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

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bourg. The number of the inscriptions.
Egalit6, Fraternise," on public buildings, which ha
removed, is about a thousand.

A grand ball was given for the first time at the Tuile-
ries on Saturday week, to upwards of 4,000 people. The
whole of the State apartments were thrown open, incre-
dible efforts having been made to get them into some.
thing like order. A credit of £B,OOO was opened for this
purpose, and the President went himself I ; Lur.ne tl,e wepk

to urge on the preparations. Louis Napoleon previously
gave a grand dinner at the Elysee, and proceeded to the
ball about nine o'clock. His two cousins, the "Marchio-

nours ; the former opened the ball with the Tuscan Mi-
nister, Prince Poniatowski. Among the English present
were Mr. Jerningham, First Secretary, (who represented
the Marquis of Normanby), Lord Brougham, Lord A.
Churchill, Lord Ranelagh, Lord A. Fitzclarence, in his
full naval uniform, Marquis of Douglass, Lord Halibur-
ton, Sir W. Tonkin, &c.

A USTRI AN CRUELTY.—The Vienna correspondent of
the Times says :—" A circumstance which has occurred
here has excited general and intense indignation. A young
man of 20, the shopman of a laceman of this city, having
been sent into a suburb on Monday last, reached the open
space between the two gates of the Burg just as the
Emperor returned with his suite from a grand review.
Eager to see the brilliant cortege, the young man placed
himself in the front rank of the dense crowd which was
assembled, and neither took off his hat nor removed the
cigar from his mouth as the monarch passed. Being of
a t,ll, gawky figure he attracted the notice of Count
Grime, the Emperor's Adjutant-General, who was riding
up, gave hiin in charge to a gendarme who was near, adding,
I will see that he is punished in an exemplary manner.'
Tlp offender was taken to the police-house,' and strong
in his innocence, neglected to take the hint which was
given him by the military judge. " You did not Flea

fort, will succeed to the post which has become vac

the resignation of the Marquis of Normanby.
Mr. Algernon Massingbred has retired from the Blues,
in consequence of an intimation he received that his
attention to Kossuth, in placing his mansion in Eaton-
square at his disposal, as well as accompanying him in his
progress through this country, was by no means befitting
the position he held in the Household Troops of her
Majesty.

The "Earl of Derby, as leader of the country party, en-
tertained at dinner on Saturday, at h's mansion in St.
James's-square, the following distinguished members of
that party : —The Earl of Lonsdale, the Earl of Hardwicke,
the Earl of Eglinton, the Earl of Malmesbury. Lord Lynd-
hurst, Lord Redesdale, Mr. Disraeli, Mr. Herries, Sir F.
Thesiger, and Mr. Walpole.
The grand dinner of the noble earl to the Protectionist
members of the House of Lords was to take place last
evening.

CHANGES IN THE CABINET.—Lard Broughton has re-
signed the position which ho held as President of the
Board of Control. He will be succeeded by Mr. Fox
Maule. As the Indian charter is about to lapse, it was
necessary that the work of re,onstruttion should be placed
in the hands of an active man of busineqs, and thus it !s

that Mr. F. Maule has received the appointment is ques-
tion.—Sunday paper.
Several of the leaders of the country party were enter-
tained at Burghley House, Stamford, during the past
week, by the Marquis of Exeter, previous to the com-
mencement of the Parliamentory session. Amongst those
present were the Earl of Derby, the Duke of Montrose,
the Earl of Malmesbury, the Marquis of Salisbury, Lord
Burleigh, Mr. Disraeli, Mr. Herries, Major Beresford,
Mr. Newdegate, Capt. Vyso, and Sir Charles Knightly.
The Countess of Derby and Lady Burleigh were amongst
the visitors at Burghley. The party assembled on Thurs-
day and separated Yesterday.—Standard, Tuesday,

lb LU ue nopea that, by the faithful discharge of their
duties, the evils too often occurring from the capricious
use of lay patronage may be as far as possible mitigated,
and one of the most revolting of Church scandals—the
sale of presentations—checked.—Shropshire Conservative.

FRANCE ON THE ROAD TO CONVERSION.—I don't
know whether any of the religious societies in England
are making efforts to convert the French ; but during
some months past an extraordinary large number of reli-
gious tracts, translated into French, have been printed,
and every week new translations are being brought out by
a dozen at a time. The number of each struck off is
very considerable, and the greater number of each impres-
sion is sent into the provinces—chiefly the south—where
Protestants are very numerous.—Corresporiderit of the
Literary Gazette,

ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC COMMUNICATION via BRITISB
NORTH AMERlCA.—Captain Synge, R. E., at the last
meeting of the Geographical Society, read an interesting
paper upon the subject, in which he claims, upon ten
grounds, the superiority for the British North American
over the Central American, and Cape of Good Hope, or
Indian routes. He argues that it would be more speedy;
that the position of the route, with regard to trade winds
and great circle sailing, increases its advantages to sailing
vessels, and to auxiliary screw-steamers beyond measure
that it is more salubrious, and more comprehensive, 3.000
miles of the distance being at once annihilated by electric
telegraph, and Sydney, New Zealand, China and Jspan.
being virtually brought within 8,600, 8,058 7,490 ann.
6,090 miles respectively. Inviolability and connexion are
also brought forward as substantial reasons, as well as the
effects of the proposed route on British America, on
colonization in general, and on the maritime power of
England, which, Capt. Sy ngesays, are obviously exclusive!y
the characteristics of the proposed British American route-
They are not geographical in their details. but are yet e 5
sential to a complete representation of its feat,"'
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