The French papers are still occupied chiefly in discussing the
Lours DONACARTE affair ; but no new facts are mentioned. It is said that the French Ambassador at St. Petersburg has received a gross affront from the Emperor NICHOLAS ; who gave him notice to quit the hotel for a long time used by the French Embassy, in order to convert it into a depot for the archives of the empire, although NICHO- LAS has fifteen unoccupied palaces in his capital. In revenge, it is said, (hut this can scarcely be true,) that Count Moto: has ordered the Russian Ambassador at Paris to quit Ids residence.
The National has a letter from Bucharest, mentioning the tyranny practised by the Russian authorities in Wallachia and Moldavia. One of these ruffians, the Consul Ruck:mast, had seized the wife of an officer, whom he despatched on some distant service, dragged her to a church, and caused the murriage.service to be performed, without even the ceremony of a divorce from her law ful busbacel. lie immediately departed with her to Constantinople. The church was guarded by soldiers, to prevent interruption by the people.
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