The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-21 00:00:00

TUESDAY

EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1852

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Moniteur gives telegraphic dispatches: which
conduct the PRINCE PRESIDENT from St. Etienne to
Lyons, where he arrived on Sunday at half-past two
o'clock, amidst unabated enthusiasm. The crowds of
people, estimated at 200,000, cried "Vive Napoleon!
Vive l'Empereur,"
The Constitution/it/ heads an article with the title
L'Empire, in large capital letters, which it begins by
declaring that the question with the whole country is
not whether the Empire ought to be re-established,
but when will the Empire be proclaimed ? Accord-
ing to the writer, the new Emperor will not, like his
uncle, rest his fame and power on war, but on works
of peace. He will push railways, lower taxes, en-
courage industry, and found charitable institutions
and schools. Dr. VERON, however, adds with pro-
priety, that he has no authority for reflections which
are altogether his own.
A sharp controversy has suddenly sprung up
amongst the newspapers on the subject of the Duke
of WELLINGTON'S military merits, provoked by the
second article of the Assemblie Nationale, from, as it
is supposed, M. Gtazoes pen. The calm-judging
historian does not hesitate to place the sagacity,
, and fortitude of the great Duke
leated genius of the EMPEROR ; while
important moral lesson for man's in-
atsbetbemroudypereetairtwo,bnse, goodtithihi.eartsgnhuos
however eccentric flashes and dashing
enterprises may dazzle for a moment, yet that final
belongs
o the soberer and sterner virtues.
t bellows the Pays,' the Assemblee Nationale
success
whetsesesstablish a parallel between Wellington and Napo-
leon, as if these two existences had weighed equally
upon the destiny of the world and the future of
humanity, and as if these two names ought to occupy the
same place in the imagination of the people and the ad-
miration of posterity! What! it dares to compare the
conqueror of Egypt, the vanquisher of Italy and Ger-
many, to the English general who at Waterloo was
served less by his military genius than by an unfortunate
fatality, ecc."
IVe learn from Marseilles, dated the 17th, that a
most serious accident occurred the previous afternoon,
on the Montpellier and Nismes Railroad. The train
left Montpellier at 4 P.M. for Marseilles ; within a
shelbow, a luggage train coming from Marseilles ran
,
it,
ispttnadc eweounded nearly every passenger. From
and where the road forms almost an
the official report received this morning, it appears'
that 50 persons are most severely wounded, and a
slightly. A lady, it is said; is since dead.
greatTh meparneyp
preparations for the reception of the PRINCE
PRESIDENT were fast progressing. The fete will be
most splendid, such as never was witnessed before in
the old city of the Phocians.
Three regiments of infantry and two regiments of
cavalry were en route for Marseilles, to remain there
during the stay of the PRESIDENT.
There was a
the Bourse large amount of busineesa transacted at
in railway shares. Orleans, Rouen, and
llavre rose considerably. The Four-and-a-Half per
Cents. opened at, 104 f, 40c., and closed at 104 f. 30e.
for the end of the month ; the Three per Cents. closed
at 781. 20e.; Orleans Railway shares, 1,490 f.; Rouen,
9101.; Ravre,43ot.; Great Northern, 716 f. 25c. ; Avig-
non, 5001.; Basle, 332 f. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg,
7451'.; Paris and Lyons, 8211. 25e.; Lyons and Avignon,
6301.; Western of France, 630 k.; bt. Dizier to Gray, 545 f.
BUSINESS IN I<OKEION RAIL wAtb AL
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 0.
Dijon and Besancon, 3—Dutch Rhenish, B—East Indian,
281/I—Great Indian Peninsula, PA— 1/2 Luxembourg, 7
Lyons and Avignon, 93,/,.—MadraY, 21/2 p.—Namur and
Liege, 85,ii—Norrr of France
degux, 19.....pari, and I,yolls, 221/2 28—Orleans and Bour
—Paris and Orleans,
,be
581/2—Paris anti 11(aien, :3.l"3;—Paris and Strasbourg, 30—
Paris, Caen, and Q;crb ourg,
51/2—Rouen and Havr©. 16—
Sambre and Meuse, 10,—West Flanders, 4/B—Western of
France, 11.
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