The Express.
London, England, 1863-03-31 00:00:00

VIE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 31, 1863.

UP. In the Queensland Guardian there is
table of the market rate of labour, after the arrival
of two emigrant ships, which would make half Lan-
cashire envy those who have achieved the removal,
if the terms could be posted up at our street
corners. This brings us to one more suggestion
which has lately been offered.
A circular before us, signed by Mr. Bsacca
ALMACI, proposes that County or other district
Societies should be formed for the obtaining and
diffusing of accurate and practical information
about the agricultural needs and prospects of some
of our colonies. Whatever any one knows might
thus be made useful to others ; information sent
home by those already gone might be made avail-
able ; neighbours, high and low, rich and poor,
and of various callings, might lay their heads toge-
ther to effect the emigration of some of them,
with a much improved security ; and, above all,
neighbours might go together, or follow each
other, and settle down in their new home within
reach of each other, thus escaping the forlorn
feeling of loneliness which may naturally deter
many who would go cheerfully to live among old
acquaintance. This looks sensible enough. Bat
we have not come to the point yet.
. . .

FROM PARIS.

RESIGNATION OF M. FOULD.
mai wiz owl oosaanonoirr.l

PARIS, MONDAY Evianta.

M. Fonld has resigned. I state the news as a
certainty, although the evening papers, for obvious
~one, speak of it timidly aa a rumour. The 10I-
mediate reason for the serious step taken by the
Finance Minister is the appearance in the lifbats
and Pattie of the following communicated note :

The senoras consullunt of the 31st December, 1861, in
deciding that no supplementary or extraordinary credits
could be granted except in virtue of a law, wished to asso-
ciate in the closest manner the Legislative Body with the
policy of the government, and to make the public powers
jointly responsible in the administration of the country.
The experiment made of it in 1862 proves that object to
have been attained, since the supplements of credit& opened
by the law ware voted almost in totality, prior to the ex-
' pauses. The importance of that result could not have
escaped anyone ; the great bodies of the state end the pub.
lie journals have been right in stating it. The Palrit
and the Debate, however, went too far when, in
their numbers of the 26th and 28th instant, they
announced that in 1862, owing to the salutary fear inspired
in the administration by the senatua co:indium, ►nd in

spite of the difficulties of the Mexican war, tie credits
added to the original budget only amounted to 35 millions;
and when they found in that comparatively small sum an
indication of the carelessness of the ministers under the
preceding regime. That appreciation is not just. The trial
of 1862 will, on the contrary, have had the advantage of
rendering evident the moderation with which the Sovereign
made use of his prerogative. The following are the facts:
—The total eum of the extra-budgetary credits amounted
in 1861, under the old regime, to 352 oaken ; in 1860,
it was 291 millions ; and in 1862, under the Empire of
the sonata consultuni, the total amount was, not 35 mil-
lions, but 300. (Vide statement of the situation of the
empire.) The similitude of those results has nothing to ex-
cite astonishment. The senatlis eonnatrai has not had the
effect of suppressing the causes of extraordinary expenses.
If the war in Mexico saddled 1862 with exceptional burdens,
the years 1860 and 1861 had to support the expenses of the
annexed departments, those resulting from the purchase of
Menton and Roquebrune, and those arising from the occu-
pation of Rome and Syria, and the Chinese and Cochin China
expeditions. In presence of the duties imposed on them by
the public interest and the tuitional honour, the govern-
meet and the Legislative Body, animated by the same spirit
of patriotism, cannot have two manners of acting under cir-
cumstances so analogous.