The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-01 00:00:00

THE

FRENCH EMPIRE.

The excitement created by the Imperial marriage
is rapidly subsiding. The marriage fete of Sunday
happily passed off without any public accident, or
even serious incident, considering the immense as-
semblage that had been drawn together. Yester-
day morning's Moniteur concludes a long official
account of the religious ceremonies, by saying that
the very heavens favoured this Imperial fete ; for
seldom does winter give a " sky so clear, or a tem-
perature so mild." Thanks are also due to those
who had charge of the solemnities ; for by the per-
fect execution of their commands, no accident hap-
• Pend which could leave a grief on the minds of the
Parisian population. The Emperor has decided
that all the expenses incurred for the fetes of his
marriage shall be paid out of his civil list.
The people in innumerable throngs yesterday
crowded to see the cathedral of Notre Dame. A
small charge was made for admission, which the
Archbishop of Paris has officially notified will be
appropriated to the relief of the poor.
The following are the terms in which the Moni-
teur announces the intended amnesty
" On the occasion of his marriage the Emperor has
pardoned upwards of 3,000 persons, amongst those who
had been the object of measures of general safety taken
after the disturbances of December, 1851. In conse-
quence of these pardons, and of those previously accord.
ed, there remain not more than about 1,200 persons
subject to expulsion or transportation. Public opinion
will not take alarm at so many pardons, as the decree of
March 5, 1852, gives to the Government the right to
have recourse to measures of precaution against any in-
dividuals who should abuse the clemency exercised to-
wards them. The names of the persons thus pardoned
will shortly be published."
From the above it will be seen that 3,000 out of
the 16,000 unhappy persons sent to Lambessa and
Cayenne, without trial, under pretence that they
took part in the insurrections which occurred after
the coup d'etat of the 2d of December, are at
length to be restored to their families and country.
The following is a complete list of the personages
who signed the registry of the civil marriage at the
Tuileries Sunday night :
.Her Excellency the Countess de Montijo, Prince
Jerome, Prince Napoleon, Princess
athilde,
Prince Lucien Bonaporte (senator), Prince Lucien
Murat (senator), Prince Pierre Bonaparte, the
Princess Bacciochi ; his Em. Cardinal de Bonald,
Archbishop of Lyons (senator), his Em. Cardinal
Dupont, Archbishop of Bourges (senator), his
Bin. Cardinal Mathieu, Archbishop of Besancon
(senator), his Em. Cardinal Goussett, Arch-
bishop of Rheims (senator), his Em. Cardinal
bonnet, Archbishop of Bordeaux (senator) ; the
Margfials of France Reille, Comte Vaillant,
Magnan, and Comte de Castellane ; Admirals
Baron de Mackau, Baron Roussin ; M. Abba-
tucci, Minister of Justice ; Marshal de Saint Ar-
naud, Minister of War ; M. Drouyon de Lhuys,
Minister
of Foreign Affairs ; Comte de Persigny,
Nlinister of the Interior ; M. de Maupas, Minister
of Police • M. Ducos, Minister of the Marine and Co-
lonies .M. Fortoul, Minister of Public Instruc-
tion ; M Magne, Minister of Public Works ; M.
Bineau, Minister of Finances ; his Excellency the
LAmbassador of Spain ; the First President Trop-
ong, President of the Senate ; M. Mesnard, First
Vice-President of the Senate; General Cointe Bara-
gGd'Hilliers, Vice-President of the Senate ;
Teneral Comte Regnault Saint Jean d'Angely,
'ice-President of the Senate • General Comte
QHautpoul, Grand Refendary of Senate ; Baron
Lacrosse, Secretary of the Senate - M. Billault,
President of the Legislative Corps • MM. Schneider
and Reveil, Vice-Presidents ; M. Baroche, Pre-
sident of the Council of State, and the Presidents
of Sections ; the Comte de Morny ; the Duke
d'Osuna, the Comte d'Albe, and General de To-
ledo ; and, the grand dignitaries of the Imperial
liQuseho
The following is the cantata given in the theatre,
14 Presence of the Emperor and Empress and their
guests. It was sung after the overture of William
Tell, by M. Roger and Madame Tederco. The
Music is by Auber, and the verses by M. Mery
REOITATIF.
" Avec les lyres d'or, avec les voix de l'ame,
Prance, Espagne, deux sceurs ! celebrez ce grand jour
Peuples ums, chantez l'augusto epithalame,
Car l'hymne de la paix, c'est l'hymne de l'amour !
Notre sceur par la Foi, l'Espagne fortunee
Donne sa noble fille a Napoleon Trois ;
Quand l'aigle imperial consacre nn hymenee,
Ce eleve a lui deviant le sang des rois !

" CHANT.
" Sons le chanme et sous la couronne,
Celui qui Porte un noble cceur
Ne vent confier a personne
Le droit de choisir son bonheur.
L'Empereur a nous se revele
Libre des lois d'un monde ancien ;
Elu par la France nouvelle,
Le cceur du peuple, &est le eien
"Aux jours des dernieres batailles
Venn de l'ile de Leon, ,
17n Espagnol, sons nos =mines,
Combattit_r our Napoleon.
Genereux Francais de Castillo,
Du haut des cieux rejouis-toi :
L'Empereur epouse to fine !
Ton heroisme t'a fait roi !
" Oh ! qu'elle snit notre esperanco
Sur le trone on nous l'attendons
Le del la cres pour la, France
Quand it la combla de ses dons !
Ceux qui sonffrent la vie amere,
Tons les orphelins du malhenr
Demain retronvent une mere :
C'est la fomme de l'Empereur !
" RECITATIF,
" Pour notre Imperatrice, aux dour climate choisie,
Chantez, avez des voix qui savant nous ravir,
Les airs qua redira l'echo d'Andalousie
Aux collines du Tage et du Guadalquivir !
" QUATITOR.
" Espagne bien aimee
On le ciel est vermeil,
C'est toi qui l'as formes
D'un rayon de soleil !
Nous benissons l'aurore
Et ses riantes pleura
Qui la firent eclore
Dans ties jardins de fleurs !
" Etoile qui scintilla
Et se lave snr nous,
Sea rayons de Castillo
Font notre ciel plus doux !
Le pauvre a ses souffrances
Promet nn meilleur temps ;
11 a deux providences,
L'annee a deux printemps.
" CHANT. •
" Dien qui veille sur les trones,
Dieu qui prend pitie de nous,
Benira, les deux conronnes
Des deux augnstes epoux.
Lorsqne la France l'implore,
Dieu sur elle ouvre les yeux ;
Notre pays est encore
Le pays aims des deux !"
(Grand chceur final.)
Immediately after the cantata their Majesties re-
tired amidsts loud cries of " Vive rEmpereur I"
" Vive rlmperatrice I"
The absence of Lord Cowley, both from the civil
and the religious ceremonies, has been the subject
of some surprise, and an attempt has been made to
give his Excellency's absence a political character,
but
tit was occasioned simply by an attack of
Btaff he prevailing influenza. Lady Cowley, and all the
of the embassy, were present on both occasions.
Several little incidents occurred in the course
...u,nth of the civil and religious ceremonies, which
&'suovr that the arrangements have not given uui-
sal satisfaction in high places. The Princess
ttarie de Baden (Duchess of Hamilton) left the
ci_alace of the Tuileries on Saturday evening, before
tle signing of the act of marriage, because no special
iklee had been marked out for her in the ceremonial .
oth her Grace and the Duke attended the religious
ceremony, but although the Grand Master of the
Oereraonies went three times to ask them to take
" ...8 in the Imperial gallery with " the civil
it,ltulY" of the Emperor, they declined the honour,
consequence, no doubt, of the sli3lat of the pre-
'i°llB evening. Both the Duke and Duchess of
Ila(niilton declined to sign the act of marriage.
kri:everal members of the Imperial family have
'en signs of dissatisfaction. Price Lucien Murat
and his family, and Prince Pierre Bonaparte de-
did to figure in the ceremonies, because they.
,s_d not consider the places allotted to them as be-
vknning their rank.
011 Sunday, the Emperor, with his bride, left
4q,ris at four o'clock, for the Palace of St. Cloud.
e 37" travelled in a carriage and four, with out-
thrers and an escort, and were accompanied in
tone other carriages by Prince Jerome and his
, and the princess Mathilde
with the Duke de
13aasan
and
-LvGeneral de Montebello, M. de Pierres,
1,7 M. de Menneval, and• their wives. Prince
.ine and the Princess Mathilde returned to
yesterday. It is said that the Emperor will
erzelt°ol3l to Paris on Wednesday, to attend a Coun-
L'• „er Ministers. It is thought that the subject
tco.nsideration is the contemplated change in
wae Cabinet,
c_ratiri_ thewge ceremony, an incident oc-
"rreci, s not rcei dby the great mass
2.0 f the spectators, and whichve would look on
,S an inauspicious omen. The wendydin ring, which
the Emperor was to Place on the brides finger, and
posed toe ,the gran. d master of the ceremonies was sup-
,iot'4 to have in safe keepino, b
„ , y somemaster
thought chance ai
it
, to be found. The
a°l'isable to borrow the ring graond f one of the princesses
Present, in order to_ be prepared with one at the
late °e
moment. oment. This he handed to the Arch
of Paris, who was oificiiting, and that pre-
,,, nad already given its benediction, when the
mister deemed it only proper to inform the
Euiperor i
ror of what had occurred. The
Itiediately put his hand into a side Pocket, and
tiro _
atica out
box which contained the wed di
n raedal, ornamented with din. ng-ring,
Which were marked the ----m.°ll(le, on
names of the
runpresB and

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of himself, and the date of the marriage. The
Archbishop then blessed both the ring and the
medal thus produced.
The five cardinals present were—Cardinals G-ous-
set, Archbishop of Rheims ; Donnet, Archbishop
of Bordeaux ; De Bonald, Archbishop of Lyons ;
Mathieu, Archbishop of Besancon ; and Du Pont,
Archbishop of Bourges. These high dignitaries
were dressed in the Roman purple.

Numerous distributions Of bread, wine, meat,
and clothes took place yesterday morning in all the
arrondissements of Paris. A double allowance of
wine has been given to each soldier of the garrison
of Paris.

The funds continued to decline yesterday on the
Bourse. The Three per Cents. opened at 79f. 35c.,
rose to 79f. 70c., and fell to 78f. 75c., the price at
which they closed. The Four-and-a-Half per
Cents. opened at 104 f. 75c., and closed at 104 f.
10c. The share market experienced a similar de-
pression—the Northern closing at 820 f. ; Strasburg,
at 742 f. 50c. ; Lyons, at 842 f. 50c.

SPAIN.
We have received advices from Madrid, dated
the 26th ult. They state that the marriage of the
Emperor of the French with a Spanish lady had
given much pleasure. The chances seemed to pro-
mise generally in favour of the Government at the
elections. The following are the prices of Stocks :
—Three per Cents., 40-i ; ditto Deferred, 22i ;
Redeemable Debt, first class, 10 ; ditto, second
class, of ; Coupon Certificates, 3; Exchange on
London, 50 20.

MONTENEGRO.
On the night of the 15th ult., says the Triester
Zeitung, Osman Pacha took up a strong position at
the foot of a hill on the plain behind Scutari. The
Montenegrins, availing themselves of the stormy
night, attacked the Turkish camp, where alarm and
disorder were beginning to prevail. The Turks
dispersed on all sides, and the following trophies of
victory were carried off by the Montenegrins :-
17 standards (and among them that of the Prophet,
which is said to consist of Mahomet's inexpres-
sibles), 80 horse-loads of powder, 60 horses, a num-
ber of arms and silver-mounted yatagans, and last,
though not least, 317 Turks' heads.
The position taken up by the Austrian army ex-
tends from Macassca to LaAtua, the southern ex-
tremity of the Dalmatian coast ; and this corps,
when completed, will consist of 80,000 men.

THE WOOL TRADE.

STATE OF TRADE IN MANCHESTER GOODS. I 5'
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The following is from Messrs. M`Nair, Greenhow, and 6
Irving's circular :-
6
" The transactions of each succeeding month, in this 10
market, would appear, from its quiet, cool, and tempe- 20
rate aspect, externally--and as being now so much at
variance with the features incidental to large operations St.
in former and byegone years—to be rendering the duties St.
of part]es like ourselves more and more difficult in inti-
mating to correspondents a really correct and substantial St.
notion as to the actual condition of matters here. Dur- St.
ing the first two weeks of the month the market was
dull and drooping, from easily perceptible causes ; since 61
then a very large amount of transactions in both goods
and yarns, equalling the well-remembered month of °I)
October last—as to the period indicated—have been en-
St.
tered into.

" The demand has again been mainly for export, both 16
as regarded goods and yarns ; that for the. home trade, St.
though comparatively unimpm ant, having exhibited a St.
greater degree of improvement in the course of the
month, than what might have been anticipated, consi- St.
Bering the influence which the weather, during the last 50
four months, might have had upon its immediate and
prospective bearing and interest.
" The accounts, as connected with the probable ex-
tent of the cotton crop, come as usual at this season in a
conflicting and contradictory manner. The article has,
in the course of the month, in Liverpool, advanced about
4d. per lb. More than a crop of 3,000,000 of bales, we
cannot so far say, that we are likely to have. Should
such be the case, and providing that nothing arise to call
again for the necessity cf raising discounts further, it
appears to us tolerably certain that, instead of the raw
material declining in value, it will by-and-bye, for a time
realise higher rates.

" Stocks of both goods and yarns are mft only as light slt2:
as they were a month ago, but in many instances actu-
st.
ally lighter. Prices have during the month fluctuated
slightly. Now they are all not only as firm as they 16. i
were at the commencement of the month, but in many 20
instances higher, with a general upward tendency." 5

INTERPRETERS OF PROPHECY.—The Rev. G. S. Faber,
8.D., has just written a pamphlet to show that Napo-
leon the Third is the seventh head of a beast mentioned
in Revelation, and consequently, saith he, "there shall
be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a
nation." Next, the Rev. Mr. Hotham, Woodnesborough,
near Sandwich (we must be particular in matters so
mighty), preached to his congregation the other day, that
in fourteen years the world will be at an end, and that
the prophecy would be fulfilled, "Ye shall not know
winter from summer, nor summer from winter." And,
as a climax, the Rev. Dr. Cumming, whose name needs
no description, says, in his new book on the Apocalypse,
that Rome will be " destroyed by fire from heaven, or
swallowed up by earthquakes, or overwhelmed by de-
struction with volcanoes, as the visible punishment of
the Almighty for its Popery."—Bucks Advertiser.
PARTIAL DESTRITCTION OF THE SHIP BODERICK, AND
Loss OF LIFE.—Last evening a fire of a very alarming
and destructive character, and which unfortunately was
attended with loss of life happened in the ship Boderick,
500 tons burthen, under the command of Captain Hop-
per, and laden with 150 tons of coal for the Imperial
Gas-light Company, which was lying in the Regent's
Canal Basin, Limehouse. The flames originated, from
some unknown cause, under the decks and when first
perceived had obtained, a firm hold of the vessel. During
the excitement which prevailed a policeman fell into the
dock, and another man, in running to render assistance,
likewise fell overboard. The officer was saved by the
firemen of the brigade, but we regret to say that the
other party sank, and was not recovered until life was
extinct. Two females also fell into the water, but they
were rescued in a very exhausted state. Strong fears
are
also entertained that one or two other parties have like-
wise perished, by falling or being forced by the populace
into the water. At the time this report was written the
fire was still rushing up the masts, and there appeared
little chance of getting the flames subdued for some
hours, and thousands upon thousands lined the banks of
the canal, witnessing the progress of the devouring ele-
ment.
ROYAL EASTERN YACHT CLUIL—OUX readers will be
pleased to learn that there is a prospect of this club
being resuscitated from its sleep of 15 years. When it
was originally established in 1835, no such thing as a
proper yacht harbour existed in the Firth of Forth,
where vessels might find ingress and egress at all stages
of the tide. As might have been anticipated, in such a
state of matters, no yachts were kept ; such as bad a
taste for nautical sports went to the Clyde or elsewhere
to enjoy them. Now matters are altogether changed.
The noble energy of the Duke of Buccleuch, in calling
the harbour of Granton into existence, and the recent
improvements in Leith, have conferred a great boon on
yachtsmen; and the consequence is that we have now a
squadron of some dozen yachts—some of them very
handsome vessels—lying in the Queen's Dock.
SPRING SYMPTOMS.—The song of the lark, that early
harbinger of spring, was heard in the vicinity of Arbroath
in the beginning of the present week for the first time this I
season. —Northern Warder.

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25
The following is from Messrs. Joseph Robinson and St•
Co.'s (of Liverpool) circular :
"The wool market last month has been marked by con-
St. St.
siderable activity. From the districts of manufacture,
50
the complainings of some months past still exist, and, 25
although threats are held out by the consumers, to the 10
growers and importers, that the former will work short St.
time, or close their mills altogether, rather than con- 6
tioue at such disadvantage, yet an increase is growing in 25
value from actual scarcity ; from also a large export 50
demand; from consumption abroad and extensive con- 20
sumption at home. Almost every trade report declares
to the healthy state of the country, and from the enor-
mous production and multiplicity of orders, the wool
trade would seem to share richly in the benefit. This,
however, is not the case at the present, neither has it
been for some time ; occasionally it happens, that the
raw material rises in value, considerably beyond the
margin of a profitable investment for manufacture, and,
as this is the state of affairs in the woollen branches, the
consumer must regulate his future operations by pre-
paration, as there is no disposition on the part of holders
of wool to accept lower rates. Probably, some degree of
curiosity is apparent as to the effect produced by the
raising of the rate of discount by the Bank of England ;
as stocks of all classes of wool are very light, and no
great influx expected, and as there was little to speculate
upon, no change occurred in prices, but the recent ad-
vance was firmly adhered to. The step taken is held
judicious, and the-general belief is, that money is cheap
enough still. To be brief, the whole of the business of
the month has been by private treaty ; it comprises large
sales of washed Turkey, East India, Russian, Mogador,
Cordova washed, Castel Branco (small parcels), trifling
lots of Oporto and Egyptian, Buenos Ayres (greasy and
washed), long Bosnia (to arrive), and some few other
classes. Most of the purchases have been for export,
and are shipped ; in some instances id. per lb. advance
is obtainable since December sales. A greater business
would have transpired, but for the small quantity of
wool here generally. The kinds most in request are
combing Russian, combing and short Egyptian, East
India, Turkey, &c., &c., supplies of which are much
needed. Reports are prevalent that speculative pur-
chases have been made in Yorkshire, for this market, of
Australian wool, and from the arrivals seen the state-
ment is not without foundation. Scotch.— Some sales
have been made in laid Cheviot at very high
rates ; about 100 packs of white Cheviots have
also changed hands. Much higher prices are now
demanded for laid Highland and white Highland ; the
latter is all cleared, and the stock of the former was never small for years. Laid and washed cross and Galloway a,
have been greedily taken, and few parcels remain ; long st"
before clip time it is expected Scotch wools will be all consumed. English and Irish.—Stocks here are much st.2o
reduced, several parcels of fleeces have been sold at an 15
advance of id. per lb. ; what few lots are in farmers'
hands, exorbitant rates are asked for; skin participates
in the advance and is also scarce; it is purchased as soon 64
as pulled."