15 DECEMBER 1838, Page 8

The Princess Mary of Orleans, the wife of Duke Alexander

of Wurtemburg, is dangerously ill at Genoa.

Not many years ago, it was the general fashion in France to turn convents into manufactories ; but it appears from the Observateur de l'Aisne, that manufactories are now about to be turned into convents. According to this journal, four ecclesiatics have purchased the ground and buildings of an ancient spinning-mill at Chauriy, and are about to convert it into a seminary, in connexion with that of St. Acheul, near Amiens; while near Camloray an old and magnificent convent, which had been formed into a post-house, is about to be made the grand semi- nary of the diocese...-Graignani's Messenger.