The Opposition papers of Paris make a great ado because
M. Leon de Maleville, an Opposition candidate, has been elected to a vacant post among the Vice-Presidencies of the Chamber of Deputies : but we cannot discern any proof that the affair is of much importance. There were three candidates,—M. Duprat and M. de Belleyme, Ministerialists ; and this M. Leon de Male- ville. M. de Belleyme, who had formerly filled the post, had some reason, we suppose, to presume that heshould be the " fa- vourite ": it turned out that his rival, M. Duprat, had a relative majority of votes : M. de Belleyme threw the weight of his in- fluence on the side of the Anti-Ministerial candidate, and so de- feated that arrangement in which his claims had been over- looked. The most obvious motive here seems to be personal pique.
Among the food-riots, was one provoked by the very injudicious conduct of the British Consul at St. Maio, Mr. Thompson ; who' at a time of scarcity, became a dealer in the corn-market, and actually incurred the popular reproach that he was a " fore staller." Without sharing in the vulgar objections to corn- dealing, Mr. Thompson ought to have known better than to Place his office in so false a position. A fact still more monstrous than his lack of judgment comes out—the British Consul at St. Maio cannot speak French : how was it that a person so dis- qualified received the appointment? ,
