Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-11-13
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENCE

BY this time, doubtless, the assurance o. ING ~
storat;on of the French Empire, in the person OF
IoTys N.po,roN. is as confident and as settled on
vour side Of the water as on this. The epoch of the
change Is almost as certain as the event itself IL
will he before the close of the present year. No
stem however since that which has been already re-
norted the convocaton Of the Senate for the 4th of
November has been taken. Committees OF that
bodv are known to be informally sitting, busiy en-
Moved in the examination of the petitions for the
Empire which have been already sent in asserting
them, counting the signatures, testing their regu-
larity and remittng to the projects for egalizaton
those which seem wanting in form.
\ With laudable punctousness, LOUIS NAPOLEON
iscareful to let no mark of the spontaneousness the
sincerity, and universally Of the popular movement
that's bearing him to the throne be wanting The
pagesof the Moaitcm will afford to the captious
future historian most abundant testimony. Ordi-
narily tie action of Government agents in the pro-
vnces is mo- mentioned in the official Journal The main
fact of the popular in the coming change,
and of the expression Of earnest wish to sect effected
is recorded More would swell to unreasonable length
the columns Of the official Occasionally, however, the
naiv1 of provincial journals uncovers the machinery by
which this grand phantasmagora of universal suffrage is
worked and shows the character Of the agents who set it
in motion For instance sometimes read in papers Of
that of which give part below M
q The Mayor Of Eis;eux j. -. Ssss..- -~ss:-srs.
0GESTLEMEN: receive from M. lie Prefect form Of
demand for the establishment of the Empire to be adj
dressed clothed with your signatures to NM the Sena
tors who are to propose the restoration of the Empire
the person of LOUIS NAPOLEON. This demand is thus
conceived"
Here follows the form of the petition and the Mayor
proceeds:
"You viii hasten gentlemen to sign with this mani
festation You will concur in the sentiments expressed
by all France for the reestabishment OF Government
which consolidate the prosperous condition in which
the genius LOUIS NAPOLEON has placed U.S. and give
entire security for the future. vive rEmpereur!
LIsEUx, OCTOBER 10, 1852.
60 The Mayor: "VIcToR GoDEFRoY
"NoTE.-The petition is to be signed at the Mayors
Office between 10 A. NJ and P. NJ"
Now there are in France eghty-six departments and
thirty-seven thousand and forty communes Each de-
partment has its project and each its mayor
Doubtless the project of the department of Cavados ad
dressed to all of his subordinate mayors the mayor
of Lseux the form of petition with instructions for its
execution Probably all the projects of the eighty
departments have had similar communication with their
Mayors only was unnecessary that this should in all
be published Now when is remembered that all
these projects nominated by the Executive and have
been recently nominated with special reference to their
devoted active exclusive Bonapartism, and that the
thiryseven thousand mayors all nominated either by
the Executive Paris these projects and when is
further remembered how important the powers Of the
preecs and how almost irresistible the influence of the
mayors upon the small sections of the population with
which they severay in contact may well be feared
that the thousands of petitions upon which the contem
plated action of the Senate is be based and the in
Vulnerable addresses from the provinces all to the same
end which adorn the columns of the Monieur, not
really spontaneous might be desired and as in official
circles they declared to be- But doubt perhaps not
admissible in presence Of the repeated direct assertions in
the Monteur of their complete and absolute spontaneiy
1t is remarkable what prominence is accorded COM
and commercial men in the visible apparatus by
which this movement toward the Empire is being effected
This certainly corroborave Of the famous doctrine re-
Gently emitted with much ecat at Bordeaux, the En-
pire peacet That important political exposition was
made by the Prince in the great commercial city of Bor
deaux, dinner in which he honored with his presence
the chamber and tribunal of The Prince at
tends no more military banquets, and gives to the
officers One would be almost tempted to believe that the
reviews and banquets Of Salary repented Of The
Honitew of yesterday morning affords another proof Of
the role that commerce. of the landmarks Of peace
is playing in the great drama Of which France is now the
scene At the head Of the first column published
address just delivered to the Prince by the very important
body the Chamber of Commerce of Paris. 1t is worth
universal cry for the Empire:
sMonseigneur You have said the Empire is peace.
That is say, it is order labor, credit impulse
ncated to all great undertaking. public and private II
is webeng diusing itself throughout all classes of
ciety; il is general prosperity
France which has faith in your words which has the
presentment of all that you mediate for its happiness,
and which knows from experience that between your will
and its realization there is hardly time for hope France
is awarding to you by an immense and unanimous acca-
nation, the power supreme Yield Monsegneur to the
wishes Of France You will acquire thus yet another title
to its gratitude The commerce Of Paris, whose organs
are offers you in advance its hearty thanks. To live
and prosper it has need Of peace With most undoubt
ing confidence expects peace at yeur hands and tun-
dersands that this peace WILL under your reign be the
firm and the more lasting because 1t win never be
purchased at the expense Of the honor and the grandeur
Of our country"
1t is rumored that grand measures political and
financial win preface to the Empire and the
Hone win very shortly be charged to make them pub
c-amnesy reduction Of the army, lowering Of the rate
of interest money, conversion Of the four and half
per cents and the renewal of the redemption of the three
per cents discontinued since 1S4S Concerning the last
measure Louis NAPOLEON is known to have said to cele
brated banker some months ago. Under my government
the French three per cents must be quoted avoraby
the three per cents Of England" Concerning amnesty
have myself little expectation that any large beraty
will be practised Doubtless something will be DONE but
the adopted wi closely examined be like that
Of the 18th August last The number Of pardons accord
ed viii high upon paper but they will turn out to
be mostly full pardons but combinations Of punish
Al. IN tba Mains