St. Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1845-1863, 1852-12-23
FOREIGN NEWS.

FRANcE.-EmpeTo Napoleon mas sfgneo
q decree pardoning oil persons guilty OF
offences Of the press, and has also par
doned 2l9 political convicts.
The Russian ambassador had just re-
turned from st. Petersburg with an auto.
graph letter from the Gear TO Napoleon.
Jerome Bonapsrte will undoubtedly be
appointed King Of Algeria.
Advices from Algeria state that Gen.
Yuzaf had attacked body Of insurgents
- Elkeig and put them TO flight, killing
zoo.
On Thursday, ct I o'clock, p. M,
Napoleon made his public entry, IS Em.
peror. into Paris. A brief telegrsphic
despatch in the London papers says his
entry took place amid the reclamation
Of the people, the National Guard, and
the army. The formal proclamation Of
the empire was made At the Hotel de
Vile, at 10, O. m.
The Minister ofthe Interior has refused
70 authorize the formation Of the new
banking company which was attempted
10 be established in opposition to Fould's
new bank "de Credit Eonceir." The
movement in favor Of the opposition
company was supported by the house OF
Roihschild and other bankers, as well a.
by many Of the commercial interest in
PGris.
THH EMPIRE ANHoUScED.-The votes
we're counted on the Cd instant, and after
the result was announced the Emperor
addressed the Chambers ~ fellows:
!" Messieurs: The new reign which
YOU this day inaugurate derives not Its
origin, as 30 many others recorded in
history have done, from conquest, or
fraud il 10 what you have just declared
1.-THE legal result Of the will of q whole
people, who consolidate in calm that
which they had founded in the midst Of
agitation. am penetrated with graft
iUde towards the nation which three times
in four years sustained me by its suffrages,
and each time has only augmented its
majority 10 increase my power; but the
more that power increases, the more
does il need enlightened men, such
q those who every day surround me -
independent men such a. those whom
address 10 guide me by aheir counsel, TO
bring back my authority within proper
limils if il could ever quit them.
81 take fron this day, with the crown,
the name Of Napoleon the Third, because
the will Of the people has bestowed. il on
me in their acclamations, because the
whole nation has ratified il, is il, then, 10
Be ipfsrred that, in accepting the title, I
fall into the error imputed 10 the prince,
who reiurning from exile, declared null
and void oil that had been done in his
absence s.-.
"Far from me be such q wild mistake.
Not only do recognise The governments
which have preceded me, but | inherit
in some manner oil that they have &C.
comPIishsd OF good and Of evil for gov.
ernmenls which succeed onsnto smother
naUIe -wrishsandinR diHsren, 49,
lcf. Riiy- ; years history so; ,; raj
with he. inaexible authority, the !.
has permitted me to pass in silence over
the glorious reign OF the head Of my
family and the regular though epheme.
sal title Of his son, whom the! two Cham.
oers, proclaimed in the last burst Of van.
pushed patriotism. .trr. 4. Az. sse
Thus. then, the title or Napoleon the
Third is not one OF the dynaslic super.
annpaied pretensions which seem 20 DO
M insult 70 good sense aud truth /; Il 10
abe homage rendered 50 = government
which was Legitimate, and to which We |
owe the brightest pages Of our modern
history. ; Ny reign does NOT date from
1919 u dates this very moment, when
you nave announced the SURFACES of the
lstion. Receive, then, my thanks, gen.
l'emen OF the Chamber { Deputies. for
bs ssIIt you b 70 given 10 the naaiies.