Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-07-16
FROM THE LONDON EXAMINER.

great as ours
FROM THE LONDON EXAMINER.
At moment when own budget is under discusslon
we may be allowed to cast glance at the French budget
and what judgment enables us to form concerning
the burden and resources, well as economy OF our
neighbors.
The amount Of the French expenditure for 1854 is fixed
at 5l6 800 459 francs, nearly sxtyone millions ser
ling. Of these sixyone Millions, the interest OF the
French public debt takes een and as public instruction
takes twenty-five millions of francs, and public worship
fortyfour addition of about two millions and half
sterling is thus devoted to claims unknown to our English
budget The Of administrative and other expenses
therefore, which with require from eighteen to twenty
millions in France absorb from fortytwo to fortyfour
OF these the budget takes thirteen millions sterling
the marine four millions, colonial expenditure one mil
on department of justice million, and the home de-
partment six millions. The public works absorb an adj
dtonal five millions sterling without counting those Of
the city Of Paris and of many municipalities In short
the contribution which Napoleon asked Of France in the
midst of his wars was than half Of that
raised indeed of that which raised under the
stutional government Since 1909 the French have seen
their taxes and their expenditure doubled whilst the
English find their and expenses reduced to nearly
one-half.
It'll only just to say that the enormous increase has
been due chiefly to the prodgay of the Ministers who
held power under Louis Philippe During all the years
Of that monarchs reign the French agitated by
thirst for military power and distinctions for recovery
of the authority and grandeur which Napoleon had estab
shed Europe Louis Philippe and the greater
Der of his ministers opposed this frantic feeling
but fatally for themselves they took advantage of the
oucry swell the military budgets and other expenses
and the opposition clamorous for display OF spirit
in foreign relations precuded from enforcing
my: The never used and useless forthcations OF
Paris there to attest the extravaganza. Among the
which led to the failure of constitutional govern
ment in France must be included the undoubted fact that
constitutional government proved the reverse Of econom
CAL and that charter formed from highly restricted
suffrage not careful but prodga Of the country
resources.
Had the republican Governments which succeeded to
Louis Philippe in 1S4S been able really to diminish the
burden the peasant the preference of the present
peror to republic far may take 1T to have been
displayed in the vote by universal suffrage, would not
have been marked. revolutionary government, how
ever has expedient but to augment direct taxation
the indirect naturally failing at such epoch and
peasants do not reason The addition the land put
by the Governments after 848 dsrepubcanised every
rustic in Francethat is of the population
Mr. GLADSTONE, in his budget, April Is, has esti-
mated the customs for this at EGO 0OO excise
9l4,6OO 600; stamps &c. 100 900; taxes f3 O00 in
come tax e5 500 000 Post Office profits g900 600; and
from crownlands G39o, 900.
Of the fifty sixty millions which raise in England,
the cost of levying included every is what
proportion the land pays and what the OF the
sixty millions of the French budget the land tax is up
wards Of ten millions The stamp, registry and other
duties equally paid by land bring in ten millions more,
that is onehrd of the budget The direct contribution
other than by the land tax and chiefly paid by capital in
commerce, amounts to six millions sterling That which
is most taxed in England, and which furnishes half
budget drinks In France drinks scarcely produce
five millions sterling, though they pay much additional in
oeoior towns dues Tobacco produces FIVE millions,
toms six Millions salt million.
The Emperor and his nancers do not appear to nave
their way to any great fiscal reform alteration
The land tax has been reduced the oco has been d.
minshed tenth, and the tar drinks lghtened for
those who can afford buy measure Of hundred
quarts time 1t become clear, however, from his
abrogation Of the law respecting the importation Of sugar.
passed by the Republican Assembly that Louis Napoleon
is no free-rader Neither economy his orte for the
NV tho nf FIVE
has been than expended in the augmentation
of salaries and the multiplication of Offices
One Of the features Of the Imperial Government is that
its employees form its arstocracy The great landed
fortunes Of France Legtmst The great trading and
moneyed fortunes Of France ate~s Of the capital and Of
towns near to the capital as Rouen Lille and Havre,
Oreanist The commerce of Lyons and even Of Bor
deaux is perhaps sufficiently Bonapartis But to accom-
psh Bonaparst artocracy in Paris il is necessary to
ii by the grant of high places and large salaries
and this has been the policy Of Louis Napoeona policy
very visible in the streets in the increase Of equip
ages the display of luxury the prevalence Of increased
expenditure and augmented prices in every article OF
life. When impulse Of this kind is given it is like an
epidemic Every landlord IN Paris is now adding one
third the rent he demands and every shopkeper one
third to the price of the commodity he vends.
The poitico-economic school most listened to at the
Tueries deems these high prices great advantage and
proof of public prosperity The idea is based the
false suppostion that the middle bourgeois class profit
by the enhancement The truth is that the great mass
Of purchasers and of this and lower
class, such benefits turn into losses.
But however Injuries may be permitted become dear
there needful commodities that must not be al
lowed for safety sake, to become dear in such city
Paris. These are bread meat, wine, and lodging Ac-
cordngy as to lodging, the Imperial Government has
just issued ordonnance for the erection Of domces for
the laboring class and how the Socialist scheme may
turn out time must be left to tell Another Socialist
problem is how render cheap the necessaries Of life
whilst maintaining prohibtve system. Some Partisan
pubcsts argue that the only way enable the aboring
class pay high prices to raise its wages in the
that the salaries Of the Poyt have been raised
In other words the State should take from saving Peter
to pay spendhrft Paul. And enormous expenditure
public works is testing the value Of this notable
doctrine.
We have also TO notice economical and social
sc theory which has made it appearance which is this
The deaness Of the necessaries Of life in great cities is
owing chiefly TO the insrmtdiaie the middle men, who
stand between the producer and consumer and who aug
the price often in the proportion Of 100 per cent
These intermediates in fact the tradesmen Of France,
have increased Of late years in an enormous degree NJ
Michel Chevaer estimates the production OF the SOIL OF
france at ten thousand millions Of francs and the inter-
medares according to him, raise this price 30 per cent
hnother calculator tells that there are 400 venders
IN faris, paying patente while the producers OF what
they vend are not more than IL, 600 13,000 from
which II results that these $4,000 vendors who
producers making the usual addition Of four or FIVE in
each family viii amount to 800 900 persons and upwards
Suppress two-thirds Of these or tradesok
say the champions Of the philosophy for they arc
not only too numerous, but their principal industry their
chief Of earning livelihood or their nrots IL NOT az
much the distribution Of the commodities thew retail "a
their Justification. And hereon the fsoal
proceed enlarge the great fact Of the corrnntop ~