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 know, that notwithstanding the notification of the Montieur, Mir. Livingston has no in- ton of demanding his passport"

 We subjoin such extracts as are of suffi- cient importance 10 compensate for the space they occupy.

 Mir. Livingston had an audience of the King on the l4th instant (after the message had reached Paris.)

 CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.

 Sitting of Jaauary 5.

 M. Dupin took the chair at one o'clock, The galleries were extremely flii. and more than usual number of Deputies were present. The Ministers and President of the Council Marshal Mortier) were in their usual places. At half past one o. clock,

 The Minister of Finances ascended the tribune great sensation)-- proceeded to read the following development relative to the Government communication which had been announced:

 tGentlemen Faithful to the accom- plishment of it's duty, and trusting that you would participate in its convictions, the Government was disposed again to submit to your consideration, the measures neces- sary for the execution of the treaty of the 4th of July, 1881, and was prepared to de- fend them in the name of justice and of the political and commercial interests of France. The messaqa of the President of the United States slgf he opening of the A zsanri1ssn f ...sr.,s& oil this a1 ton of this project lails Government had then to examine if it tAs4 remained under the empire of the same duty; if the digni- ty of France did not demand different line of conduct; and finally, if any means existed of placing the invariable rules ol justice in harmony with the legitimate sen timent of national honor.

 Gentlemen-the Kings Government has no occasion to justify itself in your presence from the reproaches addressed to l it by the President of the United States l Such a controversy would be equally de- void of utility and dignity. Besides, in the discussion which must shortly take place. all the explanations that can be de- sired will be given, and all the necessary documents will be laid before the Cham l Der.

 

 with regard to the extent of the powers conferred on us by the constitution of the State ; but if he is ignorant of the laws of our country, we will notfall into similar error on the subject of the institutions of Amer ica. The spirit and tie letter of those in- stitutIons authorize us to consider the doc ument already referred to as merely the ex- pression of the idea of one individual, so long as that idea shall not have received the sanction of the oher two powers of the American Union. The message is an act of Government as yet incomplete, and consequently i! cannot lead to one of those determinations by which France usually re- plies to a menace or to reproach.

 We might wait, gentlemen, till the res- olu;ions of the Congress should prescribe to us the line of conduct expedient to be adopted. But the system of temporization would have neither the advantage of rem dering our commercial relations secure, nor of placing them evidently under the protection of reprisals. Besides, by the adoption of such system, both Govern ments must have mutually awaited the re- suit of each others proceedings, and from the distance which fntervenes between them, the probable close of the Legisla- tive session at the same period at Washing ton and Paris, would leave this important question still undecided, and would in- crease it's difficulties by fresh delay. Un- der such circumstances the Government has rejected the system of temporizaton. A question of national dignity had the first right to its solicitude; and gentlemen, you are aware how that question has been treat ed.

 {" Nevertheless, as the Treaty of July 1 has become neither less just nor less polit- ic than before; as the proceeding adopted by the President of the United States { has not weakened the basis of equity and reason on which the transaction rests, the | Government has persevered in its deter imitation to present the treaty again for your examination. The engagement once taken, it IS for the honor of France that 1t should be accomplished. In this import ant deIibcratioD, the Chamber, whilst CO.,