The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-08-26 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1851.

companion

But what next, as a result of the exhibition ? Surgit
? Why a brevet—a brevet on account of the

tireatExhibition!—a mostlogical and naturalconsequence!
following as directly as that Tenterden steeple is the cause
of Goodwin sands. However, if people will believe that
the eclipse kept off "on account of the Exhibition." why
'3revet. or a new hatch of peers, or bishops, on
By the way it is to make a new batch of

account of it ?
baronets. Considering the origin of the order of baronets
(for which the curious may consult Naunton and the
writers of James's time), this kind of thing is ad right.
James the First began it, to turn in " the siller," and a

speculation so profitable as the exhibition could not be
more appropriately commemorated. As to knighthood,
they say, it will be difficult, as Horace Walpole said, to
shoulder any one but a knight in the streets ( I forbear
the literal quotation), but the report that the bland and
polite sergeant of the Sappers and Miners is to be knighted
is a rumour which, in press. phrase. "needs confirmation."

Cheapness, however. is the mania of the day, and baro
netcies and knighthoods are the cheapest kind of reward—
s reward which no government so desperately placed, and
so wonderfully respited, can refuse to give, for (as Lord
Lyndhurst said the other day, in that old Attic spirit that
brought back the memory of the withering fire of 1834-5-6)
speaking of the exhibitors of upholstery, " The exhibitors
are all upholders—they have upheld the Cabinet." Great
destiny of the Whigs !—a queen's marriage—a royal
christening--the bedchamber women—a great exhibition
—such are the " constitutional causes" that keep in oThce,
in spite of the people, the " successors of Fox !" If this
system goes on, I do not despair of seeing a Whig govern-
ment saved by Richardson's show.

PARIS.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

Saturday Night.
I HEAR that the chiefs of the legitimist party are to meet
during the parliamentary vacation at Wiesbaden, where
the Count de Chambord is expected in a few days. The
questions which now divide that party, wi' it is hoped,

receive a definite solution, and that the friends of the
Count, in the Assembly will return to Paris, prepared to
carry out the plan of the campaign to be decided at Wies-
baden.

IL is stated that the President of the Republic has sent
1000 f. to the prefect of the Isere for the relief of the inha-
bitants who have suffered by the late inundations. The
prefect has written to Cardinal de Bonnul and to the
Bishops of Oivier and Marseilles for their assistance.
It is rumoured that the Union Electorale has dissolved
itself after a stormy sitting, in which the Prince de Join-
vilie had been proposed by the Orleanists and energeti-
cally opposed by the Buonapartist and Legitimatist mem-
bers. The editor of the Courrier Republicain de la Cdte
d' Or, and the responsible director, have been sentenced,
the first to one year's imprisonment and 3000 f. fine, and
the other to one month's imprisonment, for publishing a
seditious libel. The President of the Republic has con-
ferred the decoration of the Legion of Honour on the Ser-
geant of Gendarmerie Chamaut, who was wounded in
repressing the recent disturbances at Laurac ; on the ser-
geant of the same corps, and one or two others, for de-
fending the post of the municipal guard in the Champs
Elvssees, in the month of February, 1848.
The Semaine was tried on Wednesday for a defamatory
article regarding the treatment of political prisoners at the
Belle Isle, which ended in a verdict of guilty, with exte-
nuating circumstances ; notwithstanding which the court
condemned the author of the article, M. Sarrans, to six
months' imprisonment and 2000 f. fine, and the editor to
three months' imprisonment and a fine of 20001. This
last-named gentleman writes on economical subjects, and
was just recovering from severe indisposition.
The National publishes a letter from M. Schceheler to
Mazzini, enclosing subscriptions from members of the
Mountain in aid of the cause of Italian independence.
The writer says he hopes that the Italian patriots will
not confound Frenchmen with their government, against
whose occupation of Rome he protests in the name of
himself and friends.

The Ordre again proclaims the Prince de Joinville to
be the candidate of the Orleanists for the Presidentship,
and the Opinion Publique declares that the prince cannot
have the support of the Legitimists. Whatever course
the Legitimists may adopt, it is quite certain that there
are three candidates, all of whom they are determined to
reject. _ _ _

A gentleman living on his fortune was arrested on
Wednesday, at Montrouge. under the following circum-
stances :—The egents of the police had remarked him
frequenting public-bouses in that neighbourhood, and
whenever he saw any soldiers drinking that he conversed
familiarly with them, and concluded by offering them an
engagement in an association formed to proclaim the
Count de Chambord King of France. He had addressed
himself to two grenadiers of the 30th Regiment; but
they, instead of accepting his offer, conveyed him to the
commissary of police of the neighbourhood, who, having
investigated the whole matter, ordered him to be sent,
under an escort, to the conciegerie.

The Legitimists who have returned to Paris from Nantes,
since the ceremony of opening the railroad to that town,
say that the affairs of the Count de Chambord are pro-
ceeding favourably in the western and southern depart-
ments. Their friends have formed electoral committees,
and have selected their candidates for the Assembly, to
be chosen next year. _

The President has placed at the head of the recently
created Knights of the Legion of Honour the Widow
Btulow, born in 1771, at present an officer in the Inva-
lides, where she has been residing for the last 52 years,
enjoying the esteem and veneration of her companions in
glory. She was the daughter, wife, and sister of military
men, who died in active service in the army in Italy, and
is stated to have performed most courageous exploits.
The Permanent Committee of the National Assembly
met on Wednesday.

M. Leon Faucher has arrived from London.
Prince George of Prussia arrived at Havre on Tuesday.
There is a general dearth of news; but business of all

extremely active

SOUTH LANCASHIRP.
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ASSIZES

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CROWN COURT-YESTERDAY

[Hitherto, at our assizes, it has been the practice, on the
Monday mornings, not to commence the business of the court
until half an hour after the usual time—nine o'clock—in order
to await the arrival of the train from Manchester, and with this
regulation punctuality has always been observed. However,
this morning great inconvenience and delay were occasioned in
consequence of the non-arrival of the witnesses in the case
arranged to come on first—the poisoning case from Manchester.
Mr. wler remarked that of late no dependence whatever could
1.);-; placed on the time of the arrival of the trains at the station;
and Mr. Monk added that at former assizes the Railway Com-

pany bad been in the habit of running a special tr sin for the
accommodation of the court ; but at the present assize this
arrangement hay' not been observed, and this delay was the

result of it