The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-31 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.
(From the Private Correspondent of the Standard,)
PARIS, AuG-27.

THE FESTIVALS AT PARIS. •
The present of a "sWord" to the young Count of Paris by
the municipality of this city might have passed unperceived,
but for the very extraordinary speech of. the prefect of
the department. According to his speech, it would have
been much better to have presented the baby boy with
a popgun, a rabbit skin, or a bag of marbles. Or, it
the municipal authorities of Paris would lay out 35,000
francs, it would have been better to have purchased a. model
of a steam engine, or of steam carriages, or of looms, mer-
chant brigs, and so forth. But to present a sword of 35,000
francs value to the Count de Paris, at the same time telling
him that it is never to be used, and that he is to maintain
peace at all prices, is too absurd and flagrant a contradiction
not to be noticed by so witty a people as the French. The
Journal des Debate feels indeed the ludicrous nature of such.a
gift upon such terms, and, therefore, although the good bur-
gesses of Paris did tell the young Count de Paris and his
grandfather that his sword from the city of Paris was not to
be used by the infant heir, either as Charlemagne or as Na-_
poleon used theirs, yet the Debate contains the following ex-
planation of it, supposes the municipal authorities meant to
say; at the same time admitting that they did not very
clearly express their. meaning. The Debuts gives the mean-
ing us follows :
" Gardons Ia paix, mais soy-ons prets &la guerre! Point
de paix ;1 tout prix Voici one arose : c'est pour coinbattre !
et si jamais vous ekes oblige de marcher a la frontiers, oubtiez
la harangue muuicipale de 1838; mais rappelez-vous Charle-
magne et tbchez d'imiter Napoleon !"
The Journal des Debate contains to-day the following war-
like conclusion to this pacific harangue of the municipality
of Paris. It is important, as it is the language of the go-
vernment, and as it indicates the possibility of a war with
Switzerland and with Russia:—
" France has drawn the sword ten times since the revolu-
tion of July--at Ancona, at Antwerp, at Lisbon, at Maskara,
at the Shikak, at Constantine; and to-day it draws its sword
in Mexico, and perhaps to-morrow it wilt do so in the East,
or on the Alps. We wish for peace, and vet in the situation
apparently the calmest in which the world was ever placed,
we encounter some elements ot war everywhere. The reason
is, that war is at the bottom of most of the questions which
still divide the world, and which is agitating, in the silence
of the cabinet. We desire that it may not break out; and
we desire that France shall not provoke the conquemors of
1815, that the treaties of that epoch may be respected, and
that the limits of the Rhine may not be passed. But the
present moment contains germs of political misunderstanding
which the future may of a sudden develope. Watch, then
ministers of the King! Soldiers, generals, be ready ! Heirs
to the throne, forget not that the army is the only defence of
a country which has no longer a northern frontieri! Count
of Paris, remember in twenty years that when the city of
Paris presented you with a sword, it was that, some day or
other, if necessary, you should show its point."
This warlike apostrophe to the young Count of Paris is
in harmony with the " peace at all prices" opinious which
surrounded his royal cradle.
The King of the French yesterday received the peers who
were not presented to him on the previous day; the deputies
present at Paris, about 100; a great number of generals and
functionaries and officers of various grades. The King, see-
ing amongst those present a lieutenant of the chasseurs of
Africa, with a leg amputated, presented him to the minister
of finance and said, " He is a biave.man who has lost his
military prospects. I recommend him to you ; he can still
serve his country usefully."
The Prefect of the department of Seine and Oise was ad-
mitted at the head of the municipal council, officers of the
National Guards, and mayors of the department-
At two o'clock the Marshal Lobau, Commandant of the
National Guards of Paris and of the Department of the
Seine, had the honour of being admitted to the King with
his staff, the General Jacqueminot at its head. The Marshal
made a speech, and the King replied.
Then followed the officers of the 13 legions of Paris and of
four legions of the environs, and the deputations were so
numerous that they took till half-past three in the afternoon
before they had ceased to file off.
The Municipal Council of Paris has voted 175,000 f. for the
fetes, which are to he celebrated in Pari3.
The Minister of War has ordered 33.000 f. to be distributed
among old worn-out soldiers, and the widows of soldiers, de-
prived of tho means of existence.
The Archbishop of Paris addressed the following letter to
the curates of his diocese, which is the best reply to the
qnodlihets and diatribes of the Quolidienne :
" Paris, Aug. 23.

" Monsieur le Crue,—By his letter, dated the 25th August,
the King has expressed to me his desire that a solemn Te
Deum should be sung, as well in the metropolitan church, as
in other parishes of the diocese, to render thanks for the
birth of a prince, his grandson, who has received with state
the title of Count of Paris, and in the Catholic Church, by
holy baptism, that of a Christian, a child of. God, and an in-
heritor of the kingdom of heaven. Consequently, the Te
Deum will be chaunted on Tuesday next, the 28th inst., at
two o'clock in the afternoon, and in the other parochical
churches of the city and country on the Sunday following, at
the close of the grand mass. On that day will be recited at
the parochial mass the orations indicated below.
"Receive, M. le Cure, the assurance of my sincere
attachment,
" HYACINTHE, Archbishop of Paris."

•
The Min Sens says, the official notification of the birth of
the Count de Paris has been sent to the Duke d'Angouleine
and the Duchess de Berri, through the medium of the Aus-
trian and Neapolitan Ambassadors, and that the former of
these diplomatists, in consenting to undertake the task of
makieg this notification, declared, at the same time, that he
did not consider himself as performing an act of diplomacy iu
so doing, but only one of respectful deference to the person-
ages concerned in it.
The King has ordered two days' pay to be distributed to.all
the sub-officers, soldiers, and sailors of the army and navy,
from the privy purse, on occasion of the birth of the Count de
Paris.

A decree for liberating all members of the National Guard
confined for offences of discipline committed previous to the
birth-day of the Count de Paris is, it is said, about to be issued.