Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-07-17
FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT
PARIS, JUNE %, 1852.

FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT.
PARIS, JUNE %, 1852.
The Corps LegislatJ is pursuing, as all have
anticipated it would do. its humble and obedient
course under the dictatioh of the Prince President
1t has in two or three instances made faint show
of opposition, timd assertion of independence
but it never fails, poutng the while, to do the be-
hests of the master Of France: like the school boy
who arrived at premature sense of personal dig
nifty but not yet emancipated from the fear Of the
rod, moves sulkily to do the masters bidding, but
does II. By way Of timid disapprobation Of the
new Ministry of Police, it would fain have struck
out Of the budget two-ffths of the appropriations
for secret expenses 1t had the eimpertinence to hold
that $240, 900 per annum might be sufficient for
the equivocaly honest work implied by the title Of
the appropriation. The Prince put down his foot
peremptorily, and presto, the Corps Legislatf pro-
tested that it had no idea Of refusing the trifing
sum of $3.50, 900 more. All it wanted was to have
the latter sum placed to the same account, and in.
cluded in the same clause of the bill with the for
mer An inpatient wave of the hand removed
instantly the scrupes of the Legislature, and the
two appropriations were passed in the form prescrib-
ed in the original bill In the bill as sent to the
House the senatorial dotations accorded by the
Prince were embraced in portion of the budget,
treating exclusively of the public debt These
were thus made part Of the public debt, and not
subject annual discussion and the Presiden
al dotaton and the annual expenses of the Council Of
State the Corps Legsla and the ether expenses Of the
Senate itself The of these annual dotations Of
Senators $349000 The committee of the House to
which the bill referred proposed to place these do
atons in the category with the others The Coun-
Gil of Statewhich in legislative in all other matters
in which it takes part is known to be merely the direct
exponent the will of the Princereused its sanction
the amendment The committee then had the desperate
hardhood to advise the House reject the whole chap
ter of the budget containing the obnoxious clause
companying however, the recommendation with the fol-
lowingprecous specimen of submissive abnegation:
"In fne the committee asks that this appropriation
take the place in the budget of 1853 that
signed to it in the budget Of 1852 to attain this end the
only legal open to propose the rejection of
chapter twelve But the committee remarks that this
viii be only provisional rejection. 1t will simply
amount to declaration the part of the Legislative
body that it would have the Council of State again
anime the question If the Council of State accords what
the committee asks all difference will cease If it re-
fuses the committee then inquiries what will happen?
and the committee absolutely dsclams all idea Of giving
occasion to conflict between the two bodies Compelled
to choose between this conflict and adhesion the per-
ssting advice of the Council the Commission will adopt
the second alternative Jealous of maintaining harmony
among The Powers it will give its consent to the opinion
of the Council of State The country will be the Judge
After the Legislative body shall have announced what it
believes to be the truth the country will applaud it for
having gone no further"
After few remarks from NJ. PARIEN, Government Com
missioner, charged with the support Of the bill in the
House, the Legislature Corps asserted its independence
and dignity by taking the supreme resolution recommend
ed by its vaorous committee Chapter twelve was re-
eced The public is not yet appriEed of the result
the last delibOraon of the Council of State but there s
to doubt that the amendment of the House has
been again rejected and that in accordance with the
ciatory views of its committee the bill has been voted
dictated by the Prince But the history of the very i'm
portan bill for the organization and complete renewal by
popular of the General Councils Of the Departments
and Of the other inferior local assemblies affords still
satisfactory evidence of the nvincibe spirit of
cilation and patriotic abnegaton which animates the
Corps Legsidtg In logical application of the principle
which pervades the actual Government through all its
ramfcatons, to wit the concentration Of all power in
the grasp of LOUIS NAPOLEON the bill innoyated
upon the system which has prevailed here since the fall
Of the empire and gives tothe Prince the power Of ap
pointing the Presidents and Secretaries Of these munich
pal and departmental Councils They have heretofore
been elected from their bodies by the several coun-
els The Legislature ventured to protest Its commits
sion humby suggested that the public interests and the
ends Of liberty would be more efectuay promoted by
leaving without modification the very satisfactory expe-
rence Of the last thirty years But the Council Of State
H. LOUIS NPoLEoS) pursuing the despotic idea with
mperturbabe relentless resolution gracously yielded in
several minor points, at the request of the committee Of
the House. but persisted in the only important matter
touching the appointment Of the officers Of the Councils
The Ministerial journals that the Committee Of
the Legislative body has bowed to executive dictaon yet
again:
"The Council Of State refused its assent and the COM
mtee, considering that the bill only Of temporary
nature TO be valid only until the organic law upon this
subject should be elaborated and that il therefore leaves
the principle intact have not thought their duty in
ss They have yielded therefore, but with the express
declaration that the question remains open for future
discussion"
The question remains open Ridiculous pretension
confidently predict that Louis NAPOLEON win let 20
this hold upon absolute power which the bill gives him till
death nsurrecton relieves France of his despotc rule
The Assembly has, without discussion, allowed to the
Prince President the million Of francs per month for 1853
which he took for himself this is virtually true for 1852
took note in my last Of the speeches Of Count
MoSTALEMBERT and others in the Assembly week since
upon the budget The notice which took Of them was
drawn from the minutes drawn up and published under
the eye of the President Of the Assembly The speeches
can only be published at length by express and special
permission Of the House. Several of the orators asked
this permission 1t granted without hesitation to all
MoSrALEMBEpT. In his first division BY the
raising Of hands deemed doubtful but upon the
yeas and nays being taken seventfve found be