The Sun.
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THE SUN.
SOLEM QUIT DICERE FALSUM ALIDERT
LONDON,
FRIDAY, ,113RIL 9, 1524.
The Paris Papers of Tuesday contain a report
of the whole of the proceedings which took place
in the two Chambers on the preceding day. In 1
the Chamber of Peers, the Minister of the Inte-
rior presented a draft of the law for the integral l
renewal of the Chamber of Deputies, consisting
of one single article, viz.:—" The present I
" Chamber of Deputies and all the following
41 Chambers shall,be renewed integrally. Their
" duration shall be for seven years from the date 1
" of the decree for their convocation, unless
" they be dissolved by the Kixo.".
In the Chamber of Deputies, the Minister of
Finance presented, in addition to the project of
law for the conversion of the renters which we
gave in our paper of yesterday, other documents embracing
the financial state of the country—namely, a project of law for
the definitive settlement of the accounts of 1822 ; a view of the
income and expenditure of 1823; and the estimated budget
of 1825. The state of the accounts of 1822, is now of
little interest : the other two documents deserve a short
analysis. The expences of the services of the year 1823 con-
sisted of two kinds—the one related to ordinary, the other
to extraordinary services. The former Lad been fixed by
the law of the 17th of 'August, 1822, at 899,838,451 francs,
and including departmental and communal charges, to a total
sum of 929,257,960 francs. For the latter,—namely, the ex-
traordinary supplies—Government was authorised to open a
supplementary credit of 100 millions. It would be impossible,
the Minister said, to decide finally on the amount of ,the ex-
pences incurrred in 1823, or to settle the modifications which
the estimates would receive from circumstances not yet fully
known. It would be sufficient to say, that the credits opened
for the ordinary supply of 1823 had been exceeded by the sum of
6,940,732 francs. With regard to the extraordinary charges of
1823, the Minister stated that royal ordinances had added
107,827,085 of fresh credits to the legislative grant of
100,000,000; thus making the extraordinary credits of 1823
amount to 207,827,085 francs. This unexpected demand had
arisen from the necessities of nearly all the departments of the
Government; but the chief sources of the excess lay in the de-
partment of the Minister of War, which had required the sum
of 83,672,000 francs beyond the estimate. The expences of
the campaign amounted to 170,789,000 francs (6,631,5601.),
in which is comprised the sum of about 22,000,000 paid for
the support of Spanish troops. It was, however, to be under-
stood, that all the accounts had not yet been made up. In the
department of the Moister of Marine an excess of expenditure
had taken place to the amount of 14,588,187 francs. This was
occasioned by the necessity of additional armaments to protect
French commerce, and to-co-operate with the land forces during
the war of Spain. The department of the Minister of Finance
had likewise its excess, occasioned by this same war of
Spain ; and this excess amounts, it would seem, to 20,770,898
francs. Of this sum 11,877,731 francs had been applied to the
Spanish Government during the campaign, which, together
with the twenty-two millions advanced to the Spanish army
on the order of the Minister of War;' makes up a debt of
83,877,731 francs against King FERDINAND, for the re-
payment of which his Government has entered into a lon-
ve.ntion with that of his deliverer and creditor, Lours
XVIII. The other items of extraordinary expenditure in
the :Department of the 14Iinister of Finance were occa-
sioned, we are told, by the expences of negociation, the in-
tenet of sums borrowed, and the necessity of keeping large
establishments for paying the troops at Bayonne, Toulouse,
and Perpignan. The whole of the supplies for the year 1823,
t including those of an ordinary and extraordinary kind, thus
amounted to 1,144,601,671 francs, or about 45,800,0001.—
The produce of the taxes had exceeded the estimates by
18,380,585 francs ; but all the receipts, ordinary and extraor-
) dinary, fell short of the expenditure by the sum of 32,681,988
francs. The Minister, after submitting this statement for 1823,
Produced the estimated income and expenditure of France for
1825, or the prospective budget for the incoming year. As
i the budget for 1824 had been laid before the Chamber in the
last session, the only thing that remained for him on the pre-
sent occasion was to point out the anticipated differences between
t the financial wants and resources of the two periods. The de-
• partments of Justice, Foreign Affaire, War, and Marine, were
expected to experience no change. The whole supplies of 1824
were estimated at the amount of 898,933,580 francs ; those of
1823 are estimated at 898,933,580 francs. The revenue was
- expected to be equally productive, and in consequence would
a bear the same relation to the public charges. The Minister
concluded by congratulating the Chamber on the favourable
state of the national resources, and the success of the loan last
summer, which cancelled the greater portion of the floating
debt of France. As, however, a portion of floating debt is con-
sidered by him to be useful, he purposes that it may hencefor-
ward amount to, but not exceed, 140 millions ; and that no
Royal bonds be issued by the Minister, without obtaining
leave, in the budget. The following project of law with which
he concluded, gives, in a short space, the accounts which he
detailed in his statement ;
Art. 1. The interest of the consolidated debt and-the sinking
fund is fixed for 1825 at 237,083.785 francs.
Art. 2. The credits opened for the general services of the
year is 661,847,395 francs.
Art. 3. The taxes shall continue as in 1823. •
Art. 4. The estimate of the revenue for 1825 is 899,510,333
francs. The other articles are unimportant.
FRENCH FUNDS.
PARIS, A PRIL G.—Five per Cents. opened at 101. 70 ; closed
at 101. 10. ; Neapolitan S per cents., 953/4 in ducats, 9g, 35 in
francs; Rentes d'Fspagne, 20; Royal Spanish Loan, 117123,
631. Exchange on London, one month, 25. 33. ; three months,
25. 15.—(Coure Aialientique.)