10 JUNE 1843, Page 1

The Representatives of France have been engaged in the un-

grateful task of overhauling their accounts ; the Budget of 1844 being the subject of their deliberations. This anticipation of the yearly scheme of expenditure would be a capital check upon squandering, were it not that every breeze of excitement enables a Minister,, •or compels him, to do away all the benefit by taking wholesale "extraordinary credits." At present France h economical : she feels acutely the disagreeable effect of paying for an "armed peace" ; her Representatives retrench vigorously, cut- ting down estimates right and left, as if glory or dignity could not for a moment be thought of in comparison with parsimony. Even the theatres are repudiated by the Deputies, who have become for the nonce a marvellous multiplication of JOSEPH Homes. The new fancy derives a zest from its being a capital mode of obtaining for Ministers a new class of defeats ; and the SOULT-GUIZOT Cabi- net enjoy as complete a frustration of all their plans as if they were English Ministers. In the midst of this fit of economy, a different spirit peeps forth, in the hankering for more war, more intrigue, and more Anti-British armed diplomacy in Spain. Pigs are said to be difficult to drive, as they are given to bolting down "all manner of streets"; but surely M. Gutzor would find pig- driving a kind of luxurious repose.