The Sun.
London, England, 1832-01-07 00:00:00

diture as allowed by the Commission on the
estimates for 1832, whose report was read by
NI. Thiers to the Chamber in the sitting of
Saturday last. The expenditure of 1831 was
1,172,000,000 of francs, or nearly 47,000,0001.
sterling ; the estimates for the present year
(1832) amount to 1,097,000,000, or nearly
44,000,0001. This latter sum is of course taken
o►► the presumption of the continuance of peace,
;Ind includes all the ordinary and extraordinary
expenses incident to this condition. The re-
porter, it is evident from a statement of the
Minister of War, omitted in this statement se-
veral items which will appear in future budgets.
The expenditure, however, even of last year, by
no means amounted to the extravagant sum
always assumed for the last six months, by the
Carlist journals, who boasted that the Bourbons
had required only an expenditure of 40,000,0001.
sterling, whereas the new dynasty had begun
with one of 60,000,0001. With the sum of
47,000,0001., which has been given for the ex-
penditure of last year, it ought to be recollected
that France had many costly preparations to
make. She had to repair her fortresses,—to re-
plenish her arsenals,—to equip nearly half a
million of troops,—to succour commerce,—and
to buy arms for innumerable battalions of Na-
tional Guards. The deduction of 74,000,000 f.
or about 3,000,000/., from the estimates of
1832, as compared with the expenditure of
1831, is occasioned entirely by the difference of
circumstances in the two years ; the year 1832
findi►ag fortresses already repaired,—arsenals re-
plenished,—troops equipped,—trade succoured,
and the National Guards armed. Even in the
estimate of 44,000,000/. for the carrent year,
there enters the sum of 141,728,000 f. (or
upwards of 5,500,0001.) for extraordinary
charges; the ordinary estimated expenditure
being only 955,980,000, or somewhat more than
38,000,0001. sterling. This, be it remembered,
includes the dividends on the public debt and
every other item of ordinary charge. The public
debt of France bears no proportion to our own,
but still it is far from being light. The interest—
by which alone the French reckon their public
debt—amounts to 345,451,517 francs, or about
13,800,0001. It cannot escape persons the
least accustomed to such financial statements,
that this perpetual annuity forms an immense de-
duction from an ordinary annual expenditure of
39,000,000/. ; but still it leaves behind a much
greater amount than our ordinary supplies for
the year, including army, navy, ordnance, civil
list, and miscellaneous services, but exclusive of
our debt. To account for this excess of French
annual expenditure over our own, it ought to be
recollected that many local charges, such as the
making and repairing of roads and bridges, and
several general burdens, such as the maintenance
of the clergy, fall into the French budget, and
become part of the expenditure of the State,
whereas in England they are provided for by
local rates or tithes. The whole public services
of the eight departments of State in France cost
the country less than 18,000,000/., exclusive of
the charge for collecting the revenue. INe sub-
join the items of these eight departments, and
with them must conclude our present statement.

Franca.
The Ministry of Justice
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The Ministry of Public Instruction... 37,379,600

The Ministry of the Interior 2,780,000
The Ministry of Trade 112,500,000
The :Ministry of War
The Ministry of Marine
The Ministry of Finance

444,724,800

This estimate amounts as near as can be to
our own annual supplies, exclusive of the civil
list and other charges on the consolidated fund.
It requires only to be mentioned, that in the
Ministry for Public Instruction is included the
salaries of more than 40,000 churchmen, pre-
lates, curates, and vicars ; and that the Ministry
of Trade, including the expenses for public
works, which has been separated from the de-
partment of the Interior, has no corresponding
head of expenditure in this country. The ordi-
nary expenditure for the French army being about
7,000,0001. sterling, is nearly the same as our
own ; but more than 5,000,0001. more is granted
this year under the head of extraordinary
charges.— Times.

The proceedings of the Russian agents in
Greece, if not counteracted in time by the ex-
ertions of the more enlightened Powers of Eu-
rope, must inevitably lead to the result of an-
nexing that fine country to the dependencies of
the Muscovite empire. When we say the more
enlightened Powers, we, of course, allude to
England and France ; for, as to Austria and
Prussia, although it is their interest to resist the
insatiable ambition and progressive aggrandise-
ment of their Russian neighbour, yet their dread
of the amelioration of political institutions makes
them regard with more favour than fear the
growth of that barbarous dominion, whose first
object is to crush all civil liberty throughout
Europe before it overwhelms themselves. Ihe
late Capo d'lstria was a zealous and indefatigable
myrmidon of the Muscovite Cabinet. All the
acts of his Government, since he, unfortunately,
obtained the Presidency of Greece, were directed
to the one point of making Greece a province
of the Autocrat's empire, and reducing it to the
abject condition of Finland or Crim Tartary.
Nothing prevented this design being effected
before now but the love of freedom natural
to the Greeks, which the Russian emissaries re-
presented through the German Papers, over which
they exercise a great influence, to be a factious
spirit—a restless appetite for change and com-
motion, which marred all the benevolent labours
of the friends of national order and social im-
provement. The•act of tyrannicide which cut off
Capo d'lstria, in the midst of hie plots and
schemes for the subjugation of the Greek people,
has certainly retarded that event ; yet the in-
fluence of Russia survived his fate, and the con-
sequence is that we see his brother seated in the
President's chair, to which he was raised by that
influence without opposition, and where he pur-
sues exactly the same policy as the deceased
Satrap, and for the same precise object. We
hear of the most scandalous and despotic prac-
tices being adopted to ensure the election of the
dependents of the President, and the known
agents and adherents of the Russian Govern-
ment, to seats in the National Assembly of
Greece. Before
.the• death of Capo d'lstria,
we know that he called on the Commanders
of the English and French vessels of war to
assist him in the blockade of the island of
Hydra. We protested against our Govern-
ment lending itself to the views of the Northern
Autocrat, by assisting in such. a blockade,
when we heard of it ; but whether that co-opera-
tion, so disgraceful to our flag, was afforded or
not, we have not yet positively learned. We
hope not; but, from the manner in which Lord
Palmerston has in other matters deeply involving
the interests of this country, as well as the cause
of rational freedom and civilization, made our