The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-02-22 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1853.

with which the Times recurs to the worn-out theme
of Frail and Flewker. The Liberal party have
much to forget, much to repent, much to undo,
and much to amend, before they make the Derby
committee a subject of congratulation.—Dublin
Evening Mail. -----
SIR CHARLES WOOD. The abject, though
shuffling, explanation which Sir Charles Wood had
to make, by letter through his colleagues, to the
Imperial Parliament, would be simply ridiculous,
but for the untoward fact that the Queen and the
country are disagreeably compromised by his in-
discretion, Sir Charles Woofs personal dignity
is a matter, we take it, of exceedingly small con-
But it is a matter of serious regret and an-
noyance, that a Cabinet Minister should have put
it in the power of a Foreign Potentate, and that
Potentate a "parvenu," to demand a humiliating
explanation at the hands of the British Government,
the Government of Queen Victoria. The peccavi
epistle of the blustering President of the Board of
Trade is paraded in the columns of the )ioniteur,
as a humiliation inflicted on the perfide Albion; but
it will hardly be considered a sufficient set-off
against Waterloo.

Six JAMES GRAHAM.—The Irish Government
has gone out of its way to commute the sentences
of imprisonment pronounced upon two students of
Galway College for an assault, arising out of their
disrespectful and disloyal conduct in keeping on
their hats and hissing at the performance of the
National Anthem, " God save the Queen !" Such
an intimation is of a piece with the proposed prose-
cution of the soldiers engaged at the Six-Mile
Bridge in keeping the Queen's peace, by the Law
Officers of the Queen's Government. The whole
proceeding is worthy of a Cabinet, a member of
which has dared to assure a Radical mob, that
"although he is fresh from the Royal presence,"
they need not be afraid of contamination, because
he brings with him "a clean bill of health." Is
there no honourable member, by the way, that will
make Sir James eat up that dirty speech of his
across the table of the House ?—John Bull.

FOREIGN NEWS.

FRANCE.—The opening of the Legislative Bodies
took place on Monday, last week, in the palace of the Tui-
leries. The. members of the Senate had previously as-
sembled at the Palace of the Luxembourg, and proceeded
from there in carriages, escorted by detachments of
Lancers, to the Tuileries. The members of the Legislative
Corps also previously met in their chamber and proceeded
with a similar train to the Palace. The members of the
Council of State left the Palace nearly at the same time.
The ceremony took place in the same apartment—the
Salle des Alar6chaux—where the Chambers were opened
in February last, and with the same formalities as on that
occasion. The Emperor was accompanied by the Empress.
Beyond the members of the Senate, of the Legislative
Corps, the Council of the State, the Judges, the other
functionaries of State, and the members of the Diplo-
matic Corps, there were fewstrangers present. The speech
of the Emperor is as follows
" Senators and Deputies,—A year since I called you to-
gether, in this place, to inaugurate the Constitution pro-
mulgated in virtue of the powers which the people had
conferred on me. Since that period tranquillity has not
been disturbed. The law, in resuming its sway, has al-
lowed the return to their homes of the majority of the
men who were made the subject of necessary severity.
The riches of the nation have increased to such a point
that that part of our floating capital, the value of which
can be estimated, amounts to about two milliards. The
activity of labour developes itself in every branch of in-
dustry. The same progress is being realized in Africa,
where our army has just distinguished itself by heroic suc-
cesses. Tho form of the government has been changed,
without any shock, by the free suffrages of the people.
Great works have been undertaken, without the creation
of any new tax, and without a loan. Peace has been
maintained without servility. All the Powers have recog-
nized the New Government. France has now institutions
which can defend themselves, and the stability of which
do not depend on the life of one man.

" These results have not cost great efforts, because they
were in the minds and for the interest of all. To those who
would doubt their importance, I will reply that scarcely 14
months ago France was delivered up to the hazards of anar-
chy. To those who may regret that a wider field has not
been given to liberty, I will reply, that liberty has never
aided iu founding a durable political edifice ; it crowns it
when it has been consolidated by time. Let us, besides,
not forget that the immense majority of the country has
confidence in the present, and faith in the future; there
still remain incorrigible individuals, who, forgetful of their
own experience, of their past terrors, and of their own dis-
appointments. obstinately persist in paving no attpnttot, to
the national will, deny the reality of facts, and in the
midst of a sea, which grows more and more calm, call for
tempests in which they would be the first that would be
swallowed up. These occult proceedings of the different
parties serve no purpose, but to show their weakness, and
the Government, instead of being disturbed at them, only
thinks of governing France and tranquillizing Europe.
For this double object it has the firm determination to di-
minish expenses and armament, and to devote to useful
purposes all the resources of the country to keep up with
good faith international relations, in order to prove to the
most incredulous that when France expresses her formal
intention to remain at peace it may be believed, for she is
strong enough not to deceive any one.

dier ; and many foreigners, from instinct or sympathy,
lend their aid for the defence of the capital. We consider-
the triumph secure in the first irstance, but should the
rebels be allowed to retreat to the north and form a junc-
tion with Urquiza, it may occasion a serious complica-
tion. We have very recent nets from the capital of
Paraguay. Sir Charles Hotham had arrived there, but
matters were not going on vary smoothly with the foreign
diplomatists. It is reported today that a son of the
President of Paraguay has arrived here, supposed to be on
a special mission. We should not be surprised to hear
that the Paraguayans embrace the cause of BuenosAyres.
Their commercial interests may soggest and would amply
justify that policy.
"An official proclamation has just been issued, an-
nouncing the approach to the sty of Colonel Pedro Rosas
y Belgrano, at the bead of five thousand men, in support
of the provisional government. On the receipt of this in-
telligence, General Pacheco sailed from the city and dis-
lodged the besiegers from tie bridge, putting them to
flight with considerable loss ,n killed and wounded, and
capturing some munitions of par."

The British Packet of Janiary 1, in its monthly retro-
spect, says :—" With the exception of powder, ammuni-
tion, equipments, and the absolute necessaries of life,
nothing has been in demand and nothing consumed. As
a business month, Decemter may be blotted from the
calendar."

IRELAND.

CARLOW ELECTION.—A. petition has been presented
by the electors of Carlow against the return of Mr. Alex.
ander, on the ground of bribery, intimidation, and illegal
majority.