The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-01-26

e0mowbefe ab0ot 10, 600 900 abd with 201
slsetonI ssroadisssmsnts. Ne have an average
Of 69.37O elsctos& The proportion Is pretty
much the same - that of 1914. under the con
stitntional charter Of Louis XVIII
The President being Invested by nearly
5000, 900 Of votes with the constituent, nc
doubt considers that he il equally invested with
the legislative power ; he therefore very proba
bly, reserves TO himself the framing Of the or
ganic laws intended to develope the fundamental
oases Of the constitution. II 10 not clear that
such an inference is strictly logical; nor does il
on the first view, appear quite in conformity
with the Proclamation Of the I'd of Decsmbsr, in
which the President said, when addressing him.
self to the people, II submit to your sufffsges
the following fundamental bases OF a constitu-
ton, which the assemblies shall develope here
after" However that may be, it is thought
probable that it 10 the President who will sue.
cessiveIy frame the laws in question, and that
he will do 90 in virtue Of the powers just al!ud-
ed TO, and previous to the meeting OF the legis-
lativs bodies
The elections of the representatives will, it is
believed, take place on the 25th Of the present
month; bat it Is likely that the legislative corps
and in the interval the "o,ganic laws" will be
prepared.
These organic lava are looked forward to
with much anxiety, from the probability that
many interests will be affected by them. have
already alluded to the question OF the press, and
It is now reported that the University. and, per-
haps, the magistracy, will be also seriously mod.
flied by them. In both institutions there are
many functionaries who are not liable to re-
moval from their places in the departments as in
the capital.
The anxiety with which these laws or regula-
tons are awaited, and which may affect the prin-
ciple of memorabilia, may be easily judged.
The university, in particular, has arrayed against
it many and formidable adversaries. II is stated,
and am assured with truth, that the President
feels much repugnance at interfering; but it is
feared that his repugnance will not prevail over
the hostility felt towards that body; and that
such is the case, has been surmised from the
language held in the saloo ~ of the minister of
public instruction, to the members of the uni
versity, on the occasion of the first of January
Something was then said Of the dangers that
menaced the university, and the heads of that
institution were enjoined to recommend to their
colleagues the greatest prudence and the utmost
moderation, in order to remove all pretext for
the iIl-Sill of its adversaries.
The intention is also attributed to the Presi-
dent Of initiating, in some respects, the pre-.
cedents of 1914 and 1915. 1t is true that the
government of Louis XVIII. did not show any
profound respect for vested interests; at that
period they were ALL or nearly so, called in
question--those of professors AS we'll as of
judges Under pretence Of regulating the posi-.
ton of many professions which, in some de-
gree, have Il public character, such as notaries
and auoues of the courts of law, buissiers, agens
de change, couriiers de commerce, some were sup.
pressed, others suspended; and those that were
retained were subjected to certain conditions of
an onerous kind But, AT the same time, those
changes were effected so as to make of them a
real patrimony as they are at present and it is
hoped that these, at all events, will be respected
They represent for those who possess them
value Of much more than $4,000 ,OOOf.; they
have served as elements, or guarantees, for an
amount OF operations and the slight
est indication of any change would occasion, in
all the interests concerned, an iDcalculable and
perhaps dangerous perturbation. The best au.
thorties here are of opinion that the President
would do well to dissipate these fears by for
NAL declaration Of his intentions. In this coun-
try of Capitalization, Were every branch is so
bound up with the other, an injury done to any
one right, to anything regarded in the nature Of
would endanger all. The non.liability
to removal of the magistracy, for instance, is
closely connected with the value and the solidity
of the professions and conditions already alluded
to; the magistracy protects them, because those
invested with them are virtually its agents; and
if the principle of the inamoubiite of the magis-
tracy be called in question, the many who de-
pend on it would be scarcely in safety.
Austria.
REVOCATION OF THE MARCH CoNsTI.
TUITION
The Wiener Zeitung of January lst contains
the following DEGREES of the Emperor of Aus
tria. 1t will be seen that whereas the provi.-
ions of the constitution were cancelled by the
imperial edict of August 20, 1851, the last
principles of political right conceded by the con-
stitution are now disavowed There now exists
no political right in the empire. The first of
these DEGREES aunuls the constitution in the fol.
lowing words:
We, Franz Joseph l., by the grace of God,
Emperor of Austria, &c, &c.
In pursuance of our ordinance of 10th August,
1851, the constitution promulgated by the pat
ent of March 4, l849, has been submitted to a
thorough examination by our ministry and our
imperial council.
Since, according to the result of this invest.
gatiOn, the salQ constitution neither agrees IN Its
fundamental principles with the situation of the
Austrian imperial state, nor is capable of execu-
ton in the totally Of its provisions, we find
ourselves, after anxious consideration of all the
facts. compelled by our duty as regent hereby to
declare the said constitution of March 4, lS49,
null and void.
The equality of all subjects before the law,
as we'll as the abolition of peasant service and
bondage, and the duties formerly connected
herewith Qor which compensation has been
adjudged to feudal proprietary is expressly
In order to be able 10 attain to those nstitu
lions, which are calculated to satisfy the require
ments of our different peoples, and to fulfil the
of the welfare of all classes of the
same, and in order also to fortify our govern.
ment, and secure the unity and power of our
state, we shal abide in the path of experience
proving the exact necessities of the empire, and
from time to time shall issue suitable organic
laws.
Upon the ground of these considerations we
have, after hearing the consul of our ministry
and Reichsrath, received upon seies Of princi-
Pies as the basis of those organic laws, and have
that these be made public without