New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-13
FRANCE.

| A Paris letter. published here to-day, says the
rumors of a possible abdicatiOn foreshadow not
improbable event. AS the Emperor Is haDie 10
returns of his sickness incapacitating HIM from
business many think his sons majority VIII DC pro-
claimed on his next birthday.
THE EMPERoRs HEALTH.
PARIS, Saturday, Sept. II, 1862
The official newspapers to-day announce that Napo-
ioo" 10 "'' PARIS, Sept. 10. 1862
The Emperor did not go out to-day on account OF
the severity of the weather.
| HURRICANE.
A fearful hurricane has swept over the north OF
| France. causing much damage TO crops and Other
property
| THE sENATUs CoNSULTUM AS PROMULGATED
The Journal OficieI publishes the tex5 of the
| Senatus Consultum. which is promulgated IN the
name of the Emperor. and is signed by Rouher ana
countersigned byHDuvergier The following is a
| synopsis of the document
ARTICLE |. The Emperor andthe Corps Legislai nave
| the privilege Of initiating laws.
ART II. The Ministers dependen on the Emperor
they deliberate MISUNDERSTANDING. are responsible
| but can only be impeached by the Senate.
| ART III. The Ministers may be members OF either
Chamber They have free access to andLthe- nsht 10
| speak in both.
! ART " The stings of the Senate are open to the
public but on demand of five memberships Senate may
| 20 into secret session.
ART Y.-The Senate, after pointing out notifications
in BILL may send it back for further consideration to
the Corps Legislatif II may in any case oppose inc
PRONUNCIATION OF bill and in such the bill cannot be
presented in the Corps Legsla again during the same
session -. .iAr1L
Ar. vi-The Corps Legslahf selects its own on
AZ the openng of each session. The Senate and the
CORPS Legslatf make their internal regulations
ART yH-Every individual member OF the Senate
and Corps Legsauf has the right Of Interpolation
Votes Of Confidence want OF confidence ordres de Jour
oEr1 can be adopted but they must be referred 10 the
bureaux as matter of right whenever the Government
demands IT, and the bureaux will then appoint acommis
sion 20 consider the matter whose report the Corps
will decide whether TO accept or reject the vote.
ART VIII No amendment Of a bill can be discussed
unless it has been previously sent TO the Committee
which considered the BILL and also communicated TO the
| Government. II the Government and the Committee
disagree in the amendment, the Council Of State shall
pronounce is opinion but the final decision rests with
the Corps Legislatif.
ART The budgets presented and voted by chap
| tiers and articles
! ART X All notifications in customs postal tariffs
made through with foreign nations VIII require
| a law 10 make them. binding.
| ART III The relations OF the Emperor Senate, and
Corps Iegsat are charged only in far as they are
modified by this senatus Consultum. Their formal inter
course will be settled hereafter by Imperial decree.
ART XII Certain articles OF the Constitution ineon
sisteut with the above provisions are abrogated.
| VI. SYNONYM on THE AMERICAN FISCAL LEGIs-
| LATION
A report from NJ. Simonin, addressed from
New.York TO the French Minister for Agriculture. has
been published IN Paris. NJ. simonn was commissioned
y the French Government TO report on the mineral re-
sources Of the United States and IN that document he
writes from free trade point Of view We extract the
| following passages:
~ he ms
lures The Southern States, conquered and hnmbed by
the reconstruction laws imposed by the North
! have employed all their efforts in opposing them ana
have reclaimed against the tariff Besides they are
themselves establishing cotton mills and require for the
production of sugar the same protection the Northern
States for their tissues and iron Inc western SteH
essentially agricultural, are apparently becoming more
OF evils OF this system is to increase the price Oieyey
thing, and at the same time the price OF labor Now
what means can certain attract immigrants
which the Western States much require than the IN
ducement Of high wagesi Beside these states ehcouI
aged by the high rate of the tariff which allows Industry
TO establish itself everywhere as In hothouse become
in their turn manufacturing and consequently iaVoaele
10 protective duties The Pacific States have not so Tar
interested themselves about protection except California
who equally desires TO have her manufactures ana whose
soil seems bound TO furnish TO the Union share OF the
| wine which IL requires
Having traced, not without some errors, the tariff egs
latiOn OF the country, he continues:
1t will scarcely believed that in country Of self
government" free trade numbers SO few partsans If
as individuals and that all human passions found
constantly operating IN nations as IN bodypoitic the
The tariff is regarded defiance TO Europe OF whom
they had to complain while the civil war continued
| Is not their country the most extensive and
richest continental power of the world In her own ter
exchange. Is not that sufficient not that true com
Reson 70 the way is free ali products are
distributed without toll Europe has need OF the Union
the Union has need Of Europe what docs she re-
| ceive from herr FabricsI She manufactures them.
Wines and spirits She processes 10 produce excellent
wines. and in time hopes to be able TO do without
European liquors Crude mealsi She has the richest
IRON lead, copper, and mercury mines in the world.
Coal Her coal mines are more than hundred times
greater in and richness than those OF England
herself Fancy articles and 1e%eTy me more eI
10 buy them, the more will native industry be lmPeled
initiate the European products ana IN the emu sue
cessfuly compete with them.
REPUBLICAN OPINIONS OF NAPOLEON IN LYONS.
The Paris correspondent OF the Sdia Public gives the
following statement from political parsonage 1t was
known only to very few persons and he guarantees its
entire accuracy:
Louis now Napoleon III Intimately connected with
family whom shall refer to by the Christian name OF
triumph of the Prince did the Edward family forget Nun
business correspondence as aeoniS az G h
pire In ls59-November. If AIN not mlstaken.Edwa
and family came to France TO CONGRATULATE MS Irena on
hands, their recollectons OF 20 years ana CON
but Mr. Edward did not object to eonhde
to two or three persons the strange matters
me alter, ns oS the ndspostion Ok the Prince Imperial
which sufficiently grave 20 cause fears OF ms DEATH
and the paternal mind haunted with phahtons OF
the sickness of the child IN have the misfortune TO
lose him." said the Emperor, and II the imp0ssiDy OF
having another direct heir Is apparent TO me- sha Gel
tanly place an extraordinary project In execution /
would wish then TO give France the privileges nDeres,
and even the manners OF republic should Wlsh 10
be the first citizen of my country after restoring TO her
all that political necessities forced me TO deprive
her for o time. In word, ! would render alter
me all form OF government impossible but the
republican, that alone which wisely Understood
and applied by energetic executive In suitable TO the
French" But II 10 necessary 10 renouuce TINS drean
father of family has right 10 burn the mouse oI nh