The Paris National complains that people care nothing for politics
and are entirely absorbed in stockjobbing, and adds this piece of ad-. vice—" Become rich, but take care not to be hanged."
Laffitte's bank in Paris seems to be a thriving concern. The shares have risen considerably, in consequence-of a statement made in the beginning of the week, that the business of the bank during the last three months was double that of the previous quarter.
M. Thiers has returned to his old profession, to which he had owed his elevated fortune. He has engaged, it is said, to furnish the cows stirationnel with one article per week, for which be is to receive a salary of .5,000f. (250/0 a month. Some of the articles lately published in that paper are certainly calculated to convey the idea that this engage- ment, whatever may be its conditions, is real. —Paris Correspondent of the Times. LThiers is well paid ; if he ever actually touch his 3,
a year.]
The story of the conversion of the Dutchess of Orleans to the Ca- tholic faith is contradicted.
The Austrian Observer is full of eulogiums on the liberal conduct of the Jews of Pest; who, when the dearth was at the greatest, procuted a quantity of flour and bread, and distributed 3,500 loaves among the distressed inhabitants, without distinctiott of religion, besides giving large supplies of meat and money.
The German papers are filled with further accounts of the de-
plorable effects of the late inundations in Hungary. Upwards of forty towns and villages below Pest were under water.
The Prussian Colonel Kaiserling, Chief of the Staff of Don Carlos, las been for some days in Paris ; where be expects a number of other German officers, who are going to take service in the Army of Don Car- los. He has been received by M. Mole, with whom he had a very long conference.—Commerce.
Among the Carlist prisoners taken by General Flinter, were numbers of mere lads, from fourteen to sixteen years old; many of whom were officer.!
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