The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-09 00:00:00

FRANCE

The Paris papers of Tuesday are filled With 'Monday's
debates in the Chamber of Deputies, The principal
speeches were those of M. Gamier Pages and M. Billout ;
the former violently against ministers, and the latter of
the contrary character. The ministerial supportersdenied
that any interruption of the'good understanding with En-
gland had taken place.- M. Gilizot referred to the temPer
in which the English Parliament bad discussed the Spanish
• marriages, but entered into no lengthened statement.
The disturbances respecting the price of corn were sub-
siding steadily, but had not been quite extinguished in
some-of the departments. . •
The Duchess de Montpensier, noatteen years of age,
gives promise of an increase to the family of Louis
Philippe.
The price of flour and wheat has diminished in Paris.
At a late trial in Paris, M. -Alexandre Dumas, the well-
known French litte'rateur, said that in- August he was
publishing five feuilletons, in five different journals.
Three horses, three servants, and the railway, scarcely I
sufficed to bring him the proof-sheets. .
A correspondent of the Atlas states that Madame Lftf-
farge is about to be liberated. The matrimonial agent who
brought about the unfortunate match has the hardihood
to boast of it in his advertisements ; and on Tuesday last;
there appeared in all the Paris papers an announcement
from a rival establishment (that of Madame St. Marc)
setting forth that she has to dispose of " a young English
orphan, heiress to a splendid fortune !"
-POPERY ix FRANCE.--L-We are indebted to the Church
and State Gazette for directing public attention to a re-
markable occurrence in the modem history of Popery—a
curious piece of priestcraft which has just been exhibited
in France. The disastrous whirlwind at Monville and
Malannay had reduced some hundreds of the survivors to
the utmost destitution, and in short to the verge of actual
starvation. Under these circumstances the city of Rouen
alone contributed for their relief the munificent Sum of
'10,400 francs. This fund was placed by the charitable
citizens at the disposal of a special committee of ecclesi-
astics to carry out their benevolent intentions in detail.
The clerical committee, thus invested with the tempting
trust, proceeded to administer it according to the follow-
ing characteristic, resolution :—" Sleino• that- among the
victims of the above-mentioned carimit'y there are great
numbers of dead, for whom hitherto nothing has been
done that nevertheless it is but sheer justice that these
should. partake of the charity of the faithful, and that
prayers should be offered up for the welfare of their souls ;
that thereby all the victims would benefit in exact pro-
portion to their wants by the succour accorded to them ;
and this idea ought to be the more welcotned, seeing that
there exist resources more than sufficient for the aid of
those unfortunate persons who have survived," &c. The
resolution concludes by providing, that, "in order that All
the victims mar profit according to their necessities," the
entire sum of 10,400 francs, raised at Rouen,..should be
invested in the public funds • that one-half of the interest
resulting from the same shall be employed in celebrating
low and high masses, at the rate of a franc and a-half for
each of the former, and forty francs for each of the latter ;
and that the other half of the interest should be distri-
buted among the surviving victims, on condition that when
*they should cease to need it, this half, as well as the other,
shall then be applied for the celebration of masses for the
dead. It would not be easy to conceive a more aggravated
instance of Popish rapacity.