Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-03-13

awaken the least susceptibility of our neighbors All
the views Of the Government in France at this moment
are directed towards internal ameoratons Unjust at
tacks cannot move it, Ii viii not allow its tranquility
to be disturbed until the day when attack shall have
been made the national dignity and honor Its att
tude has not ceased for be pacific and all
to the contrary but miserable fables which,
after this formal denial it viii only be necessary treat
hereafter with contempt"
l suppose that we must believe, after this very
positive denial, that the French Government is
only actuated by the most pacific intentions.
The long expected law on the press is at last out
Here are It's principal provisions. You will wonder
to see such statute the law in France of 1852:
a. No journals can be published without previous
authorization of the Government q The publisher
in all cases be Frenchman in the enjoyment Of his pot
cal rights No change be made in the proprietor
ship or edorship Of journal without authorization
from the Government No foreign journal be cir
cuated without that authorization g. Before the pubi-
cation OF any journal fixed amount of caution money
must be deposited in the public treasury for which the
Government viii allow interest The amount Of the eau
ton-money is to be follows In the departments of
Seine, Seneet Disc, Seine-e Marne and the Rhone if
the journal appears more than three times week. 900
francs must be deposited appears three times week
or less the sum OF $4,000 francs In the other depart
ments in towns containing $4,000 inhabitants and up
wards, If the journal appears than three times
week 70 600 francs must be deposited if it appears three
times week or less, 500 francs In all other towns
if the journal appears than three times week
$4,000 francs must be deposited appears three times
week or less 1000 francs. g. There win be stamp
duty of six cenmes about cent mills on each sheet
of the journals published in the departments of the Seine
and Sede-et Osse and three centmes all others T.
The supplements to the official journals will not be liable
to this duty g. All foreign journals will be subjected
TO It, unless such course would be in violation of
existing treaty O. Every Journal must publish official
documents gratuitously All journals prohibited from
publishing any report the proceedings of the Senate
except such appear in the official papers. They
also forbidden publish any report Of the private scs
sons Of the Senate any report of the proceedings of
the legislative body except transcript from the journal
which viii be furnished to oil the papers 10. II is
forbidden to publish any report Of the trials of the press
before the tribunals except simply to state the fact of
the trial. and record the judgment IL. The courts of
justice forbid the journals to publish their proceed
ings except in the instance just mentioned the judg
ments rendered r. Offences of the press instead of be-
ing tried now, before jury, will be taken before the
tribunal of the Correctional Polce and all appeals will
be made to the Correctional Chamber of the Court of APP
peal 10. In will proof by witness be allowed in
order to establish the truth Of any injurious deama
tory statement. 10. The publication Of any social
political article emanatng from person under
demnation of the tribunals subjects the editors
ductors and printers who have concurred in its pub
LEGATION to joint fine Of from thousand to five
thousand francs IT, Any journal publishing unau-
thorzed reports of the proceedings of the
tribunals is liable to fine of from fifty five thousand
francs independent of any fines incurred by of the
publications being false or malicious 49, Any jour
nal publishing unauthorized reports of the proceedings
of the legislative body is subject to fine of from
thousand to FIVE thousand francs. 49, The publica-
ton republication of false news fabricated documents
papers falsely attributed to third parties subjects
journal fine of from fifty to one thousand francs If
the publication is made in badfath if it is of
to disturb the public peace the publisher is liable to fine
Of from five hundred to thousand francs, and from
month to years Imprisonment In the publication
IS both malicious and of tendency to disturb the public
peace, the maximum of the fine win be imposed 20.
Every contravention of the stamp law will subject the
publisher fine of fifty francs for each sheet issued in
addition to restitution of the of the evaded
stamps For second offence hefne will be hundred
francs per sheet but the fine must exceed the
the caution-money 81 The Government has the right
TO- within two months after the condemnation of any jour-
nal to suspend suppress it altogether. o. Journal
may be suspended for period not exceeding months
BY the ministry without the publisher having in any in
stance been condemned only in that 1t must receive
1t least formal notifications in advance 3D. jour
nal refusing to publish official documents will be fined
from fifty to thousand francs and be liable to
for fourteen days "a III journal which has been
Suppressed by law reappears afterwards whether under
the old with one the authors editors and
printers win be condemned to from month to two
years imprisonment and to joint hne OF from i've hum
dred three thousand francs for every paper issued 25
All fines must be paid within three days after they
imposed under penalty Of suspension of the journal g.
One condemnation for crime under the law Of the press
condemnations for offence within year. gives
the Government full right to suspend journal 81 Any
journal may be suppressed whether in consequence of
judicial administrative suspension, a of
public security by decree Of the President of the Re-
public. %. Any person introducing distributing
unauthorized foreign journal into the country is liable
for from month to and to fine
Of from one hundred TO five hundred francs. %. No
drawings, engrayngs Autographs emblems, Of whatever
nature kind be published, exhibited offered for
sale without the previous authorization of the Minister of
Police in Paris the projects in the departments 90
Every bookseller be licensed under penalty OF fine
of from hundred TO two thousand francs, mprison
men Of from month to two years. and the closing of
his establishment. 80. This law is not applicable to
Algeria the colonies.
This law is thus communicated in the semi-oficial
Constitutional Of this morning:
The decree of Louis Napoleon the press supprcsses
the special pot Of centme ~ mils) the feuille-
tons We do not hesitate say that ii good idea Of
the President both for letters and those who cultivate
them The fculeton-coumns viii be reopened for the
works Of writers but let Of talent
know well that to-day, and taste repe immortality
impety cyncism and all else which can outrage public
manners centiousness and scandal have had enough
Of Our restored society cannot fail to offer
painters Of the finest shades Of character and
furnish them with moral and dramatic incidents yet all
Thepublc will applaud those pictures
only which please the mind elevate the SOUL and touch
enyen heart BY the side Of Industrial commercial
and agricultural France have France loving litera-
ture and seeking after the delicate pleasures Of mental
1t is that which the President Of the Repub
lie has certainly comprised; and that after
having gyerpea and prosperity to the country, Louis
Napoleon wishes by noble and just encouragements to
give ecla in France both to literature and art
Despite all the circulated abroad by maevolent
spirits, writer's at any rate live and think under the
new law Of the peers
In juxtaposition with the law on the press it has
occurred to that it might be interesting to your
readers to have short history Of French laws on