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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1.

rills day tho Republic is to give place to the
Empire in France. Thu Members of the Corps
Leguilatif are to proceed to St. Cloud, and there
—in the gilded salons, reared by a Bourbon—
NAPOLEON rue TIIIUD is to begin his reign. It
may be said of Louis NAPOLEON—. Thou host it
now: King, Cawdor, Gliuuis—all the weird sisters
promised. The Empire is a fait accompli. The
sanctioning vote of French universal suffrage has
followed as infallibly the resolve of the Senate, as
the dissonant crash of a Scotch congregation's psalm-
singing does the "giving out of the line" by the pre-
center. The great manager of the politico-melodra-
matic spectacle now being presented in France took
care to drill his corps de fiauet, choruses, and strings
of walking gentlemen perfectly before allowing the
curtain to be drawn up, and the performance to pro-
ceed. Every precaution was taken to ensure a
favourable response from the oracle of the ballot
boxes, and the French people have voted the Empire
exactly as they voted the constitution of the coup (Mat.
And what is the Empire? Something it must be
different (ruin a mere kingdom or royalty. Nam-
LEON 111., wo are told, resuscitates the Empire founded
by his uncle; the new Emperor inherits the rights
and dignities of the old. It is well known what idea
NAPOLEON L attached to the imperial title. He, as
Emperor, claimed not only direct and immediate
sovereignty over France and the French people ; but
mediate rights of suzerainete over a number of
vassal Kings and kingdoms, terming a circle
round central France. His powers in France were
those of an absolute King; his powers iu the Confe-
deration of the Rhine, in the kingdoms of Holland,
Westphalia, Italy, and Naples were those of a feudal
superior over Princes of the Empire. NAPOLEON
111. must inherit all these powers, or he is the
successor to his uncle merely in name.
Cautious and secret though he be, Louis NAPO-
LEON has already allowed indications to escape him
of the sense in which ho understands " Empire" and
"Emperor." Ho is pushing French conquests in
North Africa; he takes care not to withdraw the
French army from Rome; he, at frequent intervals,
assumes a dictatorial tone towards the goveniments
of Piedmont, Switzerland, and Belgium. lie sees
already, "in his mind's eyes," a cluster of little satel-
lite states and kingdoms girdling in the central
territories of the Empire. France, Algeria, Rome,
Sardinia: these amalgamated dominions were pre-
sent to his prophetic vision when he incautiously
spoke of the Mediterranean as a " French lake."
Who attaches faith to the profession, " L'empire,
c'est la pain ?" By the necessity of its nature, the
Empire threatens to be encroaching and aggressive,
for fully one-half of its territory is still in the posses-
sion of others. The states destined to form the ring
of subsidiary vassal dominions round the central Em-
pire of France are not likely to submit to be media-
clued without resistance; nor aro the larger
and more remote states likely to stand
neuter while their minor brethren are being
swallowed up by the French boa-constrictor. The
imperial traditions of France seem irreconcileable with
peace. Where the storm is first to burst, or under
what pretexts, it is impossible to foretel. But the
establishment of a French Empire is certain to lead to
war in some quarter or another. In voting the Empire
the citizens of France will find they have voted a
renewal of the European wars which convulsed the
early years of the present century. And the conse-
quences—should it be so—in so far as France is
concerned, may easily be foreseen. The war will be
long and obstinate. Let France be victorious or
defeated, the struggle must entail upon it
an enormous expenditure of money, and waste of
soldiers' lives. In the course of some ten years the
national resources must be exhausted even by
victory. This was the case with NAPOLEON I. The
loss of Spain, the failure to conquer Ramis, the
revolt of Italy and Germany, could not altogether
have shaken his authority in France, or laid France
prostrate at the feet of foreign conquerors, but that
the resources of the country were exhausted, and her
available warriors expended in distant lands. War
had drained France of its strength, and unable to
resist aggression from without, the nation indulged
in the melancholy gratification of joining with its
enemies to put down the ruler whose insane policy
had reduced it to such a humiliating condition.
If this was the case with such a master of the art
of war as NAPOLEON 1., backed by generals and
armies such as marched under his banner, much
more must it be with his puny namesake. Nero.
LEON 111. has " never ranged a battle in the field,'
and has already reached the age at which military
talent is found to culminate. France has at this
moment few such generals as had been bred in the
revolutionary wars, and these few are (at present at
any rate) hostile to the new dynasty. Well-armed the
French soldiers are, well-trained on parade; bat drill
and accoutrements cannot make such soldiers as were
formed in the campaigns of the French Revolution.
Brave and formidable the existing army of France
unquestionably is—bat far inferior to that which was
wielded by NAPOLEON I. What Franco has to ex-
pect, then, from the resuscitated Empire is simply
exhaustion and enfeeblement. Conquering or con-
Tiered alike, this is the fate towards which the na-
tion will have to march under the banner of NAPO-
LEON 111. Nor will the national vanity be able to
console itself for the substantial loss by unsubstantial
ephemeral glory. The resuscitated Empire is
simply . a triumph of the bureaucracy—of
red-tarsm. It is by re-organising the cen-
tralised officialism of France that Louts NA-
POLEON ham established his power. The coup
cretat of 2nd December was a conspiracy worked
out by pensioners and place-hunters. The men now
in power in France have but ono object in view—to en-
rich themselves directly by salaries and pensions, or in-
directly byselling their official knowledge to stock and
share jobbers. There was a fatally large admixture
or these venal hypocrites in the Chambers, but there
public opinion compelled them to observe at least a
assent hypocrisy. Their actions were mischievous,
but their language was not demoralising. But
the office clerks, who are now all in all,
are incapable even of the affectation of generous
sentiments. Their public professions are a sickening
mixture of hollow cant that out-Herode the unctuo u
discourses of MoLIERE's "Tartuffe," and of courtly
servility such as has rarely been heard beyond the
circle of the court of Burmah. If France is to be
judged by the silly and blasphemous flatterers of
LOCI. NAPOLEON, the nation has indeed lapsed into
the dotage of second childhood.
This cannot last. The France of D'ALEMBERT,
CCVIER, LA PLACE—the Franco of BEaENOER,
Cousin, and ARMAND CARREL—the France of
MIRAHEAti, TALLEYRAND, BENJAMIN CONSTANT
cannot be so miserably sunk as perma-
nently to prostrate itself for long before the
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political talents of the first Emperor of the French.
Hie Egyptian expedition, and his threatened invasion
of England were, after all has been said and done,
little wiser than the forays of Strasbourg and Bou-
logne. And even the military policy of his reign
—as has been shown—led inevitably to national
exhaustion and revolution. But his political weakness
was obscured beneath the glories of his military ge-
nius. There was a soaring imagination in his personal
character. These redeeming qualities, which pro-
crastinated his fall, aro entirely wanting in his nut-
tator. The hallucination which has again induced

France to bow its neck to a despot will this time be
less lasting, and the danger to which surrounding
nations are exposed will be of proportionally shorter
duration.

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUPADAY Evaxiso.
To-day, for the first time, the long sighed for
appellation of t' His Majesty " delights Louis
Napoleon's eyes in the columns of the 3A/site/tr.
The official journal contains the following pro-
gramme of the ceremonies to be observed ou Thuro-
day, Dec. 2:
The examination of the votes of November 21 and 22 will
be completely terminated on Wednesday, Dee. 1. Inune•
diately after this operation the Corps Legislatif and the
Senate will proceed to St. Cloud; the former to preoint to
Louis Napoleon the reknit of the national vote which mole
him to the empire, and the latter to be th, firtt to ohfcr to
the chief of the state in congratulations and those of France.
On the following day, Tnursday Dec. 2,the limps tannin leave
St. Cloud, about halbjeitt eleven, to make 116 entry into
Paris. Ills Majesty will proceed to the 'Tuileries by the
Are-de-Triomphe, the lirende Avenue of the Champs
Hive's', and the Garden of the Palace. Prince Jerome and
his son Prince Napoleon Bonaparte, with the minister., will
be in waiting at the Tiiiierice to receive the Emperor, and to
offer their congratulations to him. In the evening, the
political bodies and the principal functionaries will he ad.
mitted to offer their homage to the Emperor. The maltof the national vote on the p.'cbiscits and the declaration of
the Legislative Body trill be read at the I tote! de Ville on
Thursday morning, at ten o'clock, by the Prefew. of the
Seine. In the evening the public edifices will be ilium%
rated.

Subjoined to the above is the following notice:
Ilia Majesty will, leave. Saint-Cloud on the, 2i,d Decem-
ber at half-past eleven ;he will is e with pleasure sae ge-
neral officers who have nut commands in the army of Paris
ole his cortege. F.,r this purpose, they will await the,
arrival of the Emperor on horseback, at the Arc-de-Triomphe
de l'Etoile, and escort him us fart, the
The proclamation of the vote at the Hotel
do Ville is ordered to be made at the early hour
of 10 o'clock, in order that when Louis Napoleon
enters Paris the inhabitants may officially know that
he is to be received as their emperor. Gen. Magnan,
commanding the army of Paris, accompanied by the
prefect of the Seine, and the municipal authorities
will receive the Emperor at the Arc de Triomphe
de l'Etoile, around which a large assemblage of
general officers on horseback, and in full uniform,
will form a brilliant spectacle. The avenue
do Neuilly from the Porte Maillot to the Arc-de-
Triomphe will be lined on each side by national
guards of the &adieu& Fromithe Are-de-Triomphe
to the Tuilleries the right side of the road will be
lined by national guards, and the left by regular
troops. The entry of the Emperor into Paris
will be announced by salvos of artillery. It
is said that the Bourse and public offices
offices will be shut, but beyond the illumination of
public buildings in tho evening, the general re-
joicings arc to be reserved tier the coronation. The
above arrangements differ slightly from those first
announced, in this respect, that the great
bodies of the state will go to the 'Tuileries in the
evening, instead of being present when the
Emperor arrives. The solemn proclamation of
the empire, which will be made in Paris on the
will take place throughout all France on Sunday; the
sth. In each garrison town the troops will be
under arms, and a salute of 101 guns will be fired
during the ceremony. In the rural communes the
proclamation will be made by the mayors and the
municipal authorities.
None of tho legitimist deputies who, according to
general rumour, think of resigning their seats, were
present at St. Cloud on Saturday evening. At this,
the last grand reception of Louis Napoleon in his elm.
racterof President of the Republic, it was remarked that
the most assiduous courtiers were those old servants of
the Elyeke, Veron, Granicr de Cassagnac, and Dela-
mama. All the deputies who si: upon what arecalled
the" noble benches" were absent. M. de Montalembert
of course was not there. I understand that he takes
no part in the (so called) investigation of the votes
now going on. People fancied on Saturday that the
Prince was practising imperial attitudes. Ile was
more reserved than heretofore, and was careful to
maintain a respectful distance between himself and
the crowd.

The Prince President went yesterday, at one
o'clock, from St. Cloud to the Bois de Boulogne, with-
out escort in an open carriage, to examine the works
of embellishment commenced there. He was re-
ceived by the Prefect of the Seine, M. Van,, the de-
signer of the plans acted on, and other persons. M.
Yore conducted tho Prince to the spot at Auteuil
where the forcing-pump is to be erected, which is to
supply with water the river and the lake. The
Prince more than once alighted, in order the better
to form a judgment of the intended improvement.
The Prince afterwards drove to the Elysee, and
thence to the Tuileries, where he remained an hour
inspecting the deeomt ions, which are nearly completed.
The Salle des Marechaux and the Salle du 'frone are
resplendent with fresh gilding and new Lyons
velvet.

The council-general of the Nievre is convoked for
an extraordinary session on December 21 for the
purpose of deliberating on the subvention to be ac-
corded for the execution of the Cambrai Railway,
and upon such other urgentaffairs as the prefect may
lay before it.
The latest results of tho votes given in the Jloai•
teur are :

Votes known for the 86 depart- Yee. Na.
meats
Army
Navy
Algeria, province of Algien (civil
population) 6,2269 869
Total
PAWS, MONDAY EVENING.
The monopoly conferred upon the Mortgage Bank
of Paris, utter the encouragement given to the
formation of numerous local companies in the pro-
vinces has occasioned loud complaints. It was
thought necessary during the election to send a
communique s to a Bordeaux journal, to state that the
just claims of the parties interested in the Bank in
course of organisation there, would be considered in
carrying out the new arrangement, by which I sup-
pose it was meant to convey the impression that in
the formation of the Bordeaux Branch Bank, a pre-
ference would be given to the directors of the pro-
posed local company. Many people think that
the creation of a vast central institution under
the immediate influence of the government is calcu-
lated to paralyze the efforts of encumbered proprie-
tors to extricate themselves, with the aid of neigh-
bouring capitalists acquainted with their resources
and the nature of their property, and parties who
have no political influence naturally doubt whether
the distribution of the loan fund at the disposal of the
Paris establishment will be guided by equitable
principles.
Three insurgents of December have just tat tried
by court-martial at Marseilles. One named Jourdan
is sentenced to death. These men had been een-
tenced to punishment by the mixed commissions, and
it was contended on their behalf that they could not
be tried a second time for the same offence. The
court-martial, however, over-ruled the objection.
When the Count de Nieuwkerque's equestrian
statue of the Emperor was removed from the Champs
Elysees to be taken to Lyons, one of the workmen
employed in packing it was heard to make some
disrespectful observations with regard to the Presi-
dent of the Republic. Ho was yesterday tried and
sentenced to six months' imprisonment and a tine of
100 francs.

The name of the government candidate for the
vacant seat in the Corps Lcgislatif in the Seine In-
ferieure has not yet been officially declared, but it is
reported that M. Pierre Corneille, the Inspector of
Schools at Rouen, who has lately been discovered to
lzs the only descendant of the great dramatic poet,
has been selected.

The following resignation has been addressed to
the Prkfet of the COtes du Nord:
M. le Prifet,—lntending to refuse to M. Louis Napoleon
Bonaparte as Emperor the oath I took to him ag President
of the Republic, I pray you to be so good as to accept my
resignation sa municipal councillor of the commune of
Qucanoy.—Count Du Pt.Easte Ds GRENEDAL
Baron do Rothschild has finally declined all the
tempting offers that have been made to induce him
to join the new bank of Credit Mobilier. He has
refused an allotment of a fabulous number of shares
at per, notwithstanding the immense premium which
they realise. It is confidently asserted that the gr!ot
capitalist is going to start an opposition bank, with
a capital of 200 millions.
Immense speculation still goes on in the shares of
the now bank, but the brilliant prices of two or three
days back are not maintained. To-day, after open-
ing at 1,575, they left off after much fluctuation at
1,475, instead of 1,700, which wad the price on
Thursday last.

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