PEACE EXPENDITURE IN FRANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 88, 15 April 1887, Page 7

PEACE EXPENDITURE IN FRANCE.

Rnma Devoted to Internal

mad a great deal lately about We ba ve rea<^ expendifcure of Frauce . f'r^ething about the equally pro- • • Deace expenditure, which a corresdigious^pea^ returnec j f rom France sends

UVr o fact more than another was needed B tfchePacific intentions of Fiance ' toSSe"ch people, it is the lavish ex- : B ndw IOJ- fjjjQ Government on works of :pe°dit a u n r d public utility. Now, ia it at all 'Pf tw a State bent on what must bo tnao modern world has seen, th6 yS!neTd n"Hi°ns of francs upon such wo uia "t^jjg erection of training schools .works *? .gibers, communal schools, new f or femalei on 3) the intersection of rural railway s ' moto f rO m the frontier by railB ifctany, for instance-tho embel-■vrays-J* enlargement of towns and cities> <* ng( j autumn to revisit certain i 1 W est-central and south-western If Vftfter an interval of ten years. The France anei marve llous. Take the Wlgf Infers (Marne and Loire), for incity ot c pj ace was , 10 i on g er vecogwhat with its new handsome ',nisa faainr suburb, "Le Quartier Victor ■$ Uare» its educational buildings, and other :H»f? 0' ts too numerous to mention. '"SfStotra of Saumur, Eugenic Gran- ']?> Lme has undergone a transformation • Wi startling- Tho entire region of La r^l thanks to the unsparing expendinf the most pacific and liberal Govern-. '""f France lias ever enjoyed, is metamorf«H in the same way. Ton years ago I f«vm«ed it by diligence, and very behindXIK I found it in many respects Now, ZL havo been opened in all direcfl schools have been built for both i i«« in the most remote districts—in fact, niflav spared for the promotion of m■s°^. and the benefit of the people gener■ll Jonfenay-le-Comtc, in the very heart * fLa Vendee, is another striking instance '« flSnfc Formerly, this little town, with ■w/ifctaresque but narrow streets, was mite lost to the world. It is now a hand-ImMiry-s l'aciou\ town V ti] "^ T" •ModioßS railway station, schools and other Scbnildings. The great importance ftt- ' Lied to the education of women is shown 'V V the erection of those handsome " Ecoles •Kales pour jeunes filles," the training •JUs for female teachers, we find in every tatftown or city, all of recent date. h faeti wherever you go in 1 ranee —and w annual visits among French friends ' taka me east, west, north, south—you come upon evidences of a pacific Government and o pacific people. My only wonder is that tho most credulous waders osn for a moment believe theboous-poouses of the "Daily News." Wlat Fiance desires ia potvee. M, Henri Martin's fourteenth volume of his French history has not been written in vain. im Vbe peasant knows the cruel irony conveyed in that word " Gloiro," which the Ducd'Aumale made use of the other day.— "Pill Mall Gazette."