POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY. GREAT offence has been given to our Gallic neighbours by the omis- sion to mention France in our King's Speech. The papers received this morning from Paris complain bitterly of the disrespect ; and the organ of' the Ministers, the Journal des Debars, says, that " since the commencement of the session nothing bad occurred to diminish the re- ciprocal regard of France and England, which the French King had emphatically dwelt upon in his speech to the Chambers." Nothing lies occurred to lessen the friendship between the French and English People; but respect for the double-dealing Monarch of France is an- other affair; and it is a redeeming point in the King of England's Speech, that it did not contain any such expression as the Doctrinaires wished to find there.
Arrests are frequent among the lower classes of citizens throughout France, and the common soldiers, many of whom do not scruple to avow their admiration of FIESCHI, A LIBAUD, and MEUNIER. The French army is represented as in a very demoralized state ; and an incident occurred at Strasburg, on Tuesday week, of a very un- pleasant character. Three officers engaged in the BONAPARTE affair returned to Strasburg ; they were met in triumph by a large body of citizens and of the Third Regiment of Artillery ; and were afterwards rescued from the prison in which they had been placed at their own desire, in expectation of trial and acquittal.
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