The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-01-05 00:00:00

THE LITERPOOL STANDARD.

FOREIGN LVPELLIGENCE.

SPEECH OF THE KING OF THE' FRENCH ON
OPENING THE FRENCH CHAMBERS.
PARIS, TUESDAY.
" Gentlemen of the Chamber of Peers and the Chamber. of
Deputies.
" In seeing you again assembled around me, I am happy to
congratulate myself with you upon the situation of our country.
Its prosperity increases every day ; its internal tranquillity ap-
pears henceforth beyond the reach of attempt to disturb it, and
ensures its power abroad. The measures that you adopted in
your last session have attained the end that we in concert pro-
posed to ourselves; they have cousclidated public order and our
institutions.
" I was deeply affected by the sentiments which France ma-
nifested towards myself and my family, when, at a moment
which is painful to remember, Providence deigned to preserve
to me a life for ever devoted to the service of my country.
" An expedition, undertaken for the, security of our poases-
sious in Africa, has been conducted and accomplished as was
becoming to the honour of France. It is with emotion that I
have beheld the eldest of my family share the hardshipS and
dangers of our brave soldiers
" 1 have reason to congratulate myself on the state of our re-
lations with the European Powers. Our intimate union with
Great Britain is drawn closer every (lay; and everything in•
spires me with confidence that the peace we enjoy will nut be
disturbed.
" My Government has continued to take, upon our frontier
next Spain, the measures best calculated to fulfil faithfully the
clauses of the treaty of April 28, 1834. I offer up ardent wishes
for the internal pacification of the Peninsula, and for the couso-
lidation of the throne of Queen Isabella 11.
" I regret that the treaty of July 4, 1831, with the United
States of America, has not been able yet to receive its complete
execution. The King of Great Britain has offered to me, as
well as to the United States, his friendly mediation. I have ac-
cepted it; and you will participate in my desire that this differ-
ence may be terminated iu a manner equally honourable to two
great nations.
" The situation of the finances is satisfactory ; the public re-
venue is increasing by the sole effect of the general prosperity.
The financial bills will be presented within a few days to the
Chamber of Deputies.
"The bills which have already been presented or announced
to you, will likewise be submitted to your examination, as well
as those which a recent legislation reserved for the delibera-
tions of the present session.
" I hope, Gentlemen, that the moment has arrived for France
to gather the fruits of her prudence aryl courage. Enlightened
by the past, let us profit by au experience so dearly purchased;
let us apply ourselves to calm all minds, to reuder our laws per-
fect, and to protect by judicious measures all the interests of a
nation, which, after so many storms, holds up to the civilized
world the salutary example of noble moderation, the out)/ pledge
of durable success. The care as its repose, its liberty, and its
greatness, is my chief duty, and its happinets will be my dearest
reward."
After the kiaekbad ceased, and silence was restored, the
Home Minister reedlike oath, and the Deputies repeated, " I
swear." His Majesty then retired.
HOLLAND.
The General Steam Navigation Company's packet, the Lord
Itie/eille, arrived in London on Friday, with the Dutch mail of
Wednesday, and another vessel brought on the same day a
Hainburgh mail and papers to the 26th ult. Both the Dutch
and German journals allude to the severity of the storms of the
19th and 20th. Much damage has been done to some of the
dikes of Holland, and it is said that such an inclement state of
the weather has not been experienced on that coast since 1807.
The First Chamber of -the States-General has agreed to the
bills for suppressing sedition, for affording relief to-agriculture,
and to other bills which had passed the Second Chamber. We
insert the following extracts :
" AMSTERDAM, Dec. 27.—A letter from Frankfort says that
the Senate, in order to remove every obstacle to the accession
to the German Commercial Union, "has, with the assent of the
legislative body, sent a senator to England for the purpose of
annulling the treaty of commerce lately concluded with that
power, to which Great Britain, it is supposed, will make no ob-
jection, since Frankfort would afford it but little advantage
when entirely surrounded by the Prussian custom-houses.
" DICCENIBMit 29.—The Court of Assizes has prmounced its
sentence on the fourteen persons tried for the excesses of the 3d

of July. •
"Pierre Ronelle, guilty of rebellion, committed by more than
20 persons, armed, and of having encouraged others to take
part, was sentenced to stand in the pillory for a quarter of an
hour, and eight years' imprisonment. Eight others were con-
demned to similar punishments—i. e., to stand in the pillory,
and to imprisonment for 5,6, or 8 years; two of them also sen-
tenced to be branded in the neck, for wounding police officers
in the execution of their duty; and five were acquitted.
" We learn that by order of the Attorney-General in the
High Court of Justice 'at the Hague, copies have been sent to
all the officers of justice of his Majesty's resolution with respect
to jetitions addressed to him by persons who declare that they
have seceded from the established reformed church ; the officers
are directed to take care that public order and tranquillity are
not disturbed by these seceders.