The public proceedings in the French Court of Peers were
brought to a close on Monday evening, after counsel on both sides, and the prisoners themselves had been heard. The decision of the Court is not known in London at the time we write, but it was expected to be delivered on Thursday. There appears to be a general desire in Paris that capital punishment shall not be in- flicted on the guilty ; but the presence of an army of 100,000 men, was held by some to indicate an intention on the part.. vernment to exact the severest penalty. Many arr9at*
place at Marseilles.
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'Thu' (11;11111W). of Deputies was occupied on WO t*: 'it''-' on canal- The Committee ogt whom the law was referred, recommended tl granted in aid of those works should be applied to such as were already in progress; but DUFAURE, Minister of Public Works, pro- tested against his hands being tied, and the Committee's article was rejected. The law then passed by a vote of 233 to 48.
The Chamber have postponed the final decision of the Sugar question ; a result which caused extreme dissatisfaction at Bor- deaux, where the merchants went to the Prefecture to complain of the Government, and many sugar-refiners immediately dismissed their workmen.
A Bordeaux paper publishes Marshal SOULT'S reply to the muni- cipal authorities of Bilboa, who addressed him on Louis PHILIP PE'S change of policy toward Spain. The Marshal promises a continu- ance of good offices and of assistance to the Queen.
