Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-04-01
FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT,
PANS, MARCH 8. 1854.

day the last important documents that had appeared
in relation to 1.-THE answer of the GEAR to NApo
Icons letter, and the able and spirited and prompt
rejoinder to the Gar by the French Minister Of
Foreign Affairs in his circular to imperial diploma
tic agents. Preparations, military and naval, are
making here on q grand scale We have new
ship-ofthe-line launched in some French navy yard
almost every week. The third squadron, which, by
order of the Emperor, the Minister of the Marine
has formed, is at first to be employed in the trans
port of the French expeditonary corps to Constan-
tnope after which it will proceed the Baltic
operate there with the English feet under Admiral Ma
PIER Marshal SAINT AREAuD, Actual Minister of War,
is to have the command in chief of the French troops
which to amount it is said all counted, eighty
thousand strong Some add that greater unity
and efficiency of action the English well the French
corps viii be placed under the supreme command of the
French Marshal Perhaps the Marshal SAINT ARNAUD
will unite to his functions of military commander chief
that also of diplomatic ambassador to Constantinople
Nothing but the fear that his health would suffice
these accumulated duties would prevent this arrange
ment The present ambassador, Gen. PARAGUAY DILL
LERs is at any rate to be recalled to France He has it
seems failed give entire satisfaction his imperial
master 1t will not at all surprise to find that those
eighty thousand French soldiers thoroughly in pos
session of Constantinope will prove rather formidable
to leave. There is telling what is to become of
the debe Ottoman empire amid the conyusons of the
that is approaching If the French do so hope at
any rate that the English will be able seize the Darda
ne Then, having Gibraltar at the other extremity Of
the Medterranean the power of each nation would be SO
counterbaanced in the Mediterranean and the East as
would perhaps better subserve the interests
the world than would be done by the exclusive domna
ton Of either of the three great Powers Marshal ST.
ARNAUD will, it is believed, leave Paris his important
mission about the Goth of this month. The Prince Ma
son Of Jcrome to share in the gories and dan
gers of the expedition in the capacity Of General of Dvi
sion. He counts it would seem, upon returning with any
amount Of aure and fame for he takes his poet along
with him. merry, the most eminent of the Court poets,
and about useless man in camp well be
ceiyed Of will be of the companions of the Prince.
Among the evidences of warke activity which meet
every turn should be mentioned the Offices that open
ed in Paris and nine other principal cities of the empire
for voluntary enlistment during this Russian Some
two hundred and fifty spanards our-ffths of whom are
soders concerned in the rebellion against the Govern
ment which has just been queed in Saragosa have
ceeded in escaping the Pyrenees France They
were oil in most destitute and deporable condition,
exciting purely from their physical suffering the pity Of
the French villages through which they passed. 1t is
announced that the privilege has been officially offered to
thesereugees of enisng in the foreign legion for service
in Turkey. In the mean time these unfortunates have
been sent to various towns in the interior of France
But perhaps the most startling evidence that France
has at the present Of the reality Of the war
with which rumor is so busy, is the presentation Of bill
authorizing the Emperor to contract when, how, and
where he pleases loan in augmentation of the national
debt and intended to meet the extraordinary expenses of
the war; to the amount Of 250,o0000O of francs, S46,
n I-s.1
not imposing upon him the slightest limit control to
the mode Of eecting the loan. The Minister M. BINEAU
made his short report to the Emperor doubtless by order
proposing the bill for his approval This done pro-
badly in the afternoon of the 5th instant The Emperor
ordered it to be sent before the Council of State order
that that body might examine and carefully discuss the
project, and sanction it, if found to be expedent The
Council OF State took up the matter early the 6th
The bill was instantly approved unanimously and sent
forthwith to the Paais, to go through the formay of
vote by the Legislative Assembly. The sagacty of that
body exemplary and expeditions that of all the
other organs of Government under the empire. No dis
cussion was found necessary The expedency Of the
measure, in the very terms of the Minister, self
evident to their minds the affirmative expected was
given unanimously and almost by accamation and at
P. NJ the same day the Legislative Assembly in full
uniform and in body went to the Tuleries to present
received them very gracousy took the bill from them
and deigned to say in reply:
81 am deeply affected by the aacrity with which the
legislative body has voted this law The signal adhesion
which you have just given to the policy that have pur
sued proves to that have erred The sentiment of
France will respond to ours for have the origin
You like myself, the elect of universal suffrage"
And the Pays that it is impossible to describe
the enthusiasm with which the above words were received
by the members of the legislative body"
How" says the Minister, NJ. BINEAU, in his report,
"shal the loan be contracted? Upon this point think
it is to the interest of the State that your
liberty of action should not limited to the end that
accordng to circumstances when the moment shall ar
rive the Emperor may adopt mode of execution that
shall be most advantageous to the treasury"
The Council of State said, in its expose:
"a of $50 000 900 raised in this way indspen-
sable in order to meet the eventuaies of all sorts that
weigh upon the service Of 1854 The Government asks
from you authority raise these means by an emission
of retes according to the mode and conditions which
shall to it most expedient in the state Of credit and
under the influence of the varying circumstances in the
midst Of which the rent shall be contracted Late laws
which have authorized operations of this have pre-
scrbed obligatory the mode Of public adjudication by
contract; but at other epochs the Legislature has
mitted to the Executive power the free determination Of
the mode by which the loan be contracted 1t is
with this latitude that the Government asks you the
thority to effect loan, which is the object of the bill
submitted to-day to your deliberations"
At the last sitting of the Academy of Sciences NJ LE-
vERRIER announced the discovery, by Nv HIND of Lon
don, Of another s nnth planet between the orbits of
Mars and Jupiter. NJ. ELI DE BEAUMONT remarked that
CHACoRSAc, of Marsees two days after the discovery
by Mr. Hind, had observed the same planet At the