The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-02-06

he invited the President, Vice President and Sccre.
taries Of the National Assembly to grand dinner
party, where, am informed by one OF hess last
gentlemen, Marrust brought out Toast 10 tno m,i-
fual good understanding Of the President and the
National Assembly. Undoubtedly, to-morow's ses-
sion, concerning the proposition OF certain Mr..
Rateau for the dissolution Of the National Assembly
will bring things 10 crisis and my next viii inform
you of the solution OF this very momentous question.
In Italy tho state Of public affairs has not chan
ged since asti the Pope Is still at Gaea, while
ut Rome the Democratic party, not daring openly
10 declare the Republic, calls together Deputies of
all the States to form Constituent Assembly for
the Confederation of Italy. The Catholic powers,
on their side plot an intervention in the Pope's
States, 10 restore him to his temporal power.
| In Lombady, Radetzsky behaves as the Russians
did In Polandi the Italian papers make, indeed,
Isnch noise about the irritation OF the population;
but what can you expect OF II population of whom
AIassimo d'Azeglio, one OF their best political wri-
tcrs gives the following description: 99 out OF 100
Italians, very short time ago, had other idea
about politics than the following; one side they
place the Carbonar, who serve the devil on the
other side the Pope and the Princes, who send the
Carbonan to the devils dominions. In the midst of
boh there Is Austria which puts all things right as
| a sort Of Deus ex machina." ifyou tell a peasant
that the Austrians to be driven out Of Italy he
will answer you, "Benissimo ma che mettere ia
reee di lorop' VERY well; but who will you put in
their placeD
where they will be beaten again. In Naples and
Sicily the mediation OF England and France has
been failure and since England has received the
declaration Of the Emperor OF Russia that he would
consider every impedment which France and Eng
land would put against an expedition of the King 1f
Naples to Sicily cdsus bef she prudently retir s
from that business and, France neither willing nor
able TO act alone, Sicily will be occupied at least for
| a time by the Neapoitan army. In Spain and Pog-
ugal the Chambers assembled and still occupied
in discussing the answer to their Queens speeches.
Cabrera, the Carlist Chief, who was said TO have
gained . notorious victory. rambes still about tho
mr. afne Ivf lie rfnU hmm In ~
matters turn more and more 10 n schism betwe, n
Austria and the Confederation Of the minor Stat 8,
who finally will be very happy TO have at their head
the King OF Prussia, after having said so much
against him. Or course Austria will not submit to
1t quietly nor resign her Influence over Germ N.Y.
and thus we are TO expect conhagration in the
heart OF the very Same country which announced so
pompously Its firm intention OF forming one German
Empire.
Russia, in the meanwhile, concentrates her whole
army on her Western and Southern boundaries, In
orderto be ready at the first signal 1t Is true there
are many rumors about a vast instruction of the
scrfs in the interior Of the Empire but these certain
| ly are but inventions. .,s2
The new Pacha Of Egypt Abbas has been recog-
nized BY the Sultan, ana has gone 10 Constantlnore
i TO pay his homage TO his suzeran.
The famous cx-Minister OF Louis Philippe has
written new work on Democracy In France, which
appeared yesterday in the market In which this
inent man shows how passion and presumption an
initiate the greatest mental powers for really he
speaks OF Democracy in the same manner us the
French Academy Of Science expressed itself in its
report on Fultons immortal discovery treating II as
IN enthusiastic and nonsenscal dream.
| You remember the promise which Louis Bona
parties agen made to the electors in order to get
their voes-namey, that all duties should be abol-
ished This promise begins to bear Its fruits; the
duty which the wine merchants pay, known under
the Of dssise and which requires personal in
qury Of the officers into the cellars Is one OF
the most odous it had been abolished after the Rev.
olution In February, but since that again taken up.
Now, the wine merchants oppose violently this visit
of the officers and the riot has become 80 serious
this very day In all the suburbs Of Paris that
siderable military force and two legons OF National
Guards have been sent there.
This days sitting in the National Assembly pre-
the singular discovery that the newly voted bill
for the abolition OF the salt tax will have the contra
ry effect, for while II dmnishes 10 great sum the
receipt Of the Eachcquer, the price eff the merchan-
disc will rice on the MARKET since the demands will
be much increased that tho price of the salt itself
| cannot remain low the more So as the Commission
asks that the duty on foreign salt instead of franc
! as voted, be augmented 10 u francs.
/ Your California gold begins to turn the heads OF
our people. Not only, You know, are there special
expeditions sent out from London but there Is a
company which formed itself at Havre, and which
invites to-day emigrants to Join the expedition about
to be sent from that seaport direct San Francisco
| you viii have as many Frcnchmen there as went TO
Algiers. Some of these, however, have already re-
turned, giving the most awful descriptions of their
nation will never be fit for coonzing H. H.