Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-07-19
FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT.

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FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT
PARIS, JUNE %, 1851.
The political news from France by this mail is
of little interest. The Bonapartists are straining
every nerve and using all MEANS lawful and unlaw.
fu, to swell to overwhelming force the petitions for
revision OF the Constitution and prolongation oi
the government of M. BoNAPARTE. These petitions
are in truth very numerous. They have already,
says the Constitutional, surpassed in number
those of ls49 which had for their object the dis.
solution Of the Constituent Assembly. The sig.
natures and adhesions 10 these documents exceed
even now, the journal states, nine hundred thou.
sand. Yet the movement is still increasing and
two millions is mentioned by the sangune as the
number of signatures to be attained before the flow
Of petitions into the hall of the Assembly shall
cease. But they argue not more than one in three
of the men who would vote for M. Bonaparte will
take the trouble TO sign petition for his re-elec-
ton. If two millions sign, six millions may be
confidently counted on at the polls and thus they
pretend to believe that M. Bonaparte would he re-
elected by his old majority Of six millions And bis pari
sans threaten that he shall be elected in spite of the Cons
tuition and the Constitution parties in the Assembly do
not make virtue Of necessity and consent to legal revision
in the manner prescribed by the Consultation ITSELF
But the Republicans and hostile Monarchst parties
that the confidence Of the Bonaparsts is assumed for the
purpose Of decevng others into the belief that the mpeasts
carrying every thing before them, and that all who
suit their own interests had best opposition, and rally
to the Bonspast standard The Democrats say that the
figures of the Constitutional much higher than facts
will justify that six hundred thousand is the greatest
Der of signatures that be bad se oil shall be done and
for the socaed adesons they nooousy false they
Of and will possess influence Whatever; that the sig
natures, after ALL will be little than those Of ocehod-
nctonaries and dependents in form other upon
Government for their daily bread, This class amounts
upwards Of eight hundred thousand in France and per-
ecily notorious that of persuasion intimidation
have been omitted to compel in every commune Of France,
all Of this class to cooperate in the peton-sg.aion
The committee of fifteen revision is daily occupied in
the preparation Of its report upon which will be founded the
great debate Of month. Nothing has occurred to nd
cate that the and the result Of that debate will be other
than have inmaed in former letters Legal revision
thozng the reelection Of M. Bonsparte still hold to be
impossible
The Assembly has passed by large majority bill con-
nung in force for yet another year from the 22d instant the
sadly unconstitutional but absolutely necessary law prohibit
ing political meetings. All the Monachcal parties, and
even some OF the moderate hepuOIcane, concurreu win
Ministers in the passage Of this represve and oppressive law
Statistical tables Of population, &c. have recently been
published by several Of the European Governments Ex-
tracts from Of them will not take it. prove unwelcome
to your columns.
swITzERLASD.-Tota population Of the Confederation,
000 Total number Of families in the Confederation
900, giving average Of five persons each family
There 3s2, 900 landowners about Of six in
habans In the canton of Valais there are found in 100
families to be ITO persons possessing properly; in Bssle
Country log such persons in 100 families. The average
value Of property per family soleure is sl4OO at Zu
rich, Sl2ss he aggregate Of the property held by the
working class in Zurich is S540OOOO, equal to $3.50 per
y at Berne $lsls; at Lucerne. 81, $40; at Glars,
ST. at Zag, Sl,5l4; Frbourg 81, TAO chahausen,
ST. 1906 at st. Gall, $1,000; at Thurgovia, $l32O; at
Vaud, Sls6O at Neuchatel, 5000 Geneva, 49, 400;
at Base (cy,) S7400 There in Switzerland II, 500
taverns, (equsl to one for l65 inhsbitan.s.)
AUSTRIAN EMPIRE.-This Government has just publish
ed officially tables, from which appears that the
empire comprises l2l2s0s6 square geographical miles.
Total population by last 033 SOULS
Of which belong to the provinces Of the German
Confederation. The popuation In thus distributed