The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-22 00:00:00

FRANCE.

his clergy
The Bishop of Arms has addressed a circular to
directing that not one shall abstain from
voting, and that their votes be all for the Empire.
Other bishops have issued similar circulars. In
fact, the clergy will vote en masse for Louis Na-
poleon 111.
St. Quentin
several communes of the arrondissement of
'),„,,Quentin, the Municipal Councils have voted
different sums for having fetes on the occasion of
andtue vote on the Empire on Sunday and Monday ;
4._ in others, the inhabitants have raised volun-
tary contributions for the same purpose. At St.
Quentin the electors of the fauxbourgs are to march
1114_4 holly, headed by banners, to the Hotel de Ville
to vote.
The Moniteur contains the necessary decrees for
authorising
.L ;
and, thirdly,
the General Society de Credit Mobilier,
also the railway
company from Lyons to the Medi-
terranean, with its several branches
the modifications introduced into the regulations
of the colonial banks.
The Government has received reports from
Algeria to the effect that complete tranquillity pre-
vailed everywhere, and that the different tribes
felt so utterly the inutility of further efforts to
Lilt"' off French rule that the news of Abd-el. _
....ader's liberation had not caused the slightest
v eley
,e4uninotion. The new Ambassadors from Turkey,
Pacha and Count Bacciochi, had arrived at
Marseilles by
the company's boat of the llfe.ssu-
nea Nationales, the Alexandre ; the Magellan,
had one
on which they had embarked, having
one of her cylinders broken, she was obliged
'0 put back to Malta.
The Moniteur contains a decree to the effect
that the extraordinary credit of 500,000 f. lately
accorded for repairs of damages caused by the in-
undation of the Rhine, being nearly exhausted, a
further credit becomes necessary to prevent the
interruption of the works in course of construction,
and 300,000 f. is accordingly decreed.
All the departmental journals agree in saying
that the appeals to insurrection of the Socialist
chiefs have everywhere excited the strongest feelings
of disgust, at the same time that they render more
evident the necessity of rallying at the ballot which
is about to take place. This necessity becomes still
more urgent in the presence of the calumnies of all
kinds which are circulated by party spirit, in order
to influence the electors, and at least to prevent
them from giving their votes.
The reception of the Princess Vasa, into the Ca-
tholic Church, formally took place a few days ago
at Vienna, and what is also significant in its way is
that a miliner of the highest celebrity has left Paris
to take the orders of the future Empress.
The Union has the following on the funeral of
the Duke of Wellington
readers will readily pardon us for not sharing
in the opinion of the honourable Mr. Carter, member of
thev English Parliament, as to the honours which Go-
vernments and people pay to illustrious men, and to
those who have deserved well of their country. We not
only approve of these honours, but we praise them. We
maintain that they have the effect of raising characters
and exciting courage. It is a grand and noble spectacle
to see a nation surrounding with public homage the
pira,b of a man who during his life had honoured and
ed it. It is not for us to join with the voices
to
ttat the
which on the other side the Channel celebrate the vic-
Iries of the Duke of Wellington ; but we may say
English people have just set a noble example to
the world, and we must say it in order that these
traditions of respect and public justice may also
remain amongst us. It will be remarked that all the
marshals' batons which the Duke of Wellington had re-
ceived during his military career, were carried after the
banner of Wellesley by officers of different nations.
There were seven of them in the following order :
again, Russia, Prussia, Portugal, Holland, Hanover,
th r flglalld. The baton of Marshal of France was not
That was because the Duke of Wellington had
enever been honoured with one. Here, therefore, is
another falsehood which vanishes ; another calumny
wllinit falls to the ground. How many honest men have
t.believed, on the faith of Liberalism, that the Restora-
lnu had made the English General of Waterloo a Marshal
tPrance. Count Walewski, the French Ambassador in
Ilon, was present at the funeral ceremony in St.
4111 s Cathedral. Count Colleredo, the Austrian Am-
bassador, did not attend. The presence of the former
a,,,ees not reconcile the English journals to the absence of
ITe latter, and particularly for that of the deputation of
the Imperial army. The Times and the Herald put
forth their complaints in accents which they endeavour
to soften. Why did not the English Government
secure to Marshal Haynau that tranquil hospitality
which it so well guarantees to all the makers of revo-
lution It is its own fault. The Times calls the refusal
fof the Emperor to send an Alstria,n General to the
uneral of the Duke of Wellington an act of revenge . a
lesson would have been a more appropriate to rm. We
desire that England may profit by it."