The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-29 00:00:00

THE FRENCH EMPIRE.

The leading articles of the Paris Journals of yes-
terday are entirely destitute of interest. We have
merely to mention an incident relative to a recent
article in the Constitutionnel from the pen of M.
Granier de Cassagnac. This article, which was
ardently anti-republican, and was a reply to some
remarks in the Presse in favour of political liberty,
having displeased that journal, it avenged itself
by publishing, without giving the date, an elec-
toral address, in which M. Granier expressed opi-
nions more in harmony with those of the Presse
than what the public have of late years seen in the
lucubrations of that gentleman. The Constits-
tionnel of yesterday, in an article signed Boniface,
complains of the Presse for suppressing the date of
M. Granier de Cassagnac's address, and states that
it was published 23 years ago, when he had just
emerged from college, imbued from the nature of
the education which he had received with the ideas
of La Jeune France. The Constituttonne/ adds
that during the whole of the time that M. Granier
de' Cassagnac has been connected with the public
press, he has been a zealous and consistent advo-
cate of the political principles which he now up-
holds, and that it is unfair to bring against him
opinions expressed before his judgment was formed.
The Marquis' Fabien Pallavicini has (says the
Moniteur) just been raised to the dignity of Grand
Officer of the Legion of Honour. The Marquis,
who was formerly Sardinian Minister at the Court
of Bavaria, served France from 1807 to 1814 in
quality of Auditor at the Council of State. He was
charged with several missions by the -Emperor Na-
poleon 1., to whom he always remained faithful, and
only left France after the abdication of Fontaine-
bleau. On taking leave of his Majesty M. Palla-
vicini received the Cross of the Reunion, but which
ulterior circumstances would not allow him to wear.
It is as a souvenir of that distinction so honourably
acquired that the Emperor Napoleon 111. has
wished to give to one of the last servants of his
dynasty a testimony of his high esteem.
The Moniteur publishes a decree of the Empe-
ror, founded on a report of the Minister of War,
granting a concession of 20,000 hectares (about
50,000 acres) of land in the neighbourhood of Setif,
province of Constantina, to a company composed of
the following proprietors and capitalists at Geneva:
—MM. CountFrangois Sautter de Beauregard, Dr.
P. E. Lullin, J. M. J. Mirabeau, J.A.Fazy-Alleon,
C.H.E. de Traz, H.M. Bouthillier de Beaumont, de
Bude, C.A. de Loriol, and C.L. Sautter, for the pur-
pose of founding an agricultural colony. The com-
pany, among other conditions, is bound to form on
each 2,000 hectares a village composed of 50 stone-
built houses, for the accommodation of 50 Euro-
pean agricultural labourers, and to keep in repair
all the existing roads which may pass through the
said extent of ground, and for the space of 10 years
to give up to the State, without indemnity, any
ground that may be required for other roads,
canals, or works of public utility. The decree con-
tains other regulations for the division of the land
among the colonists, the quantity to be apportioned
to each, and the terms on which they are to have
possession. All the colonists are to be natives of
Switzerland. _

- General Blanco, Inspector-General of the Port
of Valparaiso, has been appointed Charge d'Af-
faires in France of the
of
Republicrdn
of the Chili.Emperor,
on
_Seventy-nine more political offenders of different
departments, who had been condemned
o
to trans-
trans-
portation or surveillance by the mixed commissions,
have just received the pa
tus hadlately
have mentionedaffaircalledDes
appealed against the verdict given. The Procureur
Imperial
has also appealed against the decision as
being too lenient, with the exception of the single
case of M. Vallee. In consequence, the whole of
the charges will have to be reconsidered.
The Courrier du Havre sa
ys--." We have related,
under all reserve, the rumours which have circu-
lated in this town on the subject
of the measures
taken relative to the arrival of the Empereur du
d Br' •
es. We are now enabled to give precise in-
formation on this affair. The truth is, that the
French Consul at Rio Janeiro ddr a essed to the
Minister of the Interior a dispatch announcing to
him that an infernal machine had been embarked
on board the Empereur du Bresil, and that it was
to be taken to France, with a criminal
object,
by a
German named Kautmann. According to the
orders transmitted from the Prefecture of Police,
the German and his wife were arrested. But after
the explanations given by him, and after an ex-
amination of the machine, from which it appeared
that it was constructed with an innocent object,
he and his wife were set at liberty. The indica-
tions given to our Consul at Rio were true mate-
rially, but false only as to the bearing of them.
On the whole this affair, which has warmly excited
public curiosity, has in itself no gravity."
The arrests in Paris still continue. The evening
before last upwards of sixty persons were taken,
and are now in the prison Mazas. They all belong
to the ultra-Republican party, and it is said that
their arrest is connected with a system of propa-
gandism organised by the refugees, and carried out
to a great extent in this capital. Among the per-
sons sent off to Cayenne as
it wee
d k was one of the
name of Schcelche, who, is sai, was taken flag-
Tante delicto in an attempt to assassinate the Em-
peror. The attempt, it is said, was
effortsmade
in the
Bois de Boulogne a month ago, but as
made to keep the affair quiet, and the man was
never brought to trial, all that is known of the
affair is that the culprit has been sent off.
The Moniteur of this day announces the levy of
80,000 recruits.
The market has been firm, and with less varia-
tion than might be expected at the approach of the
settlement of the account. The Four-and-a-Half
per Cents. were more offered than almost any other
stock, and have declined 25c., closing at 103 f. 25c.
The Three per Cents. are 15c. higher, at 80f. 40c.
Fank of France Shares were only quoted once all
d,720f. The other bank shares are some-
ay at 2