Star.
London, England, 1830-06-04 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

From the Messager des Chambres of Wednesday.

Letters from Toulon state, according to the intelligence received
by the last vessels from the coast of Algiers, it was a fortunate cir-
cumstance that the squadron did not set sail before the 25th, as ex-
ceedingly bad weather prevailed for nearly a whole month on the
coast of Africa. Not only would the expedition have been wholly
unable to effect a landing, but it would have been exposed Ito the
greatest dangers.—There is every reason to hope that our squadron
will arrive at a moment when the same apprehensions no longer
exist.

GREECE—The English General, Church, who has been in the
service of Greece, has published some observations on the limits
which the Allied Powers have assigned to that State. His memoirs
contribute much to exculpate Prince Leopold's refusal. He shows
that the discontent which broke out in Greece respecting the settle-
ment of their frontiers is more serious than the public is aware of ,
that a very different frontier from that which has been fixed by the
Allies is requisite for the firm establishment of the new State, and
that this frontier ought to include Acarnania and Etolia. He
likewise maintains that the limits, as at present determined, leave
Greece at the mercy of the Turks, and deprive the Government of
the very possibility of preventing collisona between its subjects and
those of the Porte.

The list of the purifications about to be adopted begins to unfold
itself by degrees. We have already mentioned several dismissals.
We arc this day informed that M. Febrotte, the director of domains
In the department de l'lndre and Loire, a functionary of great ca.
parity, in a branch requiring more knowledge than any other, is of
that number. He was the friend of his ex.director.general, M. de
Cahoon.

Havaz (in the department of the Lower Seine,) Maw 30.—The
Curate of near Havre, a young Priest, recently arrived in that
parish, paid frequent visits to the wife of a labourer; who endured
the assiduities of this ruddy and lascivious pastor with less impa-
tience than her husband. In spite of repeated interdictions on the
part of the party interested, the Curate found so much delight in
the conversation of his pretty parishioner, that he could not mus.
ter resolution enough to pay any attention to the prohibitions of
the hosband. As soon as the labourer went to the fields, the
Curate hastened to fill his place, and gave his company to the
wife ; so that the neighbours made their remarks upon it,
and laughed at this domestic arrangement, till at last one of than,
who was more careful of the labourer's reputation than the rest,
had the charitableness to Inform him of what was going on. One
day last week, having observed the Curate to slip into the farm
like a cunning fox, this officious neighbour went to apprise the
husband of it, who, without loss of time, left his waggon and
horses under the care of his assistant, and returned home in great
haste. He found the Curate sitting with his wife, and joyfully
emptying a bottle of wine. He thought this the time for inflicting
a correction on the guilty pair. Being armed with his whip,
which, from an excess of prudence, he had brought along with him,
he laid it lustily on and about the ecclesiastic's shoulders, tore the
cassock into ribands, and lett a number of marks on the bruised
face of the man who superseded him. When be conceived the chas-
tisement sufficient, he openid the dour, and, taking his hat off,
showed the rev. gentleman out, whom his neighbours were expect-
ing in the street. The worthy individual returned to the parson-
age, honed by the whole village. 1t is useless to add, that oiler
the depar ure of the curate, the labourer somewhat rudely demon.
aerated to his wife the danger of a tete.a.tete with a young priest,
drinking wine, with closed doors, in the house of an absent husband.