The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-05-05 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE. •
PARM APRIL 30.—The result of the debate on the ministers
demand for a supplementary vote of credit in the name of se-
cret service money, although pretty well foreseen by all parties,,
has nevertheless had the effect of establishing the majority "f.
the ChaMber, and the government which commands it, on
firmer basis than ever, leaving no question behind by which its
stability can be shaken during the present parliamentary session.
It is not customary in this country to treat the maintenance of
any branch of the budget as essential to the existence of the mi-
nistry, and the budget is now the only serious business which
remains for discussion. The strength, or rather the weakness.
of the tiers parti has on this occasion been laid completely bare.
The regular opposition, who resist on principle the voting or
funds the application of. which is not to be communicated to
the Chamber, all voted of course for the minor motion of M,
Etienne, which proposed only a reduction of 200,000 f Ott the
second ballot, which was to decide between the refusal of secret
service money altfgether and the grant of the whole stun de-
manded, the ministesial majority was greater than that on M.
Etienne's amendment4y 58, which thus represents the nume-
rical strength of the party of which M. Dupin is the chief.
The title of tiers parti was yesterday formally acknowledged.
and the celebrated utilitarian, M. Ensile Girardin, the founder
of the Journal des Connaissance: Utiles, announced his adhesion
to it, declaring that be believed it to be firmly supported b/
public opinion.
The speech of the minister of the interior is generally cons%..
dared as one of the best he has ever made in the Chamber.. He
treated the refusal of the regular opposition with something like
levity, and reserved all his strength for the purpose of over-
whelming the tiers parti, declaring that they could have no ob-
ject but that of weakening the king's government, since they
did not pretend to be able to replace it.
The state trials so long in preparation commence on Tuestls/
next. The court-house now finished must seem, to any oue'who
has not lately visited the Luxemburg, as if it had been raised
by enchantment. Externally, it has all the appearance of being
composed of materials as. durable as those of the rest of the
palace, and 'the internal accommodations are on a scale of mag-
nitude and splendour which can best be appreciated by a con-
temporaneous visit to the neighbouring semicircular 'hall, in
which took place the trial of the ministers of Charles X., in the
mouth of December. 1830. The new temporary building seems
as if it could contain half a-dozen of the other. A suspicion
had arisen, from its great size and the apparent profusion .with
which it is decorated, that ministers had exceeded their estimate
of 360,000 f., and that, ashaMed to acknowledge their error, they
were desirous of supplying the deficiency from the secret-service
money: M. Tiller& explained, however, that if the materials
were returned to the contractor, the sum- already voted would
suffice, but that a _conditional contract existed which' wail,'
enable the government to keep .up the building.at an additional
cost comparatively small, should that be thought desirable. '