The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-04-02

PARIS, March 10, 1858.
Nf,c Government arrangements The legislature
-fmnesties-St. Geneuivc Church Grand IT.
Deun,, &c.
The Imperial family Of Bonaparte is now in
mourning, owing to the death Of the daughter
Of Don Pedro l., Emperor Of the Brazils, and for
the more lamentabe death Of the Of the Princess
Camerata Bacciochi, who committed suicide.
The Council Of State and the Emperor have been
much occupied with the settlement Of the budget for
1853 It is now certain that Louis Napoleon has
given special instructions to reduce the expenses in
such way that no extra millions will be necessary
to restore equilibrium to the budget machinery
and grease anew the wheels Of the government.
Great reductions are to be made in the bureaux,
which are filled with employees, doing nothing or
very little-and one third of the office holders of
these different branches will be totally discharged.
So much the better if the duty Of those who will re-
main is better done than it was before For a long
time much dissatisfaction has been felt and expressed
about the negligence of the employees Of the different
Ministers, and Of their general insoence to those who
had business with them, and if such state of things
can be changed, it will be considered as great
benefit to the nation.
The Legislative body is now in the fourth week of
its session. and very little has been done by these
human voting machines The only law which has
been passed by the House is that of credit of 900
francs ($l 000} for an arrear of rent owed by the
Ministry Of Public Instruction, and several projects
Of law of local interest.
A list of amnesty has been published, relative to
164 people who had been denounced to the super
vision of police for their opposition to Louis Ma
pOleon's government These persons belong to diff
ferent classes of society, and they are propretors
agriculturists, farmers, doctors students at law
md
servants. As matter of course, these grdcies are
still under the grasp of the police but they are not
neres as before in certain parts of Retrospective
departments
treaty relative to the international treaties of
both countries was signed, on the 9th instant,
by the ambassador Of Turkey and the Minister Of
Foreign Affairs.
NJ De Lavalette arrived this morning in Paris from
Constantnople. His health is little better, and no
doubt the air OF his native land will soon restore
him.
retained to the Roman Catholic worship, is still
the place of sepulture of the ustrous scrvitors of
the country and the Archbishop of Paris, having
consulted with the government, has decided that
De Profmndi should daily be recited in the
church BY the chaplain. Consequently on Friday
last grand ceremony took place at ST. Genevive,
during which the prayer for the dead was recited.
A mass was also celebrated. large crowd of cti-
Zens were present, and also many public dignitaries
of the empire.
A re Deum was sung in honor Of the Emperor of
Austria by the Archbishop Of Paris, on the 9Th inst,
at the German chapel which has been built in the
Rue Lafayette, by NJ. Chabbe, poor priest, who
undertook, alone, to erect chapel for the of his
countrymen, and has succeeded in doing 80 through
the aims he has collected The chapel was filed with
the diplomatic corps who came to celebrate the
miraculous escape Of Emperor Francis, and all Of
them were in uniform, not excepting M. Rothschild,
who, thougha Jew, was present a. being Consul Of
Austria In Paris. d. Ii. r.
GOSSIP OF PARIS.
PARIS, March 10, 1853.
Strange Weathr-Disedses-I Half Lent Carni-
ral-Ihe Opera Bal Masque-7he Ball at the
Tuiieries--Fancy Ball at the Hotel Roger
Mdhe. Rachers Soiree-Scanddl-M iscclanies.
The Seine has overlooked its banks, and above
and below Paris all the meadows which are not ele
waited have become swamps, and are covered with
water. In the meantime, the temperature is as mild
as in the month of May and could believe that
/ have been writing for three hours with my win
dows opened and without any fire in my room. The
sun is as bright as in June July, and the sky as
blue as in Italy. Whilst such an uncommon and ex-
traordnary change is felt in Paris we receive nteli
gence from all parts Of the frontier settlements along
the Rhine, Switzerland, Savoy, and even on the
shores of the Mediterranean sea, not to forget the
Pyrenees that snow storms of the most violent kind
have taken place in these departments and that the
cold is very severe. The mountains Of Jura, partcu-
larry, have been covered with white frost to such
depth that all the highways are mpassabe. In the
vosges, and along the Rhone from Lyons 10 Geneva
the passage is totally interrupted. Many persons
have been buried in the avaanches and the list oil
the lost amounts to large number Of men, women
and children. Many miraculous escapes are also Il