The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-07 00:00:00

THE FRENCH EMPIRE.

A melancholy event has occurred in Paris. The
young Count Camerata, son of the Princess Bac-
ciocchi, a relation of the Emperor, committed sui-
cide by discharging a pistol at his head. This
lamentable act is attributed to an attack of brain
fever.

The Moniteur after announcing this melancholy
suicide, says—" No one knows how to explain this
resolution which appears to be the result of mo-
mentary delirium. Count Camerata was maitre
des requetes at the Council of State, where he was
remarkable for his assiduity and intelligence. The
most brilliant career was before lum. M. de Chas-
siron, his colleague, and his relation, as well as the
Prefect of Police, repaired immediately to the scene
of this sad event. They were soon followed by the
Ministers of State, Interior, and of Justice. The
Prin9ess de Bacciocchi had on the previous day gone
into the country in the neighbourhood of Paris,
and Prince Jerome Bonaparte went thither to com-
municate to her the distressing intelligence."
The Cha/rinte Infeireure,
.after mentioning the
rumour which circulates that the Pope is coming
to France, states that. it has heard that his Holi-
ness intends visiting the town of Saintes, to view
the places which EutrOpius the first primate of the
Gauls, frequented before ins *martyrdom, and to
pray in the subterranean crypt, which still exists
from the time of the Romans.
The English Roman Catholics who reside at
Calais and St. Pierre, have sent in a petition to
Mgr. Parisis, requesting him to send to the parish
of St. Pierre a priest speaking English, so as to be
spiritually useful to the workmen employed in the
tulle factories of the place, a great number of whom
are from Ireland. A favourable answer was given
to the request.
The Moniteur of yesterday morning contains a
decree, nominating a commission, charged to visit
every part of the empire, to inquire into the wants
of the country, and report to the Emperor.
On Saturday the Minister of Foreign Affairs and
his Excellency Vely Pacha, the Turkish Ambas-
sador, signed the Sanitary Convention, of which
the basis was settled by an international commis-
sion which met in Pails, and to which several
Powers had previously acceded.
Negotiations are now in active, train for con-
structing an international railroad between France
and Spain.
The price of flour is now 25 per cent., and that
of bread 49 per cent. dearer in London than Paris,
according to a careful estimate at the present rate
of exchange.
Upwards of five millions of francs were lent by
the Credit Foncier during the week ending the
22d of February last.
A commercial corporation has been arranged at
Rouen, under the name of " La Seine Maritime,"
With a capital of 500 f. each ; to establish two lines
of steam-boats, one running to Goree (Senegal),
stopping at Lisbon ; the other to Algiers, with
several stopping-places on the coast of Spain. The
Chamber of Commerce of Rouen has subscribed
20,000 f. towards the enterprise, and solicited for it
a grant from the Minister of the Interior.
We read in the Gazette des Tribunaux A
woman who resided in the faubourg St. Antoine,
not far from the spot at which Archbishop Affre
was killed at a barricade in the insurrection of
June 1848, was some time ago admitted to the
hospital of La Salpetriere. Finding that she was
in danger, she declared to one of the sisters of
charity that she felt oppressed by a political secret
connected with the events of 1848. The sister re-
commended her to tell all she knew, and she stated
that she was acquainted with the man who had
killed the archbishop. This unexpected revelation
'was received with great reserve by the sister, but
'the sick woman persisted in it, and alleged that her
firm. determination was to make it known to the au-
thorities. Accordingly a magistrate was sent to her,
said she stated what she knew, with full details. In-
quiries were instituted by the police, and the result
of them was a partial confirmation of herrevelations.
• The person she designated as the murderer of the
Prelate was a retired tradesman possessed of a cer-
,tain fortune. He was yesterday arrested' and
Jodged in the military prison. He is forthwith to
be brought to trial on the charge of having taken.
Part in the insurrection of June, 1848, and asssassi-
hated, or been an accomplice of the assassination,
of the Archbishop of Paris."
, A telegraphic dispatch announces the arrival of
the steam-frigate Mogador at Toulon, last from
Tunis. She brings the colossal bust of Juno, in-
tended for the Imperial Museum of the Louvre.
This magnificent statue had been deposited at
Carthage. It has been presented by M. Pacifique
elaporte, French Consul at Cairo, on whom it was
vestowed by the Bey of Tunis.
The Corps Legislatif held on Saturday a short
sitting. Reports on various bills of local interest
were deposited on the table, after which the President
informed the Assembly that M. Bonhier de l'Ecluse
having neither taken the oath nor forwarded it in
writing within the period fixed by the constitution
was declared to have resigned his legislativeycteiox;'
Shortly afterwards, as M. Bonhier de
about to enter the hall were the Legislative Body
held its sittings, he was stopped by a huissier, who
refused him admission. The hon. legislator pro-
tested, and withdrew.
One of the bills presented to the legislative corps
on Saturday authorises the Government to recruit
the army by calling out 80,009 men ; that the
60,000 men whose six months' services had been
dispensed with are to be replaced by 80,000, whose
services are to extend to seven years. The com-
plement of young troops to be called out is as high
0.8 it was last year, or any previous year.
The Government papers are silent on the subject
of Lord John Russell's speech on the affairs of
Turkey and Montenegro ; but the Debats alludes
to it in terms of approbation, mingled with appre-
hensions for the future.
M. de Moustier, a cousin of M. de Montalembert,
has. been appointed Minister at Berlin, in place of
M. de Varennes, who is appointed a member of the
Senate.
The fifteen new senators who have just been
created will not add much to the strength of the
Govenunent. They consist entirely of persons who
'lad previously given their adhesion to the Govern-
inent, or who had held office under it. None of
the leaders of the Monarchical parties are among
the number.
A decree is published in the Moniteur, which
restores to the old companies of Fampoux to Haze-
bruck, of Lyons to Avignon, and from Bordeaux
to Cette, one-half their caution-money d titre de
transaction. Three months are accorded to the
Persons interested to declare whether they accept.
, The Bourse was heavy on Saturday. The me-
lancholy suicide of Count Camerata, who was said
be an extensive speculator, tended to increase
the discouragement. The Three per Cents. opened
!,t. 80f. The fell to 80f. 60c., and closed at 801.
c.
for the end of the month. The Four-and-a-
per Cents. closed at 106 f. 60c. Orleans Rail-
W_ay Shares; 1,050 f. • Rouen, 1,055 f. ; Havre,
utf- 50c. ; Great Northern, 890 f. ; Paris and
Strasburg,, 823 f. 75c. ; Paris and Lyons, 922 f. 50c.;
44,,Yens to the Mediterranean, 753 f. 75c. ; Western
Prance, 752 f. 50c. • Boreaux and Cette, 615 f. ;
Neu' Bank of Credit ilobilier, 910 f.
At the Casino yesterday the French Three per
C ents were done at 80f. 60c.

TheSPAIN.
Cortes are sitting. Martinez de la Rosa is
elected Provisional President.
.1) The editors of the Diario Espanol, Clamor
aYblico, Epoca, Novedades, and Nacion, have
nw,l3- , up expositions to both houses on the state
et he press ; and this matter, particularly in con-
oetion with the recent decree against the usual
tlethed of reporting the proceedings of the Cortes,
of;
expected to be one of the first that will be treated
Theof 2_ Eco del Comercio of Santa Cruz de Teneriffe,
thm.'ne 17th ult., states that 79 steamers entered
spat
port in the year 1852 ; of these 63 were war
41,3 ~ der, viz., 14 Spanish, 32 English, -12 Frenth,
Dutch ; and 16 mercantile, of which 9 were
t2)4lliSh and 7 English ; they took altogether 4,827
e 118 coal- In 1851 the number of steamers that
eyed was 38 ;
and in 1850, 15. 82 vessels of all
cla had entered in January last, with 774 pas-
"llpers.
of large mass of earth has fallen in at the works
elata sewer which is constructing at the Madrid
gatl'axee of the Aranjuez Railway, close to the
ke! of Atocha, and caused the death of nine work-
-4 virhile eighteen others have been more or less
lured.
e_Tile following are the prices of Stocks :—Three
4•,,f Cents., 43i • ditto Deferred, 23 13-16 ; Re-
le Debt, Debt, first class, 101 ; ditto second class,
• Uo•
upon Certificates, 6. Exchange on London,

DENMARK.
ti CliBPatch from Copenhagen says---" The elec-
tor the Danish Second Chamber (Folkethin)
too
the.'t.
Place on the 26th all over the kingdom. Of
lune members elected in the capital, seven be-
tellg to the opposition, and two only to the Minis-
ejlalPartY• The same result took place in both
ate districts of Copenhagen.

•
BELGIUM.
,11117 coming of age of the Duke of Brabant;eldest
R°,„?:` tile King of Belgium, will be celebrated with
fix.,"'"' Pomp on the 9th of April next. The young
viael to receive a yearly allowance of 2005000 f.,
tatnbrz°,of. for covering the expenses of his first
-e "N went. A sum of 100,000 f. is to be spent
-iring, and 250,000 f. in furnishing a palace,