New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-04-24
FRANCE.
DEGREES of the Prcsident-SennfOrs-Sta of
Siege Observation-Disclosures Exhibifi0n-Trial
or Ill,
pondsnce OF The n. Y. Tribune.


Correspondence Of The n Y. Tribune.
PARIS; Thursday, April l, 1852.
Among the important DEGREES publishedby
The 1oniter since my last is enacted with view to
decentralization the removing from Paris the Depart
concerned, the appointing the judicial and the
moving power in all of merely local interest
One great mischief of Capitalization has been TO
muate in the Bureaus of the Cabinet Ministers in this
city of business with which the authorities are, Of
necessity unacquanted and almost endless st of APP
pontments to be made, in which the Ministers to-
tally ignorant of the qualifications required for the dis
charge of the duties and Of the merits of the various APP
plcans The preamble expresses the motive suggesting
radical change in this system in few but remarkably
well-chosen words: "Considerng that while may
govern well from distance, only administer
well when the spot" &C. The Projects viii hereaf
be charged with large share of the business devov
ing by the present practice upon the Bureaus of the
Ministries Applicants for Office in the Provinces will
longer have tedious and expensive journeys to make
to Paris but will lay their before the Project OF
their Department 1t is evident from glance at the de-
cree that this revolution Ia effected before was
wanted The Office of the Minister of the Interior
literally succumbng under the Accommodations of years
and sort of paralysis had already crippled its action
The affairs of the country falling into neglect from
the sheer inability of the Minister and his employees to
give them proper attention 1t perhaps needless for
to say that this measure too the tradi
tons Of the Empire Capitalization abuse that has
crept into the administration since Napoeons time and
the President the system of his uncle because
the system of his uncle But for this once least
a return to regime fifty years gone by is prudent and
desirable step and such approved by almost all
shades of opinion You will notice that the decentsliza.
tion nv mi. dacrae and
not all political The great principle of political
tralzaon representing the unity of territory legislation
and governmentthe exact Of federal sys-
ten-remains untouched Nothing e yielded to the local
authorities that they, by necessity Of the case not
able to decide ntelgently than the central author
ities 1t IL the absurd and exaggerated Intervention of
Partisan bureaucracy in the private affairs Of provincial
towns communes, forests roads, haryess, crops &c,
&can abuse of modern growth-hat the decree Is de.
signed correct.
Since my last too the President has appointed seven
Senators, making the whole number ninety-one In
accordance probably, with the article in the Constu.
ton which declares that there shall be but eighty dur.
ing the first year Lonseigneur Sibour, Archbishop Of
Paris, Is Of the new dignitaries and NJ Bneau,
Minister Of Finance is another The C0aattuttoanL
considers that great recompense for the zeal he has
shown and TIE services he has rendered but to make
Senator of Cabinet Minister would to be a sort
Of elevation downward, or progression backward,
were it not that while the one Is often merely transi
tory honor the other is appointment for life Per-
haps NJ Bnesu's entrance to the Senate is a compen.
sation in advance for speedy exit from the Cabinet
The state Of siege raised throughout France on
Sunday, the 9th. The moment has come" says the
Minister OF Justice in his report to the President sug.
gestng this measure, to restore to the common law
al its authority. Twice consecrated by the most
mistskable manifestations of the national will your Gov.
ernment Ends in this very will the of protecting
society and you without danger obey the dictates
OF your heart, in putting end to the exceptional
and tribunals created By the necessity OF preserv
ing order and civilization Nevertheless thosc indyi
cus,s he have been tried by councils Of war will If
Il ken a=sin IN the commission Of oenscs again be tried
y tCunsfz Of war Hereafter arrest will be made
i,fet,icr cSccn,ed except in conformity with the