The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-01 00:00:00

FOREIGN NEWS.

FRANCE.—The Monteur announces that His Majesty
the Emperor has received the reply of Queen Victoria to
the Emperor's letter announcing his marriage as also a
similar answer from the King of Belgium.
The King of Wurtemberg has returned a reply through
his Minister at Paris, to the notification of the Emperor's
marriage. The Austrian Minister has presented letters
from the Emperor, notifying the decease of the Archduke
Regnier Joseph. The Emperor goes into mourning for
nine days. The Papal Nuncio has presented letters from
his Holiness.

A decree of the Emperor has just regularized the pro-
motion of the Marquis de Pastoret to the rank of Grand
Officer of the Legion of Honour. The nomination was
made in 1830, bat events have prevented its being carried
into effect. This is the same Marquis de Pastoret who
was till lately the Count de Chambord's.agent in Prance,
and who, though two months ago he addressed a letter to
the head of the family of Bourbon, has since gone over
to the powers that be, in consideration of a seat in the
Senate, a salary of 30,000 f. a-year, and a rosette at the
button-hole of his coat.

General Gemeau, late Commander-in-Chief of the army
in Rome, has returned to Paris. Thirty-six military pri-
soners have just effected their escape- from Fort Lamalgue,
near Toulon.

According to a return, published in the Monaeur, the
receipts of the customs duties and the indirect taxes dur-
ing the last month amounted to 8,945,549 f., being 1,344,800 f
less than in the corresponding month of 18524 and 734,434 f.
more than in January, 1851.

It is said to be in the contemplation of the Emperor and
Empress to make a journey in the spring to the south of
France, and particularly to the Pyrenees, from Bagneres-
de-Bigorre to Bayonne and Biarritz. Louis Napoleon is
at this moment hurrying forward the works which were
commenced some years since at the Chateau of Pau. The
Emperor, who takes a lively interest in everything which
reminds him of his mother, wishes to visit the places
through which she so often passed, such as Luz, St. Sau-
veur, Cauteretz, and Gavarnie, all those A picturesque
mountains which, it may almost be said, are no longer
France, and are scarcely Spain. The Empress herself,
since 1845, has almost always passed the summer in the
Pyrenees with her mother, and will be glad to revisit
them.

In the Council of Ministers the wish of the Emperor
was adopted in principle for opening a universal exhibition
in 1854, to which all countries will be invited to send their
productions. The exhibition will take place in the Crystal
Palace in the Champs Elys6es, which will be constructed
as rapidly as possible.
Under the decree of the 22nd of January, which con-
fiscated the Orleans property, estimated at 10,000,000 f.,
the Emperor has determined that 3,000,000 f. out of that
sum shall be employed in improving the dwellings of the
working-classes.

The Paris Presse has a notice of the assurances given in
the German papers, that the British Government will be
called on to expel the foreign refugees who have abused
hospitality by conspiring against friendly states, for the
purpose of expressing its doubts that England will swerve
from her old feelings on the right of asylum to refugees.;

ITALY.—Six more of the insurgents have been hung
at Milan, making in all thirteen that have been put to
death. Marshal Radetzky has placed the whole of Lom-
bardy under the strictest martial law, from a conviction
that the inhabitants, " with a few laudable exceptions,
allow themselves to he intimidated by the infamous revo-
lutionary party, instead of openly and loyally making
cause with the imperial government."—The military au-
thorities, at Milan, believing that Mazzini was still in
town, have taken the most rigorous measures to prevent
him from escaping. They even opened the coffins which
were being carried to consecrated ground, to assure them-
selves that Mazzini was not concealed in one of them.
Orders had been issued to the householders to suspend, for
the purpose of lighting the town, a lamp from the first
floor of every fourth house, which is to remain burning
from six o'clock in the evening tntil daylight. In case of
disturbance the householders are to close their doors, and
every man found in the streets is to be treated as con •
cerned in the affray. The inhabitants are forbidden to
appear on the bastions from six o'clock in the evening till
seven in the morning.
A letter from Turin, of the 21st February, says :—lt is
believed that the visit of M. Massimo d'Azeglio to Lon-
don is connected with the London refugees, and that he
has been despatched at the instance of the Queen, who
still remains in the Tyrol. The government continued
to expel from Piedmont the most dangerous of the refu-
gees. The loan of two millions would be effected with
the house of Rothschild at Paris.
All the natives of Ticino, resident in Lombardy, have
been ordered to quit the kingdom : the workmen. in
twenty-four hours, landed proprietors and othersh. in three
suffer by this measure.
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steamer had brought news
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which
sailors belonging to an English corvette, there, being on
shore, had cried out " Vive Rabe ." and had been
the earnest protestations
in-
stantly arrested by the Austrians. Some stated that,. at
Austrians had set the sailors at liberty, but others, who
of the English captain, the
thought themselves better informed, declare that the
Austrians have refused to release them, and that in con-
sequenee the corvette had sailed to bring the English
squadron to support the honour of its flag.
The Pope of Rome
eight cardinals will he nominated,
will, on the 4th of March, hold a
consistory, at which