The accounts from Paris supply one piece of interesting intelli-
gence—the discovery of a new plot to assassinate Louts PHILIP. Various are the stories respecting the conspiracy in the French metropolis ; but, after reading the different versions in the news- papers, we prefer the following narrative given by the correspon- dent of the Times, as containing the best statement of known facts. After mentioning that seven or eight persons were arrested on Monday night, and as many more the next morning, the account we quote proceeds as follows.
'1' The prisoners are in general well known friends or admirers of Morey and
Pepin, the accomplices of Fieschi. Some of them are young men of some education; amongst others, there are two or three physicians, who have only
just now received their diplomas. They are kept as secret at the Concier.
genie. Among the persons amnestied by the King in the summer of this year, was a man of the name of Hubert, who was implicated with Boireau and
seven or eight others in a plot to assassinate the King on his way to Neuilly. He was sentenced to imprisonment, not for his participation in that affair, but for insolence to the examining judge, M. Zangiacomi. He was confined in the prison of Clarivaux, and was, shortly before the promulgation of the amnesty, detected in an attempt to escape, and tried for that offence before the tribunal of Arcis.sur-Aube ; on which occasion he declared, that he would not desist from his pursuit of the King until he should have put an end to him. When liberated (in May last, I think) the police kept a strict eye upon him. He was closely followed by them into Belgium, where he evinced ' indiscretion,' into England, back again to Belgium, and once more to England. The alleged ob- ject of this last journey was to consult some of the ablest workmen eogege,1 in the manufacture of arms, (in Birmingham and elsewhere,) and by their aid to arrive at the completion of a new infernal machine. What progress he made does not appear; but he was arrested in Boulogne.sur-Nter on Sunday last, shortly after landing from the steamer. His arrest, I must observe, was caused by a somewhat strange act of his own—namely, by his having left in the hands of the Cuetomhouse.officers his pocket-book, which contained plans of his machine, lists of names, letters, and other evidence, and which left no doubt on the minds of those into whose hands they fell of his criminality. Among the letters so found, was one from an individual in rather a high station, a judge, who resides in a town about 60 or '70 leagues from Paris. This num. tionary is a young man, possessed of a large fortune, and who has been ap. pointed to his judicial situation since the Revolution of 1830. Orders have been aentto arrest him, and seize his papers, which it is expected will throw much light en the conspiracy. Here rests the affair for the present. I should add, how- ever, that those implicated in it will be tried before the Court of Assizes, although some of the influential members of the tipper Chamber have already expressed their desire that they should be brought before the Court of Peers for trial. It is said that the preliminary inquiry wiil last during many months. The machine which Hubert is charged with " contemplating '—for it is not yet made—is said to be something on the plan of Fieschi and of Campion combined, and capable of adaptation to a water-carrier's cart."
There are many reports of changes in the French Ministry; all of which, it is supposed, have their origin in the intrigues of the restless Tubers.
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