The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-02 00:00:00

FOREIGN NEWS.

FRANCE.—The movements of the Emperor and Em-
press still form matter for speculation. It is reported that
the Empress will shortly repair to Triancn, while the Em-
peror makes short excursions to the northern departments
and the camp, which is to be removed from Helfaut to
Boulogne, on the very ground that was occupied by the
famous camp of Napoleon.
On Monday a note from the Russian Government was
presented to M. Drouyn de Lhuys by M. Kisselef. lts
terms amount to an intimation that Russia is willing to ne-
gociate, but upon the condition that all her demands
should be complied with. M. Drouyn de Lhuys showed
the note to M. de Persigny, who instantly set out alone to
St. Cloud, to lay it before the Emperor. The French Go-
vernment is highly indignant.
Monet, ex-Municipal Councillor and Officer of the
National Guard has been convicted at Grenoble of the
murderof Viscount Dampmartin, the Mayor of Uzes, on the
30th of September last, and is sentenced to death. The
circumstance of the murder may be briefly recalled. The
Mayor was shot on the threshold of his own house, at an
early hour of the morning, as he was about to start for
Nismes to meet the (then) President of the Republic. The
characteristics of the proceedings at this trial very strongly
remind one of the notorious Peytel case, so vigorously fol-
lowed out and commented upon by the English writer
Thackeray. Several witnesses saw the assassin fire the
shot and run away, but could not identify his person with
that of Monet. The authorities, therefore, caused Monet
to dress as he was supposed to have dressed on the pre-
sumed occasion of his firing the shot, and compelled him
to discharge a gun, at the same place at the same hour,
and at the same stage of the moon. The hesitating wit-
nesses were then asked whether the " impression" created
by this rehearsal of the scene was that which they felt on
the morning of the murder. Some of them answered in
the affirmative. Two who could not be got to do so were
arrested in Court. Monet has, since his sentence, at-
tempted suicide in a very singular manner. He broke a
bottle of wine, and with the pieces of glass stabbed him-
self in several dangerous places.

ITALY.—Faenza is in a state of siege, in consequence
of the late attempts on the lives of the Governor and
Gonfalioniere of the town. Collins, a Papal functionary,
residing between Faenza and Imola, has been murdered,
together with his wife and family. This circumstance
has rendered the state of siege at Faenza still more strict
than before.
A. letter from Rome, dated July 12, states that the
health of the Pope is becoming more precarious. He is
suffering from a severe attack of asthma and general
debility. The Pope is 61 years of age.
Telegraphic advices from Ancona state that the expor-
tation of grain had been prohibited in the provinces along
the Adriatic.
PRUSSlA.—Accounts from Coburg state that the
reigning Duke has been attacked by the measles, and
that the symptoms are violent. The Duchess is conva-
lescent.
Cholera is advancing upon the Lower Elbe, through
Schleswig. At that place two cases of a mild character
have been declared to the police, and people are prepared
for a sharp visit.
AUSTRIA.—For some days the Austrian journals have
teemed with accounts of a conspiracy against the life of
the Emperor. Some persons of mark were among those
arrested at Vienna, namely, a son of a Councillor of the
Empire, two sons of M. Trombella, end members of a
great Italian family. However, latest accounts say that
the plot is reduced, on inquiry, to an illegal Students'

Union.
Troops, consisting for the most part of light infantry,
left Vienna on the 18th, to form part of a corps of obser.
cation on the frontier of Turkey.

DENMARK.—An active exchange of notes is taking
place between the Cabinets of London and Copenhagen,
relative to the Eastern question, England being, it is
said, desirous to persuade Denmark to conclude a treaty
with her for all possible eventualities. The cholera con-
tinues to make alarming ravages at Copenhagen.
NORWAY.—Another "free local synod" has been
held, this time in Borgesyssel. The proceedings were
most interesting, and drew numerous hearers. A petition
to the King was adopted, praying His Majesty to assemble
a general Synod of the whole Norwegian Church.