The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-03 00:00:00

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, 111.1 Roil 1.

The sitting of the day was fixed for half-past twelve o'clock.
At that hour very few Members had arrived. After the prates-
verbal had been read,

M. Counnes rose and said--The Chamber yesterday
adopted a very wise determination. I demand that the Mem-
bers who are present be authorized to inscribe their names in
the Moniteur.

Some Voices.—No, no, that is impossible.
M. Viennet-2530 Members did, it is true, come to the
determination of being here at twelve o'clock. This determi-
nation has not been followed up, since there are not more than
50 of us present now. The only correction that can be applied
to this want of exactitude, is the insertion of the names of the
absent in the Moniteur. _

At one o'clock the number of Members was sufficient for the
continuation of business. The chapter 28 of the Budget of
Commerce is under the consideration of the Chamber.

Upon the allowance of 1,300,000 francs to the royal theatres,
M. Garaude proposed a reduction of 300,000 francs.
L'Herbette supported the reduction. He thought that
the freedom of rivalry among the theatres was the only en-
couragement to be given them, and that allowances should be
granted to them no longer.
M. Jules de Larochefoucault, amidst much noise, read a
discourse, in which he sought to establish that a reduction of
the allowances granted to the theatres would destroy those
amongst them which were really national, and which are ire.
quented by a great number of foreigners.

M. Laurence said that upon the allowance of 1,300,000
francs, the opera of Paris alone absorbed 060,000 francs. He
thought this too much. He was sure that other persons would
willingly assume the direction of the opera for less than that
sum by 150,000 francs.
M. D'Argout—Gentlemen, I think it right to state the facts
of the case as they really are. Under the Empire the theatrical
allowances were paid by the Minister of Police. Under the
Restoration the payment was drawn from the lease of gaming-
houses in Paris. By an Ordonnance of the sth August, 181 S,
these allowances were regulated and attached to the Ministry of
the Interior, and paid from the Civil List. A law of 1820 has
obliged the city of Paris to pay into the Treasury the funds
arising from the lease of gaming-houses (5,300,000 f..). No reduc-
tion can be possibly made upon these funds, which must be paid
in virtue of a contract accepted by the city of Paris. The allow.
ance of 1,300,000 f. was not sufficient, and the Civil List added
540,000 f. to it, and the lesser theatres, by a tax which has since
been taken off, about 200,000 f.
The Minister then proceeded to state the causes of the dis.
tress of the theatres, which were shaken by the Revolution of
July to their very foundations, The Revolution was not the
only author of the:distress, the pretensions of the actors, who en-
crease their demands as the receipts of the theatres decrease, and
the plays represented, also contributed to the ruin that seemed to
threaten them; and besides these causes, the mania for en_
creasing the number of theatres. At this moment, gentlemen,
I have in my hands 103 demands, for 103 new permissions.—
(Universal laughter.) The Minister entered into various de-
tails respecting each particular theatre, and concluded by hoping
that the Chamber would maintain the whole allowance demanded.

Di. Mauguin, in a speech of some length, which was heard
with some degree of impatience, opposed the division of the
allowance amongst the theatres, and contended that the allow-
ance to the Opera was too great, compared with what was re-
ceived by the other theatres. He condemned the treaty entered
into with the directors of the Opera, and the whole direction of
that theatre.

M. d'Argout replied, and the reduction proposed by M.
Garaude was finally rejected. The chapter 2S was adopted.
chapter 9, expences of the departments. Additional centimes
for the fixed expences, 11,927,667 francs.
A great number of Deputies rushed to the Tribune, and in-
scr' bed their names to speak on this chapter. The Chamber
was much agitated.

M. Salverte proposed that the chapter should be divided, so
:hat each article could be examined separately.

This was opposed by the Minister of Commerce, and sup-
ported by other Members.

_
M. Lafitte asked what connection there was between Pre-
fects and galley-slaves, yet it was confounded in this chapter ?
The President refused to put the proposition to the vote, de-
claring it a question of prerogative. The Chamber had not
the power to divide the articles of the chapter.
Much agitation and clamour followed this discussion. Some
reductions were proposed and rejected. The debate was ad.
journed until to-morrow.

FRENCH EXPEDITION TO ITALY.
(PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.)

BOLOGNA, FEB. 21.—According to intelligence from
Civita Vecchia, a steam.boat was expected to arrive in that port
on the 19th inst. having on board the French General Cuvieres.
Letters from Messina, dated the 14th, also state that a French
squadron consisting of a vessel of the line, of two frigates and a
brig, were seen from that town, and were taking the direction
of the Adriatic Sea.

PARIS STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 1, FIVE o'CLoca.-The
month of February has closed its financial career most tran.
quilly. Will the month of March be as peaceful ? This ques-
tion will be solved by the King of Holland, Don Pedro, and the
Pope ; there are, however, wagers laid for the continuation of
all our diplomatic uncertainty. Some demands occasioned a
rise in the Three per Cents. from 66f. 90c., opening price, to
67f. 35c. ; after some trifling fluctuations they closed at 67f. 20c.
and 14c. higher for the end of the month.
FRENCH FUNDS, PARIS, MARCH 1.-Five per Cents., 97f. 60c.
65c. 60c. 6.3 c. 70c. 65c. 70c.; Three per Cents., 66f. 95c. 90c. 67f.
ME 95c. 67f. 66f. 95c. 67f. 67f. 15c. 10c. 25c. 20c. ; Rente de
Naples, 78f. sc. 78f.; Rente of the Roman States, 79 ; Rente
d'Espagne, 10; Royal Spanish Loan, 74% .% 75; Rente Perpe.
tuelle d'Espagne, 52,A M 4. Exchange on London, one month,
paper, 25f. 50c.; money, 25f. 45c.; three months, paper, 25f. 35c.
-Cour: Authentiquc.

In disposing last night of the dropped orders
of the day in the House of Commons, a conver-
sation arose between Mr. SADLER, and Lord
ALTHORP, in which the latter finally agreed
that the discussion on the second reading of the
Factories' Bill should take place on Friday next.

Dutch Papers have been received this morn-
ing. The mission of Count ORLOFF seems
to be the chief topic in the political circles ;
but the general opinion is highly favour-
able to the satisfactory arrangement of
the Belgian question, and the consequent
maintenance of peace. The Dutch have deemed
it prudent to reduce the time of quarantine to
fifteen days from the port of London, ten days
from Hull, and four days from all other ports:—

THE HAGUE, FED. 29.—His Excellency Admiral P. R.
Cantzlar, Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion, and
Governor-General of our West Indian possessions, died at
Paramaribo on 15th of December last, at the age of 60 years.
One of our most esteemed Journals contains the following
article on the mission of Count Orloff:—
" We learn from the Hague that the mission of Count Orloff,
Aide-dc-Camp to his Majesty the Emperor of Russia, is as
favourable to the peace of Europe in general, as important to
Holland in particular. The object of it is said to be to obtain
modifications, which are universally desired here, in a few but
important articles of the determinations of the London Con-
ference, provided the others are accepted by the King of the
Netherlands before the treaty is ratified by all the Great Powers.
By this measure, the inhabitants of Holland may perhaps be at
length rewarded by the obtaining of an honourable peace, for
the sacrifices of all kinds which they have had to support
for the last sixteen months. The Russian Ambassador,
after a short stay, will proceed to London."
The thirty-fifth anniversary of the birth-day of his Royal High-
ness Prince Frederick of the Netherlands is celebrated to-dal
with the usual demonstrations of respect and attachment.
AMSTERDAM, FEB. 28.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 394 to 39%
Amort Syndic, 4 per Cent 67 to 67%
Ditto, ditto. 3% per Cent.
Voluntary Loan, 1831
Exchange upon London, one month ll 87 5-10
Two Months
ST. PETERSBURGH, FEB. 13.—The criminal enterprises
of the rebels in the western governments of the empire, having
necessarily caused great embarrassments in affairs of all kinds,
and a temporary derangement in the fortunes of many of the
inhabitants of these countries, his Majesty the Emperor, gra-
ciously taking this state of things into consideration, has by an
Ukase addressed to the Senate, dated Jan. 27, granted various
alleviations and delays from the payment of debts, &c. to the
whole Government of Vilna, and to several districts of the
Governments of Grodno, Volhynia, Minsk, Podolia, and Kiew.
His Excellency the Field-Marshal, Prince of Warsaw, has
just arrived in this capital, and alighted at the Winter Palace.
All the Generals and officers now here were presented to him
this morning. _ _

By a Ukase of 27th November, 1802, the administration of the
government of Astraclan was placed under the Military Gover-
nor of Caucasus and Georgia, and the town of Georgiaosk fixed
as the seat of the Government. The subsequent union of vari-
ous provinces between the Euxine and the Caspian with the
Russian Empire, extending the sphere of the duties of the Com-
manuer-in-Chief beyond the Causasus, Tiflis was assigned him
for his residence. The great distance of the city from As-
trachan having rendered that Government of the province more
difficult, his Majesty has been pleased to decree that the
Government of Astrachan shall have A soparate administration,

of which the Military Governor shall be the head. The civil
affairs shall be subordinate to the Senate.
Letters from Reval of 6th February say that the winter seems
to be going; a continued thaw, with the thermometer at 3 deg.
above freezing, melted the covering of snow, and great fears
are felt for the seed on the ground.

WARSAW, Fen. 19.—Count Michael Rochanowski, Senator
and Knight of the Orders of the White Eagle and Stanislaus,
died on the night of the 17th.

The Staff of General Rudiger's corp has been transferred to
Lublin.

CRACOW, Fee. 16.—The Senate issued on the 6th a procla-
mation, to the effect that in consequence of a resolution of the
Presidents of the Three Great Powers, the Senate had desired
the Polish soldiers to quit the territory of the republic ; great
numbers of them had complied with this desire, but as a great
many still delayed they are called on, for the last time, imme-
diately to leave Cracow and its territory : the officers by the 16th,
and the subalterns and privates without delay. The Senate, in
announcing this resolution of the Three Courts, hopes that the
Poles will save themselves, and the Magistrates and police offi-
cers, all the unpleasant consequences that might result from
their refusal to comply with this decision.

BERLIN, FEB. 21—The cholera is nearly over at Ilalle, there
being only eight patients remaining.

Since the rejection of the Reform Bill by the
ever-memorable majority of forty-one, the Press,
from the Daily and Weekly Journals to the
Monthly and three Monthly Reviews, and in
letters, essays, statements, and expositions innu-
merable, has teemed with every species of in-
genious argument on the propriety and necessity
of such a creation of Peers as will insure the
immedii:e passing of the Bill on its re-intro-
duction to the House of Lords. If then
Ministers, through that misplaced excess of de-
licacy towards their arch enemies the Tories
which has ever proved the bane and downfall of
Whig Administrations, or from whatever other
cause, shall endanger that great measure to which
they stand pledged to their Sovereign and to the
nation, by a too tardy or a too niggard addition
to the Peerage, for that purpose, it will not be
for the want of timeous and reiterated advice and
admonition. That such a creation must be made
is now inevitable. The question is no longer,
shall we have more Peers ? but, why are they not
created ? All enquiries are directed to the Gazette,
all eyes are turned—and not, perhaps, without
suspicion—upon the Ministry. Have not a suc-
cession of Tory Cabinets, during their centennial
possession of power, most alarmingly, and most
unblushingly, increased their corrupt influence
in that House ; and shall a Whig Ministry, so
peculiarly protected and upheld, hesitate for a
moment, under any circumstances, and more es-
pecially at a crisis like the present, on adopting
a measure of such retributive justice, as well as
of expediency—and in compliance, too, with the
wishes and demands of a whole nation, rarely
indeed expressed for such an exercise of the
Royal prerogative ?
With every disposition to avoid throwing any,
the slightest, impediment in the already immi-
nently difficult path of Ministers, we cannot help
feeling and intimating that at no period of the
agitation of the Reform Bill has it been so ab-
solutely and imperatively necessary as at present,
that men's minds should be relieved from that
lengthened and sickening state of suspense upon
this subject, which has so entirely pervaded and
absorbed every class of persons in the three
kingdoms. The time has now come, we repeat,
when men's minds must be set at rest upon this
question ; and as an ample creation of Peers
must be admitted to be the only safe and certain
mode of its speedy accomplishment, the sooner
the desired Gazette be published the better.
The author of a pamphlet entitled " Present
Prospects, by a Reforming Member of Parlia-
mew," has done much to arrest attention, and de-
cide the consciences, of those who may be wavering
in opinion upon the general subject of Reform,
and upon the particular measure of an addition
to the Peerage. He takes a succinct and very
able view of the condition of the country in all
its various parts ; its society—its government—
its political parties—the great questions—more
especially the one great question, on which its
destinies now seem suspended ;—and after con-
sidering the alterations that have taken place in
the feelings and frame of our society, points out
some of the changes called for by the spirit and
necessity of the times. From the pages of
history he adduces that an aristocracy, to be
popular with the people, or to be endured, must
be a type and personification of the spirit of the
people ; and among the important alterations re-
quired by the social change, amidst which we
are living, lie prominently places the making pa-
tricians of those who have the people's feelings.
‘, The House of Lords in this country ought,"
he says, "to be strong in the popularity of its
sentiments, because it is weak in the unpopular
nature of its existence. Is it so at this moment ?
No. Are there any means of making it so ?
What are those means ? The creation of
Peers." We continue the quotation, as a spe-
cimen of the style of the pamphlet :

. . "
But before I speak of the propriety of making Peers
at this crisis, let me ask what is the peculiar office of the
Peerage, as well as for what purpose the right of creating
Peers is vested in one of the branches of the State.

" I do not deem it necessary to go back to the tradi-
tions of history in order to answer this question ; it is at
once easier and safer to use the simple constitutional rea-
soning of the present day. As the House of Commons
represents the commonalty—so the House of the Lords is
the representation of the Aristocracy. Over the first the
people hold an immediate controul ;—their authority over
the latter they have vested in the Sovereign ; whose duty
it is—to see that this assembly is a fit and proper imaee
of the hid; it represents ; and whose policy it ought to be
(in order to prevent any violent change in the Constitu-
tion,) to keep it, and the feelings with which it harmo-
nizes, as
popular as possible with the nation. By any dis-
regard of this authority, or any laxity or injustice in its
use, it might so happen—that a House of Lords, chosen
by one particular Administration, or by a series of Admi-
nistrations professing one particular set of opinions—it
might so happen that a House of Lords—representing the
force of a party, and not as it was intended, and is to be
desired—the national force and national feelings of the
whole Aristocracy;—might bring—unjustly bring—that
Aristocracy into disgrace and disrepute; which, if its
feelings were properly known and properly represented,
would occupy its ancient rank and consideration in the
kingdom.
" If this, which God forbid, should now occur—and
the old habits of affection and attachment which the people
bear, or have borne, to the more wealthy, more respectable,
and more illustrious families that have grown up amongst
them--be thus unjustly estranged and lost;—if a certain
number of misguided men, to whom chance and favour
may have given a power unfortunately accompanied by
a blindness similar to that of the son of Manoah—
should ever be allowed, as the means of crushing their
enemies, to pull down that massy pillar, which
would bring the whole fabric of the State, " with
horrible convulsion," on our beads; great, indeed,
would be the responsibility attaching itself to the
reputation of that Monarch, who had not the wisdom, or
the strength of purpose, to employ the extraordinary pre-
rogative granted to him for such an extraordinary occa-
sion. Great, indeed, would he the responsibility attach-
ing itself to the heads of those Ministers, his advisers,
who thus recklessly allowed a few individuals to peril, in
their persons, the ancient existence of the most august and
historical assembly in the universe...an assembly which

may possibly become incompatible with our future man-
ners—but which, at all events, can never be destroyed
without annihilating what then remains of our eld-fashioned
feelings and affections—without loosening the links, and
changing the order of those r lations which at present
bind the community together—without carrying on, to the
succession of property, those alterations made in the suc-
cession of power, and changing the whole frame of that
society, on which is now based the magnificen►, if some-
what mouldering fabric of the Constitution.
" I sly this, because I must say also that those who
have brought the Aristocracy before the bar of the country,
are bound to do the Aristocracy justice : they are bound
to make that chamber, which is to represent its interests,
the full and perfect image of its opinions.
" A singular theory truly—that of supporting the per-
sonal privileges—the personal advantages attached to each
Member of the Peerage—as a matter of national import-
ance ! A singular fear verily—that of lessening the per-
sonal privileges and personal advantages of those individuals
among whom such privileges and advantages are to be di-
vided ! If the ignorant half-ideotic son of a Peer were
constituted a heaven-born legislator for his own insigni-
ficant sake, there would be little to say in favour of the
system. It is, because, at .t 6 bottom of this apparent
absurdity, there lurks a legislative mystery—in which
those, who see more clearly than the vulgar, perceive, or
imagine that they perceive, a great public advantage : it
is as a State contrivanee—in which all that is ridiculous
in the grant to particular persons, becomes sober and
wise, in considering the benefit of the people in general
for whom that grant is made,—that hereditary power re-
ceives its legitimate and only sanction. Let us not talk,
then, of what may be lost or gained by a few individuals !"

The writer, after some further remarks, pro-
ceeds to consider what is likely to happen if the
Bill be rejected—or, if it be passed by a small
rajority—or, if it be passed by a large majority,
in the House of Peers ; and points out what
we ought to expect from a properly Reformed
Parliament ; and finally, the obstacles to our
peaceably obtaining what the spirit of the times
ought justly to give us.