FRANCE.

New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 684, 3 November 1852, Page 3

FRANCE.

In the legislative body, on the 12th Jane, the first sign of opposition to the Government was given. It was proposed by the Government to modify the budget for 1853 in bevcval particulars. I\l. IJlllault proposed that as the bill just pves2liw.il related to the budget it should he at oneo s.mt to the budget cominittec. M. Daudelarre said that the queatioiib rai&od by ihe bill were most serious, and were deserving of attentive examination. lie moved that the bill be rcf'eired td'the bureaux, who would elect a special committee.' After some debate, the President put the question, wl'rn the reference to a special committee, was c rried by a lasye majority. H was then decided that two* committed bhonhl be nominated, and Monday was appointed for that purpose. Tiie three correspondents of tlie London daily papers menaced with expulsion by the Fionch Government were invited to the cabinet of the British ambassador. Lord Cowley proceeded to inform them that he had bad an interview, not of a1)a 1 ) official character, with the minister of police. M. de Maupas admitted that the director of the

press had been guided in this matter by his insti actions. The object of the earning was to bring the English correspondents in their own interests, to a sense of their true position in rogird to the Government whose hospitality was extended to them. With the correspondents of other foreign journals this had alrenrly long ago been done. It was hoped that the English correspondents would be, without receiving a direct communication from the Government, influenced by the warning given to their colleagues of other countries, and use a discretion that would .spare the French Government the disagreeable duty of admonishing them personally. That hope had, M. de Mavipas observed, been signally deceived. The three correspondents at present in question, instead of taking example by the enforced mothration of others, seemed to think that their charter enlarged by the indulgence shown towards them, and proceeded withVgrowing license to spread the most unfounded rumours, and to characterise the policy and person of the Prince Louis Napoleon with unabated hostility ,reckless dibicspect,and unbridled virulence. It was impossible for the Government any longer to endure this license, or out of respect for its own impartiality to show towards the English correspondents an indulgence which had been denied to the correspondents of other nations. Consequently it was thought j proper to visit them without further loss oi time i with the same warning which had been held out to their Belgian and German colleagues. A Protestant journal, imbliVaed in the Finisterrc, entitled Le Bulletin Eeangdi nic d<; laßatse Brctagnc has been threatened with suspension by the prefect of the department for having innounced that several Scotchmen had abjured the "errors of Catholicism at Edinburgh." The Orleans property at Eu has been seized by the Government officers, the agents of the Orleans family offering an oppo&ltion that was of course merely formal. The princes of the House of Orleans have recently held a meeting, or conference, among themselves, the result of which is that they have agreed aa to their future bearing with inspect to the elder branch. They have settled that they shall make personal advances to the Comte/de Chambord, with a view to the realization of the much talked of fusion. In other worcta, they will visit the Comte de Chambord, and acknowledge him as the legitimate heir to the Crown of France. After that important step the Comte de Chnvnbovd will visit the vjx-Q,uoen of the French at Claremont. This is the determination to which the princes have unanimously agreed. The l'esolution had been taken before the arrival of the Duke de Montpensier in England, but he has full adhesion to it. The Duchess of Orleans has also withdrawn her opposition 5 but it is in deference to the opinion of the rest of the family : for she is said to have declared that she is vaincue, but not cnvaimiie. She added that she thought it her dutj* to submit to the decision of the rest of the family, and that she- did not intend to thrown any obstacle in the way ; but that during the time that the negotiations were pending she would retire to Switzerland, so that she might not be an active party to what was done.