Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-08-31
FROM OUR Paris CORRESPONDENT

PARIS, AUGUST g., 1850.
The National Assembly, SO far as legislation is
concerned, may be said 10 have adjourned yester-
day. It has been voting, without serious discus
sion, under high pressure, the bills which seemed
most Urgent during the past week. Yesterday
fifteen public bills, to say nothing Of those of pri-
vate and local character, were passed. It is merely
for form sake that unimportant order Of the day
is fixed for to-day, tomorrow, and the next day.
The members are already dispensing. On the llth
there will hardly be quorum in the capital. One
of their last acts regulates the press in the French
colonies, giving to the Governor the power of sus
pension over the journals in certain cases, to be
Judged Of by himself. It is hardly worth while to
notice this as another violation Of the constitutional
rights Of French citizens. member of the Noun
tain closed the session by the offer Of resolution
requiring the Minister of the Interior to have pre-
pared during vacation statistical tables showing the
resuin all the departments Of the lately passed cleo
toral law with view Of founding upon those tables
proposition for the repeal of that law. The majo-
rty summarily adjourned the consideration of this
proposition till the meeting of the Assembly in No
vember next.
The project of forming camp of twelve thou
sand men at Versailles has been abandoned, after
considerable progress had been made in the con-
struction Of the works. The Constitutional (Which is the
semocia jounaD says that the camp has been given up
because the necessities of the budget would allow the Pre-
sdent treat the troops with the beray exercised upon SINH
lar occasions by LOUIS PHrIrrrE Other journals however
attribute it to the opposition manifested in the Assembly,
caly by Gen. OuDIsor and even in the Cabinet itself In
deed, much gossip, which have thought worth while
to report YOU has circulated during the last fortnight touch
ing the camp Versailles among other that twas forsooh
to be the rendezvous which the Pesdenwas collect and
form his Peorian guard the execution of his coup deat
against the Republic.
The President is certainly paying his court with especial
ervor at the present moment to the army. Yesterday be
passed 10 review Of two very splendid newly formed corps the
Republican Guard and Gendarmere Mobile and after the
view entertained at grand dinner at the Esee all the off,
GERS and subocers. These corps compose fine body Of
troops have They picked men, tall and pro-
per- all old soldiers, and most Of them members Of the old
Municipal Guard Of Louis Philippe, odious to the people
during the last months preceding the revolution Of lS4S.
Suspicion Of moderate repubcansn abundant motive
for exclusion from the corps The adds that
the President while abandoning the camp Versailles still
promises himself the pleasure Of extending the officers and
sub officers of all the regiments the marks of his sym
pahy which he intended for them had they been collected
camp, first proposed He will avail himself for This pur
pose, of the reviews to be held this and early
the fall.
me Tfesluent commences on Monday next q series Of
grand official tours through France. The first will last
weeks, during which he proposes to visit, with reiinue
fifty followers the principal cities of the Eastern and Contra
observation-disclosures, Chalons Macon, Besascon Mulouse
Strasbourg, Nancy, Lunevile, Metz.
second excursion will enable him to touch the pulse
the southern populations and third Of the western. In
the course Of the last he WILL il is announced in review
at Cherboug the whole Mediterranean feet which has been
ordered for this purpose to pass the Straits of Gibraltar and
rendezvous there The Improperly, however, Of dispacing
at the present moment and the the operation
make doubtful whether the contemplated review of the fleet
with take place at Cherbourg.
Some forty fifty American citizens met at the Legation
in Paris upon short notice. inserted in Galignanis morning
paper of the I'd instant to pass resolutions Of respect the
memory of Gen. TAILOR. The Secretary Of Legation Mr.
SANFORD, was requested to take the chair He did So with
few remarks excusng the absence Of Mr. RrvEs account
Of ndsposion and absence from the city. committee
appointed, which in few reported long series Of
resolutions After discussion and amendment they
adopted BY the meeting and ordered to be printed.
royal decree Of the 2sth ultmo orders the formation
forthwith of four additional battsons Of thousand each,
to reinforce the Spanish forces already in Cuba.
All the Paris papers have articles upon the Cabinet at
Washington. The National meers at Il "arstocratcs