Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-06-24
FRANCE AND THE REVOLUTION.

! The following, which we copy from the Londol
Times, we believe may be taken as an accurate
picture of the present state Of Paris, and Of France
II is confirmed by the daily details of events, no
only in the London, but in the Paris papers, all h
material facts Of which go fully to support the cor
RICHNESS of the general outlines of the descriptions
here given. How long such state Of things il
likely 70 continue, or how long it can be endured
remains to be seen.--Boston .ddvocate.
"No observation is sufficiently extensive to embrace tn
infinite variety Of the forms Of distress and embarrassment
which pressing this time with daily increasing weigh
upon the French nation no description be sufficiently
graphic minute to convey the inhabitants Of peaceful
land and the subjects Of established Government full an.
complete conception Of the effects Of such revolution Thu
revolution in every house and every door, The
still inspires have twice m this last week reused the citizens
of Paris from their beds the break Of day. and kept
under ill midnight; for the defence Of property and M
is there the principal might say the only business Of
The mufarous pursuits Of life have been suddenly stopped
Official services and judicial experiences have been
adrt into the streets the learned professions and the liberal
arts have lost for time their objects and their rewards the
have ceased puvey abundant supplies the wants
metropolis and to the Of Europe industry herself
her humbest walks has been ousted Of her rights by the
scandaous example and the base competition Of 100 600
wokmen converted into paupes by the deuve pledges and
the mschevous prodgaiy Of the State and the republic,
which responsible for the past and for the future of the
ton whose power has assumed under this
dous crisis without the supply the has
already dsspaed, without to give ygoro impulse
to the Executive power, without definite object
political system govern the loose and turbulent deliberations
of the National Assembly. What behold, what know
this extraordinary state Of anarchy and confusion but
the superficial and pepexing aspect Of where the
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pciy irregular and dsodered objects coniounds the
sight But take the daily life Of any individual citizen Of that
huge town Of Paris at this moment and what consists
of What prvaons what duties, what reluctant submission,
what ruin, what terror The authority of Government has
ceased provide for the security his person and his family
and he must therefore gua and perhaps expose his
life in actual conflict with the revolution The faith Of the
Government has already been far violated that he has lost
portion Of his deposited savings and the OF his property
invested in public securities is enormously deprecated and
threatened with total ruin The condition Of public affairs
disastrous that it has interrupted all the avocaons and
amusemens of private life and all that for and live
for enguphed in Improbable sacrifice idol Of imag
nary freedom, which confer Of the blessings of free
DOM but only the harshest drudgey and misery in return
The statements recently published in the Monsur Of the
trade and the first four months of the present year
in France compared with the first four months of 1916
and ls47 demonstrate with the clearness what the
extent of these national losses has already been In the
port duties various articles including especially all
teras employed in manufactures the fall has been
age about SO per cent in other words the consumption
of the country has been reduced third Of what il
preceding years The period of four months for which the
return is made up includes Of the month January and
twenty days February anterior the of
the revolution during which time trade sackened not
I, H.
Of the deficiency the months of March and April is
greater than the aggregate Of the four first months
would make appear be- The receipts on imports, which
7a5 l5O in April 1916, and TO- $50, s72f in April
ls47, fell to 5soE in April ls4s In the month
the amount paid wool imported fell from |, 1877 1885,
in 1885, TO 57s,533E in ls47, and 202, 405f in ls4s.
Cast iron from 433, 597 in Is47 3d. 1857 in ls4s.
Coss from 49, ss7f 1884, 269E At this rate Of reduction
the falling off in the from the customs alone would
exceed three millions sterling per annum, which than
half their total amount in the present Of the French
mfr But the other branches Of the derived from d.
rect taxation have not Jared all better. The falling off
them for the month Of April alone is twenty millions Of
francs 9920 900, and the collected, either by the
prepayment Of taxes by the extraordinary mpost Of As
confines additional every franc heretofore levied Chat is
augmentation Of 40 per have by supplied
the actual deficiency the direct and certain portion oil
the public revenue.
The Of the State have therefore, enormously d.
mnished and its expenses have actually increased The
actual Of the ates na'ionauI has risen to $1,000
sterling day in Paris alone The Assembly itself receives
f900 day, about the the whole civil list Of
Queen Victoria The garde mobile have certainly done good
service but they paid four times much the soldiers Of
the regular army. These public and acknowledged
penses but in addition TO these disbursements
outlay Of kind has been going The
found in The Treasury by the Republican Government on is
accession has get been accounted far named
what Is extraordinary, believe has been asked
for, although it certainly exceeded five millions sterling Yet
that which has chiefly kept the Government its
legs for the last three months and there manifest
signs that Il is rapidly coming end Many Of these diff
6cuIes from the FIRST oreseen but instead Of being pro-
vded against they aggravated by such sbsudes the
guaranty Of labor to the working classes The aters
onar have become hsuns Of the dssoue and the idle
they have drawn of wokmen who might have found employ
meui elsewhere they have attracted the Paris loose bands OF
Companions al they termed they have surrounded the
capital with army Of deceived rated and starving
and at last the Guaranty Of labor is this that the
Minister Of Public Works calls upon all abe-bodied be-
tween 10 and rs to enlist at in the regular army upon
pain Of immediate dismissal from the national workshops
Meanwhile Paris Is daily and nightly the alert, until
method shall have been found Of removing this
Of pauPezed citizen. from the vicinity Of the Legsa