London, Saturday, April 2...
The Times, 1824-04-24T00:00:00

WVe received in the course of yesterday the French even- ing and morniing papers ofV Wednesday, as likewise letters from Paris of the same date. The former contain no in- teresting intelligence: the information which we derive from the latter deserves considerable attention. It has excitedgreat surprise in France that M. de VILLELE should have been out-voted in his proposition with respect to the commence- ment of the discussion on his new financial project, and that the suggestion of M. de LABOURDONXAYE, the leader of the Ultra opposition, which had the effect of postponing it from Thursday to Saturtay, should have been adopted, notwithstanding the urgent reasons advanced by the Minis- ter for a more early decision. The temper of the Chamber, thus manit'ested with respect to the time of the debate, has created considerable anxiety with respect to its result. In the Chamber of Deputies there are no less than 225 emigrants, and 3850 nobles, out of a list of 460 mem- bers; and the proportion of such men in the upper house is still greater. Thesepunctiliousand consistent gentlemen,who ever since the restoration have been constantly calling for an indemnity, and for whom M. de VILLELE intended the mil- lion and a quarter sterling which he is to save by a reduc- tion of the rentes, have been consulting about the propriety of opposing the project, and refusing the boon of their be- nefactor, as the result of a spoliation inflicted on the smsall annuitant by a combination of foreign bankers. In conse- quence of a union thus effectedbetween the pride ofth eUltras and discontents of the popular party, the influence of 11. de VILLELE has never been in more imminent peril since his accession to office. Embarrassed by the resistance offered to their domestic measures, the French Cabinet are not less so respecting their foreign policy. The questions respect- ing the tranquillity of Spain, and the independence of the Spanish colonies-the difficulty of keeping on good terms with England, and obeying the dictates of good sense, while theyremnain submissive to theviews and are propelled by the fanatic folly of the Holy Alliance, afford sufficient employment for all their talents and dexterity, though they had neither to manage the Stock Exchange, nor the Emigrant saloons. To these facts of a general nature our correspondents have added several details of a more limited interest. General DIGEON sets out on the 28th instant to sup- ply the place of BOURMoNr at Madrid. The General is said to be a man of moderate politics, and therefore not more likely to please TALARU and the Ultras than his predecessor. The post had previously been offered to several officers, who declined a mission to this " Hell of Legiti- " macy." General GuI LLEMkINOT left Paris on Tuesday for Constantinople. where the negotiations betweeni the Porte and Russia have taken a very favourable turn, and wher e a Russian Ambassador is daily exlpected. 'I'he Russian arms had been replaced over the gate of the Russian Consul's house, to the greatjoy of the Turks. The English declara- tion of war against Algiers, the nominal subject of the Porte, has excited a great sensation in the capital of Turkey, and, coupled with the operations of Lord BYRON, had not a little embarrassed the pacific exertions of Lord STRANGForD. On the 14th of Mlarch, the Turkish Mlinistry transmitted to his Lordship, through their dragoinan, a despatchl containing a formal deiyand to desist from hostilities on Algerine ships, and to ordclr home Lord BYRON, and the other Engt lish who support the Greek insurrection. OH tlhe 19th Lord STRANGFORD despatched a courier to his Government for new instructions. The Divan cannot conceive how Eng- lish lords or English ships can fight against the Crescent, wlhile the English Government is professing itself an ally and a peace-maker. LOrDON. SATURnAY, APRIL 24, 182t