The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-03 00:00:00

ARMY AND NAVY ESTIMATES.

Mr. W. WILLIAMS gave notice that on the house
going into committee ou the army and navy estimates,
he should move that the said estimates be referred to
a select committee. (Hear, hear.)
THE ORDER OF THE MEDJIE.
Colonel KNOX gave notice that to-morrow he should
put a question. relative to the Turkish Order of the
Medjie not having been yet distributed.

THE ADDRESS.
TheSPNAKza having read her Majesty's most gracious
Speech from the chair,
Mr. WYKEHAM MARTIN, in riling to move the
Address, said that, although an old member of the
house, yet he was so little in the habit of addressing
the members, that he needed a greater measure of in-
dulgence on that occasion than those who addressed
them for the first 'time. They had been told in the
Speech from the Throne, in kindly terms, the reason
fortheirbeiog assembled at a somewhat unusual period
of the year—viz , the distress of a most aggravated kind
that had •
amen amongst a large portion of the
Iner"Rtile community, and which, had it not been
, for the sinkri,
adopted by the Government would have
We" to a er eztez act of i
t.The house would therefore
be ealled upon to pap
the Bank of England hadthendemuity for that which
responsibility of
Government to check that distress
that dose on
would
otherwise
have occurred, and at the saint time they subm.
Tthtedttheir
conduct to the judgment of the
country,
om
was salted upon to assent to What had been donee
ooptrary to the Act of 1844 that waj passed
for the regulation of the currency, and assimilate the
action of the joint currency of gold aril paper. The
p'tlicy of that act hid been to give eatiafaf!tion tD
most of the eminent persons connected with the
commercial community ; and though it had happened
that twice in 1847, and now in 1857, its operation ha-I
bad to be suspended, he believed it would be found
to have acted beneficially for the country. The bon.
gentleman then alluded to the paragraph in the
Speech from the throne, rrlative to the suffering amongst
the labouring population, and then passed on to Indian
affairs, and said he fel, sure the house would not Le
slow to join their sympathy with the honourable
member for the unfortunate sufferers in this lamentable
outbreak ; nor reed he point cut to them the
conduct of our troops in that part of the world to excite

their admiration. The names of Generals Wilson, Have- I
lock, and Ontram—(lond cheers)—Lieutenants Wil-
loughby, Home, and Salkeld, and in humbler life
Sergeants Carmichael and Smith, and Cor-
poral Smith, with the more recent informa-
tion relative to Lieutenant Osborne—(loud cheers)—
could not fail to strike the heart of every member of the
community, and cause them to thrill with gratitude and
admiration whenever they heard them named. (Loud
cheers.) He traced the hand of Providence in much that
had occurred in thato)untry, and he considered it was the
duty of the Government to conduct themselves towards
that country with energy and discretion, and he hoped
that at no distant day India would be colonised.
The hon. gentleman alluded to the state of Europe,
and the ratification of the treaty of peace by
Persia, and in passing on to the estimates for the year,
said that he felt satisfied the house would not grudge
what was necessary for maintaining the efficient state
of the country. He congratulated the house and the
country on the promised reform of Parliament. (Hear.)
Notwithstanding the important measures that had en-
gaged the attention of the Government during the short
recess that had just passed, he felt confident that when
the measure was brought forward it would give satisfac-
tion to the people. It would be premature to enter on its
probable details, and he thought it would be im-
prudent, and he for one would be content to wa't the
propel- time for its introduction to the house. He next
referred to the proposed law reforms, amongst these the
greater facility of transferring lands, and the consolida-
tion of the criminal code. The hon. gentleman con-
chided by moving an humble address to the Crown.
Mr. ARROYD, in seconding the motion, said he did
so feeling confident of the responsibility that attached
to him. The Government proposed to bring for-
ward three important questions ; first, the Bank
Act ; second, with regard to India ; and
thirdly, the Reform Bill. As a manufacturer he
should address himself more particularly to the Bank
Act, and the house would not be surprised to find he
should take a different view of it to the mover of the
Address. (Hear, hear.) He did• not look at the
question in its narrow view that many did relative to
money dealers in the papers, though he bad a strong
feeling of interest for them. He considered the house
would take a broader view of the question, as regarded
their commercial interests, and the working classes of the
manufacturing districts ; they, he was happy to say,
were tolerably well off, and be hoped their prospe-
rity would continue, and if it was necessary' to
enlist the sympathy of the house in their behalf,
he would remind them that they furnished men for the
army to fight our battles, and they were large c intribu-
tors tolthe revenue. He then referred to the commercial
panic that had recently been felt in this country.

LEFT SPEAKING.

CITY OF PART FINANCES.

The Prefect of the Seine lately, at the opening of the
departmental commission, presented a report on the
affairs of the city of Paris, and of the department. It
is drawn up in three divisions ; the first is declared to
relate to the manner in which the levying of the direct
taxes shall be divided between the city of Paris and the
arrondissements of St. Denis ; but in reality it treats
principally of the demolitions and bedding operations
which have lately taken place in Paris, the following
being an analysis of it :—The taxes on real and per-
sonal property, furniture, doors, and windows, which
last year were 16,671,5151., have now by the increase
of new houses', deduction made of the revenue from
houses demelisheel, risen to 17,126,580 f., and next
year that sum will from the same cause be increased
to 17,465,4971. In 1855 the produce of these taxes was
only 16,592,419 f., EO that the increase in three years
has been 963,1181., and that increase shows not only
that the new buildings in Paris have compensated the
loss from demolitions of old ones, but have increased
the revenue. The augmentation will be even yet larger,
when the houses terminated in 1856 and 1857 shall be
subjected to taxation ; and when other houses in course
of construction shall be terminated. Moreover, the
houses in the Rue de Rivoli which have been exempted
from taxation for 20 or 30 years will at a future period
further increase the revenue by a sum of 340,5741.
The report states that, in addition to the benefit de-
rived by the city, the development of building enter
prise during the last five years has increased the Go-
vernment revenue by at least 2,000,000 f. a year. The
report then goes on to say that the revenue from
licenses to trade, which in 185.5 was 9,679,599 f., is
now 10,817,000 f., and that that increase is princi-
pally owing to the iefitience which the impulse given to
building has had on all branches of trade. This increase
in general business has also, remarks the report, in-
creased the indirect taxes levied by the government, and
the registration duties paid to government by the city
alone for sales of building ground amount to several
mi,lions. After some remarks on the various advantages
produced by the improvements and ernbelhshmen •
effected in Paris by order of the government, and entire
spirit of enterprise in that way fostered, the report goes
on to give some details respecting the demolitions and
new constructions in Paris. It appears that from 1852
to 1856, 2,524 demolitions complete or partial were
effected (1,517 of them by the municipality and 1,007 by
houseo ?Jeers themselves), and that 2,926 houses were
built and 2,272 enlarged or raised, giving a total of
5,193. In 1857 the number of demolitions total or par-
bat has been 447 (251 by the municipality and 196 by
owners), and that the number of houses built was 775
of those enlarged 570 being a total of 1,345. In these
figures houses actually terminated and occupied are only
taken into account. In examining the new buildings by
arrondissements, it appears tha in the poorer quarters
of the city a larger number of houses have been built than
in the richer districts. Tons, in the 8% arrondissement,
which comprites the Marais and the Faubourg Saint
Antoine, 226 houses were-constructed or enlarged on an
average each year from 1852 to 1856, and in the present
year there have been 368, which are four-and-a-half
times as many as in the 2d arrondissemeet, and almost
twice as many as the lit, though the latter contains the
Champs Elysees and the extensive sites adj scent. The
nun.ber of houses built has, in the course of the present
year, exceeded that of those demolished in every arron-
dimsement, except the 6th, in which the opening of the
Boulevard de Sebastopol has led to the demolition of
the blocks of houses between the Rue de Ranibuteau
and the Rue du Ponceau. But even in that arrondisse-
ment, building has been carried on so actively that the
houses in course of construction almost equal those
demolished. In the 11th arondissement, more houses
have been built than demolished, notwithstanding the
works undertaken for improving the approaches to the
Mont St. Michel, for the prolongation of the Boulevard
de Sebastopol on the left bank of the river, for the fi r-
mation of the first section of the Boulevard St. Germain,
and for the enlargement of the Petals de Justice and of
the Prefecture of Pelice. The report then goes oa to
:t to that !n t :esuburbs of Paris, that is in the arrondis-
• cents of S'. Denis and Sceaux, the demolitions from
1852 to 1856 were 2,143, and in 1857 325 —total, 2 463 ;
and the new constructions 13,356, Iron 1852 to 1856,
and 4,035 in 1857—total, 17,391. Tbo extraordinary
number of new buildiegs in the suburbs beyond the
octroi wall, far xeeeding that in Paris, is ascril ed by
the rep ;rt not so much to the desire of their occupants
to escape the payment of octroi duties as to the fact that
the means of communication with the centre of the ton n
are, from the existence of large roads, very easy; whereas
the unbuilt parts within the walls of Paris are in many
cases separated from the centre by quarters full of nar-
row streets, and are, therefore, difficult of access. The
advantage of escaping the octroi duty is represented by
the report to be in general much exaggerated, inasmuch
as the the local charges which people in the suburbs have to
pay, and from which the population of Paris Is exempt, are
almost equ I to the octroi duties paid by the latte'. After
remarking that the laying out of wide streets through
the quarters al'uded to will cause the parts in question
to be built on, and will thereby reduce house rents, the
report states that last year the total number of houses in
Paris was 432,639, and that 5,743 of them were unoc-
cupied ; and it remarks that this shows that the demand
for houses is' not so great as it was, but that still the un-
occupied houses are not sufficiently numerous to pro-
duce an important diminution in rents. The document
goes on to say that the floating population of Paris
(toreignere and provincial.) which in 1852 was estima-
ted at 65,000 souls, is now calculated to be 150,000, and
that the consequence of this is that now not fewer than
8,460 persons keep lodging-houses, or let furnished apart-
ments, whereas in 1852 the number who did so was only
5,380. This vast floating population reside, it is said,
principally in the beat quarters of the town, and by the
demand they create for lodgings, compel those persons
who would reside there to go to an inferior quarter, the
inhabitants of the latter to one still lower, and so on,
until the population of the faubourgs is affected. The
remedy for this, says the report, is the cutting of new
streets, so as to bring into use for building, sites now
unoccupied. The repot t then notices the advantages
which will be derived in the Bth arrondisFemeut from
the formation of the Boulevard du Prince Eugene,which
is to run from the Chateau d'Eau to the Derriere du
Trona ; in the 12th arrondi,sement, from the formation
of the Boulevard Saint Marcel, which is to go from the
Boulevard Montparcasse to the Boulevard de l'Hopital,
also from the prolongation of the Boulevard de Sebas-
topol ; and in the Ist, 2J, and 10th arrondisse-
ments, from the formation of the Boulevards Males-
herbes and du Nord, and from large cuttings in the
vicinity of the Pont de i'Airea, and in the vicinity of the
Place de l'Etoile on bath sides of the Champs Ely, e-ss.
The next repot t, in rder to show the extrae.rdinary acti-
vity in the building trade, gives a return of the octroi
duties paid ou bui'ding materials introduced into Pat is
since 1851. In that year the amount was 2,372 190 t. ; in
1852, 3,332 5.3 f. ; 1853, 4,683,5',861. ; 1851, 512(1 153.'.;
1855, 5,374,171'. ; 1856, 6,092984 t. ; and in 1857 it
'sill he 6,476,632 e The repcit I laservPs that as it,:nrr-
( ,land a.; d leis Laos generally but limited resources,
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of no general intei est. The second Part o-fe.t°lle- report has
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