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TUESDAY, JANUARY 28. 1617.
PRICE OF STOCK. THIS DAY AT TWE I .VE o'r1;):-
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t "•'• PARIS PAPERS. • • ' I
We!have this morning received the Paris Pdp-i
I of Saturday, which present us with the proceedini
of the Chamber of Deputies in their Sitting ~ of
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der. on the Budget for 1817. The abstract whir'
r we have given of these proceedings will be resod with 1
more than ordinary interest. The -expenditure lot •
' 1817 is estimated at 1,088,29..957f. (415,3454.3
English sterling), being 249,242,457 f. more thin
that of 1816: while the wholereso• urces of the Stitt
do nqt present .amore than a total of 758
leaving a deficit of above SOO Wiliam. Tins !Red,
in which it is proposed to peowide foe thie deficit i$
h'ave recourse to bonowing.on the publie.cvedit, and '
in order to ineet,the interest. CO ovate SO millions of ''
rents; or, in other words, to impose that amount ti
. dew taxes. With an Exchequer in so deplorable a ,
state, the Commission on the Budget may well nil
that'they feel justified in endeavouring to make envy
possible reduction in the expenses, nor can it be dc•
pied, that on several points, especially that of Pen.
sions, which are said to absorb more than a ink of 1
the ordinary revenues of France, the reforms they
propose would tend greatly to the desirable object
they have in vigor. . •
At the satire Sitting of the Chamber, a Message
was communicated from his Majesty, nominating
M. SURE to be President, in place of M. PAINSIRS
appointed Minister of Justice ; and M. Seam wok
his seat lb the Chair accordingly. • •
'bhp; tealth of the KING continues in the same nate.
CHAMBER OP DEPUTIES.
SITTING OF TUE 24tH OF JANUARY.
M. ROY= COLLARD, Vice. President, in the Chair. "'
After some routine business, the Vice-President
' announced, that the Order of the Day called to the n
Tribune the Reporters of the Commission on the
Budge.
U. ROI, one of the Reporters, ;hen proceeded to •bi
read the Report of the gommissinn on the branCh .1
Expenditure. The ordinary expense of 1816, had, RA
it was stated, been fixed.= the sum of 548.252,520 f.
and the extraordinary expense at 290,8000 I - I
making a total of 839,052,520 f.
The ordinary expense for the year 1617 is eitintatel
,st 628,572.082 fr. and the *extraordinary expense at
3539671:785 fr.—makiog 'in alt 292,943,807 Ir.—To
this it will be necessary t 6 add, first, to make up the
deOcieneles in the Budgets of 1815, sod MA,
83,051450 fr.; and, second, for the portion of That 6.
is called`she.Arrear of Credits, reimbursable in 1817
satenty.three millions: • The definitive total for 181 111
will thus be 1,088,294,957 Fr. being 4149,242,427
more thee the expenditsire Of 1816. • • '
So great an increase of expense," continued • -
Reporter," isenormeus, at a timetehenthf. • • • 61
of the nationtfar from having augmentedraive
sorely depreciated, by a year of so many ca "
as has
.just passed` over us; and this -
will, without doubt, render legitimate end • • Al
the efforts "'Web theComnsission ham made to 1„1
feet eves, peesible reduction in the elpentlitere."—
The. Repenter then proceeded to consider the e OD
peOlture separallay, under the foliating heads I
rsarirrvAt. DIJIT.••••The funds appropriated to
Nearer of the debt in 1816, amounted to 83 nsilE • in
The estimated charge for 1817 is 113,400,000fral
Livros= •Dsar.--In the budget for 1816
cbArgounder this' head was 18,584,000 francs;
the. emit:sate for: the present year is 19,4e0,000f . -
being a diminution of 184,000 francs. :2
PINSLIONS.—Tie pensions, civil, military, and • to
clesiastical, foe the 'year 1817, are estimated
24,200,000 francs; and these pensions are hide,
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dent of those of the retired military list, of the in
tart' half-pay, and of various other pensions cha : • I.;'
upon different branches of the Revenue, amoooti
altogether to even a greater sum.
66 Already (said the Reporter) this mass of
Isom absorbs more than 040 shah of ordiaary
eraser yf France. It augments every day so rapidt et
that it becomes as pressing as indispensable to AT
the progress of an evil which would soon termin4
in destroying the public weal. The evil is the nu
dangerous, as it baths principle in goodness—in
neficence itself prithose' Who p ress Ministers wiof
their, solicitations art not'always those who have
greatest, right to obtain favours. At all times t
abuse of pensions has excited complaints, and led
way to reform." .
The -Reporter 'then took a tetilew of the difil.
ordinances which* had been paised'ioe regulating
branch of expenditure, and afterwards proceeded tl
thesetvads--,.. .• • • . •
• • "-Thus, 'Gentlemen, theism which have at
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times existed respecting Rens.„..st stn.—rise, nayet
;command the measures which are now proposed'
you :bro. the' Minister 'Of Finances. ..The princi"
oWect shif.hiiie in view is to fix certain perra
I•fundiTlVibich'shaU be chargeable with thcpensioni
4111117-kinlls- end to order • that all those which • •
fl t 4 I& he charge of the State shall be kirri.
op the Bodkin of.the:Pensioni of the Royal Tre'sit a
and,rid out of the general funds mortgaged foll 1
P*Dlre deb the hudget.of each year."
• The RptSeter. proof died' to state, that. the '
proposed by the projeet'of Minister's as the Maximo 7
of the Permanent Fund for *civil Pensions irAs tb;
Million, -while the asallsnom for Military Nisi'
eves presented. at no•leiie thitr9o.millions. The
*up the Commistion conceived ought tOkt red
ID 20 millions;,;' • '
The Commission deprecate the idea 'or .subjg6.
Pensions to a general and rigorinis revision; "
future they submit, that the inscription of eac.);"
eon in the Book of Pensions should be prece,l4
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