Passing from the British Parliament to the French Chambers, we
find the Deputies still debating the bill for regulating the Custom-duties. The Ministers and the majority of the Chamber bold fast to the prohibitory system ; and the ignorance of the true principles of advantageous commerce displayed in the dis- cussion is lamentable. As respects the coal-duties, France has been divided into three districts, and the district opposite to Eng- land, and convenient for receiving a supply of coal from this country, is to pay four times as much tax as those parts of the sountry which are at a greater distance, and have less need of cheap coals !
The Dukes of ORLEANS and NEMOURS are about to pay a visit to Vienna. It is said that the visit of the Duke of ORLEANS is one of courtship to the daughter of the Archduke CHARLES; but it is not certainly known whether love, pleasure, or politics, is the object of the journey. The Legitimist party, meanwhile, is scan- dalized at the reception of a Prince of the Barricades by the Emperor of Austria, while the friends of TRIERS point to it as proof of the diplomatic skill of the Minister, and of the respect he commands abroad.
A correspondent of the Courier, said in that journal to be well- informed, states positively, that a considerable body of French troops are about to be despatched into the insurgent provinces of Spain.
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