New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-06-24
FRANCE.
IRON. ous Own CorresIonde

Prom OuT Own ConesI oDGent
PARIS, June H., lSj~.
The sale Of the hospital lands is still leading
question of the day. Contrary to general expecta-
ton no official recsntatfon qualification Of the
famous ministerial circular has appeared Not
withdrawing the very grave discomfort excited by
the proposed measure (Which has long been favor
tie with tae Emperor, Government seems deter
mined to have it executed. was told yesterday
that the Chief Administrator Of the Hotel Dieu a.
Paris, had re ceived cree ,mmendaton' already
to prepare for the sale Of certain real property be-
lone to that hospital. The provincial Projects
are addressing circulars to the Mayors and direct
ors Of charitable institutions within their respective
Jurisdictions, urging the conversion OF tie real es-
tate belonging to those establishments into public
funds. One of them adds to other eNhortations
ard arguments "hope that he shall have no un-
Unsuitable old prtju6ices or passive resistance to
"cCnquer and an assurance that Government viii
grant 10 aid 70 those Establishments whose man.
Layers resist the policy of conversion This pas
rage has so increased dicontent and alarm thst the
PATH, has been permitted, or advised, 10 express
digspproval OF its sentiments, but i. meets with no
moderate, while never emitting to inform those
whom they address that the measure ~ question is
one which Government is DESTROYS 10 have carried
out, show its economical advantages and answer
many of the objections made to il, by reasonable
arguments Regarding only the economical inter-
ests of the charities can, for my own part, see no
valid objection to the plan of conversion, which, il
must be remembered, does not propose an immedi-
ate sudden and absolutely universal sale of their
on1 t-hi,.h a. h,+ "a
addition 10 the principal of certain percentage of
the increased revenues, Ia provide Il gradual aug
mentatl0n OF the capital converted into public fluids
corresponding to the gradual augmentation OF value
of real estate, or what 10 the thing. 10
the gradual diminution of the value OF money. But
gTayer considerations are suggested by the measure
as connected with the question OF Government
finances and the question OF arbitrary Government
control over private or corporation property.
To leave these questions, as the Projects care
fully do, without further discussion, We directly
meet another provoked by Napoleon's plan OF bring
ing nearly one hundred millions Of dollars NJ from
the country TO the Place de Ia Bourse: What
will he do with ~ Suppose the sales OF lands
and purchases of rtaieS begin and Bourse specula-
ton reyiyes again, and the three per cents rise
above 70--the rate at which Minister Esp.nAsse cal
culates the large profits TO be derived by the chari-
ties from the conversion In such ease. would not
mere philanthropy, the known tender love of Napo-
leon for nvalids indigents and other recipients OF
public charity, advise the reopening OF the Grand
LieYe and an inscription Of new Tcai6s 10 the
amount Of 500 00O, 900 francs, more or less That
ia a pretty sum to gain without laying new taxes.
What uiH he do with il An answer TO this ques-
ton was furnished me yesterday by an English gen.
tcman with whom was conversing on the strange
" state Of expectation" that something s about IL
happen, which seems 10 rule just now in England,
and indeed throughout western Europe. lie will
pay the opening expenses Of war with it, said the
Englshman, OF a war with England-the only means
OF quoting growing discomfort at home and satisfy
ing his masters, the army. But he would b. msd,
] objected, for the sake OF momentarily occupying
the attention and tickling the preudices OF the dis
contented masses, and OF gratifying the restless am
bltion for advancement and glory OF the army to
begin war that could not end in conquest and
must end in heavier taxes. lie is mad replied my
Brlton phlegmatically.
And so, they say, be is. The same high author
ity, you viii remember, sad the same tao or three
years ago, assuring u.s. al the same time, that the
mental malady came from II spinal mllady that was
tan,i LIN ~ lie last stages FaPd! 10 Ii'0.'y a'i