommending that measure was
" that the receipts being no longer adequate to the ordinary
expenditure, it was indispensable to devise means for obtaining
from the existing taxes the lull amount of what the Govern-
ment had a right to expect under the present laws of finance."
WAR PREPARATIONS.—The Journal de St. Etienne of the

the 14th inst. state that the greatest activity prevailed at the
manufactory of firearms at St. Etienne. The Alini,ter of War
sent an order in the latter end of February to have 50,000
muskets finished within seven weeks and 1,500 muskets with
percussion locks were Lrwarded to Toulon on the 12th for the
use of the army in Africa. A considerable number of carbines
were forwarded at the same time to Vincennes, and " an idea

may be farmed," continues this journal, "of the works that are
in progress in the Royal manufactory when it is known that
the workmen's wages amount to 50,000 f. (2,000/. British) per
week.'

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We have received the Moniteur Algerien of the Bth of
March.
A resolution of the Governor-General, dated the 6th, orders
that henceforth no isolated submission of Arabs, or of Limlies
of Arabs, whether they have or have not belonged to the
tribes of the Sahel or the Metidja, shall be received in the pro-
vince of Algiers. None but the Chiets shall be admitted to
treat fur the submision of their tribes.
The Arabs who have yet been admitted to make their sub-
mission shall be arrested and placed at the disposal of the mili-
tary authurities to be employed on public works.
The Governor-General set out on the 7th to visit Bona and
the province (f Constantine. He is accompanied by General
de Tarle and General Berthois.

During the absence of the Governor-General, Major-General
Baregnay di Ilitbei s, will take the command of• all the troop!,
in the proviso-efAigiers and Titteny. • •
Letters from Oran received at Algiers on the Bth say, that
250 of Abd-el-Kader's red horse had shown themselves before
Mostaganem. The Commandant sallied out with 500, and
caused this body of cavalry to be charged by 80 Chasseurs,
Spahis, and Dollars. The charge, led by Captain Walsen Es-
terhazy, was completely successful. The Lieutenant of the
Bed Horse was killed, and their Captain taken prisoner, and
conducted to General Lamoriciere.—Le Constitutionnei.
The truth begins to appear concerning the affairs of Buenos
Ayres. It seems from the latest information in private letters,
that there have been twe engagements between the troops of
Lavalle and those of Rosas ; that in the first Lavalle, or rather
a detachment of his army, was beaten, but that in the second,
on the 28th of November, Lavalle took Lis revenge, put Otibe
to flight, and recaptured Garzon, Granada, and other chiefs.
Such is the mostprobable account; it will explain why Rosashas
not celebrated his pretended victory in his official Journal, and
why he surrounds Buenos Ayres with ditches. Terror stillreigns
at Buenos Ayres new cruelties of Rosas are stated to us,
and at the same time a Number of the official Gazette of
Bvenos Ayres, is sent to us, published four days after the
convention of the 29th October, and containing a list of forty
persons deprived of their property without any form of trial,
only that they are designated as savage Unitariaro. This list
is that of only one number of the official Journal ; we shall
doubtless learn successively the names of other victims.
'1 he emigrations from Buenos Ayres, in one month after the
Convention of the 29th Oct., were 400. On the 30th Nov.,
, one corvette, the Cornille, brought away' 24 emigrants, and a
Sardinian merchant-man 80.—Le Commerce.

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