The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-12-04 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

FRANCE.

The French Assembly has rejected, by a large majority,
the proposition of Colonel Chaurat for the sale of the
crown jewels; deeming it, no dolfbt, inexpedient to dis-
pose of the trappings of monarchy, tiil it is more satisfac-
torily ascertained that France can afford to dispense with
monarchy itself.

A portion of the expeditionary army, which is ill lodged
at Rome, has been recalled by the French Government.

The Grand Duke of Tuscany has published an amnesty.
The exceptions are pretty numerous, and admit the escape
of none but the smallest fry of political offenders.
The Emperor of Austria has returned to Vienna from
his visit to Prague, much gratified by the reception he
met with from his Boheitian subjects.
M. Pierre Bonaparte and M. de Rovigo, fought a duel
with swords on Thursday week, when the former was
vopunded in the left side and wrist. It was proposed that
pursuant to agreement, the combat should be continued
with swords exchanged for the sabre. 1' T"

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would not agree to this, and wanted to have pistols, w
M. de Rovigo refusing, the affair terminated. Unon Sun-
day, again, another duel took place between M. Pierre
Bonaparte and M. Adrien de la Valette, principal editor
of the Assemblee Nationale. The weapons, this time,
were pistols. After firing a shot each at thirty paces, the
affair terminated. In consequence of the frequent duels
arising out of debates in the Assembly, it is said that the
Attorney-General will demand authority to prosecute. _

Accounts from the north of France record, recent falls of
snow, and other signs of a severe winter.

A new reformer has risen up in the Romish Church in
Prance, in the person of an Abbe Chantome, who has
addressed a petition to the Pope for a variety of ecclesi-
astical reforms.

A letter from Rome of the 20th states that the return of
the Pope is indefinitely postponed

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The Hull papers announce that the navigation of the
Elbe is partly closed by ice. Goods may yet, it is believed,
be landed at Gluckstadt.
According to the Medical Times, 1
discovered on the American prairies, a plant
property of pointing north and south, and has g
name of sylphium laciniatum.
The screw-auxiliary packet-ship Sarah Sands. leaves
New York for San Francisco on the 10th instant. She is
engaged to run for a term of years between Panama and
San Francisco in connexion with a line from New York to
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actually in progress an invention, which, when completed,
as he solemnly and seriously alleges, will enable him to
cross the Atlantic Ocean in less than four days.
The Standard of Tuesday frightened people from their
propriety by an announcement in large type of the re-
ceipt, by electric telegraph, of the news of the abdication
of the King of Prussia in favour of the Prince Royal.
There is not the slightest confirmation of the news.
AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA.—The reported rupture between
Austria and Prussia turns out to be a false alarm. The
Berlin State Gazette gives it an official contradiction, by
declaring, upon authority, that Austria had not protested
against the meeting of the parliament at Erfurt, in De-
cember.

THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.—The native population is
rapidly diminishing. Four-fifths of the population have
disappeared since the first visit of Captain Cook, a period
of seventy years, and about one-sixth of the remnant have
died within the last year. The present population of the

Was. FANNY KEMBLE.—We perceive that
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