Star.
London, England, 1830-12-27 00:00:00

EXPRKSS PROM PARIS.

PARIS, Drc. 26.

Tranquillity has been entirely restored ; but arrests were
still executing by the police, and there was great difficulty
on Friday in dissuading an eminent Member of the
Chamber of Deputies from denouncing General
Gourgaud, in consequence of violent language imputed
to that officer during the disturbances early in the week.
The political caldron appears to have been full of angry
elements at the close of the trials, but, luckily, there wee
no master demon bold enough to raise the incantation.
Prince Polignac will not, as the French Papers assert, he
sent to the fortress of Ham, in Picardy. His sentence
ought to satisfy his bitterest enemy. By the 25th article
of the French civil code, la mort chile (civil death), to
which he is consigned, condemns him to the loss of the
proprietorship of all the goods which he possesses; the
succession to them is forthwith thrown open to his heirs,
upon whom every thing devolves, exactly as if he died
without making a will. Henceforth he can neither derive,
nor transmit by right of succession ; he can dispose of no
property, in whole, or in part, by gift or by contract ; he has
no title to anything but for mere subsistence ;' he can nei-
ther name a tutor for his children, nor concur in any arrange-
ments flr that purpose. He cannot be a witness to any authen-
tic act, or be heard in a court of justice. He can neither be
named a plaintiff nor defendant. He is rendered incapable of
contracting any marriage, or of having legitimate succession :
the marriage which be had previously contracted is dissolved,
and all the ties arising out of it. His wife and children can
now divide his inheritance exactly as if he were naturally
dead. When to this desolate doom is added a separation front
his fellow-prisoners, and perpetual imprisonment in the Wen!:
fortress of Mount St. Michael, on a sea-girt rock on the cam
of Normandy, a fortress built by William the Conqueror,
and only since inhabited by severely self-denying tribes of
fanatical priests and smugglers, and their pursuers in ulti-
mate succession, surely the French Government cannot be
accused of letting the stroke of justice fall lightly upon the
devoted head of this unfortunate minister. The other pri•
soners will be removed next week to Ham, in Picardy.
" While Generals Bertrand and Gourgaud have been de-
nounced in the political circles of Paris, they have had au-
diences of the King at the very moment of the troubles; the
names of Nantil and Danton (nephew of the terrorist of
old) are also stated to be under the surveillance of the
police; indeed, names of all kinds were freely talked of in
Paris. Meanwhile the King is every where exercising his
personal popularity : he is both night and day in the streets
reviewing the National Guards, and shaking hands with
the people ; but the Ministers are much embarrassed
in their political operations. They are about to with-
draw and modify their project of the Civil List, which both
the King and the Duke of Orleans say they thought from
the beginning to have been fixed upon too extravagant a
scale. The advance of the Russian troops upon Poland was
the source of much inquietude to the pacific portion of the
French Cabinet. They see nothing but a general war in
the march of these movements. The French papers do not
give the names of the peers who voted for acquittal and ca-
pital punishment. As mentioned a week ago, there were at
first nearly forty peers for capital punishment, the under-
standing, however, being, that a recommendation of mercy
should accompany the presentation of such a sentence to the
King; but this number was subsequently much re-
duced at private conferences at the houses of different
Peers. On giving the verdict, however, Count Lynch
(of Bordeaux), an old Royalist, was the on:y voice raised
for acquittal. Count Leine, (also from Bordeaux, and a
stanch Royalist likewise,) was for perpetual imprison-
ment, having a number of Peers to act with him. On the
other hand, Count Portalis was for banishment, also with a
party acting with him. For death there were, at the first
series of votes, seven (as our correspondent mentioned at the
time); these were the Counts Lanjuinais, de la Roche Aymon,
de Saint Simon, Boissy d'Anglas, de Montvill, General Ba-
ker' and the Duke de Valney. The delivery of these votes
caused great excitement in the Chamber, and there were cries
of Canaille,' insinuating that these votes were given under
the intimidation of a mob, and expressions were addressed to
Lanjuinais, that his father would not have acted so. A com-
promise of votes was then arranged, and the penalty of civil
death was thrown into the scale against Polignac; so that in
the end only four adhered to a capital sentence; these were
d'Anglas, Montvill, Beker, and Valney."— Times.

Extract from the Journal du Commerce.
" The meeting of the young men of the three schools which was an.
nounced for yesterday (Friday), took place at the Pantheon. The
assembly consisted of 2,000 students, without including the pupils of
the Polytechnic School it is asserted that an address was voted to the
Chamber of Deputies, and a declaration, which will, it is said, be in-
serted in several journals.
" We have this moment received copies of the two protestations of
the Schools of Law and Medicine. The originals contain so many
signatures that it Is impossible to put them in a journal.