EFFECTS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 296, 31 March 1849, Page 3

EFFECTS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.

" In the National Assembly yesterday, two bills were introduced, which are itrong indications of the ruin produced in Paris by the revolution. By the first a supplementary giant of nine millions of fiancs (£360,000) i» granted from the public revenuei, to aisist the municipality ot Paris to support the vast mass of poor whom it hai now to feed : and, by the second, one million of francs (£40,000) is granted as an additional aid to the hospitals. Notwithstanding tin 1 large amount of the former of these sums, they will not co far towards supporting the vast number of people among whom it is to be distributed. By the report of the committee on the subject, it appears that until the month of March next there will be three bundled thousand individuals in Paris living on public chaiity. It is proposed that there should be distributee) to each mdiv dual only the miierable sum of fi.teen centimes (three halfpence) per day, and still the expenditure for each month will be 1,350,009 francs. Even at the«tt present day, the number of persons assisted amounts to 265,000, and every day adds to the number. For the next month, and three following, the number is expected to exceed 300,000 ; but it is to be h<>ped that in the month of April that number may be reduced to 28 ),000. At the end of yesterday's sitting, M. M arras fc in the name of the committee on the Constitution, announced the measures which it wai proposed to nilioduce under the rather vague title of " organic laws." It will be remembered tliut the Na ion<il Assecnblyhas determined that it will not give place to the ordinary Legislative Assembly of the Republic, as settled by the Constitution, until after the passing of these laws. — They are as follows :— l. On the responsibility of the depositions of the authorities ; 2. On the Council of State; 3. The electoral law j 4 On departmental and communal organization ; 5. On the judicial organization ; o'. On public instruction ; 7. On the organization of the public armed force and the National Gu.ird ; 8. On the press ; 9. On the state of siege."— Morning Chronicle, November Mth.j The Kind's Country Chronicle reports that on the 2nd November, Muj >r Phiubs, Staff-officer of Pension* ers, accompanied by Serjeant Grant, hi-, clerk, was proceeding on his car trom Parson's Town to Roscrea, for the purpose of issuing out the monthly pay to the out-pens oners, when they were attacked at Clonkeily by a patty of six or eijht men, all of whom were armed with blundm busses and pibto s. They stopped tlu car, presented arms, and demanded money. The B,'rgeant hesitating, one of the rufilins *>hot him through the heat. His death was niituntineous. They ihen took about jCISO in notes and silver from the Miijor and decamped. The Mnjor plated the body of Grant upon a cat , and drove to the military barracks about a mile distant. Diligent seaicb w^s made for the assassins, and four of them were takea. One of the four hud been already iried I'or shooting ac Gunners, steward to Mi Wnite of (Jharleville, n:id also for conspiiacy to minder Mi. White himself, but h d escnpid on account oi the juiy having disngrte<J liiite times.