Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-04-12

The news from FRANCE is unimportant The
ransitory bill for adourning the elections of the Ma
tional Guard was voted by 4lS to 239. The latter
part of the debate was exceedingly animated. M.
LAMART1NE and Generals CAvAIeNAc and LAMoRI-
cIERE spoke on the side of the minority, and in
favor of the peoples paramount sovereignty through
the exercise of universal suffrage. The question is
complicated one; it relates to the right of the
people to vote, through their electoral colleges for
the appointment of fresh set of officers for the
National Guard. The adjournment of the election
by the vote which have stated is regarded as an
infraction of the rights of the people, and another
step towards the curtailment of the suffrage. The
correspondent of the Morning Chronicle thus states
the business:
The practical question is just this If the National Guard
is allowed proceed Immediately the election Of its off,
GERS it will nfalibly choose, in the vast majority, republic
The announcement of such q result, without
enough give shock to the brittle frame of society through
the length and breadth Of France and produce the
general agitation which the Paris elections did Therefore
there exists in the opinion of the parliamentary majority
social necessy which outweghs with them all legal crupes
The rest is comparatively unmportant Gadaoral logic
may perform brilliant eats either side but will effect
thing. The National Guard cannot be trusted to choose their
officers and, whether legally illegally be prevented
that is the real view of the msjoity."
Several leading friends of the President voted in
the minority; among others, Generals FABv1ER,
GRAMMoNT, and GoUReAND, and MN. LUcIEN Mu-
RAT and VIELLARD. The French Government is
occupied with plan for connecting Masees with Paris by
telegraph, which is great desderaum for British commun
cation with India.
The present relative positions of AUSTRIA and PRussA
occupy good deal of the attention Of the French Govern
ment Att Cabinet council held Monday, at which the
President of the Republic presided it resolved send
instructions to the French representative Venna laying
down the position which Frsnce prepared to take in
Of conflict between the two great German States. The
sympathy Of France is entirely the side of Prussia
HoLLAsD and BELsIUM yield us no news because they
peaceabe and prosperous and SPAIN and PoRTUeAL
equally unproductve, but from very different cause. The
former the composure Of health the latter the inanion Of
weakness and exhaustion
IrALT excited irritable, and feverish The PORE
gaded the resignation Of the Russell administration as sig
nal and most manifest nterposon Of Providence in his favor
To be consistent the Holy Father consider the
on Of Lord JoHS power directly contrary manifesto
ton It singular Lat the temporal and spiritual of
the PapaI should far be vaance with each other
as to produce alternately the greatest satisfaction and dsappro
haon of The different programmes of Mniste enunciaed in
our journals The des for instance, Of Lord STANLEY
eeeding in forming Cabinet grateful in political
point Of view the majority of cardinals and preates be-
cause they would willingly put up with restrictive
sures against English and Irish Roman Catholic dgnitaries
condition Of seeing the bonds Of alliance and political SYM
paby drawn more closely between England and Austria, and
the de,ested spirit repubicanism thereby more eectuay
crushed throughout Europe With those few, however, who
place the interests Of the Roman Catholic church before those
Of the Roman temporal government the probability Of Tory
Government in England depored ley to hinder the
further sgerandi1emen Of the newycreaed hierarchy in
England. Cardinal LAnBRuscHINr is one Of the principal
dprecators Of Tory Government but most Of his brethren
consider the political security Of the Pspa See as Of far more
imporancs than the temporary persecution Of few foreign
Preates There il doubt that majority Of the cardinals
very earnestly point out to Pro Mono the necessity OF eseap-
ing from the dangerous tueage Of France and Of placing the
naa the sacred college, and the eternal city under the
tec'n OF Austria. There reason to believe however, that
France will be firm and that she will strengthen her garrison
10 Rome in proportion the increase Of the Austrian forces
10 the northern provinces nor will she in any consent
joint occupancy, which i present. vorite prcec. Of