Star.
London, England, 1819-01-06 00:00:00

l'lt I %%ATP. LETTER.

" People thought they raw, in the few debates
which have takes place, that the Chamber of Depu-
ties approached the distribution natural to evei y deli-
berative assembly ; and that instead of being divided
into tin ec factionc, it presented no more than two
parties, the right and the left side, or minority and
majority.
. " By the view of matters it may be affirmed, that
provided the match of Government be frankly con-
stitutional, its majority will not he doubtful.
" Reciprocal engagements have been contracted on
this subject between the centre and the !tit side. •
" These divisions of the Chamber are under the di-
rection of two Meetings of Deputies, who, the better
to concert measures, meet in the evenings, the me
at the house of M. Ternaur, and the other at that at
M. Lafitte.

" There are sixty-four Members in the first, and
forty in the second, without including others n licse
sentiments arc in perfect unison with theirs, :thhotigh
they do not attend these meetings. No individu-.,1 wl,O
does not belong to the Chamber is admitted.
M. de VILLELE does not even range undf.r hoc
banner, or that of the right side, more than sissy
Ultras, with some deserters of the centre, \5•11,,, .d-
-ready ashamed for the most part of their momentary
defection, supplicate as a favour, admission to pt-iitnet-%
" The Chamber of Peers is likewise dividel into
two bodies ; but the proportions may there be
ferently stated ; as on one side they speak of eighty
members, and on the other fifty-four, in the latt^r
which is included the Marquis DESSOLLES,
ing President of the Council.

" As for me, I am of opinion that when the ma-
jority in the Chamber of Peers becomes uncert.:i:, the
remedy is always at hand. If it oppose the Govern-
ment, of which it is the necessary support and but-
w.ak, the King has the prerogative of adding a num-
ber of Peers more, a practice of which your Covern-
ment furnishes many examples : that will happen
when influence will be re-established on iti constitu-
tional ground, that is, round the person of the King,
whose views and reasonable system this Assembly
c4noot continue to oppOse without counteracting its
object. It -belongs to itself not to provoke by a dan-
geious (Tposition that increase of Members, which
would diminish the lustre of the Peerage without in
the least changing the equilibrium of the three
powers or eleinentrof powers, since% this Chamber is
luothing afte; all but a political unit."

Ti E EVENING srA

LONDON.

BOTH THE TinnTi" Tnous AND PetsDs 11742T0
MUST 1W DRAWN N;:xT TUESDAY,
13E1N.D 1..1;1' DAY.

WEDNESI)AY, .IA:NIARY 6, ISIO.
finritANy, at tilt Bank.

The F.,cl:equer a rco:rits of an: quarter ending
yesterday are so neatly that a tolerable
idea may be formed of the Coinpa.ative res‘dt. Th#
total payments of Revenue, exclusive incidentai
receipts in the quarter ending

sth Jruu.ry, Ist*, Weft - - 1:11.4.48,855
!AI) JAnu .1 F, ISI9 - - 11,734,2171
11!1t the ftwiner n.cluded an anticipated payment of
the duties on Sag it of abort CEStX),(XX); so that there
has been an Improvement is the 'duct of neArk,
£9ty.),000.

This day the Bank commenced n:ling the Divi-
dend, to the hankers on the 10.t.-ols and 5 per Cents.
and on Friday they will be paid io the public geno.
rally : a circornstancs which «ill tend to remedy the
present complaints of scarcity of money—a scarcity
which would not have been so se; ex cly felt had nut
the Rank diminished its discounts to such an extent,
as noticed in .t former Paper, that the acceptances of
almost every Hai;king-hot:se in London were re-
jected.—The scarcity should, howtver, Le principally
ascribed to the stitpi.l spec,tlati,ais that have been fcr
some time going on in the Fiench Funds ; and to
this we may also ascribe the late failures at Paris.
The settling day of the l r knall hinds was last Li-
day ; and consideting what vations fluctuations had
preceded it, the period .was expected with
anxiety, as likely to try the solidity of many Firms.
Accordingly, lictore the talkies were declared, the
Re,;:us were as how as 64-1. ; but when the extent of
the failures became known, beii.g less than was anti-
cipated, they rose in the course of the day to 67. 30.

T!:e diminution of the Bank discounts, the conse-
quent scarcity of cash before payment of the divi-
dends. and the money lost by specalatious in the
French Funds, could not fail to try the solidity of
some of the City Houses. The mischief hag, how-
ever, not b..en very extensive. Three failures occur•
red yesterday, surposett to have been occasioned, in
one instance, by t!,e stoppage of the Muse alluded
to in out last, and is the others, to their connexions
with F.tris. It is believed that none of these are to
a con,iderable extent, or likely to involve further
disagreeable coir,eguences.

The Paris Papers of Sunday arrived this forenoon.

The Moniteur contains a very popular Ordonnance
on the Droits d Octroi of Paris, or duties established
on articles of consumption, for the benefit of the
Municipality, by which these duties are considerably
diminished. A minor Journal states, that the people
press its crowds in the streets around the placards
announcing this diminution, and that the working
classes in particular testily their gratitude in the
strongest tee ms. A common woman expressed yes-
terday the sentiments of one of. these grouper, by
calling the Oidounance— .4 New Year's Gift of
Henry IV.

The tall in the price of grain continues to be gene-
ral throughout the prater part of the Departments
of France, and requests have been made to the Go-
vernment for libert) of etportation.
Tlie Duke d It lc,' ELI taf's health is sa;l to be now
completely re-establkhed.
The 5 per Cents. readied, on Saturday, 66 fr. 75 e.
at which they awed.