The Express.
London, England, 1852-06-25 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.
In the Corps Legislatif to-day the debate on the
budget was resumed. The chapters relative to the
service of the national guard proposed the allowance
of sums amounting, in the whole, to 135,000 fr. The
committee had proposed a reduction of 711,000 fr.,
namely, 40,0iNlfr., being the pay of the general coin-
, mending in chief; and 20,000 fr., the pay of the prin-
cipal staff officer. These amendments were rejected
by the Council of State.
de K EIIVEGI'VN moved the suppression of the entire
credit. Ile said that the national guard was the phalanx of
disorder. It was the army of the revolution. It was the na-
tional guard that hail mode 1703, 11430, and 1818. Ile was
astonished that, on the dud of Ikeember, the government
had not got rid of it altogether. It would have been to
render a great service to the cause of order, for what were
called intelligent bayonets had brought France to the brink
of destruction.
U. uv. NIORNY said that if the head of the state had not
abolished the institution of the national guard, it was because
he thought a well organized national guard would be useful
in the maintenance of order.
M. LATOUR, while supporting the motion of M. de Ker-
veguen, took occasion to pay a cotnpliment to M. de Morny,
whose prudent administration had, lie said, preserved autho-
rity, and at the same time respected the liberties of the

country.
The chapters were then voted without a division.
Upon the chapter relative to public buildings the commit-
tee had proposed a reduction of 400,000 francs, which the
Council of State had not admitted. The committee, conse-
quently, now moved the rejection of the entire Chapter.
After a few observations from M. ClisssEtoe r-Lau nor
and N. Titoitiouv, councillor of state, the motion of the
committee was carried. This chapter is therefore rejected.
The committee had proposed a reduction of .10,0003 in the
grant to the Agricultural Institute of Versailles. This
amtudmtut was admitted by the Council of State, and the
chapter as amended was carried after a speech from M.
Hillard in support of the original proposition. The remain-
ing chapter relating to the ministry of the intense were
voted without opposition.
In the budget of the committee of pslice a reduction of
100,000 front the 900,000 proposed to be allowed for assist-
mice to foreign refugees, had been admitred by the Council
of State. The house adopted the chapter as amended.
The committee had proposed the entire suppression of the
chapters relative to the expenses of police inspection in the
departments, amounting to 425,000. The Council of State
rejected this amendment, but adopted another, reducing
by 20,000 the salaries of four inspectors-general not yet ap-
pointed.
The Duke D'Uzes said that these chapters raised two
questions, one a national, and the other a moral question. In
the first point of view, he thought the existing police agents
quite sufficient, and that their salaries were also sufficient.
Ile saw no reason for creating new directors of police for
the departments. It was worse than useless to burdeu the
budget with these new functionaries. With regard to the
moral question,it mightbe asked whetherthe word " police"
was very popular. One was involuutarily led to remember
what the pike was under the empire. Doubtless it could not
become the the same thing in the present day. But what
ime was to be made of it i This question had been put to the
Council of State, and M. de Thorigny answered, " I have
sees M. de Maupas, and he made ma understand the neces-
pity for the police by pointing to a huge pile of papers, and
awing to me if you only knew what those papers contain,
you would not hesitate for a moment." (Immense
laughter.) The police such as the government now wanted,
was not to be an ordinary but also an administration police.
It was to report how the prefects were conducting the busi-
ness of their departments. This reminded him of the ex-
pressian in Tacitus, " Riau& mutes, alyue inaninut, teats et
parsetes circum spectobantur.- That was said under the
reign of Tiberius. (Some murmurs, and cries of "Don't
apply the quotation.")
M. BILLAULT (smiling).—lt is quite impossible that
there can be any application intended.
The Duke iftzfe concluded by protesting against the
creation of a min ster of police an officer who could only
bring to mind the old police which came to a bloody end.
(Sensation.)
M. DEVINIAL defended the institution, and was of opinion
that high functionaries should be well paid. Me was pro-
ceeding to speak of matters foreign to the debate, when he
was called to the questiou by M. Billault, and sat down.)
Baron Iff enema said that inspectors-general of police
were a high police consisting of men of station and in-
telligence. This was better for society than a police of
sergens de-ville, and he could see no danger in it.
M. Mosso:it tie. LA SIZEUANNE added that tho ministry
of police was nut now in question, for it had been already
voted. They were now only discussing the question of in-
' spectors-general, and it wis evident that so immediately
after a revolution they could not be dispensed with. When
order should be completely re-established, the subject
might be reconsidered.
PEIIIIET supported the reductions proposed by the
4searmittec. The effect of creating inspectors general of
police would bo to weaken the moral authority of the local
functionaries in the departments. That would evidently be
a great danger.
M. Boss ESN, councillor of state, said that there wee no
resemblance between the old police and that of the present
government. The victery of December 2 had cut the rep-
tile socialism in two; but a strong and vigilant police was
necessary to prevent the mutilated pieces from re-uniting.
It was not an inquisitorial police that had been created, but
a police that would listen to and study the wants and wishes
of the people. The prefects had too much to do to be able
to attend to police duties. It was to relieve the prefects
that the government had instituted the inspectors.
M. CHASSELOVI. LAVALT, on the part of the committee,
declined to press their opposition further, and the chapter
MIST
hveotbedud.
get of the minister of public works was adopted,
with the two following amendments of the committee ad-
mitted by the Council of State. Ist. A reduction of
250,000 upon the 500,000 proposed for the opening of the
new Rue de Strasbourg, and 2nd., a reduction of seven mil-
lions upon the expenses of the Bordeaux and Cette, and
Paris and Cherbourg i ailways.
The house then passed to the budget of the minister at
war.
The chapter relative to the pay of the army fixes the
amount at 163.516,612 francs. The committee had proposed
a reduction of 30,000; but it would not now persist in this
amendment.
M. DUMIRAIL thought the army was larger than neees li
-
sary now that order was re-established.
General ALLART, councillor of state, said that if order
now prevailed it was only owing to the attitude and to the
number of their military force. In answer to the argu-
ment that a certain number of soldiers might be sent to
their homes, and summoned to arms again or case of neces-
sity, he would only say that such • system would destroy
the military spirit of the army.
The several chapters of the war budget then passed.
The Ist section of the budget of the minister of marine
was also voted after some observations of the reporter and
the commissary of the government respecting the victualling
of the fleet. The debate was then adjourned till to-
morrow.
The committee on the Bordeaux and Cette Rail-
way has appointed M. Roqucs-Salvaza president, and
M. Curnier secretary. M. Cornier has been chosen
the reporter.
Two hundred and eighteen political prisoners were
taken yesterday morning out of the fort of Ilicette,
and sent to Havre for transportation to Africa.
Arrangements have just been effected between the
Northern of France and the South Eastern Railway
Companies, in pursuance of which, from and after
Friday, the Ist of July, two departures will take
place every momingl(Sundays included), from l'arie
to London, and Lon on to Paris • the one by the
route of Calais and Dover, the other by way of Bou-
logne and Folkestone, and both arriving in London
and Paris the 'tame evening. This important and
desirable arrangement is in addition to, and does not
affect, the existing night mail service, which is re-
gularly performed between the capitals within twelve
hours.
At the Bourse the Four-and-a-Half per Cents.
rose sc. and closed at 101.53. The Three-and-a-
Half fell 10c., closing at 70.70. Bank of France
Shares fell 5. The railway market was firm.

GERMAN Y.

BERLIN, JVNB 21

The Prussia Monlieur offers another illustration
of the peculiar manner in which the constitution is
worked in this country. It contains the expected
ordinance on tho communal law, concerning which
the most contradictory assertions and predictions
have been made in the Berlin journals for a week or
more. The law for the organisation of communes,
although passed in 1840, has never been fully curried
out, and innumerable debates have occurred in the
chamber on this account. The cabinet appears to
have been almost as much divided on the matter as
the legislative body, but, at last, we have its deci-
sion,
or what is more Prussian, a provisorium. This
evening the 61a:ette brings the following decree:
Upon the report of the Ministry of State, dated June 17,
I declare my pleasure that no further steps shall be taken for
introducing the Communal Organisation of March 11, 1549,
nor for re-establishing the assemblies of circles and pro-
vinces referred to in the ordinance of March 11, 1840. The
Minister of Justice will therefore have to make the
arrangements rendered necessary by this decree. Proposi-
tions concerning this matter will be laid before theChamben
at the nest session. FREDERICK WILLIAM.
Sansvouci, June 19, 1852.

The communal law and the law on the organisation
of circles, districts, and provinces, arc thus suspended.
No law, however, is oetroyed in its stead, the
ministerial report which follows the above expressing
a hope that the chambers will take the matter in
hand and settle it in a satisfactory. manner in its next
session. Art. 63 of the constitution gives the king
a right to octroyer laws, subject to the ratification of
the chamber ; but in suspending a law enacted by all