The session of the French Chambers was opened on Monday
with a speech from the King, delivered in the Chamber of Depu- ties. The appearance of Paris in the morning was that of a city expecting to be attacked by an enemy. The military posts were strongly guarded; squadrons of cavalry and battalions of infantry were forming in various quarters ; the parapets of the Quaffs were bristling with bayonets, and double rows of infitntry lined the path by which the procession was to pass to the Chambers—the public being kept beyond musket-shot. Strangers in the gardens and about the precincts of the Tuileries were carefully watched; and every street by which it was possible to gain access to the Cham- ber, front either side of the river, was guarded by detachments of soldiers. A few minutes before one o'clock, the departure of Louts PIIILIPPE front the Tuileries was announced by the discharge of cannon. He rode in a plain carriage, drawn by a pair of bays, and escorted by a squadron of Lancers of the National Guard. Round the carriage officers of time King's staff were stationed, and so close together as to serve for a complete protection to the Royal person. The King entered the Chamber with a demeanour of painstaking affability; but was coldly received—there was one feeble cry of " Five le Rol." Ili.: Majesty delivered the following speech, in a rather low tone of v nice.
" Gentlemen Peers, Gentlemen Deputies—Since the close of your last session, the internal calm which your loyal cooperation had contributed to establish has not yet been disturbed. I have received, through a witness most dear to me, newproofs of the confidence and the affection of the French. My eldest son, on visiting in the course of this year a considerable portion of the kingdom, found everywhere on his passage the developement of labour, the progress of industry, respect for our institutions, and obedience to the laws. My heart, affected in the liveliest manner, saw in the warmth of the reception given to my son a reason the more for his brothers and for himself to devote themselves without ceasing, and everywhere, to the service of the country, and for the honour of France.
" My relations with Foreign Powers have preserved that kind and pacific character prescribed by the common interests of Europe. Our flag, in concert with that of Great Britain, and faithful to the spirit of a union always ad- vantageous to the interests of both countries, has watched over the independ- ence and the immediate safety of the Ottoman Empire. Our policy is ever to assure the preservation and the integrity of that empire, the existence of which is so essential to the maintenance of general peace. Our efforts have at least suc- ceeded in arresting in the East the course of those hostilities which we had desired to prevent ; and, NV I lilt k:VCI' the complications that result from diversity of interests, I have the liopi• that the accord of the Great rowers will bring about all equitable and pacific arrangement. " A great change has been produced in the situation of Spain ; and if I have to regret that it is not in my power yet to announce to you that the civil war which has for a long time desolated that kingdom is entirely extinguished, I have to observe that it has lost that character of gravity which might have occasioned fears for the stability of the throne of Isabela a the Second. The greater portion of the provinces of the North is pacified, and every thing justifies the hope that it will not be long until those of the East are equally so. This impArtant result is the produce of the wise policy of the Government of tho ()wen Regent, and of the persevering valour of the Spanish armies, sustained by the support given to them by my Government and by that alter Britannic IMaicsty in faithful execution of the treaties of 1S34. ,:In America, the Mexican Government fulfils the stipulations of the treaty which 1 had concluded with that republic. The blockade of the har- bours of the Argentine Republic still occupies one of our naval squadrons. Additional forces have been sent to that distant point, to accelerate the giving to us the satisfaction to which we are entitled.
" In Africa, other hostilities call for decisive repression. Our brave soldiers and our settlers, to whom my son had just brought by his presence a token of his solicitude, have been perfidiously attacked. The progress of our esta- blishments in the province of Algiers, and in that of Constantine, is the real motive for that insane aggression. That aggression must, however, be punished, and its recurrence rendered impossible, so that nothing shall arrest the deve- lopment of prosperity which French domination guarantees to a country which it will serer abandon. Now troops have already been conveyed to Africa, and preparations of every hi :4; in progress to abridge the duratios of the war, which will be carried on with vigour, and to afford everywhere an efficacious protection to the inhabitants of Algeria, and to the native tribes faithful to France. Estimates of the expenses immediately required for that purpose will be submitted to the regulating vote of the Chambers. I am con- fident that they will obtain that assent which you are wont to grant whenever the honour of our arms and the permanent interests of France are at stake: "The situation of our finances enables us to inert this new contingency. It was necessary that the sugar question, which the Chambers bud left undecided in their last session, should receive in their absence a temporary solution. A project of law will be resented to you on that subject, with a view to concili- ate both public and private interests. "Measures for the improvement of the condition of non-commissioned offi- cers and soldiers of the army will be proposed to you. You will also have to deliberate on liills relative to the organization of the Council of State, to literary property, and public instruction. Other propositions will have for their objects the adoption of a systent of civil pensions, the execution of great railroad lines, the amelioration of our internal navigation, the management of prisons, and the intrroduction of the penitentiary system. "In your ye rbms labours your enlightened patriotism will ever consider what may contribute to the increase of public tranquillity and to the consolidation of the conservaiire princiMe of our institutions. To maintain them within the established limits is the duty of my reign. The happiness of having accomplished it shall be the sweetest recompense of my devotedness. " Already a period of nearly ten years has elapsed since the great act which placed me no the throne, and since you granted me thy the first time the concurrence and euppart which I am arin about to demand. I delight in congratulating France, with you and amidst her representatives, on her suc- cessful progress in that career of civilization and legal liberty which the tur- bulent and insatiable passions of a few are still labouring to interrupt. With the help of God and of your loyal adhesion, their efforts will prove inef- fectual, and those last vestiges of past disorders will vanish before public reason and the national will."
The allusion to the Duke of Orleans received a feeble cheer ; but the speech in general was heard with marked coldness by Peers, Deputies, and strangers.
At the Bourse no effect was produced. The knowledge that 100,000 soldiers were under arms to prevent insurrection, and the torrents of rain that fell, made the ceremony a very taste affair to the Parisians. With one part only of the Royal manifesto is there, apparently, any cordial sympathy—that which atmounecs the reso- lution never to abandon Algiers. The Deputies on Tuesday proceeded to elect a President and Chairmen of Standing Committees. There was no organized op- position to SACZET'S reflection to the Presidential chair; 'FUMES haanug dECUEA to become a candidate, and BARROT being put for- ward without his consent. The numbers were—
For Seuzet 172 1311-rot
Dapin 4
Latnarthiu 1
Gang ier
By a casting-vote of DI:FAURE, formerly an intimate friend of 'Tinges, JACQUES LEFEBVRE, of the Juste-milieu, was elected Chairman of one of the Bureaus, in preference to THIEES. The Temps makes much of an account, evidently exaggerated, of the proceedings of Captain CaAcrusD, of the Racehorse, in French Guiana. lie is said to have levied contributions on the inhabitants of Cayenne; and behaved offensively to the French authorities. The 3lieister of Marine has officially- announced in The Artadetwr, that representations on the subject will be made to the British Covers:went.
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