The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-05-28 00:00:00

SCENE IN THE FRENCH ASSEMBLY

On Friday, during the debate in the French Legislative
Assembly, on the Electoral Bill, M. Thiers made an
eloquent harangue, during which he was alluding to the
recent election of M. Eugene Sue, as a significant mani-
festation of the acceptance of Socialist doctrines, when
the following scene took place :
M. de Flotte.—l demand permission to speak.
M. Thiers.—Now, gentlemen—

The hon. gentleman suddenly stopped, and, turning
round to the gentlemen of the bureau requested them to
be silent. _ _

Numerous Voices.—Silence ! silence ! Representatives,
to your places. Clear the side passages.
The President.—l request the members who are stand-
ing near the tribune to resume their seats.
M. Nadaud.—The passages were not cleared for M.
Jules Favre.

Numerous Voices.—Order order.
General Le Flo.—There areso representatives who keep
standing in the passages as if they were strangers in the
place. They have all their proper seats. (" Enough !
enough ! Silence !")
The President.—M. Le Flo, will you be silent ?
It was some time before the passages could be got clear.
M. Thiers.—lt has been said that there is no danger to
be apprehended, but I have shown you that there was
nothing in the two last elections calculated to tranquil-
lise the friends of society.
On the Left.—What society ? (Murmurs.)
M. Thiers.—l speak of that eternal society which it is

not allowable to change. (Hear,_hear:)

On the Left.—The-society of Jesus

der, order ! It is disgraceful
M. Thiers.—ln the electoral meetings soci(
eternal laws were attacked without shame, and WI
question is in this place to resist a law against
danger, a very different language is made use of. That is
what I call falsehood and hypocrisy. (" Hear, hear,"
from the Right.)
On the Left.—What you now say is a falsehood. (" Or-
der, order.) .

,—You see that you

The President (to the interrupter).
always attack by personalities.
M. Thiers.—So long as the President does _ink
it his duty to notice the insults which are addressed to
me. I shall not take them to myself. (Approbation.)

On the Left.—You should not insult us.
M. Baune.—You would not submit to it yourself.
The President.—Allow members to speak in the
bune. I call you to order : you have well descry
(Hear, hear.) Your interruptions are alsva:
On the Right.—Call them to order! Pass cens,.
About this time commenced a system of private c,
versation and laughter on the Left, which constantly dis-
turbed the gentleman in the tribune.
M. Thiers.—We are apparently all on a par here. You

insultin

•ed yourself to accuse b

name the seve

have prepared the. 13.

,em of hypocris

of fall,

lod fait

and of a faction spirit ; and yet 1 must not
is a falsehood when, in the electoral meeting
principles are supported which are disavow
tribune. (Sensation.) M. de Lamartine 3
~.

_ .
fined three elements of Socialism ; allow
what are the three kinds of Socialism which

is one which is criminal
that is Communism, or the agrarian la
be even attempted.
On the Left.—That is madness.
Numerous Voices.—Order, order.
The President.—M. Michot, I call you to orcic
(Loud murmurs on the Left, M. Michot moving about

,t cannot

his seat in great agitation.)
M. Thiers.—We are every day asked why
before men who made a government in Febri
consulting France. (Applause on the Right
on the Left.)
On the Left.—And in 1830.

e hesitate

Loud and coarse interruptions here broke forth from
different parts of the Mountain.

M. Thiers.—We are in the presence of men who never
respected any law, and who nevertheless have enchained
our future in spite of the tendencies of public opinion, and
we are told that it is before such men that we hesitate
when the salvation of the country is at stake. (Sensation.)
Do you know why we will not follow this impulse ?
On the Left.—You did not dare to do it.
M. Thiers.—You are mistaken.
On the Left.—That is a falsehood.
The President.—These interruptions are really studied

insults
On the Right.—They are such interruptions as
proceed from wine shops and drinking booths.
M. Valentin here stood up and made use of moc
gestures, speaking at the same time very loudly.
The President.—M. Valentin, I call you to order.
On the Right.—The censure, the censure !
M. Husson.—Display some energy, Mons. le President

M. Thiers.—l haie been told fliat we dare not. At-
tempt to violate the laws, and you :will see whether we
dare not. ( Murmurs.) Remember this expression, for
it is a very serious one. ( Sensation.)
Several other equally exciting displays took place dur-
ing the sitting, after which M. Thiers concluded as fol-
lows c—Universal suffrage is peace when you chor

give it to society, but war when you think fit to make it.
(Hear.) You see that we are not altogether as naive as
you supposed ; we know you well. You tell us that the
bill is a provocation ; if you had said a prevision you would
have uttered the correct word. I ask you, are there not
places where it has been discussed whether war was to be
declared on society or not, and by what meansthat should
be effected ? I ask you, if it has not been also discussed
whether to refuse taxes would not be preferable ? Is all
that true or not ? Answer. (" Hear, hear," agitation.)

Against these well, known facts, so afflicting to-all good
citizens, the Government has taken its precautions. The

army is ready to do its duty—its chiefs are energi
devoted—all is ready if you do not persevere in a

course. Every preparation has been made. In that un-
fortunate society, where the father sees the bread of his
children torn from his hands beneath the threats of insur-
rection may be heard these painful words—" Since blood
is to be shed, it is as wall first as last." This expression,
howewr, is not a provocation—it is a cry of despair, the
cry of society at its last gasp. It is the strongest accusa-
tion against those who have thrown it into such an awful
situation. (Long continued cheering.)

The Assezilbly rose in great agitation

ASTOR ;PLACE THEATRE.—Every part of this magni-
ficent theatre was filled on the occasion of Miss Cush-
man's first appearance since her return from her brilliant
Southern tour. A strong array of talent supported Miss
Cushman, who beautifully and energetically personated
Romeo.—New York Paper.
In punching the eyeholes of neetiles by hand, children
who are the -operators, acquire such dexterity as to be
able to punch one human hair and thread it w;th another,
for the amusement of visitors.
KIND RAT.—The Rev. W. Colton, a chaplain in the
United States Navy, gives an instance of Adelity amongst
rats :—" On .a bright moonlight evening we discovered
two rats on the plank coming into the ship. The fore-
most was leading the other by a straw, one end of which
he held in his :mouth. We managed to capture them both,
and found, to our surprise, the one led by the other was
stone blind. -His faithful friend was trying to get him on
board, where he would have comfortable quarters during
a three years' cruise."
A LITERARY TowN.—ln a neat two story house in the
Main Street of Irvine, Galt, the celebrated novelist. was
first introduced into the world. His "Annals of the
Parish" refer, we believe, to his native town. In a more
humble and obscure tenement, now occupied as a weaver's
shop, situated at the entrance of an alley, called Braid's
Close, Jas. Montgomerie the poet was born. His father
officiated as preacher in the Moravian Kirk close by. It
was in this town that Robert Burns began to learn the
husiness of a flax-dresser; when the shop in which he
seas engaged was burnt down,,and he was left, as he says,
"like a true poet, without a sixpence." The site Of the
shop is supposed by Robert Chambers to be now occupied
-byza new house marked ";4," in a narrow street called
the Glasgow Vennel.—The World we Lire In.
A THEATRE IN CONSTANTINOPLE.—Mr. Albert Smith
gives an account of his visit to a theatre in Constantinople
—the Grand Circo Olicapico—the Astley's of that place.
The spectators smoked and sat silent as judges. " I have
said the sight was a curious one, bat my surprise was
excitepLbeyond bounds, when a real clown, a perfect Mr,
Merriman,' of the arena, jumped into the ring, and cried
out, in perfect English, 'Here we are again—all of a lump!
How arejou?' There was no response to his salutation,
for it was evidently incomprehensible; and so it fell flat,
and the pour clown looked as if he would have given his
salary for a boy to have cried out ' Hot Codlins !' T
looked at the bill, and found him described as
Grottesco Ingkse ' Whittayne. I did not re
name in concoction with the annals of A

was a clever fellow, notwithstanding; and, •when he ad-
Aressed the master of the ring, and observed, If you
please, Mr. Guillaume, he says, that you said, that I said,
tint they said, that,nobody had said, nothing to anybody,'
it seas with a drollery of manner that at least agitated the
fezzes, like poppiss in the wind, although the meaning of
the speech was still like a sealed book to them."
A VEGRO Sanmorr,—Before I left New York I at-
tended a negro class meeting. and was not at all prepared
for the strange sight it ae'orded. A black preacher in a
white waistcoat and black handkerchief occupied the put-

. .
pit, and after a hymn had been very fairly sung by the
women, wk.° sit quite apart loin the men, this dark ex-
pounderbegan in a very mild impressive sort of a way to
explain a passage out Of. Kings, full of very hard Old
Testament names. These he, however, managed to get
over in a jumbled-up sort of way, end by the use of Ilas3ab,
as a sort of handle every now and thm, and soon without

any connecting link he began to descant on the equal
right that poor black men had to be saved with rich white
men. This theme worked up the feelings of his audience,
and there ran through the meeting-house a sort of seething
or bubbling, interspersed at intervals with an explosive
howling,
highlywarsilitiynfgri,oostasofidnegv:tlitihid.
te
jhahecy,:siotaetteriiancsgai.lt
ynAeogfnr et
immense isseiswui ihijeeheln gra-
dually
the excitement of the speaker, till at last every body was
ro
close by me raised himself to his full height, and lifting
his hands above his head, roared out, " Glory to God !
Bend the truth home ! Lord save us or we perish !
Hallelujah ! Amen !" till he was obliged out of sheer
enunciation,
had
quite
exhaustion to sit ,down again. By this time the energy
of
trsivtreidppteo gasp d hissp
opootwesorsra-Oef
oithee iatiepone,ak aetrid.iie y o outstripped
e-
thing quite unintelligible, which dumb show, however,
seemed only to increase the ardour of his audience,
and even when he had concluded. and .the crowd were
dispersing through the streets to their different homes,
the women still vented their .over-excitement in most
hideout yells and gesticulations, The- house they rnot at.
was called the African Mission House, and I am told that
an English- preacher, once lectured them severely from
their own pulpit for these strange practices, and that they
listened to his cascourse, and did not commit themselves
once during the w:2449 of it,. Litter in Me Doncaster
Gazelle.

UNDERGRADUATES OF OXFORD v. MARYLE-
BONE CLUB AND GROUND.

This Annual Grand Cricket Match was commenced on
the Magdalen Ground, Oxford, on Thursday, and pro-
ceeded with during a portion only of the following day,
owing to the very heavy rain. There not being-a proba-
bility of the game being played out on Saturday, it was
agreed that it should be a drawn game
The Oxonians produced the long

teth gen

F. M. Eden, E
(not'out,) 43.
proved themselves great

176, of which
W;lson, Esq.,
did play.

and very

I'hursda

the GlAs
bt Court