The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-08 00:00:00

FRENCH

THE

EMPIRE

The grand ball given to the Emperor and Em-
press in honour of the imperial nuptials took place
last night. It was one of the most magnificent
displays that has been seen in France for a long
time, and brought back to the recollection those
famous days when the spl,ndour of the French
Court was at its height. For three whole days it
kept the gay city of Paris in a whirl of excitement,
and gave an astounding impetus to very many
branches of trade. Around the gates of the palace
of the Luxembourg dense crowds congregated last
night, to witness the arrival of the Emperor and
Empress, and the numerous distinguished guests
who had been invited to the entertainment. The
approach was lined with relays of cuirassiers, who
had considerable difficulty in keeping back the
people, who were most eager to get a peep into the
carriages as they passed. A very large proportion
of the spectators consisted of the fairer sex. The
line of vehicles at one time extended for more than
a mile, and it was noticed that the coachmen and
footmen belonging to many wore English liveries.
The Emperor and Empress arrived in their state
carriage, attended by a troop of carbineers, and
were received with enthusiasm.
it,is announced that the Emperor and Empress,
with the Imperial Court, will visit the principal
theatres in succession. The first visit will be to
the Grand Opera, the managers of which are mak-
ing extensive preparations. By special request,
there will also be present the diplomatic body, the
chief members of the Imperial household, and de-
putations from the principal corporations.
On Sunday the Emperor invited the Princes
Frederic and Christian, of Schleswig-Holstein, to
witness a grand review of cavalry at Versailles ;
the division was commanded by General Korte,
and the Empress, mounted on a fine charger, was
present. At the termination of the review, Gene-
ral Korte, in the name of the officers, requested
permission to accompany their Majesties to the
boundaries of the city, which having been accorded,
the Emperor and Empress set off at nearly full
speed, and were acf...orupanied. by the Minister Id
War (Marshal Magnan), Generals Kerte, Feray,
Montebello, d'Allonville, Partouneaux, and more
than 200 officers of the carabiniers, cuirassiers, and
dragoons. The Empress rode very gracefully, and
the acclamations were enthusiastic.
An extensive military penitentiary, is in course of
construction at Avignon. All persons condemned
by courts-martial in celtral France and in Corsica
will be sent to this establishment.
M. Mery has received, for the cantata composed
by him on the occasion of the late nuptials, 500 f.
from the Emperor, and a gold watch, set with dia-
monds, from the Empress.
An upholsterer, named Paul Ledra, was on Sa-
turday sentenced to a fine of 100 f. and six months'
imprisonment for wearing afieur-de-lis in his button-
hole and on his shirt-bosom.
Two other persons were at the same time con-
demned to fines of 500 f. each and six months' im-
prisonment for having, in December last, uttered
offensive language against the then President.
Messieurs Herman and Andebrand, editors of
La Mode, of Paris, have each been condemned to a
fine of 500 francs and one month's imprisonment,
for publishing a piece of " false news" (copied from
the Independence Beige), to the effect that a Lucien
Murat was about to inhabit the Chateau de Neuilly
-which he had purchased last year for 1,400,000f.'
The Pays announces that some secret agencies,
formed in Paris under the inspiration of old parties,
issuing for some time those odious and infamous
libels against the French Government which dis-
honour a part of the foreign press, have been dis-
covered. The Government, informed of these in-
trigues, could not any longer tolerate that system
of calumny and insult, and in the night between
Saturday to Sunday several persons who directed
and fomented this correspondence were arrested,
and their papers seized. In this number are
Messrs. De la Pierre, Coetlogon, Pages, and Do
Ville Messant, attached to the Legitimist party,
and some correspondents of a Belgian and German
newspaper. Yesterday morning other arrests again
took place.
The Union says :—" We do not know the cause
of these arrests ; but we are sufficiently intimate
with some of the persons arrested to be able to say
that all suspicion will soon be dissipated, and to
affirm that in what concerns them there can
bkienno " question of a conspiracy or a plot of any
d.

Accounts from Tahiti to the 25th October have
arrived. The French establishments continued to
enjoy the most complete tranquillity, and had begun
to effect improvements. A custom-house had been
established in the Papeete, and works had been
under taken for improving the port. Preparations
were making for the station of different lines of
steamers which the English and Americans pro-
pose to establish in the island. ' The Messager
of Tahiti g.:lves an account of grand rejoicings which
took place on the commencement of the works for
a road. Queen Pomare and all the principal chiefs
were present ; there was a good deal of dancing
and firing of cannon, and at a banquet toasts were
drunk to the Prince President of the Republic, and
the French Governor of the island. •

The cultivation of tobacco in Algeria has proved
most successful. In 1851 only 264,912 kilogrammes
were produced ; in 1852 the quantity had risen to
735,199 kilogrammes. There are two crops in the
year, the first being the best ; but even this is
capable of almost indefinite augmentation.
M. Clerget, one of the most eminent artists in
works of industry, has been charged by the Minis-
ter of the Interior to visit England for the purpose
of examining the progress made there in the arts
connected with manufactures.

The St. Petersburgh, Gazette of the 28th January
announces the official appointment of M. de Kisse-
lef to the functions of Ambassador and Minister
Plenipotentiary of Russia in Paris. The St. Peters-
burgh journal L' Abeille du Nord of the 25th
of January contains a long article on the possibility
and the consequences of a hostile landing in Eng-
land.

M. Walewski returns to London to resume his
functions as Minister of France to-morrow or the
day after, the portfolio of Foreign Affairs being
apparently as far from his reach as before he crossed
the Channel. It is now believed that one of the
first persons who will withdraw from the Ministry
is Marshal St. Arnaud. This, however, would
have taken place had no crisis existed. The Gover-
nor-Generalship of Algeria has been destined for
him, and the day of his departure.
Much activity is observable in the mercantile sea-
ports of France. Large purchases on speculation
have taken place at Havre, Nantes, Bordeaux, and
Marseilles. The Paris flour market continues dull.
The bakers have succeeded in reducing the price of
bread by two centimes the four pound loaf, and by
so doing have gained a certain advantage over
the millers. The best quality is still quoted at 55f.
the sack of 157 kilogrammes, but ordinary quality
is offered at from 502. to 52f., being a new fall of
lf. the sack in eight days. The corn market
is not more animated. Prices remain station-
-4,17. Several cattle fairs have been held since
.i_orthtue let of the month, which were well attended by
Worth
; prices remain firm. There is no change
'wy of notice in the price of raw silk in the
southern departments. The manufacturers of
ll,Yons and St. Etienne continue to purchase on a
arge scale. It is the general opinion that prices
l rise during the present month.
The Bourse was languid yesterday, and a want of
confidence was apparent among the specula-
t,°,l's• The arrests made in Paris on Sunday among
writers of the Legitimist press was generally
ulsapproved. It was regarded as a proof that the
The is not confident in. its own strength.
tie Three per Cents. opened at 79f. 25c., and notwithstanding some large purchases made on ac-
Zennt of the Caisse de Consignations, they fell to
48t 75c., and closed at 78f. 90c. for the end of the
Itionth. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. closed
141 f• 850. Orleans Railway Shares, 987 f. 50c.;
Puen, 952 f. 50c.; Havre, 441 f. 25c.; Great
2-Tert
•.11,,ern., 826 f. 25c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 746 f.
ter
-earls and Lyons, 845 f.; Lyons to the Medi-
ran •
sha.„ ean 715 f., Bordeaux and Cette, 552 f. 50c.;
s of the Bank of Credit Mobilier, 707 f. 50c.

SPAIN.
The The Madrid journaLs of the Ist have arrived.
Gazette publishes a comparative account of the
receipts of the Spanish Treasury for the month of
December, 1851 and 1852, from which it r.esults.
that that month in 1852 shows an augmentation of
292,706 reals over that of the corresponding month
of the year before. The whole receipts for the year
have been 1,288,45,667 reals, showing a surplus
over the expenses of 37,365,739 reals. The coali-
tion proposes the following candidates for Madrid
--MM. Olca, Portella, Gomez de Serna, Montal-
44(1:vari Zafra, Angulo, and Mendizabal, ProoTessists ;
Rosa, Mon, and Gonzales Bravo, Moderates.
The Clamor Public°, the iVacion, the Novedades,
and the Diario Espanol were seized the day before.
A Madrid letter of the Ist says :____
"A report is in circulation that the Queen wishing to
give to the ex-President of the Council, M. Bravo
Murillo, a striking te.,...imony of her personal satis•
faction, reserves for him the Collar of the Order of the
Golden Fleece. The present Cabinet are, it is said, of
°Pinion that the honour should be pos:poned for some
tirne. The Ministry are perfectly easy as to the result
of the elections ; they reckon on hating a strong and
on. Ipact majority. The salons of General Au pick, at the
list ball Nv,,re filled with all the highest ranks of society
1-.. n Alafiril. Among; the company were the of
of
,lediena, C,oli, Feria, de Veriquas, Fernand Nu4ney,
omayor,
-A-bumada,, Illedina de' las Torres, Bailen, Sot
ace. The buchess d'Albe sister of the Empress of
the French was also present, and her toilette, added to

her personal grace, was the object of general attraction.
She wore a white silk dress, with three flounces, trimmed
with gauze and garlands of flowers up to the waist, and
had on her head a magnificent parure of brilliants and
emeralds. Every one, on quitting the French Embassy,
of which General and Mme. Aupick did the honours
with so much grace, expressed the;r wishes for the Em-
press of the French, who had contributed to procure
them such a charming fete. The Madrid Gazette pub-
lishes in full the account of the marriage of the Emperor
of the French. In imitation of the balls and soirees of
the Tuileries, it is intended to adopt knee-breeches and
silk stockings as full-dress at Madrid. The Bourse con-
tinues to look up, in consequence of the certainty of the
Government having a majority at the elections."
Don Jose Maria de Quesada, Rear-Admiral and

one of the ablest officers in the Spanish navy, has
been ordered by the Government to visit the dock-
yards of France and England, in order to study
the recent improvements in the construction of
ships and the system of engines on the screw prin-
ciple. He is to be accompanied by the Duke de
Tarancon, a captain in the navy. Another letter
of the some date adds that the most important
members of the moderate party, who still form
part of the anti-reformist electoral committee, had
announced to their political friends that, as soon as
the elections were over, they would withdraw from
the committee, not wishing to make a systematic
opposition to the Ministry.
The Madrid journals of the 2d have also arrived
in due course, but their contents are without im-
portance. The Gazette publishes a royal decree
appointing Don Pedro Egana, the ex-minister of
Justice President of the Junta for the examination
of the claims of arrears on the treasury.—The Queen
and the other members of the royalfamily attended
divine service on the 2d at the church of Atocha,
on the occasion of the anniversary of the attempt
on her Majesty's life,
ser cation. to return thanks for her pre-

ITALY.
Very important news has arrived from Florence.
From Ravenna and Forli the Austrian troops march
on Rimini with artillery, and in considerable force.
Riots had taken place, and the Austrian flag had
been torn to pieces.
A letter from Naples in the Corriere Mercantile
of Genoa, states that considerable armaments aro
going on there, and that a double number of re-
cruits is to be levied this year.
Advices from Trieste, published by the Brunn
Gazette, state that the coast of Cattaro requirinc, a
very strict surveillance to be kept up in order to
prevent any violation of the Austrian territory on
the frontier, the whole of the Austrian squadron,
which had keen concentrated at Pola, with the ex-

ception of two vessels, have left that port to take
up their stations at Klek and Castelnuovo. The
Archduke Maximilian has embarked on board one
of the vessels, the Novara frigate.
The Milan Gazette of the Ist has an article on
the railroad of Central Italy, from which it appears
that a decision has been at last come to in favour

of its starting from Pistoja, which already commu-
nicates with Florence, Lucca, Pisa, Leghorn, and
Siena, and will soon be in communication with
Rome. From Pistoja the new line will cross the
Apennine, and extend to Bolog,na along the valley
of the Reno, thence branching out to Modena,
Reggio, Guastalla, and touching the Po opposite to
BorgoforLe, where it is to meet the Mantua line,
which will connect it with the Austrian railways.
Anothef branch of the central line extends to Par-
ma, Piacenza, Milan, and Pavia, and thence goes to
meet the Turin and Genoa line. The total extent
of the line is 270 kilometres (168 miles); it touches
at six large cities, connects the three valleys of the
Tiber, Arno, and Po, with the whole of Central
Europe, and the Mediterranean with the Baltic
and the North Sea. It is to be constructed by a
powerful company, numbering among its members
Messrs. Brassey, Jackson, Fell, and Jopling. The
capital to be employed amounts to 80 millions of
francs.

The Mediterraneo of Genoa of the 3d mentions
a concentration of Austrian troops that is taking
place on the strategical line of La Cattolica in the
Roman States. The garrisons of Forli and Ravenna
have been ordered there.

The Brothers Rothschild have contracted for a
loan of 50,000,000 f. to Piedmont, and another of
15,000,0001. to Tuscany.

GERMANY.

The Augsburg eazette states from Vienna that
when M. de Lacour presented his new letters of
credence to the Emperor of Austria, his Majesty
spoke in warm terms of the eminent services ren-
dered to the cause of order by the Emperor Napo-
leon, and expressed his conviction that the two go-
vernments would seriously co-operate in the main-
tenance of peace.
The Cologne Gazelle states from Berlin that the
news of the march of two Russian corps d'annee
towards the Turkish frontier, is confirmed. The
fifth corps cl'armee of General Rudgier has already
received orders to march, and the fourth corps has
called in its reserves.
The Avgsburg Gazette has the following from
Vienna, dated the 4th :—" The Gazette contains
an article which has tranquillised the stock ex-
change and the public. It states that the Austrian
Government has not assumed a hostile attitude
towards Turkey."
The Austrian Government has just decided that
such persons as emigrate to America, or elsewhere,
must lose their right of citizenship in Austria. It
also reserves to itself the power of not again ad-
mitting into Austria for a certain time, according
to circumstances, such persons as leave it as emi-
grants. Notice has been sent to the representatives
of Austria in foreign countries not to visor the pass-
ports of such persons for Austria.
The Emperor of Austria has granted a sum of
30,000 florins (about 3,0001.) to Professors Bottger,
of Frankfort, and Schcnnbein, of Bale, the two
inventors o f cotton powder, for the communication
of the secret of their discovery.
Notwithstanding the effort 3 made by the Prus-
sian Government to encourage temperance socie-
ties, spirit disdlleries are on the increase in that
country. The duty on brandy last year produced
20, 625, 000 fr.