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 M.Kisselef, 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 Opinione, 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 riot, according to the Pays, the
slightest political cause for the fall, which it de-
clares is to be traced to over speculation.
The Aithassado2s of Bavaria and .Wurtemberg
have presented their credenfals to the EmPeron
They coiduc:;ed in the carriages belonging to
the Court, and accompanied by the Introducer of
Ambassadors, by w:Aom they were presented to the
Emperor.

It is believed that the disappointment with re-
spect to the hit cess Carols. 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 designs 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 rennined 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 peasion 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.

The Emperor seems determined that people shall
is
be gay. , The political worldentering on the
season of balls and fetes. Each Minister will give
a ball, in conformity with the
expressed wishes of
the Emperor, and each will give
thea '''anouet. The
Minister of Finance has had
precedence, as is
but just. He had given a dinner i I
nner to upwards
of 50 guests. Most of the
and there was a v•-::y fair Ministers were prase it,
Sprinkling of Senators,
D
of State, and members
ofemtphumetirs.esßei,pl-ocnomrdadtoCincocuannodrpcillpso.ursgand,
Protestant minis-
costs, by the Tri-
bunal of Troyes, for havin-
ters, sentenced to 16f. fine and 6. made part, as chiefs
and directors, of an association of upwards of 20
persons, who assembled on sta:;ed days, at Estissac,
for religious purposes, appealed against, that de-
cision f Paris. On Satur-
daythe to the
when their
advocate, M. Berthelin, stated that the persons
who composed the meeting were bond 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 "Boustrapp,." 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.