Jan. 20,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



•844. 



were apt to teek to recover th ir ascendancy by 

 violence. Their task had been to repress all vio- 

 lence and civil war, clamour and slaughter. They 

 should not disdainfully repel the efforts thuB made. Tho*e 

 efforts hare been efficient. Even a conquered enemy 

 should not be disci ied. Nothing criminal had taken 



Elace in the journey to London. They who went there 

 ad obeyed old affections ; they had gone to do homage 

 to the heir to that long line of kings which had reigned 

 over the country and made its geographical map. They 

 had gone to do homage to the old glory of Prance. — M. 

 Dupin — We hare just inaugurated Moliere. — M. Berryer, 

 after a few words more which were interrupted by loud cries 

 of order, sat down, saying that he could not speak amidst 

 such derisive interruption, and that he would oppose but 

 his indifference to such censure. — M. < zot expressed 

 regret that M. Berryer had not completed his justification, 

 not finding that he wai much interrupted. — M. Berryer 

 then ascended the tribune again and resumed his speech ; 

 reiterated thst nothing had taken pi ire or been uttered in 

 Brl^ravc-squsre contrary to the^r rights. He and his 

 colleagues would therefore demand no modification of the 

 address, but remain in the Chamber so long as their con- 

 ■titiH 4 wis! . — M. (iui/ot in reply inveighed against 

 what bad passed in Belgrave-square. The country he said 

 made Itself no illusion the designs of the Legitimists, 

 but was calm and quli r. became it wat assured of their 

 impotency.— M. Bttrnr returned to the tribune and re- 

 plied to M. <Jni — M. Dupin followed and spoke most 

 mtterly agninst the party which he said hi 1 been con- 

 quered at Valmy, and bad avail I itself of the defeat of 

 Watetl >•>, which head' I was its opprobrit — The Duke 

 de V ay replied to M. Dupin, and M. Bcthmont of 

 the Opposition spoke after.- de Larry the Legitimist 



Deputy then addressed the Chamber, end roused great 



tumw >v upholding hiiattachment to theD Bordeaux. 



The Marquis de la Rochequeleio f»l owed on the same 

 •ide. — The general debate was brought to a conclusion 

 on Toetday, and the debate on the different paragraphs 

 commenced on We Incsday. The d.batc on Tuesday was 

 animated end Interesting, the great event * the day being 

 the speech of M. Thiers, who, after i silence of upwards 

 of two years, reappeared si a speaker upon this occasion. 

 He began by re g re t ting that be bad reserved for the 

 present Mi stry one half of the vivaci f y witli which he 

 attacked the < binet of the 15th of April— the Mole* 

 administration. The Cabinet nf the 15th of April had 

 been a >sed of exposing the Throne, hut it had not done 

 ■o as much Bl the present Cabinet. Notwithstanding the 

 support the Cabinet received from the left side of the 

 house, it was so weak that it did rot govern — it merely 

 existed, and tha very condition of that existe was the 

 absence of Government. I r as the Ministry had refused 

 to make concessions to those from the opp e side who 

 would support it, it was now obliged to stand still and 

 depend upon its narrow majority. The consequc; 

 that the plans of (Government were continually altered, 

 delayed, or defeated. In measures brought forward by 

 the Government they had failed ; measures which they 

 did not wish to have passed were force! upon them ; anil 

 the inference he drew was that the Government was too 

 weak to govern the country. As an instance, he cited the 

 Right of Search. They were told that negotiations were 

 going on, but in Bngiansj it was openly stated that these 

 negotiations were to come to nothing, and for his own part 

 he had no doubt that the next K ig'sspeech would announce 

 that the negotiations were still pending. He then alluded 

 to the dotation question, and gave it as his opinion that 

 the conduct and weakness of the Government on that 

 question had compron I Royalty ; and he mmed up 

 all by saying that the Ministry though just able to exist 

 was weak and impotent bo h as regarded the country and 

 the throne— M. Duchatel Minister of the Interior re- 

 plied, and instead of defending the Ministry rather car- 

 ried the war info the enemy's camp. He taunted M. 

 Thiers with having had an opportunity of putting his the- 

 ories into practice, but he would ask what had hej duced ? 

 With regard to the reproach thrown out by M. Thiers 

 that the policy of the present Governmen is not suffi- 

 ciently elevated he would only say that though they did 

 not pretend to realise every possible goo 1, they main- 

 tained and acted on the principle of honest men, doing 

 the best they could for the grand int sts of the country. 

 He denied that the Ministry were opposed to conciliation 

 or improvements where practicable ; on the contrary, 

 they were anxious for them ; but that was very different 

 from adopting imaginary rfforms which tended rather t 

 impede than to advance the progress of the country. He 

 then defended the different measures ol the Government 

 which had been attacked, and said that though it might 

 be very well for M. Thiers and others in opposition to re- 

 commend to the Ministry to bring forward the dotation 

 and other measures which would probably be rejected by 

 the Chamber the advice was nofat all so palatable to the 

 members.— M. Thiers said a few words in reply in which 

 he defended his foreign policy d said that his Ministry 

 were no more guilty of exciting an European war than the 

 Ministry themselves of exciting a civil war by the census. 

 He was proceeding with further remarks but the impa- 

 tience of the house prevented him. — Two other speeches 

 were made but they require no particular remark : the 

 one by M. Gustave de Beaumont in which he attacked 

 the general policy of the Government, and the other by 

 M. Desmousseaux de Givre. The general debate then 

 closed. — On Wednesday the debate was resumed by the 

 first paragraph of the address being read, when M, Ducos 

 spoke. The Commerce-Minister, he said, admitted the great 

 depression of the shipping interest, which strangely contra- 

 dicted the expression of the address that "commerce was 

 taking a rapid flight."— The Commerce-Minister denied 



the assertion of M. Ducos altogether and brought forward 

 a quantity of figures to prove French commerce in a 

 satisfactory way of progression. — The next debate of any 

 importance will be on the foreign policy of the Govern- 

 ment, when the Right of Search will of course be the 

 principal subject for attack. M. Billault as well as 

 M. Thiers will take the principal 6hare in the discussion. 



The Due de Fitzjames has addressed a letter to M. Guizot 



in reference to the speech pronounced by that Minister 

 against the late demonstrations in Belgrave-square. The 

 royalist duke is deeply hurt at the expression u scandal- 

 ous'* used by M. Guizot in his speech in the Chamber of 

 Peers when speaking of the addresses presented to 

 " Henry of France," and in this letter not only makes a 

 violent attack upon the minister, but throws out a sort of 

 defiance to the Government of July. * 4 If," he says, " I 

 have violated the laws of my country, why do you not 



ing me before its tribunals ? It is yet time to do so. 

 Dare to do it. I am ready. Send me before twelve 

 French jurymen and there I will explain myself. There, 

 in the presence perhaps of a condemnation, my voice will 

 not become enfeebled, and I will repeat in the face of 

 my country the words which I pronounced in Belgrave- 

 square. Your imprudent threats cannot frighten me. I 

 have done as honour directed me. You will not make me 

 draw back. Sir, you will not make me bow to that to 

 which I do not wish to bow. You will not make me re- 

 spect that which I cannot respect. If you know the his- 

 tory of my family you may know that it is only the axe of 

 the executioner that can force us to bow the head." — M. 

 Lafonl lii the Legitimist judge of Lille, who had been 

 brought up for having paid a visit to the Due de 

 Boi aux, was tried on Saturday before the Court of 

 Caseation. The trial was with closed doors. M. Lafon- 

 tainc wished it to b public, but his appeal to that effect 

 was overruled by the court. The particulars are not 

 known, but after a hearing of six hours M. Lifontaine 

 was found guilty. His sentence was merely to be cen- 

 sured and reprimanded, which having been done M. La- 



ntnine was discharged.— -The Editor of the Gazette de 

 France was on Tuesday tried for articles published in that 

 paper advocating indirectly the right of the Due de Bor- 

 ux to the throne of France, and being convicted, was 

 sentenced to two years' imprisonment and a fine of (J, 000 

 francs. The Editor of the Quolidienne was then tried for 

 a similar offence, and being convicted was sentenced to 

 one year's imprisonment and a fine of 8,000 francs. Upon 

 these prosecutions the Opposition press comment with 

 much bitterness. — On Wednesday the deputation of the 

 Chamber of 1 rs presented the Address to the King, who 

 alluded in his reply to the late royalist demonstrations. 

 " At homi-," eaid his Majesty, " the empire of the laws is 

 well established, factions are put down and the vain de- 

 monstrations which they can make will only serve to prove 

 ti r impotence. My family and myself are altogether at 



the service of France, and she will always find us ready to 

 surmount our own troubles and griefs to listen only to the 

 voice of 'our country, whenever we may be able to serve 

 her."— The Budget for the current financial year has just 

 been presented. It exhibits a balance between the re- 

 ceipts and the expenditure. The Budget of 1844 pre- 

 sented I year since contained a demand for the ordinary 

 service of 1,-81,013, 7 1 f . , to meet which there was only 

 a revenue of 1,217 228, 3G6f., which left a deficiency of 

 33,78 !4f. The ordinary Budget for 1S45 requires an 

 expenditure of 1, 276, 10 6,7 9 7 f M and a revenue of 

 1,276,925,231 f. The surplus of revenue over the expendi- 

 ture is consequently nearly l,000,000f. On the revenues of 

 1843 as compared with those of 1841 there is an increase 

 of 48,!>00,000?., and of 13,316,000f. over 1842. The im- 

 provement bears principally on the registry duties, stamps, 

 customs, colonial sugars; salt, liquors, carriage-licenses, 

 tobacco, &c. ; the decrease on domestic sugars, gun-pow- 

 der, &c. The augmentation in the customs is 13,799,000f. 

 as compared with 1841, and 4,318, OOOf. with 1842. 

 — The inauguration of the statue of Moliere took place 

 on Monday in the presence of a large concourse of spec- 

 tators, but in consequence of the extraordinary precautions 

 taken by the Government no disturbance of any kind 

 occurred. — According to a calculation in the Putric the 

 cost to France of the conquest and occupation of Algeria 

 amounts to 670 millions of franc*. On the other hand the 

 Government has receive ! — 1st] the treasure taken at 

 Algiers and the treasure of the mate'riel, estimated together 

 at 5i,737,000f. ; and 21, in revenue from 1831 to 1843, a 

 sum of 46.000,000?'. — making the total loss hitherto sus- 

 tained 569,263, 000f.— The 64th list of the subscriptions 

 paid into the central committee of the Guadaloupe relief 

 fund has just been published. The total amount subscribed 

 up to last week is 3,449,046f.— The French press in 184:', 

 brought forth 6176 works in all the languages, dead and 

 living ; 1379 engravings and lithographic prints ; 147 

 maps, plans, and charts ; and 316 pieces of music have 

 also been published. — The Champagne wine merchants 

 met at the Hotel de Ville of Rheims on the 27th to adopt 

 measures for preventing the imitation of Champagne which 

 every year is increasing. It was decided— 1, that a com- 

 mittee sho lid be formed to watch over the interests of the 

 wine-merclnnts; 2, that this committee should enter into 

 communication with other committees ; and 3, that a sub- 

 scription should be raked to defray the expenses. — A 

 1 -tter from Saint-Pierre, Martinique, dated Nov. 25, states 

 that the yellow fever was raging there and had caused a 

 great number of deaths, principally among the crews of the 



French vessels lying in the harbour The Presse repeats 



the statement that the English have taken possession of 

 Diego Suarez in the island of Madagascar. 



Spain.— We have accounts from Madrid of the 9th 

 inst. The Progresista or Exaltado party had prevailed 

 in the preliminary operations of the Electoral Colleges of 



Madrid. They had obtained seven bureaux, and""!""" 

 Moderado or Ministerial party only four. 'i'he tvJ* 

 consisted of Progresistas or Moderados, and the trio2 

 of the former was considered certain. The two EnS, 

 sent to Paris with a message to Queen Christina had hit 

 returned, and had a long conference with the President} 

 the Council, nothing of which had as yet transanal 

 General Narvaez had just resigned the rank of 

 General, to which he had been recently raised. I n faf. 

 letter to the Minister of War on the subject, he saysnW 

 he relinquishes the high distinction thus conferred on Lia 

 as a reward for lis services to the country, and a comM*. 

 sation for the sufferings, persecutions, and unjust rinW 

 he has endured, "in order not to afford the slight^ 

 pretext for his conduct being imputed to ambition, ora» 

 other still less noble motive. The Journals publish tit 

 report, signed by all the Ministers, which precedes tU 

 Royal decree restoring to Maria Christina the pentiomf 

 which she was deprived by Espartero's decree of the 26t| 

 of October, 1841. The report pronounces the ex- Regent^ 

 measure illegal, and ad Is thatit would moreover be improp* 

 to forget any longer the Princess who governed the coontrj 

 with "so much glory, generosity and nobleness" during the 

 disturbances of the Queen's minority. Mr. Bulwerhii 

 presented an autograph letter from Queen Victoria toQocn 

 Isabella, in reply to the notification made to her BritMs 

 Majesty of the Queen of Spain's majority. The Supreat 

 Tribunal of Justice had been commissioned to decide 

 whether being a Knight of the Golden Fleece and China 

 III., M. Olozaga had not infringed the statutes of tho* 

 orders by leaving Spain without a passport. — The fort of 

 Plguerai has surrendered to the armies of the Queen. It 

 the morning of the 11th inst. the capitulation ratified by 

 the Government was definitively signed by the Captain. 

 General and Ametler. On the 12th the fort was occupies* 

 by the Queen's troops. Most of the officers of A metis 

 took passports for France. 



Portugal. — The news from Lisbon is not of mod 

 importance. The business of the new session commences" 

 in the Chamber of Peers on the 3d inst. with the present 

 tion of 25 petitions against the new project of a hi 

 proposing to vest the administration of the charitable 

 institutions of the country in the hands of Goveramest 

 In the Chamber of Deputies, Senhor Silva Sanches mores' 

 on the 5th for copies of all notes and other official papen 

 relative to the proposed treaty of commerce with Grest 

 Britain. The Minister of the Interior said he approves" 

 of the motion for these papers, M provided always that 

 was no inconvenience from their production." 



Germany. — Letters from Vienna in the French pipen 

 mention the death of the Due d'Angouleme, uncle of the 

 Due de Bordeaux, at Goritz, but, though seriously ill, the 

 death of his Royal Highness is not confirmed.— Account 

 from Hanover state that the Minister of the Interior hW 

 published an ordinance imposing upon the owners of 

 culating libraries and literary circles an obligation to send 

 their books to be censured anew, whether they had beet 

 already authorized or not by the authorities. The joe 

 nals received in those establishments are likewise ta 

 undergo the censorship, and hereafter no person who d«i 

 not enjoy general confidence shall be allowed to keeps 

 circulating library or a literary circle in Hauover.- 

 Letters from Berlin state that the King of Prussia hit 

 commissioned Meyerbeer to compose an opera for thf 

 opening of the Royal Opera at Berlin, which is to tike 

 place on the 15th October next. They also state that the 

 capital is about to be enriched with a new cathedral, the 

 designs for which have been executed by the famous Pros* 

 sian architect M. Stieler, after the suggestions of the Kiaj 

 himself. It will be in the Italian style, and is to be one 

 of the finest in Germany. The most celebrated art* 

 of all countries will be employed to embellish itwitt 

 sculpture and painting. The vaults will be appropriate 

 as a burial-place of the reigning family of Prow* 

 The estimate of the expense amounts to thirty-eig 

 million francs. — From Vienna we learn that ttt 

 Emperor has decided that the railway from >*■• 

 to Trieste shall be connected with that between >»* 

 and Vienna. The new railway will pass by Goritz, as 

 have a branch to Palmanuova— Letters from Carton* 

 of Jan. 1, state that the Princess Augusta of Nassau iH*j 

 birthday occurred two days before, and who was in &* 

 health when she rose, was suddenly taken ill and * 

 seriously that she could not receive the usual complice* 

 on the occasion. A paralytic stroke has deprived her 

 the use of her speech and fears are entertained for 

 life. The princess is married to Count Von BrismarK* 

 Ambassador of Wirtemberg. ., ^ 



Belgium.— Letters from Brussels state that the V 

 of Bordeaux passed through Belgium on Sunday 

 had arrived the previous night at Ostend by the itf" 



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Liverpool steamer. His suite consisted of four V eT T i( 

 onlv, among whom was the Due de Levis. ' Ihe ,^ 

 slept at the Hotel des Bains at Ostend, and went taew* 

 direct to Cologne by the railroad without visiting ; m 

 sels. It is understood the illness of the Duke ot AW 

 leme was the cause of his hurried journey. .^ 



Holland.— Letters from Amsterdam describe tm .^ 

 as in a state of excitement on account of the P r0 ^° ^ 

 of a property- tax by the ' i nance Minister. Tiie g*a 

 hostility is shown to the measure, and not one J ^ 

 had, it seems, undertaken its defence. Count J . 

 Bosch, Minister for the Colonies under William !•>. 

 now member of the Second Chamber of the St;ites-Oe ^ 

 has taken a prominent part in the opposition, an ^ 

 published a pamphlet on the subject. — On the 9tn m ^ 

 the hotel of the Minister of Marine at the Ha S U j f j 

 almost entirelv destroyed by fire. More than ■ ^ 

 that fine building, containing all the Navy offices, ^ 

 consumed. The King and Princes were pre* *h 

 took an active part in the exertions to subdue tneu 



