The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-08 00:00:00

THE FRENCH EMPIRE.

The reception of Lord Cowley the English Am-
liassacipr, is announced by the Moniteur in the fol-
lowing terms :
"The Emperor has received at the Tuileries, from his
Excellency Lord Cowley, letters of her Majesty the
Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire-
land, which confirms him in his quality of Ambassador
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to his Im-
perial Majesty. Lord Cowley was conducted to the
audience of his Majesty in a court carriage, and pre-,
sented by the Master of the Ceremonies and Introducer
of Ambassadors, assisted by M. F. de Conches, Assistant
Master of the ceremonies. His Excellency was re-con-
ducted with the same ceremonial."
The Emperor has received a letter in which the
Grand Duke of Tuscany announces the birth of his
son, the Archduke Giovanni-Nepomuceno-Maria-
Annnnziata - Giuseppe- Giovanbattista-Ferdinando-
Baldassare - Gonzaga - Pietro- Alessandro-Za-
nobi-Antonino. The letter was presented to his
Majesty by Prince Poniatowski, the Minister Pleni-
potentiary of Tuscany.
A decree from the Emperor accords an amnesty
to all deserters from the army who, up to the date
of the present decree (Dec. 6.), shall not have been
definitively tried and condemned, and provided
they shall have belonged to the classes called on
to serve before 1841. Such deserters as belong to
the classes subsequent to that year are obliged to
deliver themselves up and serve whatever period
of their time still remains due. This decree is pre-
cisely similar in its tenour to that issued three days
back relative to deserters from the army and
marines.
We announced yesterday the dissolution of the
Spanish Cortes, which took place in consequence
of the election of Martinez de la Rosa to the Pre-
sidency of the Chamber, and the notice it received
in the Moniteur. The following is the paragraph
which appeared in that official journal
" Some foreign journals persist in mixing up the name
of France with rumours, more or less founded, which
have been spread in Europe upon the projects of consti-
tutional reform attributed to the Government of her
Catholic Majesty. The relations of France with Spain
are, in fact, of the most amicable character, and the
statesmen who direct the Cabinet of Madrid have kept
them up in a spirit of union on which we cannot but
congratulate ourselves. But the more these relations
are satisfactory for the respective interests of the two
countries, the less has the French Government dreamed
of exercising upon the Councils of a great State an in.
fluence as contrary to its general policy as to its respect
for the independence of all nations."
By the last paragraph it will be seen that the dis-
tinct denial of attempt at interference with the
Spanish Government is extended to an expression
of respect for the independence of all other nations
as the ruling principle of the Emperor of the French,
and this confirmation of the declarations put for-
ward in the Emperor's speech to the Legislative
Rody is itself a renewal of the assurances which
have been addressed to all the foreign Powers with
the dispatches announcing the acceptance of the
Imperial Crown.
Dispatches from a great number of departments
announce that the proclamation of the Empire
passed off with the greatest enthusiasm.
On Thursday last, a note announcing the change
in the form of government was drawn up by M.
Drouin de Lhuys, and communicated to the Mi-
nisters of the different powers accredited to the
Prince President. The Independence of Brussels
of Sunday contains the following on this subject
from one of its Paris correspondents :—" The note
of M. Drouin de Lhuys gives the text of the
Senatus Consultum, which has been ratified by the
nation, with a commentary intended to remove all
apprehension or susceptibility on the subject of the
title of Napoleon 111., accepted by the Emperor.
M. Drouin de Lhuys says, that if France has
chosen a Government more adapted to her habits
and traditions, nothing is changed as to her rela-
tions with foreign powers. He adds, that the same
hand and the same sentiments will continue to di-
rect the destinies of France ; and remarks that the
experience of what has taken place under the most
difficult circumstances, has sufficiently proved that
the French Government, jealous of its own rights,
will equally respect those of others, and that it at-
taches the greatest value to the maintenance of the
general peace, to which end the efforts of the Go
vernment and of the Emperor will be always di.
rected."

The Constitutiannel says :—" It is expected that
the Senate will sit every day this week, and that
the new senatus consultum, intended to put the
Constitution of the 14th January in harmony with
the Empire, will form the subject of its delibera-
tions. It is not in contemplation to make any fun-
damental changes. Napoleon said in his message
of the 4th of November, ' You will think with me
that the Constitution of 1852 should be maintained,
and then the modifications which are considered to
be indispensable will not affect the fundamental
bases of it.' It is in consequence of this message
that the senatus consultum of the 7th ult. was
adopted, and that the nation ratified the plebiscite
submitted to its vote. The Senate is now about to
adopt resolutions which are doubtless serious, but
which, as was said in the message, will in no way
interfere with the bales of the Constitution."
The Minister of Marine has ordered the Orenoque
steam-frigate, of 450-horse power, lying in the
roadsted of Toulon, to be got ready, to take Abd-el-
Rader and his familyi and suite, in all about 50
persons, from Marseilles to Asia. The Orenoque
Will land the Emir at Moudania, a little port to
the south of the sea of Marmora, being about 25
miles distant from Broussa.
The Bourse recovered yesterday from the panic of
the day previous. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents.
opened at 106 f., and closed at 105 f. 75c. for the
end of the month ; the Three per Cents, closed at
82f. 10e. ex. div. ; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,020 f. •
Rouen, 970 f. ; Havre, 535.: Great Northern, 872f.'
50c. ; Basle, 350 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 795 f. ;
Paris and Lyons, 895 f. ; Great Western, 750 f. ;
Lyons and Avignon, 695 f. ; St. Dizier and Gray,
555. f ; Caen and Cherbourg, 605 f. ; Dijon and Be-
sancon, 585 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 600 f. ; the
New Bank of Credit Mobilier, shares issued at 500 f.,
1,175.