Inina.—The new Boulevard "Malesherbes" was opened on Wed- nesday by
the Emperor in person. It is a magnificent road round the north of Paris, and, like all the new boulevards, is intended to divide Paris into blocks, eat surrounded by broad thoroughfares, along which troops can be readily moved, and which communicate with the exterior boulevard and the broad space left by the removal of the old barrier walls. The new boulevards have no paving- stones, and the ancient points of attack, the Tuileries and the Hotel de Ville, are completely isolated. The Reds, therefore, will be compelled to abandon their old tactics, which were to turn the more crowded faubonrgs into fortresses, defended by barri- cades, while movable columns attacked the seat of the general and the municipal government. The precautions taken are ab- solutely perfect, provided the troops consent to act, but they afford no guarantee against an &mile favoured by the troops, or an insurrection among the troops themselves. The proceedings of the day commenced by an address presented by M. Haussmann, Prefect of the Seine to the Emperor, in which, after describing the origin of the boulevard, which was originally projected by Napoleon L, he denied that the lower classes had been deprived of their domiciles by the pressure of improvements. If the tax lists of 1861 be compared with those of 1860, it-will be found that the categories of tax payers have increased in the following manner : 671 additional apartments have been taxed in the category of 1500f. rent and upwards ; 330 more from 1000f. to 1500f.1030 more from 500f. to 1000f. ; and 5270 more from 250f. to 500f. The number of those not exceeding 250f., and which are exempt from taxes, have increased by 1922. He averred that the improvements induced the multiplication of houses on new points, and that the rise of rents complained of in Paris was general throughout France, and coincided with an increase of half a million in the population of the capital. The Emperor, in his reply, adverted to the increase of 200 per cent. in the export of articles de Paris which has followed the French treaty, and praised the arrangements under which the poor are to be relieved from the water rate, and the price of bread is kept down at a fixed minimum. He also urged on the municipality the reduction of their taxes on articles of the first necessity. Immediately after the ceremony, his Majesty left for Chalons, to attend a review given to the King of Sweden. Considerable interest has been excited in France by the visit of the King of Sweden, who it is supposed is anxious to secure support for his project of a union between the three Scandinavian crowns. This project, rendered more feasible by the fact that the present King of Denmark has no direct heirs, is impeded by the extreme reluctance of Danes and Swedes to give up the capital. The true capital of the North is Copenhagen, but the Swedes desire to retain the seat of go- vernment in Stockholm, and seem disposed to make this condition a precedent. The Paris correspondent of the Times repeats his story that the director of the Sevres factory has been forbidden to execute work for the Orleans family, and in proof publishes the original letter of refusal : "Imperial Manufactory of Sevres, June 18. " Sir,—If I waited so long before replying to the order which you
have sent me for the execution at the manufactory of Sevres of a certain number of articles to complete a service executed at Sevres for the late King Louis-Philippe, it is because I have been obliged to demand of the Minister of the Imperial Household the permission to accept the order. Now, this permission has been refused me. I regret much to have to announce to you this fact, but I have no alternative but to obey. the orders which are given me.
"Receive, &c.,
" V. REGNAULT, Director."
The case of the Comte-de Chambord v. the heirs of the late Marquis
de Villette, has concluded. The Marquis left his property, worth about 40001. a year, really to tie heir of the elder branch, nominally to the Bishop of Montreuil. The heirs contested the will, and the court decided that as the property was really left to a personage who could not inherit in France, the bequest was null and void. The trial excited great interest, from the ability of the advocates em- ployed and the standing of the litigants.
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