The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-11-09 00:00:00

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Mayoralty, and it was proposed

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elected for the coming year, and

that the meeting should pledge them
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The latter

part of the proposition was not carried, a portion of

those present not being willing to pledge them•

selves at that early juncture ; but the election of
Mr. HOLME this day may be regarded as certain.
Messrs. 'WOODRUFF, 1-IA.LitRA.D, BICCKWITH, and
M`NrcoLL, were fixed upon to fill up the vacancies
caused by the election in the Watch Committee;
Mr. JOHN STEWART to fill that occurring in the
Improvement Committee; and Messrs. ANDERSON,
Moss, and JEFFERIES, those in the Education
Committee. A long and warm debate took place
with respect to the composition of the Health Com-
mittee, which resulted in nothing beyond a
pretty general expression of opinion that the
Committee required re-organising.

Our worthy Stipendiary Magistrate appears, by
his recent epistolary efforts, to have placed himself
in the unfortunate predicament of pleasing nobody.
His first letter, addressed to his friend, Mr. Wm.
EARLE, was founded upon a misunderstanding of
the facts of the question upon which he wrote.
His second, addressed to the Vestry Clerk, is ra-
ther apologetic, but contains some sound remarks.

We are afraid, however, that Mr. MANSFIELD has
not, as yet, had experience enough to enable him
to appreciate fully the difficulties with which the
Vestry have to grapple, or the sort of characters
with whom they have to deal. He is a little in
error if he imagines that a week at stone breaking,
or grinding corn, will prevent the incorrigible class
of Irish mendicants from returning, by the very
first opportunity they can find, to infest our streets.

FOREIGN

SUMMARY.

OUR French neighbours, almost wearied with the
lengthened preparations for converting the Republic
into an Empire, have a new object of excitement in
the presence of the Arab chief, ABD-EL-KADER,
who is now the lion of Parisian society. The
Empire movement is progressing, the Senate having
met and referred the drawing up of the necessary
document to a special committee. It is said that
the formal announcement will take place on the 10th
of December, and that in the meantime an appeal
will be made to universal suffrage. The difficulties
attending the formation of a Ministry in Belgium
have been surmounted. After several attempts,
M. DE BROUCKERE has been successful, and has
addressed the Chamber in a very confident tone.
Piedmont is labouring under a ministerial difficulty.
The KING of NAPLES has taken a tour of mercy
through his dominions, and released about fifteen
hundred political prisoners.—There is some talk of
the Portuguese Government requiring a loan, and
their application to some English houses being re-
fused.—Fears are entertained for the life of the
KING Of SWEDEN and NORWAY, and a regency
has been appointed during his severe illness.—ln
Austria the commercial conferences have been
opened, but nothing is known of the subject of
the deliberations. A Saxon paper says that the
object is to provide against a dissolution of the
Zollverein, so as to facilitate a re-union.—The
SU LTAN has shown his adherence to the change of
policy in Constantinople, by changing his am-
bassador at Paris. The most active exertions were
being made to pay the first instalment of the re-
pudiated loan, and most of the PASHAS had made
sacrifices to meet the unexpected demand. There
has been a serious insurrection in Syria, the Turkish
army having been attacked in camp Ly the Druses
and Bedouins. An English ship, with missionaries,
was arrested at Bussorab, hut, on the remonstrance

of the English consul, they were given up.
The principal item of intelligence from America
is the death of the Hon. DANIEL WEBSTER. He
was one of those few able statesmen whose influence
and good sense kept young America from getting
into mischief, though his recent intemperate con.
duct about the fisheries question tended somewhat
to weaken his reputation for prudence. It ap-
pears that the executive has disapproved of the
pugnacity of Lieut. PORTER, and is not, therefore,
anxious for a pretext to annex Cuba. It may be
more prudent to wait a little longer. In Brazil
trldg was quiet, but more activity was anticipated,

FOREIGN NEWS.

FRANCE.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Nov. 5, 1852.

The interest attaching to the forthcoming declaration of
the Empire seems almost to be superseded by the presence
of the renowned Emir Abd-el.Kader, who is, without
doubt, the lion of the day in Paris. Whenever he appears
in public, and he is by no means chary of showing him-
self, there are crowds to greet him, and the curiosity of
all classes has been maintained without intermission.
On his first interview with the President, there were the
most friendly greetings on both sides, as though each was
desirous to do honour to the other. The President em-
braced the Emir with the greatest warmth; and the latter,
in reply, expressed his gratitude for the liberty which
others had promised and not performed, but which the
President had not promised, and yet had granted. He
made a solemn vow, which he repeated in writing, that he
would never again set foot in Algeria. On Wednesday,
there was a grand military review on the historical plains
of Satory ; and where the Emir, in his picturesque Oriental
costume, and mounted on a splendid white Arab charger,
was the cynosure of all eyes. He was accompanied by
General Magnan and General St. Arnaud, each followed
by a brilliant staff. He afterwards visited the Palace of
Versailles, and was shown through the whole of the mag-
nificent apartments. When the Emir visited the Church
of the Madeleine, he inquired for his dear friend, as he
termed him, Monseigneur Dupuch, the first Bishop of
Algeria. Of their previous acquaintance, the following
interesting story is told by Le Pays:—

""'" The year 1840 was a terrible epoch in the annals of
kigeria, a dreadful war staining the fields with blood. It
was for the pious bishop an endless source of affliction to
hear of so many melancholy incidents. He was consider-
ing how it might be possible for him to lessen the horrors
of the war, when a young woman, all in tears, with a little
girl in her arms, called on him and implored him to ask
the Emir to restore to her her husband, who bad been
taken prisoner at the gates of Douera, in the Sahel of
Algiers. The bishop wrote the same evening to the dis-
ciple of the Prophet :—' You do not know me ; my pro-
fession is to serve God and love all men as brethren. if I
could at once mount on horseback, I would not fear the
darkness or the storm to present myself at the entrance
of your tent ; and I woull say to you in a voice which, if
what I hear of you be true, you could not resist—" Give
me back him who has just fallen into your hands.' But
I cannot set out myself. However I send to you one of
my servants, and supplicate you to grant my request. I
have neither gold nor silver to give, but I offer you in re-
turn the prayers of a sincere heart, and the gratitude of
the family in whose name I write these words—' Blessed
are the merciful, for they shall find mercy.' Abd-el-Kader
replied as follows—' I have received your letter and cora-
prehendedlit. It has not surprised me after what I have
heard of your sacred character. But allow me to observe
that you might in accordance with your mission of mercy
have asked me for the liberty, not of one prisoner merely,
but of all those now in our hands. And, in addition,
would you not be doubly worthy of your mission if, not
content with procuring such a benefit for 200 or 300
Christians, you attempted to extend the favour to a like
number of Mussulmans who languish in your prisons ?
Is it not written—' Do unto others as you would that they
should do unto you
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d that the correspondence was of much benefit,