The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-02-17 00:00:00

COPYRIGHT

Mr. LABOUCHERE obtained ieave to bring in a bill to
carry into effect certain provisions in the copyright treaty
with France.

GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH

Lord SEYMOUR. obtained leave to bring in a bill to con-
firm certain provisional orders of the General Board of
Health.

SCOTTISH REPRESENTATION,

A discussion ensued upon a motion made by the LORD
ADVOCATE, for leave to bring in a bill to extend the right
of voting for members of Parliament, and to amend the
laws relating to the representation of the people in Scot-
land. He prefaced the motion by a tribute to the memory
of Lord Jeffery, who had introduced the Scottish Reform
Bill, who had spread the name of Scotland throughout
every part of the world where the English language was
understood, and whose name was venerated by every true
son of Scotland. He then described the state of the re-
presentation in that part of the United Kingdom antece-
dent to the Reform Bill, which, he observed, had been
eminently successful, the franchise having been honestly
and independently exercised. He appealed to the absence
of excitement or agitation upon the subject of parliamen-
tary reform in that country as itself a gratifying evidence
of the benefit conferred by that great measure. The
learned lord explained the general purport of the bill,
which corresponded with that for England, reducing the
county franchise from £5O to £2O, and the borough fran-
chise from £lO to £5. The bill contained provisions for
securing the reality of the qualifications : these provisions,
which are of a technical character, were minutely ex-
pounded by the Lord Advocate. In order to correct the
diversity of decisions upon election questions under the
existing system, the bill gave a right of appeal, on points
of law only, to the Court of Exchequer in Scotland.

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Sir W. SOMERVILLE obtained leave to bring in a simi-
lar bill for Ireland, the object of which was to reduce the
borough qualification from £8 to £5, and where the num-
ber of registered electors in a borough did not amount to
400, to associate the borough with one or more towns in
the same or a neighbouring county.
At eight o'clock, the house adjourned until Monday.

FOREIGN NEWS.

FRANCE.

THE WATERLOO MONUMENT.—The Paris correspon-
dent of the Daily News says—" The Duke of Bassano,
the new French envoy to the court of Belgium, arrived at
Brussels on Thursday last. I am able to assure you, on
good authority, that one of the demands which M. de
Bassano is charged to make from the Belgian government
is the removal of the monumental lion from the field of
Waterloo, and the demolition of the pyramidal mound of
triumph which it crowns. You are aware that soon after
the revolution of July the destruction of the same trophy
was talked of as a point insisted on by the government of
Louis Philippe ; and when the French expedition returned
from the seige of Antwerp, in passing over the plains of
Waterloo, it was expected that they would have taken the
law into their own hands, and hurled the offensive symbol
of victorious force from his proud eminence. But they
were dissuaded from this violent project by an officer,
who suggested that it would be much easier to stamp the
trophy with ridicule than to overturn it. Therefore, he
proposed that they should knock out the lion's teeth and
pare his claws. This practical sarcasm was unanimously
approved, and the expressive mutilation forthwith carried'
into effect. The application now made by Louis Napoleon
for the demolition of the trophy makes one recal his laconic
declaration before the court of peers, when tried for the
seditious attempt at Boulogne. He then said, I repre-
sent as principle the sovereignty of the people, as system
the empire, and as action the retrieval of Waterloo.' The
fist two points have been carried, and it is certain that
no means will be neglected to achieve the last."
NOTIFICATION TO THE PRESIDENT.—III letters from
Brussels of the 12th instant, it is said that a report exists
in well-informed circles that the British Government has
sent a notification to the French Government, that the
moment Louis Napoleon sets foot on the soil of Belgium
England will blockade all the French harbours. The
intelligence is not improbable, as a seizure of Belgium by
the French would be a death-blow to the trade of Eng-
land. llowever it may be, the report has obtained general
credit, and has tended in a great degree to allay existing
apprehensions. _ _ _

CONCILIATION.—It has been observed that for some
days east moderate councils seem to preponderate at the
Elysee. A great number of the political prisoners have
been set at liberty. MM. Dufraisse and Greppo, who
were to have been sent to Cayenne, are merely to be ba-
nished from France for life. It is even said that there is
some idea of granting permission to M. de Remusat, M
Jules de Lasteyrie, and some of the other exiles, to...__
to France. This change is said to be the consequence of
the bad effect produced on the departments by the strin-
gent measures in general, but more especially by the con-
fiscation of the Orleans property. The accounts received
from the prefects, as to the feeling among

the people, are

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said to boil) y no means eneourazing.
LORD NORMANBY.—Lord Normanby has arrived i

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