The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-29 00:00:00

THE FRENCH EMPIRE.

The news from France still relate to the Em-
peror's marriage, which excites a lively interest all
over the country, while Paris itself has become un-
usually full of visitors, attracted, no doubt, by the
pageant which is to take place to-morrow. In the
Moniteur we find the following announcement on
this subject :—" The grand master of the cere-
monies has the honour to inform the public that he
has not even a single ticket left for the ceremony
of the religious marriage of his Majesty. The
grand master of the ceremonies takes this opportu-
nity of announcing that no person will be admitted
to the interior of the Cathedral without a ticket
bearing a particular stamp. The members of the
Senate, Legislative Body, and Council of State,
who are to be present at the ceremony, are informed
that they are to be in full dress with white trousers."
An immense number of workmen are employe('
in the line which is to be followed by the procession
on Sunday. In the middle of the Louvre the basin
is being filled with mould, and is intended to re-
present a corbeille of evergreens and flowering
shrubs, which have been already planted. The
two gardens of the Colonnade of the Louvre are in
a very advanced state; green trees have been
planted there, and the borders are now being laid
down. The ground between the two gardens has
been levelled and paved. In the new Rue de
Rivoli the parts which were not levelled are being
cleared, and sand is being laid down both on the
carriage way and on the unfinished footpaths.
Poles, intended to be ornamented with streamers,
are being placed throughout the whole line to be
followed by the cortege. The Hotel de Ville will
be dressed out with flags, and long streamers will
wave from the towers of Notre-Dame.
At the ball which is to be given by the Senate at
the Luxembourg on the 7th of next month to the
Emperor, the parts of the building which are to be
used are the ground floor and the first floor. The
rooms below will be employed principally as yes-
tiaires, and the state apartments above will be
ascended by the grand staircase. All the rooms
on the east and west sides of the building will be
thrown open upon the occasion, the principal ball-
room being the old Chamber of Peers, where the
public sittings of that body were held for so many
years. Near this room is placed the private saloon
reserved for the Emperor. It is in the Museum
that will be set out tables for a first supper of 200
covers, offered to the Emperor, and afterwards will
be served successively three other suppers of 250
places each, reserved for the ladies. The male por-
tion of the guests will find a buffet amply provided
for them in the gallery of the rez-de-chaussee,
where a substantial supper will be served without
interruption all night. The decorations of the
principal rooms will be marked by simple elegance
rather than by magnificence, the only striking or-
nament of the grand gallery upstairs being the Im-
perial throne, placed at one end, raised about three
feet from the ground. It is the old throne of Na-
poleon 1., which has been regilt for the occasion.
Every precaution has been taken to facilitate the
ingress and egress of the guests, and all the ar-
rangements made seem to promise that this fete
Will be one of the most brilliant of the season.

The Municipal Council of Nantes, has voted the
following address to the Emperor, on the occasion
of his marriage :

" Sire, the Mayor and Municipal Council of the town
of Nantes desire to be amongst the first to congratulate
Your Majesty on the occasion of the great event which,
in assuring the continuance of your dynasty, consoli-
dated the fortunes of the country. The noble and na-
tional language of your Majesty to the great bodies of
the state, have found in the population of this important
Place a sympathetic echo, of which we are happy to be
the organs. The union which your Majesty is about to
contract naturally carries back every remembrance to
the august Empress Josephine, so well known for her
benevolence, and so beloved by!the people. It is, then,
With a !deep-felt joy that the people of Nantes join in
the acclamations with which all France will desire to
give to her glorious liberator a new testimony of her
profound gratitude and faithful devotedness. We
are, &c."
The Commissaries of Police of the department of
the Seine called on Thursday at the various factories
in the department, and announced to the directors
that the Ethperor " would see with pleasure the
Operatives assemble on Sunday and form part of
the cortege." A considerable number of banners
and streamers have been prepared for the occasion ;
and it is probable that these emblems will be borne
by the corporations of trades. Some bear the
French colours, some French and Spanish united,
and some the red and yellow of the Spanish flag
only. On one side are the words " Vive Empe-
reur," and on the other " Vive Imperatrice., '
A grand review is also spoken of after the mar-
riage, either at the Champ de Mars or in the
Champs Elysees, for the presentation of the Em-
press to the people and the troops.
A decree of LhG 25-Th ratifies and promulgates the
regulations between France, Belgium, and the Ne-
therlands, relative to international communications
by railways. They are to the effect that goods placed
in waggons which are sealed or locked shall not be
examined by the customs officers at the respective
frontiers ; that each administration of customs shall
respect the seals and locks of the two other states ;
that custom officers shall accompany the trains to
the nearest custom-house in the neighbouring
country ; and that the luggage of passengers shall
generally be examined at the frontiers, but that
when that shall not be done it shall be placed in
closed waggons.
The Moniteur in announcing the fact of the
French Ambassador at St. Petersburg, the Marquis
de Castelbajac, having presented his new letters of
credence to the Emperor of Russia, says :—" His Ma-
jesty expressed to the Ambassador in warm terms
the great satisfaction that he felt A seeing official
relations established with the Government of his
Imperial Majesty."
A decree in the Moniteur declares that the com-
mission of revision for the distribution of the re-
mainder of the indemnity paid by Mexico, in virtue
of the convention of March 9, 1839, having termi-
nated its labours, is dissolved. All the appropria-
tions of this indemnity fixed by the commission
will be paid integrally by the Caisse des Depots et
Consignations. The employment of whatever funds
may remain over will be determined at a later
period, on a report presented to the Emperor by
the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
A rumour having been current that some cases
of Asia tic cholera had occurred in Paris, the Union
Medical states on authority, that the number of
cases of cholera in the hospitals during the last six
months has not exceeded 12, which is not higher
than the annual average for years past. In these
cases, only one of whic was of a serious character,
the Asiatic symptoms were absent, and the patients
were cured. Influenza (grippe), says the same jour-
nal, has been very frequent, but the disease has sel-
dom resisted the medical treatment.
The Moniteur publishes the returns of the pro-
duce of the customs and indirect taxes in Decem-
ber, 1852, which amounted to 13,405,987 f. They
had been, in the corresponding month of 1851,
9,692,026 f. The receipts of the entire year were
139,760,264 f., showing an increase of 22,600,000 f.
as compared with those of 1851. The salt tax gave,
in 1852 32,275,402 f., or 5,641,000 more than last
Year.

The receipts of the Paris and Orleans Railway
Company with its extensions for the week ending
the 22d inst., amount to 537,571 f., being an in-
crease of 100,978 f., as compared with the corres-
ponding week of last year.

The Bourse, which closed so firm on Thursday,.
opened yesterday with every appearance of a further
Improvement in the price of public securities, and
the Three per Cents., which opened at 80f. 70c.,
rose to 80f. 90c. Shortly afterwards it was stated
that M. Hubner, the Austrian Minister, had de-
clared that he would not appear at the Tuileries
until he had received further instructions from
Vienna. This caused the Three per Cents.
to fall to 80f. 40c. The announcement in the
Moniteur de l' Armee that General Reyau had
been appointed to the command of the Active Di-
on of Cavalry assembled at Luneville, pro-
duced further uneasiness, and the Three
per Cents. fell to 80f. 30c., at which price
they closed for the end of the month, being a fall
of 40c. as compared with the closing price of yes-
terda--.
y The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. closed at
104 f. 80c. it was mentioned after the Bourse that
three decrees would appear in the Moniteur
the first reducing the budget or the Minister
of Public Works by 30,000,000 f. ; the second re-
ducing the army by 60,000 men ; and the third re-
calling Generals Changarnier and Lamoriciere from
exile. Railway Shares were more firm than Go-
v_clnment renter. Orleans closed at 995 f. ; Rouen,
; Havre, 490 f. ; Great Northern, 835 f. ; Bale,
50c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 761 f. 25c. ; Paris
cl Lyons, 860 f. • Lyons to ge Mediterranean,
730 f. ; Western of France, 675 f. • Bordeaux and
Cette, 560 f. ; Caen to Cherbourg,m. GOsf. ; Shares of
the Bank of Credit
735 f. obilier (issued at 500 f.),

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In
aldbot additionhen tot eRUSSIA.
W moo which the Baron von
Chamber, for
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the withdrawal of certaininstructions lately issued
by the Government to the provincial authorities,
and directed against the' active encroachments of
the Jesuits in Prussia, the eight Catholic Bishops
have signed and prcsented a petition or remon-
strance to the King, which has been by him sub-
mitted to the deliberation;, of the Cabinet on seve-
ral occasions. A decision it is said has been come
to on the subject, but neither tbiF3 nor the subject

matter of the petition has been allowed to tran-
spire.
The above-mentioned motion of the BarOn von
Waldbott has been made the subject of preliminary
discussion in the various general sections of the
Chamber, and after maturer investigation in a spe-
cial committee will come before the whole House
for final decision.