FRANCE. [From the Times, August 15.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 469, 26 December 1849, Page 3

FRANCE. [From the Times, August 15.]

Paris, August 12. — One of the journals states that the President has accepted an inTitation to Marseilles for September. Should much enthusiasm be evinced towards him personally, and not as chief of the Republic, in the excursions which he intends to make during the remainder of the summer, and the array should continue to display towards him its present feeling, it is by no meaas Improbable that the cry for an appeal to the country may be revived, aod thai th? ' peojaic .Will

refuse to wait for the legal revision of the constitution. M. de Girardin amuse* his readers to*dty with a long disquisition on constitutions and proposes one of hi« own for 1852, which he says has the merit of being equally suited to Republicanism or Royalty. He adheres, however, to the Republic as the beginning for his constitution, but makes the President absolute for one year, both as the executive and legislative power ; but be is to be responsible to a National Assembly, which can reelect or dismiss him, according (o the view tbat it takes of his conduct. M. de Girardin is decidedly right in one point. It is only by the unity of power in the hands of one man that the country can be kept in a slate of tranquillity and made to respect authority. It is reported that war will be declared unless the conditions offered by the King of Sardinia be accepted. The pecuniary indemnity remains fixed at •*• 3,000,000, tbat is, 75,000,000 of francs. Letters from Grenoble state, that a movement has taken place amongst the regiments comprising the Army of the Alps. The colonel of the 15th regiment in garrison in that town has received orders to form two battalions on the war footing, and the regiment comprising the 6th division have received orders to place three companies of each regiment on the war footing. j It was stated at the Bourse, in rather a positive manner that the Government had come to an arrangement with a company of French and English capitalists respecting the Lyons railroad, and that no serious opposition to the arrangement is expected in the National Assembly. Public opinion, indeed, is favourable to the transfer of the road into the hands of a company.