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retsina itatieightstithoosi. This Society has already
greatly reduced an evil which had become very invete-
rate, from the indiscriminate distribution o; aims to
street beggars. Those who desire to relieve the truly
necessitous, Should never do it with money, but with
otemlicity tickets, tb be had at a cheap rate of the So-
-clay. The object to be relieved, on- carrying his
ticket to the Society's Establishment, will instantl
get a belly full of victuals, and also farther relief; if;
on inquiry, which is always made with great assi-
duity, the objects are found not to be impostors. If
want of employment be the cause of distress, they
snideavonr to find it for them tflstant from home,
they provide means, &c. to enable them to return.
In a word—every effort—efforts which cannot be
made by. those who give casual chalky in the Itreets
—is made to succour those who reallys need it, and
to punish the idle vagrants : and, in consequence, it
frequently happens, that those' to whom tickets are
given destroy. them instead of cart yiug them to the
Society but the chalky is saved to the very extent
of the tickets thus destroyed, and the hc,unzy of the
donor is secured for deserving objects. .
These are not, however, the only .Charities now
itt
great activity. The Strangers' Friend S.,ciety exerts
itself with zeal and success in afiFor..iug relief to
strangers. During the last year they visited and re-
Rived, at their-own habitations, SB4O farniiies, at an
expense of 1:11378. We need not add, that at this in-
clement seasin, the calls upon their attention mast be
greatly increased, and that the humane %slit, in this
quarter;fini a proper channel for a portion of their
benevolence.
And, in addition to the more general and perma-
nent Charities, we are happy to add, that within
these few days, almost every Parish in and aroused
the Metropolis, have had Meetings and Subscriptions
for the immediate Relief of the necessitous, with
Bread, Meat, Coals, Clothes, &c. Nor must are emit
to mention a measure adopted by many of the
Parishes—and which ought to be made general—it
is the providing of employment, in any way that can
be rendered generally beneficial, that the ahle-bcdicd
may not receive relief as a boon, but as the wages
of labour. In town, work is difficult to be found :
but let them carry away the snow frOm the streets
to the river. In the outskirts of the Metropoli.,
they may dig gravel, and have it ready for the repair
of the Parish paths.

The Paris Papers of Friday arrived last night, and
these of Saturday have also come to baud this fore-

noon.
The Chamber of Deputies had at length a Meet-
ing on Friday.
M. Pesouran, M. PORTAL, M. ROT, and M.
lls
ST. Caton, were the only Members of Governmeos
present on the Ministerial bench.
A number of Reports were brought np from the
Committee on Petitions; and, among others, a
Report on one hundred and thirty-nine Petitions,
signed by 19,057 individuals, all praying that vo
change might be permitted in the Charter, or in the.
Law of Elections. The Reporter (M. Mesraoloa),
after passing a strong and just eulogium on the tight
lof petitioning observed, that when used for simulated
purposes, it became a criminal instrument fir im-
peding the regular march of the Representative Go-
vernment, •and that it was in vain to dissemble that
such was the character of the whole of the present Pe-
titions. He cited several passages from them, to shew
the spirit in which they were framed. In one, it is
said among other things, o' If you suffer this out-
rageous abuse of a guilty power—if you adopt these
ruinous measures, you will be nothing but the servile
agents of Government." In another, the Petitioners
have the audacity even to threaten..." If there are
found among you Deputies fahe to your oaths, they
shall be marked!" "In reserving the right of Petition,
(asked M. MESTA/PIER), has the Charter permitted
Addresses of this sort to be made to the Chambers?
No, certainly : it had not compromised the dignity
of the Clambers, and it had not consecrated a prin-
ciple of disorder and anarchy." On this ground
alone, he submitted that the Chamber could not hesi-
tate a moment in passing to the Order of the Day on
the whole of the Petitions ; and this recommendation
he supported by a variety of other considerations.
A crowd of Members from the left side rushed
=forward to be heard against this proposition, and one
of those scenes of confusion, not uncommon to this
Assembly, prevailed for some misuses, till adroitly
put an end to by an exertion of prerogative on the
part of Ministers. M. Rot ascended the tribune,
and said, that ho was commissioned by the King to
present a Project of Law. Tb. PRESIVINT declared
that communications from the- Throne took prece-
I•dence of every thing else, and that the business in
hand mast be suspended till M. Roy was heard.
K. ROT announced, briefly, that the Project was
one relating to the`Customs, the nature of which M.
Cricq, the Director-General, would explain.
M. CnlcQ explained, that its chief objects were to
protect the produce of the French Colonies, from
foreign competition, and to impose a duty on Cash-
mire shawls, and thus to legalise their importation.
The Project was °Oared to be laid on the table ;
and the Chamber, now restored to a degree of tran-
quillity, returned to the discussion of the Report en
the Rlection Petitions.
A motion was made for an
.Adjournment, but
negatived.
M. Duman, (de Mug) wit& the blind is 4p