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FRANCE.
TUESDAY, the 20th instant, The Paris papers, of Thursday and Friday, do not contain
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when a SERMON will be
Preached in St. Peter's Church, by the Rev. C. 7 any thing of political importance. They publish, how-
hop of M
TUS THURLOW, M.A., Chaplain to the
a COL- ever, some particulars of a banquet given at acon to M.
York, and Rector a Malpas, Cheshire, after de Lamartine, and a report of that distinguished deputybis h
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LECTION will be made in aid of the fund of is
different
very remarkable speech on the occasion, in which he exhorts
c,ols. . the people to '• endeavour to recal the Government to the
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principles which placed the present King on the throne; but
' nrecisely, and Divine Ser ice will commence I that, should the Government persist obstinately in the course
it has hitherto pursued, the people must not accompany them
The terms in which this unquestionably gifted per-
son conveyed his meaning are, however, either too poetical
or too timid to be' literally understood and translated ; we
are, consequently, reduced to guess only at his meaning,
and that appears to be, that ” die present state of things may
endure for, in all, fifteen years
, in France, or to the demise
of the present Sovereign ; ' but that " the destinies of the
country were never either in the hands of, or bound up with
the fall or existence of any individual." " Napoleon," said
he, significantly, "is dead. Powerful dynasties have passed
away, yet France remains. It has never yet been confined
to any manor to any power to carry with them the fortunes

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Accordirig to the figurative reasoning of M. De Lamartine,
" the monarchy imagined and decreed in 1830, and which it
was then understood was to be that of King Louis Phillippe,
was the work of reason and of necessity,—a monarchy not
enveloped in the mysteries of English metaphysics, con-
cealing its origin in heaven (!), but the monarchy of broad
daylight, examined by everybody, agreed to by everybody,
belonging to everybody. Less than that would be the ancien
regime—more than that would be the republic." He con-
cluded by giving as a toast—" The regular and peaceable ac-
complishment of the destinies of democracy."
In a word, NI. de Lamartine shows that the two monarchies
tried by France-since 1789—the military monarchy of Na-
poleon and the divine-right monarchy of the restoration, en-
dured for only fifteen Years each; that the present experiment
(monarchy) has existed for now nearly eighteen years, and
may be expected to expire in a couple more ; that then the
existing monarchy having been, though a work of necessity,
a masterpiece of reason, and having failed in its object,
France should have no more to do with monarchies of any
kind or description.
The Moniteur of Saturday has the following :
" The Prince de Joinville, on his arrival at Rio de Janeiro,
demanded pf the Emperor of the Brazils, with the consent
of the King his father, the hand of her Imperial highness the
Princess Frances of Braganza, which was accorded to him.
The marriage was to be celebrated at Rio de Janeiro on the
Ist of May. The Prince de Joinville is now on his way back
to France, in the frigate Belle Poole, with the young Princess
his bride. Their Royal Highnesses are expected in the
course of next month."
" The new daughter-in-law of the King of the French,"
says the Commerce, " will shortly enter her 19th year. Her
sister, Donna Maria, is Queen of Portugal, and her second
and elder .sister, Januaria, is presumptive heiress to the
crown of the Brazils."
" It would be curious to ascertain," adds one of our pri-
vate letters, "the precise amount of influence this coming
event exercised over the mission of Mr. Ellis."

One of the Paris Journals contains the particulars of a
threatened affair of honour between M de la Roche Pouchin
and Prince Napoleon, son of Jereme Bonaparte, which was
fortunately prevented by the police.

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There is at present in the orangery of Versailles an orange
tree planted by one of the female ancestors of Jeanne
d'Albret. Its age is 432 years. It was brought to France
in 1560, and was the first of the kind that was seen. Francis
I. and Henry IV. kept it at Fontainebleau.—Galignani's
Messenger.

ARTESIAN WELLS.—We understand that it is intended
to carry the bore for the Artesian well in the Garden of
Plants to the depth of 800 or 900 metres, whereas that at
Grenelle is only 550 metres deep. The object of piercing so
low is to find water of a high temperature. The expectation
of doing so is founded on observations made by M. Arago and
M. Walferdin, at Grenelle, that the temperature of the water
increased in warmth one degree at every 32 metres depth,
and, consequently, at that of 800 or 900 metres must be at
36 to 39 degrees centigrade (about from 97 to 104 Fahrenheit,)
with which the hothouses of the equatorial plants, and also
the lodges of the animals in the menagerie, and even the hos-
pitals in that quarter, may be warmed in winter.—Paris
paper.
THE WEATHER IN FRANCE.—EXTRACT OF A LETTER,
PARIS, JUNE 8

This is Saint Medard ! (the St. Swithin of Frdnce), and it
has rained incessantly all day, as it has done in fact for the
forty days that have preceded it. Will you believe that the
gloom which, had this been the 9th instead of the Bth of
June, would have been produced by a continuance of rain
and cold, is considerably enhanced by the recollection that
this is Saint Medard? A report prevails on the Bourse (of
all places!) that the astronomers predict that a favourable
change will take place on Saturday. Let us hope that this is
something more than a mere stock-jobbing rutnour, for the
weather is the sole influence now felt at the Bourse, political
excitement being for the moment in abeyance.
Should the weather improve, we shall yet have a good har-
vest, but this is the critical moment. We have had much
rain and a very cold temperature, but no material injury has
yet occurred to the corn crops. The vintage will, however,
in any case be a failure. You already know that irreparable
mischief has been done to the vines of Bordeaux and of Bur-
gundy. The prospect in Champagne may be collected from
the following passage in a letter I read yesterday, from an
officer of the Regiment of Artillery, now on its march from
Paris to Metz, and dated Chalons sur Marne :
" The vintage in this country will be the worst on record.
Our cannoneers will, on passing through Champagne, have
drunk more Chaimpagne wine than the whole vintage of the
present year wall supply."

The pope has given authority to a company of the duchy
of Modena, to construct a railroad from Rome to Civita
Vecchia.—French paper.
A visit can be made, by steam from New York, to the great
western wonder, Niagara Falls ; and the whole expense of
going and returning does not exceed thirty dollars.
It appears, from a recent statistical account, that from 1829
to 1843, a period of fourteen years, there died in France 2254
persons who had attained the age of 100 years. being an average
of 161 per annum.—Galignani.
The Hon. Robert H. Morris, recently elected mayor of
New York, celebrated and signalised that event by subscrib-
ing to the pledge of total abstinence.
The King of Prussia saved his life a few days ago in the
deer-park near Potsdam, by seizing a rifle from an attendant,
and killing on the spot a furious stag, which has often done
mischief, and was running in full career at his Majesty.
The King of Prussia has presented three beautiful vases
from the royal porcelain manufactory at Berlin, to a confec-
tioner at Cologne, as an acknowledgment for a perfect and
most accurately-worked model of the cathedral of Cologne,
made of sugar.

On the 24th ult. about noon, an elderly man, who was
pursued by some gendarmes, but for what offence is not stated,
rushed into the cathedral at Cologne, and, ascending to one
of the towers, threw himself off at a height of 180 feet. The
violence of the fall was so great, the body was literally broken
in half.

The state of New Jersey is much excited, owing to one of
the most horrible murders ever recorded having been perpe-
trated within its limits. On Monday, the 22nd ult. some
villains got into the house of Mr. Parke, a wealthy landowner,
living near Belvidere, murdered him, his son-in-law (Mr.
Castner,) Mrs. Castner, and her child in her arms, and then
robbed the house. Two men are in custody on suspicion of
being the monsters.
THE FRENCH IN THE PACIFIC.—The report of Admiral
Leray on the French establishments in the •Pacific, was dis-
tributed to the members of the Chamber of Deputies on
Wednesday. The report states that the idea of founding an
establishment in the Pacific Ocean had occupied the Govern-
ment during several years previous to the accssion of the
present ministry. The necessity for such an establishment
was evident in a political point of view, as well as a protec-
tion for the French commerce, and as a means to insure
France a place of shelter and a maratime and naval position
in the great ocean. " Until the present moment," observes
the Journal des Debate, " the idea of cutting through the
isthmus of Panama was considered to be a chimera. Admiral
Leray, however, annonces that a contract for the execution
of this canal has been concluded by the Government of New
Grenada, that the survey has been nearly terminated, and
that the expense will not exceed the means of a private com-
pany."

FALL OF A METEORIC STOVE.—UTRECHT, June 3.—
Yesterday evening, about eight o'clock, a meteoric stone fell
in the commune of Blaanwkapel, about a league from this
city. After a violent expiosion, repeated three or four times,
resembling a discharge of artillery, a whistling and howling
noise was heard, which excited much anxiety and alai m
among the villagers. The servant of a farmer, Jan Tennissa
Borch, who was bringing some horses home from a field, saw,
at a short distance, a heavy body fall to the ground with such
violence that the sand was raised to a considerable height in
in the air. Having procured a spade, he returned to the
place, and found the stone at the depth of three feet in the
stratum of sands which extended below the clay, It weighed
seven pounds, is of a longish irregular shape, and covered
with black crust, peculiar to those eutigratical bodies, which
is broken off only in one place, where the internal gray mat-
ter of the stone appears.

A TIGER STORY.—Four men since our last have been
taken off by the same tiger which killed the convict on Wed-
nesday last. One man, a Chinaman, was taken on Friday,
another on Sunday, a Malay on Monday, and another native,
a woodcutter, on Tuesday. The body of the Malay has not
been found. It appears that the animal prowls about the
neighbourhood of the New-road which is being made leading
from the Orange-grove to the Sepoy Lines. A small tiger
and tigress were killed on Monday at the back of a planta-
tion bordering on the &Alt Timah-road, about a mile from
town. We believe that die tigers are more than usually fe-
rocious just now, in consequence of the extremely dry and
hot weather we have had for some time past. All the pools
and small streams in the jungle having been dried up, the
tigers being unable to quench their thirst, are forced to come
into the neighbourhood of cultivated places, and in their fury
they attack the first living object they see, most generally
some unfOrtunate wood cutter, and their taste for human
blood having been once excited they seek every opportunity
of gratifying it.—Sinyapore Free Press, Feb. 23.

ATTEMPT TO IMPOSE DIFFERENTIAL DUTIES BY COLO-
NIAL LEGISLATURES.—A despatch from Lord Stanley to
the Earl of Elgin, relative to the Jamaica tariff, enacted by
the act which passed the legislature of that colony on the 27th
of December, 1842, contains the following sound remarks :
" To the general principle of imposing differential duties by
colonial legislation, her Majesty's Government object. on
grounds which appear to them conclusive. If the privilege
be conceded to any one British colony, it can be denied to
none ; if granted to all, the result will be that, within her
Majesty's dominions, there will be forty different legislatures,
all regulating at their pleasure, without mutual concert, and
in ignorance of each other's proceedings, one branch of the
commercial relations between the British empire, on the one
band, and all foreign states on the other hand. I need not
point out the impossibility of maintaining those relations on
such a system with any &tree of consistency or stability.
If such laws shall be promulgated to meet the local views
and to advance the local interests of each particular colony,

it will be impossible to avoid many embarrassing que-sv-
tions with foreign Governments, nor will it be prac-
ticable for the Ministers of the Crown, or for th'e
-mercial body in the United Kindom, to ascertain with
"site precision, at any —`at is the

contra

req given time,
real state of a code so complicated, and framed by so many
different authorities." On these grounds the Earl of Elgin
is directed, in the event of an act being passed by the assem-
bly of Jamaica to revive or re-enact the tariff of December,
1812, to withhold his assent from it. This determination on
the part of the ministers, and the reasons which have led to
its adoption, ought to be made generally known in the colo-
nies, for others of them have been falling into the same error
as Jamaica. Duties on imports, equally objectionable with
those which elicited Lord Stanley's remarks, have been im-
posed by the legislature of New Brunswick, and Western
Australia has narrowly escaped a provincial corn law. It is
desirable that a wide range of self-government should be con-
ceded to every colony, but they must not have the power of
restricting their mutual intercourse, or determining the re-
lation in which one province of the empire is to stand to
other nations. Withiii the territories of the empire, (whether
home or colonial) all sub-' ^t- ----L • • •

ought to be much, as much as
po,sible, on an equal footing before the law. The acquiring
of property—trading, banking—ought to be as free to the
Canadian or Londoner, tu Trinidad as to the native of the
island, and viva versa. And this principle, though Lord
Stanley touches upon the fact as a mere secondary point,
was violated by the Jamaica Tariff.—Colonial Gazette.