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

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The Senate met yesterday, (Thursday), and a message

from the President, in which he uses the fol-

)wing words :

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ly manifested its will to
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me, that the constitution of 1852 ought to
)e maintained, and then the modification considered as
ndispensable will by no means alter the fundamental basis.

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" In the re-establishment of the Empire the people
finds a guarantee for its rights and a satisfaction to its
just pride.
"This re-establishment is a security for the future,
closing, as it does, the era of revolutions, and consecrating
again the conquests of 1789.
" It satisfies its just pride, because, raising again freely
and deliberately what all Europe thirty-seven years ago
destroyed by force of arms amidst the disasters of the
country, the people nobly revenges its reverses, without
making any victims, without threatening any independ-
ence, and without disturbing the peace of the world."

The senators began to arrive at the Luxembourg about
noon, the Cardinals being the first to make their appear-
ance. They were attired in their robes, and the other
senators wore their full dress, civil or military. The
president of the senate, Prince Jerome Buonaparte,
having taken his seat, ten of the members deposited on
the table a proposal that a senatus consultum should be
prepared, and that an appeal should be made to the
nation to re-establish the Empire ; and the Minister of
State, M. Fould, having declared that he did not oppose
it, the proposal was referred to a special committee, who
are expected to make their report to-morrow, and the
senatus consulturn will be issued on Monday.
The President has done an act of grace by issuing a
decree authorising the payment of the debts of Monseig-
neur Dupuch, the first Bishop of Algeria, amounting to
220,000 francs, about £9,000.
There is a story just now afloat in Paris which gives
rise to ranch scandal against a high Romish ecclesiastic.
It appears that the Countess de M , who was
one of the most rigid and pious ladies of the Faubourg
St. Germain, was left a widow about ten or twelve years
ago, when, inconsolable for her loss, she announced her
intention of retiring to the convent of the Presentation at
Meaux. Here she was visited by the director of the
convent, who undertook to argue ber into resignation,
but after a while she left the convent and took lodgings
in a neighbouring farm-house, where she was assiduously
visited by the director daring the whole of that winter.
In course of time she returned to her residence in Paris,
and maintained a respectable appearance. About four
years since the director died, and specially bequeathed to
her care a little ragged boy, who bad been brought up by
a family of woodmen in the forest of Meaux. The lady,
much to the surprise and mortification of her relatives,
adopted the little savage as her own, and had him placed
under proper tutors, but surprisedegenerated into scandal
when ill-natured friends remarked upon the strange likeness
between the lady and her protege. Alldoubtswere however
set at rest a short time ago, when on the lady's death it
was found that she had bequeathed all her property to her
" beloved son" (the child alluded to), leaving only a life
annuity to her brother. The brother, the Baron de B—,
attacks the will, for though the law in France is lenient to
illegitimate children, the paternity of a priest cannot be
recognised. It is said that overtures have been made to
the baron to compromise the matter, in order to avoid the
scandal against a dignitary of the church.
There was a considerable decline yesterday in the value
of the French funds, but they have slightly rallied this
morning. The weather lately has been very fine, more
like June than November. Business generally is active,
and tradesmen are looking forward to still further improve-
ment under the empire.