For the first time for several weeks, the transactions of
the French monarchy hold a subordinate place in our columns. This is perhaps the most satisfactory announcement we could make concerning them, and describes as forcibly as any words of ours could do that the affairs of France go on well. Tile chief fea- tures in the history of the week are the formal recognition of Louis Puma by the English Government ; and the review, in the Che,mn de Mars, of the National Guard.
The delivery of his new credentials by Lord STUART DE ROTE- S 112. took place on -Wednesday ; when his Lordship went to the King's Palace in state, accompanied by the Secre`aries of the Embassy. On quitting the Palais Royal, he was warmly ap- plauded. The great review, which had been for several weeks in prepara- tion, was on Sunday the 29th. The number of the guard was fifty thousand, the whole of them clothed at their own expense, and serving without pay or emolument. This is really a volunteer corps, to which our own, great as was their devotion, and great as were the benefits resulting from their ready and spontaneous en rolment could offer no parallel The population poured out in immense numbers to witness the truly patriotic display : one account says. with exaggeration doubtless, that not less than half a million were present. LAFAYETTE acted as the commander-in- chief on the occasion, and received on the ground the congra- tulations of the Municipality of Paris. "This is a glorious day for you and us," said the prolocutor of the Municipality. " Glorious indeed," replied the old hero, " the eighty-nine was a great day, but this is much greater." The interest of the scene was enhanced by one of those accompaniments which the dramatic genius of our neighbours can so well throw into a public exhibition. In the midst of the review, a mass of persons ws seen slowly advancing amidst the shouts of the surreunding spec- tators—it was the wounded in the fight of the Three Days, who had crawled and been carried from the hospitals to view the splen- did show, which, but for their exertions, oould never have taken place. Amidst this band of patriots were seen boys of not more than twelve years of age, who had risked their lives o that me- morable occasion, and women who had forgotten their sex's fears in the .dangers of their country. The follawing letter, addressed by the King to LAFAYETTE on the same evening, is characteristic. am anxious tO learn, my dear General, how you find yo,it self after this glorious day ; for I am fearful that you must be overcome with fatigue ; but I have another object which lies near my heart, namely, to request you to be the interpreter of my feelings towards those glorious National Guards, of whom you are the patriarch. Tell them, that they have not only surpassed my most sanguine expectations, but that it is completely.put of my power to express my sentiments of joy and happi- ness. Having been a witness of the federation in 1790, in this same Champ de Mars—a witness also of the grand enthusiasm of 1792, when I saw come up, to join our army in Champagne, forty-eight battalions of the citizens of Paris, formed in three days, and who so eminently contri- buted to repel the invasion which we had the happiness of arresting at Valtny, I am able to make the comparison • and it is with transport r de- clare to you, that what I have just seen is ear superior to what I then con- sidered so noble, and what our enemies found so formidable. Have the goodness, my dear General, to express to the National Guards how sen- sibly I was affected by their testimonies towards myself, and how deeply my heart is impressed therewith.—Yours affectionately, " Louis PHILIP." • There was a brief discussion in the Chamber Of Deputies on the 30th, touching the law by which it is proposed to fill up the pre- sent and future vacancies in the Chamber. DE SALVERTE pro- posed a reduction in the value of the franchise ; and M. DE PODENAE proposed to extend it to all persons qualified to act as jurors. A strong representation on the same subject has been made to the Chambers by the celebrated political society which takes for its motto "Aide toi, le ciel Vaidera." The general feeling, however, of the Chamber, was that its numbers ought to be complete before any alteration in the law was adopted ; and the whole project was carried in consequence, by 234 to 12. In the Peers, on the same day, the law by which Peers must take their seats and the oath within one month, or be held to have resigned, wai carried, after an ineffectual attempt to lengthen the period, by 87 to 11. Baron de ST. PRIEST has given notice of a project to repeal the infamous sacrilege law. By an ordinance published in the Moniteur of last Friday, the Board of Admiralty is instituted anew ; DUPERRE and DE RIGNY are the senior members of the Board. A second ordinance conveys to all persons condemned for infractions of the laws rela- tive to the stampinc, and publication of journals and periodical writings, a full and free pardon, and directs all prosecutions for such offences to cease. A third ordinance directs the suspension of all political prosecutions commenced before the late revolution and pardons all condemnations pronounced before that • period, whether in France or in the Colonies. • The ex-Ministers arrived at the Castle of Vincennes at half-past six on the morning of the 27th. The scene is dramatically de- scribed in the French journals. " The National Guard and the garrison of Vincennes lined the passage of the courts that were to be croszed as mere'spectators, but not under Renville and Chantelauze, were, one by one, introduced into the dungeon We hope sincerely that God will bless the enterprise; but we in a similar manner, and lodged in separate apartments. They crossed do not hope, nor indeed do we wish, that the changes which the Spa- tho court uncovered. It was observed that, when passing the chapel of nish Patriots desire should be compassed with the consent of the the castle; M. Guernon de Renville turned his eyes in a mystical manner towards this monument. Neither on this occasion was the silence of il the scene interrupted. The countenances of these gentlemen were very We hope he will be driven from the land he disgraces, as a small downcast, especially that of M. de Chantelauze, whose emotion was so punishment for his delinquencies. Lulworth Castle will hold both great, that his whole body trembled when the officers and guards entered him and his dear friend CHARLES. We would even be content, his chamber to remove him. All the four prisoners were very shabbily for the pleasure of having him safely set down there, that the dressed. Their linen was dirty, their beards unshaved, and their clothes negligent and covered with dust. The apartments where they are kept had been hastily furnished with some very plain articles of furniture." Ex-King of France.
The Ministers have been examined by the Committee of the It has been reported by one of the French journals, Le National, Deputies, to whom the management of the impeachment has that the King of Naples, who is well known to be a man of liberal been committed ; but no particulars of the examination have been principles, has given an official order to his council to prepare a published. new constitution for that kingdom. The news, however, requires The suicide of the Prince of CONDE we have noticed elsewhere. confirmation. The Quutidienne insinuates that his death was not voluntary ; but there seems to be no grounds for the insinuation. If it was not, THE KING ANn QUEEN.—On Sunday, their Majesties walked, as he must have been assassinated by the Bourbonists, for they alone sual, to hear divine service in St. George's Chapel. It rained violently seem to have entertained any feelings of hostility towards him. A as they returned, and none of their train had au umbrella ; but the correspondent of the Times attributes his suicide to their perpetual King marched on with the Queen under his arm, and heeded not the upbraidings on account of his declared approbation of the new rain ! The Queen was, to use a vulgar phrase, fairly ducked l .but the dynasty. . bore it as a Queen of England should do. About eleven o'cloCk on Among the miscellaneous news of the week, is a notice from Monday, their Majesties left' Windsor for Brighton, where they arrived Perpignan, which states that the tri-coloured flag is freely admitted about six in the evening. Evcxy preparation which the wits of the into the ports of Spain ; and one, not quite so authentic, in the Brighton people could devise, their loyalty readily led them to execute, eMessager des Chambres, which states that the new Government for the purpose of giving splendour to the royal entrance into the town, SO eagerly desired and long expected. So extensive were the arrange. intend to recognize the Regency of Terceira. The disturbances at 3russels do not seem to have produced so strong a sensation in ments, that the whole of the last week was insufficient for their due execu- tion, which encroached even on the solemnity of Sunday. The splendid Paris us 'night have been expected. Some hundreds of young. triumphal arch in the front of the Pavilion was with difficulty competed men, who fought in the defence of that city, have, it is said, de- on Saturday night. At an early hour on Monday morning, the work. dared their intention ofjoining the patriots of Brussels ; and per- men began to decorate it with flags, flowers, and devices ; poles were Imps a few of them may, should the patriotism of the Belgians keep everywhere erected for the exhibition of fireworks in the evening ; the warm until they have time to cross the border. But though the transparencies for the illumination were hung out ; and numerous bar- Government will not prohibit, it will not encourage such expedi- riers were erected in the different 'streets, to keep off the pressure of the 'lions. The whole of the journals hold but one language on this crowd, and leave free space for the projected procession. The number point. They wish well to the patriots of Belgium, but they can- of arrivals during the day was exceedingly great. The line of coaches not interfere to assist them. In fact, of all nations, the French are alone reached from St. Peter's Place to the turnpike at Preston ; and least called on to do so ; they accomplished both their own the crowd who occupied the road on foot formed one dense mass from the one of these points to the other. At five o'clock the signal was given revolutions unassisted, and may, without the slightest imputation that their Majesties were approaching; and every eye was strained, of selfishness, leave others to do the same. As a further proof of every bat doffed, and every throat cleared to shout their welcome: but this feeling, it is only necessary to quote the words of M. ()DILLON the note of preparation was premature—it was only the Princess Augusta BARROT, in answer to the speech of our countryman, Dr. BOWRING, and the Landgravine of Hesse Homburg. Another hour of expectation who, along with a deputation of felicitation from the English passed—another ten minutes—another five minutes—again the signal. residents in Paris, waited on the Prefect of the Seine on the 29th. guns on the bill and the battery boomed, and—the King and Queen "We proclaim," said M. Barrot, "the union of the people ; but for came ! The royal carriage proceeded at a slow trot, which was soon the conquest of liberty each people must do its own business. We shall of necessity reduced to a walk by the crowds that pressed round and confine ourselves to wishing tlw liberty of other people: as to our own we impeded its progress. "At the spot where we stood," says the Brighton
i shall know how to defend t in case of need." Gazette which may be excused a little poetry on so stirring an occasion,
It appears that at Rouen, on the 27th, there were some symp- "we had a distant but distinct view of the whole. The Royal car- toms of distnrbance, but they were speedily suppressed by the riages were surrounded by a moving mass. The waving of .handker. National Guard. The same constitutional force has been ordered chiefs by ladies from the balconies—the shouts of the people—the roar- to adopt the most obvious and effectual means of preserving the ing of the cannon—the ringing of the bells—the music of the various peace of Paris, by disarming all persons in plain clothes who ap- bands—the rattling of carriages and the trampling of horses--the float- pear in the streets of Paris with pistols or swords. The national ing of a thousand banners and ilags,—altogether formed a spectacle that force is now adequate tothe task of protecting the public liberties, has rarely we believe, if ever, been surpassed in the metropolis." The and all other persons in arms may be justly suspected of aiming at illuminations of the evening seem to have been of a description to
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