FRANCE.
The Moniteur publishes a decree of the President of the Republic, authorizing the immediate return to France of M. M. Creton, Duvergier de Hauranne,Chambolle, Thiers, De Remusat, Jules de Lasterie, and Antony Thouret.
The petitions for the establishment of the Empire appears to be extending to other Departments besides the Charente. Two of these documents have obtained a considerable number of signatures in the Department of the Meuse. The general reasons alleged by the petitioners in support of the view they take do not materially differ from . those contained in the specimen already communicated. The first, however, dwells particularly, and with much emphasis, on the " necessity felt by the people at large for the stability of the Government;" and the second on " the urgency of placing the future destiny of the country out of the reach of accident." The concluding sentence of the letter is tothe following effect:—" The petitioners supplicate the Senate to take the initiative necessary to permit the French nation to place the Imperial crown on the head of Louis Napoleon." The number of electors who have signed these petitions: amount, according to the'latest accounts, to 20,000, belonging to 204 Communes, of about 4-sths of the total number of electors.
Accounts from the Departments continue to speak of the indifference or apathy of the electors, which has been quite as great in the more distant Departments as in those near to Paris.
The Morning Chronicle had by some means got hold of a secret minute of the Northern Powers against the presumed establishment of the Empire in France by Louis' Napoleon, and had published it. This had given rise to much discussion, but the Ministerial organs in Paris had not been able to disprove its authenticity. The wonder was how it had come into .the Morning Chronicle's possession. Sunday, the Ist.h August^was the day on which it was expected the Empire would be proclaimed, but there uas s<-me doubt as to the effect the publication of this minute would have. A.grand ball was to be given, and preparations for it on
a large scale had been made. Up to the end of August, however, the Empire had not been proclaimed, nor is any allusion made to it in the Papers.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume II, Issue 102, 18 December 1852, Page 6
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