The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-27 00:00:00

FRANCE.

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.—SITTING or JAN. 24.
At two o'clock M. Sauzet, the President, took the chair,
when the debate on the address was resumed.

The paragraph under discussion was the following :
" Your Majesty announces that you hare concluded treaties
of commerce with the King of Sardinia and the republics of
of the Ecuador and of Venezuela, and that you are engaged in
negotiations with other States in various parts of the world.
We hope, Sire, that those treaties and negotiations, whilst
they maintain to national labour the protection that its state
demands, will open a wider career to the intelligent activity of
the country."

M. Gaiithier de Rumilly, the first member inscribed to
speak against the paragraph, said that he fully concurred with
the Minister of Commerce in the propriety of adjourning the
debate until the presentation of the Customs Bill announced
by the Minister.
M. Cumin Gridaine next rose, and assured the Chamber
that the Bill was ready, and would shortly be submitted to the
approbation of the Chamber.
M. ITaillandier afterwards asked the Minister for Foreign
Affairs, if the negotiations with the United States, relative to
the tariff, had been attended with any result ?
M. Guizot replied, that the American tariff was not directed
against French trade alone, but against the trade of all na-
tions ; that England had been aggrieved by it as well as
France, and that there was no chance of obtaining redress from
the present Congress, who were anxious that the tariff should
continue in force. All the negotiations had hitherto produced
no result ; but the next Congress would in all probability be
more accessible to the complaints of England and France, and
then fresh negotiations might be entered into with some chance
ef success.
M. Taillandier observed, that France might have recourse to
reprisals; but M. Gaisot was of opinion that it was advisable
to wait for the meeting of the next Congress.
In answer to another question addressed to him by M. Ville-
neuve M. Guiset declared that the treaties already concluded
would be presented to the Chamber, tugether with the Cus-
toms Bill, and that no other treaty should be concluded before
the presentation of that Bill.
M. Lacrosse, who neat addressed the Chamber, complained
of the little solicitude of the Government for the maritime re-
lations of France, of the neglected state of the colonies, of the
abandonment to the Brazils of 10,000 square leagues belonging
to French Guiana ; of the neglect of French interests in Mexico,
guaranteed by the treaty of 18.39 ' • of the non-payment of the
indemnity stipulated therein in favour of despoiled French
citizens ; and ef the insufficiency of the naval force maintained
by France in the Gulf of Mexico, &c.
M. Guizot, in reply, said that the negotiations relative to the
frontiers of French Guiana, which were formerly pending in
the Brazils, were now conducted in Paris, and that they would
be brought, he hoped, to a speedy conclusion. As respected
Mexico, be admitted the truth of some of the complaints ef M.
Lacrosse. It was perfectly true that the Mexican Government
now arbitrarily levied on foreign merchandise duties ef 20 per
cent. ; that it had adopted a system of measurement which
subjected French vessels to pay navigation duties by one-fourth
or one-third greater than before ; that it had laid exorbitant
duties on the export of precious metals, and had finally pro-
hibited French citizens from carrying on any retail trade
within the republic, and allowed them only six months to
dispose of their property. The Government, he said, had
not overlooked those grievances, and its remonstrances had al-
ready induced Mexico to abrogate on the Bth of November,
1843, the measure relative to the tonnage. The English capi-
talists residing at Vera Cruz, who supplied the French retailers
with goods, were interested in the decree being revoked, and
the English Government had on her side addressed energetic
remonstrances on the subject to the Mexican Republic.
M. de Mackau, the Minister of Marine, in his turn, assured
M. Lacrosse that the naval station in the Gulf of Mexico was
sufficient for the protection of French trade in that Gulf.
M. Glais Bizoin next inquired if the Minister of Marine had
adopted measures to terminate the disastrous warfare raging on
the banks of La Plata?
M. de Mackau rose, and communicated to the assembly two
diSpatches of Admiral Massieu, dated the 20th of October and
llth of November, 1843, from which it would appear that the
resistance of Monte Video was prolonged by some French ad-
venturers settled in that country, and that the struggle was
drawing to a close. Thus, continued M. de Maekau, France
was on the point of reaping the fruit of the firm and enlight-
ened policy pursued by her during the last four years en the
banks of La Plata.
M. Mermillod, who followed, denied that the struggle was
maintained only by French adventurers, and added that the
most respectable merchants of that nation had been the first to
give the signal of resistance and take arms to save the town
from an assault by the troops ef the ferocious Roses. The Ad-
miral commanding the French station had offered a refuge to
17,000 Frenchmen on board the two or three vessels under his
orders, on condition that they consented to lay down their arms
and abandon their property ; but no efficacious protection. he
insisted, was afforded to French citizens in that quarter, and be
concluded by entering a protest against the offensive expressions
used by the Minister towards the French residents at Monte

Video.
M. de Mackau again ascended the tribune, and repeated his
previous statements ; he contended that the Frenchmen who
had taken arms, and thus renounced their quality of French
citizens, had forfeited all right te the protection of the French
flag • but that all those who had taken no part in the civil war
would be efficaciously protected. Admiral Massieu had lately
concluded to that effect a treaty with General Oribe, who
pledged himself, in case he reduced Monte Video, to respect
the persons and properties of the French who had not interfered
in the civil discords of the country.
M. Glais Bizoin here rose and said, thatsince Marshal Sebas-
tiani bad pronounced those words, " Order reigns at Warsaw,"
he had not heard a more cruel expression than that used by the
Minister of Marine, in his exultation, at the idea that the resist-
ance of Monte Vides was drawing tclvtoeke, The voice of the,
speaker was here drowned by •• • • • the rest of his
observations did not reach the gal "RlFlrk'.-0:-sCorcler 'vas re-
stored, the President put the pars disenisintfto the(
vote, and it was carried without ea.y • •
The President then read the next pintgratli="
"We shall examine with care the measures necessary for
the execution of railroads and various other public works. We
hail with eagerness the assurance that the Bill which is to be
presented to us on secondary instruction will, by satisfying
the wishes of the Charter relative-to itie'•liberty or instruc-
tion, maintain the authority and hifftteriteor the State over
public education."
Two amendments to the latterituttorifie4aragraph were
proposed,
The President having observed that it was necessary to
• divide the paragraph into two parts, and discuss separately the
passages relative to railroads and public instruction, M. Muret
do Bard was called to the tribune. The Chamber, however,
paid no attention to his speech, in, 'Whiekite understood him
to condemn the mode of constructiarinfthe railroads under the
law of June, 1842.
M. de Larochejacquelin, who spoke next,. denounced the
avidity of the Companies, and recapitulated the enornsoas pro-
fits realised by those of the Orleans, Rouen, and Paris Rail-
roads, and that of Avignon to Marseilles.
M. Lacave Laplagne, the Minister ef Finance, terminated
the debate by observing that it was premature, and might be
attended with inconvenience.
The Chamber next proceeded to discuss the question of the
reedom of instruction.
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