The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-11-25 00:00:00

FOREIGN NEWS.

FRANCE.

The important proposition of the questors, that the Na-
tional Assembly should have its army as well as the exe-
cutive, came before that chamber for discussion on Mon-
day, and ended in its total defeat, the government being
in a majority of 408 against 300. This may be considered
a great triumph for the President of the Republic and his
ministers, as the object of questors, and those who voted
in the minority, was to transfer the prerogative of the
executive to the legislative assembly. General Cavaignac
and moderate Republicans voted with the Legitimists and
Orleanists in support of the Thiers-Changarnier-Baze
proposition, from a fear of the anti-republican designs of
Louis Napoleon ; while the ultra Republicans voted with
the government. thinking that the republic would be in
greater danger from the supremacy of the monarchical
factions.

The President of the Republic, on proceeding to the
Elysee on Tuesday from the Champ de Mars, was loudly
cheered by the people, with repeated cries of " Viva Na-
poleon l" " Vive le President !" "Vive le Suffrage
Universel !"

The division in the assembly on Wednesday, on the
question of reducing the three years' domicile, requisite
for the exercise of the franchise, to one year, gave a result
of 43 in favour of three years,—the numbers being 258 for
the amendment, and 301 against it. On Thursday, the
proposition of a committee. that a residence of two years
should entitle citizens to the exercise of the electoral
franchise, was adopted by 344 votes to 218. The other
paragraphs, conferring the electoral right on officials and
clergymen, and on persons serving in the army or navy
who have been drawn for the conscription in the commune,
no matter what may have been the length of their resi,
dence, were likewise adopted.

It is stated, on good authority, that when, during the
discussion on the proposition of the questors, some of the
members talked of impeaching the Minister of War for re-
moving the decree of the constituent assembly from the
differ-nt barracks where it had been posted up, several of
the generals met, unknown to the minister, and resolved
to protect him from any attempt at arrest; so that in all
probability, if the impeachment had been proposed and
carried, there would have been a military pronunciamento.
Louis Napoleon continues to review the troops daily. His
salons are numerously attended. The Minister of War
has adopted all necessary precautions for the maintenance
of order, and has within the last two days brought a great
deal more artillery into Paris. M. Baze, with a view to
show his anxiety for the security of the assembly, has
ordered the reparters for the public press to produce their
cards, in order to prevent the entrance of dangerous
characters.

The municipal electoral law was read a second time on
Saturday evening by 441 to 229. The committee which
has been chosen to report upon the bill of pains and penal-
ties affecting the President of the Republic and his Minis-
ters, are hostile to Louis Napoleon by 14 to 1.
Tilt, ministerial crisis in Belgium has been definitively
settled, by the adoption, on the part of the Senate, of the
Successions Bill.