Count D'Aaaour obtained a committee of the French Chamber of
Deputies favourably disposed towards any Ministerial project ; but the report even of this committee is expected to be un- favourable towards his scheme for taxing beet-root sugar. It is probable that an adjournment of the bill will be recommended, and an inquiry into the whole sugar question proposed. Our neighbours are beginning to perceive the consequences of the system of bolstering up domestic manufactures by high duties on foreign products. Whatever may be the fate of this bill of D'Amoour, THIERS, it is said, is resolved that it shall have no influence upon the stability of his Ministry, as he will yield on every question to a majority of the Chamber. This pliant policy, and the support of Louis PHILIP, will enable him to withstand a powerful opposition which the Doctrinaires are organizing in the Chamber of Peers; where, hitherto, every Minister has been safe.
Some petitions have been presented to the Chamber of Deputies for the repeal of the laws which banished the BONAPARTE family from France, and for transferring from St. Helena and depositing under the brass pillar in the Place Vendome the remains of NAPOLEON himself. Much animated discussion arose on this proposal ; but, ultimately, the petitions were disposed of by the Chamber passing to the order of the day.
Five of the Neuilly conspirators have been found guilty of a plot to assassinate the King, but with extenuating circumstances. They have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment varying from three to ten years. The greater number of the accused, in- cluding BOIREAU, were acquitted.
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