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zillion francs.
Colonel Paixhans, admitted that great caution
should be observed in reducing the army; but he
considered all objections removed by the system of
Marshal Soult as to the reserved force, which he

hai!ed as the first step towards a ❑ew, complete, and
economical organization of the army.
M. Gaetan de la Rochefoucauld likewise approved
highly of the proposed system for the reserve,
which he said was in accordance with the opinions

of the late General Foy. He then, after some ge-
neral observations on the budget, digressed to the

question of Algiers, and after expressing his sur-
prise at its having been asserted in the English Par-
liament that promises to abandon it had been made,
not only before, but since the revolution of July,
and his fears that the conduct of Government was

calculated to inspire a belief in the truth of the as-
sertions, called on the Alinisters to vindicate at once
the honour and interest of France, by immediately
and unequivocally announcing and acting on a de-
termination to colonize the African conquests.
General Subervie combated the apprehensions
of General Leydet as to the proposed diminutions
in the army, which, when combined with the pro-
posed system of reserve, would, he contended, be
not only uninjurious but beneficial to the country.
The general discussion was then declared to be
closed.

M. de Corcelles renewed the proposition of ad-
journing the debate until Monday, but it was
negatived by the Chamber.
Chapter I—consisting of 1,495,000 f. for the
personnel, and chapter 2, consisting of 612,0001.
for the materiel, of the Central Administration, were
adopted without opposition.
On chapter 3—" Military Staffs, 15,274,0001.,"
the committee proposed a reduction of 52,550 f.,
which was combated by the Minister of War, but
the Chamber being no longer in number, the further
discussion was deferred until Monday.—Adjourned.

SITTING 07 JUNE 8.

M. Beranger took the chair at a quarter past 1.
The proces-verbal having been read and adopted,
reports were brought up on a number of petitions,
none of which presented any features of general
interest except the following:—
The Committee proposed to pass to the order of
the day on a petition praying for the abolition of
imprisonment for debt in the cases of bills of ex-
change given by individuals not engaged in com-
merce, but the Chamber, on the proposition of
M. Salverte, who observed that the liberty of the
subject was interested in the question, referred the
petition to the Minister of Justice.
An old invalid officer claimed the benefit of the
law which enables indigent fathers of seven children
to have one of them brought up in a public college
at the expense of the state.
The Minister of Public Instruction said that the
law in question, which had been passed in the year
of the Republic 13, had never been carried into
effect, and was, in fact, inexecutable in the present
state of the population of the country. He there-
fore considered that the Chamber ought to pass to
the order of the day on the petition; but on
M. L'Herbette remarking that if the law was a
bad law it ought to be repealed, and not remain on
the statute-book to mislead citizens as to their
rights, the petition was referred to the Minister of
Justice that he might investigate the subject.
M. Glais Bezoin embraced the opportunity
afforded by the report being brought up on a peti-
tion relating to some alterations proposed in the
municipal system, to renew his complaints of the
dilatoriness of Ministers in forwarding legislative
measures of organization from one Chamber to the
other, instancing particularly the bill for regulating
the municipal attributions, which was thus sus-
pended between the two Chambers. No reply '
was made to these observations, and the petition
was referred to the committee charged to examine
the subject.
Some discussion arose on a petition from the late
colonists of St. Domingo, praying for the inter-
ference of Government in their behalf. The com-
mittee proposed to refer the petition to the Minister
of Foreign Affairs, but M. Parant reminded the
Chamber that the subject had been fully investi-
gated last session, when it was fully recognised that
the colonists had no claim on the Government or
the nation, and insisted, therefore, that if the re-
ference of the petition were ordered, it should be
with the understanding that no claim existed on the
part of the petitioners on the Government, but that
interference on their behalf with the Government
of St. Domingo would be wholly gratuitous. After
some further observations, the petition was referred
to the Minister, with that understanding.
M. Duprat brought up a report recommending
the Chamber to pass to the order of the day, on a
petition of M. Hyde de Neuville, praying for the
abolition of the oath of political allegiance imposed
on public functionaries. This petition was merely
an echo of that which was rejected last session,
and the arguments which the committee oppose to
it, in the report, are precisely similar to those
which were presented to the Chamber on the former
occasion.
M. de Sade said, that theoretically he was of
opinion that a political oath ought not to be annexed
to the exercise of administrative or legislative func-
tions; but, at the same time, he was ready to ad-
mit that great inconveniences would result from
any change in the legislation at this moment, and
he did not, therefore, propose any demonstration
in favour of the petition ; but, as he was anxious
that the Chamber should not, on the other hand,
pronounce an opinion which should appear to pledge
it against the abolition o6the oath at a future period,
when the state of affairs rendered it practicable
without inconvenience, he, therefore, proposed to
deposit the petition in the Bureau de Renseignemens.
M. Garnier Pages, in a long and desultory dis-
course, frequently interrupted by strong marks of
the impatience of the Chamber, supported the
prayer of the petition, and entered into a detailed
development of his theory of the national so-
vereignty, which, he contended, had the perpetual
and indefeasible right of changing the government
of the country as often as it thought proper, and
that, therefore, the exercise of electoral rights,
which were the expression of that sovereignty,
ought not to be fettered by any political oath of
fidelity to any form of government, because the
obedience which those who took that oath owed to