The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-12-20

the 45 confines of the provisional government have
had great celebrity-it has effected retrench-
nents, either provisional or permanent But with
all that, II has already devoured sol 900 of
traordinary receipts for the ordinary expenses OF
the State. Are at the end Of extraordinary sac
rifices? Far from it; Notwithstanding the sol ;
SO expended, the two years of lS4S and lS49
will leave a large deficit. For 1919, according TO
the admission of the late minister of finance il will
be 300 900; and 1850, for which the budget has
been presented, Is announced as being inevitably
certain TO have deficit TO the amount Of the whole
OF the extraordinary works, l03 ,000, 000 indie
pendently OF unforeseen expenses If we do not
get out of this system Of deficit there will be no
thing before Us but bankruptcy The change can
only be effected by policy of order to establish
confidence, and by an economy carried, at least
for some time, to the extent of parsimony. Public
confidence has not yet returned. If you doubt it,,
go and ask the proprietors Of our great manufacto
res OF machinery, the Caves, the Derosne and Calls,
and their rivals; inquire from them what COM
mands they receive now, in comparison with ordi-
nary times Or, will you have proof of differ
ent kind! Examine the returns of the Bank OF
France, and you will find that the discount accom-
mediation varies from 100000 to $4,000, 900 a
week. Before the oath of February, it was 200, OOO
600. The bank itself, though filled with silver to
the extent OF being embarrassed with 1t, recois
from the official payment in specie: 1t shelters
itself behind the decree Of the provisional govern
ment, which made its notes legal tender. Why
does it do so? Because it cannot regard the future
without uncasincss Why, too, does not the gov
eminent constraln II TO resume at once cash pay
ments2 Because, no doubt, the government does
not yet six months Of order we'll assured be-
fore IT'D
The same inactivity was observable at the Bourse,
November 25th, as for some days previous. The
five per cents. opened at S9f S5c., and closed at
S9f S0c.
The Paris correspondent of the London Globe
writes follows on the 29th ultimo: People begin
to admit that the Legitmst secret society, most Of
the members of which arrested Monday
night, was real affair; but it has very little i'm
portance for IT does not appear that any Legitimis
of note is implicated in it.
Italy.
SARDINIA.-Tbe Turin Chamber of Deputies has
been dissolved, the Chamber is convoked for the
Goth December, and the elections arc fixed for the
9th
The CoAcordia Of Turin of the oath states that the
Piedmontese government has ordered the fortress
of Alessandra TO be disarmed
TUsCANY.-By decree of the Duke Of Tuscany
an amnesty has been published at Florence, par
doning all crimes of high treason and other politi
cal offences, with the exception of those who have
been condemned for crimes against the religion Of
the State, including the public press, the members
of the provisional, and chief of the executive gov
eminent, who formed the ministry from February
to April last.
The Paris Epenement says:
RoME.--We assured that the government has
received accounts from Rome of serious Importance
The Pope, who had determined to leave Portii, on
the 25th instant, and TO Rome on the 25th and
who had requested M. dc Corcelles to accompany
him, changed his determination on learning the
recall Of M. de Corcees and the arrival of General
Paraguay d'Hilliers. The Pope is said to have an
nounced, in writing, his firm determination not to
return to Rome, as long France shall not be rep
resented near his person, except by the general
commanding the corps of occupation He further
intimated in his letter, that he was determined, on
his return to Rome, to break completely with the
policy of the three cardinals.
Austria and Prussia.
The Prpssian Monite,r, of the 9th, publishes the
following
"The Cologne Gazette assures us, in its No. PSI !,
that it has been informed, from good source that
Austria some days since sent in formal protest
against the convocation of the Parliament, and
threatened armed intervention. We are author
lied to state that no such protest has been made
either with or without menace. Consequently it is
impossible Though the Cologne Gazette asserts the
fact) that any answer could have been sent to such
protest.
The Cologne Gazette, of the 2sth instant, quotes
the Prttssian Moniter for the above refuaton, and
then says:
sour correspondent has gathered all the infor
nation possible the subject and says: Herr
Won Prokesch, the Austrian ambassador at Berlin,
received from Vienna a confidential communica-
ton, or despatch, which h. read to the Prussian
Minister for Foreign Affairs. In this communica
ton the possibility only of formal protest is limited
at in case Prussia should convoke the Parliament.
What passed in conversation between Herr Won
Prokesch and Baron Schleinitz they alone can say.
Butt am inclined TO believe that the Austrian am
bassador may have pointed out in perspective that,
should the formal protest limited at possible be
dsregarded, Austria would then have recourse to
the sword
''Perhaps it was thought threat would have effect
In consequence of this despatch sent to Count
Bernsdorf, our ambassador at Vienna, developing
also in confidential manner the views of the Prus
sian cabinet This is not q note, a note being an
official document sent direct from one cabinet to
another. In this despatch therefore, which will be
communicated TO Prince Swartzcnberg, il is pointed
out, for the first time, that Austria has infringed
upon the formal conditions of the act of confedera
ton by her constitution of the 18th of December.
Prussia would continue to act she thought ht,
and was, moreover, in position that enabled her
calmly to await any dangers that might arise"
Prussia's sons (adds the Cologne Gazette will
willingly meet death for the independence and ma
tionality of Germany.
The words IN italics are 80 in the original
PrincipsIities of the Danube.
The Vienna papers have letters from Bucharist
of the 9th instant, stating that the Porte has APP
pointed consular agent at Braila This step has
caused great astonishment in the princpalites for
1t seemed extraordinary that monarch should
have consul in country of which he Is consd-
cred TO be the sovereign.
General Ludcrs arrived at Bucharest on the 23d
of October. The Turkish troops are rctreating
from Moldava and Wallachia, and those provinces
almost exclusively occupied by Russian regi-
ments. At Bucharest and Giurgie alone there will
men.
The Lloyd has letters from Semlin Of the 18th in
stant stating that the Russian cabinet has asked
the Porte TO resign the annual tribute of 1900,
which Servia has been compelled to pay TO the Sui.
tan; TO confne the domcils of the Turks i'm Servia
to fortified places, and TO restrain them from set
Ting in open towns. IL is stated that the Porte has
consented TO these conditions, under which il will
be allowed TO continue in the nominal sovereignty
over Servia.
Russia.
Advices from St. Petersburg, Of the 10th instant,
state that the division Of the Russian army under
Prince Dolgoruk had succeeded in storming and
sacking the Circassian fortress of Tshoek. The
Circassians stated 10 have lost many 900
men, while the loss Of the Russians is quoted at
fifty.
letter from SYRIA states that the cabinet of st.
Petersburg has protested against the hospitality
granted in Greece to the political refugees Of va
rious nations.
The New BRITIsH MISIsTER.-The character and
position Of the daily.expcctcd minister from Great
Britain will be understood from the following mem
oranda, extracted from the British peerage Of s49