Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-02-05

grade go and from the audience for the delivery
of letters in their carriages Touching the rank and
rules of precedence affecting the diplomatic corps at the
Court of NAPOLEON ILL.,, the Moniteur that,
for the purpose of regulating the rank of the Princes
and Prncesses relatives Of the Emperor form
ing part of the imperial family his Majesty has decided
that these Princes and Prncesses shall take rank imme
diately after the diplomatic corps assembled in body,
and after Ambassadors when the diplomatic corps shall
not be assembled"
week elapsed after the in the Moniteur
the arrival in Paris of fresh credentials for the Minis
Of Austria and Prussia before those
received by his Majesty. This delay beginning to
excite alarm lest the terms Of the recognition Of the
Frnch Empire by those Powers suoh to be unac
tceptahie his Majesty NAPOLEON III The difficulty
however if any really existed heen gotten over fo
| ths receptions have taken place.
We find in German papers, just arrived in Paris, tho
the addressed by the President Of the Gd
Diet to the French Minister at Frankfort containing the
recognition by that body of the French Empire A
passage of this document worth extracting
bearing upon the important questions of peace in Europe
and the maintenance of the treaties Of 1915, confnng
France within her old limits. The document says:
:" The high Assembly could not but welcome, with the
lively satisfaction the assurances contained in that
letter. 10 letter of the French Minister communicating
the Diet the accession Of NAPOLEON ILL., the throne
| q that the sovereign power in France would not
change its attitude with respect to foreign Powers that
would its efforts the preservation of peace
md of social order; and that jealous of its rights
would equally respect the rights of others The Diet
in these declarations guaranty for the respect of
existing treaties and for the maintenance of the territorial
dispositions upon which the political system of Europe and
the general peace repose."
The famous political pamphlet entitled The Limits of
France, to which have hitherto alluded continues to
be discussed in the English German and Belgian journals
with much acrimony though had not been made
matter Of explicit Reputation in the official journal of
this Government The fact is this general interest in
the subject is inspired by the universal sentiment that
the pacific expressions and promises of
the French Emperor and the great interests which
command peace the extension of the limits of France
the Alps and the Rhine enters forciby into the logic
Of events and must the risk of convulsing all
Europe war; become of the facts of the late French
revolution The French themselves share in this convic
ton less largely than foreigners Suggest this extern
of French boundaries and the tendencies in that d
rection which the Government of NAPOLEON ILL., exhibits
not one will recall your memory the terms Of the
Princes speech at Borde ,uxF empire c'est Ia pair-as
settling without dispute the foreign policy of NAPOLEON
Ill nine in ten will give you characteristic Immoral
movement and reply Oaic est probable or "qua soft "
or En- Jie ieaa' les liites ndtuelles" " and
some viii have the hardihood to add like worthy
citizens who hankering after Cuba, les Belge'
cuxmsmes e resent = d, in trsah that the doctrine
manifest destiny" respecting the enarg cement Of thu
French empire the Alps and the Rhine finds in Franc
many and willing believers does that of the ulti
mate extension Of our own Republic the whole cont
nent of North America and the West India Islands, in til
actual United States As for myself believe firmly i
both destines," but very willingly in either.
Few things have occurred these late years graf
flying French vanity than the career far it has
run, of Count RAoUssET BoULBoS in Northern Mexico
Biographical notices and anecdotes of the Count ar
coming in to US from all quarters of the empire.
Another attempt make French transatlantic
vgaton something than it isa vain hope mort
flying Souvenirs foot Cher6ourg is to be the
ire Of its operations That fact Of itself has very
pons look Cherbourg is the strongest military sea.poy
Of France and just opposite England. Why, If CONNER
cal enterprise furnished the main motives and
ca interests the chief ends the scheme about to be
allied, was not Havre chosen its seat-Havre, aread
the important seaport of France, the
nent to Paris and which already affords very comfora
bic accommodation to the two least respectable trans
atlantic American steamers the Franklin and Humboldt
help suspectng that this magnce enterprise
comprising three lines-ons New York. Brazil
and the third Mexiconvolvng the service Of thirty
FIVE large steamers say cannot help suspectng tina
this magnificent enterprise at the head Of which is nom
nay placed private French company, but in which the
frencn IS 10 De concerned 10 the amount OF
three ourths and probably Of nineteentwentieths is
pretex under Of which the naval pre-
paraons of NAPOLEON Ill msy to extent at least be
veed from the eye Of Great Britain and the world That
a single French company, and that company already
charged with much il well attend to-the Medi-
packet mail line between Marsees and
the Rascan 1.-THE Of the responsibility nvolv
ed can raise 1.-THE Of the funds required get up and
keep this enormous Of thrtyfv large steamers is
not for moment to be credited. The idea is simply ri
dcnous French enterprise has shown itself yet
equal even to establishing respectable line Of French
coasting steamers Would il have the pretenson would
private capital dare then to embark in wholesale
transatlantic scheme that 10 question consider it.
therefore as nothing less than imperial decree
adding some hirty-fye the naval force Of
France.
most interesting and touching lately occurred
at the Vatican in Rone. II was upon the occasion Of
the new year when the French missionaries in the
nal city repaired the palace to present his Holiness
the usual pliments Of the season.
The Moae Of this morning thus describes the scene
"Upon the occasion Of the 1st Of January the Holy
Father received in body the superior officers Of the
French army. NJ lie Gen. GEMEAu addressed 70 the So
vereirn Ponti DISCOURSE in which he alluded in gene
raj terms the many circumstances so favorable to
France and Rome that characterized the actual situation
Of public affairs. His Holiness replied in most happy
terms aud;ng the benefits which we're already to be
attributed the Emperor and to those which were yet
to be expected from him His Holiness expressed his
lively gratitude towards his imperial Majesty towards
the French army towards France ever worthy her ap-
peation Of eldest daughter Of the church The Holy
Father much affected when pronouncng the words
and the whole company was visiby affected with the