London, Wednesday, April ...
We have received the Pir.s papers of Sundav, which are enthiely filled with the proccedings of the Chamber of Deputies on Saturdlay. The report of Af. AfAssoN, on the project of law for the repayment or conversion of the five per cent. stock, occupies the half of their space; but as it merely supports the ministerial project, wvithout proposing any clhange or producing any new reason for its adoption, it would be superfluous to enter into its inerits or contents. After it was read, the first thing to be determined was the time best adapted for bringing on the tliscussion to which it would give rise, but this question could not be settled without affording an occasion for displaying the temper of the Chamber. M. GIRARI)IN accused the Minister of robbing the annuitaats of a third portion of their incomne. M. de VILLSLE replied, that the offer of 100 francs for stock whichl had been bought at between fifty aned ninety, couldl not be called a robbery of the stockholders. AI. CASSIMIRL PERRIER, a Paris banker, again called for a copy of the agreement entered into betwveen the MIinister of Finanice aitnd the great capi- talists of Europe, to enable the.,Govcrnncrnt to execute the great operation for vhich they sslicited the concurrence of the Chamber. No answer was given to this reiterated demand, which created a considterable sensatioin in the as- sembly. At last the commencement of the discussion was fixed for Saturday the 24th instant. The Ministerial pro- ject, as would appear from the list of its opponents, is to be combated by the extreme left and the extreme riglht. The following Deputies have inscribed their names 'to speak against it-M. de LA BoURDoxNNAY (leader of tbe extreme right), M. de VrAU5LANC (formerly Mlinister of the Inte- rior), M. SANLoT BAGUENAULr (memnber for Paris), M. RIcARn, CouLnt de TIIARID, M1. BOURDEAU, Count F&R- DINAND DF: BERTIER, General Foy, At. MNECHIN, M. LE- VESQUE, IL. CASSIMIR PERRIER, A. de GIRARDIN, M, C(XIGNON 1' OUZ(UER, Al. DUTERTItE, atnd M. DEVAUX. Of the nanmes iriscribed in support of the MNinisterial propo. sitiou, scarcely any thing is knownt from the history of for- imer sessions: to repeat them, tlherefore, would convey n o infornation to the general reader. 'rhey are fourteen in number. A. de MARC HANGY had again lost his election, and been turned out of the Chamber, from his inability to justify his qualificationi in the possession of the requisite fortune. No other bus,iness odcunrd in the Chamber. The Morriteur contains a Royal ordinance relative to French subjects wearing foreign orders without due per- mission. The preamble, quotinig the laws forbidding these practices, states that his Mlajesty, resolving, that the penal- ties shall be henceforward strictly enforced, ordains as follows:- - Article 1. Al decorations or orders, whatever may be their de- nomination or form, which should not have been conferred by us or by foreign sovereigns, are declared to be illegally or abusively ob- tained ; and those who wear them are enjoined imneediately to lay them aside. 2. Evey Frenchman, who, having obtained foreign orders, shall not have received from us permission to accept or wear thein, conformably to an ordinanceof 26th of March, 1816, shall likewise be bound to latv them aside, withoat detriment to his right to apply, if there be occasion, to the Grand Chancellor of our Royal Legion of Hionour, according to our said ordinance, to obtain our per- mr.ission. "3. Our Attornies-General sball prosecute, according to the ri- gour of the laws, all those who, notwithstanding the present ordi- nance, shall continue to wear foreign orders without our permission, or any other orders whatever, without our having conferred them upon them. .I 4. Our Alinistcrs the Secretaries of State, ani our Grand Char. ceUor of the Royal Legion of Honour, are charged with the execu- tion of the present orilinance. I Given at Paris, in our Palace of the Tuileries, April 16, 18i4, and the 218th year of our reign. ' By the King, 1 LOUIS. "The President of the Council of Einisters, "DE VIL,EjLE." LONDON. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1824.