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

FRANCE•

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The illoniteur gives, in an Extraordinary Supple-
ment, the minutes of the proceedings of the Senate of
the 4th, 6th, and ith of November, the senatus con-
sulturn presented on Sunday at St. Cloud, with the
decrees convoking the people and the Senate.
The proas verbal, or minutes of the sitting held by
the Senate on the 4th, records the opening speech of
Prince Jerome, the Message of the Prince President,
the proposition of the ten members for a modification
of the constitution, and the answer of the Minister of
State, that the Government was not opposed to the
taking of the proposition into consideration.
The Message of the Prince President is the same
as that which has already been published. The
speech of Prince Jerome is in some respects an echo
of the Message, yet the following portion is re-
markable

" That which the French people did in 1804 it does
again in 1852, thus showing how constant it is in
andgrati-
tude
the ju't in judgment. How can we tail to r( co
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finger of Providence, which, in our worst days, has
not ceased to watch over France, in this phenomenon of
"mts almost identical reproducing themselves at 50
Years' distativ? Popular instinct, which acclaimed Na-
Poleon I. reveals itself anew to-day in acclaiming Napo-
„,„1"011 lIL, the Prince who for four years has governed
.rrance with so much wisdom and ability.
The following are the names of the ten who signed
tho Proposition for a modification of the constitution :
Mesnard, Troplong, General Baraguay,
d'llilliers, Cardinal Du Pont, General d'Hautpoul,
Baron Lacrosse, Marshal Vaillant, General St. Jean
trAngely, Count Simeon, and General d'Ornano.
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
serer, 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
°illy Government which acted on the old principle
that the people had 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 in 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
Muality, 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
Domes lost in the multitude, while the Monarchy
la, 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.
n conformity with the substance of the report (of
Which it is unnecessary to enter upon a further detail),
the following senatus consultum was then read and
adopted
Art. 1. The Imperial dignity is re-established. Louis
Napoleon Bonaparte is Emperor under the name of
Napoleon
Art. 2. The Imperial dignity is hereditary in the
direct and legitimate descendants of Louis Napoleon
b
noeparte, from male to male, by order of primogeniture
'•0 the perpetual exclusion of females and their de.
kendants.
" Art. 3. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, if he has no
male child, may adopt the legitimate children and
mescendants in the male line of the brothers of the
peror Napoleon I. The forms of adoption are 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 and to their de-
. scoadants.
Art. 4. Louis Napoleon regulates by an organic de-
eree, 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 tbeabova
mentioned organic decree, a senatus consultum, proposed
tn
0 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
2braitted to the acceptance of the people, names the
toperor, and regulates in his family the hereditary order
f j°lll male to male, to the perpetual exclusion of females
their descendants. Until the moment when the
election of the now Emperor is consummated, the
Weirs of State are governed by the Ministers in office,
1,10 shall form themselves into a Council of Govern-
'4ent, and deliberate by a majority of votes.
" Art, 6. The members of the family of Louis Napo-
rhe°ll°lr descendants Bonaparte called eventually to the heredacy, and
of both sexes, form part of the IncaZVal family. A senatus consultum regulates their po-
oPon. They cannot marry without the authorization
the Emperor. Their marriage without such autho-
lattiOn entails privation of all hereditary right, both for
141 who contracts it as for its descendants.
" Art. 7. The constitution of 15th January, 1852, is
maintained to in all its provisions, which are not contrary
the present senatus consultum, there cannot be any
modification made in it except in the forms and by the
illeans therein prescribed.
," Art. 8. The following proposition shall be presented
`,l`! the acceptance of the French people in the forms
'4ton:caned by the decrees of the 2d and 4th December,
1851—`
The people wish for the re-establishment of the
2lmperial dignity in the person of Louis Napoleon Bona-
parte with heredacy in his direct descendants, either legitimate
or adoptive, and gives him the right to regu-
late the order of succession to the throne in the Bona-
Parte family as provided for by the senatus consultum of
November, 1852. "
M. Mesnard, First Vice-President of the Senate,
en presenting the above senatus consultum to the
Prince President, addressed him as follows :
" Monseigaeur,—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
Meditations of the Senate 8n this vast movement of pub-
lic opinion which has manifested itself with so mach
cnsemble and energy. The Senate has understood that
tills striking manifestation is justified at the same time
9 the immense services which you have rendered by the
same which you bear, and by the guarantees which aro
!wen to the future by the greatness of your character
nd 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-
ral33' of her origin, now again finds in popular sanction
athe elements of its force and of its duration. The Senate
ili°ll,ca, Monseigneur, in being the faithful interpreters of
,110 wishes and sentiments of the country in placing in
'l,c)ar hands the senatus consultum which calls you to the

The Prince replied :
ns" Messieurs the Senators,—l thank the Senate for
eagerness with which it has responded to the wishes
0"; tthhoountry, in deliberating on the re-establishment
, and in drawing up the senates consultum
beltvi,htieehlanitopir e submittedh to the acceptance of the people.
thgeo, forty-eig t years since, in this same palace, in
18 Balm room, and under analogous circumstances, the
senatefamily,
came to oiler the crown to the chief of my
..:11;y, the Emperor replied by these memorable wor
fromds
th:My spirit will no longer be with my posterity
day when it shall cease to merit the lmovoestanadffetchtes
h confidence of this great nation'—what now
1;7 heart is the thought that the spirit of
the Emperor
„ with me—that his ideas guide me—that his shade
rtit°Leets me—since by a solemn proceeding you come
have name of the French people to prove to me that I
merited the confidence of the country. It is not
accessaryf,., for me to tell you that my constant pre-
fr-tiPation will be to labour with you to promote the
btandeur and prosperity of France.*
faen,ewed cries of " Vive l'Empereur" here burst
to-p"u• The Prince afterwards approached the sena-
ikft,-8, and entered into conversation with each of them,
toTtt 'which they left and returned to the Luxem-
rg•
t iThe Aloniteur publishes decrees convoking the
lantoral Colleges, to adopt or reject the plebiscite,
t;11 the 21st or 22d inst., and the Legislative Body for
e 25% inst., in order to examine the regularity of
the
votes, and to declare the result.
In the new organization of the Government the
b'irt,elloy of the Senate will belong to the Emperor
Jerome to
This circumstance had determined Prince
Senate
to resign his functions as President of the
taate into the hands of Prince Louis Napoleon.
1):1-rhe Senate went on Sunday in a body to the
fh;1146 of S. Cloud, to present the Prince President
In; consultum relative to the re-establish-
er-4'' of the Empire. The Senate left the Palace
ti_ the Luxembourg at half-past one, and ar-
titieiades at
were
Cloud at three o'clock. The car-
preceded and followed by a strong
eqkehnleat of the Republican Guard, commanded by
diaittraio• The members of the Senate were imme-
k. de
admitted to the presence of the Prince, when
c_ oe Mesnard, the Vice President, read the senates
winitum adopted by the Senate. The Prince Presi-