Star.
London, England, 1830-11-11 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

We have received by extraordinary express the Gazette
de France of yesterday's date, and other Paris papers of
Tuesday night. Wo give the following extracts :

Chamber of Deputies, Sitting of Nov. B.—The president
took the chair at ono o'clock. A message from the Peers
announced that they had adopted, with amendments, the
law project relative to the revision. Baron Polet brought up
the report of the committee of the proposition of M. Benjn.
Constant, relative to the free exercise of the professions of
printer and bookseller. The question of indemnity, after
mature deliberation, had been decided in the negative, by
the committee who recommended the adoption of the pro-
position of M. Benjamin Constant. The following were
the provisions ;
In order to obtain a license as printer, a declaration must
be made to the Prefect of tho Seine at Paris, and to the
Mayor of the Communes in the Departments. Whoever
may be desirous of becoming a printer at Paris, shall de-
posit, by way of securities, te sum of 25,000 francs; and
for the Departments, a smaller sum, varying according to
the population. Printing otlices established without previous
declaration, or deposit, shall be deemed clandestine ; and
such printer shall be liable to fine and imprisonment.—
Printers already in possession of licenses are not liable to
such declaration or deposit.—Ordered to be considered on
Wednesday.. _ _

The next business was the consideration of the discussion
upon the pecuniary security, to be deposited by proprietors of
Journals.

M. de Tracy presented certain amendments, which ho ul-
timately altered to the following :
" The pecuniary deposits for security of Journals is
suppressed."
The President then put the amendment to the vote, and
it was rejected by a very large majority.
The proposition of M. Bavaux reducing the deposits one-
fourth, was also rejected by a large majority.
The amendments of the Committee are comprised in the
following,and were carried,the centre alone voting against it.
If a journal or any periodical publication appears more
than twice a week, whether on fixed days or by numbers ir-
regularly, the security shall be 3,000 f. iu Rentes.
The security money shall amount to 3-4ths of ithe above
sum, if the journal of publication shall appear two days in a
week only.
It shall amount to one-half if it appears but once a week.
It shall amount to one fourth if it appears but once a
month. The security money for daily journals published in
any of the departments,l except those of the Seine and
Oise, shall be 1000 f. iii Rentes for towns containing
50,000 souls and upwards, and 600 in all other towns, and
the moity of these last two sums for such journals, &c. as
shall appear less frequently.
The portion of all such deposits already made, as exceed
the above-mentioned, shall be reimbursed.
The President then announced that the further additional
articles had been laid upon the table, and desired to know
the pleasure of the Chamber, whether it would then discuss
them, or postpone them till to-morrow.
The Chamber decided in favour of the postponement.

From the Constitwtionnel.
The result of to-day's Sitting of the Chamber of Deputies
is deeply lamented by the friends of liberty, whose most
powerful and noble organ is the Press. After the events of
July, the journals will continue under the fiscal yoke, which
the anti-revolutionary combination of the Villele ministry
laid upon them. Praises in words and censure by acts,
were not spared towards writers, who for the space of fifteen
years, struggled, and during three days fought for a cause,
the triumph of which seems to be imputed to them as a crime.
Agreeably to the wish of the Villele, and the counter-revo-
lationary party, the most noble of pursuits, the most conse-
crated rights, the privilege of expressing and publishing our
opinions, can only be increased, by paying 60 per cent. upon
the expense necessary for the exercise of this right.

From the Journal du Conunerce.—Two sittings of the
chambers have been entirely engrossed with the discussion
of a question, which is of the highest interest to the liberty
of the press ; and yet the liberty of the press has been ac-
counted as absolutely nothing, by the orators who spoke
against the proposition of M. Bavaux. The question was
to know,whether it is in any degree constitutional,to subject
the editors of the public journals to a tax, which w oat of
all proportion with their receipts. The orators we allude to
have not taken the slightest precaution, in or-
der to avoid the very great reproach, of being in

contradiction with the charter. They were contented
themselves with opposing unsound logic and argument, con-
siderations quite foreign to the subject; for instance, they
have spoken of the financial side of the question. On Sa-
turday an orator maintained, that the newspapers ought to
groan under the double burthen of the Cantoniment and the
stamp duty, because the regulations of the police relative to
placards and hand-bills, had been violated. To-day the op-
ponents of the measure launch out in lamentations on the'
penury of the public treasury, and the difficulty of levying
the taxes, so that the journals must be condemned to pay
a tax, contrary to all idea of justice, because others refuse to
pay the legal duties. On another occasion,the duty laid on post-
age is submitted to discussion. We shall see that the
administration will have also something to say on questions of
mere public justice and equity. Besides being totally foreign
to admission solely concerning the liberty of the press, every
one of the objections made to the proposition of M. Bayeux
is indeed no objection at all. By what strange fatality are
we obliged to recal to the recollection of eminent political
economists, that heavy taxes prevent sale, and thus impoverish
the sources of the public revenues ? The simple reduction of
one centime and a half, on the stamp duty, would have
immediately diminished the price of the newspapers.
and thus increased the number of those subjected to that
duty, so that the deficit of 386,684 francs, so bitterly com-
plained of, would have totally disappeared. We might have
contented ourselves with proving, that the heavy charges
laid on the newspapers are unjust, and fatal to the liberty of
the press ; but we have also shown the calculations of
the first are wrong, and deficient of any degree of foresight.

The preliminary proceedings against the ex-Ministers,
are continued with unremitting activity. Seven witnesses
were examined on Saturday, and seven more are summoned
for to day. M. Bartand has already read to !the commis-
sion several pages of his report. which, however is by
no means complete. The examination now going on may
give rise to other summonses. After the report is made, the
Court will have to decide whether there is ground for im-
peachment. If this be determined on, the affirmative notice
must be afterwards regularly served. Those in contempt
must be summoned by notices left at the last place of
their abode, calling upon them to appear within
ten days. This term having expired, a second summons
must be affixed to the doors of these houses, and proclaimed
with sound of trumpet before them, before the gate of the
municipality, and in front of the Chamber of Peers. This
will create a further delay of twelve days. All these forma-
lities, absolutely required by law, cannot occupy leas than
a month ; and, therefore, however short may be the public
trial, final judgment cannot be pronounced berore the end of
January.

The following is the latest intelligence received from the
Spanish patriots. Extract of a private letter from Montau-
ban, dated Nov. 4. " The state of public opinion is ex-
cellent in Arragon. On the day before my departure
two deputies from that province had reached us. They were
charged to assure us that everything was ready to second
our operations, and that the peasants, the burghers, and tho
army, were all in our favour. A letter of the 2d says " a
vessel arrived from Gibraltar has brought the news of the
landing of Torrijos in Andalusia; there he had at his dis-
posal two fine armed schooners, and had already established
himself in the Sierra de Honda, where the standard of li-
berty is waving."