The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-17 00:00:00

FRANCE.

It is said that the Empire will be proclaimed
without festivities ; yet it is certain that prepa-
rations are being made at the Hotel de Ville for
a fete. Though the term Sire is not applied to
Louis Napoleon, we are told that his household
begin to use the title of Majeste when addressing
him. The Princes and Princesses of the Imperial
family will be called Imperial Highnesses ; the
Princes of the house not recognised as heirs will be
styled French Princes, and with the title of High-
nesses only ; the Ministers, Excellency, and the
term Monseigneur, will, as in the time of the Mon-
archy, be applied when addressing them. The
Marshals will have the same title. The inscription
of Republique Frangaise is beginning to disappear
from the public monuments, and, from frequent
practice, the labour of effacing is very light. After
the revolution of 1830, the fleurs de lys of the elder
Bourbons were effaced rapidly ; in 1848 all Roy-
alist emblems disappeared simultaneously : in 1850
Republicanism already began to lose much of its
external signs, and at the present moment those
that remained are making way for the Imperial
adornments.

There seems now great probability of the Empire
being proclaimed on the 2d December. It is
again said that an allowance will be given to
the Deputies--or at least offered to them—to
the amount of 10,000 f. each ; that is to say, at
that rate for the period of the session.

We understand, says Galignani, that the Mar-
quis of Londonderry has sent an invitation to Abd-
el-Kader to spend a few days with him in London,
and to profit by the occasion to witness the funeral
ceremony for the Duke of Wellington.
The Presse says : " Although the Austrian
Government has refused to send officially a depu-
tation of officers to represent the Austrian army at
the funeral of the Duke of Wellington, it appears
that two generals and four officers, belonging to
the regiment which bore the Duke's name, have
been authorised to go to London for the cere-
mony."

The Austrian Lloyds of Vienna makes the fol-
lowing reflections on Louis Napoleon :
" After the fall of Louis Phillippe, Europe recognised
the French Republic. Now that France prepares to
make an Emperor, will Europe say to her for the first
time—' As we have recognised the Republic, that must
henceforth be the only legitimate government ?' Can
the powers, which did not defend Charles X. in 1830
and Louis Phillippe in 1848, now enter the lists for the
French Republic ? The Duke of Wellington, the con-
queror of Waterloo, is not yet in his. tomb ! He who
had assisted in .overturning the old Empire was able to
hear before his death the cries of Vive Empire,..
!'
hailing the successor of the conquered of Waterloo ; had
he lived a few days longer, he would have understood
that the triumph of England in never having recognised
Napoleon as Emperor had vanished in the course of
events. In a few days more the warlike trumpets will
have eeased to echo over the tomb of the Duke, and in
a few days after England will-have recognised the nephew
of General Bonaparte. What a hundred victories could
not acquire for the uncle, the nephew is about to obtain
without effort."

The Prince Jerome Bonaparte attained his sixty-
eigth year on Monday. The superior officers of
the Hotel des Invalides and of his household paid
their respects to him, and were entertained by him
at dinner. A great number of persons of distinc-
tion also visited the Prince.

The Independance of Brussels states, in its Paris
correspondence, that M.M. Mires and Milhaud,
proprietors of the Pays, have purchased the Con-
stitutionnel for the enormous sum of 1,900,000 fr.,
of which 800,000 fr. are to go to M. Veron,
500,000 fr. to the Count de Morny, and the rest to
the other proprietors. The Independance adds that
M. de la Gueronniere, at present editor of the Pays,
will become editor of the Constitutionnel, and that
M. Granier de Cassagnac will succeed him in the
editorship of the Pays. It further states that the
subscription to the Pays is to be increased to 48fr.,
and that of the Constitutionnel to sixty francs a
year.

At no former period has the rage for speculation
been carried to such a pitch at the Paris Bourse as
at present, and it is becoming a service of difficulty
to attempt to force an entrance into the great
hall. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. opened to-
day at 107 f. 85c., and closed at 107 f. 90c. for the
end of the month ; the Three per Cents, closed at
86f. 75c. ; Orleans Railway Shares (new), 1,130 f. ;
Rouen, 1,030 f. ; Havre 550 f. • Great Northern,
9201.; Paris and Strasburg, 900 i. ; Paris and Lyons,
1,000 f.. ; 'Lyons and Avignon, 805 f. ; Western of
France, 780 f. ; St. Dizier to Gray, 600 f. ; Caen to
C4erburg, 675 f. ; Dijon to Besancon, 6401. ; 3pr-
dem and Cotta, 675 f.