New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-05-09

reitsrAte the transparent fasehood that the great
majority Of Frenchmen are honarchists.
The Moniteur announces a victory over the
Arabs. They were attacked by column OF
French troops near OnEd Rabl, and routed. Toe
French had eleven killed sndthirty.hve wounded:
It is rumored that the President and General
Chang arnier are sppro aching reconciliation
Coalitions indeed, seem 10 be the tactics OF tue day
A design Of the BoRapartists is suspected, 70
prolong the term OF the Presidents power till
December, 1852: the period prescribed Tor the
new election by the constitution being SIX months
earlier. Sediton is said TO be busy, both IN Paris
and in the departments many lasorers being out
of msloy. A proposal TO form large cavalry
camp, near Nancy, has aroused the Jealousy Of
the Opposition.
There is evidently great inquietude in the pub
lie mind in France.
Il is reported that the Government has ad-
dressed q note TO the cabinet OF London, requiring
the expulsion Of Ledru ROllln and other Frencn
refugees, whose present facilities Of communities
ton with Paris and the departments are found ex-
ceedingly embarrassing 70 the French Govern
ment, and calculated to add dangerous complca
tions to the presentcrisis.
General Magnan, commander Of the 4th military
division, has Just issued an order OF the day, IN
which he blames q sentinel OF the 74th regiment
stationed at Colmar, for having allowed man 70
strike him without having madeuse othls oayonet'
IN hOOtl6I OIOSr Ol TIC Jay VIC OShcAe
the energy OF Corporal Laurentiaux, Of the To
Light Infantry. for having, at Srasburg, at the
head Of only four men, dispersed crowd ana
having used bis bayonet against a man who had
attempted TO rescue prisoner from him.
An illegal powder mandatory has been DIS
covered near Montplaisir, near Lyons. The
whole OF the implements have been seized BY the
authorities and several persons arrested.
A Ministerial order has been published IN
Paris, forbidding all tax collectors to receive
Belgian coin in payment. The Bank OF France
has published similar order.
The extraordinary influx OF strangers, partic
ularly English, who visited Paris during the last
week, has impaired new life to the desponding
shop keepers.
Letters from the agricultural districts represent
the growing crops as unusually fine, and at LEAST
month more advanced than at the present season
in ordinary years. Wheat and -four have again
fallen in the Paris markets. in consequence OF the
immense supplies which arrived during the Easter
week. The markets in the departments are over
supplied with wheat of an inferior quality, waicn
10 sold at almost any price, and the official aver
ages appear for that reason lower than theyrealiy
are.
There is great distress in the silk manufacturing
districts, which is attributed to two causes. The
FIRST is the near approach OF the silk crop, which
10 expected to be very abundant, and the next 10,
that the American merchants being overstocked
there is cessation OF orders.
The Academy of Moral and Political Sciences
in Paris has resolved on the recommendation OF
III. Passy to depute two of their members NM.
Blanqu and Michel Chevalier) to visit the Expo
sion in London, and to make a report on any re-
markable facts which may be interesting to the
professors of political economy.
On Monday night the President OF the French
Republic was not able to hold his usual weekly
levee, in consequence of indisposition. His com
plant is an abscess in the foot which, though
painful, is not Of dangerous character.