Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-11-29
CRIME IN FRANCE.

The Paris correspondent of the Journal of Com
writes as follows, under date Of the 9th inst
regular annual session Of the Departmental Commits
sion of the Seinehe municipal councils Of the department.
has just been closed The statistical reports and the discus
sons Of such subjects the PRISONS primary schools prison
and educational discipline instructive for all large COM
munities resolution passed unanimously recommend
ing the establishment of labor in PRISONS and strcer
classification the inmates The present number Of prison
exceeds five thousand the average before the Revolution
of February amounted four thousand seven hundred the
cost Of the construction Of the House of Detention for
youthful offenders borders seventeen hundred thousand
francs 1t has been found that the adult culp in several of
the great as conceive affection for their residence and a
ter serving out their terms themselves be committed
the cages Seventy Of the birds in the
prison of st. Lazare were ascertaned 10 belong 10 ha
CORY On the whole, judging from the disclosures to the
Commission, we may infer that the French do not vet un
derstand the Penentiary system is pracised in the
United States and Great Britain The number of pupils in
the primary schools is upwards Of thirty three thousand
whom thousand hundred and fy-two are adults
Att end OF last week. President Louis NAPOLEON with
all the Bonsparte family, and hrong Of votaes and dgn-
ae attended the inaugural Of church in the town
of St. Leu Taverny, leagues from the capital Charles
Bonapa father Of the Emperor King Louis father of the
President and two Of his sons finally inferred there
The President contributed hundred thousand francs to-
wards the erection of the church He descended into the
crypt and kneeed few minutes at the fam IL au.oeum
But what mpars special interest the ceremonial the dis
covey at of the villages through which be was to pass
Of plot assassnse him. In one house Eve individuals
having arms and ammunition and all strangers the town.
were seized and conducted to the prison Versailles Here
is the list " one book-keeper, another dismissed
third Of chemical nrn4nn and the
two others calico prines Considering that Louis PnIpu
was shot al nine times may wonder at the immunity
Louis Nspoleon who has been intellectually exposed
and is scarcely less odous to the class Of
les capable Of such attempts You have been informed
the quasi nsuecons Of the peasany in Of the central
Provinces Nearly two hundred in the city
of Bourges proved by their confessions ard the docu
ments seized tha, the general organization for rising
braced every CANTON large departmental division there
chief for each canton, who selected three prize agents
each Of the townships. The official report says:
The fighfu oaths by which the chiefs endeavored bind
their accomplices now known These unfortunate
swore poniard, barrel OF muskef, spare
nothing the lives of their relatives
the triumph of the democratic and social republic. Thi.
abomnable fact appears proved present by the judicial
vesgston at the time reveals the which
employed by the enemies of society educe the stupid
peryerse Thus the agents the suppression of all
the complete humiliation Of the bgeoise the div-
arabic lands and the right of causing cattle Craze
woods those which have not three years. GROWTH