Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-12-23

from collecting troops in Paris previous to the out
break in June, and purposely delayed making use
of them, until the insurrection was at its height, in
order that he might acquire more honor in restor-
ing tranquility, and consequently greater claim
10 the Presidency of the Republic. This, in fact,
was the burden of all the accusations which NM.
ST. Hilaire, GARNER Pages, Vagnerre, Duclerc. and
Ledru Roin did bring forward on the day of dis
cussion. TO such a tissue of caumny and absurd
ity, General Cavaignac found no difficulty in reply
inc. He spoke for more than three hours in his
usual straightforward and soldierlike manper He
receives great praise in the Paris journals for the
talents as a speaker which he exhibited his man.
ner was calm, quiet firm, and dignifed, yet rising
at times into great energy and dignity his address
has won for him golden opinions, even from his
opponents, and has proved him to be man Of much
higher powers than he had previously received
credit for The discussion ended with vote Of
confidence, moved by the father of the house, M.
DUioNT, (de pEure,) and carried by 504 votes
against 49, There were l45 members present who
did not vote, and 205 members absent on leave |;
the greater part of whom vote usually for General
Cavaignac. II the whole number of deputies (900)
had been present and voted the result would pro-
baby have exhibited nearly the same proportionate
numbers. The event is great triumph for Gen.
Cavaignac and his friends, and has made the elec-
ton more uncertain than ever. A million of copies
of the Generals speech has been subscribed for to
circulate through the departments; and M. DE La
MARITIME is said to have decidedly Withdrawn from
the contest transferring his support to General Ca
vAIGNAc, with promise Of the Vice Presidency Of
the Republic. LOUIS NAPOLEON has published
very calm and quiet but yet almost unmeaning e.c-
pose of his principles it will not help his cause
The report is very strong again that in case OF his
election, M. THEIRS win receive carte blanche to
form the administration; and that the Prince IS
about to issue sort of at captaadum address TO
the working classes, stating that labor and good
wages will be provided for them, by the resumption
of the work on the railways and other unfinished
public undertakings. CAvAIGNAc's star is now un-
doubtedly in the ascendant, but many changes may
take place during the ten days which have veto
elapse before the election.
The finances of France are in deplorable con-
dition every new statement shows them worse
than the last preceding one. The customs have d.
minished more than twenty live per cent since Oc-
tober lS47. Importations of every kind, except
raw cotton, exhibit enormous diminutions. The
expectations with the exception of those articles
which bounty has been paid, are in the same po-
sition The falling off in the commercial shipping
amounts to one million Of tons.
It is difficult to epitomize the news from GERMA-
NY. The three points of interest are Berlin, Vien
ma, and Frankfort. As respects the first, and the
affairs of Prussia generally, we only know that the
Assembly has not withdrawn its demand that the
troops in Berlin should be dismissed, with the un
derstanding that peace and order having been re-
established in that city, the Assembly shall not be
transferred to Brandenburg. Deputations from
Coblentz, Cologne, and Treves have expressed the
same desire, and further that the King should dis
miss his present unpopular Ministry, and supply
Its place with one that shall possess the confidence
of the people. The number of Deputies to the
Assembly at Berlin amounts to nearly 800; and
they have received upwards Of one thousand adj
dresses, urging them TO remain firm in their oppo-
sition to the Court party. The King appears, from
the last news which has been received, TO insist
upon the Assembly meeting at Brandenburg, and it
is reported that l4O members Of the Right, several
peasants who belong to the Left, and some Roman
Catholic ecclesiastics, members of the Assembly,
have met there in obedience to his Majesty. The
majority still holds out at Berlin, and the proceed
ings at Brandenburg are, of course, of no effect
The dissolution of the Brandenburg Ministry and
the meeting of the Assembly at Berlin are declared
to be the only terms to which the Deputies at Ber-
lin will agree. Dusseldorf, Mainz, and Breslau
in state little short of rebellion and disaffec
ton is evinced in some of the regiments of the lne
Mr.. Won GAoERN, the talented President of the
Central Parliament at Frankfort, has arrived at
Berlin. 1t is said that he has been called there by
the King to form new administration for Prussia.
He states himself that his visit is merely one Of
curiosity, that he may the actual state of affairs
and Judge for himself. He has had an interview
with the King. Nothing less than business Of
great importance can have taken him to Berlin.
1t is very unsafe to assert any thing about Aus
TRIA. 1t seems to be certain, however, that the
Austrian Diet has assembled at the small town Of
Kremsier, in obedience to the Emperor's CON-
mands, but under protest that neither the Crown
nor the Ministry has the right 10 remove the Diet
at its pleasure. They have assembled at Kremser,
they say, that their refusal to do might not aug
ment the troubles at Vienna. One OF their first
acts was to re-elect M. SMoLKA their president;
not very palatable election, we suppose, to the
Court party, seeing that he had been the President
Of the Diet whilst it in opposition to the En-
peror at Vienna. The members Of the Left of the
Diet assembled at Kremsier have resolved to vote
unanimously against adhesion to Germany, and to
testify no sympathy whatever with the Frankfort
Parliament The distress Of the working classes
at Vienna was becoming so intense that notwith-
standing the severe laws against associations and
assemblages, the laborers in the suburbs have be-
gun to form clubs, and numbers have been arrested
for attending them. The feeling in well-informed
political circles is, that the Courts Of ST. Peters
burgh, Omutz, and Potsdam-in other words, those
OF RUSSIA, AUSTRIA, and PRUssrA--have formed
" holy alliance" The Emperor of Russia evident
iy approves Of what has been done at Vienna, for
he has written highly complimentary autographic