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London, England, 1831-02-25 00:00:00

was arrested, tntl the pe:p'e wished to sacrifice him upon
the spot ; but lie was seized by the authorities, and swed
for inquiry before a more regular tribunal. His chief
assistant was one Monari, who had been an officer of the
Carahiniri, or Municipal Guard ; and in the house of the
latter was found a depot of no pistols, a number of
poignards, and a stock of powder. Monari contrived to
escape from his pursuers by blowing out his own brains
upon the spot.
I have likewise before me all the papers from the south
of France, which arrived in Paris by this day's post. The
authorities appear every where to continue on the alert,
and to have arrested and examined a great number of in-
dividuals ; but I do not really see that they have discovered
what they profess to seems', the existence of any formidable
Carlist conspiracy : the plans which they promulgate as
proofs of confederacy are foolish and feeble, and some of
them even deficient in an air of probability. The Bor-
deux Journal, L' Opinion, of the 20th, gives some further
details of the defeat of the constitutionalists near Gibraltar,
received through Spain, and accounts of the tranquil man-
ner in which the Bordelaise were engaged in erasing fleurs-
de-lis, and removing church and missionary crosses. Le
Precurseur (a Lyons Journal) of the 20th, has the fol-
lowing paragraph. The following note has been this day
presented to us, accompanied by a medal :—" The medals
of the Virgin, serving as a rallying emblem for the Abso-
lutists, of which yon speak in your number of yes-
terday as having been seen in Bordcauv, were also distri-
buted here by some curates to the Carlists of our city, and
this was done, as they said, to preserve the holders of them
corporally from the misfortunes which menaced Gomorrha.
They also said that all who wore them would be respected
by the Austrians, when they shall come to avenge the ab-
solute throne and the altar. I found one of these little
medals in the corner of my waistcoat pocket, which I was
carrying about unknown to me, though not to my wife. I
give it to you, for to preserve myself from the Austrians
and the enemies of my country I only require my gun and
my cartridges." The Nismes journal, Constitutionnel
du Gard, mentions that all was tranquil in that neigh-
bourhood ; but I find in the Nantes paper, L'Ami de la
(loarte, of last Sunday, that on the 17th there was some
local disturbance at Vitre, in Britanny, and at Etrellas,
where the inhabitants had rescued some prisoners, who
were, according to one account, arrested as Carlists, and ac-
cording to another seized by the gendarmes as deserters.
You will find in the National of this day an article
upon the liquidation of the old civil list, which has made
some noise among our politicians, from the bold views
which it takes of the posthumous claims of sovereigns.
There is likewise, in the Journal des Debuts, a speech
prepared by M. de Schonen for delivery in the Chamber
of Deputies, but not spoken by him. It is interesting
from the details which he gives of the destruction of the
Archbishop's palace by the mob. M. de Schonen was a
colonel of one corps of the National Guards upon duty on
the spot at the time, and is also, I believe, a Judge of the
Royal Court ; he is a liberal Deputy, arid a man of warm
imagitrition—married (I believe) to the daughter of M.
Corallee. His account of the ravages of the mob, of
which I e was an eye-witness, will be read with interest.
This Parisian mob does not, it seems, plunder, but, verily,
their claws are finely sharpened for desolation. However,
upon the point of plunder, it is perhaps time to set that
matter right. Heroic virtue is a rare quality amongst
very cultivated minds ; the mere vulgar cannot, then,
be expected to be so generally imbued with it. No
praise can be too high fur the conduct of the Paris mob
last July as a whole; but the historian who has to re-
cord their feats will have to record, also, that there was
much plunder of the palaces of the French capital during
the three days of the " great week." Any man acquainted
even with the public orders of the authorities during the
month of August, must know that articles of great value
were taken both from the Tuileries and St. Cloud, and
never restored, notwithstanding the inducement of threats
and rewards. I speak principally of costly articles of plate
and jewellery belonging to the members of the Ex• Royal
Family. The same spoliation occurred in the capital a
week ago. It would be singular, indeed, where it other:
wise, when a dense mob got into momentary possession of
objects of a tempi* value. This allusion is hardly worth
making, except at a time when fulsome adulation is poured
upon the purity of spiris which is said to reign among the
mixed throng of this large city.
By a paragraph which I send you from a Havre paper,
you will see (if you have not previously) that your ac-
counts from Falmouth of late Lisbon news is, unhappily,
not confirmed. Y.

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, SITTING or Fan. 23.
At a quarter to two o'clock, tie President entered the
Chamber again to-day: the Vice-President M. Dupin
Aime, occupied the chair of M. C. Perier, whose late
exercising has entirely exhausted all his strength, and he
is now obliged to keep his room. At two o'clock the
sitting commenced, when M. Passy ascended the tribune
to communicate a report of commission relating to
2 000,000 of francs, demanded for the pensions of officers
in the army, Sm. The Chamber was very badly attend d
by the Deputies: the few who were there were perfectly
inattentive to the report.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sebastiani, announced
the following communication from Government. He said
that the Government recognized the necessity of laying
before the nation, from time to time, the steps they had
taken, and the motives which had actuated those steps—
that they now thought proper to expose to the Chamber
what had been finally done with respect to Belgium; It
had been the business of Belgium to choose a Monarch for
herself; and her chief point—that which was necessary to
render a stable and durable nation of herself—was the
choice of a Monarch who would be well received and re-
cognised by the other Powers of Europe. They (the Bel-
gians) had triumphed over a doctrine that had existed in
Europe, and was confirmed against her in 1814. France
had done the same in July, but she had likewise triumphed
by the steps she immediately took in obtaining the recogni-
tion of the other great Powers, and establishing her own
strength and independence ; that was not yet the case with
Belgium ; she bad it yet to do. And France, he con.
tended, bad, while she perfectly observed the system
of non-intervention, co-operated with other nations, so
as to establish an independence of Belgium. It had been
endeavoured to name a Prince, who would be favoured by
all Europe. There had been attempts made for the
Prince of Orange and bis son ; unfortunately. those had
failed, in consequence of the resentment which the Bel-
gians still entertained towards the Nassaus, for the vio-
lence committed by them in the late revolution. Prince I
Otho, of Bavaria, had been suggested by the Belgians,
to whom France would willingly have consented ; but
while the negotiations were going on, on this head, the
Belgians, roused by former remembrances, and friendly
wishes towards France, changed their first thoughts of
this Prince, to propose the union with Frahee ; but
France had to consult the opinion of other nations, to
avoid an appearance of ambition, as the means of
avoiding a war of jealousy with all Europe. It was
a principle well known, that a country could not
aggrandize her limits without a war, for which reason
France would have refused the union if it bad been ofli
daily offered. He continued that the Dube of Nemours
bad then become, with the Duke of Leuchteniaurg, can-
didates of that throne. Notwithstanding, he said, that
the Duke of Leuehtenburg was the adopted son of the
great man to whom France awed so much end such high
glory (and entering into great eulogia on Napoleon ;) he
said that she would maintain her principle of amity with
the other Powers, and would not recognise bim as King of
Belgium. He afterwards expressed the greatest satisfac-
tion of the King in bearing that the Duke de Nemours
was named, but was obliged to refuse it for the grounds
already stated. He added, that all tire Cabinets of the
Great Powers of Europe were united to preserve the
general peace.
General Lamarque was left at the tribune, spieling
against the measure of the Government fur the refusal, it
four o'clock.

(Front the French Papers of Wednesday.)

The Moniteur contains a Royal ordinance, fixing tl*
number of the members of the Commission for conduct-
ing the business formerly entrusted to the Board of Com-
merce and Colonies at nine, and nominating M. Odier and
Cunin Gridaine, both Deputiei, to be members of the
Commission. By another ordinance, the exhibition of the
productions of the manufactories of France, which was
to take place this year, is postponed, and the Chambers of
Commerce and Manufactures are directed to consider and
report their opinion as to the most desirable period for
the opening of the next exhibition, and whether it should
continue to be renewed every fourth year, •or at any other
stated periods.

The Courrier Francais says" In the deliberation,
which took place in the ConOcii for the removal of M.
Odillon Barrot, M. Montalivet,
had sent in his
&s a party resig-
nation, abstained from taking part concerned.
It is asserted that on the first day there was equal divi-
sion between the six other members of the
that on the second four voices against two pronounced ad
Zr
the removal. It was only after this decision that the d
Mi-
nister of the Interior consented to resume cam
We,
hear that M. Odillon Barrot declined the embassy at .C;;,
stantinople offered him by the Minister for Foreign ors
and the Presidency of the Comiti des ,Contenneux of ,the
Council of State, proposed to him by the Minister of
Public Instruction."
"It is asserted," says the Journal de Paris, " that a