Star.
London, England, 1816-12-16 00:00:00

FRR&CII PAPBRS.

PARIS. DEethIBER 11. - •
A Royal Ordinance of yesterhy's date directs thst
the exemption from duties granted to grain 'and flour
fie pasenticd to Rice. which shall be brought into the
kingdom either by sea or land.
The I:on:Ay grAutt.J on the importation of whens
barley, and rye, is extended to maize. • in cease.
quenice th'.'re will be on that sort of grain, coming
from abroad, a bounty o 3 trAtics Fer meti;cal quintal.
The Committee on the Budget in the ClArnber of
Deputies has, it is said, unanimously asie::tel to the
creaticn of the thirty millions of annuities proposod
by the Minister of Finance.
It is affirmed also, that the Committee of the
Chamber, charged with the examination of the liw
on elections, has approved of it, with the exception
of a few modifications, which do not affect the sub-
stance of the law;

The King has-ordered the prosecution of some
works in the park of Versailles, which will employ,
during the winter, 160 poor lab(Arers. He has also
granted 8000 francs, to be employed in cleansing the
interior of that town.

The sculptor Canova is at present employed at
Rome on three boas, with which the Holy Father
means to present Lord Ca qlereagh. the Duke of Wet.
lington, and Mr. Henn'tom, the Under 'Secretary of
State of the English inistry. It is well known that
these three persons most materially conttibuted codas
restoration of the articles of art to the Pope.
Madame Catalani contradicts in the French papers
the story of her having been affronted at Munich. It
was true she was placed by mistake in a ramose go*
lery on sane grand day at that Court, and was re'
gutted t.) witi:draw, which Affected her a bales but
the King gric:ously apologised ti.r it, "tying he did
not know she was there. She says she recciLets with
gratttude the reception which she has oast with in
almost cicry Court iu Euvr, which she ascrites as
much to her own proper cottduct as to Ler tAlrelts,
and announces her intention of reastrning to Paris.

Viscount Chateau!)rialid has just publiElted the
speech and proposition which he delivered to the•
Chamber of Peels on the subject of the last elections.
j In an adv.:rtisement, M. de Cheteaubrian4 states,
that he went eat the 21 instant to correct the ;foes
`at Didot's, the printer; that he found him ineeh
alarmed at the threats that had been held out to him;
and that, in order not to expose him t' persecutions,
he withdrew his pioof-sheeta. M. de Ciesteaubriand
further states, that not wishing to comprornise M. le
Normart, 'he was under the necessity of resorting to
M. Dentu. 'NI de thateaubriand complains huelly
of this, asking, 86 Where are we? What have we to
expect ? What has happened to me to•day may
• happen to any other Peer et- Det-uty tu.inotruw."—
But after all, what has happened ? Is not the pam-
phlet in a course of sale ? What signifies it, whether
it was printed by Didot or Dentu ? The public are
not deprived of it : this decisive.
The Diario of Rome says---".lt teas with extreme
surprise that, on the 18th of November, we §„iw the
hills of Algidu and T./sedum covered with snOta
some flakes fell even in Kerne. This, in our climate,
is an extrao:dinary phenomenon in the middle of
November." if it was a phenomenon at Rome to
see it snow on the 18th November, it was not . /*ls
extraordinary to hear it thunder yesterday (the-11th)
At Paris. At oae o'clock in the afterno ishorc
but very violent storm burst on the city the warmth
of die atmosphere, torrents of rain mixed with hail,
the lightning and several bred' claps of thuader,
made one almost believe it the eni,idle of July. In
the evening it was calm and cold.