New-York daily tribune., 1861-08-16
LIIHr WH0Y-WHN 80.
throughout Tor this week !, A
iss16! subscribing iudiyiduaIs Cor "ds1putA,

sao na ma'Vnai a response 70 Governments cab e.
Log, oOooOO francs. Such q result does oot es, -
perhaps an utter confidence Of the French poofk
10 the Government that to-day rules over them, 4
docs rather prove, perbaps the existence Of .,,s
ucai defect in French private finance, aud Of a..
eerous theoretical defect In French Goyerrmsr1
.nanco. .o. But let that be a. il may--u,e pstsx,s
'rutn remains that the French Government. calm
upon is people fox ~, 600 OC0 france IL rssoondI
.y Tue eager offer Of more than 1000. GO0. 900
un0e-.ou' more than one-half of tho reuuircA
workmsn . "nered by little foks-porters, cieskA,
y. non' eec'-.who here in Paris we're 40 eaoec
10 make this investment Of their anal, savie"s
that they beset the approaches to the IRE,
ury buildings in the Rue Rivoli hours IN advanes ~
tho opening OF the subscription bureaus: Lund,rIs
OF them taking tLsir stations there In the NIGHT h
forehnnd to be ready for the opening of tho busoesa
at 10 o'clock next morning. -
II is not malapropos, since we ore entered nm,
financial figures, to quote here some cpbers from
Francois Deleperts annual report on French say.
ings banks. The first savings bank in France wss
established at Pams, November is, 1913 Fan,
that to the present time, the paying in of depost
has been interrupted for one day Only--SundsI.
June 25, 1848. To-day, there are savings banks q
433 French towns, whOse sum total Of depesit1
amounts to 336, ,46J ,632 francs, belonging e
1,l2l, ,465 depostOrs. Three-fourths of these De-
postors have less than 500 francs ($l00) on depoaA
Nearly 36 per cent of the depostors are meshanicst
IL per cent arc household servants While Ae
average deposit in France is 800 francs The average
deposit in the English savings banks is $50 francs.
The number Of British depOsitors and the average
of their deposits Is greater thnn that Of the French.
The average sum Of deposits in Massachusetts savs
ings banks, according to NJ. Delepet's interesting
report is 979 fraucs and in those of the State d
New-York I,12l francs. In this copuectiss,s
as the American clergy say. it is fit to notice the
latest weekly official report of the Paris Savings
Bank: 6,045 depOsitOrs, of whom $50 were DeW
ccmefs, paid in AZ. $50 francs last Sunday and
Monday; during the week, 1874 francs were
paid ont to l,674 depositors of whom sol thereby
closed their accounts with the bank; during the
same week, purchases were made in the public
funds on account and at the request Of dep0sit0rs
TO the amount, in capital, of5S, $50 francs. .'E
And now, as ! am once treating OF financial num-
bers let me, in passing from these humble lispiags
Of vulgar savings, rise to higher themes OF CITY
taxes: Pauto majoTa conO. Some OF your New
York readers may take u melancholy interest ia
perusng the annexed brief abstract Of tae Preieo'
toral Report Of the City of Paris for 1861:
" The general receipts and expenses are estimated
each at H2 SIT OF the receipts lO50 300 0o0L Ia
round figures from ordinary sources, and Vo
from extraordinary ones; aud the remainder cotnee
items are the ostroi for II, OO0Of taxes &c. g..
000 00Of and markets 500 0c0 AS 10 tho exposes.
they CONSIST n round numbers of Ordinary for ~ 5o
OO6f, exraordioary 42,000006, and 81, 7,5t0,OoUf
speca which are ptid by the loans. In the expenses
tie int sres On the debt L set down for IL 500 90 tie
Prefecture Of Police, coo 00lE; repairs and clear
ing OF reets L. 00O C0tf charitable as.oci stons,
G0.O0Of.; and fetes and ceremonies 77lc00. Tho
Municipality accords certain pensions, and among
them is QUO of 10. .00Of to III. Van Hetefen Gevers,
page to Napoeoa l. for having announced TO the Mu:
nicipsl Council tho birth Of the King Of Rome, and
abober Of 300Of. to NJ. Mulot for having bored the
aI,esian well ut Grenelle. From lSJ2 TO leo the
houses buils or enlarged in Paris were H,5Y, atI
those demolished 900: there was consequently. IN
increaae Of $3.50. AZ tie end OF December, le6a,
Psris with the annexed communes, contained 532 az
lodgiugs, which, at only three persone Tor ec could
accommodate populat 90 OF 1926. At the eHms
period there were ii 900 vsrant but Il is cal ulsted
that in order 10 give eufcient choice 10 the public.
the number ought TO bs about =, co.,"
The weather for the past three days has been all
that harvesting farmers could desire. The harveSt
now going on, aud IN Northern France commencing.
As nearly as can be judged from contradictory 70.
ports Of interested and dsinterested PARTIES ii 10
safe now TO say that the whole grain crop OF France
this year, supposng the uext ten days should 10 In
vorable, will be something considerably under an
average good yield. fObio has any wheat to spare,
fho VIII find good market for it in France and
England.
TheIs' ninteenth volume of the Consulate and
mOdic Napoeobic resurrection OF the Empire after
the return from Elba, is in press. Lamartine 10
said to have lately written out new poem. Official
and urgent recommendation has been sent out TO
Mayors and other sub-onicals, from the Slinistes
OF tho Interior pressingy inritiag them to procure
subscribers 10 the new edition OF his prose works.
For his greater glory, Lanartine lately made knswn
bissoyereign wish that The geatengrayer, Caamata,
should do his poets head 10 perennial copperplae.
Calamate ltaliOu by birth, residence and sentiment
French by art-adoption, fame aud taste-one OF the
few living artist-enSrayeTs such Strange and Nor
Chen were--creative and reproductive. Calamatta,
with courteous patriotic dignity, replied that.
Gattering as the proposition was, hs
could net lend bis brain 10 help immortalixs
any man who was opposed TO Italian unity.
To oppose tho idea of Italian unity IS practical
possibility, Lamartine las eloquently unwisely, and
weakly gone out of his way in late numbers Of his
literary periodical. Nobody doubts the mans sip-
centy, but his best friends lament the weakness Of
their late admired exbern execraby vain, feeby-
respondent, childishly irritable pOetpcIitician.
truer poet, made Of sterDer stuff Victor Hugo, hss
at last completed his pbilisophico-humantaria
prose poem of q romance, Les MistraDiss. Hs
began il before le4s left it asdc 10 minge in tho
political strife ofthe revolutionary years. resumed his
labor upon il 10 exile and has OF late months beea
working up its closing chapters in Belgium, whther
he came to study up the locality and local color Of
Watcrloo, on whose bloody fed, We are told, pass
some Of the grandest scenes Of what he means shAu
be his greatest prose work.
The fourth volume of Guizot's Memoirs bring
ing up his record and Judgment Of bis time and 10
history 1910; The political life ofRoyer Colard.
his Speeches and his Writinys," by DE Baranter
- Memoirs spr Cannot from 1853 to 1923, by hs
son first part only published as yet Les G;rosdias
their prssts and public life, their prescription and
death, BY j. Gaudet, nephew Of the celebrated
Girondin representative Of that name; q Deblt
apology for the grand Danton, by cue of his family.