The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-16 00:00:00

FREE TRADE.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

The Prophet, according to Cowper, left good Mahomme-
dans an injunction to abstain from eating a certain un-
named part of a swine. His faithful followers, however,
take upon themselves to decide, each of them for himself,
that the part he least prefers must be the part prohibited
by the prophet ; and thus, " Itfahommedans eat up the
Hog"—or, as Jonathan would express it in genuine Yankee
lingo, admissible in these days of free trade, " they
go the whole Hog." But the pork-loving Jew, so
we learned at least from our grammar-school com-
panions, altogether surpasses the special pleading
of the carnally-minded Mussulman ; for the former,
as the story went, plunges the joint of pork into
a pail of water, bids it go down pork and come up
mutton, and after this unsectarian proselyte baptism,
enjoys every part of the forbidden flesh. We must say
that many of our senators have jut reminded us of this

THE FRENCH EMPIRE.

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The Dutch Ambassador, General Fagel has been
presented to his Majesty the Emperor with his cre-
dentials. The Minister of the Grand Duchy of
Hesse has signified to the French representative
the satisfaction of the Grand Duke at the advent of
Louis Napoleon to the throne, adding that the le-
gation, for some time suppressed, would be re-
established at Paris.
The decree appears by which the Republican
Guard is to be called the Garde de Paris. The two
battalions of Gendarmerie Mobile are to be called
Gendarmerie d'Elite.
By decrees the Bishop of Grenoble is nominated
a canon of the highest order in the Imperial Chapter
of St. Denis, and the Abbe Grinoulhiac, Vicar
General of the Archbishopric of Aix, raised to the
see of Grenoble. The Bishop of Coutance having
been equally created canon of the highest order in
the Imperial Chapter, the Abbe Daniel is raised to
his see.

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baptismal regeneration of the pork. Free trade has of

late years become most pleasant food for politicians, it has
satisfied the hungry electors with bread, sweetened their
taa and tarts with two spoonsful for one, of sugar—given
them a cup of coffee at half price. or of doubly good quality,
and cheapened almost everything; yet,—marvel of marvels
it has overfilled the Exchequer ! What, then, could poli-
ticians in office do without it ? How could they face the
well-fed electors on a dissolution, if they dieted themselves
on the husks of restrictive duties ? Accordingly, numbers
of them having lived on that trashy food in opposition, no
sooner found that, at the end of a few months, they must
show themselves for approbation to the sovereign electors,
—than, instanter, they betake themselves to the food
forbidden to their faith ; but the food, indispensable to
a well-favoured countenance in the eyes of the electors,
and an ample number of pale-faced Protectionists, fatten
themselves for the borough hustings on free trade. Scarcely
had they seated themselves on the treasury benches, ere their
leader provided them with an ample budget-feast of the
tabooed aliment, and with astonished looks at first, and
some grumbling from the more dyspeptic subjects, nearly all
have fed, more or less heartily, thereon ever since. Marvel-
lously have they changed their looks for the better. Their
anxious, care-worn, minority countenances have dilated to
the sleek fatness of a majority of nine to one ! Nine
months' dieting on free trade has wrought the wondrous
transformation.

The dotation of the Emperor comprises, accord-
ing to the Debats, the palaces of the Tuileries, the
Elysee, the Palais Royal, Versailles, Manly, St.
Germain, St. Cloud, Meudon, Fontainebleau, Com-
piegne, Rambouillet, Pau, and Strasbourg, with
their farms, lands, parks, and woods ; the manufac-
tories of Sevres, the Gobelins, and Beauvais ; and
the wood of Vincennes, the forest of Dourlan, the
forest of Senart, and the forest of Laigne, with the
museums, libraries, Crdwn diamonds, &c.
The Emperor went on Monday evening to the
Theatre Francais. He was received both inside
and out with acclamations. On Tuesday he visited
the Hotel de Ville. His Majesty was in an open
carriage, escorted by a detachment of Carabineers.
An immense crowd had assembled on the Place,
by whom he was received with loud cries of " Vive
l'Empereur !" which were also raised throughout
the streets as he passed, both in going and return-
ing. After his return to the palace, the Emperor,
accompanied by two aides-de-camp, walked in the
garden of the Tuileries.

- The following is the letter by which M. Drouy
de L'Huys, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, notified
to the representatives of France at foreign courts
the change of the form of Government in France :
" Monsieur,—l have the honour to send you annexed,
with the text of the senatus consultum, which fixes the
conditions under which the Sovereign power is to be
henceforth exercised in France, an official copy of the
plebiscite which confirms these important communica-
tions, and makes a state law of it. In consequence, the
new Emperor of the French ascends, by the grace of
Divine Providence, on the throne to which the almost
unanimous vote of the nation calls him, and I hasten to
execute the orders of the Chief of the State in notifying
through you his accession to the Government of

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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16, 1852.

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