3 APRIL 1841, Page 12

The discussion on the separate clauses of the Paris Fortifications

Bill, in the Chamber of Peers, closed on Thursday. A vote was then taken on the whole bill ; when it was carried, by 147 to 85.

Of all the speeches made during the lengthened debate, none took higher ground than that of Count Montalembert, on the amendment which was rejected in the later part of the sitting on Wednesday. He declared his conviction that the fortifications were dangerous to the dublic liberties. Nothing be considered more probable, without ac- cusing Ministers or Prince of had intentions, than that the first result of a political movement, of bad or good success in war, would be the establishment of a Dictatorship. The fortifications would convert a temporary Dictatorship into a permanent one.