Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-05-13


glorious day nevertheless the facility Of the immense sonvo
cation inspires dsuus greater than the confidence which the
result is represented as 6t to inspire.
About ten days ago my attention attracted by crowd
on the Place Vendome, to the machless monument
proved be procession Of eight hundred needlewomen
nearly all young headed by officer Of the Polytechnic
School, who were going petition the Government for work
In national grand afeler for the alone Under heavy
shower Of rain and with sorry habments, these poor
lures seemed quite gay, if engaged in roc The next
morning encountered in the Rue ST. Honoe band of young
women two and two. saunteringa sort of parade in imi.a
ton of the manifestations Of the workmen, which has often
been witnessed since On the Sd instant it became
~ as YOU viii see in Gagnans Messenger to exert force
for the dispersion Of several hundred ohem who were squea
ing, Down with Lamarine down with Madame Lamar
tine ~ with whose dspensation of they had quaree
Their leader youthful dandy richly ustaehioed, and
armed with pistols.
The death Of M. Guizos MOTHER in London is circum-
stance which touches me- because had often enjoyed his
hotel the aged danes perfect happiness in the seeming
cenden prosperity her and the bright prospects Of her
three fine grandchildren The chagn Of the sudden reverse
and the fatigue Of her flight to England too much for
her eighty years You form idea of the number
Of affecting cases of adversely in the circles with
whom had established pleasant and valuable intercourse
during ten successive winters The whole world which
beonged-poe literary scientific, artistic, broken up
part Of the individuals the greater indeed yet visible
but how changed in their circumstances, their looks their
Spirits their hopes They know not how to shape their lives
whittier direct their steps what is to be their fate that
Of their country All abstract philosophy and all the higher
studies must be regarded under eclipse though not
ban persecution.
The public experienced terrible depreciation the Sd
instant among the assigned is the report Of serious
misunderstanding between the British and French Govern
mens not all probable The vast mob in the Champ de
Mars may have operated strongly the market The shares
Of the Bank Of France further down, although its loan
Of fifty millions of francs, exchange Of that sum for exche
quer bills does materially affect its general proportion of
specie paper. The dscredt POLITICAL is calculated
still that the silver and gold coin circulating in Europe does
not exceed by than third the amount in France.
Heavy failures in Rhensh Prussia and several Of the large
commercial cities Of Germany The French national
discount offices do much busnessather precarous may
conjecture. An exaiddecamp Of Louis Philippe, General
de Chabonne protests in the newspapers that his old master
had placed funds abroad, and saved nothing at home
France is utterly ncreduous. Some four five
ago. had occasion propose his Majesty the purchase
Mr. Dunns splendid Chinese collection, then in London
Count Montalve in various conferences the subject al
ways assured me that the King could afford the ask
ed that the civil list and pvy purse in of debt
The collection duly priced the acquisition Of il really de-
sed-a million Of francs less could not however, be
spared by any possibility Most Of the endless carcaures Of
Louis Philippe which divide the gaze Of the Partisan,
founded notions of his supendous wealth and Unsuitable
avarce believed in the personal nvarce the wealth
was universal persuasion Ii may be that the Orleans fami
y altogether possessed considerably less than their repue
their share certainly inodnate earned by labor
correspondent merits-ke that Of all the royal Stocks the
gradual accumulation upon whom national wrong and
curse.
The list of Paris clubs extendsto two hundred They
have dispatched than FIVE hundred emissaes into the
provinces who act upon the people in the elections by
universal suffrage for the National Assembly Protests have
been numerousy signed Nanz and in of the large
Cities against the meeting Of this body in Paris, where,
alleged there can be no real freedom Of discussion and de-
liberation. friend Of mine, last week, asked Berger the
prime orator of the French bar and of legitimacy what he
thought of the National Assembly. 81 thinking" he
answered. whether there viii be National Assembly"
portion the Paris clubs and journals have roundy declared
that they will have such convention without overwhelm
ing republican majority, and constitution other than de-
mocracy The National of the I'd instant observes We
know what the Of universal suffrage will YIELD because
Of the win Of the countrydans la force meme
des ehoses-by the very force Of circumstances Among
these may lay considerable the unlimited unqua-
lifted efforts Of departments three Of the Provisional
Government and Of the radical committees and clubs to in
mdate battle, crush, in the Provinces opposition to their
candidates, the republicans of the day before the revolution
those Of the day after being prescribed well as the old
conservatives and egms who have embraced the
gospel" The dscord about anecedent and exclusive epub
canism prevails far and wide shall proceed to translate
for you few paragraphs from southern paper Of much
thoriy by which you may collect the sentiments in
the INTERIOR and almost sufficient apprehension
in many quarters that the provinces may bid defiance to the
capital expc the commissares put them by the Proy
ona Government and all its other functionares with
its laws and Innovations and elect constituent assembly to
sit in Of the large central provincial cities. This would
be civil for Paris Uod NOT abdca,e without desperate
struggle.
"There in France thirty three millions Of inhabitants
Of whom very little account il TAKEN in consequences Of the
sad system Of Capitalization. Forty thousand
chained by the commune of Paris and IL is this commune
that has the arrogance to impose her yoke France
she formerly did, IL is only necessary listen little, and
observe what passing TO know how insolent the pre-
tensions Of this eldest sister Of forty thousand Others of which
the fraternity is quite despiscd.
els said, In fact loud enough for every body tohear
that If the choice Of the provinces for the National Assembly
Is not agreeable TO the Of Paris the representatives
will be thrown out Of the windows No despo has held
brutal language Never have any people, ancient or
MODERN been insuted by some bully who in
more detestable manner
But this all insult does not suffice this depotc
commune requires ses attached to the soil and behold