The French Chamber of Deputies have agreed, by a majority
.of 241 to 140, to refer to the consideration of a Committee the question of continuing the monopoly of the tobacco manufacture to the Government. M. MARTIN DU NORD, one of the priecipal Crown lawyers, was the leading opponent of M. DUCHATEL, who conducted the debate on behalf of the Ministry. M. MARTIN is the representative of a district where tobacco is extensively cul- tivated. M. SALVANDII spoke at length against the practice of appointing Committees of inquiry in imitation of the British Par- liament; of whose wisdom and mode of doing the public business he .spoke very ignorantly, as well as disparagingly. The Com- mittee on the tobacco question consists of nine members, seven of whom below, to the Opposition. The Ministers are said to be much annoys% at the %hole of this affair.
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