The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARC it 11, 1861.

THE FRENCH BUDGET.

The following are the explanations given on the
Budget for 1862, just presented to the Legislative
Body, relative to the expenses and receipts calcu-
lated on for that year. The expenses are first

spoken of :
" The Budget of the ordinary expenses amounts to
1,885,018,725 f., but in order to compare it with that of the
preceding year it is necessary to deduct from it-1, a sum
of 2,693,500 f. for the expense of the faculties, which for
1861 form the object of a special budget annexed by order
to the Ministry of Public Instruction, and which is now
added to the budget of the Minister of State, conformably
to the wish expi essed last year by the committee; and, 2,
the sum of 13,113,366 f., which forms the amount of the ex-

penses of all the public services in the new departments of
Savoie, Haute Savoie, and the Alpes Maritimes.
"The ordinary expenses of 1862, thus reduced, will still
amount to 1,869,211,859 f., and show an increase of
60,990,001 f. over those of 1861. But this augmentation in-
cludes, to a considerable amount, sums of which only some
are inscribed in the Budget of the State for the sake of regu-
larity, and others are devoted to the execution of legislative
arrangements already voted, or which are necessary for the
realisation of more considerable receipts.

" The perfect state of our accounts requires that, for the
sake of regularity in the operations, as well as for facility of
control, everything should appear in the Budget; and there
frequently results from this a simultaneous increase both of
receipts and expenditure, which is more apparent than real.
It is important, in order to prevent incorrect impressions
which might be formed by persons not well experienced in
such matters, to enumerate the augmentation of such ex-
penses as may appear susceptible of discussion.
" The credits necessary for the service of the consolidated
debt and the sinking fund are increased by 6,736,728 f.,
either for the consolidation of the reserves of the sinking
fund or for the execution of Article 3 of the law of the 14th
of July last, which authorised the Minister of Finance to
transfer to the flotation Fund of the Array the amount of
Rentes necessary for the employment of its disposable sur-
plus.
" The departmental service presents, both in expenses
and receipts, an increase of 2,396,000 f., which does not affect
the budget of the State, being only inscribed therein for the
sake of regularity.
"The supplement of dotation furnished by the State to

the Legion of Honour receives the third annuity of 600,000 f.
devoted by Article 16 of the Financial Law of 1859 to the
salaries of old officers named or promoted in the Order from
the 6th of April, 1814, to the 21st of Jaauary, 1852. Already,

thanks to the first annuity included in the Budget of 1860,
all the knights nominated before 1835 have received their
salary ; those of the following years are about to be succes-
sively called on to receive the same favour, and the year
1862 will, doubtless, see the completion of this liberal mea-
sure.

" The Budget of 1862 also includes the second annuity,
destined for the increase of the salaries of all the members
of the French magistracy ; it constitutes, with the salaries
of the magistrates in the three new departments, the only
cause of increase of the Ministry of Justice, and stands in
the Budget of 1862 for 1,461,345 f.
" The coinage of copper money in execution of the law
of the 18th of July, 1860, requires in 1862 a credit of
1,350,000 f., which had not been set down in the Budget of
1861; but this is only an apparent expense, since it had
caused a receipt which amounts to 3,000,000 f.
" The law of the 28th of July, 1860, devoted an annual
sum of 1,000,000 f, during 10 years for replanting moun-
tains, and a like sum for the establishment of forest rortds,
and at the same time it created special resources to provide
for the same. These 2,000,000 f. are set down in the Bud-
get of expenses for 1862, but an equivalent is comprised in
the provisions of the Budget of receipts.
" The purchase of gunpowder by the Ministry of Fi-
nance presents an increase of expense of 252,000 f. this is
only an expense set down for the sake of order, as it will be
made up by a larger corresponding receipt.
"A supplement of 3,818,133 f. added to the old grants for
the purchase and manufacture of tobacco is of the same
character. It is just to improve as much as possible the
quality of the tobacco, the price of which has increased.
This augmentation of expense, however considerable it
may be, is the more justifiable, as it is connected with an
increase of revenue which does not amount to less than
37,000,000 f.
" It is well known that the Treasury receives certain
suns only for the- purpose of reimbursements and • restitu-
tions, which for the sake of order in the accounts form a
special chapter of expenses. The increase of 742,273 f.,
inscribed for this object in the Budget, is less an augmenta-
tion of expenses than an extenuation of the gross revenue,
which is set down in the Budget of receipts.
" Lastly, two sums, one of 2,511,670 f. for salaries and
other expenses of the telegraphs, with a view of extending
and completing the telegraphic lines on bases long known
and approved by the Legislative Body, and the other of
800,000 f. for the reimbursement to be effected on the pro-
duce of the labours of the persons confined in the central
prisons, constitute in the expenses of the Ministry of the
Interior an undisputed increase of 3,311,670 f.
" All these different augmentations of the Budget of 1862
amount to 22,668,089 f., and reduce the total increase above-
mentioned to the sum of 38-,321,852f., which may be divided
as follows between the different Ministries :

Francs.
Ministry of State 1,473,400
„ Foreign Affairs
~ Interior ....
, Finance
„ War and Algeria
~ Marine and Colonies
If Public Instruction 725,500
1, Agriculture and Commerce 2,814,250

T0ta1..., 38,321,862

" The most important increase is that of the Ministry of
War. It is justified not only by the necessity of providing
for the expenses of the reserve, the organisation of which,
ratified in principle by the law of March 21, 1832, and so
many times projected, has hitherto been, always post-
poned, but also of providing for a slight change in the
effective, which has less for its object the development pf
the active forces of the army than the regularisation of
those which have been admitted as necessary for the
defence of the • country in time of peace ; for the reor-
ganisation of the artillery and the waggon train ; for
an extra manufacture of gunpowder for the depart-
ments of Finance and Marine ; for the increase of small
salaries below 1,200 f. ; and, lastly, for the introduc-
tion into the Budget of the three centimes allowed for seve-
ral years past as indispensable for the improvement of the
food of the troops. By this more exact and rigorous fore-
sight of the wants of the War Department the opening of
supplementary and extraordinary credits, which in preced-
ing years has been the object of decrees in the interval be
tween the sessions, is rendered unnecessary.
"All the civil services present together an increase which,
taking into account some diminutions, does not amount to
more than 6,844,114 f. More than one million is applicable
to the expenses of the Government monopolies and the col-
lection of the taxes, which necessarily follow the increasing
progression of the public revenue. As for the remainder, it
has for its object either to extend to a certain number of
functionaries the benefits which have been already granted
to others, of a remuneration more equal to their labour and
devotedness, or to satisfy all the new wants which the
natural movement of affairs causes in the different parts of
the Administration.

"The Government, moreover, proposes to you to grant in
1862 for the extraordinary expenses of great public works
an additional amount of 12,530,000 f. A sum of 1,470,300 f.
will be devoted to the three new departments annexed to
the empire, which will lead to a rapid development of
riches and of public property. The surplus is destined to
realize the wishes which have been frequently expressed for
the prom“ and complete improvement of all the means of
communication, and for the termination of the great lines
of railway. The Government night, in consideration of the
importance and utility of those works, have called for larger
sums; but it has been anxious that the Budget of 1862
should show a surplus of receipts, and to remain, in its pro-
position of expenses, far below the infinitely more consider-
able augmentation of the receipts."
The Budget of Receipts is explained in the follow-
ing terms
"The receipts for 1862 are estimated at 1,941,030,275 f.;
but here, as for the expenses, it is necessary, in order to
draw a comparison with the Budget of 1861, to deduct
13,428,477 f., being the amount arising from the three new
departments, and 2,693,500 L, the produce of the dues re-
ceived in the Faculties, and which in the preceding year
were not included in the State Budget.
"That sum of 13,428,477 f., by which Savoy and the ar-
rondissement of Nice have just increased the revenue of the
empire, has been calculated with the greatest moderation—
for the direct taxes according to the amount of the propor-
tions and for the indirect ones according to the receipts from
the 14th of June, 1860, the period of the annexation, to the
end of the year. It is nearly equal to the amount of the
ordinary expenses of all the public services in the three new
departments, and is divided as follows :

Francs.
Direct taxes..
Produce of the domains
Ditto, forests and fisheries
Indirect taxes .. 9.566,000
Eventual produce of the departmental service.. 215,000
Stoppages and other produce devoted to the
service of civil pensions
Sundry receipts

Total

" Thus reduced, the receipts of 1862 still present the con-
siderable increase over those of 1861 of 84,132,628 f., which

may be divided between the different branches of the public
revenue in the following manner :

Francs.
Direct contributions
Produce of the forests and fisheries
Indirect taxes ..-
65,016,000
Eventual produce of the departmental service 1,000,000
Stoppages and other products devoted to the
payment of civil pensions
Reserve of the sinking fund
Sundry receipts

Total

" A decrease of 3,429,000 f. on the sale of land effected in
execution of the law of the 18th of May, 1850, and the pre-
vious ones, and of 600,000 f. on extraordinary resources,
arieing from reimbursements made to the Treasury by the
railway companies, brings the definitive increase of the re-
ceipts to the sum of 84,132,628 f., as above stated."

mands of this kind, they must give their opinion
according to the laws ofjustice and the forms of the
Holy Canon.
" 16. Can the ordinaries, parish priests, those
holding benefices, and other administrators of eccle-
siastical property, when demanded under heavy
penalties, consign to the Government the inventory
of their respective revcnues ?
"R.--They may be permitted to do so, a written
protest, however, being made in each act by the
respective administrators on the necessity of the
consignment, in order to avoid greater evils, and
for the defence of the rights of the Church. But it
is the intention of our most sacred lord that the
ordinaries before or after the consignment, if
possible,:should make a collective protest, respect-
fully indeed, but with Evangelical liberty.
" 17. How must the ordinaries regulate them-
selves with regard to any priest who, having fallen
under censure, is regardless of reconciling himself
to the Church, and who cannot be suspended a
divinis by the ordinary without fear of grave scan-
dal and inconvenience P

".R.—The repentance of the priest must be pro-
cured by every possible means, as the office of a
good and prudent pastor has explained, and if he
hears not the voice of the ordinary recourse must
be had to the congregation of the Holy Council.
" 18.—How must parish priests regulate them-
selves in the celebration of the marriages of those
who have notoriously incurred ecclesiastical cen-
surer?
"R.—Care must be taken that, being released
from ecclesiastical censures according to the usual
method, they be reconciled with the Church ; but
if they refuse to be reconciled, and serious conse-
quences seem to threaten unless the marriage be
celebrated, the parish priest shall consult, all things
and circumstances being well considered, what has
been said by approved authors, and especially by
St. Alphonso (Lib. 6. tr. 1, cap 2, num. 54), and
declare what he considers most expedient in the
Lord, the celebration of the mass, however, being
al ways excluded.

" 1-9. How, likewise, must the bishops and parish
priests regulate themselves if any one of the afore-
said censured persons present himself as godfather
in the sacrament of confirmation and baptism P
" R.—As in the preceding case.
" 20. Can the most holy eucharist be administered
to those notoriously under censure without first
being regularly reconciled to the Church?
" R.—No.

" 21. If any one of the persons mentioned as
having notoriously incurred censures should die
(and, according to the canons and the regulations,
it is provided expressly by the doctors that they
should be absolutely deprived of holy sepulture),
and their funeral be with threats obstinately de-
manded, and ecclesiastical burial, how in such
circumstances must a parish priest regulate himself.
" R.—He must take care that everything be done
according to the rule of the holy canons ; but if
this cannot be effected without danger of disturb-
ances or scandal, the parish priest must not himself,
nor any other priest, assist at the funeral rites, or
at the burial.

" 22. Can the bishop approve those preachers
who are presented by the actual municipal autho-
rities ?

"R.--The bishop may ex se, select those pre-
seated, provided that all the necessary qualifications
exist in them.
" 23. Can the esattori and cursori cite ecclesias-
tics and tom pia in case of refusal to pay the imposts,
as well canonical as camerale, and under what re-
gulations and eautions

" It.—The Sacred Pcenitentiaria, by special and
express apostolic authority, with the benignant
consent of our most sacred lord Pio P. P. IX.,
grants to all and every ordinary, whose territories
have been occupied by the invading Government,
the faculty, whioh is to hold good for six months
either by tnemselves, or by some other ecclesiastic
to be specially deputed for this purpose by any one
of the said ordinaries, of empowering the cursores
and exactores to execute the orders against the loca
pia, as also against ecclesiastics, indulgence having
first been asked and obtained in each case from the
respective ordinary, and scandal prudently removed,
no other obstacles whatever presenting themselves.
" 24. Can parish priests, or other ecclesiastics
who have been injured by this Government by the
abolition of tithes, accept of compensations offered
by the same Government ?

" R.—They may, according to the decision of
our most holy lord, under title of simple compen-
sation for loss inflicted on them by the Government
by the prohibited exaction of tithes, accept of pen-
sions assigned by the Government; first, however,
a protest having been made, either by the ordinary
of the place, or by some other of the said parish
priests or ecclesiastics, that such an acceptance is
by no means recognised or the abolition of the
tithes made by the Government approved ; and the
debtors of the same tithes being carefully admo-
nished that they are not by the force of the law
passed by the Government liberated from the duty
of paying them,
" 25. Can parish priests ask that assistance from
the Government which the same Government pro-
mises to those who have a larger population than
500 souls and a revenue less than 800 f. ?

" R.—lt is not expedient.
" 26. Must confessors consider as having fallen
under censure those who have voted for the union
of Italy under one sole King, induced by fear, by
deception, or by ignorance ; those who have given
a similar vote in other provinces beyond the Papal
States, or have given a negative vote, or none at all,
or an insignificant vote; those who have illumi-
nated their houses, worn cockades, &c., not having
been induced so to do by unjust fear, or through
thoughtlessness have attended the chanting of the
7'e Deunz ; finally, women and minors who have
signed addresses and worked banners?
" R.—Ecclesiastical censures, according to the
apostolic letters of March, 1860, are incurred by
those who formally co-operate or adhere to the
rebellion against the Papal power ; therefore, to
distinguish in the forum of conscience whether any
one incurs the censures must be discussed by the
confessor in the conscience of each one. For this
sufficient provision has been made by the powers
transmitted to the ordinaries on the 16th of
November, 1860.

" 27. In what manner can be repaired the public
scandal given by those who demand to be absolved
from the censures incurred in these times, in which
such reparation is difficult and dangerous ?
" R.—Reparation of scandal is necessary de jure
dirino, and that should be made in the best and most
prudent mode, according to the judgment of the
ordinary or confessor.
_ _

" 28: Must those who demand absolution, before
being absolved, oblige themselves to repair losses
suffered by the Papal Government by the actual
disturbances ?

" R.—Suffice it that they are prepared in mind to
obey the commands of the Holy Sea as above stated.
" Given at Rome, in the Holy Penitentiary,
Dec. 10, 1860.

" A. M. CARDINAL CAGIANO. (M.P.)"

On the evening of the day before that on which
the fleet left a council was held at the Palace, and
the gift of a piece of land by Garibaldi for the build-
ing of an English church was approved by the
Prince Lieutenant-General. The decree has not,
however, yet been signed, though that is a mere
matter of form. The affair has now passed from the
Ministry of the Interior, where it has been lingering
for some months, into the hands of the head of
ecclesiastical affairs, to have some difficulties re-
moved. The fact is, that certain ecclesiastics whis-
pered about that the statute provided for the tolera-
tion of only the cunt esistenti, and that the worship
conducted in the Consul's house could not be re-
garded as one of these ; in point of fact, that the
Roman Catholic Church was the only cult() esistente
in]the southern provinces. Mancini has met and
thrown over these objections in a perfectly legal
manner by asserting that inasmuch as Naples forms
only a portion of united Italy, where the Waldenses
are recognized, and English Protestant churches as
well exist in Genoa, Florence, and elsewhere, the
worship of the English church in Naples must be
considered a cult° esistente. Leaving, however, these
technicalities out of the question, the Government
of Victor Emmanuel is prepared to act in the most
liberal spirit, and to carry out the principles of
religious liberty to their full extent, so that " if
permission were asked to establish a Jewish syna-
gogue it would be given," and very properly and
consistently too.

- -
CAPRERA.—The Moviniento of Genoa publishes
the following letter from Garibaldi to ono of his friends :
"raprera, Feb. 15.—Dear Bandi,—l have received our
Dolfi with great pleasure, and I sincerely thank you for the
good news you have given me, in telling me of the patriotic
enthusia, m which animates the youth of Tuscany. Tell
those brave sons of the mother country that we are ap-
proaching the time when the slavery of our brethren of
`Venice and Rom, must cease, and when each of you will
be at hi post,—Your friend, (i[ culiDeaDi."