Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-07-16
NATIONAL lNTELLIGENCER.
FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT
PARIS, JUNE so, 1853.

more difficult than he anticipated to BIT France with
his new institutions and get her to wear them quiet
IL and easily One of his most important creations,
The new Ministry of Police, after being cut and
trimmed and reftted several times, was finally found
"a uineh TOO much under the arms, TO be too small
about the waist and to be in fact irreparable. IL
was therefore thrown aside, have seen, by the
decree ~ the DIST instant The considerations pre-
cedinp The decree are of course mere pretext that
will deceive no one 1t is simply ridiculous IN face
Of the hundreds Of arrests daily taking place for
noal causes and of the reports more or less
true but doubtless not without some foundation ID iac
touching conspaoes against the life OF the Emperor 10
sssert that the calm and security which reign IN the
country permit the suppression Of the Ministry OF gene
raj Police whose institution has been caused by excep
ona circumstances The fact is the ministry ana not
work we'll 1t was, whether from faulty organization or
from administration, inefficient II has proved itself
unable detect in their inception nascent ana
even unable to seize principal conspraors and facts ne
cessary for their legal condemnation after discovery OF
plots was actually made There is longer nominay
ministry but the thing itself no less remains The at
ribuons Of the Minister Of the General Police are unit
cd hese the words of the decree of the instan
to those of the Minister Of the Interior Now, this
Minister of the Interior is NJ DE PERsGNYpwho beyond
question is the capable the most devoted and the
most influential Of all the servants of NAPOLEON HI The
aributons of Minister of Police may be therefore hence
forth inelgenty exercised than they have been,
but most assuredy they will be laxly or less
efficiently The police may be less prominently and con-
stantly hsfors then IL has been out u W pc
more surely at your elbow and within hearing.
By decree of 23d june, the Emperor re-estabishes
Mnistry-that Of Agriculture and Commerce-Thch he
abolished some time ago, and has added to 1t Public
Works which have been again detached from the Minis
try Of the Interior The able administrator and devoted
servant Of the Emperor NJ MAcSE is appointed as This
newly established Minister.
NJ DE MAUPAs, exMnister of the Police, is made Sen
ator, and sent as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
PenpOtentary to Naples. The young Duke Of Padua
son of Gen. ARRIGH recently dead and NJ. BERGER, NJ
MERIAEE of the Institute, and the Marquis DE LAVE
LETTR Ambassador Consantnople have also been
provided with in the Senate by decree Of 23d June
quasi political demonstration Of an ann-imperial
character which has just been made in Of the AGA
demical divisions of the French Institute, is produc
ing here quite sensation 1t is amusing 10 see with
what pleasure such of the papers and such portion OF tile
population would fan, if they dared set oppos
ton welcome every incident Of this sort which relieves
for moment the political monotony Of the day.
The Academy of Moral and Political Sciences held
Saturday its annual public string The grand attraction
Of the day the eulogy NJ. Jouffroy which it
known would pronounced in this session by the dis
tingushed philosopher MIGSEr Something piguant was
expected from his pen. Every academician in his
place and long before the exercises
all the space in the hall allotted visitors compact
" filed Public expectation disappointed; and
the auditory received with loud applause the following
ncsye passages which the speaker while describing the
professional Of Jouroy took occasion introduce
into his discourse:
Fhat great institution THE normal school OF Paris
had just been established 1t yeritable laic semi
IN VIII mos of va.
rious yceums repaired learn become in that
instruction which inseparable from Letters and the
Sciences The enterprsng politician who at that period
(l6l3l governed France Incompatible organizer,
and he impaired his civil establishments that liberal
and proyident good which is always TO be
marked in his other undertakings 1t is thus that he
.kilfuy resolved the grave and difficult problem Of in
strsction given by the State TO all its members without
distinction Of rank religion. For society in which
the mind had been secuarIed and equality introduced
right there was wanted general instruction, impart-
ed in the name Of al 70 each, by civil corporation
sort Of intellectual priesthood This work which the
youon had conceived and attempted the empire achiev
ed grand aic university with its learned council Of
administrators and Of judges its normal school Of pro-
fessors its yceums where ordinary instruction given,
its faculties for impartng special instruction its nspec
tors who watched at once over studies and morals be-
the opportune instrueress OF society aspiring
since 1885, direct itself by the force Of and 10
live beneath the sway Of law only When NJ Joufroy
was admitted into the normal school, from which have
issued many sterling talents and ilustrous reputa
TONS he found those who have contributed like him.
self 10 the glory OF France he promptly took place IN
the first rank With ardent love for the great produc
tons Of mind seeker Of the teachings of science
drawn with equally strong force toward whatever was
artistcay executed profoundly conceived he might
have devoted himself indferenty TO literature phi
losophy Philosophy bore him of. There
causes that were decisive Of NJ Jouroys vocationthe
ascendency Of man, and the want Of reasonable
faith = =
an Jouffroy entered upon the career Of philosophy
and Of letters Just the moment when the Empire had
TO its close and when that career was opened to
him under auspices. During many years, man,
who by his genius and his had made himself mas
ter Of France and ruler Of Europe bad in some sort
thought and wied and acted for the entire world The
favored child Of arevouton itself produced by the hui
mind, he had imposed silence upon the human mind
Having established upon the public lassitude his abso-
lutte authority hearing longer the sed contradiction
Of men, and yet encounterng the secret resistance Of
things he very naturally gave unresraned to the
ardor Of his vast Imagination and to his mpetuous arb
trary will As the revolution had hoped by its ideas
change the interior form Of societies. he thought
by his victories the external face Of the world But
he struggling against the truth Of things and against
the want Of his times and therefore il that despite
the prodges achieved by his genius and from the very
OF his strength, having inundated liberty out
ragged greatness become weary Of glory aud having made
ambition itselfsip from fatigue he fe even more rapid
ly than he had risen.
+" In country, where ideas 50 often change disgust
almost always follows the Of things because use Is
very rarely separated from abuse Thus after the En-
pre- we passed suddenly from silent submssio to elo
quent liberty new spirit arose every side &c,
The Constitutional of this morning cut with long
leading article Aganst ~ Ne representing him the
asrespectul manner in which he speaks Of Napoleon r.
who is called enterprising politician, and severely