The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-25 00:00:00

FRANCE

M. Armand Marrast has been elected president of the
National Assembly, in the room of M. Marie, appointed
Minister of Justice. _ _

1.1“
The purchase of the Lyons Railway by the Govern-
ment is completed, the price paid is 150 francs, in fives,

per share.
The Finance Committee has rejected the proposition
posing a tax on mortgages. It is said that the

for im

Committee i 1 1 recommend the imposition of an income-
tax. nearly upon the plan adopted in England.
The wounded in the hozpitals_on the 18th amounted to
884. Eight died on that day. •
M. Domes, one of the editors of the National, and a
member of the National Assembly, died on Thursday of

•gents on

the 25t

June

his wounc

!oini, well for some time,

but ultimately fever set in and carried him off.

An insurrection amongst the women employed in the
washing establishments in Neuilly took place on Tuesday.
The ptetext was that their employers endeavoured to
compel them to work twelve hours a day in place of eleven.
It required the presence of a considerable military force
to restore order amongst them. A few of the most vio-
lent having been arrested, the remainder fled in various
directions.

Whatever the fate of the claims upon the ex-King may
be, the portion of his property that has reached the hands
of the Government is being realised. On Thursday last,
the 13th of July, the anniversary of the Duke of Orleans'
death, all the wine in wood that in that quarter escaped
the devastators of the 24th of Fehruary was sold at Neuilly.
Strange to say, it brought better prices than did the
wines found in the royal cellars of Paris lately sold at the
Palais Royal. On Wednesday the sale of horses, car-
riages, harness, &c., of the Duchess of Orleans and the
Count de Paris, on account of the Government, com-

menced. Generally speaking, the horses (48 in number)
sold well. A good deal of competition arose for the pony
of the Count de Paris, which was knocked down for about
5 guineas to an American gentleman. On Thursday the
e sold, and, like the horses, went off at fair
~lod deal of sympathy was elicited by the sale
of certain articles, among others a child's caleche, with a
hood, and an infant's chariot, to be drawn by the hand.
Just as the auctioneer was setting up the four-wheeled
cabriolet from which the Duke of Orleans was thrown
letter of the

carriages W(

was handed to him protesting against the sale of
that carriage, and ordering it to be re-purchased for her
account, at any price, should it have been already sold,
and then burnt. A splendid berline and two fine English
horses of the stables of the ex-prince, Sterne and Slap,
were likewise withdrawn from the sale by order of the
Duchess, to be offered, in her name, to the person who
lent her carriage to quit Paris and France on the 24th of

?.bruary.
The Paris papers of Sunday contain a report of a speech
‘livered on the nrevious day, in one of the committees

:11—aiisseirn.bly, by the

statesman

Lamartine, in d,
4nrinfr ivica 1114cre

'once o

the peac

epublic

noble and an eloquent vindication of the policy of a states-
man, who will occupy a proud place in the history of his
country, notwithstanding the error of which he was
guilty in associating himself with the persons, or his
name with the opinions, of such charlatans as Louis
_ _

Blanc and M. Blanqui. M. Lamartine proved that peace
saved the republic, which might have been overwhelmed
in February if England, Prussia, and Russia had lea

ributed