Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-02-21

S''--''oo' IN circulation 81, DOB, 6ol IN discounts
94,37l, 72l
The Grain market is rising every day and -four is nov
shipping for Paris from London. letter from ST. Pc
tersburgh, dated 18th instant says: BY an imperial
ukase the expectation of from every part Of the EN-
pire is prohibited until further orders This will give
an additional impetus to the English market In the pro-
duce market there is scarcely any quoabe change Cot
ton appears to have upward tendency. Coffee tea,
rice and sugar firm without any tendency to advance
in price The Economist up its commercial eptome
with trade is in peculiar and many classes or mer-
chants unsatisfactory condition"
The evening papers state that Lord NORMANDY has re-
signed Imposition of Minister France and that he win
be succeeded by Lord CowLEY, the present Minister
Frankfort The general opinion is that Lord Normandy
is about to occupy prominent place in the Cabinet
The late DEGREES of the French President have
spread CONSERVATION throughout France and disgust
throughout England, and generally, we think,
throughout Europe. The confscation of the Orleans
property, the resignation of NJ DE MoRNY, who,
bold and INSCRIPTIONS as he appeared to be, yet
held some check upon the political impetuosty of
the President and that Of M FoULD who bridled his
financial extravaganza; and the accession to power
of NJ PERsIGNY, and the entrance of NJ MAUpAs upon
the office of Minister of Police the latter being perfect
Fouche without his talents have filled Paris with mixed
feeling of terror and contempt Every feels that these
things only the foreshadowing of behind 1t
was indeed bold to restore confscaon to the
penal code of politics. to supersede the law by insoent
decrees and to power of persecution beyond the
limits of all morality and justice; but all these things
has Louis NAPOLEON done, and it is impossible to say
what he would hesitate to do. The Morning Chronicle
says that the decree conscatng the Orleans property
is as black deed Of buccaneerng punished
by short shrift the high seas The Daily Ne,cs asks
tsxvho Sc
who the conscator?n The Morning Advertiser confesses
that it has altogether erred in its judgment of Louis
Napoleon, and that the whom it thought was to
be the saviour of his country has proved its greatest
curse The Times has long article upon the subject
in which the usual tone of that paper towards LOUIS Ma
is any thing rather that sofened The details of
the Orleanist property thus conscated tedious and
intricate, and the amount is variously estimated Ten
domains and chateaux enumerated, of which was
settled upon the Princess Louise when she became Queen
Of Belgium, another upon the Princess Cementne when
she married Prince Augustus, of SAKE Coburg The in
fanta LOUISA of Spain will lose the large domain Of
Armariers settled the Duke of Montpenser and the
Prnceof Wurtemberg, of the Princess Marie of Or
leans, will lose the dowry of his mother The four rep
resentatives of Spain, Belgium SAKE Coburg, and Wur
temberg, at Paris have held conferences at which the
harshes terms applied to hedecree The numerous
pensioners upon the Orleans family will be reduced to
beggary by the measure
The King of Belgium has already strongly protested
against the decree Many of note who had hitherto
been quasi friends of the President have now seeded
from him. NM MoNTALEMBERT DE MERoDE DE MER-
rMAnT, CLApERoDE, ANDRE, GRAUD, and MATHEW BoDEr
have resigned their seats in the Consultative Commission
and NJ FALLoUx refuses be appointed to the legislative
body The secession of M. MoNTALEMBERT is a serious
loss to the Presidents he win carry with him all the Gu
hnr,tE
in the coming elections by universal suffrage for the corps
LegslatG The seceders will not it is sad take any part
either in the Senate or Coasel GEtat
The total of duties on mporations received in
France during the last three years has as follows
l849 1877 S56 $50 frames
1850 124 SOC, 461
1851 III l2I 485> {.
Paris continues very gay Twelve thousand strangers
arrived in that city the 23d instant The first ball at
the Tuieres most brilant between four thousand
and five thousand persons present. LOUIS NAro-
has put the absolutist monarchs on the continent
upon the Q,a King FERDINAND of Naples remembers
MURAT, and does not know how the crown may be
claimed for his AUSTRIA knows that NAPOLEON was
King of Italy and fearing that the nephew may have
hankering after the title has become quite civil to
England and even polite to Sardinia PRUSSIA also in
tends asking the Chambers for grant for the increase of
The army.
NJ BARocHE has been appointed to the Vice Presidency
IF the Council of State with salary Of than 900
per The of the Council of State and the
Senate appointed by the President have been
3D. Of the forty members of the Council of State nine
we're members of the former Council and are the only
eading capacities in the nine others were men,
'ers of the National Assembly, but ciphers
here mediocre and obscure parliamentary names
would be impossible to select there FIVE ex-Mins-
and member Of the Institute Another new Office
that of "Masters of Requests, of whom forty have
'een appointed-tweny of the first and twenty of the
second class. Thirtyone Auditors have also been APP
oointed whose duties not stated Among these two
classes Of officers found the of host of Young
relations Of the Ministers and influential persons The
hree four members Of the Institute who make up
SO say the daily papers, in measure for the brain
medocry of the greater part of the Senator's The
composition of the Senate is be less credit
be than that Of the Council Of State The Represen
atves selected said be the least capable men in the
Assembly.
So great is the horror of the Government of all free
ulaton of opinion that decree has just been issued by
he Project of Police prohibiting manufacturers and
iers of printing presses photographic presses and copy
ng machines from selling the above dangerous ma
hines without taking down the and address Of
buyer, which is to be Immediately communicated
he Commissary of Police Of the quarter
This has been important week for France but we /
hink bad one for Louis NAPOLEON He has certainly