The Express.
London, England, 1865-05-06 00:00:00

JILIEPRE3B FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, FRIDAY EVIOFING.
The large minority of 64 supported M. Brame's
opposition to the annual bill authorising the go-
vernment to raise 100,000 recruits. This deputy,
although elected without government patronage,
does not profess to be a systematic member of the
opposition ; but, on many occasions, he has taken
an independent course. He is now inclined to en-
courage the formation of that tiers parti of which
MM. Emile 011ivier and Darimon aspire to be the
leaders. Not many of the 64 voted upon the prin-
ciple tauntingly set forth in M. Gamier
Pees' speech that inasmuch as the Emperor,
in the speech from the throne, had represented the
temple of war as closed, therefore there was no
longer any occasion for large armies. Very few of
the opposition would be found to deny that Fiance
ought always to have a sufEckmt military knee to
be prepared for just defensive warfare. The
contention of the 64 is that the contingent is
larger than necessary, and that the system on
which it is raised is bad. General Allard, the

councillor of state, who acted as government
orator on the occasion, said that all governments
in France, from 1818 downwards, bad admitted
the fact that 600,000 men was the proper and ne-
cessary military force which France should be able
to collect at any given moment. To this it was
replied by several speakers th►t the governments to
which the general alluded had always been practi-
cally wise enough not to raise such a large number.
General Allard begged the deputise to observe the
distinction between the " disposable " and the

actually "effective force." The latter, he said, did
not amount at this moment to more than 400,000.

As to the 100,000 annual contingent, he represented
it as merely nominal, and cited very embrengled
figures to show that in reality only 35,000 recruits
ware raised every year. It is a remarkable illustra-
tion of the practical unsoundness of the proverb
"figures cannot err," that Viscount Lanjuinaia,
contradicting the government or►tor, made out that
not 35,000 but 93,000 was the actual number
after all proper allowances and deductions.
K Pioard,who supported an amendment for reduc-
ing the contingent from 100,000 to 80,000, said that
General Allard's aguments went to show that
the latter figure was not higher than
the former—" an extremely difficult proposition
to sustain." M. Mak Bizoin objected to the pre-
sent system of recruiting, mainly on the ground
that the long service system tended to create
a military " cute," which was dangerous to the
liberties of the country. He quoted largely from
the sayings of Napoleon L and the writings of
Napoleon 111. to show that the beau ideal of a
military system was one by virtue of which every
citizen should sufficiently know the use of arms to
be able to take them up for the defence of his
country when required, but which would not per-
manently withdraw any class from civil occupations.
He opined for the Prussian system as coming as
nearly as possible to that ideal which Napleon 111.
advocated when a prisoner at Hain. But, said this
deputy, raising a laugh, " It is astonishing what
wisdom is generated by the sensation of being locked
up." He provoked laughter again by saying that
France had now "the happiness of living under a
sovereign who would ultimately never fail to do
justice." Some of M. Glais Bizoin's friends
astonished, plucked him by his sleeve, and
whispered, " Speak for yourself ;" but he relieved
their minds by thus finishing his sentence, " and,
gentlemen, that sovereign is universal suffrage !"
Viscount Lanjuinals, who, while complaining that
the opposition was reduced to argue without the
papers used by the government speakers, grappled
very ably with General Allard's figures, urged, as
a most serious consideration, the fact that the
present laws of recruiting had most seriously dete-
riorated the population of France. Although the
whole number of the recruits annually voted
might not actually be called under arms they were
obliged to remain unmarried so long as they were
liable to serve. The consequence was that the
healthiest men in the country could never marry
till they were 27 or 28, and then they very often
did not marry at all. The refuse of the army—lads
of weakly constitution or with organics defects—were
alone free to marry early, and these inferior men
were mainly the progenitors of the rising generation.
It was to this that he attributed the indisputable
fact that the standard of height et Frenchmen was
steadily declining, as recruiting statistics showed.
The very alight increase of population within the

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births had fallen off.
The Bourse was a good deal firmer. Rente rose
10c. for cash and 150. for aooount, closing at 67fr.
46c. and 67fr. 550. Mobilise rose 7fr. 500. Rail-
ways were about sfr. higher.

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