FRANCE.
Count Walewski's election, has been declared •valid. The Budget for 1867 has been presented to the Chamber. The ordinary expenditure is calculated at 1,524 million francs, ordinaryrevenue at 1,622 mllions. After appropriating eighty-eight millions 'for an extraordinary budget, a surplus of ten millions and a half francs remain. The Emperor's speech, made on the 22nd, touched upon the prosperity of France owing to the continued development of trade, manufactures, the unity of Italy, the consolidation of the long subsisting friendship of England, and the declaration that in German affairs France will remain neutral, unless for her own interests she be compelled to interfere; and arrangements have been made with the Emperor Maximilian for the withdrawal of French troops from Mexico, without compromising French interests, which they were sent to defend.
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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXII, Issue 2711, 26 March 1866, Page 5
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131FRANCE. Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXII, Issue 2711, 26 March 1866, Page 5
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