Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-04-20
FROM PARIS DIRECT.


PANS, MARcH 81, 1850.
Every thing here is contradiction anomaly military and
virtually absolute Government, with universal suffrage nearly
the whole country under martial law liable be so at any
moment, with extreme Democratic Constitution the army
voting and without coercion from any quarter, chiefly against
the Government yet ready for any service lis support and
though universal suffrage has been established for all local.
municipal and departmental authorities decent realization
has ensued the power and action of the central machinery
decisive and dsve they under the monarchy
On the 10th instant, the National with Liberty Equality,
and Fraternity the motto, proclaimed the ISSUE in the
elections be- Reconciliation between the 5ourgeoe and
the proltaria eternal hatred between them It is pro-
liable that certain number Of the minor shopkeeper and
chancs threw their SURFACES the Socialists from natural
sympathes and calculations Of kind other but the
mass of bougeose have manifested alarm at the publication
of the OF supposed to have done the The
merchants and dealers sgnazed in Of the conservative
journals, have protested and threaten suits for defamation
The six thousand insurgents Of June who returned
from the huks by Presidential PARDON voted with the Social
ss Of course.
That there very considerable peponderance Of edu
cation, property and experience with the Conservative tick
cts, no could possibly dispute Nevertheless the jour
mails the other side expressed surprise and Indignation
the circumstance that President Louis did instantly change
his Cabinet and whole policy foreign and domestic Paris
piecethe head and heart-of all France When London
returned Radicals to Parliament, the enunciation of like
notion in regard Royal duty would have been deemed
ceedingly ludicTous.
candidate harangung Of the late electoral meetings.
when Of the auditors exclaimed, You among the
transported insurgents Of June, answered. 81 II
fortunate be honored" An editorial article of
La Liberts opened thus "The whole political theatre is
filed with the majesty of the sovereignty of the people,
the sublime and supreme exercise of its rights in the glo
rous Of irresistible progress fall of the public funds
the per cents from s5 to 80, and the departure of multi
tude Of frightened strangers among the Incidents In
Decd the dsmay throughout the substantial classes esembed
that Of last year the election of Ledru Ron Co.. but
it has not lasted long, Business however, still sensby
affected Spectators shrink from enterprises requiring time
and large pledge investment. Such The fashionable
dread of street disturbances, that, the 18Th insn the
Prophet Of Meyerbeer which had constantly crowded the
grand OPERA yielded scarcely third of the ordinary receipts
Socialist revolution would reduce all pecunary interests
degree unous beyond that Of the sudden overthrow of
the monarchy The dreadful and prolonged experience Of
the latter event, and the ycssudes and reflections the
bold divugaon of the doctrines and purposes ef the Demo
cratic and Socialist coalition, with the spread Of them from the
metropolis many of the proeares against the educated
and the moneyed orders, could fail occasion panic
disastrous than hitherto experienced.
To who has studied the phenomena of universal su
age, far, and the intellectual and social condition of the
majority Of the French people, the long continuance Of
nigh, impossible. Cogen evidence of its operation
in Paris is found in the official reports of the deposes the
savngsbanks. Eectoneeng grew active in the first week
Of February On the Sd Of that month, the Of de-
posies 6s0 900 francs; it diminished weekly until the
18th Of this month, when had fallen to 270, 900. Thus,
either the earnings of the abong classes much less dur
ing the canvass, they spent in good part the
ica game. The committees and the dram shops consumed
third half 1t has been proved, large portion of
the continent that the lot of the millions be anchor
ated but in tranquil and condng state of society IN
chain Europe, all the extavagan theories and aspirations
and the popular vices and passions and your best humanay
projects and institutions of rational freedom experience
nsuperabe obstruction the turmoil deusion, and msrue
is already asceraned that Of the electoral meetings.
many secret revolutionary societies have been formed.
On Friday, the 18th instant, the returns Of the elections
be counted and arranged by the Mayors the Hotel
de Ve and the results soemnly proclaimed from platform
in front. Antecedeny large of all descriptions
of the Parans attended, from party soicitude
curiosity. But the Democratic committees and journals
ved that, this occasions the body Of the workingmen and
Socialist voters should keep away On that morning, and
the day before, they issued in huge characters dssuasive
bulletins, of this and like tenor:
'sThe people know the results of the eectons let them
go the Hotel de Vile This counsel and ad uraon is
from the whole independent press and not given light
grounds. The risk of changing pacific victory into
Culinary conflict must not be We absolutely know that
endeavor will be made (by the policy to provoke
fct The Democratic Socialist committee being informed
the enemies of the Republic bent collision before
the Hotel de Vile, lose not moment in urging all their fell
citizens abstain from attending the proclamation Of the
new representatives"
The committee styling itself that of the Merchants Manu-
lecturers, and Popretors announced the authority of
great number Of their friends that snare had been
aid and could be avoided only by non-appeaance By the
way for this Charge the President and the Secretaries
"a perumer and jewellery who signed the warming
under prosecution by the law officers So many papabe
Of policy might be suggested against any sinister po
ice government design that the accusation be deem
I'd grautous and be ascrbed rather dust Of the
people, host OF Democratic vcto when assembled such
an occasion. ...
Between and eleven O'clock stroled to the open
square before the Hotel de Ve curious to know in what de-
gree the multudnous party subject discipline of their
In fact there but few thousand spectators the
portion Of them Immediately concerned pulled off their hats
caps each otheir elect named Cries of re
Ia Repubque quand msme-La Repubkque enrers ct
tire very few voices uttered that which the authorities
suppress and punish sedous-Vipe Ia Repubhque Demo-
crati9ue Sociae This forbeaance additional proof
of the strict submission the leaders and orac'es and is
wonderful how many thousands of operatives of the au
bougs and the loose fish of the pares de Paris could be
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