The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-05 00:00:00

And yet, notwithstanding all these solemn promises,
it is now seriously proposed to break faith with the

captive EMIR.
In the discussion on the Address in the Bureaux of
the Chamber of Deputies, on Monday, M. LEON

FAUCHER asked M. dUIZOT if the Government pro-

posed to abide by the terms of the capitulation
published in the ilioniteur as having been entered
into between ABD..EL-KADER and General D Lemo-

RiciERE, and ratified by the Duc D'AUMALE ? and M.
GUIZOT answered in these words :—" The insertion in
the Moniteur of the dispatch of his Royal Highness
_ .

the Duc D'AUMALE does not implyany approbation of

the arrangement concluded with ABD-EL-.KADER.
What would the Honourable Deputy have said if we

had garbled the dispatch before publishing it? He
would no doubt have complained that the documents
had been incompletely published. We were desirous
of laying before the public textually the dispatches
relating to this great event. As to the question itself,
I reserve my opinion. The Government has not yet
decided what course it shall adopt."

If anything were wanting to prove the utter ab-
sence of every honourable principle from the mind of
M. GunoT, this reply would furnish ample proof of
the dishonesty of the man's nature. How could any
honourable man feel it possible to hesitate in such a
case ? how could any honest Government deliberate
for a moment as to what course to adopt ? The
word of a Prince of the Blood Royal of France

has been pledged to ABD -EL FADER, and if that
word is not kept, the only course open to the

Due D'AumaLz, as a man of honour, is bound to resign
not only his Governor-Generalship of Algiers,
but his commission as Lieutenant-General and all his

other public employments, and refuse resolutely to
serve under any Government of which M. GUIZOT is
a Member. M. GUIZOT has already grossly insulted
his Royal Highness by his speech of Monday.
The Government has presented three Bills to the
Chambers,-Ist, the budget of receipts and expendi-
tures for 1849 ; 2d, a project of law, proposing a re-
duction in the tax on salt from the Ist January,
1850 ; 3d, another reducing the postage of letters to
two, three, four and five decimes, according to the
distances, also on the Ist of January, 1850 ; 4th, a
fourth relative to the supplementary and extraordi-
nary credits for 1847 and 1848 ; and, finally, a fifth,
annulling, on the grand book of the public debt, a
sum of 15,000,000 f. in Four per Cent Stock, in con-
sequence of the consolidation of a similar sum belong-
ing to the Sinking Fund.
The Consiittaionnel gives the following analysis of
the Budget :
" Notwithstanding what has been asserted by the
Minister of Finance in his Budget, it is an incon-
testable fact, that since 1845, notwithstanding we are
in a state of peace, the deficits have increased in an
incomprehensible manner. The Minister of Finance
announces in a triumphant manner that the deficit of
1846, which had been estimated at fifty-eight millions,
will not exceed forty-five millions, but this diminu-
tion is nothing more than an aggravation of those of
1847 and 1848. If M. Dunion, by using his in-
genious calculation, has found a means to reduce the
deficit of 1846, he has not the same result to offer for
that of 1847. We are but just entering on 1848, and
we see the deficit increasing. The Minister holds
out a hope of improvement, but it is impossible to
take such assertion in a serious light in the face of
figures which prove the contrary. Row is it possible
to believe in a promise of equilibrium in 1849, with
an excess of a million, when we see former Budgets
which have been presented with excesses of three,
four, and six, millions, end by deficits of 45, 128, and
48 millions.
The scene in the Bureaux of the Chamber of De-
puties, preparatory to the nomination of the Commit-
tee to draw up the Address, was very animated. In
addition to the subject of ABD-EL-KADER, M. GUIZOT
was questioned as to Swiss affairs. He admitted the
right of the cantons to alter the federal pact, thus
virtually renouncing intervention, but avowed hisbelief
in the justice of the cause of the Sonderbund, and gave
that as a reason for aiding the Sonderbund cantons by
forwarding them arms. He was also obliged to apologise
for the manner in which the reform banquets had been
alluded to in the royal Speech. M. DR GIVRE having
drawn his attention to the phrase passions ennemies,
which he had put into the mouth of Lours PHILIPPE,
and which bore a marvellous resemblance to the
passions coupables which the Prince DE POLIGNAC
had put into the mouth of CHARLES X., M. GUIZOT
explained that he had never intended to apply that
phrase to any Member of the Chamber, and it was
only levelled at the enemies of the constitutional
monarchy.
The following Members, all of whom are Minis-
terialists, were appointed a Committee to draw up the
Address :—Messrs. DE BUSSIERES, MURET DE BORD,
PLOUGOULM, VITBT, COUSTROU, SAGLIO; D'ANGE-.
VILLE, DE HAUSSONVILLE, and DE HAURERSAERT.
The opposition to the Address in the Chamber will
he led by M. TRIERS.
The Committee on the Address in the Chamber of
Peers has appointed the Baron DE BARANTM as its
reporter.
Oa the subject of the Bills for regulating the salt
duties and the postage, the Constitutionnel says—
" We shall have more than one occasion to give our
opinion on the Bills relating to the salt duties and
postage. The monopoly of salt is to be re-established,
and a whole class of traders are to be suppressed, in
order to have a new series of functionaries substituted
for them. In the Postage Bill the system of ;Jones is
still preferred to a uniform charge. The Conserva-
tives themselves appeared dissatisfied with this double
mystification, against which the Deputies who have
attached their names to the propositions aiming at the
reduction of these two charges in particular raise
their voices."

The Commerce, alluding to the proposed change in
the postage system, says.—
" We shall just say one word relative to the plan
of postal reform proposed by the Minister of Finance.
A postage based on distance is arbitrary and uncon-
stitutional. A reform ought to have two objects—to
lighten the charges of those who at present avail
themselves of the medium of the Post-office, and
cause a greater number of citizens, by the reduction
of the postage, to enjoy the benefit of written com-
munications, and at the same time to augment the
circulation in such a way, as, by the development of
the receipts, to fully make up for the deficit in the
Treasury. The Bill, no doubt, attains the first ob•
ject ; a single letter to Marseilles, for instance, will
pay fifty centimes in place of a franc; but the second
object is not fulfilled, and we are convinced that the
reduction is not large enough to produce the admi-
rable results obtained in England by the uniform tax.
A letter received from a distance of 200 leagues will
be still an object of expense to the poor man—an
object above his means, and the deficit which the
Treasury will experience in its receipts by the dimi•
nution of the charge will not, we fear, be sufficiently
made up by the amount of the new circulation, too
feebly excited. Such is our first impression."
The Union Monarchique says " We learn that a
challenge was yesterday addressed by M. DE MORNY,
Deputy, to M. DR GIRARDIN, on account of an article
published by the Presse, in which an article by
M. DB MORNY, inserted in the last number of the
Revue des Deux-Itiondes, was discussed with some
vivacity. The seconds of M. DE MORNY are, it is
said, Marshal BUGEAUD and the Marquis DE LAVE-
LETTE. On his side, M. DB GIRARDIN has chosen
the Duke DB REGGIO and M. DE MALLEYILLE. It
was hoped that these four witnesses, who belong to
the Chamber, would find means in the course of the
evening to arrange this affair."
We read in the Presse—" It has been announced
in the diplomatic world that the Marquis DE DAL-
MATIE was about to be removed from the embassy of
Berlin to that of St. Petersburgh, and that M. DE
KISSELEFF, the Russian Charge d'Affaires at Paris,
was to be invested with the character of Minister
Plenipotentiary at the Court of France. But it
, seems that this project has failed, from incidents to
' which the influences of a certain saloon in the Rue
St. Florentin were not strangers."
Count ComantEno and General RADOWITZ have
had a conference with the Minister of Foreign Affairs
on the affairs of Switzerland.
PARIS BOURSE, JAN. 4. The market has been
calm to-day, the quotations at the close being within
a shade of those of yesterday, Threes leaving off at
751. 30c.; Fives, at 117 f. 40c.; and New Loan at
76f. 15c. for the end of the month. The market
closed as follows :—Three per Cents. for cash, 75f.
20c., for account, 75f. 30c. ; Five per Cents. for cash,
117 f., for account, 117 f. 40c.; Bank of Franc? shares,
3,225 ; Neapolitan, 102 ; Spanish, not quoted.
RAILWAYS.—The Share Market has been somewhat