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budget for 1862 has only been increased by some 60,0804 The total number of men employed is to be 25,511 sailors afloat; 4160 sailors on land, 12,689 marines, and 4824 artillerymen and gendarmes—total 45,184; not a very formidable force. It must be remembered, however, that the maritime inscription gives the French Government the power of calling out its reserves within a fort- night, and the addition of the reserve would double the strength of the fleet. It is reported that transports have been ordered to the Syrian coast to bring away the French army, which is bound to de- part on let June. Great complaints are, however, made in France of the desertion of the Christians, who, according to French accounts, look to France as their only hope.
The French continue to express great interest in the events at Warsaw. According to the official report from the prefects, all the provinces are agitated by sympathy for that unhappy nation. The Emperor, however, apparently pressed by Russia, has formally expresssed, in the Moyeitexr, his inability to afford assistance to the Poles : "The late events at Warsaw have been unanimously commented upon by the French press, with the sentiments of traditional sympathy which the cause of Poland has always excited in the West of Europe. But these expressions of interest would ill serve the Polish cause if they had the effect of misleading public opinion by allowing it to be supposed that the Emperor of the French encourages hopes which he could not satisfy. The generous ideas displayed by the Emperor Alexander since his accession to the throne, especially in the great measure of the emancipation of the peasants, are a certain token of his desire to likewise effect the improvements admitted by the state of things in Poland. It is only wished that he may not be prevented from so doing by manifestations of such a nature as to place the dignity of the political interests of the Russian empire in antagonism with the tendencies of its Sovereign."
The note will have a tranquillizinep effect in Warsaw, where the belief in French assistance is very general.
Prince Napoleon has formally announced in the 3foniteter his desire to be permitted to reply to the Due d'Aumale, and his regret that the Duke's pamphlet should have been suppressed. The Emperor, however, refuses his consent. It is said that the Prince also re- quested permission to challenge the Duke, but the Conseil de Famille decided that the Due d'Auniale in his pamphlet had violated the privileges of the Senate, and the challenge, therefore, could not be issued;
Two heavy failures at Marseilles appear to have excited some at- tention. The two firms, Messrs. Demetrius Balthazzi and Gabriel Hava and Co., are Greek, and large creditors of the Sultan, the debt amounting in the whole to a million sterling. The Bank of France has consequently advanced them large sums, the French Government being anxious to obtain possession of these securities as a new hold over the Sultan.
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