A fortnight ago, we ventured an opinion that there would
be no war, notwithstanding the feigned fears and secret wishes of the
Anti-Reformers, who saw in the shock of nations a temporary re- lief from the worse shock of tumbling boroughs. We repeater/ this opinion last week. Events have justified it. From the decla-
ration of Ministers on Thursday night, it will be seen that the French troops are actually recalled from Belgium ; and it will be seem from the Parliamentary report also, what few of our readers more than ourselves could have been aware of, that the Opposition all along looked forward to this issue, and that they never entertained the slightest doubt that the French nation would adhere to its engagements ! The business of the French Parliament progresses, like that of our own, somewhat slowly. On the 19th instant, the Finance Minister laid before the Chamber of Deputies the remainder of the Budget for 1830-31, which the events of July last year prevented the Deputies from discussing at the proper time. Ten months of this Budget were agreed to in February last ; so that only two" months were left to be noticed. The total expenses for the year amounted to 1,172,522,475 francs ; the total receipts tot' 1,303,979,702 francs. Of the receipts, however, only 999,000,004 francs arose from ordinary and extraordinary taxes ; the remainder came from the patriotic loan, effected, as the Minister proudly declared, at 84, at a time when the stocks were only 75. The estimates for 1831-32 are 1,097,700,000 francs ; the ways and means 1,160,066,000 francs ; being an excess of rather more than 60 millions of francs, or about 2i millions sterling. The army has been raised to, and the estimates admit of its being maintained at, 400,000; the National Guards amount to a million ; the fortifications have been repaired, and are in proper and sufficient state. No- thing has been done in respect to the Peerage ; but it is rumoured that the Ministers intend to propose that the present Chamber shall remain in statu quo until 1834,-that the King shall have the power of all new creations ; and it is understood, in that case, that the new creations will consist of the sons and heirs of exist- ing peers. It is added, that 116 of the nobility have declared their intention, in the event of the hereditary peerage being abolished, to resign their honours and quit the Chamber, which in France a peer may do. The Times remarks, on a motion which was made in the Chamber of Deputies the other day, in a case where the Marquis Gaetan de la Roeliefoucault was authorized to appear in a suit in one of the inferior courts, that the Marquis should be designated simply as Le Sieur Gaetan. We do not know whether there might be any ulterior purpose in this motion, as the Times conceives there was; but, whatever was the motive of the Deputy that made it, the ready compliance of the Chamber shows the feeling of his brethren on the doctrine of general equality. The Duehesrde BERRI is at Massa Carrara, but whether en- gaged with statesmen or statuaries, is not agreed. The Dey of Algiers is one of the newest lions at Paris. He complains that Louis Plump's Ministers have broken faith. with him in respect of his pension ; and threatens to complaint('
England. He should make known his case to Lord STORMONT or Mr. CHOKER; it would furnish another motion or two.
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