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The French Ministers have introduced a bill into the Chamber

of Deputies authorizing the payment of the indemnity-money to the United States. No regular debate on the question has yet taken place. The Ministerialists speak confidently of success ; but the Opposition intend to muster in great force, and perhaps the union of the Extreme Left with the Legitimists and a con- siderable number of the Tiers Parti may prove too strong for the Doc trinaires. Mr. LIVINGSTON has not yet left Paris.

M. ROGER has brought forward a measure resembling our Habeas Corpus Act. PERSIL, the Chancellor, opposes it, and de- fends the solitary and prolonged imprisonment of the accused be- fore trial, as an excellent method of extorting confession of guilt. It is indeed an admirable substitute for the " question."

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