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London, England, 1830-05-15 00:00:00

FRANCE AND ITS GOVERNMENT.
(Continued /rout Yesterday's STA■.)

From the Reprhentant.
MINISTRY OF JUSTICE.

The Ministry of Justice has charge of overlooking all the
Courts of Law within the country. It presents to the
King the candidates for all vacant places and all pro.
motions ; and countersigns their orders of nomination.
The individuals employed in the offices of this ministry,
are at least
The administration of justice in France consists of the fol.
lowing gradations. The lowest jurisdiction is that of
Justice of the Peace. There is a Justice of the Peace
in every canton, and every Justice of the Peace has a
notary. The number of individuals thus in employ.
ment, in all France, is . .
In every arrondissement there is a Court of first reser!,
consisting of a President, King's Proctor, one or two
Deputy Proctors, three. five, or seven Judges, according
to the population of the place, two, three, or four,
Judger of Audit, and a notary. Taking at seven the
average number of individuals in one of the Courts, the
number will be

For each department there is a Criminal Court, consisting
of a President, six Judges, a King's Proctor, two De.
puty Proctors, and a notary. The individuals in these
Coutts therefore are .

The higher Courts, to which an appeal lies from the
Courts of first resort, are called Courts Royal. Of these
there are twenty-seven. tads of them is divided into
two, three, four, or five Ckartelsers, according to the ex-
tent of population within the limits of the Court. Each
of these Chambers has its President, and eight Members
of Council. One President in Chief takes his seat when
all the Chambers are assembled together. A Proctor.
General, with an Advocate-General and two or three
Deputy-Advocutes.General foe each Chamber, appear on
the part of the Minister of the Interior in these Courts.
Lest of all, comes the Notary-in-Chief, and his As-
sistant. Taking thirty for the average number of mem
beta in each of these Courts, there will be
The Court of Appeal decides on all appeals from the Cri
minal Courts nr the Courts-Royal ; but it does not un
dertake to judge of the facts, and only looks to the pro
priety or impropriety of the way in which the law is
applied. This Court is divided into three sections; the
criminal, the civil, and that of repasts, by which are
meant matters at issue between the Government and
private individuals, or between one department of the
Government and another. The First President, the
President, the Members of Council, the Proctor-Ge-
neral, the Deputy-Proctors-General, the Advocates-Ge.
neral, the Notaries, &c. &c. carry the number of Jodi-
viduals in this Court to ... ......... .
The Ministers of State, the Privy Councillors, and the
Councillors of State, or Masters of Requests, are to the
number of .. .
Nobody can practise as an Advocate in the councils or the
Court of Appeal, but by an order from the King, nun.
tersigoed by the Minister. The number of these Advo.
cats is just now, about
It is the same with the practising Proctors or Barristers,
in all the courts of law In the kingdom. Of these the
number is at least.

5,670

2,5 4 I

10,000.

lt is the same with the (hwissfers) Amnia, is aU die
Courts, and before the Justices of the Pea5e.......
Lastly, it is the same with the Notaries ; of whom the
number is atleast
The Gaolers and Governors of the different pri50n5........
Total of all the persons in the service of, or dependent on,
the Ministry of Justice
MINISTRY OF THE AFFAIRS OF THK CHURCH, AND
OF PUBLIC EDUCATION.
When the shocking state of health of Louis XVIII
had enfeebled his character and his understanding, and
he had allowed the ministry since known by the name of
the Villele ministry to be forced upon him by his
brother,—the party of the Priests, for whose use and
benefit this change of ministry had taken place, being
well aware that unless they could make themselves mas-
ters of the rising generation, a few years would see tho
end of their power in the country, asked for and got
possession of public education, which was made into a
dependency of a Bishop-Minister, the Abbi Fressinuus.
These two departments (affairs of the church, and public
education) were separated under the last ministry. M.
de Polignac has brought them together again, and it is
a man of the name of Gnernon Renville, a person who
was never heard of before, that has been appointed Di-
rector.

It would appear that as regards the appointment of
individuals to ecclesiastical offices—that is to say for the
nomination of Bishops, Vicars-General, Canons, &c.—
the functions of the Director are confined to being the
executor of the will and pleasure of the Grand Almoner.
of M. de Latil, the Abbe Tharin, and other personage
of that class, who exercise a leading influence over the
conscience of the King. In the cases of Archbishops
and Bishops, be has only to put the countersign, afte:
the Pone has had the civility to give his approbation to
the King's choice. As to most of the other offices, the
Archbishops and Bishops, who are great lovers of liberty
in what concerns themselves, save him the trouble of
having any thing to do with them ; his business as Mi-
nister of the Clergy, being to lay his claws on thb
ecclesiastical budget, and see to its distribution.
Here will be given a hasty sketch of the numerical
strength of the clergy in France.
CeoW administration (in the offices of the Minister in
Paris)
Archbishops..
Bishops, not including the Bishops in portions (nominal
Bishops, as Bishops of Jerusalem &c.)
nun General

1

66
203
Calms ..
Batton (at least one to each cart0n)......... 3,000
Vine. l.BOO

Country Parish Priests
Priests attached to parishes in towns, without distinct
titles t and Almoners totegiments nod hospitals. 2,000
Is the Seminaries (places of eduadon under the direc-
tion of the Priests), Directors, Professors, and candidates
far Orders; including what are called the small Semi-
naries 9,000
. _ _

Monks, Capuchins, Trappings, &e. &t. kept on foot and
paid under the rose • • •• • . 1,300

Total