The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-06 00:00:00

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The Pays of yesterday gives a review of the year
1852 similar to that of the Constitutionnel, showing
the benefits to the cause of order which have been
derived from the political events of that period.
In the Constitutionnel there is a long article on the
restoration of the Church of Saint Genevieve to the
purposes of religious. worship. A great portion of
the article consists of a history of the building,
but in one part it declares that the restitution of
this Church to religious worship is not only a reli-
gious event of the highest importance :—it is a po-
litical one, the significance of which will not escape
attention. To the victory of Christianity over
philosophical scepticism, is just added, as a natural
consequence, the triumph of the principle of order
and of authority over anarchical doctrines. A
striking proof of the invincible logic which unites
human affairs one to the other ! After two explo-
sions of the spirit of revolution in 1792 and in 1830,
the Church, devoted to the Patron Saint of Paris,
became the Pantheon, a lying name exhumed from
Paganism, since, far from becoming the temple of
all the gods, this edifice without an object was to
be the Necropolis of the illustrious dead. At two
epochs also, after the restoration of social ideas
under the government of two Napoleons, the cross
again became resplendent on this magnificent dome,
and the altar of Christianity , was again raised.
Let it not after this be said that history is not a
lesson of wisdom for those who know how to read
in the annals of the past the lessons of the future.
The Union expresses a sort of triumph at the
re-establishment of religious worship in this church.
The front of the church was illuminated on Mon-
day evening, and on Tuesday there was a consider-
able crowd to place lighted wax candles round the
gold shrine which is said to contain the heart of
the Saint. Grand services were celebrated on
Monday in the Church of Sainte Genevieve at
Nanterre, in which village she was born. A great
number of pilgrims went to drink water from the
well of the house in which she is said to have re-
sided ; and many of them carried home little bottles
full of it, in the belief that it would cure their sick
children.

The Assembles Nationale, in noticing the para-
graph of the Moniteur repudiating a work called
the Limites dela France, rebukes with some energy
the apparent encouragement given to warlike ideas.
in some quarters from which a different policy
was to have been expected. A ministerial journal
(the Patrie) is in particular reproached with having
copied from a Belgian paper an article on this sub-
ject of a mischievous tendency. It is probable
that the article in question was reproduced by the
Patrie without due consideration of its tendency,
and that the Assemblee attaches to the fact more
importance than it merits. At any rate, the re-
pudiation of the Moniteur, as the official organ of
the Government, is quite sufficient to show that,
although there may be persons who pretend to
know that the pacific intentions of the Government
are not sincere, the Government itself is resolved
to give proofs of its sincerity.
The Assemblee remarks that, "Singularly enough,
every one wishes for. peace ; from one end of Eu-
rope to the other Governments promise it to the
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people ; is put forth in solemn speeches, and it is
even sung at all the theatres, as though we had
just signed the peace of Amiens, and nevertheless
the slightest pretext—a few pages from a pen with-
out authority—are sufficient to inspire every one
with the ideas of war. The fault, we loudly de-
clare, is not with the Imperial Government, but
lies with the press. The most unequivocal assu-
rances given to the country, and particularly the
solemn recognition which it has made of the trea-
ties of 1815, completely shelter its responsibility,
whatever may occur. The immense majority in
France wish only for order, repose, employment,
prosperity, and a certain quantity—or at least a
certain appearance—of liberty, and willingly sup-
port any Government, which will secure, if only
for a day, the enjoyment of these blessings. We
have seen, since 1848, the personification of this
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When the journals to which we allude do not, by
their ridiculous dithyrambics, bring us back to the
fine days of 1804, let them not fear to enter with
us into the realities of the state of affairs, and all
these reports of war will soon fall to the ground."
The Duke de Padoue has been installed as
Governor of the Invalides by General Sauboul,
' the Commandant, who represented Prince Jerome,
in consequence of his being confined to his apart-
ments by illness. After the ceremony of installa-
tion, the Duke reviewed the invalides, and then at-
tended a Te Deum in the chapel. When the religious
service was over he paid a visit to Prince Jerome.
General Sauboul had previously published an
order of the day in the name of his Imperial
Highness, announcing the change, and congratu-
lating the invalides on the appointment of so brave
and experienced an officer as his successor.

Accounts have been received of the Labrador
steam-frigate having quitted Messina for Syra,
with Abd-el-Kader and his suite on board.
The Moniteur says :—" The ratifications of the
commercial convention between France and Bel-
gium of the 9th ult. were exchanged on the 31st,
at Brussels. It is known that this convention
again places in vigour the former treaty." A
special supplement of the same journal announces
that the Russian Minister delivered to-day his
Credentials to the Emperor.
The Ministers of the United States, Wurtem-
burg, Bavaria, Tuscany, Hanover, Baden, and
Saxony have received their credentials.
Letters from Frankfort of the 3d states that the
Diet has, through its President, informed M. de
Tallenay that it had recognized the French
Empire.
It is stated that the attention of the Department
of Police has been for some time particularly
directed to the Legitimist press—the Republican
and the purely Orleanist organs having nearly dis-
appeared—so far at least as the advocacy of their
peculiar doctrines is concerned.
The Austrian and Prussian ambassadors in Paris
have received their new letters of credence, and will
present them almost immediately. Those of
Russia were expected to arrive yesterday. The
recognition of the French Empire by the three
Powers is made without the slightest reserve or
conditions, and that full confidence is expressed by
them that declarations in favour of peace, made
by the Emperor of the French at Bordeaux and
Saint Cloud, will be fully realised. Nearly the
same form of recognition has been adopted by the
three Powers, and Napoleon 111. is addressed as
mon frare. In the letters of credence addressed to
Louis Philippe by the three great northern courts
he was merely addressed as Sire.
A decree in the Moniteur suppresses the several
superior commands instituted by the decree of Feb.
12, 1850, in the military divisions in France as
being no longer necessary, and directs the Com-
mander-hi-Chief of the army of Lyons to hold at
the same time the command of the Bth military
territorial division: and the commander of the army
of Paris to hold that of the Ist military division.
Another decree appoints a Commission to verify the
service of the public Treasury during the year 1851,
the said Commission being composed of M. Stourm,
Councillgr of State, President; MM. Chadenet and
Aignon de Monsigny, Masters of Requests ; MM.