The Sun.
London, England, 1832-01-14 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Messayer des Charnbres.
The month of December has not been less favour-
able to the revenue than were those of the previous
quarter. The receipts have exceeded the budget
e,timate, and are six millions more than they were
in 1830,

The improvement is still more remarkable when
compared with the revenue accounts of England for
the last three months.

CHAMBER of DEP U TlES—Je.vc Any 10.

The discussion of the Bill for regulating the Civil
List was proceeded wirh.
Article 3, declares that the various properties
therein mentioned shall not form part of the flotation
of the Crown, hut shall be employed or sold for the
brnefit of the Sate.

The following is the list of the properties in
Paris included in the article ; those items to which
an asterisk is prefixed were nor proposed by Govern-
ment to belong to the state, but were added by the
Committee :

The greater and lesser hotels Mole, Nos. 58, 60,
and 62, rue St. Dominique, valued at 1,000,000
francs. The hotel of the Grand Almonrie, No. 2,
rue Bourbon, 200,000 francs. *The hotel of the
Grand Veneur, No. 9, Place Vendome, 400,000
francs. *The hotel d'Atigevilliers, rue de l'Oraroire,
350,000 franc.. *The hotel du Chateler, No. 121.
rue de Grenelle St. Germain, 560 000 francs. *The
hotel de la Montvale des Medailles, rue Guenegaud,
300,000 francs. *The buildings of the Conserva-
toire de Musique, rue de Faubourg Poissoeniers,
100,000 francs. The gasometer and buildings
of the Opera, in the rue Richer, 120,000 francs.
The Hotel dcs Grades, rue Neuve du Luxembourg,
650,000 francs. The buildings of the Savonneric
at Chaillot, 260,000 franc,-. The marble ware-
houses and wood yard at ( 160,000
francs. The Salle Favart, rue Favart, 1,000,000
francs. *The Chateau and Park of Bagatelle, in
the Bois de Boulogne, 500,000 francs. The
Pavilion de Is Maette, situate in the Bois
de Boulogne, 330,000 francs. *The ground
for the Refuse of Paris in the Forest of Bondy,
25,000 francs. *The wood in the Forest of Bondy,
48,000 francs. Total in Paris, 6,107,000 francs.
All these items were adopted in succession, with-
out any discussion of interest, except that on the
article of Salle Favart a conversation took place be-
tween M. Marmier, M. de Belleyme, and M. Dupin,
sine, in which the former wished that theatre to
continue annexed to the Civil List, because the
Italian company needed support!, and received it at
present by being allowed to occupy the theatre at al
lower rent than any other proprietor would be able to
grant it at. M. de Belleyme objected to the Civil List
having any thing to do with the theatres, remarking
that the Salle Ventadour (the Opera Cornique) had
cost the Civil List 4,500,000 f. in building, and after
some time the Administration was glad to get M.
Boursault to purchase it at 2,500,000 f. He, how-
ever, said that if the Salle Favart were retained, it
would be more becoming in the Civil List to give
it to the performers of the Opera Comique, an emi-
nently French entertainment, than to employ it for
the advantage of foreigners, who had neither the
want of, nor the claim to the support of Govern-
ment, which might be alleged by the former.

M. Dupin sine agreed with the first part of M.
Belleyme's observations, and said that the theatres
had been ruined by being managed by gentlemen of
the Royal Chamber.
When the item was put to the vote, M. Marmier
was the only Deputy who rose in favour of its being
annexed to the Civil List.

The following properties were also, without any
discussion of interest, declared to be available for
the profit of the State :
St. Cloud ; the Hotel des Gardes du Corps ;
with some other buildings and land, valued at
2,195,700 f.
Versailles—The Post-office, Town Library, with
a number of other hotels, woods, and land, valued
together at 5,813,400 f.
Sr. Germain-en-Lave.—The Chateau, with other
buildings and lands, valued at 1,339,200 f.
Fontainebleau.—An estate, called Grand• Ferrare,
valued at 15,000 f.
Compeigne.—Some hotels and lands, valued at
138,000 f. . .

_ .
Strasburg.—(ln addition to the Chateau, already
declared to belong to the State.)—The Cour de
Baden and Glaciere, valued at .52,000 f.
An amendment, proposed by M. Lebastard de
Kerguiffinec, declaring that all the above properties
should be sold, and the proceeds applied in forming,
in every department, an agricultural asylum for the
invalid poor, did not meet with a seconder, and could
not, therefore, be put to the vote.
The ensemble of Article 3 was then adopted.
Article 4 relates to the appanage of the house of
Orleans.

The Bill, as originally presented by Government,
provided that this property should form the appanage
of the Heir Apparent on his attaining the age of 18
years. The Committee proposed, as an amend-
ment, to word the article thus:—

" 1. There shall also be comprised in the real dotation
all the property of every description composing the appa-
-iage of the Dukedom of Orleans, establi.hed by the edicts
of 1661, 1672, and 1692, as well as the lesser forest of
Orleans, which originally made part of it, and the whole
of which, by the succession of the King, have again be-
come annexed to the domains of the State.

" 2. In the event of there being an indemnity due for
additions made to this appanage from the time of its being
restored to the house of Orleans until its re-union to the
crown dotation, such indemnity shall not be demandable
till the end of the present reign.
" 3. The property belonging to the Princess Adelaide
of Orleans, and not forming part of the appanage, may
also be annexed to the dotatiun of the Crown by purchase
or barter. '

M. Salverte said, that this article was contrary to
the principles which had always governed the laws
of appanages in France. These principles were,
that whenever any individual possessed of an appan-
age came to the throne, that appanage was of right
and for ever merged in the domains of the State. He
therefore proposed that the appanage of Orleans
should, with the exception, of the Palais Royal, be
declared to belong to the State.
M. Mauguin supported the amendment, and re-
marked that at any rate the small forest of Orleans
did not originally form any part of the appanage, and
ought in any case to be separated from the Crown.
He then entered into a detailed history of the ap-
panage of Orleans, with a view of proving that as
it was only in 1823 that the ordinances of Louis
XVIII., by which the domains formerly belonging
to the house of Orleans, which had been restored
to it in 1814, were confirmed by a law, there was
no pretence for allowing the heirs of the late pos-
sessor to claim hereafter from the Treasury an in-
demnity for the improvements made in the property
between these two periods,
M. Dupin (aine) maintained that the real prin-
ciples of appanage, as established by repeated pre-

cedents in France, were, that they might be granter!
by Sovereigns to younger branches of the Royal
Family, under the condition of reverting to the
Crown on the failure of heir: male of the grantee.
This was the principle to be followed in the present
instance; it was to the Crown, and not to the State,
that the appanage properly reverted on the Duke of
Orleans becoming King. With respect to the in-
demnity, the non. Deputy maintained that the or-
dinances of 1814 were in themselves legal, and that
the law of 1825 being only confirmatory of them, it
was from the former period that the indemnity for
improvements made in the property would properly
run. in conclusion, he entered into various details,
to prove that the small forest of Orleans properly
formed part of the appanage.
I\l. Portalis said that he did not object to the
Palais Royal remaining the property of the King
but he thought that so much had already been
granted to the Civil List, it was unnecessary to
add property amounting to 3,000,000 f. per annum in
addition. He, therefore, supported the amendment.
A desultory conversation then ensued on the mode
of putting the question on the different paragraph,i,
in which 11. Vatismenil warmly opposed the second
paragraph, on the ground that it was for the judicial
authorities, and riot for the Chamber, to decide whe-
ther an indemnify was due or not; and Grea
moved an amendment (which was immediately re-
jected), declaring? that no indemnity should he al-
lowed; but ultimately the amendment of M. Sal-
verte was rejected, and all the paragraphs of the
committee adopted, the second of them by but a
small majority. The ensemble of the article was
then adopted.

(From the Messager des Chambres )

Our system of accounts is established upon a plan
so perfect, and submitted to such strict superie-
tendance, that it is almost impossible that the State
should be compromised for any sum to a considerable
amount. We are enable to assure our readers that
every measure has been taken by the Government
to prevent the public treasury from suffering to any
extent by the misfortunes that have happened to
M. Kesner. This gentleman enjoyed the general
esteem in the highest degree. Thirty years of faith-
ful and valuable services had rained him to the post
he occupied; his mode of living was without osten-
tation, and he was distinguished only for his bene-
volence. A very large personal fortune added to
the universal confidence created by his probity
evinced on many trying occasions. At the closeof the
last year the cash accounts of the treasury were sub-
mirted to a minute examination, and found perfectly
regular; but it appelrs on another partial investiga-
tion, ordered by the Minister of the Finances in the
course of last week, a deficit of 125,000 francs was
discovered, for which M. Kesner could not account :
this became the signal for the catastrophe which
had such an effect upon the Exchange. The inves-
tigations at the Treasury are still going on, but the
amount of the declaration has not yet been precisely
ascertained.

(From Galignani's illessenger.)
From the additional particulars which we have
been able to collect respecting the unfortunate M.
Kesner, we learn that in consequence of a deficit
of 138,000 francs having been stated by the Court
of Accompts to exist in his department, several In-
spectors-General of the Finances went to him on
Monday morning to examine the state of his accounts.
He received them w it bout embarrassment, and worked
with them for several hours in making up the ac-
counts, after which he returned immediately. He
never, however, made his re-appearance. From a
letter addressed by him to the Minister of Finances,
and which every examination made tends to con-
firm, it appears that the deficiency in the public
monies does not exceed 1, 800,000 francs, in
part of which he has left 120,000 francs in gold in
his bureau, and 900,000 francs at a Paris banker's;
so that his debt to the State would be less
than 1,000,000. As his private fortune was sup-
posed to amount to 2,000,000 or 3,000,000,
this could not account for his disappearance ; and
it is therefore conclnded he is very largely in-
volved with several of the great capitalists, in
consequence of Stock Exchange speculations,
in which he had indulged to a fatal extent.—
The most universal regret is expressed at this me-
lancholy occurrence, and his uniform urbanity and
upright conduct had conciliated the respect and
esteem of all who knew him. We learn that the
unfortunate man, on retiring to bed on Monday
night, at his country-house, attempted to suffocate
himself by lighting a pan of charcoal in his bed-room.
He was found by his servant yesterday morning in a
senseless state, but was restored by immediate bleed-
ing. He has been placed under arrest and removed
to Paris. It appears that the moment his disap-
pearance was suspected in the office, a number of
those who first heard it, not knowing how extensive
the defalcation or how serious its consequences
might be, immediately speculated for a fall, and
made immense sales without even informing the
stock-brokers of the ground of their proceedings; but
as the parties were all in some measure official indi-
viduals, political motives were of course assigned to
them, and hence arose the multitude of reports
which were in circulation during the day.