The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-04-16 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

(FROM TRH JOHN BULL.)

A begging-box is going round for Mr. Duncombe;
the subscription has been suggested in order to with-
stand the tyrannical and undue influence of a Peer—
meaning the loyal and constitutional Marquess of Salis-
bury in the late Hertford ejection. To this, we see it is
expected, by the Times, and other liberal Papers, that
all his Majesty's ministers should contribute.
We conclude that the same high and liberal personages
will immediately come forward to defray the whole of the
expenses of Mr. Alderman Thompson's election at Sun-
derland, where the direct interference of Mr. Dun-
combe's friend, Lord Durham, was a matter of perfect and
universal notoriety.—" Elect Barclay—yours, Durham,"
sounds very much like it. We are quite sure the ministers
cannot refuse this act of justice to Mr. Thompson. As
there is no great chance of his accepting their liberality,
they might as well make it to save appearances.
Upon the subject of the first Sunderland election, we
have received intelligence, of which nothing but an ear-
nest desire to spare the feelings of those who must de-
spise the policy as we know they hate the politics of the
principal offenders, hinders our exposure. We yet may
lay the whole case before the public, and we will venture
to say it is without precedent or parallel in the annals of
Ministerial profligacy.
The rejoicings at Gloucester on the return of Mr.
Hope have been unbounded—the electors have declared
that he shall not bear the expense of one shilling. He
was chaired triumphantly, and subsequently dined with
upwards of 250 of the electors, while dinners to more
than 400 were in progress in different parts of the city.
So decisive a proof of the reaction which has taken place
in popular feeling has not yet been exhibited, and, in
conjunction with others, it fully justifies the Morning
Chronicle in its declared belief, that if a dissolution were
now to take place, the new Parliament would be entirely
conservative.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.

PARIS, APRIL 10.—Cyntrary to general expectation, the
Chamber of Deputies 'decided yesterday, by a considerable ma-
jority, that the responsible manager of the Tribune should be
called to the bar of the Chamber, and required to show cause
why he should not be condemned to fine and imprisonment for
the articles published in his journal, in consequence of M.
Viennet's famous speech. That the chamber is' perfectly jus-
tified in this instance, in calling the manager of the Tribune to
its bar, I believe no reasonable man, who has read the articles
in question, will deny; but such is the unfortunate state of so-
ciety in France, that either the higher powers of the state must
submit to be insulted with impunity, or they must have recourse
to measures in self-defence, which, after all, do but increase the
evil. Neither the courts of law nor the chambers, nor the exe-
cutive can long contend with the press in this country with any
prospect of success ; finally, they all must be vanquished. This
I have often said, and the present circumstance affords a strik-
ing proof of the truth of the. assertion. The Tribune has been
prosecuted by the law officers of the crown upwards of seventy
times since the revolution of July, yet this paper goes on more
prosperously than ever, and is now enabled- to defy the Cham-
ber of Deputies itself.
(From Galignanis Messenger, of Wednesday.)
Extract of a letter of the sth inst., from Blaye:---` Every pre-
paration is making for the accoucheinent of the duchess, which,
according to M. Deneux, is likely to take place between the
Ist and the sth of May. This gentleman lodges above the
apartments of the princess, and is constantly near her. Baron
Dubois is at the Cafe Francais waiting for the moment of wit-
nessing the delivery, and M. de Meniere has arrived from Pa-
ris for the same purpose. A new.telegraph has been established,
and post-horses stationed from distance to distance, between
Blare and Bordeaux, and from Paris to Blaye. The duchess
finds herself very well, in consequence of the attentions and
care which have been bestowed upon her. To-day she took her
usual walk in the interim• of the citadel. M. de Brissac never
quits her.' It is reported, however, that although he is con-
vinced of the pregnancy of the duchess, he refuses to affix his
signature to the act relative to the birth of a child. Hence a
report is current, that some agents from foreign powers are to
,come to Blaye for the'purpose of certifying the delivery, in con-
junction with the authoritivi of the town, and with the principal
legitimatists, if they wish to attend. Copies of the proces verbal
witl, it is said, be transmitted to the chambers and rendered
public. We also learn that preparations are making on the
liver for the departure of the duchess, who, immediately after
her delivery, will lie at liberty to proceed eitheri to her sister in
Spain, or to her family at 'Naples. That she is anxiously wait-
ing for that time is proved by :the following incident :—To
amuse her, a beautiful water hen was given her a•few days ago.
After basin:kept her one day, the duchess said, "She must,
likeame, wish.for -liberty let her-be -set hoe." By -her orders,
a gendarme placed the bird near the bottlers of the water, and
let it take refuge among the reeds. The same .gendarme, who
was a non-commissioned officer, and had always paid great at-
tention to the duchess, bas justleen promoted' to the rank of
sub-lieutenant."

Extract of a.letter, of the sth instant, from Toulon :—" Rear
Admiral Dunrestde Villeneuvearrived here the day. before yes-
terday. He has.curaeon leave of .absence for awe e.k,.in order
to see his eldest daughter, who is on the point of death, and
will return to Cherbourg es soon as iris canye expires. Orders
have been given for everything' to be Toady to refit with the ut-
most expedition The Saban and the iDoquesne, which are ex-
pected from Brest, in order that they may rejoin. the squadron
as. soon as possible. ille.Superbe, which came into port yes-
terday, has received orders, by telegraph, to put to sea again
immediately, andproceed to place herself under the command
of Admit alllugon, in the Lev.itut. Her signal for sailing is
now flying. It is positively stated, that Admiral Rosamet is
recalled to Paris, and that he will be superseded, as Maritime
Prefect at Toulon, by Admiral Jurien Lagraviere, from Roela-
fort."