The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-06 00:00:00

OUR PARIS LETTER.

(PROW OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, StrxDAT Evairnre.

In the Corps Legislatif yesterday M. Jules Fevre
made a speech on the budget which led to a tumult
and called up M. Honker. He began in a quiet,
business-like, and even prosy way, recapitulating
M. Thiene figures, arguing with M. Thiers that
the expenses arbitrarily classed under the head of
extraordinary were in reality ordinary because of
a nature to recur constantly, and that nothing but
a radical change of system could prevent annual
deficits and heavy loans every now and then to
cover them. He did not quite agree with
11. Emile 011ivier that no economy could
be realised upon any branch of the civil
service, but did not desire to dwell upon that sub-
ject because the amount of saving practicable
would be relatively inconsiderable. But towards

the end of his speech he took the bull by the
horns and said in most plain language that the
great incubus on Prance was her large army, that
each an army could not be wanted unless war was
meditated, and that the crying evil was that the
Emperor in his secret councils could declare war
without the country having any sufficient control
over his designs. He stated boldly as a
fact too notorious to be oontradicted [M.
Rouher, I observe parenthetically, did not
attempt to contradict this statement] that
when Napoleon 111. met the Emperor of Austria
at Salzburg last year he asked him to join in a
European war, and the world was indebted to the
Emperor of Austria's refusal for the preservation
of peace up to the present time. He and hie friends
had often called upon the government for a conso-
latory declaration—a plain, unmistakable declara-
tion that France had no thought of war.
He did not wonder that this declaration had never
been obtained. The reason was that the ministers
knew no more of the matter than did the members
of that house. There was one single man who might
set at nought their wishes, and plunge them
into a war whenever he chose. The only possible
way to restore confidence was for that single man
to come forward and say—and he might make the
promise effectually through his. Senate—that he
would not declare war without first consulting the
representatives of the people. Then the equili-
brium of the budget would be restored, and then
France would resume her rank in the world, and
be relieved from sterile sacrifices. That was
the necessity of the moment. They wore
constantly told that if the expenditure
had been great, magnificent results had
been obtained. He did not desire to spoil this
eulogy by criticism. He would accept the hypo-
thesis, but what he would say was :—lf you are
benefactors you are too extravagant benefactors.
If France is rich enough to pay for her glory, she
is not rich enough to pay for the Empire under
these conditions. It is time for Franco to recon-
sider her position.
Loud cries of " Call him to order," succeeded by
tumultuous applause from the opposition, followed

tbia conclusion of M. Jules Rivre's spnrcli. Ni,,.,,
sllonoe wL Ifi-sZSM 'Mosul% restorod, Prosidokt
Schneider formally calks' him to or lor, a pro,
cooding which in tho French Chamber is a disci,
plinary censure. Rouher thou tuounto.l
tribune.

MR. BURLINGAME AND THE (MINIM;
101BASSY.

On the evening of the 23rd ultimo over 200 e!
the leading merchant and others of the city of New York
gave a banquet at Delmeeieo's, in tumour of Mr. 4.,„,
Burlingame and the Chinese embasay. The health .4 lhs
guests was proposed by Oovernor Fenton.
Mr. BIIRLINOAIIB responded to the toast, and, in ex.
planing the object of the mission, said—lt was seat two.
that China might have her difficulties staked, and that
happened to be at the head of it was, perhap,.
more an accident than any design. It was, perle,..,
because I had been longer there than my
leagues, and because I was about to learn
one, perhaps more than bectSUM3 I was as,.
dated with the establishment of the co-operative poi,.
which, by the aid of abler men than myself, wee
Wished not many years age—(cheers)—amid it is to se
that policy- which has received the warm approval
all the great treaty Powers, ail which is ehenahel
China—that we are ant fo: th. I desire that
autonomy of China may be preserved. I die..,
that her independence may be preeerved. I .1 .
sire that she may have equality, that she m,J
dispense equal privileges to all the natiowi. If ‘,.
opposite school is to prevail, if you are to tie.
eroion against that great people, then who are to ef .r.
cite the coercion, whose force are you to use, whose v..... I
are you to establish! You see the very attempt to ca; ,-f
out any such tyrannical policy would involve not ..thy
Mina, but would involve you in bloody wars vr..a
each other. (Cheers.) There are men who say—ex
of that tyrannical school— who say that China
DOI fit to alt at the council board of the na-
tions, who call them barbarians, who attack them on ail
°minima with a bitter and unrelenting spirit. Times
things I utterly deny. I say, on the contrary, that this Is
• great, • noble people. (Cheers.) It has all the ale.
meats of • splendid nationality. It is the moat numersa"
people on the face of the globe • it is the most homoge-
neous people in the world ;it has • language spoken by
more human beings than any other country in the world.
and it is written in the rock. It is a country where there
is greater unification of thought than any other country
in the world. It is a country where the maxims of great
magas coming down for miliaria+ have permeatedthe whole people until their knowledge is ratter
instinct than acquirement. The people loyal while living,
their last prayer while dying is to sleep in the sexed see
of their fathers. (Chows.) It is the laud of scholars, r.
I. the land of schools, it is the land of books, from the
simple pamphlet up to the enoyelopeilies of ..,000 yellows
(Applause and laughter.) It is a laud where the pnve
lege' are equal; tt is • land without Lade. Ti,
power Sows through the competitive systein from
that people into practical government; they
make scholarship the teat of merit. (Cheers.)
Ido not mean to may that the Chinese arc perthet. They
have their faults like other people; they have their pride
like other people; they have their prejudices bke oiler
people. These are profound, =tithes° must be overcome.
They have their conceits like other people, and these
bedew' aw n
y with ; but they are not to he doe° aw sy
with by tere! ix to them with cannon, by teti.,.;
them that their people are weak and hairin
China finds that she must come into relations with tu..
civilisation that is pressing up around her. Feeling ii
she does not wait, but comes out to you and ',steel, t,
you her hand. (Applause.) She tells you she is re.i.iy tr
take upon her ancient civilisation the graft of your
lisation. She tells you she is ready to take back ter .te,
inventions, with all their developments. Sh.)
you that she I. willing to trade with you, to
buy of you, to seLl to you, to hel
strike off the shackles from trade. (Applause.
She invitee your merchants, she invites y..
MielliOnertee. She tells them to plant the *Lein,
cries on every bill and in every valley. (Al,
phew.) Holding the great staples of the earth—tts
and ailk—she charges you scarcely any tariff on to,
exports you send out in exchange fur thew. (Applause.
She is willing to meet the inferior questions which ar
now arising as to transit dues, and if you will only ha.
patience with her and try reason on your aide, she art
mettle this to your satisfaction.