The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-05-22 00:00:00

FRANCE

The elections occupy the attention of the Parisian pub-
lic, to the exclusion of almost every other subject. In
the returns from the country, the Moderates are in a ma-
jority of 3to 1. In reference to the returns from Paris,
nothing certain is known. M. Lacave Laplagne, formerly
minister of finance, died of gout on Sunday evening week.
He had just been returned a representative for Gers.
The total number of election returns in France re.
ceived up to Saturday night amounted to 667, of which
476 belong to the Moderate party, 149 to the Socialist
Democratic, and 62 whose opinions are unknown.
Catalani, the favourite of our fathers, is in Paris, having
fled from Florence in alarm at the disturbed state of that
city. She is looking as young and lively as when she
sang for the last time in London some five and twenty
years ago. Her affection for England is undiminished.

INSURRECTION AT BADEN.—Accounts from Karlsruhe
of the 14th inst., state that the Grand Duke of Baden
had taken flight from the capital, under the protection of
a troop of horse and artillery. Karlsruhe was on the eve
of insurrection, a portion of the military having mutined,
insisting upon being discharged from the army. All the
we.lthy and influential inhabitants of the town were fast
leaving it. Rastadt still remained in the hands of the
rebellious soldiers. Freyburg and Breisgau were ripe for
insurrection. in all these places business was at a stand,
and confusion everywhere prevailed. Appearances were
most alarming. _

Later accounts from Baden mention that the Grand
Duke was about to take up his residence at Frankfort.
His ministers, although still holding office, had no power,
for a provisional government had been appointed, who
liberated from prison all political offenders, among whom
were Struve and Blind, the republican leaders in the Oc-
tober insurrection, who were chosen members of the
above government, and afterwards entered Carlsruhe, ac-
companied by a number of their partisans.

The insurrection in Rhenish Prussia has been effectually
suppressed. .

The rebellious movement in Germany, on behalf of the
Constitution, is rapidly spreading. At Mark, Iserlohn,
Hagen, Hessen, and Altenessen, the people have revolted,
and are well supplied with all the munitions of war. At
Munich, the troops refused to obey the commangs of the
government. The King, on the other hand, objected to
receive an address in favour of the Constitution, although
it contained the signatures of 15,000 individuals. The
Duchy of Hesse Darmstadt has furnished 20,000 men to
aid the insurgent cause in Rhenish Bavaria.

HANovErC—It has been erroneously reported that the
King has been obliged to leave his capital, and to repair
to the castle of Herrenhausen. There is, however, a
strong revolutionary feeling in Hanover.
A very serious fire broke out at Rotterdam, at seven
o'clock on the morning of the 13th instant, at the sugar
refinery of Messrs. Tromp, Suerrnondt, and Co., which
destroyed a great deal of property besides the above, in-
cluding the large warehouse known by the name of us-
tend, the Phoenix sugar warehouse; .the warehouses of
Willemse; Ringrcse; Meinhard ; Reibemeyer and Co. ;