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London, England, 1842-05-02 00:00:00

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The discussion on the Railroad Bill forms the leading topic
of comment in the original columns of the Paris Journals ' • but
it is really astonishing to see how • little interest they have
thrown over the subject ; their articles are indeed more an
analysis of the debate, with iunning remarks upon the speakers,
than a broad and general criticism upon the principles of the
Bill as involving the two great questions of public utility and
public expenditure. The other subjects commented upon by
the Journals, and they are very few in number, are wholly
without interest.

Thcilioniteur Pariyien says—" We are assured that a great
number of Deputies, in order to prevent the anarchy of rivahty
respecting the Railroad Bill, and at the same time to husband
the public resources, have resolved on giving their approbation
only to one great line to be immediatel,y executed by the State,
the other lines to be undertaken successively, according to their
degree of importance. The direct line of the east is that to
svhiJi they give the priority, and they require that the army
should be employed un the cuttings awl embankments."

A letter front Mascara, in the -Tpulonnais, April 5, tiays :
"At lad ai is finished here. The last subniistiion of the
Ilachems came in this mornitig. The family of Abe-el-Fader
was to-day at General Laiiiiiricirre's fur peace for them-
selves and the rest or the disaffected. Flocks are grazing on all
sides in the plains of Eighres, and the tribes are fixed peaceably
near the wails of Mascara. Our last expedition carried every
thing before it. But what an expedition it was ! Twenty-
eight days and as many nights' march, and every day a rassia!
Our men were really admirable. We .performed 185 leagues
in different directions, and occupied fur twa days the town of
Frendah, which we restored uninjured to the inhabitants who
have submitted. We suffered exceedingly from c: 1.1 and frost
during two data. We had three feet of snow in 24 hours, and
with it ice and wind in abundance--and all within a league cf
the desert. Four men died of cold in our bivouac. Com-
mandant de Geraudon, whose battalion was charged with the
care of the cattle, left tioo sheep, 200 oxen, and 40 prisoners,
men, women, and children, on the road, dead from cold. It
was a real scene of desolation."

A letter from. Cadiz, in the Debtits, says:-" So great a
landing of contraband articles took place here a few days since,
that the inhabi:ints never saw anything equal to it. A large
English brig, probably frt.= Gibraltar, kept in the oiling,
waning apparently for signals. In the evening she entered our
bay,. and cast anchor. The next day we were surprised to
learn that 3,400 bales of prohibited goods had been landed, and
afterwards introduced over the walls -into the town."
Several changes have taken place in the Corps Diplomatique
of Holland. Baron Schimmelpenninck Vander Vye, hitherto
Envoy at the Court of Hu,sia, succeeds Count de Perponcher,
who has resigned the post of ambassador at the Court of Berlin.
Baron W. Mollerus leaves the Court of Vienna, and takes at
St. Petersburgh the place of M. Schimmelpanninek, and is
succeeded by Baron J. D. B. A. Van Heeckeren.