Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-04-16

FRANcE.-Paris advices are to the 18th of
March inclusive, up to which time there was no
address from the Chamber of Deputies. 1t was
understood that the draft was to be prepared and
arranged by the Committee on the 18th, and that
1t would be debated on the 18th and 18th. 1t
was to be debated with closed doors; so serious
Is the division of opinion on the wording of do
cument, which on ordinary occasions is little more
than a form.
There was a report of an interview having ia
ken place between NJ. de Rothchild and the
Prime Minister, and it is added, the banker told
him candidly that in order to make rise of the
funds crown the work at reduction of Five Der
Cents, it would be indispensably requisite, that
the Ministry should inspire confidence to the ma
ton in the Parliamentary debate.
The number of vessels, great and small, hired
as transports for the expedition to Algiers, was,
by the last advices from Toulon, 1870; the mill
tary to be embarked were computed at 80, 400:
the expedition to be in readiness by the 10th of
April, and to take to sea provisions for four
months.
Its said (says the Journal du Commerce) that
the Ministers have foreseen every thing, and are
determined to bid defiance to whatever may hap
pen. 1t is reported that one of them, who pos
sessed the enthusiasm of martyrdom, said to a
Deputy of tried Royalist sentiments, :. Ian deter
mined either TO carry the Budget, or to perish on
the sca66M." To which the Deputy replied
g You wW do neither the one nor the other
From the London Sun of Friday. March 10.
An Express from Paris has brought the papers
of Wednesday, with the Gazette de France and
Messenger DIES Chambres dated Thursday. The
general opinion was, that the Chambers would
either be prorogued or dissolved, unless the King
dismissed his Minister. But the following from
our Paris Correspondent, and the extracts from
the papers, will best explain the state of affairs:
'PARls, March Il.
AT the division last night in the Chamber of
Deputies, there were 404 members present, 22l
of whom voted for the address as prepared by the
Committee, l8l voted with the Ministry against
it, and the remaining two, Messrs. Allent and
Bacot de Romans. being Counsellors of State, de-
clined 70 vote. The majority against Ministers
is therefore exactly forty. What may be the re-
suit of this proceeding, it is extremely difficult to
say. Before this trial of strength. the Ministe-
rial calculation is said to have been that there
were 295 Deputies unfriendly to the existing
der of things; that there were e40 who would
vote an address decidedly hostile to the Ministry,
but that not more than 1913 would 90 so far as to
refuse the budget; and the general impression APP
absolute refusal of the supplies, will be totally
disregarded BY the party III power. Some say
that the deputation appointed to present the adj
dress will not be received at the Tuileries; and
in confirmation of this idea, is stated, that when
the Deputies were about to proceed last night to
the appointment of the deputation, the Prince de
Polignac allowed an expression to escape him, In
which this resolution was plainly mtlmated.-
Should this statement be well founded, an mme-
date dissolution may be expected; and there are
many well-informed individuals who think it
likely to appear in the course of the day.
{" In the Ministerial minority last night, there
were forty individuals belonging to the right CEN
ire. who are known to be influenced by Messrs.
Martignac and de Belleyme; and it is With many
matter of surprise. that, after the deduction of
this party, the majority should be SO great as 1t
has proved to be- Had the address been more
gently expressed, the minority would probably
have been less than it is by these forty votes; but
the committee entrusted with its preparation are
understood to have preferred strong address
with small majority, rather than weak ad-
dress with large majority.
Many of the Opposition Members complain,
with some show of reason, OF the etiquette OBJ
served in communicating the report OF the Com-
mittee to the Ministers, and their adherents, two
DAYS before the debate, who were thus enabled to
prepare themselves to oppose it, while the oPpo-
ssition Members knew nothing of its contents un-
til it was read by the President at the commence
ment of the discussion. The Liberal party, how
ever. are evidently strong enough to spare this
advantage. fit were not question OF numbers
rather than of argument, such reasoning as that
of NJ Berger, the great oracle of the cote droit,
might he safely disregarded. He gravely con-
tends that the object of the address being to pro-
cure the dismissal of the Ministry, it inters an
insult to the royal authority. inasmuch as 1t &C
cuses the King of having made bad choice -
The trainers of the address appear to have anti
cipated this line Of argument, as it does not seem
to contain any direct application for the dismissal
of the Ministry, but only declaration that his
Majesty's servants do not possess the CONFIDENCE
of the representatives of the people; and NJ, N.
Benjamin Constant isreported to have sadly. '''
us1rp nothing: the King remains in possession
of his right to dissolve the Chambers. and to
pronounce between us and the Ministry
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