The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-24 00:00:00

THE FRENCH EMPIRE. I

On Saturday a little before 12 o'clock the Presi-
dent of the Senate, M. Troplong, accompanied by
the officers of that body, arrived at the Palace of
the Tuileries. The three carriages in which they
were seated were escorted from the Luxemburg by
detachments of Lancers. Most of the senators
present in Paris, the. Councillors of State, the Pre-
fects of the Seine and Police, and other function-
aries of State, also repaired to the Tuileries.
Among the Senators were the Archbishop of Paris,
M.
Billault, President of the Legislative Corps,
41. Schneider, Vice-President ; a questor and seve-
ral deputies also were present. They were escorted
by a party of mounted chasseurs. At the head of
the Council of State were M. Baroche, President,
and M. Rouher, Vice-President. Some members
of the Council were absent. After a few minutes'
delay the Emperor entered the throne-room, pre-
ceded by the Duke of Cambaceres, who announced
Inni• Louis Napoleon, accompanied by his aides-
de-camp and several Marshals of France, among
others Marshals Rollie and Magnan, entered and
took his seat on the Throne. The ex-Prince
Jerome was seated on his right hand, and Prince
Napoleon, his son, to the left ;—the marshals and
admirals stood on both sides of the two Princes.
The Emperor stood, and in a firm tone of voice
read the following address :
" I yield to the wish so often manifested by the country
In coming to announce to you my marriage.
"The alliance which I contract is not 11.
traditions of ancient policy, and.therei isaits ord
advantage.wt with
the
Prance, by its successive revolutions, has ever abruptly
separated from the rest of Europe. Every wise Govern:
tient ought to try to make it re-enter in the pale of the old
Monarchies. But this result will be more surely attained
by a straightforward and frank policy, by loyalty in con-
duct, than by Royal alliances, which create a false security,
and often substitute family interests for those of the
nation. Moreover, the example of the past has left in the
mind of the people superstitious feelings. It has not for-
*viten that for 70 years foreign Princesses have not ,
mounted the Throne but to behold their race dispossessed
and proscribed by war or by revolution. One woman
alone seemed to bring happiness, and to live more than
the others in the memory of the people—and that woman,
the modest and good wife of General Bonaparte, was not
the issue of Royal blood. It must, however, be admitted
that in 1810 the marriage of Napoleon I. with Marie
Louise was a great event. It was a pledge for the future,
a real satisfaction to the national pride, as the ancient and
illustrious branch of the house of Austria, who had been
so long at war with us, was seen to solicit the alliance of
the elected chief of a new empire. Under the last reign,
on the contrary, the amour propre of the country had to
suffer, when the heir to the Crown solicited, fruitlessly,
during several years, a princely alliance, to obtain it only
in a secondary rank and in a different religion.
" When in presence of old Europe. one is borne on by
the force of a new principle to the height of ancient dynes- ,
ties, it is not by giving an ancient character to one's
escutcheon (enviellissant son blason), and by seeking to in-
troduce oneself at all costs into a family, that one is ac-
cepted. It is rather by ever remembering one's origin, by
preserving one's own character, and by adopting frankly in
presence of Europe the position of parvenu—a glorious
People. Thus, obliged to depart from precedents followed
to the present clay, my marriage became a private affair,
and there remained only the choice of the person.
She who has been the object of my preference is of dis-
tinguished birth. French in heart, by education, by the
recollection of the blood shed by her father in the cause of
the Empire, she has, as a Spaniard, the advantage of not
having in France a family to whom it might be necessary
to give honours and fortune. Endowed with all the qual
lities of the mind, she will be the ornament of the throne ;
in the day of danger she would be one of its courageous
supporters. A Catholic, she will address to Heaven the
laine prayers with me for the happiness of France. In
firm hope,
her grace and her goodness she will, I have the
grail hope endeavour to revive in the same position the
'virtues of' the Empress Josephine.
ha" I come, then, Messieurs, to announce to France that I
ve preferred the woman whom I love and whom I respect
t° one who is unknown, and whose alliance would have had
advantages mixed with sacrifices. Without disdaining any
one I yet yield to my inclinations, but after having taken
Counsel from m reason and my convictions. In fine, by
placing the independence, the qualities of the heart, do-
mestic happiness, above dynastic prejudices and the calcu-
lations of ambition, I shall not be less strong because I shall
be more free.
" Soon proceeding to Notre Dame I shall present the
Empress to the people and to the army ; the confidence
they have in me assures me of their sympathy, and you,
Messieurs, on learning better to appreciate her whom I
have chosen, you will allow that on this occasion also I have
been inspired by Providence."
The Emperor then bowed, and proceeded, with
the same ceremonial as on entering, to his private
apartments.
The ex-King Jerome and his son on quitting the
Tuileries proceeded to the Elysee to visit the
Countess Teba and her mother, and remained about
half an hour with them.
As everything connected with the marriage pos-
sesses interest for the moment, we subjoin, as a
heraldic curiosity, the list of the numerous titles of
the Countess of Montijo. It is as follows :
" Dona Maria Manuela Kirkpatrick do Closburn, Coun-
tess Dowager of Montijo, De Miranda, Banos y Mora ;
Duchess de Penaranda ; Mother, Guardian, and Adminis-
Zatrix of the person and property of my daughter Dona
Maria Francisca de Sales Portocarrero, Palafox y Kirkpa-
lck, Croy de Havre y Lanti, Lopez de Zuniga, Fernan-
dez de Cordoba, Leiva y la Cerda, Rojas, Guzman, Luna,
Enriquez de .Almanza, Cardenas, Pachecoy Acuna, Avel-
laneda, Guzman de Iscar, Rodriguez de Aza, Ochoa,
Bazan Osorio, Enriquez de Valdes y Cardona, Acevedo,
Chaves, Hinojosa, Chacon, Mendoza, Cardenas y Zapata,
Vargas, Luna, Vivero, Cabrera y Bobadilla, Lopez
Pacheco, Funes de Villalpando, Frances do Arino
Albion, Gurrea, Fernandez de Heredia, Monroy,!
Aragon, Enriquez de la Carra, Navarra, Lodena
Bracamonte y Davila ; Countess of Montijo, De Mi-
randa, De Banos, De Mora, De Fttentiduena, De Ablitas,
De San Estevan de Gormaz, De Casarrabios del Monte y de
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Duchess of Penaranda, Marchioness
of Valderrabano, De Osera, De Barcarrota, De la Algaba,
De la Baneza, Moya, De Villanueva del Fresno, De
Valdunquillo y de Miran°, Viscountess of Palacios de la
Valduerna y su. Infantazgo, y De La Calzada ; Lady of the
Casa Puente de Arteaga, De La Puebla de la Calzada, De
Huetor-Tajar, De Cespedosa, De La Adrada, De Codesal,
De Vierlas, De Romanillos, De Las Baronias de Quinto,
Figuernelas y Estooinan, De Las Villas y Valles de
Aza, Iscar, Valdeginate, Puebla de Naciados, Palos,
Villalba del Alcor, San Pedro de Latarce, Horcajo de
Las Torres, San Martin de la Fuente, Moguer, Bel-
monte, Seron y Layos, de Las Regallas y Preeminencias
de Mariscal Mayor de Castilla. Alcaidia Perpetua de la
Alcazaba y Fortaleza de Guadix y Capitania Principal de
los den continuos Hijosdalgo de la case de Castilla ; Pe-
trone de Las Insignes Iglesias Collegiales de Penaranda de
,Duero y de Santa Maria la Mayor de la Villa de Salas, de
Is Lustre Capilla de la Santa Epifania de la Ciudad de
Toledo del Colegio de Santa Catilina Martir de los Verdes
de Universidad de Alcala, de la Universidad. y Colegio de
San Gregorio de la Ciudad do Oviedo, y del de San Pelayo
Ego Salamanca, del Convent° de Religiosas de la Santa
spina de Gelsa, y del Hospital de San Andres de la Vill;
de Belmont ; Grandee of Spain of the first class, &c."
, The Count de G-evodan, director of the Archeo-
logical College of France, has sent the following
communication to the Paris journals :
" The family with which the Emperor forms an alliance
is one of the most illustrious in Spain. Our future Em-
press belongs to the house of Guzman, whose origin dates
back to the earliest times of the Spanish monarch y, and
Which several historians say was the issue of royal blood.
All the branches of this family have played a distinguished
I,),a:t in history. We will quote among others those of the
kes of Medina, of las Torres, of Medina-Sidonia, and of
!_ilivares, and those of the Counts of Montijo, of Teba or
Teva, and of Villaverde, Marquis do Ardales, de la Algara,
de &c., grandees of Spain. The Duchess de Teba, Countsss
Montijo, descends from this last branch. It is not the
first time that this family has been called to ascend the
throne, for, in 1633, Dona Luiza Francisca de Guzman,
daughter of Juan Perez de Guzman, eighth Duke of Me-
dila-Sidonia, married the King of Portugal, Don Juan IV.
of Braganza. The Counts de Montijo have the same arms
as the Dukes of Medina-Sidonia, their near relations, and
bear the same name, which is de Guzman."
We read in the Constitutiowael :
" The Emperor will this day announce to the great
bodies of the State, convoked for that purpose at the Tuil-
eries, his marriage with Mdlle. de Montijo, Duchess of
Teba, daughter of the Count de Montijo, Duke de Pena-
randa, whose name is found connected with the most
glorious souvenirs of the great wars of the Empfr le. n the
struggle which Napoleon carried on in Spain, the Count
do Montijo fought valiantly under the standard of France
as Colonel of Artillery. He paid bravely with his person
at tho battle of Salamanca, wheoe he lost an eye ad had a
leg fractured. At the period when, in spite of all the
courage of the soldiers and the skill of the chiefs, the French
army experienced in the Peninsula those reverses which
led to its retreat, and when Ferdinand VII. was re-esta-
blished on the throne of his ancestors, the Count de Montijo
left Spain to continue to serve France. He went through
the campaign of 1814 with much distinction, and was
decorated by the Emperor himself for the courage which
h, displayed in the course of it. It was he to whom, at
he time of the defence of Paris, Napoleon confided
tracing out the fortificatiOns of the capital, and whom he
placed at the head of the pupils of the Polytechnic School,
With the mission to defend the Buttes de Saint-Chaumont.
Ye had then the honour of firing the last shots for the in-
T'Pendence of France. A Grandee of Spain of the first
c!ass, and of an illustrious family which, for several centu-
ries past, has contracted numerous alliances with the oldest
and the most glorious houses of Europe, the Duchess of
Teba
2?is particularly worthy the high rank she is about to
diets by the eminent qualities of heart and mind which
her
at ner. Gifted with rare beauty, which makes
firste remarked, she afterwards knows how to make
11171 l loved by all that is noble, generous, and elevated.
characterl3,oZ,az and in her intelligence. Formed to com-
prehend f,,.e11r fine and great things, feeling sympathy for all
panion"ou.
he
Duchess of Teba, in becoming the coin-
proteetire's:a, Emperor, will at the same time become the
It has talents and of all misfortunes."
Napoleon Jbe eern said that the marriage of Prince
place. The l'amne Bonaparte is not likely to take
of the Prince lady spoken of for him is the daughter
de N
sbal Berthier, h._ agram, granddaughter of Mar-
One marriageut the match is broken off.
beyond the read). fowever, has been just placed
moiselle de Tho • o contingencies--that of Made-
former MinisterrlgnY, daughter of aria Thorigny, of t eillor of Ste-, he Interior, now Conn-
.o with the Count de St. Phalle. The
religious ceremo
w
church of St. 6ulpice.as this day solemnised at the
It in necessary to say a
effect produced by address
sord or two as to the
That address the
of the Emperor.
other was posted up at
public places in Paris the Bourse and in
and,as
and,may be supposed,ivery,
readers. Several attracted groups of
drawn up, and pronounced it to be skilfully
y that is occasionally
its author credit for they
positions of the same character,
to be found in his com-
et • character. Ot
si a still clearer expression than hers found in
in any previous

act of his governmental policy. It had
_beenese
thought that the Emperor would in his_ address
make e s someofthallusion
e,t oanthde
disappointment
eonftthawneadegrteehlt_
pressed that, while the army, the people,were
passed over in
clergy were mentioned, these wer,
his strength' in the presumea
silence, and that he again placed, b
yattachment
seems to
implication,a
It was remarked, also, that the Emperor
the soldiers, the working; classes, and in the clergy.
of the
the delay experienced in the recog.ineio
erti,,ern have taken his revengeby unmistakeable.t.allnusion. to
Empire, and the alleged opposition of h
of th e
Vasa. He again establishes the principle , Powers to his marriage with the Princess Car Ola
sovereignty of the people in opposition to the here-
ditary principle of the old Monarchy, and the term
" dynastic prejudices " has not passed unobserved.
The address will, it is believed, be ill received by
Northern Europe, on whom a sort of reprisal is
taken for the slights offered by Russia, Prussia,
and Austria. Some see in the language of
the Chief of the State an admission that
France is isolated from the rest of Europe ;
and that in the labour employed to prove the
advantage of such an affiance is detected the
powerful motive—that of deep affection for the
Countess of Teba. These were what may be called
the first thoughts of the public suggested by the
perusal of the address. The allusion to the father
of the Countess, and to his having shed his blood
in the cause of France, is no doubt intended par-
ticularly for the army.
The Countess of Montijo and her daughter quitted
their hotel in the Place Vendome, on Saturday,
two o'clock—of course after the delivery of the ad-
dress—and took up their abode in the Palace of the
Elysee, where they remain till the solemnisation of
the marriage, which will take place on the 30th
inst. They prefer remaining apart from all except
the intimate friends of the family until the celebra-
tion of the marriage.
The civil marriage of the Emperor will be cele-
brated on Saturday next at the Tuileries. The re-
ligious ceremony will take place on the following
day. Great preparations are making at Notre Dame.
The plans of the decorations have been submitted
to and approved of by his Majesty. The high altar
will be brought forward as for as the railing which
encloses the choir, and all the portion of the church
round it will be brilliantly ornamented and lighted.
A superb canopy will be suspended over the high
altar, before which the prie Dieu of their Majesties
will be placed. The seat of the Archbishop will be
placed to the left-of the altar. Two galleries hung
with crimson and velvet will be erected at the sides
of the choir for the ladies of the Court, and seats in
the form of an amphitheatre will be erected for the
great bodies of the state and the high functionaries.
There will be steps arranged before the altar, on
which the great officers of the Imperial household
will take their stations. A porch will be erected
along the front of the church, so that carriages may
set down under cover.
The orders to the city architects are, that the
cathedral of Notre Dame must surpass in splendour
the decorations employed on the coronation of Na-
poleon 1., the memory of which have been pre-
served by the picture of David.
The young lady has undergone no change in man-
ner since the day the formal proposition was made
to her by Louis Napoleon ; and as yet, at all events,
has not appeared less familiar with old acquaint-
ances, or less ready to see and chat with them. She
wears the incipient honours of her approaching rank
quite as if she had a consciousness that they are
not superior to her merits. This is peculiarly Span-
ish ; no one respects himself more, or less permits
others to fail in respect to him, than a Spaniard ;
and the peasant farmer of Castille, while refusing
to no one the respect he is entitled to, will strongly
resent any want of it to himself.
There can be no doubt that nothing will be left
undone to render the future Empress popular.
Even now rumours are in circulation—whether
well founded or not remains to be seen—that the
lady has already exercised her influence to induce
Louis Napoleon to restore to the family of Orleans
the proceeds of the property belonging to Louis
Philippe, and confiscated by the decree of the 22d
of January. An amnesty more or less extensive,
and owing to the same influence, has been also
spoken of ; and even it is whispered that a further
small reduction in the army may be expected.
There is a considerable diversity of opinion on
the subject of the Emperor's message, and that
more especially in diplomatic circles. It is said.
the British ambassador, Lord Cowley, has expres-
sed his full approbation of the message, and that
when he met Louis Napoleon at the ball at the
Tuileries, he took the opportunity of congratulating
his Imperial Majesty upon it. On the other hand,
the Austrian Minister is so deeply offended at the
offensive allusion made to the marriage of Napoleon
the Great with Maria Louisa, which he said was
snatched at by Austria, that he has already made
representations to M. Droun de Lhuys on the sub-
ject. The other German powers are also hurt, but
their representatives have not yet given utterance
to their dissatisfaction.

The Emperor appeared to be greatly delighted
with the eulogiums passed upon his message by
Lord Cowley ; and rewarded his lordship on the
spot, by specially inviting both him and Lady
Cowley to dine at the Tuileries on Monday (to-day)
en petit comite, to meet the future Empress. As
respects the public, the effect of the message is al-
most null, with the exception of the portion con-
cerning the Duchess of Orleans, which is generally
condemned as being in the very worst taste.
In consequence of the " scandalous stories" cir-
culated about the Countess of Teba, the Prefect of
Police has given orders to his employes to arrest
any persons publicly spreading indecent and insult-
ing reports against that lady, with a view to prose-
cution before the tribunals.

Rumour was again current yesterday of the pro-
bability of two decrees appearing shortly—one
enabling the exiled Generals to return to France
the other restoring to the Orleans family the pro-
ceeds of the property belonging to Louis Philippe.
It appears that the ball to be given by the Senate
to the Emperor, and which was to take place on
the 25th is postponed, in consequence of the mar-
riage intervening ' • the preparations are conse-
quently suspended. M. Baroche's ball is also post-
poned till after Lent. It appears that Louis
Napoleon has given positive orders that during
Lent there shall be no fete at the Tuileries.

Among other rumours that are rife, is that of a
Ministerial crisis. It is alleged that M. Drouyn
de L'Huys has tendered his resignation, and seems
to persist in it ; on the same authority his successor
would be either the Marquis d'Audiffret, or the
Marquis de Pastoret ; that Count Morny will be
the Minister of State, and that the present holder
of the office, M. Achille Fould, will resume the
direction of the Finance Department ; and, finally,
—and this is more positively stated and believed—
that General Canrobert will succeed Marshal de St.
Arnaud in the War-office.
The Prefects of the Gard and of the Bas-Rhin
have announced the Government candidates for
the elections which are to take place in those de-
partments on the 30th inst. to replace M.M. de
Calvieres and Secquet. The candidate for the Gard
• is M. Varin d'Ainvelle, Mayor of Alais ; and the
Baron de Coehorn, member of the Council-General,
is the candidate for the Bas-Rhin. The Prefect of
that department declares, in a proclamation to the
electors, that M. de Coehorn is " honoured with
I the particular favour of the Emperor."
Friday, being the fifty-ninth anniversary of the
execution of Louis XVI., masses were offered for
the repose of the soul of the Royal martyr, from
9 o'clock until 12, in the expiatory chapel, Rue
d'Anjou Saint Honore. The chapel was completely
filled at each mass, and, contrary to what is gene-
rally seen in French churches, there was a con-
siderable majority of men.
The Presse remarks upon this painful subject :---
" Each time that this solemn anniversary comes
round, the public conscience asks from religion the
expiation of a great crime and consolation for a
great affliction. The monarchy of 1830 was un-
fortunate
,enough to sacrifice to the tyranny of a
false popularity the regret for this crime and the
mourning for this anniversary. The Government
of Louis Napoleon, which has accepted from the
revolution only its principles of justice, has not
, feared to restore, by its respect, to that ill-omened
date its real signification. Thus, as we have an-
nounced, all official
receptions were suspended
on that evening. e mourning of January 21
party
has ceased to be a
manifestation : the judg-
ment of history and the
made it a day of mourning for France," while the
general feeling have
Asserablee Nationale observes
January will remain, whatever occurs, the day of
that " the 21st of
the legal murder of Louis XVI. This is the fifty-
ninth time that this anniversary has
the midst of our agitations and ofs come round in
our fetes, and
always the public emotion salutes •
it the most
cruel of our national commemorations. And yetit
is not France, it is not Paris even, which desired
the death of the royal victim. Far from us be the
thought of humiliating our country by such a re-
sponsibility! History has thrown light on the sub-
ject, and if it can be said that the 21st of January
was indirectly the fault of all, it may also be affirmed
that it was the crime of only some. Terror reigned
over every mind, and that convention, which since
then it has been attempted to represent as so Ro-
man in its character, was, in the two camps which
directed it, only its accomplice or its slave. In face
of a people troubled by terror, and in face of a King
who only knew how to heroically wear the crown
of martyrdom, a minority, animated by the fire of
evil passions and by the fanaticism of absolute
ideas, had no great trouble in rendering itself
waster of the Government."
The Bourse opened, with remarkable firmness on

Saturday, under the influence of a report exten-
sively circulated that M. Fould, the Minister of
State, had received the support of the greatest
banking-house in Paris to maintain the price of Go-
vernment Securities against any attempt to depress
I them. This favourable impression did not, how-
ever, long prevail, and prices were rapidly declin-
ing, when the Emperor's address to the Senate was
posted in the great hall of the Bourse. It was well
received, and prices again rose, but the speculators
for a fall rallied, and the Three per Cents., which
opened at 80f. 65c., and fallen to 80f., and had
again risen to 80f. 45., closed finally at 80f. 10e. for
the end of the month ; the Four-and-a-Half per
Cents. opened at 105 f. 30c., and closed at 104 f.
70e.; Orleans Railway Shares, 998 f. 75e.; Rouen,
4995 f. ; Havre, 490 f ; Great Northern, 832 f. 50c.;
Bh's-le, 342 f. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg, 757 f. 50c.;
Paris and Lyons, 860 f. ; Lyons to the Medi-
terrav ean, 735 f .; Western of France, 670 f. ; Bor-
deaux Snit Ceite, 557 f. 50e. ; Caen to Cherbourg,
607 f. 50c. ; Dijon to Besancon, 507 f. 50e.; Shares
of the Bank of Credit Mobilier (issued at 500 f.),
750 f.