Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-04-12
FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT.

The past week has but little interesting in p0
+ ltical way to send to America but it has, think
been busily preparing some items, which will be
ready for the next mail. II is reported upon the
authority of some eight or ten members of the
. Assembly, who were present at the Elysee few
days ago, that, in spite of the very unequivocal
;verments of the Minister of the Interior NJ VAIssE
which | duly reported some weeks since, M. Bo-
sAPARTE holds the electoral law Of 3lst May in very
light esteem that he is even in favor of its abso-
lutte repeal and, at all events that he maintains its
provisions to be quite inapplicable to Presidential
election. This extraordinary opinion has formed
the main topic OF newspaper and saloon discussion
during the last week, and seems SO well authenti-
Gated that the Assembly has at last taken alarm and
has resolved to intervene and declare, by special
vote, that it never entered into the intention of the
Legislature to separate in their origin the President
Of the Republic and the Representatives of the
People in the Assembly; that one and the same
aw-that Of 3lst May, ls50--must until repealed
afford the rule for both elections. M. BAzE,
questor, who still maintains his position in the first
rank of the advance guard of the Assembly, appeal
ed yesterday to the Assembly, and alluding to the
reports in circulation, insisted that it was high time
for the Legislature to fix, by formal declaration,
the construction which should be put upon the law
of 3lst May. He moved and carried that a propo-
sition declaring that the law of force regulating
legislative elections should've case occurring
to govern Presidential elections also-be made the
order Of the day for tomorrow, day) I. mpossibeto
foresee what will be the play Of parties in the house upon
this occasions but may certainly anticipate stormy day.
Professor MIcHELErs lectures continue suspended On
Thursday last the students essayed to renew the agitation,
which the week before, upon the occasion Of their bearing
protest to the Assembly, had thrown into momentay alarm
the usually quiet quarter Of ST. German. They dis
ntad in vho
avoided the interview and then proceeding in process
sion, several hundred of them to popular democratic pro-
fesso M. QUINEr. On their way his residence strong
bodies Of the republican guard suddenly made their appear
simultaneously in front and Of the column. Advance
and retreat both 'mpraccabe the young became
noisy, obsepeous, and essayed to force their way The
result was that after blows and cuffs given and recev
ed the main body dispersed leaving in the hands Of the police
about hreescore Of their party These all conducted to
the lookup The next day, after examination, twenty were
dismssed the balance yet remain in prison. These acts Of
repression the part Government apart from their
arbitrary character inconsistency with the principles of free
government provocative, and enure am well persuaded
to the Strengthening of the Democratic
Another measure Of the is that taken by Gen.
CAsTELLAsE commanding Lyons the 9Th and 9th military
divisions He forbd by decree of the 18th instant more
than three hundred persons to be present at funeral upon
the occasion of political demonstrations alarming to public
tranquility.
The National Assembly passed on Tuesday last bill au
hozng an outlay Of ninety thousand francs for the conuc
Of paaacc stand for the great moveabe telescope, to
be put up the Observatory of Paris The fact that the bill
passed almost unanimously (5ss against 81 highly cedta
BILE to the French Assembly. The report Of the ilusous
ARAeo rancois chairman of the committee which recon-
mended the appropriation, contains quantity OF scientific
nomation which think fail to be welcome to your
columns. propose making from it an abstract which will
be accompanied perhaps with extracts He first audes to
the efforts which Governments every where and of all kinds
bers and despoc have been making of late years. and
still making for the advancement Of this scence (aronomy
which, says the distinguished professor is that (which the
most honors the intelligence of man. In this connexion the
following complimentary notice of American astronomical
science will be read with pleasure
The United States Of America which up to this time
have seemed conne their efforts 10 progress IN nautical
astronomy alsne, have aery entered with much spirit upon
wider field and their exertons do not slacken, the day is
near at hand wien they will take position in the very first
rank Already three magnificent observatoes-
one at Cincinnati the second at Washington and the third at
Cambridge"
The reporter then the various observaories in
the several European States Sweden two at Stock
holm and Upsa Denmark one, at Altona; Hamburg one;
the kingdom Hanover one at Gongen, which is much
for the Importance Of its astronomical discoveries and
for the merit its DIRECTOR Gauss one OF the inst geome-
tiers Of Europe y Holland one, Utrech Belgium at
Brussels Grand Duchy Of Baden one, at Mannheim Swz-
eand one Geneva Bavaria one, at Bogenhausen, near
Munich Austria one, Jenna and in the north OF Italy,
observatoss at Milan and Padua Sardinia at Turin.
Physical science took its birth Venice and in Tuscany
during the first years Of the seventeenth century but subse
qusny those countries science quite another track
but recent ameoraons effected the observatory Bobo
garden Florence and appointment oM Amc director
prove that the ow-counymen Of Gaeo have both the will
and the means Of recovering lost time. Rome is repairing
the observatory which Vico has illustrated Naples has two
observatores at Cspo Dir Monte and in Sicily Spain two
at Cadz and Madrid Portugal s bestirng herself Prus
has four grand obsefvatoes at Berlin, Bonn, Bresau
and the fourth illustrated by the Professor Besse at Kongs
berg Russia especially liberal in her efforts to advance as
Economical science She has eight observatore-the famous
one Dorpat one Helsngfos in Finland at Mau, Mos
cow Wilma Kiew Nicolaie the Black sea, and late
built the model observatory Of Pukowa, near St. Peters
burgh which has cost several millions of francs In Ireland
NJ Aago enumeraes four observatores- Dublin, at Ar
magh that Of Macree established by Mr. Cooper, and th
famous observatory Of Lord Rosse at Parsonstown In Scot
land hree-a Edinburgh, Glasgow, and that Of Gen. Brs
bane In England he seven viz: the university oh
Of Oxford and Cambridge, that Ct Durham, tina
of Mr. Lasse, Liverpool that of Sir James South,
Kensington that Of Mr. Bishop, at Regents Park and lastly
and chiefly the royal observatory Of Greenwich where il