The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-12 00:00:00

FRENCH EMPIRE.

4 SPeCiai
coriun conYention for the electric telegraph
Straalul 'cation between France and Bavaria, by
b
rg, Wissenburg, and the circles of the
e ?.4 on Tuesday signed by the Minister of
d'A.frkr Affairs and the Count de Quadt, Charge
On es
the Lor
the King of Bavaria.
Uavi occasion of the treaty of commerce and
Tus gation recently concluded between France and
Conena#llF the Grand Duke has just conferred on
" rcial Lesseps director of consulates and coin-
aff •
Affai airs at the Department of Foreign
st.
_Tx; the Cross of Commander of the Order of
itain"ePh. M. Meurant, sub-director, has been•
ed chevalier. of the same Order.
otheTil e Union of yesterday, in the absence of any
subject on which it could indulge in the ex-
ehilaa its distrust of England, implores the
c- Government to take precautions against the
kier which would otherwise result from per-
znar.nlig all English company to lay down a sub-
go 0 telegraph to Algeria. The Union does not
)quit. SO far as to say that the English will place
Eger at the end of the cable and drag away
b—aleirtia to annex it, climate and. all, to England,
perceives in this telegraph a scheme for de-
g the French eventually of their colony by
What-% hour by hour, and minute by minute,
hili is doing there so that the English may be
coginPersetlla to snap' it up when their appetite for
Lovre sum. have become ravenous. Supposi_ng,
per, that it is really an object with England to
pas:s*ith greater celerity that at present what
eau 12111 Algeria, we do not see what danger there
r,O the French Government of this wish
be :lg gratifieeces d on any occasion when secrecy would
AugisarY. The writer ,of the Union, in
ter his
ni°l3ll°* overlooks the fact that the Al,,erinhee
Of the cable will be entirely under the
11-1 of the French authorities, and that no
thei~ger can be transmitted to England without
Unio eission. The alarm manifested by .the
aPolonrm
gvie.,:m) ludicrous that we should consider an
Pereerve-:ecessary for alluding to it, if we did not
Y
hold ,11 the manifestation a determination to
‘0 every occasion, with or without reason,
Intl a sukticion that the English are con-
-I,lvlitei? uring designagainst France. The
article which we subjoin, must have
-Y the Is-
p-Oei' with the foresight that he exhibits
says .-ngs of some turning table. The Union

eri``lilfg.thearnreii,ebleeert:e time we could wish to call the at-
tention%hi 13- uun -1-iegislati've Body to the project for esta-
telegraph between France and Al-
coa' The Government has treated with an English
whieirn„Y',lvitioh is already master of the submarine cable
lltelit -n'too Dover and Calais. This company is at
pro,, nt constructing the cable from Dover to Osteind,ooanrod-
ctiocasetsiona, pplaaansifoogr putting Africa and France In
by Piedmont, Corsica, and Sar-
k,,l , to Bona, with the ulterior project of carrying the
lllmjeef,ir.°nl the African coast. to. the English possessi.ons.
aO. 'l4. Evidently there is in
seems
sbetfoorues
that
tththinegre
are.reat English .
interest. And it
d
to great dangers for France in an enterprise which so
d of the precis
a,,,, speak would place in_ E
ironyfileis_ligehands, day ye
si_
t-Z hour by hour, the k At present,
i4oon of our Algerian possessions.
accredited consuls and represen-
'Viand who has
tat the globe, has no one
~,11?es on nearly all tbepo.ilaesroiaf,
th an official title in -Alg because she has not
`uoseu, to recognise our rightto of possessing it. Now to
an English company, which
"cede by a public act
important personages, the right of
: supported by very
~taliilishing the submarine.. telegraph. on Algerian soil is
''othing else than authorising in that spot the obligatory
Zlll, permanent presence of foreign agents naturally but
disposed towards us, and who may, on more than one
°neasion, be very disagreeable to us. It is already a
I,Rnod deal that an English place, Malta, should have
the
the central point of the steam' navigation of
frolVlediterlleall. basin • and measures ought to be
44. en for preventing another English place, London,
°ln becoming the central point of the universal
tele
graph system, including Algeria.
itte that the French Government would
always be
It is vain to
4.76. to
, atop the news, which it would be important
hilt to keep secret. For all those who know the
11),!iliph system, that is a complete, error. And even
ta7°PPosing the thing possible, France would always
seas t° fear that once arrived in e
Piedmont, the important
4 i Would take the line of Ostend by way of Switzer-
-13" and G •
Switzer-
de Germany.' If the ca. ble.of Ostend be not yet laid
—awaN it is because it is of importance to have the con-
taus_
''
I°n of the African line first assured. That is the real
40,' of_ the delay which has takge.place, in the laying
Moreover, if we
le:ye f the German telegraph
111 e; it •
1. e the English alone to establish the electric
. telegraph
h,O s, will happen that the commercial news going
1,1 nt the North to the South and the South to the
1,15/Itit, will all be enregistered in the central-office
_esta,
li LB'll at London, and will thus be known to the Eng-
.. 18.4 before reaching the persons for whom, it is
meat;
alo,,,illecl- The establishment of a French company can
a-' neutralise such a danger, which interests in the
othrthehr:toTiteee,the commerce of France, and that of
in. I,:o,4u,egislative body sat yesterday, M. Billault,
AI t--- r ; ellair• Leave of absence was accorded to
aah;egeat. The President read from the chair
hessio;l3eVal. decree 'declaring ,that the Legislative
lath „--f°,`, .1853, which ought to terminate on the
log -; "us month, shall be extended to the even-
en Saturday, May. 28. ' Two bills were pre-
Le_
gc,',,' °no relative to public baths and- wash
niein;', and the second proposing the final settle-
fic4" of the budget of 1851. M. Legrand pre-
[ed.
tetihe bill rePert on a local bill. •The discussion. on
i
i, jelating to the mode of iorming the jury in
adopted, eases was resumed, and the measure
tai t-c,"': Four local bills were also adopted, as
AV -1' tens to prolong the provisions of Chap.
hion,, e` the Forest-cede. The bill on the civil pene-
klisce-Zas then brought forward, and aftejsorme..
eeeaie I°ll adjourned to the next day. The P..
tin-, 148 then terminated. the
and
naele„ representatives met in their bureaux,__ow
Before the public sit,
'the 1; three committees ; one,' on the bill to all
ever riejeet of Police of Paris to exercise full power
tile exec bantime ; a second, on that relating to
.1,r411 execenutitoi:of
of
line of electric telegraph between
the :(3 alld Algeria ; and the third, on the bill for
en obie 0 a railway from St. Rambert to
The ; •
afraira 'ilacti-vity reported as existing on Monday in
leer at the home has again been continued, for-
cltit,cluotations having been maintained with diffi-
-1314' with a tendenc to decline at the close of
VidiesB ; the Three 37 1 it a_ per. Cents. for cash fell 5c.,
Place i_ u
the to the same extent took
Nvp., '1 the -n,
si an itir.- our-end-a-Half per Cents. There
area, . provement of sf. in Bank of France
Cents • Pinal
311,,,., gif --, quotations :—For cash—Three per
14•71. 15e. For Four-and-a,-Half per Cents.,
•3,i 7oe
_•
Four the account—Three per Cents.,
fan k Bieci Ti... or-and-a-Half per Cents., 104 f. 35c.
the q:iet2a
4 dee, --, occurred, ,:3oo:bei MortgacTe Bank Shares no
the rune of 7f.closing at 885 f.; but there was
those of the Societe Mobilere,
le llail 940 f. 50c. The aspect of
Ir°lll ' w4Y Share. Market' was again very unfa-
tin aule) not in
klub in prices much demand existing, and the de-
_eontinuing. In Paris and
,OLlea, us. Shares the fall was to the ex-
tli,teolif ainodf.
bl'aring iities7"iotoi-f. and 2f. generally in the re-
ef o°l unchangedl ,us to the Mediterranean re-
. z in. Greatl ho to
and there was a rise
*lees
''were Northern Shares. The closing
aria re :----Norther
%Of, aPd Strasburg, 218, 935 L ; Orleans 1,105 f.;
4 oo„ .036f. rzn,.. ..,,
.. ).
Lyons,
'' ; Paris and no "''‘'.; -ram and L
1,160 f.; Lyons to
uen,
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