The daily union., 1852-11-12

From a Paris letter of the 2lst ut., written by the
able correspondent OF the New York Journal OF Com
merce we extract the following items
On his tour the south, Louis Napoleon pledged some
four five millions OF francs for the erection repair
OF churches and Improvement OF harbors The Monifem
contains DEGREES accordingly Extraordinary credits are
opened at the treasury Bordeaux will soon be delivered
OF the old distractions in the river Such appropriation
OF the public funds is little arbitrary but the legislative
body Will sanction 10 passing the budget and the OBJ
jects being audabe, no one thinks OF preerrng
plant His d9faios, considerable as 1t is must be
aged TO meet the certain exgences OF the imperial fam
lily. The young Sultan o Turkey receives yearly seven
hundred thousand pounds sterling for his personal ex-
penses and yet is always shortened There no Jour.
nasis within the domlnlons oil either potentate that
compute and embazon, nvidousy the total of
salary consumed by the sovereign during long series OF
years. do the American party editors with the generals
Presidents and Secretaries who have earned by hard Off
cs labor and OF necessity expended their very moder
ate stipend.
General Scott and General Pierce are handled as if
they had been sinecuriss-even robbers the memory
OF Jackson, who died 10 poverty truly honorable, has
not been spared and the excellence of republican press
is displssed in the elaborate vication OF the loftes
public men IN one party and the other In days OF yore
deemed the duty of the State to place in easy cir
cumsances all who had rendered valuable service or
brous& signal honor to their country But in the United
Stale iunconary Is expected, wherever re may be- ito
live like genlleman"-that is in nearly every case,
civil or military, beyond his appointments when he has
fulfilled the obligation 10 bis utter ruin perhaps the
quita falls upon him n such miserable prospective arih-
metic as have just noticed. The list would be long,
indeed, OF faithful and able public servants, who might,
in their estanenary disposition, adopt for their model
the last will OF Rabelais-"I possess nothing | owe
much give the rest to the poor"
Last week we svailed ourselves eli a ticket OF admis-
sion to the tomb o the Emperor at the Invalides The
corpse lies IN crypt, about feet below the floor OF
the chapel and Immediately under the celebrated dome
IL will be finally deposited marble sarcophagus sup
porting satue OF the defunct idol The entrance TO the
crypt Is behind the grand altar before the descent In
is large slab Of marble and porphery over which
stretches gilded canopy, four spiral pillars OF black
and white marble the base OF black marble and green
porphery is truly magnificent. The whole has been
copied from the grand altar of ST. Peters Rome.
tomb OF black marble rises each side-one OF Marshal
Duroc the other OF Bertrand; they guardians of the
crypt OF which the whole s laid in mosaic
the imperial eagle, and the initials and Of Napoleon
The monument does not to be quite TO compile
ton; may correspondent IN magnlicence to the
vast expenditure which occasoned sharp criticism and
strong reluctance in the royal and republican assemblies
| Notwithstanding the martial temperament and pred
lecons OF France, she is not al this uncue at all prone
or inclined TO war She s converted into ndustrla
nation by suffering, reflection, and long experience o
peace with Its ordinary pursuits and tendencies. Th'
paragraph OF the official Gazette of Hanover, which tbs
papers OF this morning furnish, is right, well as h'
Journal OF Frankfort the semi Official organ OF the Ger
| man Diet, in saying
"The protest of Napoleon against war at momen
when he chosen by popular enthusiasm is of immens
importance for IL Ia the an-warke protest of Franc
herself Napoleon could only be at that moment the inter
the people he could only speak the sentiment
| of the county"
When the London Times asks, "How will the nev
Emperor occupy the public mind, il not by war !" il es