Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-10-12
FROM OUR Paris CORRESPONDENT.

We had very animated scene in the quarter of the
Madeleine, upon the occasion of the Presidents
return from Cherbourg. This return occurred a
day sooner than had been announced, and il took
many by surprise. The Tenth Decembrists, how
ever were duly notified, and from an early hour in
the evening of Thursday their sinister faces were
remarked in unusual numbers in the wine-shops
and in all the streets leading to the railroad depot
by which the President was expected TO arrive.
AS the evening advanced they became very numer-
GUS. From eight o'clock in the evening the depot
and the streets were occupied by the Military; the
circulation Of carriages was stopped in the vicinity,
and no one, even of those who lived out of town
and proposed returning home by one Of the two or
three last trains, was permitted to approach the
depot The Tenth Decembrisfs collected in groups
of ifties and hundreds at all the corners, and shout
ed g Vive lie President and Vive PEmpereur !"
SO riotously that all the shops were closed two
hours earlier than usual. We have at least half a
dozen of well-authenicated instances in which
peaceably disposed persons of various classes, whom
accident or curiosity had led to the scene were
rounded by rufians and summoned to repeat after
them the above seditious cries upon pain of being
personally maltreated. The shout in reply of Vive
la Republique was certain provocation to violent
attack. The regular police of the city was out in
unusual force, but the above cries and those of
DoUn aoith the vsites! Down a0ifh reds! bas
la Repubigue! were uttered in their very presence
without exciting any emotion. They were even
noticed to remove from groups in which the men,
bers of the society were attempting to compel by
ISLANDERS 10 Join in their demonstrations. This is
no affair Of ours" they were to say .dNons! AT
halEpast eleven the Presidents train arrived and
two squadrons Of cavalry, at rapid trot dashed
through the crowd escorting the President, whose
carriage was guarded as closely as ever saw Louis
Philippe's, from the depot to the Elysee. The
streets conducting thither were thronged even at
that late hour and every voice. the cortege pass
ed, shouted Hurrah for the Republic! or Vive Ma
poleon! Ever since then has been disclosing new
facts illustrative of the ends which the Society OF
the Tenth December proposes, and of the shameful
and violent means by which thopes to attain them.
The most serious journals, the Debafs, tor instance,
declares that the agitation and intrgues OF the So
ciety have reached pitch not to be tolerated, and
that Ministers must be called upon to disavow and
repress their manifestations. Yesterday the jour-
mails announced that, in fact Judicial investigation
into the alleged conduct of the Society on Thurs
day night had been ordered. But nobody supposes
that it will lead to any action against the Society or
its individual members.
The most important political news taken out by
the steamer of the 2lst will be that of the flight
from his dominions OF one of the little German Po-
tentates, the Elector Of HEssE CAssEL. This SOW
ereign pushing his notions Of petty absolutism. so
uncongenial with the spirit of the nineteenth CEN
fury, and really unsuitable to the degree of poll
tcal capacity and intelligence possessed by most of
the German populations, to most provoking ex.
tremes, went so far as to nominate Prime Min
lister an unprincped Prussian refugee forger, and
condemned as such by the Prussan tribunals. The
country and the Assembly, indignant at the outrage,
refuse to lay and pay the taxes. Martial law is
proclaimed; but all the authorities, civil, judicial,
and military, refuse to execute it; and the Sover
eign, seeing himself completely abandoned, aban-
dons during the night his dominons His Ministers accom-
pany follow him. No instruction occurred before after
the fight and public affairs proceeding in his little terri
tories much better without him than with him. This would
be of small Europe and of less Anne
rca deserving the lines have here devoted
it, the end already But the serious danger is
that grave complication of the larger Powers may grow out
it The refugee Eector expects to be speedily restored by
Bavaran Austrian The interests and intentions of
Prussia the great rival of Austria said to be opposed
to such intervention In the present of uncertainty
the resolution Of this question: the affair admitted all
sides to be one of European interest.
The wires establishing electric telegsphc communication be-
and Calais which broken few days after being
dropped upon the bottom Of the channel have not been
read but from the directors Of the company
that the damage will be repaired and measures ia
ken which, it is believed will afford sufficient security against
similar mishaps in future English and French fishermen
however, are already loud 10 their complaints against the in
Jury this enterprise infcs upon their interests project is
on foot TO indemnify them by the payment Of annual
for the losses which they may be presumed to have sustained
by the inerdcon Of the belt Of fishing ground avesed by
the wires On the other hand The company is taking