A report has prevailed in Paris, that King Louis Philippe
is ill, exhibiting decided symptoms of breaking up; and we see that the report was renewed on Thursday. As often as it is made it is contradicted. The truth it is im- possible to ascertain from the public sources; the motives to spread such reports, whether true or not, or to conceal the truth if the fact is so, being equally strong.
Mr. O'Connell is looking feeble, and seems to require rest, and to refrain from entering into political strife. His voice has become weak and faltering, his former buoyancy and rolling gesticulation have been laid aside, and he has as- sumed the manners characteristic of extreme old age.—Dublin Correspondent of the Globe.
The death of the Count Pollen, Sardinian Ambassador at the British Court, is announced in the papers. His complaint puzzled the faculty: a correspondent of the Standard says that it is discovered to have been an internal abscess.
The Jewish Chronicle mentions the first return of a Jew to serve as a Com- mon Councilman in the City of London: it is Mr. B. S. Philips, of the firm of Faudel and Philips, who has been elected for the Ward of Famngdon Within.
The Royal pardon has been granted to two men confined in Hertford Gaol for several terms of imprisonment, reckoned cumulatively, on charges of poaching; and the Hertford Mercury says that it is the intention of Government to pursue a similar course in similar cases, in order to check the practice of inflicting cumu- lative penalties for poaching.
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