Star.
London, England, 1830-08-13 00:00:00

PRIVATE LETTER FROM PARIS.

REDDISH:I THIS DAT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.
PARIS, AUGUST 11.
CHAMBER OF PEERS—Sivrixo or Auo. 10.

This was the first public sitting of the Peers; and
though the galleries for the public are not very spacious,
they were not filled. Some time before the opening of
the Sitting, many Members had arrived in their Peers'
costume. M half-past two, the Duke de Chartres, in the
thssar uniform, and the Duke de Nemours, in that of
the Chasseurs, entered the hall. The two Princes were
soon surrounded by a great number of Peers, who con-
gratulate(' them, some shaking them by the hand
will' great cordiality. Their Royal Highnesses took their
seats behind the Ministers Bench. At three o'clock the
President took the Chair, and opened the Sitting. M:
Cauchy read the minutes of the last Sitting. A member rose
and said, " Gentlemen, now that our sittings are public,
1 propose that the Chamber restore the names of the
members in the minutes, instead of the vague designa-
tion of a Memher." The President—" The standing
order is opposed to the adoption of the proposition. It
might certainly be convenient that the minutes should
give the names of the members, but until the standing
order 6e actually changed, 1 conceive the proposition
cannot be 'acceded to." He then put the minutes to
the, veto, and they were approved. The President
ren& twoletters, one from Count Marescot, and the
other frail Count Montbazon, by which the two no-

ble members excused themselves for not being able to
attend the Chamber. The President then announced

that the Order of the Day was the swearing fidelity to the
new Charter, and that he would proceed to read the form
of the oath ; that one of the Secretaries would then call

over the Peers by name, and each of those present would
answer by holding up his hand and pronouncing, " I
swear it." The following is the oath :—" I swear fidelity
to the King, obedience to the Constitutional Charter, and
to the laws of the Kingdom, and to conduct myself in
all things as a good and loyal Peer of France." Each
Peer, on being called, answered, " I swear it." The
Marquis de Breze said, " I swear it—it is the only means
of contributing to the happiness of my country." The
Viscount d'Ambray—" I consider it my duty to refrain
from taking part in the proceedings of the Chamber. I
have not forgotten my former oath." (The Noble Peer
then withdrew) The Dune de Duras—" I swear it for
the welfare of France." The Duke de Fitzjames rose

with evident emotion. He bore high testimony to the
virtues of Charles X. and maintained that France knew

him not ; but that as he thought the safety of tho coun-
try, in the situation in which it was now placed, and
the gravity of existing circumstances, called upon every
Frenchman to concur in the decisive measures adopted, he
felt it his duty to take the oath. The Baron de Glan-
deves :—" I concur in the noble sentiments of the Duke

de Fitzjames. I swear it." The Duke de Mortemart
also coincided in the sentiments of the Duke de Fitz-

james, and took the oath. The Marquis de la Tour-Du-
pin-Montauban :—" I swear for the happiness of my
country." The Marquis de Verac :—" In the present
state of things, I think it the only means of safety. I
swear it." The number of Peers present was 133. The
Duke de Chartres and the Duke de Nemours were the
first who took the oath.

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES—Srima or Tug 10TH.
At one o'clock the President (M. Lafayette) took the
Chair. A few Deputies only were present. The Presi-
dent announced that a proposition relative to some changes
in the standing orders, had just been laid upon the table.
A report was presented to the Chamber upon the election
of Messrs. Mieulle and Magnan, by the department of the
Lower Alps. The first bureau being convinced that the
secrecy of votes had not been observed, proposed that the
elections of Messrs. Mieulle and Magnan should be
annulled. M. Thomas declared that there was no de-

partment in which the elections had been more impro-
perly influenced by Ministers, than the department of the
Lower Alps. The Chamber unanimously pronounced the
nullity of the election of M. Mieulle, who immediately
withdrew. M. Thomas accompanied him, and appeared

to condole with him.

The election of M. Magnan was likewise declared null
and void. Letters from M. de Casteja, M. Bonlon, and
the Marquis de Cordone, announcing their resignation,
were read, and ordered to be referred to the Minister of
the Interior. The President—M. Delessert has laid a
proposition on the table—(Several voices, Read it).—lt
must be communicated to the Bureaus before it is read.

M. Etienne—The standing orders have been necessarily
abolished by the article of the new Charter, which gives
to the Chamber the right of proposing laws. M. Thoue-
nel—The Chamber, in one of its late sittings, took into
consideration a proposition for erecting a monument, to
the brave Parisians who died for their country. I pro-
pose that it be declared that the Members of the Muni-
cipal Commission have deserved well of their country.
President—The Chamber has decided that all propositions
should first be referred to the Bureaus. M. de Marmier.—
I ask for an exception in favour of the proposition of M.
Delesert. (No ! no! that is impossible 1) It concerns
the victims of the late events. These victims are suffer-
ing—(interruption.) M. Etienne.—l beg to observe that
the functions of the Questors are defined by numerous
articles in the standing orders. These will be changed.
I consequently propose to adjourn the nomination of
Questors till after the Chamber shall have modified its
standing orders. (Seconded.) The President.—There
is nothing more on the order of the day.—Adjourned.

A blow is said to have n struck at monopolies of
every description. A petition against the privileges of
the Bank of France was some days ago presented to the
Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom, and another is on
the point of being sent to the King against that of the
notaries. The Ex-King has, it is said, left 45,000,000
francs of debts, the Dauphin 4,000,000 francs, and the
Duchess of Berri 6,000,000 francs. According to the re-
turns of the physicians and surgeons of the hospitals, ad-
dressed to the Academy of Medicine, about 7000 of the in-
habitants of Paris were wounded on the three me-
morable days of July, and 1200 about the num-
ber killed ; so that the slaughter has been much
greater than was at first supposed. Very many of the
wounded have suffered amputation, and the surgeons
speak in the highest terms of the fortitude and courage
with which they have borne their sufferings ; whereas
the soldiers similarly situated have bewailed their fate in
the most piteous manner. This exactly corresponds with
what I have myself witnessed, one or two instances of
which I wrote you on a former occasion. It has been
remarked by the surgeons, that most of the wounds
have been received in front, and chiefly with musket
bullets, very few with swords. " Honneur, —honorer,
Eternal /air dtivoiment et a leers cendres !" says
the Constitutionnel. A simple cross, for the present,
has been placed on the grave near the Louvre, where so
many of the brave Parisians are buried. It bears this
Inscription :—" A la mentoire des braves ntort pour /a
Weide de la Liberte. La patrie recomtaissante lour
roue on Eternal regret." I.frequently visit the spot—it is
always crowded with visitors, who scatter flowers over the
grave and hang garland and laurel crowns upon the
cross. There is also a place for subscriptions for
the wounded, which has been very productive. A
colossal figure of Victory is to be placed on the top of
the ColumnVendoine, bearing a laurel crown in one hand,
for the warriors whose victories the pillar commemorates,
and a civic crown in the other, in honour of the Pa-
risians : and it is currently reported here, that an appli-
cation has been made to the English Government to give
up the ashes of Napoleon, in order to be deposited,
under the column. I should hope, if such has been
the case, that the application will be complied with.
All the Courtiers who arrive at Paris, state that what-
ever towns they have passed through during the night,
were all brilliantly illuminated on account of the accession
of the Duke of Orleans, and the inhabitants express the
most lively joy on the occasion. Charles X. has at length
decided to quicken his march. He has sent away the
troops which accompanied him. It will not be long be-
fore we hear he has embarked.
The Government, says Le Globe, having been con-
stituted, the Kure proclaimed, sworn, and crowned, be
is now employed in re-attaching all the ogcial servants
of the State, for the support of the Constitution, and the
new Monarchy. There are those who believe that the
people have not the right to transfer the Crown, sett
who look upon the Dnc de BOUODEALIM as the
etlpt ,legitimate successor of CHARM'S •the
=are in the wrong, as we think, ..and as reason and
dictate; but if they think so, they will *at con-

formably to their thoughts. We shall not trouble ourselves
to demonstrate, the legitimacy of the contract, which has
been formed between France and Louts PuLLIP; nor to
lead them by sophisms to consider the oath taken to the King
as a mere farce. It is not true, as theMoniteur insinuates
this morning, that to render the oath to a sovereign, is
merely to render to him a vague and general engage-
ment to consecrate oneself for the good of our fellow
citizens. With such an interpretation, there is no ene-
my so hateful to liberty and our institutions, who would,
not be not perfectly at his ease, upon seeing the KING
of France receiving the oaths of the people yes-
terday. But the oath taken to Louis Philip, and to
the Charter of the Bth of August, 1830, is to deny the
right divine : it is to acknowledge the national sove-
reignty : it is to acknowledge all the liberties fixed by
the Chamber of Deputies : in short, it is to submit to the
King of the French, such as be was constituted in the
revolution of the 27th, 28th, and 29th of July.

The Joureal de Paris says,at the taking of the
Bastile on the 14th July, 1789, was the aurora or dawn
of the Revolution. It was but three years after, on the
10th of August, 1792, that the first scene of the grand
drama was accomplished, by the expulsion of the family
of the Bourbons. On the 26th of last July, appeared
the ordinance : on the 27th commenced the new Revo-
lution! and on the evening of the 29th it was concluded.
Thus we have, in three days in 1830, done what our
forefathers could not accomplish in three years. What
shall we say ? The 10th August, 1792, was but the
signal of the long troubles with which liberty has been
struggling. The 9th of August, 1830, has brought us
peace.

The following is a remarkable passage from La Tri-
bune des Departemes, now before us: "The Chamber,
or rather the Chambers, —since there is still a Chamber
of Peers—have cut short the question, which, according
to our views, could not have been legally decided, with-
out the voice of the people, conscientiously consulted. A
part of the nation, they think, are disposed to be contented
provisionally with what they have done. They hope in
the next session, and under a new legislation, that they
will be able progressively to soften down the present
state of the public ; and that editions upon editions of the
Charter of Louis the EIGHTEENTH will satisfy the
friends of Liberty. A la bonne heure I—No person
more than ourselves has greater horror of intestine
dissensions ; but nevertheless we have a right
to proclaim our opinions ; we, whose friends
have died in the front of the battle, and who only yes-
terday saw one of them expire in our arms, from the
wounds he had received on the 29th. It will be asked of
us what do we require ? We require a Constitution en-
tirely new, framed in conformity to the interests of liberty:
they desire to maintain a Charter dictated by despotism
and the aristocracy. Between them and us, there is but
one umpire—and that is the whole nation. We demand
that its voice be heard—that the two hundred and nine.
teen citizens—the majority in the Chamber of Deputies—
who were believed to have a right to provide a Constitu-
tion in five hours,—to vote it—to impose it on the people
—that these deputies should have taken into consideration
the urgency and necessity first to propose what they have
decided upon, and submit the whole to the ratification of
die people, is what we should have considered a
becoming conduct. But what do we hear in answer
to this ? the exclamations of M. CASEIMIE
PERRIER, DUPIN, VILLIMAINE, to the amendment to
this effect of M. CORCELLES. The people ! ! !—the
people !! ! exclaimed they with marked derision. Yes,
Gentlemen, the people !—and you cannot repulse them
—not only without injustice, but without ingratitude :
far it is at the expense of their blood that they
have saved from proscription, and perhaps from
death, those among you, who merited the anger of the
ancient Court, and who had no secret compact with them.
Yes—M. CASSIMIR PERRIER—the people! It was
those young men who presented themselves before your
louse, on the 27th of last month—it was those young
men whom you received with such a fear of compro-
mising yourself—it was those young men to whom
you said, they could not gain their bread in the street,
and to whom you recommended respect for the legal au-
thorities, when one of them said to you, that his friend
had been sabred at your door—Speak to the people with
contempt t—You, who subsist on the wants of the pri-
vileged ranks, restore to us the old aristocracy ; do not
render us more miserable, by substituting for an aristo-
cracy of titles, an aristocracy of wealth. Go, hat in
hand ; make an offer of the throne in the name of the
people whom you refused to consult. Continue to walk
in the path of the courtier, which opens to you under the
new colours ; but permit us to pursue, in peace as in
war, the course which secures to u■ the esteem of the
French nation.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
By the Estafette this morning from Paris, the follow-
ing are the prices of the French funds :-5L per cents.
104 to 25, 3 per cents. 79 to 30, Dutch 82, Spanish 57.
The hedicateur of Bordeaux relates the following,
which took place on the 20th of July, between M. de
Polignac and Count Ofalia :—That Polignac promised
to use his exertions to obtain for Count Ofalia the ap-
pointment of First Minister to Ferdinand ; and, in return,
Ofalia promised thirty thousand troops, to assist Polignac
in his plans.
Consols, which left off yesterday at 911 1 for the ac-
count, opened at 911; soon after they were sellers at
911 ' • at present 911 f. By the private letters from
Holland this morning, the Dutch and foreign funds have
got up from 1 to 2 per cent. In the foreign market
nothing doing as yet.
CITY. HALF PAST ONE,
The heavy rain during the morning caused a dulness
both in the City and the Stock-exchange ; and the spe-
culators have not ventured in any operations of conse-
quence. Consols may be quoted at present 9114 for the
account. We have neither reports nor political infor-
mation of importance. No extra express has arrived
from Paris; therefore we may presume that every thing
is going on well in Paris. In the foreign market Spa-
nish Bonds are lower ; in other securities little doing.
The share market continues inactive. In Gas Phoenix
8 prm. Chartered 9i to 10. City 90 prm. South
Metropolitan Gas 21 prm.

The Morning Chronicle this day says that he is as-
sured " on good authority, that several Spanish gentle-
men, anxious to leave this country, are not allowed to do
so without passports ; and, being unable to obtain pass-
ports, they are literally imprisoned here. By what law
is this piece of persecution authorised ? The Alien Law
does not allow Ministers to prevent foreigners, against
whom there is no charge, from quitting the country
whenever they please. The Spanish gentlemen alluded
to carried with them no arms—they did not even go in
any numbers. The hardship of the case is, that these
poor fellows had been furnished by the Spanish Committee
with sums for their travelling eeoces, and this piece of
METTIMNICH policy has compeled them to expend the I
mosey.. We can conceive no one good reason for making
this island a place of detention for all who enter it."