24 NOVEMBER 1838, Page 7

POSTSC RI PT.

SATURDAY.

The Paris papers are much occupied with speculations on a change of Ministry. TRIERS arrived in Paris on Tuesday night, in high spirits, and anticipating a swarm Parliamentary campaign. He com- menced a series of canvassing visits the next day; calling first on Count D'Aitooe'r. His "league," it is said, is intended to include GUIZOT, DUCHATEL, SHUN, and D'Anc.orr.

The Siecle has the following notice of the attempt to assassinate the pretended Duke of Normandy in France, alluded to in the account of the attack upon him in our London news- " On the 27th of January 18.34, an attempt to murder the pretended Duke of Normandy was made iu Paris, by a tall individual, who stabbed him with a poniard in the breast. The assassin assailed him about nine o'clock in the evening, under one of the gates of the Carrousel, near the quay, and took to flight on the approach of a hackney-coach."

The National dwells with exultation on the progress of opinion in favour of electoral reform.