The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-27 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of Saturday
and yesterday.
The Moniteur publishes the following announce-
ment :--
" For some time past the Minister of Police was in-
formed that a plot, of which he followed the traces with
vigilance, was formed against the life of the Prince
President. By a dispatch of this day the Government
has learned that on the 24th of September an infernal
Machine was seized at Marseilles. It is composed of
four large barrels, and two hundred and fifty ordinary
barrels. The barrels contained 1,500 balls. The au-
thors of the plot have been arrested, and all the ramifi-
cations of the plot are known. The affair is in the hands
of justice."
The official journal the Moniteur gives the following
additional particulars of the discovery of the infernal
machine at Marseilles :
" The following are the circumstances which preceded
the seizure of the infernal machine, and the arrest of the
arsons engaged in the plot. For some time past the
ister of General Police was on the trace of a secret
society, of which the object became every day more ma-
nifest. It had resolved to make an attempt on the life
of the Prince President. The city of Marseilles was
chosen. for the execution of the plot. M. Silvain Blot,
Inspector General of the Ministry-of Police, followed
With care the development and march of the affair. The
Construction of an internal machine having been resolved
upon, several of the conspirators set about the affair, and
the machine was very speedily finished. It was coin-
Posed of two hundred and fifty musket barrels, and
four blunderbusses of a large bore, the whole divided
into 28 groups, which, for greater security, were de-
posited in as many different places until a suitable
BPOt should have been found to put them together,
ready for use. The conspirators then occupied them-
selves with choosing a place which naturally was to be
in the line of the passage of the Prince President. They
first fixed on a first floor in a house in the Rue d'Aix,
Where the machine was to be fitted up in the night pre-
ceding the arrival of the Prince at Marseilles. Some
suspicions which arose in the minds of the conspirators
made them, however, relinquish their first choice.
" A second place was chosen. Like the first it was
on the passage of the Prince in the great road from Aix.
The whole of a small house was taken, composed of a
ground-floor and a first-floor, divided into two rooms
with three windows in the front. The infernal machine
Was to have been placed on the first floor, and it was
In re that it was seized. At the moment when it was
Seized, and when the arrests took place, one of the con-
spirators was in the house; the others were taken either
at.. their own houses or indifferent places where the po-
lice knew where to lay their hands upon them."
. The PRINCE PRESIDENT arrived at Avignon at
half-past four in the afternoon of the 24th, an ina-
Meuse concourse of people greeting him with the cry
of " Vive l'Empereur I" The peasants of the Lower
Alps having descended by thousands from their
Innuntains, were above all distinguished by the warmth
of their acclamations. He went at nine o'clock to the
ball at the Hotel de Ville. The whole town was
illuminated, and re-echoed with shouts of "Vive
rEmpereur !”
The following are the dispatches of the 25th :—.7
" Avignon, Sept. 25, Eleven in the Morning.
" The reception of the functionaries took place at the
hotel of the prefecture. The Prince then got on horse-
back and proceeded to the review. After the review he
Visited the hospital. During his passage his Highness
Was obliged to stop frequently in the midst of an enthu-
a4Btic population, which greeted him with cries of
' Vive l'Empereur !"Ihe Prince is about to proceed to
the railway station. His health is excellent.
" Half-past Eleven.
~,,," The Prince has just got into the railway carriage.
"3.0 Was saluted by the same acclamations as at his arri-
val and during his stay.
A letter from Rheims of the 233 states that a de-
PUtation from the operatives of that town has pre-
sented two petitions to the sub-prefect, containing
UPWards of 600 signatures, praying for the re-esta-
blishment of the Imperial Crown on the head of
Lotus NAPOLEON.
A letter from Toulon of the 22d inst. rectifies the
details published in the Constitutionnel relative to the
screw ship of war Napoleon :
"It is not 90 guns," says the writer of the letter,
! that may be mounted on board the Napoleon, but 94.
She has the sails of a ship of the line of 86 guns, and not
'9180; she carries provisions for three months, and not
for two only. Her biscuit chests hold a supply for four
months. Her supply of coal is not 1,100 tons, but only
nOO. But the strangest error the writer in the Con•
atitutionnel commits is, that he says the Napolean can
°Lily transport 1,500 troop, whereas 5,122 men, com-
Prising her crew, were placed on board her, and that
Without causing any further inconvenience than is expe-
rienced by troops embarked for a short passage."
At a late banquet at Dinan, Cotes-du-Nord, the
f,refect said that he was authorised to announce that
rince Louis NAPOLEON would positively visit that
Part of the country next year.
The &lick says :
" Our readers know that M. Bacciochi, Master of the
Ceremonies to the Prince President, left Toulon some
days ago for Constantinople in a steam-frigate. M.
Vacciochi is, it is said, charged with a mission of conci-
liation, for it must not be dissimulated that the expedi-
tion against Tripoli was executed in a somewhat unusual
manner, and in consequence displeased the Turks, who
are great observers of forms. It is to dissipate the
toti,
painful impression arising from this expedition that the
Master of the Ceremonies has been sent with a friendly
message and rich presents of Sevres porcelain. We aro
Willing to think that the necessity of living in good intel-
ligence, and with a cordial understanding, will, at Con-
stantinoo3, as at Paris, cause secondary causes of com-
plaint to be forgotten."
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 25.
Carlheroi and Erquelines, 1534—Dijon and Besangon, 3y6
,Dutch Rhenish, 7—Grand Junction of France, 514
Luxembourg, 734—Lyons and Avignon, 9%s—Madras, 2% p.
63/4—Paris and Lyons, 22 'A—
Namur and Liege (ex in-),
6 Paris and Strasbourg, 293 A —Faris, Caen, and , Cherbourg,
w%—ltouen and Havre, 1614—Sambre and Meuse, 10—
astern of France, 12.

SPAIN.
General CASTANOS, Duke of Bailen, and Captain-
`jehersl of the Spanish Army, died on the morning
the 21st, at the extreme age of 95 years. His in-
telle
ctual faculties were enid to be unimpaired.
The jury which was to try the incriminated jour-
tit: been nominated, and it was thought probable
trials would take place on the 22:1 or 23d inst.
MAD
Ceuta.,
BOURSE, SEPT. 21.—The Tnree per
47 1-16; Exchange on London, 50 30 paper.