A letter from the Paris correspondent of the Times, dated
25th imk stant, gives the following account of the impression produced there by Louis Philip's speech at the opening of the Session.
" The King's speech at the opening of the Chambers has created so little sensation here, that by this time it is nearly forgotten. It had been confidently expected that the speech would throw some light on the real state of the rela- tions with Turkey and Russia. The vague manner in which they are alluded • to has, therefore, occasioned some disappointment. M. Guizot, the Minister of Public Instruction, is said to have been the flamer of the Royal speech. Some political wags, therefore, call it le discours de non-instruction. The politicians of the Bourse have taken a good deal of time to draw their conclusions from it. They have at last made up their minds that it threatens war. But as war had been looked for previously to the opening of the Chambers, in consequence of indications of a more precise nature than any passage in the Royal speech, the Funds had already felt the effects of that expectation, and did not very materially give way when the speech was pronounced to be warlike at the Bourse."
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