Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-09-22
ALEXANDRIA, d. c.
WE'D yESOsY MORNING. SEPT %. 1880
LATE & INTERESTING FROM FRANCE.
PROlL.4MqT1ON or THE DUKE Of
ORLEANS rs KING or FRANCE.

ne SLID N'OuCUIulds S"pt' $1,000
at New York from Haure, whence she sailed on
the lIth of August, having taken the place. IN
the packet line, of the Charles Carroll. lhe
proof.slips forwarded by our correspondents oil
the New York Gazette, Mercantile Advertiser,
Courier and Standard, furnish the following IN
teresung intelligence.
The Paris papers are to the 10th August In
ciusive-they contain the important intelligence
that the Duke of Orleans was proclaimed King
of France OH the 9Th, under the title OF pilLif
VII. The ceremonies in pfoclaiminS him King
took place at Paris on the 9th.
All was tranquil when the Concordia sailed,
and the issue of the revolution appeared to s've
universal satisfaction to the French people.
The following changes III the Charter have
been made:
Ministers of all sccts and denominations are
to be paid alike out of the public treasury.
The meetings of the Peers are to be public
The ape of electors to be reduced to D years.
| The csi,sure of the Press abolished forever, and
all trials for misdemean0rs Of the Preas to be by
jury.
: The Chamber Of Deputies. to elect its own
! President.
TIE citizen. 10 elect their own municipal au-
thorities throughout France.
| TheNatioual Guard to b. re-establl through
out France, and to elect their ovn officers OF all
ranks.
Tie system Of 0rdonz,m,ces to be abolished,
and no laws to be passed WITHOUT tic concurrence
Of the state.
On the 9th. the Chamber Of Deputies declared
the throne of France vacant, and proposed Sc
verdh changes in the Charter-that tire Catholic
Religion, as the Religion Of the State, be abo-
lished-the ministers Of ali sects to be paid from
the public treasury-the censorship Of the Press
forever abolished After these and other modi6-
cations had been adopted, the Chamber went in a
BODY to the Duke Of Orleans, and offered him
the crown, which he accepted, and on the 9th
proceeded to the Chamber of Deputies, and
ma de oath 10 support the Charter as amended.
In the Chamber of Deputies. on tle 9th, the
Vice President submitted a proposition from Nj.
Eusebe Salveste, accusing the Ey-MinlSters, OF
High Treason, which was received with &C clama-
tons of appreciation. On motion Of NJ. Salveste
its consideration was postponed tor week.
A letter from Havre Of August 9, says
"You will remark by the enclosed review,
that business has been almost completely at a
stand since we last addressed YOU. We have,
however. much more favorable accounts from
Paris, where the Duke of Orleans has been pro-
claimed King, under the title of Philip VII,
and we trust commercial transactions will, ere
long, resume their activity, and changes adopted
: for our future government being likely to have
the appreciation of great majority Of the nation.
"Some sales of Cotton have already been made
to-day at prices we'll supported, and which indi-
cate that the stock Of our spinners is nearly ex-
hausted."
Another letter of Aug. 18th, says that the
Duke of Orleans takes the title of - Louis Phi
lip the First, King of the French.'
The ships Charles Carroll, and Great Britain.
sailed from Havrc on the5th, for Cherbourg where
the former arrived on the 9TH; Charles X. who
vas to embark in these vessels, was expecte6 to
arrive at Cherbourg on the 9th.-Letters from
Havre state that it was understood he would pro-
coed for Naples.
We subioin some extracts from Galignani's Pa
ris Messenger, of Aug. 9th. not having yet got
hold of our regular files.
In the sitting of the Chamber of Peers, on the
9TH, the declarations of the Chamber Of Deputies
were adopted by vote of SO to 10. with the en-
oeption of one which was modified as fOllows:-
"'rhe Chamber of Peers declares that it can
not deliberate on the provision Of the declaration
Of the Chamber of Deputies, couched in these
lterms:-.All the nominations and creations Of
Peers made in the reign Of Charles X. are de-
fclared null and void
1.-The Chamber of Peers declares that it will
leave the decision of this question to the high
prudence of the Prince Lieutenant General"
PARIS, August 9, 1880.
At IOo'clock the Chamber of Peers, headed by
Baron Pasquier. went to the Palais Royal, to de-
clare their concurrence in the Resolution of the
Chamber of Deputies. The following address
was delivered by the President to his Royal High
ness:-
"Monseigneur: The Chambero of Peers are come
to present to your Royal Highness the Actwhich is
to secure our future destiny. You formerly de-
Tended with arms our new and inexperienced H.
berries; to-day yOu age about to consecrate them
by institution. and laws. Your exalted under
standing, your inclinations, the recoIections of
your whole life, promise that we shall find in YOU
a Citizen King You will respect our suaran-
tees, which are at the same time your own This
noble family we see around you, brought up liz
the love of their country of Justice, and of truth
will ensure to our children the peacea6le enioy-
ment of that Charter yon are about to swear 10
maintain, and the benefits of government at