The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-03 00:00:00

PARIS CORRESPONDENCE.

THUIISDAY.
You have already learned by telegraph the substance
of yesterday's proceedings in the Senate. Prince Napo-
leon's speech is the all-engrossing topic. The Prince
did not leave us long in doubt as to whether
or no he would take part in the debate, and
his address was certainly sufficiently remarkable to satisfy
his partisans. As you may suppose, the criticisms which
it has called forth are very various. The Patrie reproaches
the speaker with having introduced into the discussion
those very features of excitement and acerbity which lie
of all men should have sought to avoid. His very profes-
sions of attachment to the Emperor and his heir are
censured by the Patric as altogether superfluous and in
questionable taste. The Liberty, on the other hand,
rejoices over an oration from which it only
differs on one point. This, as may be supposed
of the organ of M. de Girardin, is the Prince's
preference of a Senatus-Consultum to a plebiscitum as
the best means of transforming the Empire of
Authority into the Empire of Constitutional Liberty.
The Constitationnel lauds the Prince's speech as
a magnificent discourse, in which the political
situation is described with felicity of expr.ssicift arid ele-
vation of thought. Naturally the Conslitutionn.el ap-
proves of a speech which gives prominence to some of the
very points upon which it has always insisted, such as
the more equitable distribution of legislative and con-
stituent privileges, the permission of free discussion on
the Constitution itself, the alteration of the electoral laws,
the publicity of the provisional councils, and the election
of mayors. The Temps declares that the Prince has placed
the Senate in a dilemma. They must either see their
work completely tranformed or they must acknowledge it
to be worthless. The Ministerial reply to the Prince
certainly shewed no little perturbation. Poor M.
Forcade de la Roquette was completely bewildered
by so much oratorical audacity and the best
consolation he could find for himself or his hearers
was the assurance that the Prince's sentiments
were entirely and exclusively personal ; that the Ministers,
and most especially the Minister of the Interior, did not
share them in the least.
The debate will, it is believed, be concluded in
the Senate on Monday or Tuesday next. M. Magne
is expected to take a prominent part, and will
no doubt make a liberal speech. MM. de Chasseloup-
Laubat; and Greasier will also, it is thought, join in the

discussion.
No deputy was present at yesterday's sitting. Pos-
sibly it was thought that if they were allowed to
attend there would be no very valid reason for excluding
the journalists and the public, but it is a matter of general
regret among enlightened politicians that the doors of the
Senate were not thrown open on this interesting and
momentous occasion.

From a rumour which was in circulation yesterday I
gather that tho Corps Legislatif will not reassemble before
the sth of October. The Ministers, I understand, have
resolved not to fix the date definitely until the end of the
session of the Senate. To-day a speech is expected from
M. de Maupas, and it may interest you to know that M.
de Sainte Deuve ceded to Prince Napoleon his turn to
speak, according to a previous arrangement between
them.
There is some talk in Liberal circles of a fresh election
c•f deputies, but this is not eery likely to come to pass at
the present time.
The Emperor is making rapid progress towards reco-
very, and it is expected that his cure will be complete
before the end of the week. He cannot undergo much
exertion at present, but lie is able to attend to business,
and all promises well respecting his recovery. The greatest
curiosity is still experienced concerning his condition, and
when M. Maton appeared at the Senate yesterday, be was
surrounded by eager questioners, who inquired after the
Emperor's health. The reply he gave was very reassuring.
M. Conti, the Emperor's secretary, was present at the

Tening sitting of the Senate, and this was looked upon
as a favourable sign of the Emperor's condition, as the
Minister had not been absent from St. Cloud during the
last portion of the Sovereign's illness. The Empress is
.hortly expected. Her stay at A jaccio has been a most
eventful one, and nothing could have surpassed the devo-
tion of the inhabitants. The most interesting event of
the Imperial programme was the visit paid to
thl little house where Napoleon was horn, and
the chapel where his mother was buried. The
house is of a very simple description, and opens on
a little lane, that our modern Ediles would not tolerate.
Th 3 next day the Empress and the Imperial Prince stood
in the balcony of the lintel de Ville, while the different
ommunes defiled before them. Some young,
men sung verses in honour of the occasion
which produced a great effect, and the Empress was so
ov( rcome that she was obliged to retire for a short time,
hear that M. Andre Lavertujon, chief editor of the
•ondc, is going to establish a daily paper in Paris, which
will appear in the latter end of October. It Las been
computed that the number of men killed during the month
it e Carlists were in arms in Spain amounted to more than
three hundred ; this estimate includes those who were
f;xecuted. There are about six hundred wounded in the
hospitals, and nearly two thousand in the various prisons.
Marshal MacMahon has arrived in Paris. It is said
;fiat he is about to inaugurate some reforms in the
military system of Algeria, and that he has
come here to consult with the Government on the
subject.

Those who were shocked to hear of the
damage done to M. Carp(sau's group at the
Opera will be glad to know that by the application of some
chemical agency the stain has been removed. A large
crowd assembled this morning to examine the work that
is roil= on at the Onbra.

THE ALBERT ASSURANCE COIIPANI.