Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-03-27
FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT

powerful obstacles in the way of this result.
FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT
PARIS, MARCH 4, 1852.
The elections which were ordered throughout
France for members of the g Legislative Body"
forming part of the Government of this country un
der the new regime, are over. They were held on
Sunday and Monday last. The results for Paris are
to be officially published to-day We have from the
departments reliable but only unofficial information
The result there has been as anticipated perhaps
even more Governmental than was anticipated. So
far as we have yet heard but two of the opposition
candidates have been elected out of hundred and
twenty heard from In q few more very rare in
stances owing to the abstenton to the active eff
forts of opponents the Governmental candidate has
failed to obtain the requisite majority, and the
will have to be run over a fortnight hence. per-
sst in the opinion that in the corps legisaf there
will not be found minority of FIVE members bold
enough and disposed to vote in opposition to the
known wishes of the PrnceP President Throughout
the departments Government pressure upon the
elections was applied much more actively and more
without scruple than in Paris In spite of the curb
under which the press now in France, we have
learned SO much Of the truth upon this subject
warrant the assertion that notwithstanding the late
liberal circulars of the Ministers, the elections real
ly took place under circumstances that make uniyer
sal suffrage in France as mere and unsubstantial a
mockery as any by which people have ever been
deceived. In Paris itself there was comparative
freedom. spent the greater part of the first day in
visiting the various election districts of the capital OPP
position tickets freely distributed at the polls and
the placards of the various candidates hone conspicuous
ly upon the walls all the city Facilities and advan
tages not possessed by opposition candidates were GER
tany enjoyed by those who figured in flaming characters
n
the whole though of allowed the
opposition and preparatory electoral public meetings
permitted on the day of election ITSELF sufficient freedom
appeared to enjoyed by all parties Well what is the
result you ask in the captaln Paris, where adhesion
is most desired by Government and where opposition
feared? Let say, however, that do most SIN
cerey hope Gen. CAvAGsAc the only successful op
position candidate, having allowed his name to be
used as most significant protest by the opposition Of all
shades will publicly decline the functions of legisa
tor mean of member Of the corps cgislay legisa-
tor refusing to take the oath Of fidelity Prince LOUIS
NAroLEox He viii suffer rreparably in public opinion
and in history unless he does take this Under the
new regime the role of opposition majority in the
corps lgisla would be Insignificant to be worthy the
attention of public Of any mark value. That of
the minority is assuredy not worth playing.
The Aoaer has published this week several important
decrees-important in their effect upon the internal
of France but not of political character and not
of much interest Of the country One is decree
thorzng the formation of societies within certain terrific
rial limits for the loan Of money upon the mortgage Of
real property another almost aboshes the sound prin
cpe which places the of Office Of Judicial function
aries beyond the reach of the Executive power The de-
cree win seriously invadate if it does destroy the
Independence Of the bench The first Of these two de-
crees that organizing credit oneer in France, sanctions
and reenacts in one of its clauses the odious DEGREES
against the Orleans property In spite Of the disaecon
they create those DEGREES will be maintained in all their
severity lawyer Of Paris under Governmental inspi
ration has just published long defence of those DEGREES
1t is pleasant to perceive that notwithstanding its
political preoccupatons the Government finds
time to concern itself with such comparatively t
fling though still important, matters the improving
and identifying of the metropolis Every day witnesses
some new and agreeable change Monuments are re
touched streets repayed old rookeries are demo
lshed light is made to shine in dark places public gar
dens are trimmed and in order fountains unseaed
palaces are reopened and in fact all Paris, like the
Senators and Ministers of State appears to be decked
in new and glittering livery. The beautiful parks Of
Monceaux and Neuy which hitherto reserved their
charms for astdious eye Of royalty and power are
about to open wide their gates to what Theirs forgefu
Of his own origin calls the vile multitude" The CO.
quetsh little garden plots ardne as the French pref
ty call them) in the Place de Ia Concorde which are
sunk eight or ten feet below the pavement about to
be raised nearly the surface that the beautiful plants
and flowers instead Of shrinking from the public gaze as
before may salute the passerby at his first approach
| The neighborng Champs Elyses whose by-ways were
lately SO dark in the evening to be unsafe for pro-
menade except under the protection of full moon
are about to be splenddy lighted and the fine square
i Of Margny in the centre Of the broad carrage-way
leading 70 the Arc dEtoile, is be transformed int
picturesque garden The continuation Of the Rue Rvol
progresses rapidly and it win be Of the mos
magnificent thoroughfares in Europe The chise not
Ola Mortality but Of modern taste, has renewed tn
noble Porte St Dens and almost nightly for week
INST II has been brilliantly illuminated by the prismatt
hues Of neghboring electric light The Rue des Ecoles
one Of the lowest and most disgusting streets in the 9th
ervse attractive quarter Of the Garden of Pansa stree
which been the retreat Of misery and the hiding place
Of crime for yearsis undergoing thorough transforma
ton Most Of the old buildings to be pulled down,
and the street is to be widened paved and well lighted
The splendid square Of the LOUVRE which has lately been
dsfgured and robbed of all its original simplicity by the
bad taste Of fantastic architect who subdivded itinto
of little triangular gardens, each surrounded ny
fancifu iron railing is presently $50 the rumor goes) 10
experience series Of changes, which will render ~
more worthy the superb palace which cnyirons it. In adj
dtion TO all these improvements the venerable PontNeu
which had fallen decrepude is renewing its youth
and the cathedral of Notre Dame though II