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London, England, 1853-01-15 00:00:00

ever, the institution of .Maritime ?refects was
strengthened and the control was re -established,
the provisions of the First Consul's decree of the
7th Floreal were not fully carried out.. The Minis-
ter then goes on to show that it is necessary, for
the good of the service, that reforms should now
be made, and he recommends that. the control or
inspection should be confided to fur ictionaries of a
high grade, possessing from fuel r rank moral
authority, instead of to a great number of ill-
paid functionaries, as was done by the ordinance
of 1848, and that the control should be exer-
cised by resident and itinerary inspectors, in
order to have the advantages of coPLstant surveil-
lance, without the abuses, which pei:sonal relations
are likely to cause to be tolerated when there are
only one set of agents residing long in the same
place. He says that the travelling inspectors will
be able to see everything, to cause the Minister's
orders to be everywhere uniformly executed, and
by their verbal instructions to do away with, a mass
of correspondence ; also to examine the reforms
which can be effected, and prepare information
useful to the Minister in coming to a decision on
any subject. In execution of these recommenda-
tions, the Minister proposes to the Em-peror to sup-
press all the subaltern places, which only serve
to s well the lists of employes, whilLst they lessen
the authority of the corps to which they be ►
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long ; and to have three inspectors of the first
class employed nearly all the year in rounds of
inspection. He next says that a chief, a sub-
stitute, one or two deputies with some clerks
appear to him sufficient for the three ports of
Rochefort, Lorient, and Cherburg ; a chief, a sub-
stitute, two or three deputies, and wee clerks for
Toulon and Brest. He recommends that the no-
minations in the service shall be made, according to
merit, not seniority. The total expense of the ser-
vice of inspection thus organised,
ilie calculates at
232,000 f. ; but it will replace the. existing system
of control, which costs 282,000 f. ; so that a saving
of 50,000 f. will be effected.--.A. decree of the Em-
peror, dated the 12th, enacts that the recommen-
dations on the report shall be carried into effect ;
it regulates certain matters of detail relative to the
duties to be performed, and fixes the salaries of the
inspectors at from 5,000 f. to 10,000 f., and of the
deputies at 3,000 f ; and 3,500 f. Another decree
of the same date nominates the different inspec-
tors and deputies.

The Coin % of Cassation has given a judgment to
the effect that, according to the French law, a
Frenchman may proceed against a foreigner for
debt in France, even though he may have previ-
ously brought an action against him before, and
had it decided by a foreign tribunal. The ques-
tion arose in consequence of an Austrian, named
Todesco, having appealed to the Coust to put a
stop to certain legal proceedings which a French-
man, named Baudon, had commenced against him
in Paris, after having cited him before the Tri-,
bunal of Commerce of Vienna, and which the Court
of Paris had admitted by judgment of November,
1851.

We read in the Patric :—" Several French jour-
nals have repeated an article from a Geneva
journal, which announces that the railway from
Lyons to Geneva, and to the frontier of Italy,
had just been conceded. This account is in-
correct. The question is still under considera-
tion, and no concession of the kind has yet been
made."

M. Rinn, Provisieur of the Lycee Louis-le-Grand,
has been named Professor of Latin Elocution at the
College of France. M. Paulin, member of the In-
stitute, has been named Professor of the French
Language and Literature of the Middle Ages. M.
Forneren, Rector of the Academy of the Seine-
Inferieure, has been appointed to succeed M. Rinn
at the Lycee Louis-le-Grand.
The Minister of War, and Colonel Blondel, di-
rector of the Depot de la Guerre, have presented to
the Emperor the sixteenth part of the map of France
drawn up by the officers of the staff, and the first
part of the same map on a reduced scale. The Em-
peror expressed his approbation of them.
The Bourse was more firm yesterday than for
several days past, and a rise took place in the price
of public securities in general. The Four-and-a-
Half per Cents. opened at 104 f. 80c., and rose to
105 f. 20c., at which they closed for the end of the
month ; the Three per Cents. closed at 80f. 15c.;
Orleans Railway Shares, 1,002 f. 50c.; Rouen, 985 f.;
Havre, 510 f. ; Great Northern, 848 f. 75c. ; Paris
and Strasburg, 778 f. 75c. ; Paris and Lyons, 883 f.
75c. ; Lyons and the Mediterranean, 730 f. ; Wes-
tern of France, 672 f. 50e. ; St. Dizier to Gray,
500 f. ; Caen and Cherbourg, 627 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux
and Cette, 575 f.; Dijon and Besangon, 520 f.; Shares
of the Bank of. Credit Mobilier (issued at 500 f.),
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