The French Chamber of Deputies met on Thursday in its
standing Committee, to examine the New Tariff Bill; which was generally ap- proved. At the public sitting that followed, M. Chapins Montlaville developed a proposition for the suppression of the stamp-duty on news- papers ; which was opposed by the Minister of Finance, and sup- ported by M. Lamartine. .
The National states that the Attorney-General had ordered a prose- cution to be commenced against the Ahhe Maurette, for having pub- lished a pamphlet entitled Le Pape et l'Evangile, ou Encore des Adieux d Rome. The Esperance, a Protestant journal of Paris, adds, that "the Abbe Maurette has quitted France for Canada as a Protestant mission- ary, with the intention of converting the French population of that colony. This resolution was adopted before any idea existed that the pamphlet would become the object of a judicial investigation."
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