The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-26 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY.
The Emperor left Luneville on Thursday at half-
past 12 o'clock, after having passed the division of
cavalry in review, and arrived at Strasburg at 3.
His Majesty was received at the railway station by
General Reibell, in command of the Gth division,
the prefect, the moyor, and the principal authori-
ties. His Majesty, after having received all the
mayors of the department who had assembled to
pay their respects to him, mounted his horse and
proceeded to passs in reveiew, on the Place Kleber,
the troops of the garrison. The streets were
crowded to excess, the houses were all dressed
out with flowers and flags, and the enthusiasm
was universal. At the review, the reception
given to his Majesty by the soldiers was
not less marked. After the troops had filed
off, the Emperor went to the prefecture,
and received the deputies of the department and
all the civil and military authorities of the place.
At five o'clock, the Grand Duke of Baden arrived
to pay his respects to his Majesty, and invite him
to make a short stay the next day at Baden. In
the evening, there was a grand banquet at the pre-
fecture, to which his Majesty invited the principal
authorities •, and afterwards the Imperial party
honoured the theatre with their presence.
It is believed that the Emperor will return from
Germany by Forbach and Metz. This latter town
has voted 30,000fr_ towards the expense of properly
receiving his Majesty, who is expected to arrive
there in the evening of the 28th.
At the sitting of the Court of Assizes Thursday,
in the case of the Nor here Railway robberies, the
public prosecutor addressed the jury in support of
the indictment. M. Lachaul afterwards pleaded
for Carpentier, representing him as a victim of the
passion for gold and for Stock Exchange gambling
which characterises the epoch. He deplored tiat,
at the early age of 25, the " fearful responsibility"
of the post of cashier of a great enterprise like the
Noi them Railway had been imposed on him. He
had at first only taken shares in the belief that by
the use of them he might realise a large fortune,
and his firm intention had been to restore
them. The learned advocate passed in review
all the facts regarding the prisoner, represent-
ing them in an as favourable a light as possible,
and concluded by imploring the indulgence of
the jury. In the course of his speech the learned
gentleman made some sharp observations on the
manner in which the advocates employed by Car-
pentier in the United States had acted, and said
that their " wretched subtleties" and mode of ad-
vocacy had to disgusted the prisoner that he had
resolved to give himself up to the justice of his
country. During all the time the counsel was
speaking, Carpentier wept bitterly. M. Desma-
rets pleaded for Grellet, and dwelt particularly on
the fact, as an extenuating circumstance in his fa-
vour, that he had made the fullest disclosures. M.
Dufaure then proceeded to address the jury for
Parod, aEd he had not concluded when the Court
rose.

The Siecle pays the following tribute to the ser-
vices rendered by England to civilisation :
" We must say to the merit of England that she the
first renounced European conquests. She transferred
her ambition to other climes, and has had the immense
honour of giving birth to one of the greatest nations of
the world—to America, the land of liberty par excellence.
Her conquests have always almost been conquests of
commerce and civilisation. Russia, Austria, Prussia,
have extended their dominions at the expense of free Eu-
ropean nations whose nationality they have destroyed,
whose development they stifled. The English have not
committed this crime. In this respect they re.enihte
France and have nothing to restore. They have sought
for tee elements of their expansion beyond Europe.
They have peopled the solitudes of America, and have
called to life the new world of Oceania. f, in be-
coming masters of India by the course of events, they
have not changed its condition, we must likewise take
into account time and the immensity of the difficulties.
But they have effected great deeds in India, and in
order to appreciate English rule in that peninsula, we
must reflect ou its condition previous to the conquest,
when millions of men perished in religious wars, as in
the rise and decline of empirv. Tee massacres which
now inspire horror in all Europe would have been con-
sidered mere pastime before the advent of British rule."
Our contemporary concludes by stating that the
greatness of England forms, at the present mo-
ment, one of the conditions of univer.,al security,
and that her disappearance from the rank of gre at
nations "would produce an inconceivable cata-
clysm, for barbarism would riso to life in a thou-
sand points of the globe and destroy commerce fur
centuries to come." _ _

BOURSE, Sept. 25.—The following were the last
quotations

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Cash. fr. End of Month.
4i per Cents
3 per Cents 67 70 67 75
Bank Shares 2,805 Credit Foncier 560
Credit Mobilier 837 50 Roman
Do. Account 895 Austrian -
Belgian 4t 99-- Spanish Threes —
Piedmontese (5) •-- Home Debt -