The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-18 00:00:00

COMPARISON of the CIVIL LISTS
OF CHARLES .)C. AND LOUIS PHILIPPE.

(From the Prase.)
Francs.
• 36,726,781
23,900,000

Civil List of Charles X
Civil List of Louis Philippe

Excess to Charles X.

The domains of the Crown, although produc-
ing a gross amount of 6,750,000 f., only
netted
The private domain only produced nett - 1,200,000
Reducing the nett total of the revenue of the
Civil List to 19,600,000
In consequence of successive loans, the pri- .
vale domain is burdened to the sum of
the sums due by the Civil List on Dec. 31,
1843, exceed • 9,700,000
The expenses of the Duke de • Nemours,
Prince de Joinville, the Duke d'Aumale,-
and the Duke de Montpensier, including
their travelling expenses, amounted, in
1843, to more than
(A sum far beyond the nett revenue of the
life rents which the King is reproached-
with having deprived his sons of.)
The general expenses of the buildings of the
Crown from 1831 to 1843 amounted to 40,000,000
The expenses of the Royal Manufactories of
the Gobelin (including the Savonnerie),
which under the Empire was 25,000 f., and
under the Restoration 290,000 f., amounted
in 1843 to
The expenses of the Ro) al Manufactory at
Beauvais, which under the Empire was
65,000f.,and under the Restoration 85,000 f.,
in 1843 exceeded....... lOO,OOO,
The Royal Manufactory at Sevres, which un-
der the Empire cost 280,000 f., and under
the Restoration 320,000 f., exceeded in 1843 400,000.
The, average expense of the Musees under
the Empire was 300,000 f., and under the
Restoration 500,000 f. ; the average from
1833 to 1843 was 1,100,000
The orders given for pictures and the pur-
chases made from 1820 to. 1829 only
amounted to 2,100,000 f., whereas from
1833 to 1843 the amount exceeded 5,700,000
The orders for painting and sculpture in
course of execution amount to
The purchases made by the King to-coin-
plete the ancient collections of the Louvre
exceed 330,000
The purchases made by the King from the
Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture
have exceeded

600,000

The restoration of the Painting. and Sculp-
ture, and the keeping up the monuments
of art in the royal palaces amounted in •
ten years to 1,100,000
The estimated valtie of the furniture, tapes-
try, &c. (mobiliers), of the Crown on 2d
March, 1832, was 9,176,111 f. ; in January,
1844, it was estimated at 16,400,000 f. ;

7,200,000

difference
The orders given to the manufactories of
Lyons, Amiens; Abbeville, and Tours, front
1833 to 1843, exceed
The expenses for keeping np the mobihers,
from 1833 to 1843, exceed
The expenses of the wages, salaries, &c., for
the household of the King and Queen, not
including the establishment of the Princes
and Princesses, nor the different expenses,
of the administration of the private domain
exceed per annum
The Couut de Mot.talivet, then Minister of the Inte-
rior, proclaimed from the tribune ou tho 27th April,
1837, that
The gross revenue of the private domain was 2,596,757
The gross revenue of the Civil List 18,674,889
The charges of the private domain
The charges of the Civil List
whereby it was clearly-shown that there remained to the
King, for the personal, expenses of his, family, the jour-
neys of the Princes, gifts, encouragements to science and
the arts, purchase of pictures, statues, restoration of the
palaces, replanting the forests, and embellishments of all
kinds, a sum not amounting to 11,000,000 f. These facts
having• been shown, what occurred ? In spite of the
opposition a "Messrs. de Corrnenin and Lherbeto, the
Chamber has voted the dotation of a million to the
Queen of the Belgians by a majority of 239 to 140. At
the present moment there is no demand for anoney, and
no vote is asked for, All that is required i, that the
country shall be enlightened and convinced that the
King expends all and more than his revenw and ex-,
pe44§ it like a king."