Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1876-08-12 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE FRENCH BUDGET. body with the rest. After withstanding for some time The French Budget, says a Paris correspondent; is the most terrible tortures, the poor priest signed a now being discussed—a budget which exceeds written declaration such as his tormentors dictated. £100,000,000, and is, therefore, worth talking about. They then conducted him on his way, but before In the reign of Louis Philippe the budget amounted reaching Bazardjik the unfortunate man was beaten to a. inilliard, or £40,000,000, and M. Thiers exclaimed almost to death. He was sent on from Bazardjik to those who appeared astonished at the amount, to this city, and here before the Imperial Commis- ; " Salute the milliard, for you will never see it again"— sioners he avowed that the confession was false, and meaning that the budget would go on rising. How- bad been extorted from him under fear of immediate ever, the veteran statesman little thought he should death. After this avowal he was subjected to cruel live to see Ministers asking formore than two milliard. tortures. Heavily ironed, he was confined two days in and a-half, and the country able to supportthe burden a cell with murderers, after which he was broughi out jointily. 'The milliard, too, was considered an enor and ordered to reaffirm his former confession. He mous sum under the Restoration. When it was pro-' stoutly maintained that it was false, and be was acposed to accord that amount to the emigres who cordingly placed in the toumrouk (a kind of pillory) had been despoiled of their property during the with an iron hook under his chin, in which Revolution, General Foy, the gallant and Liberal wretched condition he was allowed to remain leader, exclaimed—" A milliard! Why, a milliard ,of seven days. At length, as nothing further seconds have not elapsed since the death of Christ." could be extorted from him, he was placed with Although this calculation was found to be true, the the other prisoners, and after an imprisonment in all £40,000,000 we:e granted. Since the war we have of thirty-five days he was released more dead than become familiarised with milliards. The war in- alive and allowed to return to his home." There demnity amounted to live milliards, and the whole follows after this the account of the violation and war cost nearly ten milliards and now there are murder of five young girls which is hadly fit for pubtwo milliards lying in the Bank of France in hard lication. The correspondent gives many more statemetal. What a change since the days of the meats all to the like effect, and made by persons on Revolution, whei. bad government had reduced whose word he places confidence. the country to the verge of ruin, when half The Times correspondent at Therapia, writing on the population, on the brink of starvation, refined to ' the same subject, says: The complaint of the Bulmarry, preferring to die childless to bringing up a garians is that inoffensive labourers in the fields family to suffer as they suffered. In parts of France; were butchered in cold blood, long after every now teaming' with wealth, and where poverty is sin- trace of the insurrectionary struggle had dinknown, hdif the peasants never tasted bread. Now ' appeared, and in districts where there had never France is a mine of gold and silver, and if the people been even the shadow of a disturbance; that old were less restless and more enterprising, they could men, women, and children had been burnt in their soon be twice at; rich as they are at present. Foreign cottages; that women had been subject to nameless war, domestic broil, inundations, and the phylloxera , outrages, and that boys and girls had been sold as seem hardly to affect them, ao great is the vitality of I slaves at Adrianople, at Philippopolis, and even at the nation, owing to wonderful natural wealth and Constantinople, and submitted to the worst infamies habits of thrift, which disgrace soms of the Turkish harems. The  •