The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-04-09

was bound for the same ports. II has since APP
peared that the report, regards the ships name,
was quite correct; but am glad TO say she has
been got OH, and s now In Bremen-haven.
Talking about steamers, ! was, yesterday, IN
formed that most important discovery-amount-
ing TO discovery indeed-had been effected in
machinery, and will be applied to the engines now
progressing for the new transatlantic steamers, the
Asia and Africa, and which, il is said, will work
wonders. The Europa reached the Nersey at
halt-past nine O'Clock, on Tuesday morning. She
had favorable weather, but her progress was sadly
retarded by ice, notwithstanding that she kept in
the latitude of Boston, hoping to escape IT.. On
her arrival here, her floats were in a sad condition.
several having been taken off as useless on the pas
cage; The Hermann is advertised to sail from
Southampton, on Monday next.
On Thursday next Jenny Lind is going to favor
us with another visit. On Thursday morning, at
10 O'Clock, the sale of tickets commenced, and |
may say ended; for within two hours it was an
nounced to those in waiting, who in number were
about 800, that 800 tickets had been sold Such
was the anxiety 10 procure tickets that most ex-
traordinary scene occurred. The street in which
the Collegiate stands is very wide one, yet such
was the attendance even at 9 A. M. that it was
rendered almost impossible, and gentlemen got so
angry with each other as almost to fight; and GER
tainly more persons went away disappointed than
SATISFIED In all probability, ut moderate prices, an
assemblage of 10000 persons would take place in
this town, # accommodation for so great a number
could be afforded, TO hear Jenny.
Flour imported from France has cut the legs off
the Americans. ne business done THIS week In
Western canal has been entirely on speculation.
Bacon very healthy Prices likely to be well
maintained.
Indian corn remarkably steady. Yellow is scarce.
Western canal is worth q 23s. Cd. Philadelphia
the came. Baltimore 24s 3d.; Ohio DIS.
Our Paris Correspondence.
PARIS, March %, lSi9
The Position Of FFance-7he Elections-F Fashion
Parties, &C., &C., f..
Within the last fortnight, there is but little do
mestic intelligence, of much Importance The 60
vemment has determined to maintain passive at
tude, far as is possible, until the convocation
of the new Assembly They are tired Of being
thwarted by the present Chamber, in which de-
cided majority exists against them; while this
majority dare not assume the responsibility of
government in accordance with its own
policy, knowing that the majority of the French
people is opposed to it. The electoral law, after
struggling through long, tedious. and frui,ess de-
bate, and being subject to amendments without
end, has at length passed, and We are now able to
fix de6nitively the moment Of the convocaton of
the new Assembly. According to the conditions
which have been adopted, that body will meet in
the last week Of May, at which time the functions
of the present Assembly will cease. Nothing can
be more amusing than the absurd, the singular,
manner in which, in this democratic country, and
under regime so ultra-democratc, the Assembly
has multiplied the disquallhcations which attend a
candidate for the Assembly. One would think,
that for the came that every French citizen is
tenacious Of his right voice in the choice Of the
representatives of the nation, he would be tenacious
equally of his right to become representative him.
self; but il is precisely the contrary Just in pro-
portion the right of suffrage is extended the right
variety of dieqnalifyng. conditions are considered,
it will seem difficult to find any person who will be
qualified to sit in the new Assembly. Every one
who, ia concerned in any enterprise, great or
cluded. Thus, all railway share holders are
excluded. 1t is even contended that all holders
in the funds, and, in short, every who is, d.
rectly or indirectly, connected with the State, and
who. receives any emolument from, by, or de-
pending on the State, is excluded. The absurdity
of all this is, however, go glazing, that 1t Is hoped
that it will cure itself, and thus the conditions will
be allowed to become obsolete.
Immediately after the adoption OF the electoral
law by the Assembly, the electoral committee Of
the parliamentary club of the Rue de Poitiers pub
lished it's manifesto, which you will see in the
l.ndon journals. This document is the produc..
ton Of NJ Thers sab1 commit composed OF
to prepare it. This document defines, in manner
sufficiently clear, the attitude assumed for the
present by the political parties in France All the
former shades of political opinion are now fused
~
the dc Potiers the parties Of order and disorder
The party calling itself that of order, and which is
identified with the club of the Rue. de Poiters,
consists of legitimists and monarchists, of every
shade. 1t includes nearly all those parties who
were represented in the old Chamber OF Deputies
by the extreme left. 1t includes the Henri Quin-
qustes, the Philippists, the partisans of the Re-
gency, with the Count dc Paris, and large portion,
wise dscordant elements have coalesced, and
raised &C mmon flag against socialism, cornmu-
nism, and red republicansm. But as the party
which may be called the sincere republic, or the
Republic of the Veille-that party, whose opinions
are rpoken in the National, could not, on the one
hand, bring itself to coaleece with such re.
pugnant elements. as constitute, the club OF
the Rue de Poitiers, and, on the other hand,
alone, it has, at least for the purposes of the
election, coalesced for the moment with the
party of the Mountain, the Red Republicans, So
cialists and Communists Repulsve as the doc.
republicans, they still republicans in all sincer-
ty and as such, less repugnant to the party of
the National than are the Monarchists of the Rue
de Poitiers. You see, then, the two parties into
dent that their conference cannot be either strong
or durable. They will hold together, however, for
the purpose of the elections, to this extent, that
the candidates to be advanced by the constituent
each other so to frtter away the strength of the
entire party by division. But after the Assembly
shall meet cannot be expected that this connec-
tion will be maintained. The moment that any
overt act is attempted, indicating tendency either
to imperialism on the one hand or to legitmatism
on the other, the moderate party as it calls ITSELF
will eplt into pieces; but, as opposed TO the social
ets and extreme republicans, this party Will pre-
sent moet imposing majority. 1t may be prema
ture now TO attempt to form an estimate Of the
amount Of such majority. The, Legitimists have
given out, as told you in my last, that they are
sure Of 900 seats. think, however, this is exagge-
rnted what is certain, however, is, that the ultra
republican and democratic parties will suffer an
immense loss in the coming, as compared with the
present, Assembly. The danger is, and, indeed
this is acknowledged by the moderate party itself,
that the ultra-democratc party will be so fully re-
presented in the Assembly, that il will resort to vio
in all the other fcci" of agitation which are 20
innumerable in the chief towns of France.
At TIE present moment, the ultra-democratic
party is suppressed in Paris ;the measures adopted
by the government to intmdate it are on so formi-
DIS ble a ecale that it does not raise its head