The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-09 00:00:00

At the sitting of the 6th the report was read.

It begins by recalling the resolutions and addresses
for the Empire. It then reminds the Senate of the
services performed by the Prince. "To him (says
the report) is attached the vast future of industry
and pacific civilization. This future ought not to be
abandoned to the hazards of events or the surprises
of factions. Wherefore it is France that demands
the Monarchy of the Emperor, which means order in
the revolution and rule in the democracy." The re-
port then goes on to show that the Republic had
never, and could never, take root in France, owing
to the attachment of the people to Monarchical
ideas. Other Monarchical regimes had, however,
placed the Throne too far from the people, while
the Republic, notwithstanding its boasted popular
origin, entrenches itself against the people. But
the Empire was more truly democratic than the
Republic, and had been the form of Govern-
ment most ardently sustained and most deeply
regretted by the people. On the one side, it was the
only Government which acted on the old principle
that the people bad a right to choose their king, while
on the other it never had had any quarrel with the
nation, for its fall in 1814 was not caused by a rising
of the people against its government, but was owing
to the hazards of an unequal war; and the people had
never ceased to see in the Empire its own emanation
and work. The report then goes into an historical
disquisition on the subject of Monarchy and the Re-
public, for the purpose of showing that the latter form
had never taken root in grand states, but only iu small
Communities, the example of the United States not
serving to upset the rule, on account of the peculiari-
ties of its position. France, nevertheless, idolizes
equality, such as the empire secures for the country—
admits without jealousy those providential greatnesses
legitimized by reasons of state, beneath which all
becomes level. The report next proceeds to attack
Popular assemblies, in which personal responsibility
ecomes lost in the multitude, while the Monarchy
is, on the other hand, loaded with a personal respon-
sibility from which it cannot escape. After the
preface, the report enters on the senatus consultum.
In conformity with the substance of the report (of
which it is unnecessary to ent(-r upon a further detail),
the following senatus conrultum was then read and
adopted :
" Art. 1. The Imperial dignity is re-established. Louis
Napoleon Bonaparte is Emperor under the name of
Napoleon 111.
`• Art. 2. The Imperial dignity is hereditary in the
direct and legitimate descendants of Louis Napoleon
Bonaparte, from male to male, by order of primogeniture
to the perpetual exclusion of females and their de-
saendants.

" Art. 3. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, if he has no
male child, may adopt the legitimate children and
descendants in the male lice of the brothers of the Em-
peror Napoleon I. The forms of adoption aro regulated
bY a senatus consultum. If after this adoption, male
children should be born to Louis Napoleon, his adoptive
children cannot be called on to succeed him until after
his legitimate descendants. The adoption is interdicted
to the successors of Louis Napoleon end to their de-
scendants. _ _

Art. 4. Louis Napoleon regulates by an organic
de-
cree, addressed to the Senate, and deposited in his
archives the order of succession to the throne in the
Bonaparte family, in case he should leave no direct,
or adoptive heir.
" Art. 5. In default of a legitimate or adoptive heir
of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, and of the successors in a
Collateral line which shall derive their right in theabove
Mentioned organic decree, a senatus consultum, proposed
to the Senate by the Ministers formed into a Council of
Government, united to the president of the Senate, of
the Legislative Body, and of the Council of State, and
submitted to the acceptance of the people, names the
mperor, and regulates in his family the hereditary order
from male to male, to the perpetual exclusion of females
and their descendants. Until the moment when the
election of the new Emperor is consummated, the
affairs of State are governed by the Ministers in office,
who shall form themselves into a Council of Govern-
ment, and deliberate by a majority of votes.
, " Art. 6. The members of the family of Louis Napo-
loon Bonaparte called eventually to the heredacy, and
their descendants of both sexes, form part of the ha-
l:Trial family. A senates consult= regulates their po-
sition. They cannot marry without the authorization
of the Emperor. Their marriage without such autho-
!lsation entails privation of all hereditary right, both for
him who contracts it as for its descendants.
" Art. 7. The constitution of 15th January, 1852, is
Maintained in all its provisions, which are not contrary
to the present senates consultum, there cannot be any
Modification made in it except in the forms and by the
keens therein prescribed.
" Art. 8. The following proposition shall be presented
to the acceptance of the French people in the forms
determined by the decrees of the 2d and 4th December,
1851:—, The people wish for the re-establishment of the
Imperial dignity in the person of Louis Napoleon Bona-
parte with heredacy in his direct descendants, either
;egnimate or adoptive, and gives him the right to regu-
'te the order of succession to the throne in the Bona-
Parte family as provided for by the senatus consultum of
November, 1852.' "
Mesnard, First Vice-President of the Senate,
°n presenting the above senatus consultum to the
rrince President, addressed him as follows :

"Monseigneur,—When a great country like France
Makes its voice heard, the first duty of the political body
to which she addresses herself is to listen and to reply.
Such were the ideas of your Highness in calling for the
iaiedits Lions of the Senate on this vast movement of pub-
lic opinion which bas manifested itself with so much
ensemble and energy. The Senate has understood that
this striking manifestation is justified at the same time
b 7 the immense services which you have rendered by the
Lame which you bear, and by the guarantees which are
given to the future by the greatness of your character
;ad the wisdom and firmness of your mind. It has un-
derstood that after so many revolutions France feels the
!ant of putting her destinies under the shelter of a
Powerful and national Government, which, only holding
the past by the souvenirs of her glory and the legiti-
ZaeY of her origin, now again finds in popular sanction
the elements of its force and of its duration. The Senate
glories, Monseigneur, in being the faithful interpreters of
tt,
0 wishes and sentiments of the country in placing in
Sour hands the senatus consultum which calls you to the
Empire."
The Prince replied

" Messieurs the Senators,—l thank the Senate for
the eagerness with which it has responded to the wishes
(4 the country, in deliberating on tho re establishment
of Empire, and in drawing up the senates consultum
:hen
is to bo submitted to the acceptance of thy, people.
vhe forty-eight years since, in this same palace, in
thiß SI;mo room, and under analogous circumstances, the
'''ate came to offer the crown to the chief of my
family, the Emperor rep!ied by
got.h. eso memorable words
ty spirit will.no longer be with my posterity from
e day when it shall cease to merit the love and the
tos°4ficlence of this great nation'—what now most affects
c'Y heart is the thought that the spirit of the Emperor
4 'With me—that his ideas guide me—that his shade
protects mo—since by a solemn proceedint, you come
the name of the French people to prove to:me that I
1,,,"" merited the confidence of the country
necessary for me to tell you that my co pre-
ristlatnits not
grandeur
will be to labour with you to promote the
o)titudeur and prosperity of France."
fjtenewed cries of " Vive l'Empereur" here burst
tf,"°. The Prince afterwards approached the sena-
/4.l'lnd entered into conversation with each of them,
Cel'i? 'which they left and returned to the Luxem-
%Uz.
1, 8 telegraphic dispatch bas been received, dated St.
I,eElreburgh, sth inst., announcing the death of the
-ip%tlee de Leuchtenherg.
a'llas BOURSE, Nov. B.—The market opened at
thadvance on the closing quotations of Saturday,
e 4-
°l3 Was maintained with but slight fluctuation to
end., when Threes for the account left off at
Ip 4°c. ; and Four-and-a-Half per Cents., at
p;" 300. The market closed as follows :—Three
aCents , for cash, 85f. ; for amount, 85f. 70c. ;
foyer'alld;a-Half per Cents., for cash, 106 f. 50c. ;
2,6o,llcceunt, 108 f. 30c.; Bank of France Shares,
b"4; Austrian Loan, 94i-f.; Turkish Loan, 1,01.5 f.;
itto
SUSI
-I Omer Debt, 46kf.; Neapolitan, not quoted.
'ESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON
bTOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 8, 1852.
/I,Ctleroi and Erquelines, 15—East Indian. 283—Great
42e411 Peninsula, 714—Grand Junction of France, 71/2-
5 Ys—Namur and Liege (with interest), 8,,e—
e 8
rthern of France 3714—ditto '2O/. 3 per cent. Bon s
N,,!Y• Boil. and Ams. ;hares), 14%—Paris and Lyons, 317
and Rouen. 42—Paris and Strasbourg, Cn. and Cherbourg, 10%—Quebec and Richmond, 3%---
j,re and Havre, 2214—Sambre and Meuse, 1
36% _Paris,
01/2...Upper
all Scrip, Ya p. —Western of France, 181/2.

AtrnusIFICENT LEGACIES.—The Royal General
the Society has just received notice of lefaleaftitrtbhye-
-I,elate Air. Thomas Croft, of Gravesend, ofa
,id ofo the Clergy Society has bad COOL left it by the late
rrit; of Tewkesbury.