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July 6,1 



the quarter of about 80,000/., and on the year ot nearly 

 400,000/. In the Customs, it is expected there will be an 

 increase of 200,000/. ; the Stamps and Tax department will 

 be nearly the same as in the corresponding quarter of last 

 yea: . There is a small increase in the Post Office returns. 

 There will bea slight deficiency under the head of Miscella- 

 neous Taxes, on the quarter, as compared with the eorm* 

 ponding quarter of last year, in consequence of the 

 remittances of silver from China coming into the account 

 of last year, and the remittances recently received in 

 this country not coming into the revenue account until 

 next quarter. On the vear and the quarter it is ex- 

 pected that the report will be favcurab e, but the details 

 of the returns ca nnot be given until nex t week. 



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France.— The expedition against Morocco, and the 

 discussion on the Railway Bills, have been thrown into 

 the shade this week by the excitement produced in all 

 classes in Paris, by an article in the official Moniteur, 

 said, by some, to be from the King's pen. This article 

 relates to the private property of the House or Orleans, 

 and is intended to show the right of the younger mem- 

 bers of that family to a dotation from the State. On 

 Louis-Philippe's elevation to the throne, the apanage 

 which he had inherited from his ancestors was, in virtue 

 of the Royal ordinance that had constituted it in favour 

 of the brother to Louis XIV. and his male heir*, ao- 

 nexed to the domain of the Crown. Ta! g this into 

 consideration, the Chambers resolved, in 1832, that " in 

 case the private domain should be insufficient, the dota- 

 tions of the younger sons of the King and of, the Prin- 

 cesses, his daughters, should be fixed at a future peri- 

 by special laws." The article then proceeds to demon- 

 strate the Impossibility of providing out of the private 

 domain for the maintenance of the Royal family. When 

 Louis-Philippe came into possession of his lather's pro- 

 perty as Duke of Orleans, he found it encumbered with 

 debts to the amount, of 31,<)0(>,000f., and the assets did 

 not exceed 16,000,000f. By applying thereto a portion 

 of the revenues of his apanage, which were protected 

 from the effects of any legal procfss, His Majesty had 

 been able to effect a settlement, which still burdens his 

 private property. The King was at one lime so much 

 embarrassed, that, in order to meet the expenses of his 

 crown and family, he was actually obliged to pawn his 

 title-deeds to the canals "of Orleans and Loing, which 

 had been constructed by the Regent Duke of Or- 

 leans at his own expense. The five millions which 

 he received in 1825 as an indemnity for the property 

 confiscated during the revolution, were entirely appro- 

 priated to the completion and embellishment of the 

 Palais Royal, which, forming part of the apanage, 

 had been incorporated with the Crown estates. The 

 writer then observes, that no personal prodigality occa- 

 sioned any derangement in the administration of the 

 civil list or the private property of the King ; that Princess 

 Adelaide, his Majesty's sister, was often obliged to afford 

 him assistance; ami that the King, to satisfy the obliga- 

 tions imposed upon him as a Sovereign and a father, had 

 been, and was still compelled to contract debts which daily 

 encumbered his private property, at present the sole 

 patrimony of the Princes and Princesses his children. 

 " Such a state of thing?," he says, "is contrary to the 

 principles of justice and sound policy, as well as to the 

 dignity of the country and Crown. According to strict 

 law, and to the provisions of our legislation, dotations 

 are due to the younger Princes and Princesses of the 

 Royal Family, for the private property is inadequate for 

 the purpose. In order that this grave question may be suit- 

 ably submitted to the examination of the Chambers, good 

 citizens and all just and sensible men must be enlight- 

 ened as to the truth of the case, and assist themselves in 

 clearing that cloud of gross errors and perfidious false- 

 hoods so carefully raised to deceive the country with 

 regard to rights and facts. It was often said in France, 

 1 If the King knew it.' The Kind's Government says 

 now, ' Let the country know it !■ France will not permit 

 that the Royal family should not preserve, under our 

 constitutional monarchy, the rigl and station lega.ll 

 guaranteed to the family of the Duke of Orleans." 

 Nothing can exceed the excitement produced by this 

 article. On Monday the Chamber of Deputies was 

 crowded, in expectation of Ministers being questioned 

 regarding it. The questions were put by M. Lherbette, 

 who expressed his amazement at such a thing having been 

 published. M. Guizot replied that the Cabinet assumed 

 the responsibility for what was inserted in the Moniteur 

 by order of the Government : that he had said two 

 months ago in the Chamber of Peer?, all that had now 

 been published in the official print ; that abundant 

 calumnies had been spread relative to the •• dotation" of 

 the Royal family ; that those calumnies must be 

 dispelled ; that when the public mind was set right on 

 the subject, the Government would bring the question in 

 due form before the Chambers, but that it would not, 

 before that period, risk a great monarchic question. M. 

 Guizot was interrupted by considerable clamour, and ex- 

 pressed his astonishmen', asking whether it behoved not 

 a Government to dispel public errors before matters of 

 moment were introduced into the Legislature. M. 

 Lherbette again insisted upon the offensiveness of the 

 article and the painful dissension it had made in Pars 

 and M. Guizot reiterated his first observations. M. 

 Dupin censured the article as unconstitutional, and as- 

 tounded his hearers by saying he did not consider the 

 article as emanating from the King. If the dotation was 



consider and decide it, was to try to pass questions over 

 the head of the Chamber. The article had excited too 

 much attention, and he would propose the order of the 

 dav. This was carried, and the discussion terminated, 

 as a matter of course.— The recent disclosures in our 

 House of Commons on the opening of letters by the 

 Post-office, have been brought before the French Cham- 

 bers by M. de Malleville, who urged that Mr. Duncorabe 

 had publicly stated that the practice was carried on in 

 France. M. de Malleville added that Mr. Duncombe s 

 allegation had been published in the Moniteur without 

 any contradiction being given to it, and that it behoved 

 the Government publicly to declare that the secrecy of 

 letters was respected in France, the revolution of 1830 

 having, to its honour, abolished the « Cabinet Noir. M. 

 Guizot replied that M. de Malleville was quite justified 

 in calling the attention of Ministers to the circum- 

 stance-that, both de jure and de facto, the secrecy of 

 letters was completely respected in France—that it was 

 respected as regarded both Frenchmen and foreigners; 

 and, lastly, that nobody could deem it the Government s 

 duty to notice all the mistakes that might be committed 

 in England and elsewhere. On this subject the Journal 

 des DC-bats declares, "that all persons acquainted with 

 political matters are well aware that the custom of open- 

 ing letters has ceased to exist in France since the revo- 

 lution of July, and that it will never be re-established. 

 The Courtier Francais is indignant that the French 

 Ministry did not come forward and contradict, of its own 

 accord, the charge made against France. The Conetitu- 

 tionnel alludes to the subject m these worJs :—' M. 

 Guizot declared, that in fact and in right, the secrecy of 

 letters was completely respected in France. The fact 

 regards the Ministry, and until proof to the contrary, we 

 hold the Minister's affirmation to be exact. But as to 

 the right, notwithstanding the temporary attacks that it 

 has received, in times when all guarantees were in dan- 

 er, it exists for every citizen, from the day when the 

 Constituent Assembly unanimously proclaimed it. As 

 long as there shall be in France a free press and tribune, 

 this right cannot be violated with impunity." The Com- 

 merce alludes more particularly to the existence of such 

 a system in England. M It is," it says, •« truly astonish- 

 ing that in our days, and in a country of liberty and 

 political guarantees like England, such a thing could 

 take place. The Tory Ministry seeks in vain to excu.se 

 itself by areuiog on a system of legislation created at an 

 epoch so different from the present. In disinterring all 

 the Draconian enactments and laws of the moment that 

 the political archives of England contain, nothing could 

 be more easy than to establish tyranny according to law. 

 The House of Commons ought to render homage to 

 public morality, bv modifying a legislation which the 

 Tories abuse in a manner worthy of their retrograde sys- 

 tem, and of which the slightest effect is to excite the 

 indignation of all honourable men."— Official advices 

 from Algiers were received on Wednesday, announcing 

 the entry of the French troops into the territory of 

 Morocco, and the occupation of the town of Ouchda. 

 — The discussion on the Paris and Belgian Railroad 

 Bill in the Chamber of Deputies was brought to a 



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doors opened. Upwards of a hundred elegantly drei^i 

 females rushed to the seats for which they had secavy 

 tickets, and many more, who had none, were 2. 

 pelled until threatened with actual coercion. The tri«l 

 did not terminate until Wednesday last, when Rouble- 

 was found guilty on every charge, but with " ex 

 circumstances." He was sentenced to hard 1 

 life, and young Cadot was acquitted. 



Spain. — Accounts from Madrid of the 2.Vh ult. have 

 come to hand. Tranquillity prevailed in the eaj j 8 j. 

 though various military precautions denoted that the' au- 

 thorities apprehended some disturbance. Public atten. 

 tion was directed towards Barcelona, and all letters fro* 

 that city were anxiously sought for, innumerable rumour* 

 as to an impending demonstration being daily prop*, 

 gated. The official prints labour to appease the g r,] 

 uneasiness, but their language betrays their belief that 

 some political event of great moment will soon be heard 

 of. — It is said in the latest accounts from Barcelona 

 that after frequent ministerial consultations, the Consti- 

 tutional party in the Cabinet has triumphed, and tint 

 the Cortes will be convoked immediately, to take into 

 consideration the Government measures, by which iu 

 constitution is proposed to be changed. 



Portugal. — Advices from Lisbon of the 26th u!t. 

 give an account of the probable resignation of the Mi- 

 nister of Justice, of serious embarrassments arising from 

 the prorogation of the Cortes, and a disposition ro take 

 advantage of that ill-judged measure — the supplies not 

 having been granted and the estimates passed— to refuse 

 the payment of taxes. The case of the woman said to 

 be accused of apostacy and heresy, and sentenced to 

 death, appears to have been referred to the Court of 

 Relacao of Lisbon. The money difficulties of the Go- 

 vernment continue, and wear a very gloomy aspect. 



Switzerland. — The Helvetic Diet was opened on 

 the 25th ult. by the President of the Directory, M. 

 Mnller, who delivered on the occasion a speech ex- 

 clusively devoted to the recent occurrences in the Valaii. 

 He particularly applied himself to justify the course 

 pursued by the Government throughout the affair, and 

 stigmatised in energetic terms the attempt of the parti- 

 sans of Young Switzerland, "who," he said, "knew no 

 other justice than violence, no other religion than licen- 

 tiousness, who had no root in the country, and were 

 overthrown by the -whole population rising against 

 them." After this speech, which was favourably 

 received by some and disapproved by others, the 

 Assembly rejected by a large majority the proposi- 

 tion of the member for Basle country, that the deputies 

 of Valais be excluded from the extraordinary Diet. 



Germany. — The Augsburg Gazette states, from 

 Goritz, that the Due de Bordeaux has notified to the 



Courts of Europe his determination to retain the title 

 of Count de Chambord. This is said to be for the pur- 

 pose of avoiding the alternative of accepting or refusing 

 the title of King of France, which his P^*na ban 



close on Friday, the Bill having been carried by a majo- 

 rity of 227 against 42. This important railroad run 

 from Paris to Douay, by Clermont-sur-Oise, Amiens, ami 

 Arras. From Douay two branch lines are to run to the 

 Belgian frontier, the one by Valenciennes towards Mons, 

 and the other by Lille towards Courtrai. In Thursday's 

 sitting it was decided that a branch line should run from 

 Lille to Hazebrouck, whence two other branches should 

 run, the one to Dunkirk, and the other to Calais. Bou- 

 logne is a great gainer by the vote, as that place will 

 communicate with Paris by the far more direct line of 

 Etaples, Abbe'ville, and Amiens. On Saturday the 

 Chamber of Deputies passed the Central Railway bill by 

 a large majority. The railway authorised by this Bill is 

 from Vierzon to Bourges, with branches from Vierzon 

 by Chateauroux to Limoges, and from Bourges to Cler- 

 mont. On Monday the Montpelier andNismes Railway 

 Bill was passed by a majority of J)5 to 5. Count Mole 

 availed himself of that opportunity to protest against the 

 clause inserted in the Tours and Bordeaux Railroad B'll by 

 the Chamber of Deputies, which excluded members of both 

 houses from all participation in railroad companies. lie 

 declared that in placing himself at the head of the Stras- 

 burgh Company, he conceived he was doing a patriotic 

 act ; but that his intentions having been misrepresented, 

 he bad resigned, with the firm determination to abstain 



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given to him sinc°e the death of ^e Due d Angouleme. 

 -It is stated, in a letter from Berlin of the » 2-d ut 

 that the King has ordered the factories which wer 

 stroyed in Sifesia to be rebuilt, and that occupaUon ^shaU 

 be immediately found in some way or other for J* 

 workmen. The same letter mentions a striking ,n «i* 

 of religious toleration. The ^otestant mi, ister . * 

 Berlin have offered the use of 'their ^ b " ^rf 

 Catholic clergy until there shall be a suffi cien ; u» >«* 

 Catholic churches to accommodate the re.onsm 

 religion.-A Prague letter of the 20th nlLsay^ £ 



three days past we hfW had a bft£ ^^^foj^ 



operatives. Three thousand of the workmen emp 



in our cotton factories have struck wo rk ,a«# £J 



the machinery in some of the ****** ™£ that the 

 been taken to maintain order, and it 1 *°P el the 

 want of the means of subsistence will soon ^ ^ 

 workmen to return to their duty. --" ■ ^ br0Ug ^ t 

 late riot at Breslau, when most threading, excited 

 to a close by an unexpected circumstance, laffiation 



the mirth of the crowd. The follow ing P™ _ t4 The 

 suddenly appeared in various parts ot ™ e f the 



revolution cannot be continued, in consequ e , .. 



sudden hoarseness • of the J ourn t ym fX proceeding* 

 Thispleasantryimmediatelyputastop >U W ^ 



ItIly.-A supplement of the Jew** ^ Irali an 

 Sicilies oi the 22d ult. announces th* ^ 

 refugees, who had fled to Corfu, embarked ^ 



of the 13th for Italy, and landed on ^ ^ 



hereafter from all interference in such enterprises.- 

 Wednesday the Paris and Strasburg Railway Bill was 

 adopted by 191 to 62.— The Archbishop of Paris was on 

 Tuesday sent for to Neuilly to be ready to baptise at the 

 proper moment the infant of the Duchess of Nemours, 

 whose accouchement is hourly expected. — A trial 

 commenced last week at the Paris assizes, long re- 

 ports of which are given in the papers. It appears that 

 in January last, M. Donon Cadot, a banker, of Pontoise, 

 was murdered in that town; that a considerable sum in 

 money and bills was stolen from his house ; that the 

 murderer, a man named Rousselet, has since declared 

 that he committed the crime, but was long exhorted, and 

 ultimately bribed to perpetrate it by the murdered 

 banker's second son, a youth not 19 years of age. Va- 

 rious my rious circumstances, and some episodes of 

 revolting immorality have increased the dramatic attrac- 

 tions of this trial ; and the Gazette des Tribunal** de- 

 clares, that among all the criminal proceedings recorded 

 in the annals of justice, few have excited public curiosity 



i*cessaryrrhe M Mimstry "ought tcTcou.e forw~arT frankly j to such a (ie S ree - , TA ? C ° Urt ° f Assizes was a m0St 

 and den/and it. But to appeal to opinion against past | stormed b y tutJ crowd who surrounded it long before its 



or me 13th for Italy, and j**^ was _ 



on the coast of Calabria. The pa y ^ 



manded by the two sons of Admir * Tbey 



Domenico Moro, all officers in the Aust. * encoUD ter- 

 marched three days into the wte nor * itn p ^ 



ing any opposition, under the g uldan f e r lbrian band* 

 thl Neapolitan journal designates a« .a J^f' B eWe- 

 On the 19th, however, they were attacked, ^ ^ 

 dere, in the province of Catanzaro, on trie ^ 



Gio-nni in kre, which leads to CoJ* ^ 

 mander of the Urban guard and one of tae s rest 



opposed to them, were killed in the acUon^» ^ 

 fled to San Giovanni. The insurgents con q[ lt 



march upon that town, but when within jo str * 



they were attacked, at a place called Canal lete Iy 



gola, and, according to the Neapolitan report, . 

 fouted, with 3 killed, 2 wounded, «n 1 1 4 ^ eveD*, 

 The Government, on being apprised I o pa0 U, 



immediately embarked a battalion of lU»- ^^r* 

 whence it was to advance in two columns «P tbr0U £ 



the one passing through Cosenza, and ti ear 



Pizzo. The great object of the *£"«£& rcbeUion, 

 to liberate the prisoners implicated m |n bo isted tW 

 who were detained at Cosenza. *ney of proclaim 

 tri-colourtd flag, and issued a great nunio 



