The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-16 00:00:00

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We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
We teka the following resume of the leeisle iv
proceedings from Galignani : b ~. e
" The Legislative Body held a public sitting ycs t r
day, at three o'clock, M. Billault in . the elleir: a;ie-
' President announced that ho had received from the qt
nistor of State a Bill relative to the renewal, in their -in-
tegrity, of the councils general, councils of arrondisse-
ment, and municipal councils. The Bill was preceded
hyena expose des motifs, which stated that the object of
the measure was to put an end to the present irre-
i gular position of the councils in question. t-to many
vacancies at present existed in those bodies from deaths
and resignations that the Government thought that it
would be more simple to proceed to their integral re-
newal than merely to fill up the vacancies. That course
would it conceived, be the best mode of placing those
councils in has mony with the sentiment under the ie.
Lionco of which the election of December 20 had taken
place. The Government, after having maturely weighed
all the cireumsetuces of the case, had resolved
that the nominations should he effected by universal
suffrage, the mode adopted for the election of the Presi-
dent of the Republic. It was universal suffrage, besides
which, hal twice saved the country, and the Govern-
ment had the most complete confidence in the scund
judgment of the people, when left to its own inspira-
tions. as it hod been on December 20. Besides, if it
found that it was disappointed in its expectations, and
that the councils, so elected by universal suffrage, con-
tained within themselves the elements of anarchy, it
would not hesitate to make use of the right conferred
on it by the Bill, and dissolve them. The Rouse de-
cided that the Bill should be sent to the bureaux for
examination. Some local Bills were then agreed to, and
the Bill for authorising a change of forest land between
the State and M. des Acres de l'Aigie, was adopted
unanimously by 211 votes.
" The slain was then brought to a close at four
o'clock.
"Before the public sitting the Members met in their
bureaux to nominate a Committee on the Bill, tending
to accord an extraordinary credit of 28,399 f. for the ex-
pense of the monument to be raised to the memory of the
Archbishop of Paris."
The following
communicated note appears in the
3ournsialiaye announced that the Minister
of the Interior has decided on the suppression of the
subsidies hitherto This
by the Government to. the
Polish refugee°. Thiscompletely destitute
ettatement is comp .of foundation. The Minister-of
no decision on the sub' the Interior has made
The Patric announcesee ete n
that the celebration of the
Fite-Dieu on Sunday took place in the departments
with the greatest respect
the people— everYwhere on the part of
" At Nancy, Menet, Anglers,
measure has produced the best
e Rffecouen, and Lille, this
years there had been no processions,t.For twenty-two
thanked the Government for restoring
and every body
worship one of its most uffttcting ceremngonto the Catholici
The Slide rather sharply criticises
tehs.e"
new taxes. It does not object to those proposed
racers, carriage-horses, and private carrir bunters,
does it dwell strongly on the proposed augmentationges.Nor
of stamp duty. It thinks the increaseddutii,
spirits will, while insufficient to check drink.:n
z
press hardly on those persons into whose manufaeturt
spirits enter as necessary ingredients—but it de..
pounces unhesitatingly the taxes on paper :
" When (it say LI) there exist already so many die&
culties in the way of publication-r-when the censorship
and the texman are at the theatre—when stamp duties
weigh down the newspaper—when the patent of the
bookseller and the printer's license already place both
in subjection to the State—to come to speak of a tax
which must suddenly raise the price of the child's gram-
mar and the old man's Bible, the literary and the politi-
caljournal, the novel and the book of science, the music
sheet, and even the engraving, does seem to us rather
strange. What! paper, through which people convey
their dearest confidences—paper, that essential instru-
ment of labour, and of which the author is sometimes
too poor to buy a sufficient quantity. This collector of
thought—this magnificent means of civilization—this
indefatigable propagator of the arts, sciences, letters, in-
ventions, philosophy—is to be subjected to more taxa-
tion. An old historian dwells in terms of eulogy upon a
descendant of Clovis, because that he had procured a
supply of the papyrus of Egypt for convents and schools.
Have we retrograded even past the middle egos? What
name shall we give this new tax? Shall we call it a tax
on intelligence?"
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Supposing these considerations to fail of effect, the
Siiide, to strengthen its opposition, proceeds to show
that the proposed tax would produce an injurious
effect upon the French paper factories :
" There are, it says, upwards of 150 great paper fac-
tories. Somo departments count upwards of twenty.
We export books, paper, and engravings. We sell to
England two million francs worth a year, to Belgium
two and a half million, to Spain ono million, to Sardinia
one million and a half, to Russia one million, to
Turkey a million, to the Brazils one million, and to tho
United States three millions; we export some to Chili,
and even to China. Have they reflected how, despite
even the drawback, this industry will be affected? Dave
they considered how they are about to increase the ad-
vantages of foreigners who pirate our books?"
Seeing the injuries, meral and material, that must
follow the adopt ion oi !inch a law, the Sit':c/c suppli-
cates tht, Corps Legislatif to repeal it.
"It is to be hoped," says Galignani, " that the
call made by the Sicle for mature and serious delibe-
ration in the Legislative body on the proposed tax
upon paper will not be made in vain. The discus-
sions in the Houe.e of Commons respecting this branch
of taxation in England, and the remonstrances made
against it by large and influential bodies in that coun-
try, cannot hare failed to excite attention here, and
the argument against the continuation of the tax in
England may be regarded as conclusive against the
introduction of it in France. One of thn strongest
of thcne argutnentr, independently of the tax being
anti-intellectual, and therefore opposed to the spirit
of the age, is the injury that it would inflict upon the
immense number of persons directly or indirectly in-
terested iu the printing business, and whose means
of existence would consequently be abridged without
benefit to any other class."
The Itloniteur gives the following as the composi-
tion of the new Board of Admiralty :—The Minister
of Marine, President; Vice-Admiral Casy, by virtue
of seniority, Vice-President; and as members, Vice_
Admirals Parseval Deschenes and Bruat ; Rear-
Admiral Barbier de Tinan Zede, Director of Dock-
yards; and Captain Belviza M. Pinand, Naval
Comptroller, is named secretary; and Captain Dege_
nis and M. le B. Marine Engineer, Gssistant
members.

Tne Bourse wa3 lees firm than on Monday. The
closedFu nut at-hHeaslaf
invol
11;ienetz.io(r)p
the
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end
(1 loom.o th,44.scri.:o:littitll
the Three per Conti. closed at 70f. 15c. ; 01..4,1113
MI way Snares, 1,2221. 50e; Rouen, 841 f. 250. ; jr
vigaon, 360 f•
25e.; Paris and ..'itrasburg, 575 f. ; Tours end Nantes,
v32i
el tr.z
0211.5,0;171.5,
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et,
.N; o rut 121
co: 621621 ft... 5205,1 c,..; ; ABordeaux,
631 f.
381 f. 25.; Paris and Lyons, 6401.; the New Austrian
Loan, 92i.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
23 Ditto,2s—Northern
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNI 15.
Dutch Rhenish, 43/I—East Indian,
of France, 24%—Ditto, 20/. 3 per Cent. Bonds (lbrmerly
BonlognP and Amiens shares), 1377,
Bor-
deaux, 1 6 '—Pari3 and Rouen, '2'l/
—Orleans and
' 4 _Faris and Stras-
bourg, 23 4; —Ron en and II avre., 1214 —Tours and Nan tee,
12% —West Flanders, 3—Western of France, 7%.
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SP MN.
We have received advices from Madrid to the 10th
inst. The Espana states that no decision has beenlf
come to respecting :uccessor to the Minister
War. According to this journal, General PA vu.
has positively relus::d to accept that post.
;holiday
The 10th beim*
b tnere
,_ was no Bourse.

a Statement,
yiedrn ITALY.
Tile Pledmontese Gazette, of the 12th, contradicts
number f
°- the Inlependance Beige, namely, that the
Which had found its way into a late
ontese
loan, and that that was the special object of the
irGurneY of the Ms i. of I'AmPAEATO to Paris and
Government intended to contra3t a new
rqus
.uondon.
The Opinione of Turin 9, , . Turin fates that an administrator
is to bo named both for the spiritual and temporal
matters of the diocese of Turin;
ZONI retaining the title of Archbishop.