Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-06-27
NATIONAL INTELLlGENCER.
MISCELLANY.
PARIS, MAY 30, 1916.

and heavy personal sacrifices are often necessary
for the most competent citizens who consent to be
Deputies The most eligible are deferred by them.
We certain that we fall short of the truth when
we say that at least twenty of our electoral col
sleges, who now send Ministerial Deputies, would
prefer certain persons of the Opposition party as
candidates if they could be prevailed on to stand.
The Constitutional argues that the destinies OF
France depend on the elections in August. COM
binaon against the Guizot Cabinet is forming, OF
all the divisions of malcontents, Legitimsts and
Republicans included The pertinacious exclusion
from the Royal counsels of every politician not OF
the present Ministerial majority, begets even in the
dynastc Opposition leaders, that degree OF despite
and disappointment which reconciles them to all eX-
tremties.
On the 22d instant The Legitimists held in Paris
what they denominate Congress of the Reform
ing Press the editors in chief of all the journals of
the Right, of Paris and the provinces. to the num-
Der of thirty three, were present, at the residence
Of LARocHEJAouELEIN, the Vendean zealot. The
most eminent of the party-not Of the press-at-
tended the sittings. They issue a programme in
the shape of report, acknowledging the principles
of popular freedom; all securities for equal rights
in Short all that the liberalism of France could de-
sire, except the old Dynasty. The spirit of the old
regime strikes to that of the new age. So would it
have been in Spain by this time if Don CARLOS had
established himself in Madrid. 1t can scarcely be
denied that regularly constituted and firmly organ
lied despotism, absolute monarchy, would be
better for Spain or Portugal than the recent success
sion Of arbitrary anarchical, and rapacous govern
ments-the whole being mere strife Of factions,
intrgues, and military rivalry and license. The alb
soute rulers in the north of Europe would not dare
attempt what the Spanish and Portuguese habtually
practice. 1t difficult to decide which situation
is the worst, that of one OF other of the kingdoms
of the Peninsula. We have the most dismal ac-
counts of Portugal, and the foreign writers at Mad
rid agree that Spain is the eve of events quite as
melancholy any which have occurred since the
death of Ferdinand VII.
The report of the Attorney General OF the exam
nations and impressions of the Committee of Peers
in the case of Lecomte, who attempted the life OF
LOUIS PHILIPPE, on the 9th ultimo, fills page and
halt of the Journal DIES Debats of yesterday. It
is most comprehensive and able exposition, adj
mirably suited to French appetite and apprehension
for such documents. The committee could detect
no evidence, no traces of regcide conspiracy :
they were bound to conclude, against all presump-
ton a priori, that the culprit alone in his en-
terprise. After conviction and sentence, he may
be brought to disclosures which will subsantiate the
general probability of plot. The report shadows
out, towards the end, doubts and misgivngs Ii
can interpret some of the manuscripts Of Lecomte
only by the predominance OF violent political pas
sions. These belong naturally prompt to asso-
scrbed as of black misanthropy, moody meditation,
wild fanaticism, but strong intelligence clear dis
course, and steadlast purpose. He unfolded his
griefs, motives, and acts in the most direct and lu
cid manner. We shall have dramatic trial next
week. The National contends that the dignitaries
about the King, TO whom Lecome's letters were adj
dressed, might have been struck with the rage and
danger which they betrayed, and should have
tracked and watched the writer. Their entire neg
IF cba,pc hiatt tho
ill-served and that his great funconaries are to
be deemed virtually the accomplices of the crime,
rather than Mr.. THEIRS, with his speeches about
the royal monopoly of power
On Wednesday LOUIS PHILIPPE had narrow
escape from injury. One of the eight horses Of his
carriage fell the rest in full trot, tumbled over il,
with the positions, pele mele; the vehicle was up
held by instant aid from outriders and the retnue,
in the courtyard gate of the Tuileries, which the
accident happened. The King manifested no fear !;
the Queen much alarm.
A journalist remarks that if Providence is seen
to rescue LOUIS PHILIPPE, there may be inferred
like special protection of ABD-EL-kADER, whose
horse is killed under him, in the official bulletins,
in every engagement, but who always clears the
field and his pursuers by the feetness of another,
and seems to be endowed with ubiquity as well as
velocity. Various estimates, or less authori-
tative of the number Of the Arabs, have been pub
lished from time to time. The Minister of War
has Just distributed to the Chambers the grand Ia
bleau view Of the establishments in Algeria. The
following statistics from that claim credit
ssIt appears from il that the native population in the
parts examined by the Arab bureau amounts the pro-
Of Constantine ,046 7l6 souls in that Of Agers
$780, 6s and that Of Oran AZ, 1884, giving total
l9s39s The whole population in Algeria, TELL and Sa-
hara estimated at 000 900 at least Demands made,
in ls45 the Minister Of the Interior for concessions land
the number Of 1896, BY French subjects and Of 1873 by
foreigners the demands made the Minister Of War
important The French families demanding emgrate
464 in number, and their reach the sum
1901, 359 f the foreign families SIZE in NUMBER and
their property 1856, 95fr The civil population
ais had increased in December 81 s45 g. the ag
cultual population in the establishments founded the Go
vernment amounts s2 Not less than 81 Q09 orders
for gauitous passages issued s45 by the Minister
Of War"
In one Of the recent debates of the Chamber Mr..
GuIzoT was summoned TO explain the contrarety
in the dispositions and proceedings of the British
and French Cabinets towards the Colett Govern
ment in Greece. He answered that they concurred
when MAvRocoRDATo was the colleague of CoLErTI;
but since the exclusive sway Of the latter the Bri-
tish Cabinet was alienated and determined by the
representations of its diplomatic agents at Athens,
which were utterly at variance with those of the
French He trusted, however, that his friends on
the other side Of the channel would be, ere long,
dsabused, and Lord ABERDEEN propitiated. The