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ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRWEA,
with the View of distinguishing the Imaginary from the
Real Sufferers under this disease, and Correcting of wide-spread
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THE TRENOri GOVERNMENT AND THE

PREFECTS.

The following highly important circular has
been addressed by M. Billault, the Minister of the
Interior, to the prefects, which will shortly be
made public :

Paris, Nov. 20.

Monsieur le Prefet,—Decrees sulocadiog- municipal
eoencils, and appliCations for their dissolution, are
becoming every day more numerous. This exaggerated
tendency is not in conformity either with the spirit of
the law of May
Government. The intention of the law was to arm
5, 1855, or with the intentions of the
the superior authority against proceedings which
might be preju .icial to order, or which might trans-
gress tie legal powers of the communal assem-
blies. It was with a view to extraordinary cases of this
kind that Art. 13 was framed,
Cowles under which Municipal
may not only be su-pended or dissolved, but
ay be replaced by commissions whose powers may
la.t till the next quinquennial election. But the greater
Part id. f e
td,tohunecp
hodinne
gct rheetehos
the communal
co
oe mit
imo suspensionnunoaf l tihne‘tvechr ioecsuhtns Ic
brought
i rsr
oetucoceo.
i hiv)ter of
oareor . •
ward by the mayors. ' The administration
thinks fit to interfere in these differences,loeai too often
improperly brings its authority to bear upon
the con-
chan
grow out of them'. I cannot too strongly re-
commend you, sir, to leave the utmost It'lt d to the
g relating
to the
Municipal Councils in everythina it
e discus-
sion within the limits of the law ofpurely
communal 'n-
t,,:re,ts. If these assemblies give abad or unintelligent-
solution to the affairs brought before them, the rn ula
tient will know to whom the responsibility is tol beP im•
ruted• A bad local decision is less 'mischievous than a
system which lends' to impose universally the action of
central authority in matters not involving any general
interest to require its interference. Administrators
allow themselves too easily to be led away by the
desire of cruhing all inconvenient resistance instead
of using their personal influence, and encouraging
that public opinion, which, in the long run, is
never blind to its own true interests. I have
often regretted to observe this tendency to see in
authority nothing but its rigorous exigencies, and to
forget that the best way to serve the Emperor's govern-
ment is to make it loved. I am most anxious, M. le
Prefet, that all the local administrations should return
to the path which has been invariably traced for
them by my instructions and those of my predecessors.
The management of public affairs is always beset with
difficulties. Your mission as an administrator consists
principally in smoothing difficulties, without friction, and
. with a courteous moderation. .1 recommend you then,
• •
any Municipal Council,
expressly, not to suspend
and not to address to rue any requisition for the dis-
solution of any Municipal Council, unless you feel tho-
roughly convinced that reasons of public order impera-
tively call for one or the other of those measures, and
unless you are at the same time able to assure me that
you have Personally done all in your power to avoid
the necessity of resorting to such a harsh course. I
further remind you that in either case, the reports
Which you will address to me must be accompanied with
documents, showing the grounds for your reports, and
particularly by y the reports of the sub-prefects of all ar-
rondissements, other than the principal arrondissement
of your department.--Receive, Monsieur le Prefet, &c.,
BILLAULT.

No Moan GEETNA GREEN MARRIAGES.--At the
end of the present month Gretna-grecu marriages
and border marriages will be prevented. By an act
of last session, it is provided that after the 31st of
December no irregular marriage contracts in Scotland
by declaration, acknowledgment, or ceremony, shall be
valid unless one of the parties had at the date thereof
his or her usual place of residence there, or had lived in
Scotland for 21 days next preceding such marriage.
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