,furrior vat of FBANCE.The Moniker, in a supplement published_on: Sunday

last, gave an amount of the proceedings in the Senate on the 4th, 5th, and 7th November, respecting the establishment of. the.. Empire. Our readers

already know that the• sitting on the 4th resulted in a proposition to that effect, which was accepted by M. Fonld on the part of M. Bonaparte. Jerome Bonaparte, who had hitherto presided over the Senate, withdrew at this sitting, and M. Mermard took his place. A committee was appointed, Who selected M. Troplong as their reporter. On the 6th, M. Troplong read a very long report, justifying in detail the step about to be taken, and sub- mitting the following Senatfts-consultum. "Art. 1. The Imperial dynasty is reestablished. Louis Napoleon Bona- parte is Emperor of the French, under the name of Napoleon M.

"Art 2. The Imperial dignity is hereditary in the direct descendants, na- tural and legitimate, of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, from male to male, by order of primogeniture, and to the perpetual exclusion of the females and their descendants.

"Art 3. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, should he not have any male child, May adopt the children and descendants, natural and legitimate, in the male branch of the brothers of the Emperor Napoleon I. The forms and condi- tions of such adoption shall be regulated by a Senates-consultum. If, at a period posterior to such adoption, Louis Napoleon should happen to have male children, the adopted sons cannot be called to the throne until after the natural and legitimate descendants. Adoption is interdicted to the successors of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte and their descendants.

" Art. 4. Louis Napoleon regulates by an organic decree, addressed to the Senate, and deposited in his archives, the order of succession to the throne in the Bonaparte family, in case he should leave no direct, legitimate, or adoptive heir. " Art. 5. In default of any natural and legitimate or adopted heir of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, and of the successors in a collateral line which shall derive their right in the above-mentioned organic decree, a Senatfis- consultum, proposed to the Senate by the Ministers assembled in council, with the adjunction of the Presidents, acting as such in the Senate, in the Legislative Corps, and in the Council of State, and submitted to the people for- acceptance, shall name the Emperor, and regulate in his family the order of succession from male to male, to the perpetual exclusion of the fe- males and of their descendants. Up to the moment when the election of the new Emperor is terminated, the affairs of the state are to be governed by the Ministers then in functions ; who are to form a Council of Government, and to deliberate by a majority of votes. "Art, 6. The members of the family of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, called by circumstances within the line of succession, and their descendants of both sexes, form part of the Imperial family. A Senates-consultum will regulate their position. They cannot marry without the consent of the Emperor ; and their marriage, contracted without such authorization, involves the pri- vation of all claim to the succession, both for him who has contracted it and for his descendants.

"Art. 7. The Constitution of 16th January 1852 is maintained in all the enactments which are not contrary to the present Senates-consultum ; and no modifications can be made in it except in the forms and by the means provided for the purpose. "Art. 8. The following proposition shall be submitted to the people for ac- ceptance in the forms determined by the decrees of the 2d and 4th December' 1851—' The people desires the reestablishment of the Imperial dignity in the person of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, with the succession in its direct descendants natural and legitimate, or adopted; and gives him the right to i regulate the order of succession to the throne in the Bonaparte family, as provided for by the Senatas-consultum of the 7th day of November 1852.' "

These propositions were passed on the 7th by the Senate, and signed by all the members present. Immediately after the sitting, the Senators in full costume, and the Cardinals in red robes, went under an escort of cavalry to the Palace of St. Cloud, and there in the great gallery awaited the corning of M. Bonaparte. When he arrived he was greeted with " Vive l'Empereur !" and M, Mesnard, with a short speech, presented the articles above cited. Louis Napoleon replied— "Messieurs lea Senateurs, I thank the Senate for the readiness with which it has responded to the wishes of the country, in deliberating on the re- establishment of the Empire, and in drawing up the Senatas-consultam which is to be submitted to the acceptance of the people. When, forty-eight years since, in this same palace, in this same room, and under analogous cir- cumstances; the Senate came to offer the crown to the chief of my family, the Emperor replied by these memorable words—' My spirit will no longer be with my posterity from the day when it shall cease to merit the love and the confidence of the great nation.' What now most affects my heart is the thought that the Spirit of the Emperor is with me ; that his ideas guide me; that- his- shade protects me, since by a solemn proceeding you come in th name of the French people to prove to me that I have mental the confidence

i of the country. It is not necessary for me to tell you that my constant anxiety will be to labour with you to promote the grandeur and prosperity of France."

" Vive rEmpereur !" again echoed through the gallery of the Bourbon Palace ; and in a short time the servile instruments of the Usurper with- drew,.

Oh the same day, decrees, calling upon "the French people " to "ac- cept or reject " the Senatfts-consultum, on the 21st and 22d instant, were issued. The Legislative Body is convoked for the 25th instant, " to cer- tify the regularity of the votes, cast them up, and declare the result." Jerome Bonaparte has definitively resigned his post as President of the Senate, and is succeeded by the Emperor-designate.

One Senator, and one alone, voted against the Senatfts-consultum : his name is M. Viellard.

Of M. Troplong's report—a tedious compilation of verbose commonplaces, paraded as reasons for " the Empire "—one specimen will suffice.

"After periods of great political agitation, it always happens that nations.. throw themselves joyfully into the arms of the strong man whom Providence` sends to them. It was the fatigues of civil wars which made a monarch of the conqueror of Actium : it was the horror of revolutionary excesses as much as the glory of Marengo which raised the Imperial throne. In the midst of the recent dangers of the country, this- strong man stood forth on the 10th of December 1848; and on the 2d of December 1851, and France confided to him her standard, which was then declining. If, on this memorable jour- ney, which was nothing but a series of triumphs, she has declared her will to confide it to him for ever, it is because by his courage and by his prudence the man has shown himself equal to the task ; it is because, when a nation feele itself tormented by the agitations of a' stormy government, a necessary reaction leads it towards him who can best secure order, stability, and repose. "Louis Napoleon, therefore,. is in this wonderful situation, that he alone holds in his hands these inestimable gifts. He has, in the eyes of France, his immense services, the magic of his popularity, the reminiscences of he; race, the imperishable remembrance of order of organization, and of heroism, which give a louder pulsation to the hearts of all Frenchmen. He revives in the eyes of Europe the greatest name of modern days, not only for the military triumphs-with which his history is so rich, but for chaining down the political and social tempests, for endowing France- with the conquests of peace, and for strengthening and fertilizing the goodrelations of states. Both at home and abroad it is to him that is attached a vastfuture of pacific labour

and of civilization. That future must not be at the mercy of the chance of events and to the surprise of factions." Abd-el-Kader paid a visit to the Palace of St. Cloud, to bid farewell to his liberator, and to beg that he may be allowed to be present at the ceremony of the formal assumption of the Imperial purple. Louis Na- poleon promised to send an Arab sabre to Amboise for the use of the Emir ; saying, " I give you this sabre, because I am sure you will never draw it against France " ; and rich presents were handed to the two Arabs who accompanied their chief. BELGIUM.—One of the main objects said to have been contemplated by Austria and France in bringing about a change of Ministry at Brussels was a retrogressive alteration of the law on the press ; and the first act of M. Brouckere's Cabinet has been the submission of such a law to the Chamber. On Tuesday afternoon, M. Faider, the new Minister of Jus- tice, announced that he was authorized by King Leopold to present a bill for the punishing of outrages committed by the press on foreign sovereigns or the heads of foreign governments. The bill provides that any " out- rage" on these persons by means of the press, or by images, or by carica- tures, or by speeches or cries in public meetings—in other words, any libel on foreign potentates, should be punished by imprisonment for not more than two years, and by a fine not exceeding 5000 francs, about 2001. sterling. The plea of reproducing antecedent publications will be invalid. It is also provided that prosecutions shall only take place on the formal demand of a foreign potentate ; that the trial shall be con- ducted according to the forms of Belgian law ; and that the law of 1816, practically declared a nullity by recent verdicts, shall be abolished.

ITALY.—The Ministerial crisis in Piedmont is at an end. The Count Cavour, called in a second time, in consequence of the refusal of Count Revel to join Cesare Bathe, succeeded in forming a Ministry on the 2d instant Count Cavour retains the Presidency of the Council, and acts as Minister of Finances ; while San Martino will administer the Interior in the place of Pernati, and General da Bormida assumes the portfolio of Foreign Affairs vacated by the Marquis d'Azeglio. Buoncompagni re- mains Minister of Justice, and ad interim of Public Instruction. The Marquis d'Azeglio will be attached to the King's suite as first aide-de- camp. Most ominously, M. His de Butenval returns upon the scene at this conjuncture ; and has an interview with King Victor Emanuel, to present a letter from M. Bonaparte, Napoleon III. that is to be. Letters of the 31st ultimo from Rome state that the sentence on Mr. Murray has been commuted to hard labour for life.

UNITED STATES. —The America arrived at Liverpool on Sunday from Boston, with dates to the 27th October.

The great event which is recounted in the journals is the death of Daniel Webster ; who expired at Marshfield, on the morning of the 24th October. By the steamer which reached Liverpool on Saturday, we learned that Mr. Webster's death was expected, the report being that he lay dangerously ill at Marshfield. But it now appears that for three or four days previously to the departure of the City of Manchester, no hope was entertained of his recovery.

We compile from the accounts published in the American papers and a special account forwarded by the New York correspondent of the Times, the details of the statesman's last moments.

It appears that a disease of the bowels, from which he had long been suffering, suddenly and unexpectedly assumed a serious form on the 19th October. From that day all hope of his life seems to have vanished. " An hour or two after midnight [of the 23d] he was again attacked with violent vomitings, which lasted for forty minutes. During this time his sufferings were terrible. They were, however, followed by four heart of respite, in which he remained in a tranquil state. His mind continued not only calm, but lucid. He was fully conscious of his condition; but he conversed with perfect composure about his state, and had a word of consolation to every weeping friend around him ; and it was remarked that he was the most cheerful person in the room. On Thurs- day, before he finally took to his bed, he had prepared his last parcel of despatches for the President, and dictated upwards of thirty letters to his friends and correspondents ; but to them all he signed his own name. When- ever Mr. Webster has been at his Marshfield mansion, it has been filled with guests; and now all his illustrious friends, who were on terms of such inti- macy with him that they felt justified in going to his house, gathered around him. His bed was in a capacious and stately room, where a large number of persons could assemble without crowding. Among these visitors were some of those men who have for twenty or thirty years been known as his confiden- tial friends, most of whom have been active in bringing forward Mr. Web- ster's name as the Independent Union candidate for the Presidency. He conversed with them about public matters with a calmness and interest which showed that the welfare of his country was as present and dear to him as ever. On Friday afternoon, when he had rallied from continued paroxysms of pain, he was raised up in his bed to address the members of his house- hold, and all the people employed on his estate, who had assembled to take their farewell of the great and good man whom they had been proud to call their master.

"He now had Mr. Peter Harvey called in, and said to him—' Harvey, I am not so sick but that I know you ; I am well enough to know you. I am well enough to love you ; and well enough to call down the richest of Hea- ven's blessings upon you and yours. Harvey, don't leave me till I am dead— don't leave Marshfield till I am a dead man.' Then, as if speaking to him- self, he said, 'On the 24th of October all that is mortal of Daniel Webster will be no more.' He gave to those • persons whom he called his ' faithful and familiar friends' the most earnest advice about their temporal affairs first ; because,' said he, you will remain in this world after I have left it, and you hate your duties to perform to your day and generation while you stay. He then alluded to the circumstances and the condition of almost every person present; and, dropping a word of counsel and friendly suggestion for the advantage of each, he turned away from the contemplation of the earth, and directed their thoughts to the future life. ' There,' said Mr. Webster, centre all my hopes. You will all of you at some day feel that it is not a small thing so to live that you may die calmly, confidingly, penitently, and full of hope.' The weeping group closed around his couch, and one by one he bade them all farewell, " Several interesting incidents occurred during Friday night., and several times Mr. Webster's sufferings returned upon him with a power that seemed almost irresistible. By his side stood two of the most eminent medical men of Boston, and even they were counselling with other illustrious associates in their profession. All thrit human skill, science, and affection could do, was done for the illustrious sufferer. It became quite evident to his physicians, how- ever, that nothing remained for them to do but to administer such palliatives as might alleviate, as far as possible, the severity of his sufferings. A little after six o'clock on Saturday morning the attacks of vomiting again came on, and each one left him still more feeble ; but his powers of resistance seemed inconceivable. Something more than common sufferings seemed necessary to waste his vitality ; and yet, during this protracted agony, a

despatch signed by Dr. Warren of Boston says= Although Mr. Webster is- gradually sinking, and he can scarcely live twenty-four hours, yet his- frame of mind is that of entire tranquillity and happiness. He attends to all necessary business, and his mind maintains its usual attention to all subjects and persons.' This was dated at twelve o'clock.

" At two o'clock p. m. a distinguished friend writes this despatch from the dying chamber—' Mr. Webster continues to sink. His mental faculties seem unclouded and brilliant as ever. He occasionally speaks to his family, con- templates death calmly, and is perfectly resigned.' A few minutes after two o'clock, the celebrated Dr. Jackson left Marshfield with the belief that Mr. Webster could not live through the night. Repeatedly during the forenoon of Saturday, and the early part of the afternoon, while he was suffering least, he conversed freely and with great clearness of detail about his private affairs and the condition of his farms ; unfolding very completely all his' agricultural plans, and impressing upon his farmers the manner in which he- wished to have these plans carried out " A little after five o'clock in the afternoon, extreme nausea returned, and he raised much darker matter, tinged with blood. The exhaustion which followed was so apparent, that in another consultation his physicians con- cluded that his last hour had nearly come. When they announced to hint their opinion, he received it with the calmest cheerfulness, and requested that the ladies of his family might be called in. They were Mra. Webster, his. wife, Mrs. Fletcher Webster, his son's wife, Mrs. Paige, and Miss Downs,. of New York. As they approached the bed, he extended to them one by one his hand, calling them by name, and offering to them support and appropriate words of farewell and religious consolation. " He next requested the male members of his family, and the personal friends who had been with him during his illness, to approach him ; and as they came up one by one he recalled pleasant reminiscences of their past lives, with a clearness of mind which few men ever show during the noon- tide of manly strength and health. To each one of these friends he also addressed some special words of religious counsel ; adding in one case, that his mind had never faltered in the fall faith of Christianity, and it now constituted the consolation and the glory of his last hours. " It was now about half-past six on Saturday evening ; and, as daylight was- fading away—the last fading daylight he was ever to witness on earth—and after an hour of conversation and intercourse with his friends, he closed his eyes, and in a natural, strong, clear, full voice, offered up an extempore prayer to. Heaven, filled with many expressions of gratitude for blessings given, of penitence for sins committed, and closed with these words—' Heavenly Father,. forgive my sins, and receive me to Thyself through Jesus Christ.' "Conversing with great exactness, he seemed to be anxious to be able to- mark to himself the final period of his dissolution. He was told that it might occur in one, two, or three hours, but that the time could not be definitely

calculated. Then,' said he, 4 I suppose I must lie here quietly till it comes.' Dr. Jeffries offered him something which he hoped might give- him ease. The dying statesman remarked.—' Something more, Doctor 1 more ! I want restoration.' Between ten and eleven o'clock, he repeated somewhat indistinctly the words, Poet, poetry—Gray, Gray.' Mr. Fletcher Webster repeated the first line of the elegy, The curfew tolls the knell of parting day.' That's it, that's its said Mr. Webster ; and the book was brought, and some stanzas read to him, which seemed to give him pleasure. From twelve o'clock till two there was much restlessness, but not much suffering ; the physicians were quite confident that there was no actual pain. A faintness occurred, which led him to think that his death was at hand. While in this condition some expressions fell from him indicating the hope that his mind would remain to him completely until the last. It was now about twenty minutes past two o'clock. He spoke of the difficulty of the process of dying ; when Dr. Jeffries repeated the verse, Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me ; Thy- rod and Thy staff they comfort me.' Mr. Webster said immediately, 'The fact, the fact ! That is what I want! Thy rod ! Thy rod! Thy staff—Thy- staff !' These were his last words."

The electric telegraph speedily spread the news throughout the Union : by Sunday night there was scarcely any town of importance ignorant of the " national calamity "; and, as on the occasion of the death of Henry Clay, signs of mourning were everywhere heard and seen—lowered flags, minute guns, tolling bells, sad faces, and public meetinge.

Mr. Webster was buried on the 29th October, in die private grounds. of his house at Marshfield. His friends in great numbers attended the- funeral. Before the body was carried to the grave, it was placed in an open coffin, on a bier beneath one of the large poplar trees on the lawn ; and thousands pressed around to take a last look at the face of the de- parted. Two garlands of oak leaves and acorns, and two bunches- of flowers, were laid upon the coffin. It was closed, and borne to the grave ; the burial service was read by the village pastor, and at half-past two the earth covered the remains. Ten thousand persons attended the funeral. Among them were General Franklin Pierce, Governor Marcy of New York, Mr. Edward Everett, Mr. Abbott Lawrence, Governor Bout- well of Massachusetts, Mr. Secretary Conrad, (alone of the Fillmore Ca- binet) and Judge Sprague.

Funereal commemorations have taken place throughout the States of the Union.

Daniel Webster was the son of Ebenezer Webster' who served against the French in the Canadas, and subsequently rose to the rank of Major in the war of Independence ; having, meanwhile, settled down on the frontiers of New Hampshire, the owner of a plot of land in the woods. Here Daniel was born, in 1782 ; and here he passed the first three years of his life. His early struggles to obtain a fitting education were very great. While- still young he walked two miles in the winter season to school. Subse- quently his thirst for reading was gratified in some measure by access to a circulating library. Before he was fourteen he could repeat the whole of Pope's " Essay on Man." His next schooling was obtained at Exeter and Boscawan ; where he made great progress, and soon became a fair- Latin scholar. In the summer of 1797 he entered Dartmouth College ; and here, after the four-years course, he graduated. He next entered on legal studies ; but in order that his brother might have college teaching,: he obtained the post of master at an academy, and by dint of adding to his salary as an assistant-registrar of deeds, and living frugally, was en- abled to pay for the tuition of his brother. But in 1802 he resumed his legal studies ; and in 1805 he was admitted to the bar at Suffolk,. in Massachusetts.

In the year 1812, Mr. Webster was elected to Congress ; and in 1813 he delivered his maiden speech, on a question relating to the famous Berlin decrees of Napoleon. From this time he was a marked man in Congress, and took rank as an orator and politician among the rising young men of the day—Clay, Calhoun, and Forsyth. In 1820 we find him assisting at the revision of the constitution of Massachu- setts; is 1823 he was elected to Congress as one of the members for Boston, by 4990 out of 5000 votes ; and in the ensuing session he made his famous speech on Greek independence. In 1824 he opposed the Tariff-law of that year ; but in 1828 circumstances had so far modified his views as to make him vote in 1828 for amore equal adjustment of the benefits of protection. From the year 1825 to 1829, while Mr. Adams was President, Mr. Webster acted as the leader of the Whigs, first in the Assembly and afterwards in the Senate ; and subsequently, although opposed to the policy of General Jackson, he supported the Ad- ministration when threatened by the secessionists of South Carolina : but he strenuously opposed Jackson's banking policy. In 1839 Mr. Webster visited Europe ; and when, on his return, General Harrison was elected President, Mr. Webster was appointed to the head of the Cabinet. In this capacity he negotiated the settlement of the Maine boundary question, and the celebrated Ashburton treaty. Out of office, when the Oregon boundary was defined, Mr. Webster rendered important service in that matter. He was opposed to the annexation of Texas, and to the Mexican war ; but he permitted his son to join as a volunteer. When Mr. Fill- more succeeded General Taylor, Mr. Webster was made Secretary of State. His last great act was to participate with Clay and Calhoun in passing the " Compromise measure" known as the Fugitive Slave Law .of 1850. His last official acts, of much prominence, were his equivocal conduct both on the Fishery and the Lobos questions. But now he is gone, his countrymen seem disposed to forget his faults and to remember only his virtues : they extol him as the greatest statesman of the age, and deplore his loss as a national calamity.

By an official despateh from Mr. Secretary Conrad to Mr. Law, one of the proprietors of the Crescent City, we learn that her late commander, Lieutenant Porter, is transferred to the Georgia for the mail service. This, of course, is a concession to the Cuban Government ; as Mr. Smith will thereby be prevented from going to Havannah. But the concession is somewhat neutralized by the semi-official assurances of the Washington _Republic which—in reply to some rumours current at New Orleans, stating ihat the Fillmore Administration bad yielded the point as to Smith, and hauled down the Stars and Stripes—emphatically, declares that the Administration has not "backed out" ; that a speedy redress of the wrong will, no doubt, be given, and the rights and honour of the Union maintained.

The Crescent City has received a new commander, Lieutenant Daven- port ; and has steamed out from New York again for Savannah.

Cam OF Goon Horn.—By a sailing-vessel from the Cape, we have news to the 11th September.

There is nothing important ; indeed the journals say that the war was at a stand-still. The police force was nearly organized ; and in conse- quence the Governor had issued a general order dispensing with the Burgher posts. The rebel Hottentots were still troublesome ; but the Caffres were suffering from want of powder. One of the sources whence

• the enemy derives ammunition had been discovered, at Cradock, in Au- gust. Six Mantatees had been shot by a party d Farmers, and guns and ammunition captured : they proved to be only a section of rz party of fourteen : two escaped the Farmers, and the police arrested the other six ; who confessed, whether truly or falsely does not appear, that they had received the guns and powder from some of the Fingoe levy. There is no authentic news of any intended operations.