The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-27 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The returns from 83 departments, the greater
number being complete, already give 6,607,660
votes for the Empire, to 247,291 against. To this
number will yet have to be added the votes of
three departments, with further returns from those
not yet quite made up.
The Constitutionnet says—" We think we may
positively state that the operation of examining
the votes, which was commenced by the Legislative
Body at its first sitting, will positively close on the
Ist December, and on the evening of that day the
whole of the Legislative Body will proceed to St.
Cloud to make known the result to the Prince
President. On the 2d the Prince will come to the
Tuileries, where he will be received by the three
great bodies of the state."
The following is the message presented on Thurs-
day to the Corps Legislatif from the Emperor Louis
Napoleon ;

"Messrs. les Deputies,---I have recalled you from
your departments that you may be associated with the
great act which is about to be accomplished. Although
the Senate and the people alone had the right to modify
the constitution, I have wished that a political body,
which has issued like myself from universal suffrage,
should come to attest to the world the spontaneousness
of the national movement which bears me to the Em-
pire. I desire expressly that it should be you, who, in
certifying the liberty of the vote and the numerical
amount of the suffrage, should prove by your declara-
tions the complete legitimacy of my power. To declare,
in fact, to-day, that authority rests on incontestable
right, is to give it the necessary force for founding some-
thing durable and to ensure the prosperity of the country.
The Government, as you know, will only change its
form. Devoted to the great interests which intelligence
brings forth and that peace developes, it will constrain
itself, as it has hitherto done, within the limits of mode-
ration, for success never swells with pride the hearts of
those who see in their elevation a greater duty imposed
by the people, and a more elevated mission confided by
Providence.

" Done at the Palace of St. Cloud, Nov. 25, 1852.
(Signed) " Louis NAPOLEON."
The house then proceeded to appoint the com-
mittee for examining the returns.
As soon as the spirit of the message became
known, very great satisfaction was felt at the re-
newed promises of peace which it put forward, as
well as of moderate intentions, and the funds, rail-
way- shares, and other public securities, received a
fresh spring.
After the reading of the message, the Legislative
Body immediately proceeded to the nomination of
their bureaux, for the examination of the votes on
the plebiscite.
The papers do not publish a letter, read on
Thursday, from M. de Kerdrel, giving in his resig-
nation as a member of the Corps Legislatif. It
appears, however,
in the official report of the
Moniteur. M. de Rerdrel withdrew sooner than
take part in the re-establishment of the Empire as
a legitimate Government, an act calculated to cast
the stigma of revolutionary facts upon the reigns of
Louis XVIII. and Charles X.
A subscription has been opened to present to the
Prince President a shield in silver, in which he is
represented as protecting France. Count de Nieu-
werkerke, the director of the Museums, has placed
his name at the head of the subscription, in which
the Ministers and the principal functionaries of the
state have taken part.
The engravers at the Mint are employed night
and day in preparing
the dies of the new Imperial
coinage.

The Bourse was extremely dull, and public secu-
rities declined considerably in price. The Four-
and-a-Half per Cents. opened at 107 f. and Closed
at 106 f. for the end of the month ; the Three per
Cents. closed at 84f. 10c. • Orleans Railway New
Shares, I,oBof. : Rouen,7sf. ; Paris and Strasburg,
99'0f. ; Havre, 535 f. ; Great
Northern, 885 f.
; Bale
870 f.: Paris and Lyons, 942 f. 50c. ; Lyons to
Avignon, 790 f. ; Western 3
Dizier to Gray, 595 f. ; Caen to Cherbourg, 64 St.
of. ;
Dijon to Besancon„ 00f. ; Bordeaux to Cette, 630 f. ;
of France, 750 f. •
New Bank of Credit Mobilier, issued at 500 f.,
1,525 f.