New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-02-25
FRANCE.
tn. Electoral Law-Lsuis Napelesn's "Des-
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The new Electoral Law mas aPPoaio' "
the Monito.r. The following are some us plo'i
sions: Ill.
The vote will be direct and universal the poiis
will be held at the chief town In each commune
Algeria and the Colonies will send no deputies
to the Legislature.
The mayors are to have entire controi oil the
drawing ND of the electoral lists, or registers
All Frenchmen are entitled to VOTE II they are
q wears of age, in possession OF their civil and
ro,it;cal rights. and have resided SIX months IN
the commune.
The list of incapacitatives is large, including
the greater part of those enumerated IN the Law
If March 40. and in the famous law OF the 3lst
Nav There are several additional EXAMINATIONS
Persons who have been condemned for having
sold adnlterated wines or impure provisions lose
the night to vote.
The list of EXCEPTIONS or incompatabltles,
is also large No person holding any salaned
office from the State can be chosen TO the Legls-
ative Body, and this ineligibility extends to Pc
nod of six months after the resignation or dis
mission of any public officer.
The penalties declared by the law OF March,
40, are generally maintained.
A table of the Departments and the number OF
the Deputies fallen to their share, follows the
law. The Seine has the lions part, having nine
representatives. to elect. Corsica, the hjsh anu
Low Alps, have but one each
The election for members of the Legislative
Body will take place on Sunday, the 10Th of
February. A subsequent decree VIII FIX the man
ner of taking the vote, and the mOdus cPerandi
generally TO be followed by the Electoral Col
leges. From this we shall learn dehmtlvely
whether the vote is to be by Yes and No, or by
the ordinary method Of opposing candidates snd
simple maJoritres.
The circular of NJ. de Persigny has excited
much interest and no little ridicule; for the
maneuver is too apparent to escape Just esti
nation at the hands of both friend and Toe
This circular. intended for the newspapers
and the public eye, instructs the rejects
generally to relax the severity of their meas
ures. and to release, as far and as fast as
nav be, such individuals compromised IN the
late instruction" as may seem to have been
seduced and led away by the more guilty fOmen-
ters of the sedition. The ringleaders will, on
the contrary, be huddled off to Cayenne with
due and decent celebrity. In a country without
a press, or any other avenues to publicity 1t Is
of course easy to cause the circulation Of such
q document as this, tending to reassure the coun-
try, and at the same time drop line to the Pre-
iects through the post, therein abiding to the
circular as the production of Betty Martin. AS
far as | can Judge, the effect of the circular has
been unfaverable People haze learned to un
derstand the value of such manfests in the
Moniteur When we hear that the prisons are
beginning to disgorge, and that the savage
energy Of the expedition TO Cayenne is cooling
of, it will be time to believe in the humanity
and Justice of the Prince President. A late ar
rival from French Guiana represents that colony
as in most wretched condition. The trade
and the crops Of the products peculiar 70 the
country had largely fallen of, and the climate
was more than usually fatal to Europeans. One
can but hope that this intelligence may obtain
Communication of punishment for the exiles, and
that the convict ships may ""'sh ahchor LOT
Lan,ucssa, instead of Cayenne.
| have to chronicle still another idea borrowed
by the nephew from the uncle, this week. Sew
eral bullets (the best accounts say three have
been aimed at him, one by practiced eye, and
all three have missed him. Louis Napoleon
affects to see the hand of destiny in this SEEM
ing immunity from destruction, and quotes, for
his own account, the famous expression of the
Emperor The bullet is not get cast dc. This
ogregious plagiarist is bent on pursuing the
parallel into all the crooked corners OF his
unces experience. | pity his first wife, he will
be sure to repudate her, and take a second from
the House of Austria. He will shoot somebody
yet In the meats OF Vincennes, and If he does
not die quietly in his bed, will finish his days
gloriously at st. Helena But the parallel will
finish there. l doubt whether the Prince de
Joinville will be sent to Longwood to bring
back the mortal remains of the Presiden.
Usurper, or whether his immortal dust will eve
be sheltered by the dome of the Invalides.
DR.. Veron is said to be hugely offended withthe
President fer not having appointed him Senator
he expected that no less distinction would be
accorded him, in recompense for his long ser
vices. But the fact Doctors name is not to be
found among the newly created Senator's The
Constitutional would Immediately desert to the
opposition if such thing were possible, and if a
healthy dread of transportation did not act as a
check upon all refractory Editors. The Dsbats
announced day or two ago that the Doctor in.
tended TO run for the seat OF member for Algiers
If such was really the intention of the dis
appointed journalist, the new electoral law must
have put an end to his illusion for neither Al
gera nor the Colonies are to be represented in
the Legislature.
The dull weather, gloomy streets and lower
ing skies, with which we have been favored for
the last month, have had their usual effect of in
creasing largely the number of suicides. No
less than five hfeless corpses were found in one
day last week, within the walls OF the city TAX
ING the average Of the last ten years. find that