By the Paris papers of Thursday it appears that Marshal
Souk's resignation had actually been in the King's hands for some days. The cause assigned is the state of the Marshal's health: be is only now recovering from an attack of neu- ralgia. M. Guizot has taken the vacant Presidency; and M. Muret Bort has been named to succeed Id. Cuniu Gridaine as Minister of Commerce.
An emeute is apprehended in Paris on Thursday next, the concluding day of the great anniversary.
An express from Paris announces that M. Pellapra was tried in the Court of Peers yesterday. He admitted the part he took in corrupting M. Testa; protested that he liad interfered out of friendship for Messrs. Cubieres and Parmentier, and declared that be had been a loser by the affair. The Court was still deliberating on the sentence at the closing of the post.
A strange scene occurred at Macon on Sunday. A grand banquet was given to M. de Lamartine, as the author of Les Girondirui it had been anticipated with much interest as an Anti-Ministerial demonstration; and the event imparted to it an unexpectedly imposing effect. There were 2,100 subscribers, and more than 4,000 spectators, including numbers of ladies. A great pavilion was specially provided for the occasion. The banquet began at four o'clock; but immediately afterwards a terrific storm burst over the spot, with thunder and lightning and torrents of rain. The pavilion was torn in shreds. Some of the guests ran sway; but most of them remained, and sang the " Marseillaise" in full chorus. The Mayor, whose speech was much admired for its independent spirit and its fire, proposed the health of the chief guest. IL de Lamartine replied in a discourse of great length and eloquence; insisting on the sovereignty of reason, the im- perishable rights of liberty, the alliance more and more necessary of the vent- ment and the people, and on several other topics of importance. ." Let any one figure to himself," says an enthusiastic writer who was present, "six thousand in- telligent beings overwhelmed during one how and a half with floods of eloquence, and receiving with religious enthusiasm the word of genius like a new baptism with
bursts of applause impassible to be restrained." "Towards half-past seven o'clock the banquet terminated, and everybody withdrew in the midst of the most pro- found tranquillity. No tumultuous manifestation, no seditious cries. Each per- son felt that he was identified with the general admiration, and that he was truly ennobled by the majesty of that meeting.*
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