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London, England, 1831-02-08 00:00:00

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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
EXPRESS FROM PAM&
From Ike Gazette de France of Monday.
1.) .% It IS, FEB. 6.—Nothing is spoken of to-day but the
...110:1 of the Duke de Nemours, and the refusal of the proffered crown
the French Government. Much stress is laid on the latter dream.
;ugge by thc adherents of the Ministry ; because, as they contend, it
Ayres the good faith of France, and her sincere desire to preserve peace ;
:so others pretend to sec the affair in a different point of view. The
Iritans of Government say that this Is the last "sacrifice" France will
.I,4ke. Fifty adatiooal field batteries (three hundred pieces) are or.
2,red to be equipped instantly. This raises the field train of artillery
:nuir.c hundred pieces: Ober warlike indications are to be found in all
Departmental Journals.
Prom the Muni:cur of Saturday, Feb. 5.
The official part contains a royal ordinance relative to public edu.

,tiJn.
Art. 1. A commission shall be formed to revise the laws, decrees, and
rdatances concerning public instruction. It shall prepare a project et
ter Ate general orsanization of instruction conformable to .he
charae.er.
Art. 2. The following persons are appointed members of this com-
,sion :-31essra. Daunow, member of the Chamber of Deudes; P.
;'...tentesnil, ditto; Curler, Counsellor of State, member of the Council
Public Instruction ; Cassini, Counsellor in the Court of Cessation;
-;.;nand, senior of the Faculty of Sciences of Paris, Member of the
i,.nnber of Depties; Villetnain, Professor of Illocution; Dubois,
t the Faculty of Medicine; Broussacs, Doctor of Medicine; Fran.
arta, Professor of Sciences ; Cit. de Runusal, Member of the Chamber
Deputies • Dubois, Insnector General of Studies.
3. Our Anister of Public Instruction shall preside in this Commis.
...on. M. Artaud, Inspector of the Academy of Paris, shall act as
secretary.
Another ordinance, considering that the delay in the proceedings at
commission appointed to determine the indemnities due to citizens
,t Paris fur damage done to their property in the revolution in July,
_taws much loss to the citizens and to the municipal treasury of Pub,
shieh is obliged to provide, ad interim, for the most urgent claims,
,nders that M. Edmund Blanc, advecate' in the Court of Cessation, shall
.mond the sittings of the Commission, to accelerate the account' that
• ;main to be settled, in order to exhibit the total of the indemnities due
i•F the State.
Alma the Casette de France of Saturday, Feb. 4.
Pests, Feb. 4.—lt was said yesterday on change that the budget was
xcd at 1150 millions. This would make an extraordinary ex-1
,;,r.diture of 260 millions. Now, as no loan is announced, this new I
xpense must be met either by new taxes or by the alienation of public
property. The revolution of 1890 has bad the glory of producing the
highest budget we ever yet had. But the Constitutioung told us lately
that we cannot pay too dear for a system of economy.
A ministerial journal says,-..." It is said the King has just approved
the proposal made him to consider as null and void the treaty concluded
;r the 18:h of October with the Bey of Tunis, by General Can't&
It is reported that the deed of sale of the forest of Breteull has not
ve-. been registered, according to the law of 22, premised year VII.—
,
its the affair concerns& capital of seven millions, and a duty of 380.000
francs, it is important that the Ministry should, give some explanation
on the subject.

SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS.
Crtaonrci.E.—Though the Duke de Nemsurs has been elected
King of Belgium, it is believed that the father has refused to allow
:u. to accept the Sovereignty. Though Prince Talleyrand has cow.
.:..inicatcd this refusal officially, we are somewhat sceptical. Means
.• ,H be found of overcoming his scruples, or we are much mistaken.
HEItALI).—The French Government seem to have been playing a
...Age, and rather suspicious game, throughout this election ; for,
~ ~ilst it was deprecating, solemnly and officially, the reunion of Bel.
g'.um with France or the return of the Duke of NtIZIOUIS, it is said that
,ts agents were straining every nerve to secure the ultimate favour of the '
Congress for the young Prince. Pending the deliberations a note was
::id in Congress from General Sebastiani, disclaiming, on the part of
the French Government, any participation in the famous protocol of the
20th of Jan. which, from its saddling the Belgians with a part of the Dutch
d.bt, and giving away Luxemburg to the King, had already given great
, fiance. This communication removed much of the odium which that
document had drawn upon the French party, and contributed not a little
;o influence the result of the election. The French Papers of Saturday
are much divided upon the intentions of the King as to the proceedings
n Belgium. Some affirm that be has already assented to his son's
ascending the proffered throne, whilst others as attenuant',
deny it, and attibute In his Councils a more moderate and pen-
dent policy. Speculation on the subject is, however, set at rest by the
report, if true, that Prince Talleyrand has already communicated to the
Ministers of the other Powers in Lento that his master would not
depart from his repeated declarations of declining the throne for his
:on. Some importance has been attached to a motion of the Minister
of War, for rho formation of foreign legions in the French service,
which, perhaps, is undeserved. If the measure is, as it professes to be,
a provision for the emigrants who are already pensioners upon French
bounty, it may, under restrictions, not be dangerous; but if It resembles
at all the " fraternising decree" of the first revolution, it is to be dm.
rented.
Tinss.—The principle on which present pensions an to be continued
is that of charity ;—an agreeable sentiment to the distressed, an unas-
sailable one to the philanthropist,—to the haughty beggar, to the alma.
catching noble, justly painful and degrading. Ministers, therefore, may
think they have acted adroit) In placing this outlay of the public money
to that aecoun . They may have acted adroitly for two reasons ; first,
they will have placed those who persevere in receiving the public bounty
in their proper light and character, as callous beggars, & next, it cannot be
conceived but that some will from a mere sense of shame relinquish the
plunder. Will the noble act of the King in foregoing his 50,0001. be
2 solitary act ? Will it not operate as an example ? Of this we are
sure, that whatever example a King sets of an opposite character thee
is followed and copied sealously enough. Are du poems deeds el
Royalty only to remain without imitators ? There us MOM UFOS them
pension lists which have swelled our columns lately, that are better
able
ee tothernelinalishPdaa portion
jesty, somed evenfr of the claims uprealthie the rhirt
the nobility! It may be readily supposed that such individuals as
the Bankheads, for example, who proUbly may not be too well ad;
cannot now give up_ what they never ought to have received; they
v:ight else be obliged to starve or work, grievous *liana.
lives, no doubt : but such would not be the case with Lady
Westmeath, the sister of Lord Salisbury, or Lady Morningto%
the mother of the Duke of Wellington, and of the Lords Nary,
borough and Cowley 1 These names occur to us first, but we could
mention scores of others, Can it be believed, then, that the Mar-
quis of Salisbury will any longer suffer his sister, Lady Westmeath, or
:he Duke of Wellington his mother, Lady Mornington, to be main-
ttined, wholly or in part, as objects of charily, by a distressed nation'!
Impossible. If they do ruffle this, there is not a shopkeeper in Lon-
don, who by honest industry has got a little before the world, that 'has
not a nobler soul than that Marquis and that Duke. There is not an
honest shopkeeper in Cheapside, or the Strand, or in the town of Hat.
Sold, or the village of Momington, that would not scorn to have his
sister or mother kept by the public through charity!
Cnanerer.z.—Adiultting the correctness of the Bishop of Lionies
theory of Tithes, that in many cases the owners of estates granted the
;idles of their estates to particular churches, this does not affeat ea
question at issue between him and Lord King. The Church Establish.
:I:ent ia the creature of the State, which can either annihilate it se
change its character. A very large portion of the land Odle kingdom,
now in the hands of individuals, was granted in like wiessmer to the
(butch, but on the suppression of religious houses, the Slats edged it.
1:11 this land was the making of the principal noble families of geglend.
When estates are:given for a specific object, the parties to whom the
estates would have otherwise descended, may, in establishing their title,
claim such estates, if the intention of the donor Is disregarded. But in
the case of Tithes, even where there is evidence of a grant,
the antiquity of it precludes the possibility of a challenge on the
part of successors to the donor. The State, therefore, is at full
liberty to dipose of Tithes in whatever way may be deemed moat
advantageous to the public service. It is quite idle, therefore to
speak of the property of Church in the ordinary sense of the word.
The Clergy are servants of the State, appointed to communicate re.
tigious instruction. to the People, and to perform certain religious
ecretnonics ; and a certain share of the gross produce of the soil bay.
:ng been granted to them, no matter by whom, it is now found that
the mode of payment, though in early ages attended with no inconveni-
ence, is now productive of many evils, and beam the universal desire
of a change. 1
Trans.—Lord King asserts that the church property is public ene.
petty, or the property of the State ; and how any man eau deny skis
who practically and positively saw the state (under a peml- kr his et
government certainly) take the whole of it in France, and dispose of the
possessors in a manner equally compendious, we ewes Passive. The
.ato.c maybe done in England at any tine, if the will boons gensral,both
with the possessors of church, and of every other spades of Fogerty. It
s madness to attempt to controvert Lard King's primates an this point,
which is matter of fact and history. What has been hoe how" plea may
surely be done in another. . Equally tight
_and urummerMl& is hie
lordshi in his reply to the B of Lincoln. that the peaty which
was lefts given to the clergy, by Om mien of old, he dioligee:
emoting the divine w and suppeiling a reddest OM
given to the Roman Catholic clasp. sod thiestaro never so
or of right appertain, to a Pselesdot *oh 1 The MOW Oslo
which anciently belonged to the King, isleorair a Popish
and therefore could in no case dossing to a who we elidiA
4formed faith: and, in truth, all ea CV' d the Mlle
anciently belonged to Papist; and therefore not of right be
fared to Protestants when the Reformation seek plies. Bo that there
is no such thing (though there be a lineal descent er *lnds hens chunk
rnes
,tad of persons By= persons out of the al the tauten) es a just and
ltgal possesior cif any emperty in this ellaghad, if we amps
the few Roman Ciao& noblemen and who still adhere to the
ancient superstition. We cannot, In eeeimer, however, ascribe the
merit of this argument to Lord King ; at her is troth, borrowed it from
that eminent statesman and honest politick% WOW Cobbles..