The Sun.
London, England, 1828-03-15 00:00:00

decrease was principally on the produce of salt-pits
and forests. The produce of the indirect contribu-
tion of registering, and the Customs, and of patents,
has exceeded their calculated amount by a million,
and that is only decreased by a slight reduction of
3,097,000 f. on the sale of tobacco, and in the Excise.
The comparison of the Revenue of 1827, with
that of 1826, is less favourablo than between
the Revenue 'Of 1826 and that of 1825. There is
a decrease of near sixteen millions. We must attri-
bute that partly tol:the low price of wines, the con-
sumption of which, though more abundant, has not
prevented the decrease of a tax, which was payable
only according to the amount of the price.
The expences which make the Ministry of War
require a supplemental credit of 11,012,000 f. have
been caused by the continued occupation of Spain,
which has given rise to an expence of 7,150,000 f.;
the purchase of lands, and the buildings raised for
the purpose of establishing new magazines for forage
and fire wood, the expence of which amounted to
2,472,000 f.; and in this supply 1,500,000 f. is in-
cluded belonging to the arrears anterior to the Ist
January, 1826.
The total of the Budget of the year 1827 will be
992,709,171 f. The resources which belong to it
are only 951,345,250 f. There is, therefore, a de-
ficiency of 41,363,917 f. which is decreased to the
amount of 6,170,4431. by the application of dispo-
sable funds of the supply of 1826. The definitive
amount is, therefore, • 35,199,474E-4A general
movement in the Assembly.)
A preceding Administration has left us for the
year 1828 the same revenue, and the same ex-
pences; and we shall, no doubt, have to experience
the same insufficiency of resources.—(A new move.;
ment.)—We shall have to provide till the evacua-
tion for the support of the troops, which still oc-
cupy some fortresses of Spain, and for the pay of
the crews in the different stations where they are
placed.
The advances in 1826 and 1827, for the Army
of Spain, have produced in the Treasury a real de-
ficiency of 58 trillions. To the deficiency, which
amounts in the whole to 131,670,0001., we are to
add the new increase of expenses which I have
mentioned in the supply of 1827 and 1828: the
first, of 35,159,174 f. ; the second, of 33,500,000 f.
We must, therefore, provide that after the complete
payment of the charges of 1828 shall amount to
200,036,9471. ( Great agitation, and an interruption
of some minutes. Several voices, " That is an
enormous deficit.")
In this situation we reach the Budget of 1829.
We thought it necessary to make these statements
in order to complete the view of our receipts and
expenditure.
The receipts of the supply of 1829 will amount to
958,856,821 f.; compared with the calculated ex-
penses of 975,703,0251., there will present a deficit
of 16,846,205 f. (Universal marks of astonishment,
and a prolonged interruption.) The canals autho-
rised on the 14th of August, 1822, will require
after 1829 no less supplies than forty millions, as the
consequence of the engagement to supply the excess
of the expenses above estimations submitted by the
Companies.
We can cover the excess of the expences of the
Budget of 1829, by proposing to apply to it the
produce of the cutting of wood of 1830, the receipt
of which will be realized before the 31st December,
1829, in drafts at three, six, and twelve months.
This measure of necessity is conformable to the an-
cient custom of the Administration, and the present
rules of our liability, which have directed that we
should give to every year the produce of that year.
Its effect will only be to prevent an anticipation of
receipts which has given rise to well-founded ob-
servations. We shall obtain by these changes a
produce calculated at 27,300,0001., an excess of re-
ceipts of 10,453,994 f. above the supply of 1829,
which wise foresight induces to reserve to meet the
_extraordinary necessities which we might feel.
Although this supply may be drawn at present
from the cutting_of wood, we cannot recur to those
means in the years following 1829. We must
therefore seek some more permanent means of
equalizing our expences and our receipts.
The first means are undoubtedly economy and re-
trenchment,but not such as would retrench the useful
and productive expences, or the result of which would
weaken or compromise the necessary services of the

The deficit of •more than two hundred millions
which we have thought likely to exist, after payment
of 01 charges of 1828, will be decreased by greater
receipts than those which have been foreseen.—
Nearly one-half of this slim will be compensated one
day by the return of the advances made to Spain
[" doubtful;" laughter], which amount already to
89,600,000 f. [noise].
The Public Sitting rose at half-past three. The
Chamber retired into its Bureaux.
(From the Constitutionnel 'of Friday.)
PARIS, 31.ARCII 14.—We remember that among
the motives which should induce the Russians not
to cross the Pruth, it was said that they had not suffi-
cient resources. Yet the Russians have crossed the
Pruth ; and the Moniteur informs us, that at that
trine the Russian troops were abundantly supplied
with all necessaries.
It is said now, however, that the Porte will soon
see the necessity of submission. But on what
ground does this opinion rest? Is it to be supposed
that the Porte will be more docile when it has more
insults to avenge.
(From the Courier Francais of Friday.)
PARIS, MARC!! 14.—The discovery of the deficit,
by casting a degree of alarm on the public mind, has
ra:.qed, in the highest degree, the exasperation of the
p„tiza::%s of the late Ministry. They feel that M.
Roy has pr;:lnounced their irrevocable condemnation,
and that it 14719 that blow which they wished to
parry, by the recent intrigues which we have poin
ed out.

, The Gazette de France, of 11. Villele, endeavours
weakly to answer what we said yesterday relative to
the expenses of the occupation of the Peninsula. It
is clear, at first sight, that its . object is to turn the
public attention from its patron, If Spain was pro-
mised that no demand should be made on it for the
expenses of the occupation, we believe that the ne-
e-ociation did not pass through our. Ministers for
Foreign Affairs ; the fidelity of M. de Dames has
not been put to such a trial. But who does not
know that M. de Villele, in his omnipotence, trans-
acted.directly those affairs which he thought it well
to remove from the knowledge of his colleagues ?
Have we not an example of that in what happened
with respect to the Marshal Duke de Ballw, at
the time of the invasion of Spain ? If M. de Villele
has played the part of Minister of War against
.the
Minister of War himself, is it unlikely that he might
have carried on diplomatic affairs without the parti-
cipation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs?
Tun AFFAIRS OF TRE EAST.—The English di-
plomacy is overcome; the Russians are on their
march; and Nicholas has broken the bonds with
which Metternich and Castlereagh held Alexander
surrounded. What ought France to do—following
the Great Catherine, who protected in 1787 the
Mussulmans without. knowing why ? The Minis-
ters, in fact, &aye us, without an army, and with a
deficit in our receipt;, And a debt of two hundred
millions. It was not by making war against foreign
countries, but against France and it; Institutions,
that they have brought us into this deplorable situa-
tion. We may hope to
.free ourselves, however,
from this deplorable situatum, by pursuing a policy
of our own, and listening only to our own interests.
These interests command an armed neutrality; but
we have only an army less than our wants, which
we pay beyond our power. We expend near two
hundred millions, and Prussia, which does not ex-
pend more than one hundred millions, can in a fort-
night place 300,000 men under arms, and they are
supported by a reserve of 200,000 others, who,
having passed through the army of the line, and the
two degrees of Landwehr, are men accustomed and
hardened to fatigue'. The Netherlands and Piemonte
have adopted the same system, and we remain
foolishly stationary like die Turks, whom it is wished
to make us support.