Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-07-20
FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT.

PARIS, JUNE 81, 1850.
/ The agony is over. On Friday last the commit
tee on the dotation bill rendered their report Il
of the nature indicated in my last etters-hos-
tile to the President; upon the whole republican
paper, but containing some unworthy and unmanly
concessions to the reactionis principles Of the ma
jority, and the princely origin of the President
The committee ought, had it desired to be frankly
and consistently republican, to have simply and
wholly, constitution in hand, rejected the bill 1t
produced an amendment, half republican, half i'm
peralist, which, like most productions Of unnatural
unions, wanted vitality. 1t proposed, considering
expressly the obligations of munifcence and mag
nifcence which lie upon the nephew Of the En-
peror" and " the inhertor of the name of Napoleon
elected President" to grant him sixteen hundred
thousand francs as an extraordinary sum on ac-
count of expenses incurred in l849 and 1850, in
consequence of the installation Of the President of
the Republic. The President through his minis
ters, refused this. On Monday the debate came
on in the Assembly. After very insignificant dis
cussion the amendment proposed by the minority
Of the committee, friends Of the President was pass
ed by majority of 46 only, 354 for and 3Os
against. The amendment, which is now law, if
not constitution, is in these words: There is
opened to the Minister of Finances, on the esti-
mates of 1860, an extraordinary credit of 2,l6O, 900
irancs account of the expenses of the Presiden-
cy OF the Republic" Thus the Assembly has
granted the sum, the whole sum, which the Presi.
dent asked for, and which, had the vote been taken
when the bill was first introduced would have been
refused by an overwhelming majority. The Pre-
sident On his side, abated much of the exaction
which, in the outset, was so peremptoEily announc-
ed by his Ministers: two million one hundred
and sixty thousand, plus 100000 salary, plus
100000 expenses of representation already grant
ed NH ayp e kaop tIo
heretofore paid by the Ministry of Public Instruc-
ton, and which it is now understood shall continue
to pay the same, equal 100000 francs per annum,
the sum contemplated by Ministers in their orig-
nal bill. But the credit opened is expressly e1tra-
ordinary, which word grated shockingly on the
ear of the "nephew of the Emperor" and {" heir of
his name,' and the bill, in the shape in which it
has passed, has quite deprived the appropriation of
that annual matter-ofcourse character which it was
so desirable to give to it. The result is compro-
mise, which both sides, the Assembly and the Pre-
sdent may consider as they please, either defeat
| or victory. "'s- "...... ~
The vote was produced by fear alone: fear of
the consequences of a fagrant rupture between the
President and the majority. 1t was apprehended
that the whole benefit of such rupture would enure
to the ultra-republicans, their common enemy.
The actual outbreak has not occurred but cordially
no more exists, and mutual suspicion does. The
heir of the Emperor sees clearly that he has very
few friends in the Assembly. M. BoNAPARTE,
President of the Republic, sees that he can count
upon the support Of very few from preference to
himself personally, or from love to the Republic
He must seek for the realization of his ambitious
dreams an extra parliamentary support All SEEM
ing support that the majority may extend to him
will be temporary, interested, provisional, and Sc
cretly subservient to hostile ends, His evidently
reactonist repressve policy is thoroughly depopu-
larizing him. His best hope Of imposing himself
upon France, independent Of and above the other
monarchical parties, lies in the army, and in the
influence of the countless host of civil unctionares
whom the odious anti-republican system of centra-
cation makes the plant ministers Of him who is for
the time being Chief of the State.
| There is in the press of Paris but one frank and
thorough supporter of NJ. BoNAPARrE's personal
pretensions. 1t is lie Pouroir, formerly the Dir
Decenabre. That journal tackled about several
times during the last six months. When last spoke
OF titwas under the editorial management of EMILE
THOMAS, and pursued so liberal and republican
| course that cassed it among the republican Jour
nails Of the capital. M. Thomas however, was un-
able to bear up against the pressure opposed to him.
He retired, and his successor, changing soon the
name OF his journal to that of lie Pouroir rem-
pressed upon it politically the character originally
i
almost avowedly imperialist. The notorious little
weekly lie Napoleon seems really defunct.
! The Washington correspondent of New York
journal, attributing my letters to another pen,
accuses me "of vilifcation of repubcausm and
advocacy of despotism," because | depored the
election of M. Sue in Paris, last April. Avowing
without hesitation my opposition TO the republic Of
which EHgene Sue is the representative, hold no
justification necessary, in view of the published
opinions of that gentleman, of which my letters
have already furnished you with some specimens
The a,tack-directed, it is well understood less
against the opinions of your correspondent than
upon certain e-holder-would not have been
alluded to here, but that it affords opportunity and
inducement to transcribe abridgment of the doc
| trines and ends Of what is known as the Red Re.
public, from source which no one will suspec. of
malevoenceI towards that repubc-Louis Blanc
himself. What more can be necessary for its con-
demnation IN the minds of all intelligent practical
honest men 3 De Flotte, the insurgent of june
elected in Paris last March, has been affecting in
the tribune most philosophi moderation. This
was little to the taste, antl i'll accorded with the
habits OF the mass Of his party and particularly Of
such portion OF It as residen ce abroad protected
from the consequences of failure to practise the vir