The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-08-19 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1851

PARIS

Saturday Night.
NOTWITHSTANDING the departure of the Lord Mayor, a
great number of the English visitors still remain behind.
Paris, although ruled by the iron sceptre of fashion, has
had its seasons changed, for who could suppose that the
hotels would be crowded in August, and the shopkeepers
all remaining in town, " reaping a golden harvest ?" It
is estimated that there are 70,000 foreigners here. If the
great exhibition is a good stroke of commercial policy for
England, as some say it is, I don't think France has been
far behind. The invitation of the royal commissioners to
Paris was a master-stroke, as the activity of our shop-
keepers, manufacturers, and railway companies plainly
indicate.

There is little or no political news stirring. The prin-
cipal event of the week is the funeral of the well-known
Marshal Sebastiani, which was celebrated on Tuesday at
the Hotel des Invalides. The preparations were on a
scale of grand and solemn magnificence. The Esplanadc
and Boulevards were lined with troops, among whom were
many of the most distinguished veterans who had server.]
in the Marshal's campaigns. The church was hung it
sleep black, and the grand altar was lighted up with
tapers, and overhung by a trophy of flags taken in some
of the most remarkable battles in Napoleon's career. The
coffin was placed on a catafalque of gorgeous appearance
which had been erected in the centre of the church
But

an un'ortunate incident remains to be related, whicl
trenched upon a national calamity :—One of the attend•
ants, in lighting the tapers on the afar, set fire to tin
drapery near the trophy of flags, and in a few secorA
both became enveloped in flames. The consternation was
terrific; and in getting down the hangings they fell upor
the altar and adjacent seats, setting firo to the whole,
The church was instantly cleared, and some time elapses
before the element was extinguished. Twelve flags were
consumed, two of which had been taken at Austerlitz,
The officials afterwards placed an altar in the adjoining
court, and prayers were chanted over the deceased for hit
soul's repose. The coffin was then placed in a corbillard,
covered with tricoloured flags, and drawn by eight horses,
The procession remained a few minutes in front of the
chief entrance to the church while the troops defiled
before it.

The National Assembly has adjourned its sittings ; and
perhaps a greater proof of the political apathy which pre-
vails cannot be afforded than the individual activity and
forced excitement of the members of the Mountain. Some
of them have issued a manifesto, which contains little else
,than an oft-repeated reiteration of the evils which France
endures, and a thorough appreciation of their own pre-
scribed remedies. Two things appear to have given them
great encouragement ,—the rejection of the President's
Dotation Bill, and of the measure for the revision
of the constitution, by which the re-election of Louis
Napoleon is rendered almost impracticable. They
perceive the destruction of the old monarchical party,
and the restoration and stability of pure republicanism,
notwithstanding, as they allege, the attempts of the Pre-
sident and the majority to overthrow it. They vigor-
ously decry our occupation of Rome as tending to
uphold an " immoral, stupid, and cruel government,"
and villify Radetsky ; but they say not a word about Aus-
trian occupation, in the event of the retirement of our
troops. This cannot have escaped them, and 1 think
they should have been candid enough to have confessed
that of two evils the lesser one had better prevail. They
declare that the people will not bear of Louis Napoleon
as a candidate for the presidency, and for this reason, for-
sooth—that the constitution forbids them re-elect in, him_

No doubt they think his re-election would seal the fate
of the " revision," and they want neither. Ido not learn
that the manifesto has come in for a greater share of
attention or excitement than what generally prevails in the
Wes, and Socialist clubs, and I apprehend it is but 11
exhibition in printing of the resolutions resulting from
the debates there.

The wife of Major Dembinski, of Hungarian notoriety,
who went with him to America, has been arrested for
forging a French passport. I cannot conjecture the reason
of her return from the United States, and separation from
her husband. M. Guizot, accompanied by one of his

sons, attendeu ,stribution of prizes awarded by the
various colleges on Monday, at the Sorbonne, and was
received with great enthusiasm. M. Pierre Bonaparte,
cousin to the President, has met with a serious accident :
one of his attendants was taken dangerously ill, and M.
Bonaparte, in order to procure medicine without a pre-
scription, as a personal favour, mounted his horse and
hastened to a druggist, and in returning at a rapid pace
he got thrown and seriously injured. No fatal effects are
anticipated. The President, upon hearing of the unfor-
tunate occurrence, immediately attemled on his cousin.
Mr. Philips, of London, is here with his fire-extin-
guis!s'

ing apparatus, performing, experiments in public
Some degree of favour appears to have been awarded them

g a tour through
tents during the present month. These pc-
)dical tours are regarded with considerable favour.
It. is no unimportant fact that at a recent assembly of
e Councils of Arrondissements they have, with I believe
one exception, consented to a revision of the constitution.
During the week the prominent subject of discussion in
the Parisian papers has been the merits of the Prince de
Joinville for the presidency. I think there can be no
doubt that upon the next election depends the entire
structure of the future constitution of France.

PERFORMANCES OFTHE CLIPPER YACHT " AMERICA."
—The Cowes correspondent of the Times, of yesterday,
in giving a report of the preparations for the regatta, says
that, on Saturday, the beauti.ul Yankee yacht " America"
came out of Cowes harbour under mainsail, foresail, and
the new jib. She went along very steadily and well up to
to Ryde, but did not show any great superiority till she

was off the pier, about 3.20, when she seemed as if she
had put a screw into her stern, hoisted her fore and aft
foresail, and began "to fly" through the water. She
passed schooners and cutters one after the other just as a
Derby winner passes the " ruck," and as the breeze
freshened slid with the speed of an arrow out towards the
Nab, standing upright as a ramrod under her canvas,
while ti'e schooners were staggering under every stitch
they could set, and the cutters were heeling over under
gaff topsails and balloon jibs. It was remarked by the
crowd on the pier head that there was scarcely any foam

at her bows, nor any broken water raised in a mass be-
fore them ; but that the waves appeared to fall away
under her keel and sides, offering the minimum of re-

sistance to her course, owing to the peculiar form of her
" entry." Still, the nauticals looked knowing, and said,
"Oh ay, this is all very well for a schooner on this wind
—let us see how she'll come back, when the wind will be
a point or two worse for her !" The America soon gave
them an opportunity of judging on this point too. She
went about in splendid style, a little short of the Nab,
spinning round like a top, and came bowling away towards
Cowes as fast if not faster than ever. As if to let our
best craft see she did not care about them, the America
went up to each in succession, ran to leeward of every one
of them as close as she could, and shot before them in
succession, coming to anchor off Ryde at least two miles,
as it seemed to me, ahead of any of the craft she had
been running against.

TRAFFIC RETURNS.—The traffic returns for the last
week, ending the 10th instant, on the undermentioned
English lines of railway are as follows :-
1851. 1850.
. £70,230 .. £53,422
. 22,876 .. 25,481
18,223 .. 16,946
18,457 .. 14,150
17,652 .. 15,071
26,646 .. ]7,507
20,877 .. 16,694
10,183 .. 9,413

London and North Western

Midland

Lancashire and Yorkshire,

London and South Western
London and Brighton

rest Western. ........ .
outh Eastern
'ork and North Midland

Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire
Bristol and Exeter .

York, Newcastle, and Berwick 16,500 .. 15,701
Shrewsbury and Chester
Shrewsbury and Birmingham
Eastern Counties and Norfolk
Great Northern

Chester and Holyhead
North Staffordshire .
Leeds and Thirsk

4,914
5,482
1,278

3,637
5,401
1,612

The total receipts on the above lines being £279,644
against £228,038 in the corresponding week of last year ;
the increase is shown to be £51,556. The number of
miles open was, in 1851, 4,053-, and, in 1850, 3,833;
showing an increase of 220} miles. The average return
per mile per week was, in 1851, £6B 19s. 11d., and, in
1850, £59 109. 14d., being £9 N. 91(1. per mile per week
in favour of the present year. Among the chief lines
there is a very large increase in the London and North-
Western, Great-Western, South-Western, South-Eastern,
London and Brighton, and Great Northern lines.