24 AUGUST 1867, Page 2

The reform expected in Paris for some days has appeared,

and 'turns out to be a decree authorizing an expenditure of eight millions in ten years on country roads, which ought to have been built years since, and would have been built but for excessive centralization. Paris is not grateful, and even the communes think ten years a long while to wait for an improvement which the departments if left tolerably independent would effect in two. They remember also that the Emperor made a similar promise eight years ago, and it has not been fulfilled yet.