St. Mary's beacon., 1852-12-23
FOREIGN NEWS.

FRAScE.-Emperor Napoleon has signed
decree Pardoning all persons guilty OF
offences Of the press, and has also par
doued 2l9 polhicsI convicts.
The Russian ambassador had Just re-
turned from 81. Petersburg with an anto.
graph letter from the Gear 10 Napoleon.
Jerome Bonaparte will undoubtedly be
appointed King Of Algeria.
Advices from Algeria state that Gen.
Yuzaf had attacked body of insurgents
si Elkeig and put them TO flight, killing
200.
On Thursday, at I o'clock, p. m,
Napoleon made bis public entry, as I'm.
peror, into Paris. A brief Geographic
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 % the Hotel de
Vile, at 10, q. m. o.. .e.... --..
The Minister OfIhe interior has refused
70 authorize the formation Of the new
banking company which was attempted
90 be established in opposition 10 Fould's
new bank SIDE. Credit Fonceir." The
movennenf i'm favor Of the opposition
comPSny was supported by The house OF
Rothschild and other bankers, ~ well as
by many Of the commercial interest in
Paris. ....- #a.-
THE EMPIRE ASHoUNcED.-The votes
were counted on the I'd instant, and after
the result was announced the Emperor
addressed the Chambers rs fellows:
+" Messieurs The new reign which
you this day inaugurate derives not its
origin, a. 20 many others recorded in
history have done, from conquest, or
fraud; il is what you have just declared
1.-THE legal result Of the will Of 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 it need enlightened men, such
ss those who every day surround me-
independent men such as those whom
address 10 guide me by their counsel, 10
bring back my authority within proper
limits if it could ever quit them.
take from this day, with the crown,
che. 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, to
Be inferred that, in accepting The title, /
fall into the error imputed 10 the prince,
who returning from exile, declared uull
and void all that had been done in his
absence? i. --s
"Far from me be such q wild mistake.
Not only do | recognise The governments
which have preceded me, but | inherit.
in some manner ell that they have &C.
complished Of good and Of evil for gov.
-ernmenls which succeed one 10 anoiher
are, notwithstanding different origin,
liable for their predecessors but the
more completely that | accept all that
for Fly years history transmits TO Us,
with her inGexible authority, the less il
has permitted me to pass in silence over
the glorious reign OF the head Of my
family !; and the regular though epheme.
yal tiflN of'his son, whom thea two Cham.
bers proclaimed in the last burst of van
quished patriotism.
"Thus, then, the title OF Napoleon the
Third 10 not one Of the dynastic super.
animated pretensiOns which seem 10 be
IN insult TO good sense and truth il is
abe homage rendered to . government
which was legitimate, and to which we
owe the brightest pages of our modern
history. Ny reign does not date from
1915, L dates. this very moment, when
you have-announced the suffrages of the
nation. Receive, then, my thanks, gen.
t!smen Of the Chamber Deputies, for
The sslst you ha 70 given to,ihs NANTES.