The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-02-25
From the Philadelphis Epenng Mercury.
POPULATION AND STATISTICS OF FRANCE
COMPARED WITH THAT OF THE U. s.

Mons Lerour, in the "Repue Independence !" CLASH
fees the French population according to their differ
ent occupations, and arranges them in families as fol
lows:
/. Families Of proprstors. landed proprie-
tors 46 0O0 middle 10000 and small 100000 to
gether I,O26, 600. Ii. Families without property,
(Proleta;rs, list Families with secured dwellings
3,60O000; families with nothing secured except by
their earnings 800 000 poor 800 900, beggar OOO
together $500 0O0 The poor may also DO divided
according to their income into five classes. lst
100000 bcggar, with 20 confines (about cents)
day, equal to 292,OO0,000 francs 3D. 4,OOO,OO Of
poor, at IS centimes Is cents per day equal to $685.
900 00Oi Sd, 100000, employed by the government
or by private individuals, (oficers, domestcs, sol
diers, sailors, and workmen and iaborers Of all de.
scrption,) from % centimes to franc 10 centimes
(about % cents) day. 554 OOO, 600 francs 4th, 49,
900 900 with secured lodgings, with from rs to 81
centimes, (77 cents) day, $50 900 0OQfrancs 5th
$500 small propretors, with annual income of
l2a francs, equal to 1861 ,2000O The five classes
Of the poor, therefore, have annual income of
1924 100000 francs. The clear income Of what
may properly be called proprietors, is Is mated by
Dupin at $500 900 0s0 francs, half from real estate
and half from indusiriel and personal property The
whole national income may be averaged at 9 000-
100000 of francs, or about isOOO0O,OOO Of dollars
In Budget Of 1880, ZOO, 900, l35,O0O,OOo ar,
levied on the small propretors, and $4,000 900 Of
indirect taxes those classes which deprived of
suffrage and political rights; the privileged orders
who share the whole power Of the State pay only
1913 1000 900. France says Ieroux, may therefore be
lkened unto great corporation, with 1876 900 stock
holders, employing annually "a 900 900 of ofccrsso
dicrs working men, women and children, who are
paid little over 5000 OO0O QUO, rescrving for itself (tbe
government) the snug little sum Of $500, 600 000.-
Notwithstanding the eDormty OF these dispropor-
tions, the French infinitely better of than the
wretcbed people Of England where the number of
propretors Is much smaler and the small proprietors
scarcely known The French revolution has done
more for the final emancipation Of the French people
"A ,eriod which, we trust, is not far oH-then all
the different forms Of Cover nment instituted before
and after that event. 1t has reduced the large pro-
pretors, and divided real estate among large num-
Der Of people.
Pauperim in France and n Paris.-The same au
thor estimates the number Of paupers IN France at
S,000,000, OF which number, according 10 official
statements of the project Of police Paris alone counts
62539 Inscribed INTO the Of charity, and at
least 900 pdurres hoafsur (poor ashamed Of their
poverty.) Paris, therefore, contains alone 70 900
people without bread. What mariI this, Of 'emsutsn
and revolutionl We cannot refrain here from
tioning an anecdote Of l533-the year in which the
greatest lumber of attempts made to dethrone
LOUIS Philippe. young man Of % years Of age,
was brought before the prefecture of police charged
with distributing seditious pamphlets and cartridges
"Whats your business p asked the officer YOU
see what am here for,n was the suky reply. "I
mean, how do you make your living '''--"ye ,,,,
smWt"er." l am rioter) was the calm and delibc-
rate answer.
Notwithstanding all these drawbacks. the prosper-
ity Of France is at this moment greater than at aoy
time under the old Bourbops. The national income
in 1880 (under Louis XVD was 4,OlI 900. 900 . in
1890, under the Republic, 4,655 900 600; in IsO0,
under the Consulate Of Bonapartc, 400 900 900 in
1910, under the Emperor Napoleon, 6,27p, 900 900
in 1870, under Louis XVIII, 1866, 900 0O0 and in
1890, under Louis Philippe dOrIeans, $500, 0JO.-
With the improvements since that period il canno,
now be less than 1000 100000 of franc.l
live compare these numbers with the last census
OF the United STATES, find that our national in
come Is already much larger than that Of France,
Notwithstanding our population is little grea er than
l700O00O, and that Of France averaging s. 900 OOJl
And France, we may add Is Of all coontrie, in E,-
rope (England not exccptcd) that country in which
Democracy has thus FAR made the greatest progress
What must be the condition Of the Others, We
shall give that Of Prussia in subsequent number
and Will here only add that we have abundant reason
TO be thankful TO Divine Providence for the bles
sings has showered upon us, and for the superior
degree Of freedom, intelligence and prosperity eno,
ed by our people. And il we compare our national
income with that Of other States and the degree Of
our Indebtedness TO that Of France, England, or
Germany, We shall at once be able to comprehend
Why Europeans should be unwilling to make allow
snces for financial embarrassnents and still le.s
Tor the little real cvinced by 10 meet our lust and
equitable obligations They sre mere panpsr. in
comparison TO u.s. at least the majority of them ara
and cannot therefore comprehend why ". should
wish to cheat them out Of their mte