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that there a large deficit in the receipts of this
year compared with the expenses. While his 'Tell-
able to the State, and enable it to balance the expendi-
ture
.eath: • has directed that the present system of
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public admiiistration shall be efficaciously reformed with
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the aid of fee Consulta of State for the Financial De-
partment, it has nevertheless been considered advisable
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to provide for urgency of the present year. However,
rather than alter the present system of taxation while
such reforms are contemplated, it has been judged expe-
dient to have recourse for this time to an extraordinary
tax on the dativa reale (duty to the Crown), and to a
proportionate tax on the communes. Hence having
taken the opinion of the Council of State, the Holiness
of our Lord has published the following in his sovereign
name :—Art. 1. The dative reale is increased by a two-
monthly quota for the present year 1851; and the
said increase is to be divided into four equal instal-
ments, corresponding with the two-monthly pay-
ments still to be effected in the course of the present
year, including that of the 30th of Jere last.—Art. 2.
But as the third and last portion of dativa, which was
paid beforehand by tax-payers in 1848, would have to
be returned this year, it has bees decided that the said
amount shall be withheld, but shall be compensated by
a proportionate diminution in the amount of the first and
last instalments mentioned in the preceding paragraph.
—Art. 3. One million of seudi (6,000,000 fr.) is laid upon
the Communes of the State. This sum shall be paid by
them accordineto the compound ratio of their population
and taxation in three instalments during the present
year.—Art. 4. The Communes are authorised to raise
their quotas, either from the sums at their disposal ac-
cording to their budget, or by increasing the present
contributions, or else by levying new taxes according to
pie existing laws.—Art. 5. The Pro-Minister of Finance
is entrusted with the execution of the* articles, the dis-
tribution of the taxes, and the publication of the regula-
tions en the subject."
M. 111-

ElreES.
the
fessor- 0- ifNuOt:S SOIREES
On Wednesday evening M. Minola, of Turin, Pro-
third soiree of his series at Willis's Room St.
ALtechny, or artifi LicliaNl Emlielm:Ny,lgQal
James's-square, where his experiments were withessed
with deep interest by a large audience. In the ab-
sence of the complete demonstration which was
given by this gentleman of the astoundlng ef-
, forts of which the memory is capable, when assisted
by a simple and philosophical system of arranging the
several matters committed to its keeping, there are few
so
who would imagine them capable of cl' '
pro prodigious ade-
velopment. In the first experiment M. Minola requested
the company to select 36 different numbers at random,
which were written down in succession by a gentleman
present. After a few moments' reflection, without any one
to assist him, he repeated all the thirty-six without
missing, in their proper succession, and afterwards in
the inverse order. Upon being asked for any particular
number in the list, he answered without hesitation, and
with perfect precision ; evidently showing that he had them
completely arranged in his mind according to some simple
method. M. Minola has acquired an exact knowledge of
60,000 dates, and so familiar is he with them, that he
invites the company to assign any particular century,
of which he will immediately proceed to give the syn-
chronism; that is, to state the principal contemporaneous
events that occurred in it. The invitation WS accepted on
Wednesday only for the era of the French revolution, all
the principal dates of which he stated, from the first mo-
ment in 1789, to the final abdication of Bonaparte in
1815, with minute correctness. But it is not in historical
dates alone that M. Minola manifests this wonderful
proficiency, bat in every concern where a variety of
numbers occur. Associated with other matters, one very
astonishing exercise of memory was performed in the
following manner —A sheet of paper, having the natural
numbers in the margin, from 1 to 48, was given by M.
Minola to one of the company, who wrote down against
them the names of kings, emperors, conquerors, poets,
inventions, events, battles, or, in short any par-
ticular circumstance having a date attached
to it which the company chose. The list
being at last complete, M. Minola repeated
the whole of it from end to end without missing, then
backwards, and then in either direction, commencing
with any event, the number in which in the list was given
him. Upon naming the event, the date was immediately
assigned to it by M. Minola, who, after a moment's
considerafton, would also assign in many instances the
day of the week on which it must have occurred. This,
in particular, was regarded by the company as a tre-
mendous effort of memory, and querista at length
grew tired of ransacking ancient and modern history for
events and names, with the dates of which it was sought
to 'catch the mnemotechnist trifling. With the greatest
readiness and correctness they were answered in
succession, and the 60,000 must evidently have Been
exhausted before the examination began to flag.
In these experiments the power of memory,
when cultivated on a philosophical system, was dis-
played under the most simple circumstances, and having
no extraneous aid to contribute to its wonderful effects.
Other experiments were performed, and the result was
a superior order of illusions, which excited the general
amazement of the company. M. Minola's experiments,
many of which are of his own contrivance, were regarded
with deep interest, and loudly cheered b the company;
and at the conclusion of the soiree th (=cement of
theilareagtion every night this week s ieceived with
el'
great satisfaction.