Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-09-03
Affairs in France.
Pans. AUGUST 3. 1850.

s------ PARIS August 3, 1850.
The National Assembly, 50 far rs leg
islaion is concerned, may he said To have
adjourned Yesterday. Ii has been voting,
without serious discussion, under high
pressure, the bills which seemed most
urgent, dUring the past week Yesterday
fifteen public bills, 10 say nothing. of those
of private and local character, were pass
ed. Il is merely for form sake that an
.uniinporlaat order of the day is fixed for
today. The members a:e already dSper-
sing. On the there will hardly be a
QUORUM in the capital. One Of ;'ueir last
acts regulates the press i'll the French co.,
onies, giving TO the Governor the power
ofsusp pension over the journals in certain
cases, to be judged of by himself 1t is
hardly worth while to notice this as anolh-
or violation Of the constitutional rights Of
French citizens. Amember ofrhe Noun
tain closed tie session by the offer of res
olution requiring the Minister of The inte-
rior TO have prepared during vacation sta
tistical tables showing the result IN all the
departments, of the lately passed electoral
law, with a view Of founding upon those
tables proposition for the repeal Of that
law. The majority summarily adjourned
the consideration of this proposition till
the meeting The Assembly in November
next.
The project of forming camp oftwelve
thousand men at Versailles has been aban-
doned, after considerable progress had
been made, in the reconstruction ofthe works.
The Constitutional (Which is the semi
official journaD says that the camp has
been given up because tbs necessities OF
the budget would not allow the President
10 treat the troops with the lberality eXer-
clsed upon similar occasions by Louis
Philippe. Other journals, however, at
tribute it to the opposition manifested IN
the Assembly especially by Gen. Oudinot,
and even in the Cabinet itself. Indeed,
much gossip, which | have not thought it
worth while to report to you, has clrcula-
ted during the last fortnight, touching the
camp at Versailles among other, that 1t
was, forsooth, TO be the rendezvous at
which the President was TO collect and
form his Pretorian guard, for the eXecu-
ton of his coup d'etat against the Repub-
lie.
The President is certainly paying his
court with especial fervor at the present
moment to the army. Yesterday he pas
sed in review two very splendid newly
formed corps, the Republic Guard and
Gendarmerie Mobile, and after the review
entertained at a grand dinner a the Elysee
all the officers and sub. officers. These
corps compose as fine body of troops as
l have seen. They are picked men, tall
and proper, all old soldiers, and most o!
them members of the old Municipal Guard
of Louis Philippe, so odious to the peo-
pie during the first months preceding the
revolution of 1913. Suspicion even Oh
moderate republlcanism is abundant no
tive for exclusion from the corps. The
Constitutional adds, that the President.
while abandoning the camp at Versailles,
still promises himself The pleasure OF ex-
tending TO the officers and sub officers OF
all the regiments, the same marks OF his
sympathy which he intended for the m
had thew been collected in camp, as at
first proposed. He will avail himself for
this purpose, of the reviews TO be held
this summer and early in the fall.
The President commences on Monday
next a series fgrand official tours through
France. The first will last two weeks.
during which he proposes to visit, with a
relirue Of fifty followers, the principle CT
ties of the Eastern and Central Depart
ments-Lyons, Chalons, Macon, Besan-
cor, Mulousc, Stransbourg, Nancy, Lune-
vile, Metz.
A second excursion will enable him TO
touch the pulse ofthe southern population;
and third of the western. In the course
Of the last he will, it is announced, pass
review at Cherbourg the whole Medlter-
ranean fleet, which has been ordered TO
pass the Straits of Gibraltar and rendez-
vous there. The improperly, however,
of displacing at the present moment this
fleet, and the cost of the operation, make
il doubtful whether the contemplated re-
view of the feet will take place at Cher
bourg.