The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-30 00:00:00

THE FRENCH EMPIRE.

A vast number of persons arrived on Saturday in
Paris by pleasure-trains organised on not less than
six great railways—the Northern, Strasbourg,
Lyons, Orleans, Western, and Rouen. Many of
these strangers proceeded at once to Versailles to
be on the spot for the great review which was
to take place on the plain of Satmy, in presence
of the Emperor of the French and the Duke of
Genoa. The rest went there yesterday morning, and
Paris had been in general less animated than usual
during the day. The weather was not very favour-
able, as showers hadbeenfallminallgo. fromthe
adetime to
time since daylight. Marshal
Com-
mander-in-Chief, had drawn
all arrangements for this military
line of troops was to face Veill spectacle. The
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es, with the left
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spalann ' and m
bearing on the farm of Satory. The infantry were
to draw up in two lines in front, the avairy
behind, and close to the camp. The artillery was to
be placed on the two flanks. As the soil of the
plain of Satory is soft, the rain of the night must
have saturated it so completely as to render the
manoeuvres of heavy artillery difficult. But even
without that arm the sight would no doubt be a
fine one.
Yesterday being fete Dieu, the churches of Paris
were dressed out most richly, to do honour to the
procession of the Holy Sacrament. At the Made-
leine the space under the exterior range of columns
was hung with draperies, the procession going
round the church, under the colonnade, to a grand
altar, placed under the peristyle facing the Rue
Tronchet. At the church of St. Thomas d'Aquin
the altar was erected, as in former years, in one of
the courts of the arsenal. A considerable number
of persons were collected at the various churches
to view the procession.
The Minister of the Interior, after having taken
the orders of the Emperor has accorded a pension
of 500 f. a year to M. de Balsac, the well-known
novelist.
Accounts from the departments concur in stating
that a considerable rise has taken place in the price
of cattle of every kind. In the Jura and all the
departments of the centre of France, cows, pigs,
and sheep, of late, have 'fetched much higher
prices, and the market still appears rising. In
Burgundy a similar advance has taken place, as
well as in the departments of the north-east, and
in those adjoining the Rhine and the Meuse. In
Paris, every kind of provisions is higher of late,
and the tendency of the market is still upwards.
House-rent also is advancing in an extraordinary
manner, the landlords appearing determined to in-
demnify themselves at present for the heavy losses
which they sustained after the revolution of 1848 ;
and with an increase of rent, in many cases amount-
ing to a fourth or a third, apartments are snatched
up so suddenly that almost every one may be heard
complaining of the extreme difficulty of obtaining
suitable accommodation. It is not too much to
say that the expense of living in Paris has within
the last year increased from 15 to 20 per cent.
The Court Imperial of Paris has given a judgment
in the case of " the Correspondents," and without
changinc, to any very great extent the decision
of the Correctional Police, against which both par-
ties had appealed, leans more towards the accused
than towards the law officers of the Crown. By
the preceding judgment, M. Alfred de Coetlogon
and M. Virmaitre had been condemned to six
months' imprisonment ; M. de Planhol to three
months ; and the Duke Rovigo, M. Flaudin, and
M. de Lapierre to one month. Likewise, VIM.
Anatole de Coetlegon and Aubertin, both tried by
default, had been condemned to one year's impri-
sonment ; whilst M. de Chantelauze had been ac-
quitted. On the second trial, which has just ter-
minated, the accused were defended by MM.
Berryer, Hebert, Dufaure, Odillon Barrot, du
Teil, and Belval. After a deliberation of an hour
and three quarters, the court confirmed the sen-
tence of the first judges in its principal points, but
reforming it in the following ones :-Ist. It de-
clares that the charge against Alfred de Coetlogon
and the Duke de Rovigo, of having illegally in
their possession arms of war (which had been
decided affirmatively by the lower court), is not
proved, and orders the arms which had been
seized to be restored to them ; secondly, decides
in the negative the charge against M. Alfred de
Coetlogon, of being guilty of insult towards the
person of the Head of the State (decided affirma-
tively by the other court) ; thirdly, decides that
M. Aubertin (who is absent) ought to have
been found guilty of the publication of false
news ; 3.,nd, fourthly, the judgment changes the
mode in -which the other court had fixed the costs,
the Imperial Court assigning them in certain
proportions to the prisoners, according to the guilt
of the parties condemned. The court also sets aside
completeily the charge brought against the prisoners,
of being engaged in a secret society, declaring that
no proof exists to lead to any such conclusion. As
this was the point which the Procureur-G-oneral
was above all anxious to establish, the decision of ,
the court; must so far be considered as a blow given
to the Gotvernment.

(At the* termination of business on Saturday the
public funds had again lost a portion of the advan-
tage obtained the preceding day, and during the
day prices underwent very sudden changes ; the
market far cash was so much better supported than
that for the term, that an interval occurred dur-
ing which purchases for the account for sale for
money could be advantageously effected. The
Three per Cents. for the end of the month declined
70c., and the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. 75c. In the
Four-and-a.-Half per Cents, for money, there was a
fall of 50c., and of 60c. in the Three per Cents. In
Bank of France shares no change occurred. The
concluding quotations were :—For cash—Three
per Cents., 79f. 95c. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
1021. 60c. For the account—Three per Cents., 79f.
85c. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 102 f. 50c. ;
Bank Stock 2,700 f. Shares of the Bank of Credit
Foncier declined 5f., closing at 8351., and those of
the Societ6 Mobiliere 17f. 50c., the last quotation
being 870 f. A considerable decline in prices oc-
curred in the Railway Share Market yesterday, the
Rouen and Havre line being the only exception in
which an advance of 10f. took place. Paris and
Rouen shares fell 20f. lc. ; Paris and Strasbourg,
lf. ; and Lyons to the Mediterranean, 17f. each ;
Paris and Orleans and Bordeaux and Cette, 15f. ;
Northern, 11f. ; and Cherbourgs, Westerns, and
Paris and Lyons, 10f. each. Closing prices—
Northern, 902 f. 50c. ; Paris and Orleans, 1,0801. ;
Paris and Strasbourgs, 922 f. 50e. ; Paris and
Lyons, 945 f. ; Paris and Rouen, 1,1151. ; Lyons
to the Mediterranean, 762 f. 52c. ; Western of
France, 765 f. ; Rouen and Havre, 525 f. ; Bor-
deaux and Cette, 635 f. ; Caen and Cherbourg, 630 f.