Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-01-10
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
FRououR q oNDoN CORRESPONDENT.
LONDON, DEcEMBER is, lS5l.

Iours NAPOLEON impatient with the slow de-
aonment of events has discounted his share 81 the
proceeds of 1852 and is now in possession Of at least
the first instalment of them; whether or no ne mas
paid too large premium for this anticpatory trans
action remains yet to be seen. AT present, Iaris,
and France generally, is quiet. Ihis qu,e'ness,
however temporary it may prove, has been OBTAINED
Of the of from two thousand to two thousand
five hundred lives, perhaps many more, for the truth
will never be ascertained In Paris all expression
of public opinion is stopped, and probably we IN
London know more about the true state OF affairs In
France than is known in the French metropolis
The correspondents of our london journals tell us
So Not word against Louis Napoleon can De ut
tered in Paris and to electioneer against hm would
ensure your immediate committal to prison All
the prisons in France are said to be gutted the
moment man is suspected ne is seized The very
air is thick with oppression. Spies are every where.
person to be safe must suspect even his friends.
The election will be the next scene in the French
political drama it can have but one result-the re-
turn of Louis Napoleon by a very large majority.
independent of the military arrangements which
have been made in many of the large towns to pre-
vent the exhibition of any hostile feeling against
Louis Napoleon, there is general desire among the
French people for quietness and although they cannot
approve all which the President has DONE they perceive
that their choice between him and the ruin Of France
very few exceptions opposed to the President Beranger
Dupont Girardn, Hugo Lamartine, Sue &c. are all in
array against him. many of the large merchants
and of course all the Liberals nevertheless his re-
turn is certain by large majority NJ DE MoSrALEMBERT
and the entire pararee have given in their adhesion to
the President the Jesuits to man will vote for him.
manifesto put forth by MoNTALEMBERT as head OF
the ultramontane church faction in France is exciting
much attraction in England In this the writer asks the
people to support the President urging that tyranny
cannot dangerous than the constitution which has
been overthrown
The uramontans Bishop of Charities for the
President and halls him "the preserver of society "
while the liberal Archbishop of Paris is subjected to the
surveillance of the poce-another significant mark of the
times
1t is worthy of notice that whilst the funds rising at
an unprecedented rateand that the rise is real may
some degree inferred from the fact that the six cents
are per higher for account than for cash. show
ing the confidence in the spectators for rise whilst
commerce is expanding; whilst France is generally quiet,
and confidence the Government apparently restored tits
worthy remark whilst these facts exist that there
has not been more than of addresses from the
many thousands of in France expressing the
adhesion of the people the existing authority Out of
the Councils whose almost unanimous votes in
favor of the revision of the constitution quoted by
the President its subverson the only which
has congratulated the President upon the of his
coup feat is the department of the Indre-et-Loire.
The number of political journals suspended in France
since the I'd of December is sevenythr The Steele
paris Journal and the advocate of Cavagnac has been
because it would not insert article in praise
of LOUIS NAPOLEON which rendered its editor by the
Presidents friends 1t is fact that not any of the indie
pendent papers have yet published single word of COM
the and DEGREES othe Government they have
simply copied the ordinances they appear in the Mon
teuv without adding any remarks whatever. Thus the
press instead of reganng by degrees the liberty neces
say its existence rapidly yergng to extinction The
Dats which rarely touches upon politics. is the only
paper unsubsdized by the Government which will proba
bly, survive to its readers with light literature phi
osophcal essays dramatic criques and every thing but
dispositions upon public affairs and public men.
Two more departments (Ayeyson and Vaucluse) were
declared in state of siege Tuesday The President
viii review in the Champ de Mars, the first fine day.
the regiments which employed in suppression Of the
late emeue The Patre denies that any military
tons whatever have taken place in Paris. The Cons
honnd says:
The seizure of the papers of NJ Baze renders evident
the existence of plot In fact all the DEGREES relative to
direct requison of the troops ready not only the
minutes, but the duplicates and applications necessary
to communicate the same seized These, although
drawn up without the knowledge of NJ Dupn stamp
ed nevertheless with the seal of the President of the As
sembly."
The Times and the other leading London journals still
bear the front towards the President The great
in the funds and the railway share market and the
Of perfect confidence which appears to exist the Paris
Bourse, are gratifying and remarkable On Sa-
turday the per cents closed at 99f &c., and the Bank
shares at 2,3S0f Tuesday the per cents closed at
102f Soc, and Bank shares at 2, 500
LONDON, DECEMBER Is, 1851
The interesting political and legal question, whe
Their Jew is by law entitled to sit and vote in the
House of Commons, has been placed in fair train
for deliberate settlement by the judges of the land
The case has been before Baron MARTIN in the
Court of Exchequer in the instance of Alderman SALo
MONS, and special verdict has been agreed to, with
understanding that the should be argued before the
judges next term.
London is exhibiting improved sanitary state the
deaths this last week only but they yet
sixty in of the mortality of the last years The
fatal Of bronchitis amounted the very high
Der Of 1885, The births 1887, 1876 above the
rage of the last six years The annual reports Of the city
registrar for the last three years declare the melancholy
fact that in the city Of London donenot in the wide
spread space covered by the bills Of mortay-1735 in
fants sacrificed annually to miasma malaria and gno
rance or in other words threeeighths of the mortality
of the city of London consists in premature extinction
of infant fe This is truly melancholy state Of things,
and calls for the prompt and decided action Of the civil
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