The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-01 00:00:00

FRANCE.

Tito celebrated preacher, Father Ventura, i 3 clan-
gercuzly ill. The last sacraments were administered
to him on Thursday.
Arrangements are making for the organizatioi cf
the civil household of the future Emperor.
The Assemblee I\74tionale has the following on the
movement for the Empire :
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From the commencement of the government of
Deoßcalo9r 2. we announced what is now taking place.
It was inevitable that the dictatorship arising from the
coup-d'Ceat should lead as quickly as passible to what
is called the Empire. Consequently, in spite of certain
words, in goite of the phrase 'Let us keep the Republic,
we nevercubted of the speedy coming of the Empire.
Why stop short halfway? And besides, if that was the
4osirs, it could not be realized, for on the path of revolu-
tions there are certain halts which are not possible. Was
it not also necessary that the word republic should be
solemnly effaced, since the thing itself had fallen into
universal contempt ? For a length of time, the revolu-
tion of February had been condemned by the country,
which had rejected its men and its doctrines. The very
name of the government which it had given to the world
ought also to disappear. On the other hand, since the
constitutional and perlianeentary system does not exist
any longer, since the rtgime under which we live for more
than ten months, is entirely in conformity with the Go-
vernment instituted by Napoleon in the first years of the
present century, since it is the avowed reproduction
of that government, why should it not also take its
name ? All this much of things is therefore natural,
and a man, to bo astonished at it, should be igno-
rant of the history of the last sixty years and not
comprehend its fatal , and inftexiole consequences.
An ancient and glorious monarchy, with which
Foench society had es it were become incorporated, was
etoiently destroyed. It tell, but in its fall, it drew every-
Ming with it; and since that immerse ruin, it appears
that on the soil shaken to its centre, nothing can long
remain upstanding. now many attempts have we not
witnessed? Without going back to the first revolution,
how rn-ny regimes have we nor seen pass before our
eyes ,inring the last four years? Have wo not heard
the Republic, now reprobated and thrust out ec-
ciaineee seventeen times? The name has not yet
legally disappeared. and the cry of Vice la Re-
pubtive ! is a seditious one. Let it not be sup-
posed that we triumph at this instability in the sen-
timents and institutions of our country; on the con-
trary, it is in our opinion a sad and deplorable cir-
e ro p,-es profoundly France, even when
ire in her hopes or her illusions. And, in
truth, no or. has a right ro be astonished and to com-
plain, that ecer having. hen buffeted by so many tem-
pests, and so often overwhelmed by sanguinary convul-
sions, ecc., she seeks her safety in the aggrendisernent
ofthe Government now placed over her. In her opinion,
the empir:, is u still brooder dyke against anarchy and
and in conlequutce she asks from the Em-
Will it be able to listen

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to that wish of F:anc logitirnateit in its nature? It
i 3 thz, future alone whioh will sultry that great quf-,stion.
A 9 to ourselves, we do not wiTh to say anything chat can
low" persons to suspect the doubts which (Atm cross cur
!rind."