Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-09-25
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT
PANS, SEPTEMBER 6, 1852.

Eighty-four OF the eighty-six Councils General
Zone for each Department. have now sent in to the
Central Government here their political vaur, or
resolutions expressive of their sentiments with re-
spcct 10 the conduct of public affairs These pro-
vncia are the latest issue of universal suffrage,
and may be considered as the last expression of the
will Of France 1t is therefore interesting and
worthy of note. | have given in late letters some
of these resolves at length, such appeared to me
most remarkable indicating the political tendon
cy Of the times | now give general summary,
made up from the returns published in the Moni-
teur," of the eighty-four departments whose rouG
have been published. One department. Cantal, is
omitted, we know not why, in the official journal /;
and the commission exercising the functions of
Council General for the department of the Seine
Paris has not yet been in session 1t is convoked
for the Sd of November next. Forty of these
councils have formally expressed the desire to see
the power perpetuated in the hands of the Prince
LOUIS NAPOLEON; of these forty, nine ask in plain
terms for the reestablishment of the Empire. 1t
is worthy of remark in passing that one of these
nine is the department of the Pyrenees pre-
sided over by M. AcHILLE FouLp, the actual Minis
terof State The Moniteur particularly notes that
this department Sin full session voted unanimously"
resolution praying for the restoration Of the empire in
the person LOUIS NAPOLEON with the law of hereditary
cilsGeneral express merely the general wish the
power consolidated and made stable without designation
Of the person ue declare their satisfaction and approval
Of the march of Government but silent the subject
of change twentyone congratulate the Government on
the present state of public affairs and promise their sup
port to the Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON
Thus it seems that not solitary of the Councils
General have ventured utter opinion unfavorabe to
the evident imperial projects of the Prince The utmost
length which opposition has gone has been silence re-
spectng future change in the form of Government Only
five 60 this length and these as if to prevent their
silence from being interpreted against them by the Prince
express their appreciation of his up this time
II NAV therefore asserted that in least eighty
Of the eghtysx departments Of France the Prince may
count when his grand operation shall be effected upon
sincere cooperation cheerful acquescence No sens
BILE man can admit for that the Oreanist Le-
gitimst and Democratic parties, which occupied year
since tenths of the political chart of France, have
really abandoned their principles, and become converted
sincerely to Bonaparte imperialism. The elections took
place and the Councils themselves have voted
under the guidance pressure, dctaon of the central
power at Paris. But what are we to think of people
of thrtysx millions of an electoral body of ten millions
adult mea of eighysx representative assemblies issu
ing Immediately from the electoral body, the members
selected from its midst for their superior intelligence and
social position say what we to think of constituent
and constituted bodies capable of being thus led
senting have the will Of man thus imposed upon
them submitting thus to eace themselves prostituting
thus the great principle of popular sovereignty Clearly
land this expressing the conclusion in the ides and
moderate terms France is ripe for self govern
ment the French still in their political tuteage it
viii be many year before they attain their majority and
become apt for the direct management of their political
heritage. They must have guardian the estate will
90 promptly to ruin The !" Times " is right.
The Prince leaves Paris next week his tour in the
southern and southwestern departments He viii be alb
sent month from Paris Preparations for his reception
every where being made grand scale see that
in Of the roted wool growing departments part
of the programme of the entertainments which be
offered the Prince is the driving in review before hin
muIutudnous hocks of their best sheep. There will be
at least novelty and amusing narete in this exhibit
ton. The Prince hardly withhold a smile these
focks Of doce sheep, driven by their shepherds
Aanked and kept in order By the vgant and jealous
dogs shall pass before him VIII they not suggest to
him resemblance the immense of the French
people the three general elections that have taken
place since the I'd Of December? Nothing is wanting
There are his Minister'S the shepherds there the
eghtysix vglant and jealous preects and the almost
unanimity of the obtained svnces docity in the
masses which would DO no dlscredit 10 the verltabe
sheep.
In view Of the absolute power which the Prince LOUIS
NAPOLEON has succeeded in obtaining Of his manifest
intention consolidate and perpeuate it by the esab
ishment of the empire am glad TO be able discover
one bright spot in the horizon. discern there some
thing like guaranty in the absence Of all constitutional
guaranty in the absence Of all power Of self protection
in France ITSELF that the Prince will maintain
sure in the use of his absolute authority lie Is NOR
senstiCe topa6le opinion than any Of hs oo-soUsregns.
lie can silence opinion here He has done so and ha:
nothing to fear from the press in France But in Europe
out Of France, in Belgium, Switzerland Germany and
above all in England, he finds this dficu-mpos
sible Every day have proof Of his wish to dc
So of his uneasiness under free criticism We have also
every day renewed proof Of the mpoency of his efforts
Let us hope that he will become caous and that his
responsibility before the public opinion Of the world
from which their ruler cannot withdraw himself-wi
Frenchmen from the extreme abuse Of yrannca
cent dispute Of the Monteur" of Paris with the Lon
don Times" by the frequent tesness he has manifest
ed toward other English journals that criticize him un-
favoraby and by the aacry with which the Government
papers here including the Moneur" seize upon
and repeat favorable articles from foreign journals The
Prince himself is supposed to have dictated the several
replies to the Times published lately in the "Moni-
the columns Of the continental press upon their
into France TIE Belgian papers stopped the post
Office and withheld from subscribers in Paris once OF