13 MAY 1837, Page 2

Finding no safety in severity, Louts Pinter has commenced a

new and more enlightened domestic policy. At the instance of the Duke of ORLEANS and the new Ministry, he has granted an amnesty to all the persons now imprisoned for state offences, with the exception of MEUNIER and B01REAU. Accused persons who have decamped, and those who after trial have escaped from pri- son, are excluded from this act of grace ; the value of which is also much diminished by the continuance of the surveillance of the police over those whose sentences contained that restriction. This drawback has deprived Louts PHILIP of nearly all the po- pularity which a complete and unqualified pardon would have procured for him ; and the Liberal journals are grumbling at the jealous and niggardly manner in which, after years of perseem. lion, this deed of mercy has been performed. In the Chamber of' Deputies, the Ministers carried their secret- service-money bill, by the large majority of 250 to 112. But this vote is not looked upon as arm indication of stability. The discus- sion which preceded it brought out GU1ZOT, TRIERS, and ODIL• LON BARROT in opposition ; and the weakness of the Ministry in debating power was so manifest as to produce an almost universal impression that another modification of the Cabinet must take Plate in the recess.

The King reviewed the National Guards on Sunday, in the Place de Carrousel—fur the first time since the affair of Fiesenn The show seems to have gone off very well ; though some of the discontented said that from the precautions taken to prevent the approach of the people to the Roy al person, it was evident that the King was apprehensive of treason, not confident of the affections of Frenchmen.

There were disturbances at Tours last week, on the occasion of celebrating the feast of the Ascension by the usual processions of the %vorkpeople. The men, it seems, wore ribands and badges, ind:eating their respective callings; and such is the state of alarm in which time French authorities seem to be throughout the country, that the police prohibited the use of these harmless insignia, dreading that they might have some political meaning. Soldiers mere ordered to strip off their ribands; the workmen resieted, with clubs and stones: twelve of the military were wounded ; but the rioters were dispersed, and fifteen taken pri- soners. At night, an unsuccessful attempt was made to break open the prison and set its inmates at liberty. It is distressilig to think, that in France the most innocent recreations of the humbler classes are liable to be broken in upon in this manner. Commercial distress, though somewhat mitigated, is still severe:-