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
Franco (no matter what .the constitution may be) all in-
terests are necessarily pierced under the influence, and,
moreover, under the truly sovereign influence, of the
parson who is the Chief of tho 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 there be 10, 15, or 20
years between such periods—unless, indeed, the interests
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 st father of a family, under a
presidency of 10, 15, or 20 years, cannot possibly know
~.ander what political conjunctures he will provide for the
marriage of the son or the daughter that just now ho
ion dies on his knee;
" Considering, consequently, that a presidency of 10,
15, or 20 years cannot possibly altogether and justly
satisfy the loftiest and sweetest sentiments of paternal
and conjugal love;
" And that, were it otherwise, the births ought in a
very peculiar manner 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-
man is equally troubled in his prudence, in his love of
iabour, 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 employer;
" Considering that under such institutions the savings
of the workmen, for the prtrpose of at a future time em-
ploying labour, can only commence at certain stated pe-
riods in which the sovereign power changes hands—who,
then, could think of found ing an establishment, or un-
dertaking any other responsibility within the period of
the two or three years 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 elec-
tion is as much as to say that a father of a family shall
never ba happy and safe, and looking at, and providing
for, the future of that family; that he shall not enjoy
the love of his children; and that the provident labourer
shall not be confident and happy in his love of labour
and his legitimate ambition 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 concerns, it
were not, with all dispatch, to create an established state
of things for the future--if it allowed our political in-
stitutions to tend to individualise the principle of re-
sistance—since there is no length of lite of individuals or
generations—and, least of all, ours, which can 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 overlook altogether
the economical position, and the state of the finances of
the chiefs of the old parties, as well as their well-known
prudence;
" Considering that, by a strange mixture of ingrati.
tude and blindness, the old parties, abusing the great
and noble disinterestedness of the Prince Louis 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
business, labour, and trade, so long as the political future
remains doubtful, and that the political future must
always remain doubtful so long as the person of the Chief
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,

providing.. for their
" That the father of a laMily may be at ease as to the
future of his children, and remain untroubled by the
uncertainties of our political future; that industrious and
ffamilies,
intelligent labourers may not suffer from the same un-
certaintyd ay a, ifno for legitimatehe
old
the just re-
ward of their labour and their frugality;.
" For this purpose have the undersigned, confiding in
themselves
and
ehdo
their
i or
your high wisdom and Providence, the honour most re.
spectfully to pray that you
.will make use of the right
which the existing Constitution confers upon von, for
the interest of the future of the country, in order to, re-
establish political authority on its truly national and
popular basis—the only one which emits our age—viz.,
Bonaparte.
hereditary tenure of Sovereign power in tha family of
"

GREAT CALIFORNIAN LINE OF TELEGRAPH.—The
route selected for this telegraph, extending over 2,400 miles,
as stated by the committee on the measure in their report to
the Senate of the United States, will commence at the cityof
Natchez, in the state of Mississippi, running through northern
Texas to El Paso on the Rio Grande, thence to the junction
of the Gila and Colorado rivers, crossing at the head 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 and Pacific
Atlantic Oceans will, for commercial communication, become
,
as it were as one ;and that intelligence will be conveyed,a froms
London to California and India in a shorter time than
re-
quired ten years since to transmit a letter from Liverpool to
New York. i

DEATH OF THE LAST SURVIVOR OF KEPPEL'S
Acriort.—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 RePPers action.- He was also at the celebrated relief of
Gibraltar, at the taking of St. Eustatia and other West 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 Royal George, on the 29th of May and Ist of
June, for the two latter of which he had the medal with two
ban' —23lvmouth Journal.'