The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-01-22 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

EXTRAORDINARY SUPPLEMENT TO TIIE
MONITEUR OF MONDAY.
ROYAL ORDNANC.4.
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"Louis Philippe, &c.,—We have ordained as follows,—
"Article 1. '1 he Count d'Argout, Peer of France, is named
Minister Secretary of State for the Department of Finance, in
the room of M. Humann, whose resignation is accepted. •
"Art. 2. Our President of the Council is charged with the
execution of the present ordinance.
" Jan. 18, 1835."
CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.—SITTING OF JAN. 18.

M. Dupin did not take the chair until half-past one o'clock,
although at a much earlier hour the galleries allotted to the
public were unusually crowded—a circumstance attributed to
the expected Ministerial explanations demanded by M. Auguste
Giraude upon the proposition of M. Humann, relative to a re-
duction of the lientes. The only Minister present at the above
hour was M. Thiers. On his arrival he became the centre of an
anxious group of deputies, desirous, no doubt, of receiving a
hint upon the late ministerial schism, and the probable results.
Various bruits were in circulation throughout the Chamber, but
nothing certain transpired in the early part of the sitting rela-
tive to the successor of M. Humann as Minister of Finance.
According to some, the portefeuille of that department had been
offered to M. Sauzet, but refused by that hon. deputy. Others
mentioned as " positive" the appointment of M. d'Argout to
the vacant post. The general opinion was that all doubts would
be removed by the Moniteur of to-morrow.
Shortly before two o'clock M. Humann entered the Chamber,
but, instead of taking his usual seat upon the ministerial bench,
he proceeded to, a place in the centre, close behind the minis-
terial bench. A considerable number of deputies had now ar-
rived and formed into groups in the front of the tribune rind in
the passages; the noise of private conversation was the order of
the day for some time, and it was not until several loud warn-
from the President's bell that the hon. deputies took their
seats.

The President informed the Chamber that he had just re-
ceived the following communication from the President of the
Council:—

" Sir,—l hasten to inform you that a supplement of the Moni-
teur had been published that morning containing a royal ordi-
nance, stating that the King had accepted the resignation of
M. Humaun as Minister of Finance, and that the Co.unt d'Ar;
gout had been appointed to the post which had thus become va-
cant in the Cabinet.

" DE BROGLIE."
The President. then said, that M. Hurnanu had the first right
of addressinthe Chamber in his capacity of deputy.
M. Humann ascended the tribune, and spoke to the follow-
ing effect :—The explanations demanded from him, as minister
of finance, could not of course now be given ; he must therefore
merely express himself 'es a member of this chamber, and con-
fine himself to facts. Ilis conviction and intention had always
been the same upon a measure for the reduction of the rertes, for
he believed that it would be the best means of establishing an
equilibrium between the receipts and expenses. His conscience
prompted him to use every effort to bring about that result. He
hoped that no one would accuse him of a breach of propriety in
the line of conduct he had adopted; his resignation could not
interfere with any of the plans of government, and he should
take this opportunity of saving that it by no means altered the
sentiments of respect he entertained for his late colleagues. In
1832 his opinions upon the necessity of reducing the rentes
were the same; and when the confidence of the King hail
placed him in the ministry, he maintained the Caine ideas, and
hoped to he able to bring over the rest of the cabinet to the
Caine way of thinking. No later than last year he expressed
the same wish in this chamber; on that occasion he explained
himself in the most explicit manner, as also on the means he
thought necessary for arriving at this object. When he had
finally made up his mind on the project of reducing the Rentes,
he met with a number of objections to it on the part of his col-
leagues, and it was proposed to adjourn the question for a year;
when at last he came to speak upon the budget of 1837, he
thought that the period had arrived for proposing this measure,
as he considered it but just to prepare the public mind before-
hand upon •a matter of such vital importance, and also to give
timely notice to speculators. The whole of his-conduct was the
result of a firm conviction of the utility of the measure, and un-
der all circumstances he was determined to do nothing inconsis-
tent with his honour. (Approbation.) In leaving the ministry
he still entertained the same good opinion of his colleagues, and
he felt convinced that they were all men of honourable princi-
ples, and had acted to the best of their power for the defence of
a monarchical government. (" Hear, hear," and marks of
general approbation.) His own wish was for the welfare of the
country, and it was no matter by what set of men it might be
effected. (Hear, hear.).