Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-04-24

'OpeAlng OF the session at two o'clock
Constitution of the bureau: Messieurs Dalloz, the
Duke OF farene Eschasseriaux and Dugas secretaries
communication Of collective letter signed by Mes
slears inc Gen Cavagnac Carnot and Henon containing
refusal Of the oath
sDeclaraton that the sgners Of the letter are consd
cred as having resigned
Resignation of NJ. Renouard in consequence of hav-
ing accepted functions incompatible with the Office of
deputy.
drawing Of the seven bureaux by lot.
tIhe sitting was raised at half past o'clock.
order Of The day for Wednesday, 31st March
"At o'clock assembling in the bureaus.
tContnuance of the examination Of electoral returns
At o'clock public sitting.
"Verihcaton Of elections"
The following minutes contain the letter referred
in the summary covering the refusal of Cavaignac Car
not and Henon take the required oath of fidelity the
President:
LEGISLATIVE BoDY.-SEssIoN 852.-MMuTEs.-Prest-
dency Of IT. BAauh-Sessioa of Tuesaau 3OM March
1852
clares the sitting opened
NJ the President calls mind that according to the
terms OF article AZ of the decree of the 22d March, 1852
the four secretaries of the Legislative Body the young
est members present at the first sitting.
are Messieurs Dalloz the Duke of Tarente, Es
chasseraux and Dugas, who take their places the
bureau at the same time with NJ the President
Inc bureau finds ITSELF in consequence, constituted
M the President addressed to the members of the Lee
gisianye Body the following discourse:
"Gentemen and dear colleagues: Our presence in this
place marks for us as for the country entirely
Preserved from formidable uncertainties by will the
quiet energy of which knows how mediate slowly
TO act rapidly France has placed in her elect confidence
without precedent in history By vote Of which the
striking amount has been equaed she has demand
ed OF him strong and protective institutions which will
store to her her security and her grandeur Placed
der the nrocations Of the immortal principles of 1882
fortified by that governmental spirit which animated the
consular epoch these institutions have found in the vote
by which elected evident conservation 1t is
task TO put them in practice; there commences
missions and this mission whatever may be said will
not be destitute either Of grandeur authority We shall
more have it is true, around the Legislative all
those party evoutons keeping the ministry constantly
check forcing to be absorbed by single carethat
Of its own defence-and ending too Often only in the
enervation of authority; but all the time which, min
listers or deputies, we should have given to this para
mentary strategy must consecrate to business
serious practical business this is role under the Con-
sttuon What it gives is the voting of the tax, the
discussion of the budget and that of all the laws 1t
not only the right deliberate freely publicly adopt
to reject but it is also the right of amendments
longer doubtless with that facility of improvisation against
which former Assemblies sought vanly defend them
selves but with that maturity which is fatal only uto-
pias In such prerogatives believe me, there is grand
and veritable power II, am sure, it sensiby,
without mental reservation, with loyal fidelity the
electoral sentiment which sent here, this power will
constitute for Government of its forces the
efficient for good 1t is to march with you in this patri-
otto path that the Chief Of the State has called to the
honor of presiding you accord to me, gentlemen and
dear colleagues much of good will as offer you of de-
vohon and all united in the holy love of country let
give to the world the spectacle longer of Assembly
of swayed by passion but of vertabe Assembly of
legislators, deciding, calm and grave the law itself,
upon the great interests which submitted to them.
M the President read the following letter
q Mr. President: The electors of Paris and of Lyons
have sought US in retirement or in exile.
1--WE thank them for having thought that names Of
themselves would protest against the destruction of the
public liberties and the rgors of arbitrary power But
do not admit that it their intention to send
take seats in Legislative Body of which the powers
not sufficiently extended to repair the violations Of
right We repel the immoral theory of recence and men
tai reservations and refuse the oath exacted upon
trance into the Legislative Body.
'We pray you, Mr. President to be pleased to inform
the Assembly Of this declaration
| ".Gen. CAvAIesAc,
CARsoT,
- Paris March 30, 1852. HEsoN'
an the President declares that in view Of article 4th
of the Constitution and article As Of the decree of the I'D
Of last March, Messieurs Cavaignac Carno and Henon
refusing TO take the prescribed OATH considered
having resgned notice of which will be given to NJ the
Minister of the Interior and to NJ the Minister of State
Nj. the President announces that NJ Renouard elect
ed in the department Of Lozere and having his cleo
ton accepted functions incompatible with his Office bss
sent in his resignation as deputy Notice Of this resgna
and TO NJ the Minister Of State but the official minutes
of the election will nevertheless be verified.
ON the President proceeds to the drawing Of the bu
reaux, which in number. He indicates how
they shall be organized and in what the elections
| shall be verified.
He gives information of the order of the day for
morrow
an. the President that the question whe-
ther the deputies shall sit in costume has been left to the
Corps Legslatf This question viii be decided hereafter
i in secret committee.
"The Legislative Body then retires to its committee
rooms
The sitting is raised half past o'clock These
minutes have read and adopted in the sitting Of 3st
| March, 1852.
"The President of the Legislative Body:
! "BnLAuLT"
| PARIS APRIL 5, 1852
The Aonitear of day before yesterday contains a
Senatusconsultans, the first emitted in regular form
by the new Senate just organized under the consti-
tuition Of the Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON. The sub
| iect-matter of the Senatusconsulum is-what would
you think A declaration of the evident existence
of the contingency alluded to in the Princes address
Of the 29th ultimo at the Tuileries and the propo
sition to the Prince Of the formula Of ple5iscitn
to be submitted to the people comforting upon Louis
NAPOLEON "the pompous title" of hereditary EN-
pcror Of the French, with the rights privileges, and
powers thereto attached Not yet Wait awhile.
/ shall soon have occasion to communicate to you
document of that sort. The first act of the new
complasant Senate has been to accord to the Presi
dent of the French Republic the annual sum of
t,oclUc millions Of francs, (s2 ,310,000) quote
from the Monitcur Of day before yesterday
1.-THE Senate met the LIST Of April, at halfpast
o'clock under the presidency Of NJ the first Vice Prcs
dent, MEsSARD The object of the meeting the
municaton TO the Senate for its adoption of senatus