The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-01 00:00:00

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THE FRENCH EMPEROR.

PARIS, MONDAY EVENING

The Emperor sets out for Plombieres to-morrow
morning, and will be attended by the Chief of his
Cabinet De Camp, and an officer of Engineers.
His Majesty will pass the first night at Nancy,
taking up his abode at the Prefecture in that city.
The Cardinal Legate Patrizzi takes his depar
ture from this city, en route to Rome, to-morrow

morning.
At the close of business on the Bourse today,
the Three per Cents were quoted at 71f. 35c.

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORM,
PARIS,
I have been fortunate enough to obtain the text of the
protest which, the Princes' of the Orleans family have
drawn up against the bill for conferring pensions of .t. 8,000.
a-year on their surviving sister and on the children of the
two deceased sisters-
it :

)NDENT

SUNDAY EVENINC

The folio win

anslation of

Informed some time ago that a bill was being prepared,
destined to modify the decrees of confiscation of the 22nd
January, 1852, we confined ourselves to demanding of
our friends to refuse absolutely to take any steps whit'
should seem to show that we participated in thi.

la of delica

ance of reparation
foreign princess allied to our
do more. But on reading the
which has been submitted to you, w
our respect for the n

nd affectiOn for

anded us not. to

ment of our own dignity, do nou
reply. This word is benevolence.' _
only be exercised where right exists not. Now our right
is based on the authority of the laws, and the justice
of the country consecrated it up to the day on which
justice itself was obliged to give way to violence.
The benevolence which derives this right is, then, a
new attack on the memory of our father, and we
must repel it. In 1832, a policy accustomed to consider
money as an Instrument of revolution took precautionary

allow us to I

e without

Benevoien

measures against us by confiscating the patrimony of our
family. It endeavoured to colour the injustice and vio-
lence of its proceeding by an explanation of motives which
revolted the public conscience, and against which we then
protested. At present the word " benevolence" applied
to the measure which is proposed to you, implies a repeti-
tion of those allegations, awl that is why we renew our
protest. Perhaps in so doing we gitre way to a sentiment
of exaggerated susceptibility. After all that remains to
France of the benefits of the government of our fat her,
who dare-say that he reigned in a narro.v.mintle:l
interest? The Frenchman who was ci,,voteki to hit; coun-
try, who, in 1792, fought as a soldier ag;iia4 foreign Inva-
sion—the King who, during eiOteen years, was abio to
render France both free and prosperous--the Kia,st who
gave to her that army whose heroism as crowned our
flag with new glory—this King is for ever above the
attacks of calumny. Lout.; Orleaas,
"(Signed)' "Fr. ,1' Orle.AtuF,

These three sons of King Louis F hill!
de Nemours, the Prince de Joinville,
d' Aumale. Their Royal Highnesses have transmitted
their protest to a member of the Legislative Body, and
he will take care to communicate it to his colleagues ; but
it cannot, of course, be read in the Chamber.
I am informed that the departure of M. Baudin as
Charge d' Affaires in Russia, which I told you a few
days since was resolved on, is to take place on the sth.
The date of the departure of Count de Meru, for the
reasons stated in previous letters, still remains unfixed.
Russia has sounded the French government as to whether
it is disposed to receive Prince Gortschakoff, of Crimean
❑otoriety, as ambassador, in the room of Prince Dol-
gorouki, but the latter has answered in the negative.
A great improvement has taken place lately in the com-
mercial situation of Paris and the :departments. Large
orders for Parisian productions have been received from
England ; the provincial manufacturers have received
orders, and the silk trade at Lyons has all at once become
remarkably brisk. The weather being fine, the anxiety
abont the crops is dying away.
The Legislative Body, yesterday, adopted the bill pre-
sented by the government for lending one hundred millions
(.Z1,000,000) for encouraging draining.
The Moniteur states to-day that the total subscriptions
for the victims of the inundations, French and foreign, is
thus far 2,961,2521 r. (nearly £120,000.) In the total the
" Lord Mayor of Liverpool " figures for 25,300 fr. (.C,1,012,)
as the amount of subscriptions collected by him.

Ire the Duke

PARI3, SATURDAY EVENING,

The Moniteur announces that the French Consul at
Liverpool has remitted 2,500 fr. (1;1000 collected by him
for the victims of the inundation; and that the French
Consul at Dublin has remitted 4,274 fr. (I:170 for the
same purpose.
On the silly affair at the English court about the dress
of au American gentleman, the grave Journal des Debats
makes these remarks :—" We have assuredly no worship
for costume, no superstition for wigs, no veneration for
knee breeches, but we cannot refrain from saying that
these American citizens at the English Court covered
themselves with ridicule. If the austere democrat who
was the hero of the scene had such great horror of cos-
tume, what forced him to go to the Queen's levee ? If he
had the weakness, which is very common to many demo-
crats, to go to court and to f4;ure in the list of presenta-
tions, why did ho not dress like everybody else ? It
would be very unfortunate, if, in order to be a good
republican, it were necessary to be ill-bred, arid iu our
opinion there is something as silly and oansive as aristo-
cratic pretensians, and that is democratic insolence."
The Prince Regent of Baden left this city this morning
for his own country. Amongst the persons who accom-
panied him was Lord Ely.
An action against the precious Mobilier Company, tried
yesterday, by the Civil Tribunal, has excited much atten-
tion. It was brought by aM. Goupy, a speculator on the
Bourse, to recover damages, on the ground that the com-
pany had been guilty of something like fraud on the public,
by announcing some months ago that it would increase its
capital by means of an issue of 240,000 bonds, that it would
give the bonds only to the holders of original shares, and
that it would issue them on extraordinarily favourable
terms, viz., a 500 f. bond for 280 f. ; but that it afterwards
abstained from issuing the bonds, so that after the shares
of the company had, by means of the announcement, been
driven up to a very high figure, they, in consequence of
the refusal, fell several hundred francs. But as the com-
pany showed that it had not issued the bonds because the
government had thought fit to prevent it, and as,
besides, there, were various technical reasons which
told against the plaintiff, the tribunal dismissed
the action with costs. In addition to the inte-
rest which the case presented to financial circles,
it possessed a good deal (politically speaking) in conse-
quence of M. Berryer, the great parli.nnentary orator,
having pleaded for the plaintiff, and having, in the course
of his pleadings, denounced the Credit Mobilier Company
in the most vehement terms, for encouraging the gain bling
mania. The newspapers have nor. dared to report his
speech, as it was delivered ; but not only did he eat: (as
they admit) the Credit Mobilier a " gigantic gambhrg
house," but he said (as lam told) that it has been the
cause of ruin to hundreds of families ; and that it. would

end, not only by ruining thousands of
and even the empire also.