General Mina arrived at Bordeaux on the 10th instant. At
mid- night, a serenade was performed under his windows, at the Hotel de Rouen, by the band of the ptincipal theatre.
The Tribune has reappeared in Paris, after a suspension of four nienths.
Ott Saturday, M. Nester Roqueplan, responsible editor of the Pa- risian Figaro, was fined 500 francs, for baying omitted to send to the oflice of the Procureur thu Roi a certain number of that journal, as by law required. M. Roqueplan admitted the omission, and urged in his defeere the negligence of a person employed under him, but his apology proved of no avail.
The farms of France are small, running feom twenty to fifty or sixty acres; and hence the mass of the people are Neuf:nu:We and well pro- vided [This is a non seiritur : if the mass of the people are comfortable, it is wit because the law for the subdivision of pro- perty has split up tile land into fractional morsels.] For some time past, the French authorities have instituted the most rigid ioquiries, and tab:tined every means in their power to cheek the circulation of forged Bank of England notes, which has latterly been carried on to a very serious extent its different parts of the French territory.
On Seturday, at the opening of the Stock Exchange of Paris, nume- rous sentinels filled sill the avenues to the Tribunal of Commerce, and a violent tumult ensued ; the disappointed female speculators uttering loud and piercing cries against the arbitrariness of a decree recently issued, which excluded them, and which would not suffer even unmar- ried and independent women to carry on their business. The keepeis and soldiers, however, were unmoved, and at length succeeded in excluding the ladies from the galleries; and thus they were compelled to take their station on the staircase and under the grand portico.
The 3 farquis de Clermont Mount St. Jean, who is heir to a very considerable property in France became deeply enamoured of one of his cousins, who is also extremCdy rids. The young couple, who had long been affianced, were married on Monday, in the church of St. Hoch, between twelve and one o'clock. At four o'clock, the bride- groom went up into his chamber to change his dress. A few minutes after, the report of a pistol was heard; the chamber was entered; and the Marquis was found deal, having shot himself through the brain. Ilitherto, no circumstance whatever has been discovered to account for an act so extraordinary at such a moment. The Marquis the Dreux Breze, who was present at the wedding, died the same day, in ass apoplectic fit. A traveller landed at Calais on the morning of the 6th instant, from Dovi'r, and immed:ately excited the curiosity of all the bystauders, who inquisitively demanded of each other, " Is it a mass or a woman e" The coat and pantaloons, with the waistcoat, black cravat, and cloth cap,
• when he intistea, he was asked his name. Ile besitated; but saw the name Cotillions:wt.; ever a shop litIQZ near Wesuainster Bridge, sun iustautly said Isis mime was "Comberback," and moreover, a light down on the chin, with nascent whiskers, appeared to indicate one of the lords of the creation ; but, on the other hand, a peculiarly diffident air, a hesitating gait, an infantine voice, and more partienholy a profusion of jetty lovas, that escaped from under the cap, shook the coofidence of the bebolders in this conclusion. The passport was demanded, delivered, and found to be regularly made out for a young gmalonan, the description of the person accurately correspond. tag. Su - :dean!, however, remained too stroi g and too general to admit the risk of :Alt :wing any one iii masquerade to pass through France, particutoly as it was not the time of the carnival. The suspicious tra- veller wes therefere taken before the Mayor ; who elicited a confession that the eender was feminine ; but no remonatranee or representation could iiablee a declaration of the name and family of the disguised fair one. His Britannic ahaesty's Coosul was equelly onalde to prevail mon hi.: mysterious countrywoman, for such she tin auestionably was, to be more communicative. Consequently, the authorities were com- pelled to keep her under surveillance at the Hotel de Londres until directions; ere received from the higher powers.-Feerch Paper. She has ainee been permitted to depart for Paris, but the police are ordered to watch her mations.
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