The session of the French Chambers was closed on 'Wednesday,
by a Royal ordinance ; the Budget having been despatched by the Peers with considerable haste, and passed, with some amend- ments, by a majority of 122 to 2. The principal suliject of discus- sion in Paris was the probable dissolution of the Chambers ; but no certain indication of the Royal intentions on this point had. been given.
Some disappointment has been felt among the more enlightened and sagacious members of the trading community in France, in consequence of the rejection by the Chamber of Deputies of a motion to reduce the duties on foreign manufactures, especially iron, to which the Government had promised its support, but failed to give it. M. DE ST. CRICQ, the deputy who introduced the motion, was not himself present when it was rejected. The cor- respondent of the Times justly infers front these circumstances, that the Government had resolved to cushion the project, for the present at least. The monopolists have, as may be supposed, con- siderable influence in the Chamber of Deputies, which the Ministry fear may be turned against them. The voice of the People, therefore, and the aid of the Press, which both in the capital and in the provinces appears to have adopted the liberal side, must be brought to bear against the system of monopoly, which in France, as elsewhere, is the bane of trade.
