The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-02-03 00:00:00

FOREIGN -NEWS.

FRANCE.

On Monday, the names of the parties nominated sena-
tors, were published in the Afoniteur. - Of Ms 72 mem.
• ,

tidrs 16 are generals and three
_vice admirals ;

38 of the

now senators were members of the ex-Legislative As-
sembly, and with few exceptions distinguished themselves
hs"the newly created merit of silence; only eight of the
Senate olive been peers of France. According to the con-,
stitutiono'cardinals, marshals of France, and admirals are
memberstof the Senate by right.
By arffither decree Prince Jerome Bonaparte. Field
Marshal of France, is nominated President of the Senate.
M. Meynard, senator, First Vice-President. Vice-Pre-
4ideuts, MM. 'Drouyn de l'Huys. Troploni, and General.
Baragnay d'Hilliers. General d'Hautpoul, Grand Re-
ferendary ; Lacrosse, Secretary.
Another decree names the sections of the Councils of
• Seates. r MM. Maillard, Rouher, Delangle, Magne,
Adeafial to Blanc, and M. de Parie are appointed Presi-
dents of the six sections of the Council.
The salaries of the members of this body are fixed as
follows :—The Vim- President of the Council of State,
80.004 francs ; the Presidents of Sections, 35,000 francs ;
the Cou:lcillors of State, 25.000 francs; the Masters of
Requests of the First Class, 10.000 francs ; the Masters of
' Requers of the Second Class, 6,000 francs; the Auditors
of- the First Class, 2.000 francs ; the Secretary General of
h'e Council of State, 15,000 francs; the Auditors of the
Secant Class receive no salary.
The Debats announces that the elections of the mem.
hers of the legislative body area definitively fixed for Sun.
day and Monday, the 15th and 16th of February. No
further particulars as to the course intended to be pursued
with respect to the Orleans property have transpired ; hut
the' testamentary executors of Louis Philippe—the Duke
.re Montmorency, the Count de Montalivet, and MM.
nupin, Bvlagne-Barris, and Scribe—have published in a
Belgian paper a solemn protest against the confiscation.
Letters from Marseilles state that the number of the
arrested is so great that the cultivation of the fields is left
neglected. The greater part of the insurgents were field
labourers, who were generally employed in the heaviest
work, and whom it is difficult to replace. In many places
the olives rot on the trees for want of hands to collect
them. Two thousand political transports will be shipped
in afew days to Algeria.

The Minister of the Interior has sent a circular to the
Prefects directing them to set at liberty such political
prisoners as they may consider can be restored to their
families without danger to society. Four political refu-
qees from Geneva, who entered France on the sth of
December, and had assassinated a gendarme who at.
tempted to arrest them, have seen sentenced by court-
martial, at Lyons, one to hard labour for life, one for
twenty years, and one to death. One was acquitted.
' The Moniteur announces that the Prince President has
received by the hands of Mr. Jernineham, Charge
d'Affaires, the answer of the Queen of England to the
letters of notification respecting the new powers confided
by the French nation to the Prince, and also a reply of
the King of the Belgians presented by M. Rogier, his
Envoy Extraordinary.

The resignation of M. Dupin, as Attorney-General to
the Court of Cessation, is accepted, and he is replaced by
M. !Mangle, ex-Attorney-General to the Court of
Appeal.

BELGIUM.

The Bulletin Francais, a journal published at Brussels,
has been seized by the Government.
It is stated that this has ensued on account of a formal
complaint addressed by the French Government to this
Government, wherein the violent attacks of the Bulletin
Francais against the President of the French Republic
are complained of.

♦
AMERICA.

,The American steamship Franklin arrived off Cowes,
Isle of Wight. at ten o'clock on Wednesday night, and,
after landing the English mails, proceeded on her voyage
to Havre. The Franklin has on freight specie to the
value of 340.000 dollars, of which 100,000 dollars, in
American gold. were for England.

The Britigh North Amer(Can mail steamer Asia, arrived
et New York, on 16th ultimo, at 4 p.m.

KoPuth was at Harrisburgh, where a grand dinner bad
been given to him. He bad been received by the State
Legislature of Pennsylvania, in the midst of the greatest
confusion, caused by the irruption into the Senate-house
of an immense crowd of the lower orders, who blocked
up•the centre of the building, whilst a number of ladies
persisted in occupying the seats of the senators. A ru-
mour was prevalent at Washington that. three United.
States? frigates had been ordered to be prepared for depar-
ture to the North of Europe.