Star.
London, England, 1823-11-28 00:00:00

CIIAI [BEE OP DEPUTIES.

. . 4 -... . their 'is ankh of eager and rather inte-
II '''' • in the French capital. All are occu.
pied ' . -
it g.i...ention—the.distolution of the French
-....e" .
a, •rhieh is regarded as already de-
-- t :A few" words will put the English reader
in •-' ~ —of the controversy, The French
glailber -argils is renewed, not by general elec-
='llo4artial renewals, a fifth of the Chamber
141tOteitistrats, and undergoing the electoral ordeal
tile. At the end of five years, there is, of course, a
e . be integral renewal. The Ministers have re.f
oineqat
entio‘ in the cause of the neat month, the Chamber-
shin% dissolved is tole, and that upon the opening of
the .new Parfiameat or Deputation, the first measure
impaled so it shall be, to make its duration-septennial,
mstatadof quinquennial ; and to be renewed, not annu-
ally, bat :at the end of this period, or at the pleasure
or itemise of the Crown ; in feet, to place the French
Chamber on the same footing as the English- House of
CoMinons. The measure has been, and is still, vio-
laid)! "posed by two extreme parties—the Liberals on
the. one side; and the more intemperate, or uncompro-
mising Ultra ROyalists on the other. Hitherto other
importaut.subjects—such as the glories of the Duke of,
Angoulinie—the attire' of Rossini at Paris—the trial
of a physician for poisoning his patient,. have divided
the attention of the Parisians, with the fate of the Depu-
ties. The former, however, eve way ; all the tongues
and peas of Paris were exercised upon the dissolution,
and the question of renewals, partial or integral--quin-
q len Mal or septennial. We presu nse the fortune of tbe day
was going against the Ministers from this circumstance.
The Viscount Chateaubriand himself, no longer trusting.
to his Lieutenants, has thrown off his Ministerial dig-"
pity, and descended into the arena *with. a sixpenny
pamphlet.. The discontented Ultra-Royalista have at-
tacked him, but feebly, and at a distance---though it is
to them that the Viscount chiefly addresses himself in a
tone of remonstrance and reproach. But two ehampitinA
of the Liberal party have entered the lists with him ur
their proper. persons—rig. MM. Etienne and Keratri÷
both Deputies, whose names grace their lesubrations m
. the Paris Journals. We shall not notice the controversy
itself—beyond stating what appear to bethe designs of
the Ministry, and the fears of the two, parties opposed to
them. The Liberals have the doAble fear, first; that the
Miniaters propose the dissolution, in the hope of being
able to exclude what may be called the revolutionary
Opposition altogether—and next, that the ensuing period
of seven years—upon the Change of the actual law—
will be employed in so modifying the Charter as to make
it a dead letter. • How far these fears are well founded
we shall not take upon us to determine. Now the lat-
ter design is the very thing. most desired by the Ultras,
and it the aim of the Mintsters• was not suspected of
reaching somewhat farther. all might go on smoothly.
But the Minister, 111. de Villele, has, it seems, found
himself not a little embarrassed and annoyed, during
the last. year, by the more impetuous Ultra-Royalists,
and calculates upon being able to exclude them in fa-
vour of more moderate and tractable Representatives.
ot.ilie People. Hence the opposition of the Ultras. The
queation is certainly of great impertance. as affecting
tbfitnone and principles of Government which ate to
preiiill in France, and therefore nor `without interest
for Europe.