Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-11-20
FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT
PARIS, NOVEMBER /, 1852.

MY letter Will De a snort one to-day we anu
cipate nothing of special interest in the way OF
news until the sitting Of the Senate, which is to
meet next Thursday, shall put an end to the con-
lectures now SO rife touching the form and purport
of the Saats Consuuna, by which the title of this
Government and of its Chief Magistrate shall be
put in harmony with existing institutions, with
the habits and political capacities of the French,
and with what clearly appears Ono matter how the
expression obtained) to be the expressed will of
the people. The expression Of this will will not,
except in form only, be satisfactory upon this
point when the people shall be called, the last
Of this month, to vote directly upon the PeJiscn,,
than it is at present. manifested by the addresses
from every commune Of France published in the
Moniteur, by the innumerable popular petitions
heaped up in the ante-rooms of the Senate by the
addresses, less spontaneous laid at the Princes
feet by all the organized bodies throughout France pub
lie and private Yes, it be doubted this tickle
people, which acclaimed with such apparent unanimty
upon repeated in 1S48 the establishment of the
Democratic republic by the people for the
people abolshng all privilege of classes in France and
spurning all hereditary divine right in any family to
reign Francois in the short space Of four years.
rushing the opposite extreme declaring, with almost
voice, their unftness for selfgovemment, in
vestng with absolute unlimited constituent pow
ers and declaring that for the future they wish despotc
authority in all civil and political affairs to reside and be-
inalienaby hereditary in family! The people
have not spontaneously and deliberately made by them
selves these changes but they have permitted single
usurpng pretender establish this order of things
them and without Them and now they permit
ting themselves be made to sanction by almost unani
nous reclamation, the results of an mpudent usurpa-
ton Had France accepted silently and submssiyely
thing of necessity the order imposed upon her by
dragons with drawn sabres the I'd of December her
conduct would have been understood and while grooming
beneath the yran sway of her master she might have
retained right to the respect and sympathy of the
world but what language express sufficient contempt
for people that awns with such alacrity upon the
ter who whips Them and proudly the gaudy trap
pings by which he marks their seryitude?
AS was remarked last year in the interval which pre-
coded the usurpaton of I'd December, and the render
ing Of the popular vote which sanctioned that event.
Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON is assuming in advance that his
will viii be executed by the theoretically Independent bo
dies that will be called deliberate upon it. and he
accordingly though the sanction already given
In December his power would have been less perpeu
ated if the people had voted and the empire
would be less proclaimed though the Senate (which it
is impossible to conceye should refuse him the senatus
consultum, the people its assent to the pecm. For
instance, it is notorious that the Prince has already
drawn up the consum which, in theory is sup
posed to be the spontaneous product of the wisdom and
anxious collective deberaton of the Senate. The PIE
bsum to be founded upon the action of the Senate is
already and dry; and is the Prince that the
popular vote will be determined in favor of the
pre that the mint is already busy coming money , The
gy Of The ne'o Emperor portraits of Napoleon III, En-
peror Of e French are with permission of the police
struck off in large numbers though the sale of them
Theurnisher of the Prince has ready
occasion harnesses ready for all the Imperial stables with
Imperial arms upon them The state tailors busy
with uniforms for all who shall appear the Emperors
presence and who not yet livery and ambassadors
been sent to Rome to engage the services of the
Pope to anoint Louis NAPOLEON Touching the I'm
pera COINS the eagle of of the designs offered to the
Prince represented about to take its fight The
Prince objected to this susceptible Of nerpreta
ton at variance with the pacific manifestation Of his Bor
deaux Speech and the artist ordered relieve the
fears of Europe and prove it concusvely that the
Empire is peace, by representing the eagle at rest
ABD-EL-KADER the celebrated Afrcoa chief is pre-
the lion of Paris He has been brought Paris from
his prison at Ambose grace the triumph of LOUIS Ma
PoLEoS who did not conquer him. The Government pa
pers pretend that it is the instance of the
tive chief that he has Paris in order that he might
have another opportunity of seeing the Prince of thank
ing him for his liberation, and of renewing soemnly
the oath he has taken bear against France
and to put foot in Agery 1t declared that the
confidence of the Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON in the Emirs
pledged word is in TRUTH the Prince has repeatedly
told him. absolute and unbounded and the liberty Of
Add Kader is averred to have already actually
menced The Emr say the Government journals, is
free, thanks to the magnanimy Of Prince Louis
NAPOLEON and to the scrupuous regard with which he
would keep the pledged word Of Francepledged though
it by Government prior and antagonist to his
It is remarked that the Emr does admit his table
the chosen Mussulman friends who accompany
him to Paris No one, absolutely one, sits with him
his meals but Col BossosSET his keeper the chateau
Of Amboise for the last three years. who has accidentally
or because now that is free he is for the
moment out Of employment, accompanied him to Paris
The Colonel is with his late prisoner in all his excursions
in and about Paris and is ever at hand to explain to him
the maryels Of the capital In fact the Emir is
Of his sight This be regarded in any other light
than remarkable instance Of the force Of habit for
the Emr is PROFESSIONALLY Free 1t is announced in the
Government papers that has entreated to
be permitted to remain in France few months longer.
He cannot willingly leave France before the Empire
so near hand, shall be proclaimed 1t is believed
therefore, that his departure for Bursa will be adjourned
Indeed, Government paper that he will in
few days. after having gotten through with his visit to
Paris return to the chateau Of AmJoise This too, is
easily accounted for without presuming any limitation Of
the Emirs liberty by remembering the pleasant associ-
atoms which must necessarily be connected in his mind
with that residence the scene Of his Imprisonment for