The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-21 00:00:00

3,

TUESDAY

Tim FRENCH. REPUBLA:.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Moniteur gives telegraphic dispatches, which
conduct the PRINCE PRESIDENT from St. Etienne to
Lyons, where be arrived on Sunday at half-past two
o'clock, amidst unabated enthusiasm. The crowds of
People, estimated at 200,000, cried "Vive Napoleon !
Vive l'Empereur,"
The Constitutionnel heads an article with the title
L'Empire, in large capital letters, which it begins by
declaring that the question with the whole country is
not whether the Empire ought to be re-established,
but when will the Empire be proclaimed ? Accord-
ing to the writer, the new Emperor will not, like his
uncle, rest his fame and power on war, but on works
of peace. He will push railways, lower taxes, en-
courage industry, and found charitable institutions
and schools. Dr. VERON, however, adds with pro-
priety, that he has no authority for reflections which
are altogether his own.
A sharp controversy has suddenly sprung up
amongst the newspapers on the subject of the Duke
of WELLINGTON'S military merits, provoked by the
second article of the Assemblie Nationale, from, as it
is supposed, M. Glazier's pen. The calm-judging
historian does not hesitate to place the sagacity,
temper, good sense, and fortitude of the great Duke
above the ill regulated genius of the EMPEROR; while
he draws the
important moral lesson for man's in-
struction, that however eccentric flashes and dashing
enterprises may dazzle for a moment, yet that final
success belongs to the soberer and sterner virtues.
" What!' bellows the Pays,' the Assembler Nationale
dares establish a parallel between Wellington and Napo-
leon, as if these two exigences had weighed equally
of the world and the future of
n pon
humanity,he
andesdatisniyf these two names ought to occupy the
same place in the irnagiaation of the people and the ad-
miration of posterity! What! it dares to compare the
conqueror of Egypt, the vanquisher of Italy and Ger-
many, to the English gereral. who at Waterloo was
served less by his military genius than by an untortunate
fatality, 80-'
We learn from Marseilles, dated the 17th, that a
most serious accident occurred the previous afternoon,
on the Montpellier and Nismes Railroad. The train
left Montpellier at 4 P.M. for Marseilles ; within a
short distance, and where the road forms almost an
elbow, a luggage train coming from Marseilles ran
into it, and wounded nearly every passenger. From
the official report received this morning, it appears
that 50 persons are most severely wounded, and a
great many slightly. A lady, it is said, is since dead.
The preparations for the reception of the PRINCE
PRESIDENT were fast
mot splendid, such progressing. The fete will be
as never was witnessed before in
the old city of the Phocians.
Three regiments of infantry and two regiments of
cavalry were en route for Marseilles, to remain there
during the stay of the PRESIDENT. _ .

There was a large amount ot busineess transacted at
the Bourse in railway shares. Orleans, Rouen, and
Havre rose considerably. The Four-and-a-Half per
Cents. opened at 104 f. 40c., and closed at 1041. 30c.
for the end of the month ; the Three per Cents. closed
at 781. 20e.; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,490 f. ; Rouen,
9101.; Havre, 4301.; Great Northern, 716 f. 25c. ; Avig-
non, suol,
; Basis, 3321. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg,
745 f.; Paris and Lyons, 8211'. 25c.; Lyons and Avignon,
6301.; Western of France, 630 E; St. Dizier to Gray, 545 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN 11tl1t MON RAILWAYS At Ttik..
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SEr-r. 20.
Dijon and Besancon, 3—Dutch Rhenish, B—East Indian,
281/I—Great Indian Peninsula, 71/1,—Luxembourg, 714—
Lyons and Avignon, 93/4—Madras, p.—Namur and
Liege, 85/B—Northern of France, 28—Orleans and Bour-
deaux, 19—Paris and Lyons, 22%—Paris and Orleans,
58% —Paris and Rouen, 3434—Paris and Strasbourg, 30—
Paris, Caen, and Cherbourg, 54—Ronen and Havre, 16—
Sambre and Meuse, 1011—West Flanders, 4/B—Western of
France, 11.