31. 0 lillon Barrot has been gaining great forensic saocess
at the Royal Coart of Orleans—011e gratifyi:m: to his and pri-
vate friends. A father and his children had a latvsuit peadiag be- tween them as to estate, of great value. Their claims sr .21%? OppOS0.1 to each other. After ineffeetual attempts to reconcile the p.;r:i ?s, the day arrived when the cause must be pleaded. 31. Odilloo Barry spoke for the father ia speech ot matehless eloptenee, and of great moral force and dignity. So grent was the effect produced hy this speech on the children and on their legal advocates, that he Ihel no soonei: concluded than they roie to say they would leave every thing to be settled, and wholly and finally settled hetweett theta all by M. &mot. The toy-al Court, theretbre, pronounced judgment by which it was doeiled that M. Barra shouid be the sovereign judge between them.—P«r's Corre- spondent ql the Standard.
The French Ministry have appointed Commissioners to proceed to their West India Islands to report on the best means of drawing up a law for emancipating, the Negroes.
The Commereial Chambers of the principal ports of France are suc- cessively addressing dm Government upon the expediency of imme- diately taking possession of. and colonizing a part of the coast of New Zealand. The last address is from the Commercial Chamber of Ditukirk.
`. Thu people of Havre," says the journal of that town, " have now
under their eyes a proof of the good etfeets E-ee trade. Numerous orders for flour have been sent to the railed Stales. Already 9,000 barrels have been entered, and as many more are ex pecte.l. hilt hem the price of dour its ot,.r markets has inaintained itseli; but tl'a.; lodge of this thet has produced its effect, and in tho market of Monti- villiers it has fallen 4 l'r4,.; a sack.'
The 1 'apitqc complains of conduct of the Fazlish and Anti:Tie-au missionaries in the Sandwieh I oh antis but it would seem from the fol- lowing extract, that the English as well as French are larded over by the Americans- " These missionaries, whom the DPots very recently chartetcrized as eirillp.rs, emich themselves with a cupidity which may be calit ! n•:•-a::ous, at the expense of the unhappy people ou whom they have fastene I tae .1 selves. At Iladai the Amerie;:a Methodists endeavour, by all the means in their power, and they are not very delicate on this point. to maintaia Ic t dir ex- clusive profit the monopoly which they have suceeeded establishing of all
the productions of the island. Oar vessels canaot even take in w:,:n1 and. water without the permission of the reverend goidlemen, for which they are paid very dear. It would he most desirable that govermnent should send. thither a cause] not quite Si) great a voyager as Mr. Dufort, (the French ('onsul.) The obligation to reside should he an indispensahle condition. The necessity of a naval force is no less manifest, when we know that the insolence
of the Minister BInmsfold, at Huai, has gone so far as to trespass on the resi- dancepf the English Consul, and to burn the British flag."
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