Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-01-12
DIRECT FROM PARIS.

| The following extracts are made from Mr..
WALsH's latest letter from Paris to the Journal of
Commerce. 1t is dated the 18th ultimo:
The National Assembly have passed the bill to allow the
votes at the elections be taken each township instead of
the obligation to keep the polls only the chief town Of the
Cantona district large number of the rural voters could
not Afford were no, disposed travel far for the enioy
ment of their franchises approach will be made TO
universal suffrage by which the parties composing the agge
gate OF the Moderate or Conservative hope profit con-
siderable extent Lists of substitution the provincial pub
lie offices appear almost daily in the Moniteur There are
eghtysx projects, four hundred sub-prefec and thirty
thousand mayors all of whom may correspond and CO.
operate for the aims of the Government.
Uneasness has been created here by the belgerent pro-
ceedngs of the French in the Sandwich Islands, The fear
arose Of some aggavaon of the Poussn aon in the feel
ing which such proceedings would naturally excite in the
United States But the French Government did not prompt
nor is it likely to applaud Consul Dillon.
The cholera has appeared Sia East and carried
OF thirty thousand within radius Of thirty miles, It is van
ishng from Algeria The defence Of the fortress or rather
block house, OF ZaacG in the province of Constantine by
the Aabs rivals that OF Saragossa The Arabs alive when
the French entered by stolm-eight hundred preferred
death to surrender When this fact and the suspension of
the heads of the chiefs at the the French tents
communicated to the Assembly by Minister of War
strong emotion ensued il of Arab devotedness and of
regret and some shame for the havoc and the exhibition by
the French. ..". .......
AS to Germany we know that diplomatic notes have been
exchanged, and that large armies have been collected bat
ignorant Of the real purport of the one and the pur
pose OF the oher nor have any certain knowledge of
what has passed at Cosannope in the Auso Russian and
Turkish question.
The Sublime Porte has dispatched to Plus TX congatu-
la'ons on the result ohs French siege of Rome and wishes
for the speedy eesabshment of the Ponca throne Po-
pua agtaons at Vienna in consequence Of the suppression
OF seven evening papers, reported Geographic des
patch from Berlin of the lth Instant The report doubted.
Our weather. for the four five days past, has been c
meriaa-very dark, besides being sharply cold little rain.
We can scarcely use the pen by moonlight ia the most open
situations. :.",. .s,c. #..
prodigous distribution of the insignia of the Legion of
Homer through all the grades made the 10th and lh
uimo by President Louis Napoleon, large to merit Of
every kind, for the anniversary of his election.
Letters from Rome of the 4th umo state that the period
Of the return of the Pope to that capital still uncertain
He had given interviews at Naples the French
commander, who remained to pursue his object.
On the 9th utimo, in Piedmont, all minds occupied
with the crisis Of the general elections To be not to be-
for the Constitution the National Independence. The
little kingdom was like that of Nan, described by shak-
speare r...@ .,a.. ~
The old question Of rendering obligatory the observance of
the Sabbath rather abstinence from labor on that day,
under the consideration of the Assembly the 10th
ultimo II was referred to the Ministers.
The French speakers and writers who plead most earnestly
that the working classes afford keep holy the Sab
bath day-ha they do they and their families must
sarveae precisely those who ince those classes to public
meetings and associations and to the Reorganization of clubs
and dram shops by which half the week is lost The work
sacrifices Monday owing his dissipation (no to his
labor) on Sunday.
The committees Of the Assembly have reported against
tax the stock, (La Renfe) the ground that it would
be virtually reduction of interest," and thus breach Of faith;
mpoc measure in causing capitalists able to help the
State by loans keep aloo The Minister of Finance urged
that this particularly the time the opportune for the
risk.
The Assembly about to pass bill for the restoration
their of the Judges OF the Court OF Accounts who
removed by the Provisional Government Judicial in
volatility maxim which has taken firm root in the French
mind The Reggie gets 900 pounds Of tobacco this
from Algeria One of the highest unctionaIies, Mr.. lie
Bechu has been delegated promote the culture, and has
published the whole treatment of the planting.
Progress reported cotton and the silkworm The
oils of every kind are likely to be abundant.
The Pope and Tuscany have acceded the
of Austria, Modena, and Parma.