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

don, and is making quite sensation In the House
Of Lords. He had pretty severe "passage Of
cords" the other evening with Lords MALMsBURY
and MoNrEAeLE and the publication of his cores
pondence with M. CREMIEUx, the Provisional Mn
lister of Justice TO the French Republic. establishes
the fact that he applied for letters Of grand nau-
ralizaton," which would have given him the rights
of native Frenchman, including that Of seat in
the Assembly. M CREMIEUx explained to his lord
ship, in reply, that such naturalization could only
be granted on the condition that he would renounce
his rank privileges, and rights peer Of England
in that country for that France could not acknow-
ledge citizen so long as he should claim and exer-
else rights as British subject Upon this Lord
BRouGHAM withdrew his application.
In IRELAND the state of public NVking is certainly
camer and quieter. Addresses from important
bodies, having undoubted influence in their respec-
tive localities and expressing the greatest confidence
in Lord CLARENDON and the Government, continue
to pour into the Castle. The Grand Jury Of Cork
have not inapty closed their labors by combined
and unanimous declaration in favor of law and or
der. And an important address from the Presbyte-
rian clergy of the Synod of Antrim has been for
warded to his Excellency. There is no doubt but
that the bill for giving additional security to the
i Crown and Government will pass the House of
! Lords nearly, if not quite, unanimously. This act
has special reference to Ireland, and will have
salutary effect. Measures have commenced in Dub
lin for putting down the illegal drilngs and prac
Using military movements, which have been found
to exist there to considerable degree. Thirteen
individuals were arrested in one party. and other
smaller parties have been apprehended. Messrs.
/ O'BRIEN, MEAGHER, and MITCHELL are now on
trial for the sedtous practices with which they have
been charged.
FRANCE affords most copious theme Tor consi-
deration. The army will not much longer remain
imperative part Of the body polite in that coun
try, though it is hoped and believed tha its duties
will be strictly of conservative character. No
less than 10000 troops of the line will be in Paris
to-day and grand act of frafernizatitn is to take
place between them and the National Guard. They
are said to be well affected towards each other,
and if this piece of political mummery passes of
WE'LL the Provisional Government will be more
firmly established than ever. Gen. CHANeARNIER
has been appointed commander Of the troops of the
line in Paris. The duty Of these troops will be to
take the place which the National Guard has hith-
erto occupied and to protect the capital, the Gov
ernment and the citizens from the outbreaks OF
dissatisfied masses of the idle and worthless, and
the cabals and intrgues OF the leaders OF the Com
munist and other radical and ultra clubs. There
have always been two parties in the Provisional
Government from its first organization. The more
moderate party, possessing the confidence OF all
the friends of law and order in France, and the re-
spect of all the other foreign Governments, being
represented by NM. LAMARTINE, GARNER PAGES,
MARRAsT, &C., and the Communists or ultra De-
mocratic by NM. LEDRU RoLLIN, LOUIS BLANC,
ALBERT, and FLocoN. (ARAao and CARNoT occupy
middle ground.)
! The republican party existed no doubt long be-
fore it manifested itself the subverson of royal
| ty in February. The revolution was prepared.
The list of the Provisional Government was ready
when THEIRS and ODILoN BARRoT dreaming
of constitutional opposition, and mere change OF
Ministry, with long administration and possession
OF power under the regency OF the Duchess of Or
leans. 1t is highly probable that these enlightened
statesmen contemplated great amelorations in the
condition and institutions of France; but power
was not to pass into their hands. There was
craftier party behind the scenes, who were wide
awake TO the chances of the moment. They had
their lists prepared, their course marked out.
Neither Of the parties opposed TO them knew of
their movements. Nobody dreamed that LAMAR
TINE and GARNER PAGES had constructed Provi-
sional Government; the secret, though necessarily
confded to a number of persons, was well kept.
When Paris rose to demand the dismissal Of Mr.
GurzoT this party sought the expulsion Of the King
When THEIRS and BARRoT offered terms from the
barbados the republicans demanded further con-
cessions; and when, in the Chamber Of Deputies,
hC dSOcSoiOu vi Lllt OOuHt DE AXIS anu Iegen-
cy Of the Duchess Of Orleans were about TO be pro-
claimed, LEDRU RoLLIN demanded and obtained
Provisional Government of his own naming This
Government was not baoted for they were not
appointed by the voice Of the moment; there was
nothing Of accident in the affair. Ii was all the
result Of generalization and design. Now, cons-
dering all things, this Provisional Government has
done wonders we have stated that it has commit
ted great errors but, trust, not fatal ones. The
star Of LAmARTISE is yet in the ascendency, and is
now shining with greater brilIiancy than ever. He
has kept on in his with wonderful constancy
and courage. He has not aimed to acquire per-
sopal popularity at the expense of principle, either
at home or abroad. He has opposed the Danger
Gus course OF LEDRU RoLLIN and his section Of the
Government, and has refused to listen to the de.
mands Of the Communists; and his replies to the
Poles, the Germans, the Irish, and the Begians
have been dsinterested and as noble as sound
public judgment and high chivalric private honor
could dictate. The constancy and high principle
OF LAMARTINE have so far carried him successfully
forward all the moderate men of the Provisional
Government adhere to him. Even MARRAsT, the
stern republican mayor Of Paris, and others Of his
caste, who stand halfway between the bougeoisie
and the people, have rallied round LAnARrrNE, and
left the anarchists TO depend upon the clubs and the
professional revouonists. These latter attempted
to commence an emeufe on Sunday, but the drum
was beat by order of LAMARTINE, and two hundred