Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-01-24

dered distinguished services to the State The latter
to receive salary Of o. 0O0f per annum The attribu
tons of the Senate to be nearly possible those
of the Senate Of the Empire its debates will not
be open to the public. The Legislative body viii be
composed Of $50 members on each electoral arondsse
choose three members among whom the Execu
tive viii select legislator. Hence their would be $50
candidates elected, of whom $50 would be appointed
Nothing yet decided the degree of publicity to be
given the debates Of the Legislative body In fact if
the provisions of the constitution Of the year VIII to
be carried out the legislative corps is to be simply
voting audience who listen three speakers, APP
pointed by the Government from the Conseil Eat to
explain and defend bills which the Ministry alone have
the right of initiating and three speakers appointed by
the rbunae body of hundred chosen by the Senate
Of capa68 elected by the Thus the part
Of the corps legaf reduced to that of mutes in this
funeral of all liberties"
The following from the same correspondent, will
remind the reader of the recent interference with the
business of the Exchange at Vienna
San incident connected with the censorship OF the
press excited attention amongst Bourse people
The leading journals of Paris have been in the habit Of
publishing every Monday weekly review of Bourse ope-
ratons with summary of the during the past
week. accounting for its fluctuations, and indicating the
probable movement of the next These articles had OF
noticed the late considerable rise in the funds
in the other public securities they expressed their anti
cipaon of reaction and they earnestly urged specua-
tors to keep themselves the These articles
have suppressed by the censor who however, has
treated all with impartial severity The absence of the
usual weekly notice. and the interference of the
ship in the operations of the stock market has been much
remarked on and has given rise to various nerpreta-
tons There are not wanting friends of the President
himself who earnestly DESTROYS of seeing end Of
such things and who appear believe that the cessation
of the censorship would be as serceable to him to the
journals affected by IT.
al, II 4 ~
agents have been appointed by the French President
upon mission to the Courts of Europe, for the pur-
pose of explaining the intentions of the French Ca
binet, and also of obtaining more complete expos
ton of the disposition of the European Governments
| toward the French Republic.
| At the sitting of the Consultative Commission re-
ferred to above, NJ Segur d'Aguesseau presented q
proposition to the effect that the President of the
/ Republic should be requested to take up his resi-
dence at the Tuileries as the only place fit for the
| Chief of the State" M. Baroche replied that the
commission had right to take any decision such
a subject, but ought to leave the matter entirely to
/ the wisdom of the President
The Project of the Seine, with the authority Of
the Minister of the INTERIOR placed S0,000f at the
disposal of the Mayors of Paris for the relief of the
INDECENT of the capital on the proclamation of the
votes of the Goth and Dist of December.
The Times has the following paragraph in an edi.
toria
the resume of French revolutions contained in
correspondence there is point to which the readers
attention may be servceaby directed The sketch refer
red included the replies of the French people
to the appeals periodically made by authorities in power
Sometimes il Convention which appeared appel
liant, sometimes Directory, sometimes Senate some
times n Consul, sometimes Emperor. At one period
the people were asked confirm republic, at another
empire, another monarchy, at another charter
The required might be of astocratc democratic
republican tendency; but there is this remarkable a
in every chapter of the history, that whatever
the proposition affirmative vote always forhcom
ing, and by majority of millions Never $4,000
sufrages found in the whole French nation against any
proposal of the powers in being and indeed
find 5000. Either because the appeal was never made
until it became superhuous because the people
perfectly Indifferent the form of government because
they ignorant of the meaning of eectonfor
reason other the result of universal poll nyaria
bly, what we see ii now.
Immediately after the revolution Of 1913 th,
Provisional Government passed DEGREES changing
materially the organization of the army, reducing
the number of military divisions into which the ter
ritory is parcelled, and also the number of Generals
upon the service list The reason for these changes
was, that many of the Generals were known to b.
ill-disposed toward the Republic, and devoted parti
sans Of one or the other of the late dynasties By
two recent DEGREES the Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON
abolishes the acts of the Provisional Government
and restores the old royal organization of the army
France is now parcelled out into twenty-one military
divisions, with the old complement of Generals
Each department forms q subdivision of which
there consequently eighty-six in continental
France In order to fill to his mind these high mill
tary posts the Prince has raised fifteen Brgadiel
Generals to the rank of Generals of Division, and
twenty Colonels to the rank of Generals of Brigade