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FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS.
In compliance with an application from a deputation
ofthe
e 4
events offi c e rso
f put
1815 on a
nt
dh e
1 reformedB3o withoutlist
of officers, headed by Commandant Baron de Lahaye,
the Minister of War has added to his intended budget
for 1843 a sum of 50,000 P., in augmentation of the an-
11111111Clolgrls consequence ele
for
ic the
previous inquiry, before the law of the 19th of May,
1834, on the Etat des Officiers. This sum, added to the
100,000 f., granted to them in 1839, on the proposition
of Marshal Clause), will afford to these officers two-
thirds of their retired pay.
The new pavement at the entrance of the Champs
Elysees, from the Place de la Concorde, is laid with
square blocks of stone, previously steeped in bitumen,
which, by entering into the pores of the stone, renders it
impermeable to the wet, and inaccessible to the frost.
Thii process is said to be applicable to most kinds of
stone with advantage.
Fifty extra pupils, over and above the number lately
determined by the annual examination, have just been
admitted into the Ecole Polytechnique for the special
service of the engineers and the artillery.
The Prefect of Police has just issued an order, that
the persons who take charge of canes, umbrellas,.&c.,
at theatres, public balls, concerts, &c., shall only receive
a fixed sum, viz., for a cane, umbrella, or sword, ten
centimes ; for a cloak or other article of dress, 25 cen-
times. In public balls at theatres and other plaees,
commencing at a late hour of the night, double the above
amount is allowed.

The operations for extracting the twisted tube from duo
artesian well of Grenelle are going on as actively as cir
cumstances will admit. The tube is got up only in frag-
ments, all of which are strangely contorted and flattened.
About 600 feet have thus been brought to the surface,
the water continuing to flow all the time in abundance,
and much charged with dark coloured sand. As soon
as the whole bore is again free a strong iron tubing
will be let down into it.

A fire took place on Sunday night, between 11 and
12, in the warehouse of a military accoutrement manu-
facturer, in the rue St. Denis, but by the prompt arrival
of the firemen the fire was got under before it had ex-
tended beyond the warehouse, in which, however, every-
thing was destroyed.—At about the same hour, an other
fire broke out in the Marche des Patrianles, in the
Passage d'Orlcans St. Marcel. In the course of half an
hour a dozen sheds were burnt down, but the fire was
then got under.
A lion from Senegal, which had been in the menagerie
of the Garden of Plants six years, died a fortnight ago,
and a lioness, his partner, took his loss so much to heart
that she refused all food, and has survived him only a
week. Among the animals lately added are a small stag
from Brazil, which has never before been caught alive ;
a camel or dromedary with two humps, a species notseen
in France for thirty-five years ; and the black tiger,
whose landing at llavre we have mentioned, and whtoh
has reached Paris in good condition.

A considerable number of workmen from Belgium autl.
the northern departments of France, who were employed
on the fortifications, have just left Paris to return home,
the state of the weather no longer admitting of their being
occupied. The soldiers of the engineers corps are now
employed in making measurements of all the work hi-
therto executed, in order that an account ( f the progress
hitherto made may be laid before the Chanibers.
The following distressing aceident is related in the
Journal du Havre :—" The Newcastle collier Julia,
Captain Robinson, homeNard bound from Rouen, was
for a tide moored off the north jetty of Haver.
In the night of Saturday she endeavoured to. get
under weigh, but, baffled by the wea her, and find-
ing that she was drifting towards s'iore, she put out
two anchors and brought up in a pealous situation,
within half a cable's length of the breakers. Here she lay
the whole of Sunday, notwithstanding several boats fiad
gone off to her, and tendered their assistance, which was
declined. In the evening several captains of English
vessels in the harbour, seeing the danger of the Julia,
and not knowing what had taken place, expressed their
astonishment, and Captain Northop, of the Elizabeth,
used some strong terms of reproach at the want of
humanity in the llavre seamen. He was told of the re-
peated refusals of Captain Robinson, but being still scep-
tical, Martin, the master of a tug-boat, offered to take
Captain Northop on board the Julia, that he might
ascertain the truth of what had been told him. The
boat was launched, and reached the collier, but, resist-
ing the remonstrances of Captain Northop, who went
on board, Captain Robinson again declined moving
from his station. The boat, in returning, was upset
near the pier. Martin and three of his men got
safe upon some piles, but seeing one of his companions
struggling with the waves, Martin fastened a rope
round his body, and, leaving one end on shore, swain
out again. Ile caught tho drowning man, and was
hauled safe to land, holding the other by the hand. They
were both senseless from exhaustion, but are recovering.
Captain Northop and two other men were drowned. The
body of the Captain was washed on the beach, and all
the English ships in the harbour hoisted their flags half-
mast high, in sign of mourning for his loss. The Julia
was brought into harbour yesterday."
Maret, a refractory recruit of the class of 1838, as we
mentioned some time ago, being hard pressed by the officers
in search of him, prevailed upon Conor, an associate, to re-
present him, and surrender himself in his name. In June
last Conor went to the gendarmerie barracks in the Marais,
and constituted himself a prisoner, signing the name of
Maret. He hid not been long in confinement before
one of the pndarmes re2ognised him as an old ac-
quaintance, but Conor, with a grave countenance,
denied all knowledge of him, and even of his own
wife and her sister, whom the gendardie knew, and
brought to Ow barracks. The wife, who knew
Afaret, and where he was, betrayed his retreat,
thinking thereby to release her husband ; but, when the
real recruit was brought, they were both detained, and
brought before the Court of Assizes, for the offence

signing a false nom: to a public document. They were
tried yt s..et day, aid convicted. Conor was sentenced o
imprist it cent for two, and Maret, fur three years.
A sailor•of the FrAtch brig of war, Cygne, stationed
at Monte Video, having fallen from the tops on. the
deck, and been killed some time since, his comr.►des
with great generosity, raised a subscription among them.
selves of 1,000 fr., for the benefit of his widow.

The statement that the exhibition of the painting of
M. Paul Delaroche, at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, was
to be closed on the 15th, appears to be erroneous. The
exhibition will remain open the whole of this month.
In repairing the tower of the church of St. Etienne-
du-Mont, the old dial of the clock, which is near the
summit, is being changed for one that is transparent, and
it will be illuminated at night.
A few nights since, three VI hales of the kind called
" blowers," or " bottle-nose whales," were found on the
shore near Morsalines, in the Manche. One of them
was sixteen feet long, and they weighed together nearly
a ton and a half.

A violent hurricane was experienced at the beginning
of this month at Bagneres, in the Hautes-Pyrenees, and
in the surrounding district. A great quantity of farming
produce was destroyed, and 133 habitations have been
severely damaged.—The Toulouse Journal has accounts
from Sengowagnet, in the Haute Garonne, stating
that on the Ist inst. the valleys in that part of the coun-
try were visited by a violent hurricane which uprooted
trees, carried some to a considerable distance, and blew
down numerous barns and dwelling-houses. As a proof
ofith the
of the force of the wind it is stated that a slate weighing
81bs. was torn from the roof of a stable to which it was'
all Cur Cure at a force
of
ssthenoet da,gaainnsdt
the
errkioeud w
se
con-
siderable distance. Here it was driven through one of
the windows into the opposite wallstr a strongly
c'galit'no fastened, a
, which was cased
in which
several strong cement. At Milhau a hay-loft h
several men slept was unroofed, and
the inmates with
the hay blown completely out of it.
A fall took place at St. Ad
resse, in the Seine-Infe-
rieure, at the end of last week, of a '
port of the cliff
600 feet long at top, and '
I,2ooThree
feet at the bottom, and
about 60 feet in breadth.
men, who had been
working on the shore
from the spot on an
alarm being given from above only
a few moments before.
A few Sundaysre.
ago a grand ceremony took place at
La Chapelle-Blanchebody of the martyrs sur Loire, near Tourts,frwohmeirte the
by the Cure of thpatr.ilfonore lately brottgh
to the shrine of
si wasl transferredts
the Church with the usual The Archbishop
of Tours and a great numbers° of clergy were present. A
similar ceremony has also recently taken place at Chinon,
where the body of St. Probus was enshrined in the church.
According to a decision of the Minister of Justice "the
Man without a Name," who has for so many years been
constantly confined and discharged from the prison of
Aix as a vagabond, is again released, and given the
range of the whole town for his residence, but without
liberty of going beyond it.
Another instance of the danger of a too precipitate
interment in France .s mentioned by the Pilule de
Calvados. An inhabitant of Caen, engaged in carry-
ing wood and charcoal from Rouen to Paris,
slept one night last week at an inn he constantly fru-
Next morning the people of the house found
quented.
him, as they believed, dead in his bed, end a medical
man, called in by the authorities, confirmed the con-
viction. He was laid out, and a coffin brought, but as he
was being put into it signs of life were perceived. Means
of resuscitation were used, and in a short time he re-
covered his speech, declaring that he had only been
'
in a state of epilepsy, and had heard nearly
every thing that passed around him. A short time-
afterwards he was again occupied in his bnsiness.
An unfortunate accident occurred at Radon, in the
Ille-et-Vilaine, a few days since. A gentleman and hi
wife, with their niece, aged 16, were in a cabs
driving along the river side upon a causeway cabriolet
flooded. 'rho horse got out of the right line partially
into the river, where the vehicle was overturned,and went
The
gentleman and his wife supported themselves
willows till assistance was given, but their niece bY
some
drowned. r niece was

The Impartial de la Ilieurtheuleations the fol-
lowing remarkable instance of unintentional suffocation,
which has just happened at Blamont, in that depart-
ment :—" A horse belonging to a person who had seve-
ral others, being attacked with violent pains in the loins,
had been fomented with a large bag of hot bran, steeped
in vinegar ; but this not relieving the animal, the owner
ordered that the Lran should be heated again, applied
dry to the part affected, and there left for the night. On
the following morning the servants, on entering the
stable, found the poor animal, with two others shut up
with it, dead from suffocation ; and, on inspecting the
other buildings adjoining, four fine cows, and between
80 and 100 head of poultry were discovered in the same
state. It appeared that some particles of the bran had
inadvertently been ignited in heating, and had gradually
smouldered during the night, until it caught the bed of
straw on which the sick horse lay, and oven the partition
which divided him from the next stall. The smoke thus
occasioned did not break into a flame from the want of
air, the stable being very close.
(Illinois)
Journal ILLINOIS Bows.—The Springfield
Journal says that "it is rumoured that the Governor
has made another issue of State Bonds."