CASIMIR PERIER died on Wednesday morning. We may apply to
him the sentiment of Macbeth- " He should have died hereafter."
Our own critical situation causes the intelligence of our neigh- bours' misfortunes to fall idly on our ears. The office which the deceased Minister held is not filled up; but report has assigned it to Deems M. PERIER'S IOSS will not be fully felt or seen until. the Chambers again assemble. He was the only man on his side that could moderate them, as much by his talents as by his firmness.
Pozzo DI BORGO has left Paris for St. Petersburg ; for what cause or purpose, is not stated. It is supposed that he was some- what more favourable to the new Government of France than suited the.views of his despotic master.
There have been some serious disturbances at Grenoble; but they terminated, as the Carlist disorders always will unless where they are upheld by foreign aid. The Thirty-fifth Regiment had displayed less zeal for the tricolor than the Sappers, Artillerymen, and Dragoons, and the townspeople, thought fitting; and the con- sequence was a skirmish, in which several were wounded, one old man severely. The Thirty-fifth, who began the quarrel, with difil-• culty escaped the vengeance of their opponents.
It is now alleged that two persons were landed at Ciotat from the Carlo Alberto, and that these two persons were Count BOUR- MONT and the Duchess DE BERRI, the latter disguised in men's clothes. Their reception was such that it is supposed they had made the best of their way across the frontier into Italy.
The celebrated CUVIER died of a paralytic shock on Tuesday.. General La MARQUE was reported dead, but late accounts repre- sent him as getting better. The Cholera is rapidly declining. The news of the retirement of Lord GREY seems to have pro- duced as strong a sensation in Paris as in London.
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