The domestic topics in the Paris papers of Thursday are
the multiplication of Reform banquets throughout France, with unmistakeable anti-dynastic objects; and the report that the "defences of Paris" are to undergo an immediate aug- mentation. Four new forts are to be commenced forthwith,—one of them in the Park of St. Cloud, close to the Palace; another on the opposite hill, over the vil- lage of Sevres; a third at Menden; and the fourth at Montretout, on the highest point of the heights of St. Cloud.
The Council Chamber of the Civil Tribunal of Paris declared, on Wednesday, that there existed no ground for placing Mademoiselle de Luzy on her trial in reference to the murder of the Dutchess de Praslin. The prisoner receivA the communication with apparent indifference. She was immediately liberated; and it is believed that she will shortly come to London. The Journal des Debates announces the death of Madame Aime Martin, widow of Bernardin de St. Pierre, the author of Paul et Virginie, at St. Germaine en Lag, in her sixty-eighth year. Souleyman, Napoleon's interpreter in Egypt, died on Wednesday, in Paris. "He was," says Galignanis Messenger, " a Persian, but attached himself to the fortunes of France, and rendered invaluable services to her army when it was led to the foot of the Pyramids. He lived upon a pension granted him by the French Government. He had a wife and children in Persia; to whom he wished to re- turn, but was refused permission on account of his conduct in Eqpt. The Per- sianAmbassador, now in Paris, had promired to use his influence in procuring the assent of his Government to the return of Souleyman; but death has pat an end to all his hopes."
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