Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-12-07
FROM OUR Paris CORRESPONDENT.

FROM OUR Paris CORRESPONDENT
PARIS, NOVEMBER IA, 1850.
4 The past week has been highly agitated enc.
The news from Germany has been exceedingly
disquieting. 1t seemed, after all, that Europe was
fated to be involved in war, the consequences of
which would certainly be momentous, but which
none could pretend with confidence to predict.
Immense armies of Austria and Prussia were in
immediate presence of each other, threatening and
hostile. In presence of the hard and humiliating
conditions proposed by the ultimatum of Austria,
backed by Russia, the land,oehr of Prussia was
mastering with an enthusiasm that the King was
even obliged to check Yet the pacific dispositions
neither of the Austrian nor Prussian Cabinets were
doubted. The former meant to push its pretensons
to supremacy to the extreme length that its rival
would bear without an appeal to arms; and the
latter was resolved to yield much, very much,
almost all, provided appearances could be saved,
and Prussia be saved the modification of being
publicly forced to her concessions. This, and not
the sincere intention to make war; is still believed
to be the secret of her immense and active military
preparations. But the armies were maneuvring
in each others presence, and there was imminent
danger that the rash act Of hot-headed soldier
might provoke collision, and render vain the really
pacific intentions of the respective monarchs. A
skirmish between the advanced posts did actually
occur. Stocks Immediately fell at the Bourse Of
Paris, and faces began to assume very anxious
air. But the next mail brought intelligence that
the Prussians had evacuated Fulda without an ac-
tion in obedience to orders from Berlin; and now,
the danger of what may be called spontaneous
combustion being removed, public confidence is be-
ginning to be restored that the Prussian landaDehr
will be speedily permitted to resign the sword for
the plough. The King of Prussia, armed cap-a-pie,
and swearing terribly" like our army in Flan-
ders," will try to persuade himself, his people, and
Europe that he has accepted terms, and not had
them imposed upon him.
In France we have had during the week, to the
great satisfaction of the qidncs, besides the Ger
man quarrel, three or four topics Of animated and
angry discussion all our own. First came the dis
solution of the Society of Tenth December, by
Presidential decree Of The 7th instant; then the
discovery of an awful plot formed by twenty-six
of the members of this society to dispose by assas
sination of Gen. CHANGARNIER and NJ. DUPIN, as
the two grand obstacles to the transfer Of NJ BONA
pARTE from the Elysee to the Tuileries then came
the opening of the Assembly, the false Presidential
message published by the Presse, the seizure Of
that Journal and, last of ALL the real message ITSELF
am not yet quite prepared to say that the con-
spracy assassinate the high Bonapartists
Notwithstanding the necessity it involves of consi-
dering Messieurs the members of the Permanent
Commission of the Assembly to have been made
its egregious dupes. M. You, commissary OF
police in the service Of the Assembly, thought that
he had, by the best luck in the world, lighted in
the very nick of time upon twenty-six Tenth De-
cembriss, who, in secret concave in the back shop
of Paris grocer, had sworn the death of these two
functionaries necessary to the success Of their
cause. They cast lots, and two were thus selected
to execute the decision. The day was to be the
lh instant, that Of the re-meeting Of the Assembly
M. You communicated the discovery to M. DUPIN,
President Of the Assembly, who enjoined the CON-
mssary to say nothing about it TO his superior the
project Of police, who is personally devoted to M.
BoNAPARTE, but to go on and ferret out all the cir
cumstances and all the persons concerned in the
plot, reporting only to the Assembly's officers.
M. Dupin assembled forthwith the Permanent Com
mission, and the plot was made the subject Of an
animated discussion. committee of three was ap-
pointed to wait upon the Minister of the Interior and
express the Permanent Commissions establishment
that Government through its police had failed to de-
ect the plot and warn the threatened fnconaries of
their danger. The Minister laughed at them and rd-
culed the idea of the conspiracy. What gave the
affair greater importance was, that it was the grave
and important Journal des Debats which gave the
public and M. Cartier the protect Of police the first
notice of the affair. The project Immediately pun
ished his subordinate, NJ. You, by suspension of
his salary for emitting to report to himself, his
superior, the discovery he supposed he had made.
He also declared, and has repeatedly done so
since, that the plot never existed, and that all who
believe it are dupes. The President of the Assem-.
bly,, on the other hand, and his commissary You,
persist in their assertion of the reality of the plot.
Arrests have been made, and judicial investigation
is now progressing, which will probably soon give
us the truth of the matter. In the mean time M.
You, whom M. earlier did not dare to discharge
for his act of INSTRUMENTATION, still exercises the
functions of commissary Of police for the National
Assembly. And the Questors of the Assembly,
grave and important officers, members of the As
semby, and of the late Permanent Commission,
have evinced their dissrust Of M. Bonaparte's
police, by introducing bill providing for the esta-
blishment of a perfectly distinct and independent
police, appointed by the Assembly, responsible to
it alone, and paid out Of its funds. Its special du-
ties will be to watch over the personal safety Of the
members Of the Assembly, collectively and indivi-
dually. This bill seems to me an insult to the
Executive, and cannot fail to aggravate the hostility
of the two powers. look 10 see the proposition
dismissed without discussion, or carried in spite
of the opposition of Ministers.
The Assembly met on the i th instant. 1t has
as yet done little else than organize and listen to
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