The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-01-22
TIIYRTY.sECOND CONGRESS,
FIRST SESSION.
Scnat G.

WAsEISeroy, Jan 81 1852.
AND LOUIS sAroLxos's corr p'ErAr-eoanEssos.
phNeT BETWEEN THE AMrArcAs MINISTER srcRE.
TARY OF STATE.
Business commenced at IL o'clock when the Chair laid
before the Senate . message from the President COM
municatipg the correspondence between the American
Minister at Paris and the State Department relative to
recent events in France.
From this voluminous correspondence, which was
referred your reporter selects the following as contain
ing the import of the whole -
RIvEs TO MIR. wEnsryR
LEGATION or THE UNITED STATES,
PARIs, Dec Is, 1851
SR:- The troubles which have broken out in the de
instant, have, 1t Is understood been almost entirely
suppressed. Not les than twenty five departments
put under martial law since that event. and the whole
number OF departments now in that condition is about
thirty out Of the eighty departments into which the
territory OF the republic is divided. The public tran
quty In the city ha. disturbed in the slight
est decree since my last despatch The has
nevertheless as measure Of precautian, dissolved and
dsarmed two Of the legions of the National Guard here
and this morning circular Of the Minister of the In
terror to the Projects Of the tments i. published
by which the Projects are authorized at their dscre
ton to suspend dissolve the National Guard within
their respective urisdicons TO sarm cit zens il whose
haLds the possession If not be conidered
aguarantee OF the of order and sso to ill
among the officers by appointments to be made
by the Preets instead Of elections to be made by the
National Guard Themselves ss heretofore practised
Instructions Of the minister to the Project Of the
eDjoned to take prompt and rigorous tor the
execute Of the DEGREES mentioned in my last despatch
respecting placed under the surveillance Of the
haae police, which applies equally to oil persons con-
Vcted Of belonging to- being connected with any
cret society Both OF there classes of requ
ed to be mme datey expelled not only from Paris, but
from France and 1t is announced in connection with
these orders, that the government will have ready in
fifteen or twenty days. five vessels CT war capable Of
transporting to the penit ensry colony Of Cayenne more
than two thousand persons.
These measures sufficiently mark the unrelenting
spirit In which the its
repression. Since the second day of December presi
dental DEGREES have taker the place Of laws and the
legislation well the adrs nstration OF the country.
has been the sole authority of the President To pal
Late, ID some degree, tits appearance Ct autocrste
government, what is called a Commission Consul
fatve consisting, as it il de6nitively constituted
of one hundred ard seveuty.e eight persons named
Vice Presideney Of Monsieur Beiouehe, former III.
mister Of foreitn Affairs This commission ca its fupc
fons are defined by the decree establishing st. is to give
Its opinion on tuch projects or DEGREES in matters OF
gislaiion as may be submitted to 1t by the President
and also 70 perform in general the functions Of the
council OF state ar that body organized previously
10 the revolution OF ls45 IL il specially charged sum
up and verify the votes Of he people at the polls to be
snd enlargement OF the Presidents powers the re.
fuIns from the departments
send you herewith the decree By which the Consuta
Awe Commission has been defuirey constituted and
ehich contains the list Of all the names which now
ooupoee it-embrscina one hundred and thirty Eve per-
Sons (who were members Of the late National Assem-
bly, come twenty generals, snd several person. who
nave belonged to former abnets of the Prenent as
zen al The members Of the prese mt. and few
Deonging TO the Judicial nagistracy former decree
promulgated the com position cf the commission not
numerous BUY comprising the names Of several dis
6nguhheo persons who Revised TO serve upon t. some
OF whom notified their refusal In terms OF lofty indie
pendence OF proud dsd4in '
In my last cerpsch mentioned TO YOU TINT si.oa the
Late extraordinary events here had ab4taipsd from ap
peefng ~ the usual weekly receptions tho President
etpougn the rest Of the diplomatic corps with the az
SeptioD 81 that time q the repres, Dtatvp Of et4tand
bsd purued different Snce date Of n At di,
patch the Tepree. NATIVE # switzerland under instrue
IN lgs - -
Of the rect VI the diplomatic cops and the only
foreign diplomatic agent o any grade who has ~.
tended the Preeidsnts receptions since the revolution.
ary coup dttat by which the constitution wa over
thrown. In puruiug this ooure have taken
counsel, not merely Of the feelings and senu
YneDts natural TO the bosom Of American
citizen, under such circumstances, but also Of
tboes higher considerations Of principle and duty
which should control the conduct Of pubhc
sgept. Representing the United States do, be-
fore the world. the great cause Of free, popular,
and repubAcsn Institutions 1t would shame that