The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-13 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The voting for the Emperor on the 21st will be
marked by new and original circumstances expres-
sive of enthusiasm. The day will, it appears, be
observed_ as one of public rejoicing, with balls, fetes,
111uminationa, &c. Compared with such manifesta-
tions, the acceptance of the Empire in 1804 must
have been cold. At that time France numbered 23
departments more than now, and yet only three mil-
110n$ and a half recorded their votes in favour of the
hero of Marengo. Louis Napoleon was made Prince
President by seven millions and a half, and will as-
suredly count as many in favour of his being Em-
peror.
On Thursday, the Emperor set out for Fon-
tainebleau to hunt, and although only half en hour's
notice was given at the railway, the reception-room
Was converted as if by magic into an Imperial hall.
The Constitutionnel has the following remarks on
the approaching vote of the plebiscite
:--
"A third ballot is about to ratify in its turn the
~/veo manifestations which have preceded it, •It le to
itmger hope, it is no longer confidence which si elks :
It is gratitude. At the sight of the marvellous pro-
asperity which ten months have sufficed to develope
:hi this country—at the spectacle of those railways
:and those palaces which appear to spring up, as it
'Were, from the earth—of those workshops unable to
"Paly their customers—of those warehouses no
smer filled than emptied—of that universal con-
ehoe which causes foreign capital to flow into
Fr sacs, how could the people avoid having the idea
of conferring on the Prince to whom they owe all
the se benefits the greatest recompence which they
sal 'e to bestow. They have not yet sufficiently lost
the remembrance of their misfortunes, for this sudden
tre coition from anarchy
ito peace, from agitation to
reyose, from ruinous inaction to profitable employ-
ID ant, from misery to prosperity, not to have in their
eyes all the prestige and all the magic of a beneficent
genies. There is, therefore, between these three
Ye leis, which will all have affirmed the same fact, a
logical bond and a gradation which it is impossible to
Misunderstand. Louis Napoleon will have three times
been the elect of the people; and if the third vote gives
lam a crown, who can dispute the legitimacy of his
pow er without, at the same time, contesting the so-
ereignty of the whole nation ? France has entered the
more readily on this path, as the monarchical form of
government is more con formable to her traditions
land to her habits than the republic. Society has need
Of a supporting point on which its institutions may
be founded, and to which all its interests may attach
themselves. Franco has not, like England, an aris-
tocracy of the soil, and knowing how, by its intelli-
gence, by its activity, and by its spirit of initiative, to
group around it the national strength. She has not,
like the United States, deeply-rooted municipal insti•
tutions and a federative organization which holchi n
olheck one by the other thirty petty democracies.
French democracy is a moving soil to which monarchy
alone can give some cohesion and some fixity. The
empire of Louis Napoleon is about to inaugurate de-
mocratic monarchy. The day on which it will crown
itself in the person of its elect, the nation will despoil
itself of none of its instincts, its initiative, or of its
Power ; to doubt the force and grandeur of democratic
Monarchy would be to doubt the genius of France."
Messrs. Pete and Brassey, the eminent contrac-
tors, have got the contract for the works on the
Paris and Cherbourg Railway.
Lucien and Jerome having married contrary to
the will of the Emperor, their children by their
first marriage are excluded. Lucien's first wife
bad been an actress, and rather than repudiate her
he lived away from Court. His children by her,
Who are now excluded, are Charlotte, widow of the
Roman Prince Gabrielle, and their four children,
11 son and three daughters. Jerome, who had
Married an American lady, Miss Patterson, proved
more compliant, for he divorced her, and obtained
from his grateful brother the Crown of Westphalia.
It is against his son Napoleon, the ex-Red Repub-
lican, that the legal ingenuity of M. Troplony has
been brought to bear, in the report of this learned
juris consult to the Senate, with the view of barring
his way to the Throne. The Bonaparte family is
very numerous. There are ten surviving children of
Lucien, the brother of the Emperor, one of Louis,
the present Prince President, and three of Jerome ;
while the Prince of Canino, eldest son of Lucien,
has ten children.
It is stated in a letter from Paris in the Emancipa-
tion of Brussels, that the French Government has just
resolved that Count Walewski, the French Ambassa-
dor in London, shall attend the funeral of the Duke

of Wellington.
The Constitutionnel has a long article on a report
from M. Lechatelier, engineer of mines, who had been
charged by the French Government with a mission in
England to ascertain the state of railroads there, the
condition of the rolling stock and the expenses of
working with a view to the adoption in France of
any advantages that they might present. The report
of M. Lechatelier goes into many technical details
which are briefly noticed by the Censtitutionnel, but
which are little understood by the public at large.
Our contemporary incline) to a belief that in the
construction of the locomotives, and in many other
points, the English have no superiority, but admits
that there is an immense economy in the expense of
transition, or haulage, as compared with what it costs
in this country. Its statement of the quality of
French iron being superior to that of England, taken
in a general sense, is decidedly incorrect. There are
certainly Darts of France which supply ore of a very
superior quality, but the quantity of this iron is
Comparatively small.
A decree of Prince Louis Napoleon of the 22d
January last opened a credit of ten millions to the
Minister of the Interior, for the improvement of
the lodgings of workmen in the great manufacturing
towns. The authorities of Rheims immediately
turned their attention to the most useful means of
taking advantage of the benefits offered by
.that de-
cree; and the architect of that city has just pre-
sented a plan for the construction of one or more
model quarters of workmen's habitations, the expense
of each quarter scarcely exceeding 100,000 f. The
authorities of Rheims have applied to the Minister
for a grant of half this expense, the remainder of
which will be raised by the formation of a company
and the issue of shares.
The funds recovered yesterday, in some measure,
from the depression of the two last days. The Four-
and-a• Half per Cents. opened at 106 f. and closed at
106 f. 50c. for the end of the month. The Three per
Cents. closed at 85f. 25c. ; Orleans Railway Shares,
1,70001.; Rouen; 950 t. ; Havre, 500 f. ; Great North-
ern, 855 f. ; Basle, 3651. ; Paris and Strasbourg, 8301. ;
Paris and Lyons, 925 f. ; Great Western, 720 f.; Lyons
and Avignon, 725 f.; St. Dizier and Gray, 580 f.;
Caen and Cherbourg, 625 f.; Dijon and Besancon,
630 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 6401.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 12, 1852.
Dijon and Besancon, 9—Great Indian Peninsula, 71,(2
Grand Junction of France, 6X—Luxembourg, 7—Ditto
(Railway), 434—Madras, 7 Y4—.l.Nalnur and Liege (with in-
terest), B—Northern of France, 331/—Paris and Lyons,
2634,—Paris and Rouen 37—Palia and Strasbourg, 32
Paris, Caen. and Cherbourg, 9,,—Qaebec and Richmond,
3,26 —Rouen and Havre, 14—Sambre and Meuse, 101/2
Upper India Scrip, p.—Westsrn of France, 181 A.

THE CONTINENT.
SPAIN.
Advices from Madrid, dated the 7th, state that the
germs( of the Herald° had been fined 10,000 reals,
with 10 months' imprisonment, and those of the other
four papers each 8,000 reals and 7 months' imprison-
ment, for their late attack on the Director of the
Treasury.