Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-02-14

ruin Our apprehension IS that so insulting attempt
coercing, rather indeed annhilang the natural
rights and liberties Of civilized man will be rolled back
upon authors by reaction revulsion, terrible as
to endanger all society and all Governments
JAN 22.-You viii have the new Constitution Of
FRANCE before this reaches you, and our COM
ments thereon may well be spared. We cannot,
however refrain from saying that the Government
Of NM Lamartne andSLedru Rollin was security
and order itself compared with this edition of an
Imperial Constitution thus improyised and imposed
upon France by the President of its choice by uni
versal suffrage This new Constitution may be de-
scribed, in few words, as an instrument by which
the President has appropriated to himself nearly all
power, executive and legislative. He is to name
ministers, who to be his chief executive clerks;
well paid Council of State whose members are to
be his legislative secretaries optionay paid Sem
ate, which is pass his projects Of laws he gener-
ousy allows the people the liberty of electing le-
gslatve body, whose powers confined to the SIM
pie affirmation rejection of those projects of laws
AS might have been expected, this Constitution has
been very i'll received but the expressions of dsap-
probation are of course restricted to the salons and
private friends for who with the fear Of prison and
expectation to Guiana before his eyes, dare openly
express any dsapprobation? This is the fifth con-
stitution which has been promulgated in France
during forty-eight years It will be observed that
the money power by the new Constitution, rests en-
tirely with the President he fixes all salaries and
remuneratons; he originates all expenditures !; he
regulates all disbursements. The Times observes
that every thing is settled except the means where
by the money is to be raised" A French loan, at
the present moment, would be almost as heavy an
article on the stock exchange as an Austrian one.
| The Government has had the grace to direct the
continuance Of full pay to Generals Changarnier,
Lamoriciere, Bedeau, and Lefo, who are noticed as
removed pro tempore from the French territory"
and placed in Especial position" The person
named by the President to succeed him is LUCIEN,
the youngest brother Of the Prince of Canine Count
MOLE has been offered and has refused the presi-
dency of the Senate. JEROME BoNAPARTE and
Baron PAsoUIER are now mentioned in connection
with that office. M. BARocHE viii be vice presi-
dent Of the Council of State with salary of fifty
thousand francs
decree is about to appear in the Moaiteur re-
peang the decree for the abolition of titles of nobi-
lily. Generals st. Arnaud and Magnan will be
among the first batch of mobiles created by the Pre-
sident-another retrograde step in the republican
cause M Fould is said to be about to quit the
Cabinet, and NJ. Persigny is named as being likely
to join it. The President is stated to be resoutely
bent upon the sequestraton of the property of the
Orleans family measure M Fould will not agree
to. nj. Persigny would conform to the Presidents
views upon that subject. M. Eugene Sue has left
Paris for Geneva, where he will continue his lite
rary labors. NM. Victor Hugo and Alexander
Dumas will, if they expelled from Belgium, re-
side at Homburg NJ Nesselrode has delivered
note to the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, in
which Louis Napoleon is congratulated upon his
victory Of December I'd but the note contains
postscript, which states that he ought not to 60 a
step further as the continental Powers were bound,
by the treaties of 1875 to recognise the heirs
of Napoleon as sovereigns of France.
JANUARY 23.-We copy below the principal
news of the morning from France. The change of
Ministry thus announced has been caused by the
resolve of the President to con6scate the Orleans
property. The Presidents cousins-the Marchioness
of Douglas and the Princess Mathilde-have inn
plored him, almost on their knees, to abandon his
designs but in vain. 1t will be decided step in
the wrong direction and add immeasurably to the
unpopularity of Louis Napoleon The President
has endeavored to conciiate the Legitmiss and Or
leanists by every in his power, but both hold
aloof with obstinate GOODNESS and the threatened
confscation is, perhaps, made use of as means of
subduing by fear those who cannot be won by gen.
tier means
PARIS, FRIDAY MORNING, O'clock.
DEGREES have just appeared in the AoRtew, announc-
ing that Ministry of State is instituted and that NJ
CAsABIScA, formerly Minister Of Finance is appointed
Minister Of State.
Ministry Of General Police is also created and M DE
MUrAs Project Of the Police Of the Seine is appointed
Minister of Police.
VI. ABArruccI is nominated Keeper Of the Seals and
Minister Of Justice place of NJ Rouher whose resgna-
ton is accepted.
NJ. PERsIGSy is appointed Minister of the Interior
in place Of NJ de Morny whose resignation accepted
NJ. BIsEAU is appointed Minister Of Finances in place
of NJ. Fould, whose resignation is accepted.
Another decree ordains that the Orleans family cannot
possess any real personal property In France They
bound TO sell within year all that belongs to them in
the territory Of the Republic The properties comprised
in the dotaon of Louis Philippe made in $780,
stored State which remains charged with the pay
ment Of the debt Of the Civil List
The dowry Of the Duchess of Orleans is maintained.
LONDON, JANUARY %, 1852
We have several subjects of domestic interest,
such as the changes in the Cabinet, the rumored
increase of the army, the state of national de-
fences and the necessity for attending to them and
putting them in ORDER and last but not least as to
it's importance and consequences, the strike Of the
working engineers and mechanics in London, Man
chester, &c. With respect to any changes in the
Cabinet, not even probable rumor has been afoat
30 far in the week. The general opinion is that
Lord JOHN RUSSELL will meet Parliament with the
Cabinet at present organized that material changes
must and viii very shortly afterwards be made seems
to be almost generally believed. The old Tory
school of politicians have taken the field strongly in
opposition to any extension Of the electoral suffrage,
any progress the subject of Parliamentary reform.
The Quarterly Rcoe'o, the mouthpece Of the party,
says:
Extremes meet LOUIS NAroLEoS annihilstes the
French representative system by compression Lord JoHS
RUSSELL bent eyaporatng by e1p1nsion.