The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-19 00:00:00

" ' ARTICLE 48TH OF TUE CHARTER.

" ' No impost can be established or collected, unless it
" ' has been consented to by the two Chambers and sane-
"' tioned by the King.

GENERAL ARRANGE3fENrs OF THE BUDGET.
" All contributions direct or indirect, other than those
" authorised by the present law, by what title or under
" ' what denomination soever they may be collected, are
" formally forbidden under the penalty against the au-
"' thorities ordaining them, against the officers framing
" ' tarifs and schedules, and against those who receive
" them, of being prosecuted as extortioners, without
" prejudice to an action for repayment within three
" years against all receivers, surveyor., and collectors,
" and that without any previous authority for bringing
such action before the tribunals.
ARTICLE 174 OF THE PENAL CODE.
C All public functionaries and public officers, their
clerks and overseers, and all collectors of duties, taxes,
' contributions, tolls, and public or common revenues,
with their clerks or overseers, who shall be convicted
of the crime of extortion, by ordering the collection,
or by exacting or receiving what they know not to be
" due, or exceeding what is due of duties, taxes, contri-
" butions, tolls, or revenues, or for salaiies or perqui-
sites, shall be punished—viz., functionaries and public
officers by the penalty of dismissal, and their clerks or
overseers by imprisonment for a period not less than
two nor more than five years. The guilty shall be-
" sides be condemned to a tine of which the maximum
shall not be more than the fourth, nor the minimum
less than the twelfth part of the damages and restitu-
-4' tion awarded to the party aggrieved.
If the collection of an impost which could not he
" ' voted in conformity wits► the Charter be a crime, the
" refusal of such an impost is a duty.
4 6 To facilitate the accomplishment of this duty, when
" circumstances require it, the undersigned have agreed
" ' to what follows :

"' ART. 1. The undersigned will resist, by all legal
means, the collection of any impost not consented to
according to the forms prescribed by the Constitutional
" ' Charter.

ART. 2. The undersigned will contribute, in pro-
«' portion to their subscriptions, to the expenses occa-
f, g sioned by the execution of this article.'
" It is somewhat remarkable 'that these reso-

tions made their first appearance in the semi-official
paper, the Quotidienne of yesterday morning ;
and although they did not appear in last night's
masager, they were reprinted in the Gazette—a

circumstance which must be ascribed to the con.
viction of the Ministry that this new Associatior
is too powerful to be put down by measures o
intimidation similar to those adopted against that
which had its origin in Britanny.

" M. Berthier, the new Minister in the de-
partment of the Forests, is not now a member
of the Chamber of Deputies. During the ad-
ministration of M. de Villele he is said to have
been dismissed, not because he was opposed to
the measures of that Minister, but because he
was supposed to be too timid and circumspect ix
obeying the dictates of his Ultra-Royalist su-
perior. During the Martignac Administration
he returned to the Council of State, and brought
with him the support of the Deputies of the
right and left centre. It is believed that the
new Ministry will be considerably strengthened
by this accession, and by the acceptance of
M. de la Ferronays of the Papal Embassy.

" It is announced in the Quotidienne of this
morning, that Don Miguel has been formally
recognized as King of Portugal, by Ferdinand
of Spain ; but the Quotidienne does not men-
tion what is generally believed in Paris, that the
price of the recognition is to be paid by an ex-
pedition, consisting of two frigates and 3,000
men, which are be furnished by the Usurper
of Portugal, for the purpose of assisting Spain in
the recovery of her Trans-Atlantic Colonies."

Extract of a private letter from Mexico, re-
ceived by a mercantile house in the City, and
posted at the North and South American Coffee-