The subjects which chiefly occupy the attention of Paris are,
the influeoce which Marshal SOU LT'S reception in England must give Into in Louts PHILIP'S councils on his return to France, and Inc Government prosecutions of the press. It seems to he ex- pected that SOULT Will be invited to place himself at the head of a new Adtninistration.
The editera of four provincial journals have been lined and its- pritsunest iUl copying an article from the Temps, for the ptiblica- tion of which the editor of that paper was recently punished. Other newspapers have been suppressed for neglecting to comply with some legal formalities. These proceedings create much irritation and ill-feeling towards Louis PHILIP, Who is known to be the real author of the persecutions.
The Paris correspondent of the Courier maintains that the Liberals of the Extreme Left are daily acquiring additional in- fluence; and that distrust and dislike of the King is becoming prevalent.
" The most intelligent and dispassionate men have taken it into their beads that the foreign policy of the country is badly conducted—that the King at. tends to the interests of his family alone in his negotiations with foreign rowers, and cares but little for the aggrandizement and dignity of his own sub- jects. It is unnecessary to enumerate the various facts which have given birth to this opinion. The abandonment of Poland—the shrinking from the non-in- tervention policy of Lafitte, and allowing Austria to overrun Italy—the passive role adopted towards Spain—and though last not least, the supposed submis- sion it the French Government to the will of the Northern Powers on the Belgian question: such are the principal ones. I know France well enough to affirm that the public opinion has taken hold of these points ; and when once it finds a lever, the most cunning as well as the most courageous governments are soon hoisted out of their seats."
