The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-28 00:00:00

LAThittOIL
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SUN OFFICE, Seve n o'clock.

LATEST FROM FRANCE.

The following is the recent Imperial Decree ap-
pearing in the Moniteur :
" Napoleon, by the grace of God and the national
will, Emperor of the French,
" To all present and to come, greeting :
" We have sanctioned and do hereby promulgate what
follows :

" SENATIIS CONSULTIIM,
" Explaining and modifying the Constitution of
January 14, 1852.
_

"Art. 1. The Emperor has the right to grant pardons
and accord amnesties.
"Art. 2. The Emperor presides, when he thinks
proper, over the Senate and the Council of State.
Art. 3. Treaties of commerce made in virtue of
Article 6 of the Constitution have the force of law for
the modifications of the tariff therein stipulated.
" Art 4. All works of public utility, and more espe-
cially those designated by Article 10 of the law of the
21st April, 1832, and Article 3 of the law of the 3d May,
1841, and all enterprises of general interest, are ordered
and authorised by decrees of the Emperor. Those decrees
are issued in the forms prescribed by the regulations of
the public administration. Nevertheless, if these works
and undertaking have for condition, engagements or
money from the Treasury, the credit must be accorded,
or the engagements ratified by a law, before the works
are commenced. When the matter relates to works exe-
cuted for the State, and which are not of a nature to be-
come the object of concessions, the credits may be opened,
in case of urgency, according to the forms prescribed for
extraordinary credits. Such credits shall be laid before
the legislative body at its next session.
" Art. 5. The dispositions of the organic decree of the
22d of March, 1852, may be modified by decrees of the
Emperor.
"Art 6. The members of the Imperial family called
eventually to the succession, and their descendants, are
French princes. The eldest son of the Emperor takes
the title of Prince Imperial.
" Art. 7. The French princes are members of the
Senate and of the Council of State, when they shall
have attained the full age of 18 years. They can only
sit there by the consent of the Emperor.
' " Art. 8. The acts of the etat civil of the imperial
family are received by the Minister of State, and trans-
mitted on an order of the Emperor to the Senate, which
orders their inscription on the registers, and their depo-
sit on the archives.

"Art. 9. The dotation of the Crown and the civil list
of the Emperor are regulated by a special Senates Con-
aultzz74.

" Art. 10. The number of Senators nominated di-
rectly by the Emperor cannot exceed 150.
"Art. 11. An annual dotation for life of 30,000 f. is
appropriated to the dignity of Senator.
"Art. 12. The budget of expenses is presented to the
Legislative Corps, with its administrative subdivisions,
by chapters and by articles. It is voted by ministries.
The distribution by chapters of the credit granted for
each ministry is regulated by decree of the Emperor,
prenOunced in Council of State. Special decrees, pro-
nounced in the same form, can authorise transfers from
one chapter to another. The disposition is applicable to
the Budget of the year 1353.

" Art. 13. The compte renclu, ordered by Art. 42 of
the Constitution, is submitted, before its publication, to
a commission, composed of the President of the Legis-
lative Corps and of the Presidents of each bureau. In
caoe of an equal division of opinions, the President of
the Legislative Corps shall have the casting vote. The
proccs-verbal of the sitting read to the Assembly records
merely the operations and the votes of the Legislative
Corps.

"Art. 14. The deputies to the Legislative Corps
ceive an indemnity, which is fixed at 2,500 f. per mond
during the continuance of each ordinary and extraord
. .

nary mission,

"Art. 15. The general officers placed on the reserve
may be members of the Legislative body. They are to
be considered as having given in their resignation, if
they are employed in active service, in conformity with
Art. 5 of the decree of Dec, 1, 1852, and,with Art. 3 of
the law of August 4, 1839.

" Art. 16. the oath described by Art, 14 of the Con
stitution is in the following terms :--` I swear obedience
to the Constitution, and fidelity to the Emperor.'
" Art. 17. Articles 2,9, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22,
and 37 of the Constitution of the 14th January, 1852,
are abrogated.
" Given at the Palace of the Senate this 23d of De-
cember, 1852.

" MESNARD, President

" Baron T. DE LACROSSE, CAMBACERES,
" General JiEGNAUD D'ANGLEY, Secretaries.
" Examined and sealed with the seal of the Senate,
" Baron T. DE LACROSSE.
" We order that these presents, invested with the sea
of the Senate, and inserted in the Bulletin de Lois, shall
be addressed to the courts, tribunals, and administrative
authorities, that they may inscribe them on their regis-
ters, duly observing the same and causing them to be
observed ; and our Secretary of State for the Depart-
ment of Justice is charged to look to their publication.
" Given at the Palace of Compiegne this 25th of De-
cember, 1852.

(Signed) "NAPOLEON.
(Countersigned) " ACHILLE FOULD, Minister
" of State.
" Examined and sealed with. the Great Seal."
" ABBATUCCI, Minister of Justice."

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

MASTER OF THE HORSE'S OFFICE, DEC. 1.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Colo-
nel Everard. William Bouverie, of the Royal Regiment of
Horse Guards, to be Equerry in Ordinary to her Majesty,
in the room of Lieutenant-General William Wemyss, de-
ceased.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 24.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. William
S. H. Newman as Consul at St. John's, Newfoundland, for
the United States of America.

WHITEHALL, DEC. 27.

The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend
Philip Salisbury Bagge to the Rectory of Walpole Saint
Peter, in the county of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich,
the same being void by the death of the Reverend Arthur
Moore.

Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of the North Ridin