The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-10 00:00:00

THE FRENCH EMPIRE.

The Moniteur announces the official reception at
the Tuileries of the Tuscan, Baden, and Hanove-
rian Ministers. The same paper mentions, too,
that IVLlCisiselef, who hitherto held only the station
of privy councillor on extraordinary mission,
charged with the direction of the Russian embassy,
has received the title of Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary of his Royal Highness the
Prince Regent of the Grand Duchy of Baden.
The following electoral colleges are convoked for
the 30th January, in consequence of vacancies oc-
casioned by one cause or another :—Basses Alpes,
Cotes du Nord, Eure et Loir, Gard, Ille et Vilaine,
Mayenne, Oise, and Bas Rhin.
Captain Belvege is appointed chief of the naval
division at Newfoundland, and Captains Clavaux
and d'Ubrage receive seats at the Board of Ad-
miralty.

Authority is given for the holding of Synods,
metropolitan and diocesan.

The death of Madiai, the martyr, of Florence, is
announced by the o,linione, of Turin, in terms of
just reprobation for the bigotted Grand Duke and
his Government, which, it is needless to say, no
Paris journal dare reproduce.
The Turkish Ambassador has received his cre-
dentials. Abd-el-Kader has received permission,
at the request of the French Ambassador, to go to
Constantinople, to have an audience of the Sultan.
The grand ball to be given to the Emperor by
the Senate, is fixed for the 25th inst. Preparations
on a grand scale are being made for this event at
the Palace of Luxembourg. -
The Pays has a long article on the recent depres-
sion in the public securities. The object of this ar-
ticle is to show that the depression is neither to be
attributed to a want of confidence in the Govern-
ment, which, says the Pays, is the strongest that
has ever existed in France, nor to the state of the
finances, which it represents as exceedingly bril-
liant. There is not, according to the Pays, the
slightest political cause for the fall, which it de-
clares is to be traced to over speculation.
The Ambassadors of Bavaria and Wurtemberg
have presented their credentials to the Eni7eror.
They w: :e conduaed in the carriages belonging to
the Court, and ac,ompanied ay the Introducer of
Ambassadors, by wliom they were presented to the
Emperor.

It is believed that the disappointment with re-
spect to the Princess Carola Vasa was near costing
the French Minister (M. de Lacour) his place. It
appears that the diplomatic agent was, to the last
moment, unacquainted with the unfavourable turn
matters had taken, and of the probability of the
preferred suitor' being Prince Albert of Saxony. A
letter from Vienna received in Paris mentions that
a person connected with the German Court wrote,
about two months since, to the French Minister at
Vienna, in order to warn him of what was going
on, but that, owing to some unfortunate accident,
or, as is also alleged, by design,
the letter did not
reach its destination. The matter was managed
with so much caution and secrecy that the party
most interested was not. aware of the fact, and the
French Minister remrmecl to the last persuaded
that the Princess Vasa was to be the future Em-
press of the French.

By private letters received from Brussels, it is
stated that the Belgian Minister of War has given
notice to the French officers in the service of that
country that they will receive permission to return
to France with a pension for past services. There
is an exception made in the case of those who have
become naturalised Belgians, and who are allowed
to remain in the service. It will be remembered
that a similar measure was adopted some time since
with reference to the Polish officers in the same
service.

_ined that
The Emperor seems deviteorine
a ball, in conformity with the
be gay. The political people shall
season of balls and fetes. Each
is entering o. n the
Minister of Finance has had tchhe precedence,
Minister
as
sgivies
the Emperor, and each will expressed wishes of
give a banquet. The
a dinner to upwards
but just. He had given
of 50 guests. Most of the
dill;ursgand, Protestant minis-
Ministersweresprescut,
an
nor
and there was a very sprinkling of enators,
of State, and members
oDfemtphumetip.esßei,ponnirdadtoCii•Cuainnrps.
and costs, by the Tri-
bunal sentenced to 16f. fine
made part, as chiefs
associationhavingof
upwards of 20
persons, who assembled on stated days, at Estissac,
banudnadiroefctTorsror osi
for religious purposes, appealed against that de-
cision to the Imperial Court of Paris. On Satur-
day their case came before the Court, when their
advocate, M. Berthelin, stated that the persons
who composed the meeting were bona fide Pro-
testants, that the two ministers had been invested
by the General Consistory of Meaux with the
necessary powers, and that the community had
been actually installed by the authorities in the
hall of one of the municipal buildings. When
the new mayor was appointed, in 1852, they had
been deprived of the use of that hall, and obliged
to remove to the house of a carpenter, named Solay,
where they continued to meet until the 13th June,
when the prefect of the department
ordered their
meeting place to be closed. M. Gaujal, the Attor-
ney-General, defended the decision of the Court of
Troyes, contending that those Protestants were
Socialists, who assumed the mask of religion to
disguise their subversive designs, and that the prin-
ciple of freedom of conscience had nothing to do in
the case. The Imperial Court rejected the appeal,
and confirmed the decision of the first judges.
Among the recent cases tried at the Correctional
Police Court of Paris for language offensive to the
Emperor, was one charge against a man of having
called Louis Napoleon "Boustrapa." The Court was
at first exceedingly puzzled to know the meaning of
that strange term applied to His Majesty, and
which, it was thought must conceal some formidable
menace against the Chief of the State. It was
however, at last explained thus—Bou, meant Bou-
logne ; Stra, Strasburgh ; Pa, Paris—and was sug-
gestive of the three important events in the career
of the Prince.
Another case was that of a man who had in some
wine-house, and before some person, drawn lines
with a knife across the effigy of the Emperor on a
sf. piece. As the line was drawn across the neck,
the act was taken as expressive of malicious motives
or designs.