Jeffersonian Republican

Important from France.

France is again the scene of bloodshed and strife. Louis Napoleon, President of that nominal Republic, issued his proclamation on the 1st ult., declaring the Assembly dissolved, and Paris to be in a state of blockade. Two hundred of the members were arrested, and thrown into prison. He proposes the election of a President by the people and the Army, to take place during the present month, the President to hold his office for ten years, and the executive power to remain in his hands during the pendency of the election. He proclaims in favor of universal suffrage by which he expects to carry the masses with him, so that he may grasp the power for which he thirsts, and place himself upon the throne of France.

His plans were sprung upon the Assembly, without even the shadow of a suspicion that he meditated any evil design against them. It was the design of some of the members to demand his arrest and impeachment on the 2d, but his plans having been so secretly formed, and executed so promptly, they were taken by surprise.

Barricades were erected in various parts of Paris, but were demolished by the troops, and martial law has been proclaimed against all who were concerned in their erection; and against all who were found in them.

France was unfortunate in the choice of her first executive. She needed one who possessed the unambitious heart of a Washington to guide her infant footsteps into the path of greatness and glory, but she selected one whose heart was drunken with the aspiration of a Caesar, without his greatness. France has had one Napoleon on her throne, and a second sighs to wield the sceptre which his valor won.