The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-14 00:00:00

THE EMPIRE IN FRANCE

The following petition of the fathers of families
and labourers, for the re-establishment of the Empire.,
is now being circulated for signature among the
lowest classes in Paris :
" Messieurs les Senateurs,—
" 1. Considering that in a country like ours—that in
France (no matter west the constitution may be) all in-
terests ate necessarily placed under
the influence, and,
moreover, under the truly sovereign influence, of the
person who is the Chief of the State;
" Considering, consequently, that as to who is or is
not Chief of the State ought not to be made a periodi-
cal question—no matter whether therei be 10, 15, or 20
years between such periods—unless, ndeed, the interest&
of the country are at such epochs to be periodically and
fatally affected, simply by the doubt and uncertainty
which weigh upon them, since they cannot foresee what
kind of a future the new Chief of the State will prepare
for them;
"2. Considering that a father of a family, under a
presidency of 10, 15, or 20 years, cannot possioly know
under what political conjunctures he will provide for the
marriage of the son or the daughter that just now he
I oodles on his knee;
"Considering, consequently, that a presidency of 10,
15, or 20 years cannot possibly altog thor and justly
satisfy the loftiest and sweetest sentiments of paternal
and conjugal love;
And that, were it otherwise, the births ought in sa
very peculiar wiener to correspond to the peculiar exi-
gencies of this periodical renovation of the executive
power;

" 3. Considering, likewise, that under a presidency of
10, 15, or 20 years the industrious and provident work-
ED all is tqualiy troubled in his prudence, in his love of
labour, by the uncertainty in which, under an unstable
Government, he finds the political conditions which
ought at some future day to promote him from the po-
sition of a labourer to that of an t mployer;
" Considering that under such institutions the savings
of the workman, for the purpose of at a future time em-
pl ling labour, can only commence at certain stated pe
rinds in which the sovereign power changes hands—who.
then, could think of fouuuing an establishment, or un
deur:ung any other responsioility within the period of
the two or three }ears which precede the election of the
Chief of the State?
" 4. Considering, then, that to stake the person of the
Chief of the State upon the chances of a periodical eke-
tion is as much as to say that a father of a family shall
never be happy
for, the future of that family; that he shall nit enjoy
and sate, and looking at, and providing
the love of his children; and that the provident labourer
shall not be confident arid happy in his love of laboty
and his legitimate anabitiJn to become an employer of
labour;

" But, considering, above all things, that our genera-
tion would violate all the duties it owes to succeeding.
generations, if, enamoured of anarchy in its conceins, i
were not, with all dispatch, to create an established state
of things for the future—if it allowed our political in•
stitutiona to tend to individualise the principle of re-
aistance—since there is no length of life of individuals of
generations—aud, last of all, ours, which C 312 succeed
in drying up to its source the principle of evil and of evil
passions;

"5. Lastly, Messieurs les Senateurs, considering, on
the other hand, that experience has already proved that
the generous self-denial of the Prince Louis Napoleon
Bonaparte, who desired to remain President for ten years
in order the more fully to propitiate the reconciliation of
parties, has produced exactly the reverse of the effect
which the heir of the Emperor in his ardent love for the
country desired;
" Considering that the old parties do all they can to
trouble all existing interests with their hopes, because
under the present institutions these hopes may indeed, at
certain periods, make a legal appearance before the
country;

" Considering that these hopes would not, of course,
dare to cling to institutions which would not allow them
to persuade the people of their future legality;
" And to believe the contrary is to overloi,k altogether
the economical position, and rho state of the finances of
the chiefs of the old parties, as well as their well-known
prudence;
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" Considering that, by a strange mixture of ingrati-
tude and blindness, the old parties, abasing the gri at
and noble disinterestedness of the Prince inuis Napo-
leon, turn the same into weapons of discord and con-
fusion ;

"6. Considering, in one word, that the present can-
not be tranquil, which means that it cannot be fit for
busim-ss, labour, and trade, so long as the political futuro
remains doublul, an,l that the political future must
always remain doubtful so long as the person of the Chiet
of the State, under whose interest are, necessarily, all
the great moral and material interests of the country,
remains exposed, though merely in theory, to the chances
of an election;
" 7. Considering, moreover, that hereditary power in
France will, for the future, have no other support than
the people's love and its twice, and so grandly within
fifty years, merited gratitude to the family of the
Emperor;
" Messieurs les Senateurs,

future may be at easteheasjltuottrhee..
a and remain untroubled by the
uncertainties of our political future; that industrious and
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intelligent labourers may not suffer from the same un-
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GREAT CALIFORNIAN LINE OF TELEGRAPH.—The
route selected for this telegraph, extending over '
2 400 miles,
as stated by the committee on the measurne in their
the Senate of the United Statt-s,will commence at the city of
report to
Natchez. in the state of Mississippi, running through northern
Texas to El Paso on the Rio Grande, thence to the junction
of the G.la and Culorado rivers, crossing at the bead of the
Gulf of California to San Diego on the Pacific, and then skirt-
ing the coast to Monterey and San Francisco- The committee
report, that if this line of wires be established, the Pacific and
Atlantic Oceans will, for commercial communications, become
as it were as one ; and that intelligence will be conveyed from
London to California and India in ashorter time than was re-
ed ten years since to transmit a letter from Liverpool to
New York.
DEATH OF THE LAST SURVIVOR OF KEPPEL'S
ACTION.—Mr. D. F. Hainsselin, father of Mr. D. Hainsselin,
auctioneer, of Devonport, died on the 3d instant, aged 92
years. Mr. Hainsselin was supposed to be the last survivor
of Rappel's action. He was also at the celebrated relief of
Gibraltar, at the taking of St. Eustatia and other We,t India
islands, in the Monarch, which led the van in Rodney's
action ; in the skirmish with the French fleet off Plymouth •
and in the Roy al George, on the 29. h of May and Ist of
June, for the two latter of which he had themedal with two
DAM —Pismouth Joti.ntal•