The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-06-16

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The Department of Public instruction receives
two millions less than last year. and that OF Puohc
Worship three millions The salary OF the
Archbishop of Paris Id increased OOOOf, and that
of each of the other fourteen archbshops 5,OOOf
Bishops are to receive 2,500f more annually, also;
cardinals 10 OOOf additional, and on The
church must be hattered, come what may; and
whether it be priest iayman that you have
to deal WITH nothing has yet been found that will
answer the purpose well as money. 5O,0OOf. are
allowed to the Ministry of the Interior for supply
ing public establishments with busts of the Prince
President. The Projects Of the Departments receive
4 round million than ever before; the sub
projects half million more wonderful to relate,
an economy Of five millions is effected IN the war
Department, the reason assigned being that the
army of Italy, though it will still remain at Rome,
will no longer be required to be kept upon war
footing. The colony Of Lambessa, for transported
political prisoners is to cost 0OOOf in one year,
new item The Marine is down for few thousand
francs less.
Altogether the deficiency is calculated at about
n hundred millions. You will not fail TO remark
that this reckoning is made year and half ahead;
and the ideas that the Minister of Finance may be
supposed to have on the revenues Of the govern
mont such length of time in advance must be, TO
say the least, somewhat vague, and perhaps illu-
sory The budget of 1853, 80 far from presenting,
a. was hoped, and even promised, remainder to
be applied to the uncovered balances Of previous
years. ofYers a considerable uncovered balance IT.
self, and will depend the charity of its success
ors for the of Strengthening out Its crooked
pesses and filling up its shortcomings
The BuIlstin dc Paris, almost semi official, gives
the following lunge at the foreign correspondents
reeidentln Paris:
N in IN he n
ntinp fear and ds,rust in political afiars; but ne
yer, perhaps, was there such abuse OF the laclues
for doing this through foreign journals as has late
Nv been the case. We have never seen such q de-
LUCE of unfounded assertions a 10 men and things
in France. IL would fill volume every day TO
reply TO the suppositions, hypothesis, and com
rnentaries Of the news providers, who supply Cos
sip for the foreign and departmental press
Now il is clearly evident that this is not intend
ed for the correspondents who write but once
fortnight There ia generally fact enough after
the lapse Of fifteen days to ill letter. without
resorting much 70 superstition or Hypothesis But
those who write daily certainly do use Up mon
strous quantity Of undigested rumors and'hctons
of all sorts The rebukc Of the BLisn is deserved;
a. i,not 90 hard a hit that Of the Monitor in
February, which plumply told the correspondents
they lied but IL will do. The MoniiaT
itself for grand occasions.
An important bill has just been presented TO the
Legislative Assembly, the object Of which is to give
the government the power Of removing from PARIS,
and Of preventing from entering it, all persons
once condemned for vngabondsge. mendicity, or
having once in any way become burden 70 the
city Ii is easier live life Of idlcness in great
city than in the country, where the population is
scattered. Begging is always practicable to a GER
tain extent; thieving is ready result for those
who do not care 20 work; aud the moot efficient
method Of putting sIop TO such practices. IL odrivo
from Paris all the hordes Of ragamuns that infost
"A, Statistics show that there are always In the
lodgings let by the day week in this city about
eO.OOO individuals Of whom 3, 900 arc honest and
laborious vorkmen, 5000 foreigners, 10000 ira
d,rs, retired dealers, and bsgmen Of III. poorer
class; leaving fully 5000 vagebonds, without any
honest means Of livelihood whatever, some Of a. en-
prisoners that have served out their time, and
others escaped from their chains. So that tbcr.
ar. nine tbousand persons, principally males,
every day in the streets of Paris, whose re.
sources are iegidmate or Suspicious. In pre-
~.noe Of such peril, says the bill, the most
1--we vigilance Of The police is at best an un.
Germ. o protection. Therefore IL propose. that the
rol,cc r purts be empowered TO pronounce the ban.
,bm,nt r., nm Paris Of any individual found guilty
81 mendieity or vagabondage, and Punishment Of
III ,or.ons con victcd Of thieving, after having
served the term If imprisonment TO which they
may he condemned. The same power TO be given
40 the prefect Of the Ri one in order to rid Lyons
OF smilar elements Of ditofdcr The introduction
Of railroads has been great tource OF disquiet to
the French police. In the days OF diiigences and
MALE portes they followed the track OF every ira
weller, and traced him in all bis movements over
tho country; but now ''the facilities Of conmuni-
cation renders the vigilance Of the police almost
u..less The crowds Of passengers, the rspidity
of the transit, the impossibility Of exercising any
control AZ the stations, battle their Investigations
mud activity The bill will Of cOmsop ass. as the
LEGISLATURE executes ia mission 10 the etter-votcs
unanimously in favor Of all projects submitted TO
its deliberations
Every four years the Paris papers feel called
,,pon TO explain in view Of the approaching Prrsi
DENTAL election in the United stntes, the mode Of
taking the vote and the system Of choosing cleo
,,r, instead Of the President directly. 1t is GER
t,inIv remarkable that this process always has.
and ,uu IL, entirely misunderstood, and interpre-
ted in a way any thing but fiattering to American
intelligence. The electors, not the people, choose
the President. said NJ. dc Tocqueville, in the Ma
tional Assembly, not ten months ago; the Consti-
tution gives this right TO few rather than TO The
rnsss who, being occupied with their domestic
cares and private snxieties, have not the time
properly TO enlighten themselves on go important
!. subject In this strain have the Debatf and the
Pr.s~ already given editorials upon the "election
In the second degree" practiced in the United
States II is not understood that when the Wing
electors are returned in the State Of New York. for
instance, every one knows that their vote will be
thrown for the regular Wing candidate. And yet
they see The two parties nominating each their
man months beforehand, in order 70 concentrate
their strength upon him. How they reconcile
these two snts gonistic ideas, the people making
over their right to two three hundred electors
and yet voting distinctly for either Taylor or Case.
tits difficult 10 toll.
Here ia domestic ITEM which shows in what
unexpected ways the coup d'tidt may affect the
happiness Of families. young English girl, in