Some stir has been made in Paris by the discovery
that the statues by David on the portico of the Pantheon, from which time wood-work which concealed them was only removed last week, are those of Voltaire, Rousseau, Mintbeau, and Manuel. The Carlists, who pretend to be religious, declare that it is infamous to desecrate a building which was once a church by the figures of such noted infidels and profligates; but the Parisians generally laugh at the Carlists.
An English engineer has arrived at Havre, on his road to Paris to lay before the french Government a project for constructing a passage to cross dry-shod. from Calais to Dover. The whole town of Havre has been to hear Mr. W. Coppett (that is his name) explain the nature of his plan. Mr. Coppett asks of France only one milliard, and as much of England. With this trifling sum he will make cones likes those employed at Cherbourg between fifty amid sixty years ago. If the Government does not approve of this system, he has in his pocket three or four others. For instance, lie will make a tunnel under the sea from Dover to Calais, introducing from one end to the other cast iron-pipes, eighteen feet in diameter. This last mode of commu- nication, according to Mr. Coppett, would cost only one milliard, to be paid in equal portions by both countries.—Le C'ononerce.
The Marseilles papers notice the decreasing intensity of the cholera. The weather had throughout France become less warm, but exceed- ingly fine ; so that not only was the disappCurance of the epidemy looked for, but the hopes of a rich vintage had revived.
The Neapolitan Government is at length convinced of the inutility of quarantine establishments, and has ordered diet vessels arriving from places suffering front cholera morbus shall be freely admitted.
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