Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-09-04
THE GREAT FRENCH FESTIVAL.

THE GREAT FRENCH FESTIVAL.
/ LOUIS NApoLEoN's grand fete Of the 18th Au-
gust, in memory of his uncle, was SNOWY aflir in
some respects, but owing to some untoward acct
dents was not SO successful as had been Intended.
In the morning there was d grand mass at the
church of the Madeleine, where, as it was crowded
with soldiers and fashionable folks the ceremonies
were very imposing This over the President pre-
sented the colors, newly conseeated by the Arch
bishop of Paris, to the fftyoid battalions of the
National Guard of Paris andthe Banlieue, assem-
bled for that purpose in the Champs Elysees. He
then passed this enormous Hrce in review, the guard
defiling in open column Of companies from the en-
trance of the Champs ElJsees round the Place de
la Concorde where the Prince, with his staff, placed
himself opposite the east side of the Obesk having in
face of him Gen. LGwEsT1NE, commanding in chief the
National Guard, and the officers composing his staff
Prince JERoMt in his uniform Marecha of France
on the right the Prince.
The time Occupied by the troops in passing great
and the colun apparently endless that of the
writer's believ it to have been coup de fate, by which
the march wal made to take place in circle. After the
infantry had BIT length passed, the mounted National
Guard brought up the At the close of the review
the Prince and his staff quilted the ground in the drec
ton of the Elee, and the crowd dispersed not
without an Object regatta the river succeeded and
then the grand naval action, in which the at-bot
toned frigate from Nenily attacked by river
steamers and ter heavy cannonade and repeated at
temps to board the frgate finally remained the victor
But the grand ball at the Marche DIES nocea given to
the market women at which preparations made for
twenty thousand dancers, did not eff correspon
dent says:
Great the CONSERVATION of the ladies of the Hales
last night approaching the precincts where they preside
then prepared to with the light fantastic oe all
armed with bouquets and beaux, and blazing in their
brightest array-great, say, the CONSERVATION Of
these ladies to stumble upon grim lines of municipal
guards who forbade all further progress, and changing
merry meetings aarum checked the advancing
of throngng jewellers with the dreary that
there to be ball for that night In fact there ap
peared at nghtfal all the walls, columns, and street
corners where bills arrest the public eye the following
dreary announcement:
"'PRErEcTuRE PoLIcK-Baa the Marche des Iaaoceas
The violence of the wind having in the Of the
off the large covering which extended
of the ball the ball take place this evening
The extreme violence of the wind does allow the
works required repair this damage be without
\ the workmen being placed in danger Of their lives.
In consequence, the ball postponed to Tuesday next
and the cards of invitation already delivered win be received
! on that night
" The Partisan, who is contented with direct
meaning in this the fact indeed con-
veyed distinctly enough that there to be ball but
the why another matter He was disposed to &C
cep any other solution of the adjournment than the one
given by the picard There some plot The Pres-
dent could not come Nobody would admit that the
vass roof could not have been replaced without the least
danger to human life Many believed il had never
been blown down. 1t must have been the workmen who
struck here, they did in the Champs Elysees.
Having settled the question to their satisfaction
the 6adads rambed in quest Of other diversions The
market women in fine fret at the loss Of their ump
tuous bouquets and all the owery decorations of the ball
room which would of be quite faded before Tues
day night believe there was hardly one Of them that
had not in her heart hoped for the fortune of dancing with
the Ro Presidnt they call him. There talk
OF excluding all danes of Haes who not bona fds
married and could produce satisfactory certificates of the
knot having been tied in a legitimate way.
This raised an immense Smeue the part of the de-
moiseles but know not if the arrangement has been
insisted upon
The failure which, from one cause another cha
racterized every stage of this fete extended to the um
nations These generally well done in Paris that
public curiosity raised it to high pitch by the
that all former displays of the kind would
be surpassed on this OCCASION wofuly disappointed
N the first place, the electric light from which such Won
deru effects were expected not brought into play
all learn that at the experimental illumination, made
two days before it found impossible keep the cleo
trio light alive for than twenty-five minutes. The
column in the Place yendome was, therefore, lit with
common gas.
The wind had played the deuce with the pasteboard
and canvass Of Mount ST. Bernard and the illumination Of
the Place DE la Concorde and the Champs Eysees
complete failure. IL observed omnous that none
OF the eagles, Of the crowns would tighten up The
Champs Eysees was, indeed, rather darker than usual
ana the fragments Of illumination looked like the smok
ing brands Of dispersed fre The giant eagle the top
OF the Arc de Triomphe de lEtoile wouldn't light up
feather OF him The electric lights intended for the foun-
tains could not be brought into play Nevertheless the
were more successful from being protected
more from the wind 1t really beautiful coup doii
to look up the perspective Of palmtrees formed Of golden
ire bearing gobed fruit Of all hues, made Of paper
:" The fireworks, too, went off very well The crowd
was astonishing The Tuileries Place de la Concorde,
quays Champs Eysees bouevards and all avenues SEEM
ed thick as the prodgous streets and spaces could be
crammed with human beings After the fireworks were
over for four or FIVE hours dense stream of people
moved eastward along the Bouevards Strasbourg Rouen
Lyons, all the great cities dsgorged their populations
through the interminable peasure-trains into Paris
Great numbers of the country people walked about the
Boulcvards all night and left Paris this morning without
having stretched their limbs upon bed"
4 NOTICE OF THE ESTABLISHMENT Of THREE
Il additional Land Districts in the state OF Iowa
pursuance of the act Of Congress, approved August
1852, entitled An create three additional land