On the close division on the Disjunction Bill, in the
French Cham.. ber, on Tuesday last, .Mr. Goldi!' iy, a Deputy who had been confined to his room by fever, at an arranged signal from a friend whom he re- lied on, presented himself in the Chamber, wrapped up in blankets: he had just strength enough to put his bull against the bill into the bal- lot. box, when he fainted, and was carried out. The Marquis of Dal- matie, the sun, and the Marquis of Mornay, son-in-law of Souk, both very ill, also went to the Chamber just in time to vote against the Ministers. As soon as result of the vote was made known, the exulta- tion of the cote gauche appeared to be at its utmost pitch of enthusiasm. Cries of " Vive la Charte," " Vive la Liberte," and " Vire le Roi," resounded throughout the Chamber, and were repeated in the public galleries. MM. Wilton Barrut, Laffitte, and Dupont (de l'Eure) entered into conversation with the Ministers; and, to judge by their gesticulations, were addressing remarks of no very conciliatory ten- dency. MM. Gaspariti and Guizot seemed to have been quite taken by surprise, and exhibited a look of stupefaction bordering upon despair.
The Monde, a Paris paper, gives a curious illustration of the qualifi. cations of French jurors. A man accused of forgery pleaded guilty; the jury, however, without hearing any evidence, acquitted hint—be- cause, says the journalist, they considered themselves judges of the moral guilt of the act, no less than of the fact of its commission.
Mr. Weldig, a clergyman of Darmstadt, arrested on high treason, was found dead in his dungeon on the 24th ult., having cut his throat with pieces of glass obtained by breaking the decaliter in which water had been supplied to him.
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