New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-26

blanks TO I'll out The excess Of bureopiisp has bs
come burden to ministers themselves II Ia but =
little while ago that the Minister If the Interior pux
forth pnngcnty brief circular TO projects and ,hoss
under them, deprecating official verbiage.
II il but just however and might be profitable N
remark Of this exaggerated bureaucracy that il has
"fes qualities de SEES defavts."
To an American accustomed to look ont for ansver
for and generally do for himself and 10 be particularly
not looked ont for by government, seems an irrai
ingy restrictive machinery useless and damnablea.
il surely would be in the United States and vet more
surely in the Territories But if cumbersome, il 10
not confused and if rather slow in It's processes IL quite
sure. In the Government Treasury Department, for
example: put in an honest, proved claim agans. Crow
eminent, and, after delays, that, however long and
vexatous, are at least regulated and approximately
cacuable, 1t viii come ont at the other end cashed;
while dishonest one gets 20 thoroughly ted that the
claimant need to bolt himself to escape the tribunals
And here let not be forgotten that the administration
Of justice Il am not speaking Of the laws Themselves
and except political eauses-a republican having az
little chance Of fair trial here as in virpinia-,is
excellent for promptness wen as purity. Defalca-
tons, entertainments, jobs are not quite unknown In
the current annals Of the treasury; but their rarity
shows their difficulty. The French officials and con-
tractors are neither more nor LEES honest-thas IT,
neither more nor lees human-than officials Of other
countries. They susceptible TO temptation; they
are not, rs class St. Anthonys. They all have what
distinguishes them from the lower order Of animals'
pockets. TIE pelican the kangaroo, the opossum,
if they can be held to bear any relation to the general
rnlc help to prove il by illustration as well as excep-
ton The first is an pathological PecksniH; for
everybody now knows that the ostentatious rounding
cut Of her pouch, which popular story sentimentally
attributed to tie fondy nclosed family circle Of caow
loved ones is owing secreted stocks Of fish; the
extravagant quadru-caudaped the kangaroo, was act
BY president Dame Nature, like epigram, in the
neigbborhoods of Sidney and Botany Bay. The opos-
sum il proyerbially sly).
The immense current receipts and expenditures Of
the Treasury are so watched, checked and counter
checked and controlled by this multitude of bureauiss
that their regular swelling flow from the smallest
tribute of dog-tax in Carpenras into the great reser
voir of the Ministere de Finance in the Rue Rivol,
and then out again to the lowest door-keepers wage
is safely kept in its proper channel so that hardly can
q sous-drop leak away into any of their pockets
To change the figure, without being chargeabe with
hyperbole every frame from its incomngat the village
tdNgalIeftfs 10 ls usN'cA ANS 'Ni"eA
of one of the Treasury bureaus may be said to travel
with passport that is riseed at every stage of its
progress And tie hierarchy Of this numerous priest
hood Of the service of public cunningy
arranged that no individual any class of its mem
hers has the care of franc TO himself or TO ITSELF
For any one Of them to abstract franc its passage,
ia about as easy as for any person in the line nj
fire to abstract bucket. And Minister Magne him
Il c.o.l... tlati.,, t1,a
taXgatherer Of Carpentras.
j am sure that every sip of Madame Busque's arc
matte coffee Las been drank well as charged; am
sure OF getting the three final papers in reference to poor
f. sinterment The knocked-dOwn bedstead is sure to
be set up at last in the owners chamber; which
reminds me how far have wandered from the Hotel
ID rOuOt.