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and Receivers et dines idols of dues in the Dc.

partments
Inspectors, Clerks, and other persons employed at the
gates of towns - •
Total of Individuals employed in the Customs and Local
Dues
Rivers and Pored& In the Direction and Offices at
head-quartcrs .
Inspectors-General, Inspectors, Sub-Inspaters, and Su.
perintendenut-Cieneral of Woods and Forests .
Superintendents-General, Superintendents-Major and
simple Superintendents, in other parts of the branch

Lottery liryal. Managers, Inspectors-General, In.
leton, and others in the central administration at
Park -
•
Receivers and keepers of lottery-Aires in the whole of
France

Total
Mortgage Office. A Director, Managers, and in their
offices . .. . . . . . .
Next add the Accountants Chamber. Presidents, :lien.
bens of Council, Masters, Referentiaries, &c. &e.
In the Mon, division of this branch, a Director General,
Dkeetors, &c. &c. for the whole of Fnmee . .

Total
Nobody can be an Exchange-Agent, Broker, or Appraiser,
without being appointed by an order from the King.
The writer does not know with certainty whether
these appointments go through the hands of the Ali-
»lster of Finance, or the Minister of the Interior.
But at all events they depend on one minister or another;
and the number of commercial agents of this kind In
France is at least • • •••

Total of individuals employed under the Ministry of Ft.
TIZTICe" • ... •

12,820

120

1,300

85,488

It appears therefore that the number of individuals em-
ployed, or who are placed in a state of absolute depen_
dence on the Government, under the five branches of the'
Ministry of which a view has been given, amounts to the',
enormous quantity of five hundred and seventy-four thou-
sand, two hundred and fifty-eight.
And in this no notice has been taken of the Ministry of
War, its Staffs, Governors, Military Schools, and army,
which, by the letter of the law, is to be on the peace esta-
blishment 240,000 men.

Nor has any notice been taken of the Navy, its Victual-
ling-office, Dock-yards, Seamen, and Marine Artillery,
wbo are fixed at 60,000 men.

Neither has any notice been taken of the individuals on
half-pay, the holders of civil and military pensions, who
amount to more than 60,000. lastly,in all the foregoing cal-
culations, when the exact number to a unit or two could not
be ascertained, the estimate has always been made at the
lowest ; and on summing up, the result appears to be, that
the French Government has near a million of people in
its direct employ, or dependent on it and on its nomina-
tion for their support. The whole population of France
is thirty-two millions ; of which the males may be taken
at sixteen. Of these sixteen millions, the half, at the
most, can be supposed to have attained to man's estate,
and to be effectively employed in civil life. It follows,
therefore, that France has only eight millions of citizens
of this kind; and of these, one man in eight is in the
employment of the government, paid by it, or dependent
on it for the bread he lives on.
Would it be worth while to go on, and add the
number of the domestic servants, and tradesmen interested
is the custom of the million ? It seems unnecessary to
take the trouble; for what is proved is quite enough.-1
And now then to ask all England, or the friends and
protectors of the existing government of France in that
country,—to ask Burke himself if he were alive,—would
you like to have such a government yourselves? Is a
government like this, what can be called a good one ?
And what is to be thought of a government which, in spite
of all this, does not think it has got authority enough, or
prerogatives sufficiently extensive ; and which for fifteen
years has been doing nothing but trying to extend
Ahem, in defiance of all laws and compacts ? Answer,
you Englishmen who make a hubbub about the appoint-
ment of an additional judge, for fear of increasing the
*Ounce of the Crown
Other inferences crowd upon the mind. The first *1
that the governors must be move abominably bed than
their system of government, if with one man in eight in
their own immediate pay or depatience, they cannot di-1

And what is the effective strength of the people in
France ? Eighty thousand voters. Fewer fur all France
than there are in five or six towns in England. Awl
these voters, in spite of all kinds of violence, all ZintA
of tricks, and all hinds of temptations, return to
Chamber of Deputies a majority against the ntin;stcy.
The pains which have been taken in publishing there
details will not be without return. In spite of eve!y
thing that may be in the way, it will have the effect of
informing public opinion in this country ; and it is of
consequence to the welfare of England, that every body
should be acquainted with the circumstances. The UM-
ductors of the daily and periodical press will see thu
truth of this, and give circulation to the facts.
Existing cirumatances necessarily direct attention to
the system of elections in France. And the mistakes,
arising nut of misinformation, which the English journals
make every day upon that subject, are such as to induce
the author of the preceding calculations to engage to
eater upon it at no very distant period.

MEETING AT THE LONDON UNIVERSITY.

Yesterday afternoon, one of the large theatres of the
University was crowded to excess, it having been announced that
the distribution of prizes to the most successful students in the
medical classes would be delivered. There were present—The Eat:
of Darnley, Lord Auckland, Lord John Russell, Mr. Feraletley,
M.P. Dr. Birkbeck, and most of the members of the Council. Sir
James Graham presided. One gold and two silver medals acre th,d,
delivered to the successful candidates in the clait•es of the vartit I.
of Medicine, Anatomy, ilateria Medics, Physiology, Surg.ay. 31id-
wifery, Chemistry, Comparative Anatomy, and Demonstrative Am,
tomy, and honorary certificates to a great many other students.-
Several of the students received prizes in the Medicine clus. lit
the Medicine class them were last session 161 students. in Anatomy
173, in Chemistry 181, in Demonstrative Anatomy 117, in Pl'3 -
siology 148, in Midwifery 83, and in 31ateria Modica 138.—After
the prizes had been delivered, accompanied with ninny cheers. the
Chairman addressed the meeting, urging the successful as a ell as the
unsuccessful candidates ►o continued exertions.