The news from the Continent this week is very scanty.
The French Chamber of Deputies on Saturday testified their spite against the President DUNN, once so popular among them, by refusing to grant a certain sum in addition to his regular salary of 20,000 francs. The Correspondent of the Chronicle gives a State. ment of the case.
." The salary of the President is not yearly, but sessional. For the years 1830, 18:11, and 1832, it was 5,000 francs monthly during the session. In lel33, it was increased to 10,000 francs, or 4001. monthly ; the sum being granted for the expenses of entertaining the Deputies and opening the Presidential salons to them at stated times. There b. ing about seven months session in the year, the al- lowance was 70,000 francs. But this year the session, opened in August, and the Chamber was then prorogued till December. Strictly speaking, the in- terval was sessional. So M. Dupin evidently thought ; for, hiving passed the month of September in the country, he devoted 10,000 francs, the amount of his monthly salary, to charitable purposes. In October and November, however, he as in Paris, inhabiting the hotel of Presidency, holding reception and giving entertainments. The Treasury of the Chamlie-s proposed on Saturday to vote the difference between 70,000 francs and 96,000 francs ; in other words, to pay M. Dupin his salary from August to December. The Chnrober refused, and Las marked thereby how much the President has lost of its confidence. Yet DO one could have acted more disinterestedly than M. Dupin. Ent he has con- trived of late not only to irritate Ministers, but to alienate a great many of his own party."
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