The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-06-19
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE.
From a Paris Correspondent.

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unexpectedly favorable 10 the crops OF almost every de-
scription-a due combination of and Manufacturing
some days, great heat. The whole vegetable kingdom
seems 10 thrive but though the prices of grain diminish
they must II is generally thought, remain high throughout
the year No fears are now entertained in regard TO the
vintage The free admission of foreign breadstus will
certainly be prolonged until the end OF autumn.
The Duke of Montebelo- with you as a
tourist in the Usited Staeshas arrived in this capital
take charge OF the Department of the Navy. believed
that he will be succeeded Naples by Count Besso
y ambassador Madrid and formerly of the French lega
ton Besson is ADLER than his predecessor for any
station The Duke has attended particularly naval
aiairs, nor ever given promise public speaker He
is not likely furnish material aid NJ Guzot, in any
sphere except the court where he has long enjoyed the
highest personal The three substitutions in
stry contribute strength The of the head of
the public works (Jay) may be so pronounced as to sig
nifty gandr and this did not escape the wags of the
Although M Guzos exit, and the formation oan entirely
cabinet be reported here from day day and confident
y predicted by the Paris correspondents of the London
cles those may be deemed highly improbable 1t
supposed that the detruded Minister Of Finance (Lacave
Laplagne,) who experienced hard treatment, and who
finally refused to resign would manifest resentment
and etaate M Guizot by exposition of his grie
lie proved, however, quite time dsclaming all idea
of any course which might annoy his former col
leagues weaken the conservative cabinet Mr. Guizot
assumed the loest port towards the worthy Lapagne and
babe nexbe defiance the opposition, in his lesson and
instance TO his own party and majority to adopt nothing
proposed at me under any circumstances, by their
adversaries This system rash for their interests
and certainly does injustice the country All reform
suggested urged by the opposition is thus be resisted
but from that quarter alone moved the measures OF
popular nature The of postage in France
orbiant and they operate with injurious inequality, with
considerable hardship all classes other than the rich
Reduction has just been vehemeny debated and wholly
negatved in the Chamber OF Deputes-the danger the
finances being the ministerial argument 1t is doubtful
whether assent will be yielded to any dminuton of the
oppressive and widely mischevous duty salt. The
government has uniformly the appearance and discredt
extorting whatever il by taxation from the people, and
remlttng nothing that can possibly be retained Two days
of last week consumed by the Deputies in discussing
u bill Tor doS-taX, framed with view thin the
canine multitude, in order that food might be
left for man. great variety of instructive fact
concerning the condition of the French agricultural
and provincial population stated in the debates
on this bull, as well as on the postage question. As it
was apprehended that dog would be unpopular how
ever sautary, the deputies introduced provisions and quail
cation serving TO throw the and the odium
the general and municipal councils of the departments
The bill was lost by promscuous of 29 I29 The
speaker does not vote in any 1t urged,
side, that dogs necessary shephcrdso inniy
OF tadesto the immense host of cottages and small pro-
pretors that every farm needed the animal for defence
every howell indeed every shop sentinel that beg
gars and thieves could be kept off or baied without
mastitls that dogs consumed much which human beings
could not or would not swallow that expensive registers
be kept with thousands of bureaus and txgaherers
that the persons who paid between hundred and
two hundred francs without reaching the qualification (2OO
for voting all polls would keep kennels for the vey pu
pose and thus make deputies that the would rebel
against this interference that the members of the rad
cal and egtimist parties, who might for the BILL
would be the first denOunce it the people as
of the fruits of the revolution and monarchy of July
&c. &c. We have, the other hand, such allegations
these. The of the eating-the food-of in
habant OF the country may be estimated hundred
francs per annunat of dog fifty francs. The larger
part of this half might the human species, and
have double value in year of famine like the present
Nne-tenths Of the (ownshp) OF France de-
cient revenue and consequently in deplora
bic They badly paved-bady lighted There
of So 900 souls in which the impossible
with the least rain account of the thickness of the mud
Most of villages hardly swept year, and
night possess other light than the economical, but not
very regular light of the tax dogs even if
moderate, would supply the means of partially remedying
these mseres. Is that be dsdaned Let it be be-
eved that the amount of this for all the of
France would be trng thing According to the best sta
tscs, there fewer than 30OOO0O dogs in France,
twohirds OF which are kept for pleasure useless
These 1000 900 dogs taxed average of from 81 l0
(Which average of If Soc y would give OF
Is OoOOOO, which might be added 2OOoOOOf for OoO
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1t is noted that the government denies all exemption
remission in the pecunary way, except of the
largest railroad companies whose managed by
influential bankers and politicians But the roads possess
the utmost importance for future national veal. Every
public writer speaker sensible that the due inn
provemen of the rivers years ago. would have pre-
vented the supendous and manifold evils ofthe late innda-
lions and that with extensive railways the private suffer
ngs and public dangers arising from the doarh of food
could not have amounted half what they are Most
of the disqusons put forth by eminent agrcutirists
the scarcity describe the disaster mainly
dental and transient, but compexonal and necessarily
recunent-as appertainng wretched culture the
ignorance and bad habits of the pensantry ideas and
usages be rectifed selfreiance taught and various
general changes and correctives to be tried Whoever is
acquainted with the United States and has studied the
disclosures and aspects of the domestic situation of
clsn, thaftI,
people by far the best pncped the best educated the
best organized the best behaved, and the best crcum
stanced in the world. II 1.-THE Of the official maveration
and corruption of the social disorders and heos pauper
sm-the political discussions and perilswhich
ndsputaby recorded of this quarter of the globe, could be
told republic how much louder and wider the Euro
pean oucry against democracy! In the address of the
diplomatic corps his majesty Louis Philippe, the
Isl of May last, Europe alone is mentioned So in his
though continent furnishes several oits members
Mehough considering the vital obligations this year of
France and Great Britain in particular to American enter
prise, labor, skill, navigation the rank 10
which Union has risen amid the enlightened and
powerful nations, allusion--a little complimentary
and gratefulwas due however nvidous and rsome the
bare idea of a prosperous and expansive republican
pirc The King in several of his answers the addresses
French public bodies, aniniadverted in his old vein
the republican theories and aims by which many
socations and many writer's of journals and books
primarily actuaed He scarcely appreciates the diffusion
force of the sentiments and tendencies that threaten his
dynasty and all royalty Throughout France. If the great
majority of the people had degree OF rudimenta nstruc
correspondent their democ ratio condition and inter
course, the monarccal system could flourish
subss such national stock, than thistle fig tree
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