14 APRIL 1832, Page 1

The principal feature in the Foreign News of the week,

is the spread and fatality of the Cholera in Paris and its neighbourhood. The number attacked, up to Tuesday at noon, was 5,908 the number of deaths was 2,235. This report includes only that part of Paris which lies within the walls; and therefore, about a fifth or more of the cases and deaths are to be supplied. When to these are added the cases and deaths that have occurred, not only in the villages in the neighbourhood, but up and down the Seine for nearly one hundred Miles—for the disease has already diffused itself iro not less a distance from the capital—we shall not exceed the trlith when we say, that, in one fortnight, Cholera has attacked and carried off a greater number in one district among the French, than it has done in the whole of Great Britain since its first re- ported commencement on the 26th October last. Nor has it been, as heretofore, a respecter of rank and opulence. M. CASIMIR PERIER; the Premier, was attacked on Saturday afternoon with all the most alarming symptoms; and be is hardly now out of danger, though the medical attendants express their confident hopes that his convalescence is approaching. The Neapolitan Ambassador has suffered from the malady ; and one of his suite has 'linen a victim to it. The lady of SCIPION PERIER, brother of the Premier —M. BOISSET DE MONYILLE, a Peer of France—M. DE CHAU- VELIN, the well-known Deputy, who had been Ambassador at London in the year 1792—M. BESSON, formerly a Prefect—and a great many public functionaries, have died ; the President of the Cour Royale, and a number of the bar, are ill. The alarm has been great. Not fewer than fifty thousand per- sons are said to have quitted Paris, for the provinces and for England. The number of Deputies that have abandoned their posts is so great, that fears were at one time entertained lest the public and necessary business might be impeded for want of a legal majority in the Chamber; and so pressing was the occasion deemed, that the Chamber sat the whole of Sunday for the purpose of for- warding bills. The sudden and terrible attack of this disease has been received with prudence and firmness by the medical autho- rities and by Government, and every remedy has been tried and appliance made to diminish its virulence. Hospitals are every- where opened ; and by public contributions as well as private sub- scriptions they are amply supplied with whatever is requisite. The reports of poisoning, which prevailed so generally, and were vouched for so- confidently last week, have died away; though not several disturbances and the shedding of blood. A miser% mid two men Who were afterwards proved incontestibly ttiirweiirkk cent, have fallen victims to the passions of the. mob ; a ,seyiiif others have been with difficulty rescued from their violehr Vttlre . is no longer, however, any disinclination to take advantage of the means of cure ; and this is perhapa: the reason, why the deaths have been considerably.fewer/iii. proportion to Alio- cases than in London, where medical -Men are rarely, and the hospitals still more rarely had recourse to, until the disease is beyond the power cf the doctor.

The law for the exclusion for ever from the soil of France, of CHARLES the Tenth, his descendants, and the wives of his de- scendants, has been proclaimed. From the neglect of BOURMONT, for -obvious reasons, to take the oath of allegiance, he has been an- nounced, by the Minister of War, to be no longer a Marshal of Trance. The defalcations of M. KESNER have been reported on. !Their total is 6,250,000 francs (250,0001.); to meet which there are assets to the amount of 1,750,000 francs (70,0001.) His private debts, no portion of which are provided for, amount to three mil- lion of francs. The blind confidence reposed by Government in 'this man was severely censured by the reporter. The blame is chiefly attributed to the administration of M. DE VILLELE. The case altogether furnishes a pleasant illustration of the old adage, air custodiet custodes?—Not the French system of bookkeeping e vidently.

The number of emigrants whom the troubles of surrounding .countries have driven to seek refuge in France, has compelled the 'Government to have recourse, with regard to a part of them at 'least, to a regulation akin to an alien act. Certain towns have been agreed to be fixed on as their future place of residence. The lOpposition—which, different as it is in profession, has much of the spirit of our own, for its only object is to impede the business of which circumstances refuse it the management-7made a formi- dable stand against this arbitrary measure, as it was denominated; but they were beaten by a large majority. The difficulties which the French Government seek to remove, furnish a case that is mot discussed in VATTEL, but which will, we hope, form part of an amended edition—" If, by his tyranny and oppression, any prince /compel so large a number of his subjects to emigrate, as by their emigration seriously to inconvenience those states that border on his dominions, are not those states placed in a position which justifies them in interfering to procure from that prince such a change in his system of government as shall enable and induce his, subjects to remain at home?"

The difficulties which appeared to surround the expedition to Ancona, are in part smoothed down. There were reports during the week, that the Papal troops, aided by Austria, were marching on the town, in order to compel its evacuation. It is now stated, that the Holy Father's councils are more prudent as well as adific. The French troops are to occupy the fortress as friends and allies, and of course under the Papal .flag ; the number of the garrison is not to be augmented ; the Austrians are to retire from the Legations ; and means are to be taken to produce a general settlement of the disturbances there. The determination of the French -Government has not been made known ; we should not be surprised if the taking down of the French flag form the only difficulty. In this world of unreality, it is the sign rather than the substance, the name rather than the thing, that mostly occu- pies men's deliberations.