The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-09 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 9‘ 1852.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—Permit me to remark that an error has crept
in in your too flattering review of my humble services.
I was not at Albuera, but with the Duke moving
from the Agueda.
It was my valued, gallant, and ever to be lamented
friend General Sir William Stewart, brother of Lord
Galloway, an officer, null semitha, who was in com-
mand under Berestord at that battle.
It was sot in the many successful cavalry skir-
mishes and attacks with my gallant comrades in ad-
vance of Fuentes D'Honor, that General Le
Fevre (not Lamotte, of Bonaparte's Imperial Guard,)
was taken ; but when I commanded and charged, and
in the milie with the picquets and rear-guard of
Lord Anglesey's cavalry, at the affair of the Heights
of Benavente, covering the movement of our then
gallant and incomparable chief, Sir John Moore,
through Galicia.
The public dispatches of our greatly distinguished
Commander fully explain all these details.
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VANE LONDONDERRY.
Oct. 5, 1812.

The Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, Secretary of
State for the Home Department, arrived here last night by
express train from London, and leaves to-day for Bal-
moral, to relieve Sir John Pakington, Colonial Secretary,
as Minister in Waiting upon the Queen.—Ethinburgh Paper
of Thursday.
We regret to learn that Edward Auchmuty
Glover, Esq., still continues indisposed. The Learned Gen-
tleman has been ordered to take a sea voyage for the benefit
of his health, and left Southampton on Thursday by the
Peninsular and Oriental CQmpany's steamer, the Tagus, for
theMediterraneari

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The Government has received the following tele-
graphic dispatches
Toulouse, Oct. 6, Three in the Afternoon,
"Yesterday evening, at eight o'clock, the Prince went
to the Capitol, and having appeared at the balcony was
received by upwards of 50,000 spectators with cries of
Vivo l'Empereurt' Vire Napoleon III.:' At the
theatre, which presented a fairy-like coup d'ceil, the en-
thusiasm was of an indescribable energy. The ladies
waved their handkerchiefs to the cry of ' Viva l'Empe-
reurl On his return the crowd encumbered the streets
to see the Prince, and greeted him with the same ac-
clamations. This morning, at seven o'elock, his High-
ness quitted Toulouse. Notwithstanding that it rained
heavily, the populatio❑ was collected on his passage,
and greeted him most warmly. Language fails to express
the enthusiasm of his reception at Toulouse."
" Agen, Half-past Five in the Evening.
"The Prince is now entering the town, and is re-
ceived with the greatest enthusiasm by the population
and the garrison. The acclamations are unanimous, and
the cry of l'Empereur I' universal. His High-
ness is in perfect health."
" Half-past Six in the Evening.
" In spite of the rain, his Highness was received by an
immense crowd, who cried ' Viva l'Emperenr.".rhe
clergy, with the bishop at their head, received the Prince
at the cathedral. His arrival at the Prefecture was the
occasion of a new explosion of cries of Viva l'Em-
pereurr and of an avalanche of bouquets and wreaths
of flowers."

" Oct. 7, Seven in the Morning.
" The Prince gave a dinner of forty covers last evening
at the Prefecture. The presentation of the authorities
took place afterwards, and the ladies were received.
Everywhere the presence of his Highness produced the
most lively enthusiasm. The Fires des Graviers was
magnificent, and at night the town was brilliantly illu-
minted. The Prince has just taken his departure in
the midst of the most enthusiastic acclamations. No-
where did his Highness receive a more cordial reception,
and he appeared much moved at its warmth. The state
of We weather promises an easy passage."
" Bordeaux, Oct. 7, Half.past Four Evening.
" The Princo has just arrived at Bordeaux. Every-
where the people on the two banks of the river saluted
hit with enthusiastic manifestations and with cries of
Viva l'Earpereur l' The entry into Bordeaux ex-
ceeded anything that could have been imagined."
" Seven in the Evening.
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.‘ Bordeaux has surpassed all that we have hitherto
seen, and I shall renounce the idea of describing the
pomp and enthusiasm of the reception given to the
Prince. The vessel which bore him landed him at the
Quinconce; his Highness then mounted on horseback,
and went to the Place, where the filing off immediately
commenced, amidst repeated cries of ' Vive l'Eaaperenr!'
Vive Napoleon lII.I' The deputations of the com-
munes were unanimous in their enthusiasm. The Prince
afterwards traversed the city to go to the cathedral.
He arrived in Bordeaux at half-past four, but did not
reach his palace until half-past six. The imposing re-
ception was favoured by the most delightful weather."
The Journal du Puy de Dome says it appears cer-
tain that the arrests made in the department of the
Haute-Loire are connected with the plot discovered
at Marseilles. It is said that letters of a most com-
promising character have been discovered which bad
been exchanged between the two parties whose arrest
has been mentioned. One of these letters, written
from Brioude some few days before the discovery of
the infernal machine, states, from a coincidence which
may have serious consequences for the writer, that in
a very short time "on allait es finir avec la bour-
geoisie," and it recommended the person to whom it
was addressed at Puy to take courage and to be pa-
tient for a few days. Two Morstagnard ex-represen-
titives, the most violent in the department, had visited
Brioude within the last month, where they had held
meetings as secretly as possible, but not without their
movements having been noticed by the police. It is
generally thought that M. DE Sr. FERREOL will be im-
plicated in the plot of Marseilles, and transferred to
Aix to be tried with the others it the Court of Assizes.
A decree of the PRINCE PRESIDENT, dated Carcas-
sonne, the 4th, opens an extraordinary credit of
500,000 f. to the Ministry of Public Works for the
repair of the damages caused 13! the inundation of the
Rhine.
The Monitetur publishes an immense number of
addresses from different Councils and other public
bodies to the PRINCE PRISIDErt expressive of grati-
tude for the important servicesthat he has rendered to
society, and of their desire tosee his power placed on
a sure and durable foundation. In addition to these
addresses several more Courcils of Arrondissement
have passed resolutions in femur of the re-establish-
ment of the Empire.
Nine Government engineers are,with its permission,
at present employed in executing public works in
foreign countries—namely, Poirel, employed in
the works of the port of Leghorn ; M. Lalanne, em-
ployed in laying out railways in Wallachi ;
Lamarle, in Belgium ; M. B.guin, employed in form-
ing railways in Moldavia ; M. Mougel, employed in
barring the Nile ; M. Michei, in the Roman States ;
M. Faraguet, in Peru ; M. Fresnaux and M. Leferne,
charged with improving the navigation of the Ebro,
in Spain, and with irrigations in the provinces com-
prised between Saragossa and the sea.
It may be remembered that on the 27th August
last, the well-known somnambulist ALEXIS, and eight
females of the same profession, named DESYONTAINES,
V TA L
and RT, ROaEE, OCTAVIE, JOUISSIN,
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JOUISSIN,PIRENE, were cited before
the Tribunal of Simple Police, on the charge of
having deceived the public by the exercise of their
art. N. JULES FAVRE, on their behalf,
argued at
great length that somnambtlism is not fortune-
telling, or divining of dreams, which are prohibited
under pain of fine and imp!isonment by the penal
code, but a regular science, which, though still en-
veloped in mystery, has attracted the serious atten-
tion of, and is believed in by, many very learned
men. The Tribunal took tine to consider its judg-
ment, and yesterday was fixed for the delivery of it.
It declared that even if the accused had, as they re-
presented, the power by meins of a magnetic fluid of
seeing with their eyes bandaged, of indicating the
nature of maladies, of giving information respecting
absent persons, and of stating where stolen things are
to be found, they did not the less violate the penal
code, inasmuch as all such things constitute what is
called fortune-telling an divining. It accordingly
condemned each of the defendants to five days' im-
prisonment, 15f. fine, and the costs.
The Bourse was remarkably firm, with a great deal
of business doing. The Eour-and-a-Half per Cents.
opened at 105 f. 35c., and closed at 105 f. 400., for
the end of the month; the Three per Cents.
closed at 78f. 90c.; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,475 f. •
Rouen, 900 f.; Havre, 40Ef. 75c.; Great Northern, 742 f.
50c ; Avignon, 537 f. 50c.; Basle, 327 f. 50c.; Paris and
Strasburg, 770 f.; Paris end Lyons, 872 f. 50c.; Lyons
and Avignon' 647 f. 50c.; Western of France, 683 t. 75c.;
St. Meier to Gray, 546 f. '4.5c.
BUSIINESS DuiNk_lN teuREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Ocr. 8.
Charleroi and Erquelinea 15%—Dijon and Besancon, 3%
—East Indian, 28—Luxe7bourg, B—Lyons and Avignon,
1034—MadraF, 7 —Faria, Caen, and Cherbourg, OA
Rouen and Havre, 165,1—Sambre and Meuse, lOys—West
Flanders, 43A—Western of France, 131.