The Temps says that the Dutchess of' Orleans is not
so well as she is represented to be by the Moniteur, und that her Royal Highness is so far suffering from pregnancy as to be obliged to remain almost con- stantly on the sofa. There is, however, nothing in her condition to cause the slightest alarm. The same journal also states that the Dutehess Alexander of Wurtemburg, who is in the some condition as her royal sister, has for several days excited great alarm in the minds of the Royal Family that she would be liable to an accident, but that these fears have now subsided.
The Queen of Greece is expecting to be confined.
The Italian Opera of Paris closed for the season on Saturday last, with the performance of I Puritani. Grin, Rubini, Tamburini, and Lablache, took leave of the audience, amidst the most enthusiastic sp. plause and a shower of flowers.
The spirit of speculation is raging to an extraordinary extent on the Paris Stock Exchange ; and every post brings particulars of schemes started, and of manceuvres practised by schemers, which bear a close resemblance to the state of things here in 1825. The phrensy in Paris has attained to such a height, it seems, as at length to have attracted the attention of the Government and the Chamber of Deputies; ahem repressive laws for checking the spirit of gambling abroad, and for punishing the unprincipled speculators and projectors, appear to be contemplated. In the course of the year 1837, according to an official return, no fewer than " 325 dead bodies were received into the Morgue, of which 279 were of drowned persons, showing a lamentable increase on the numbers of average years." Of these scarcely a dozen cases were "acct. dental ;" the rest were the results of suicide or murder. If, however, It shall be recollected that no dead bodies are brought to the Morgue but such as are found in the streets, on the roads, or in the river, ("stela vole publique,") the number of suicides and assassinations will appear to be, "in all likelihood," much greater. Speak to any Frenchman when the weather happens to be foggy, and he will tell you that "this is one of the days on which you splenetic Englishmen kills yourselves." But no day elapses in Paris on which several suicides, and probably several murders, do not occur. Take up the Gazelle des Tribunaux.on any day you please, and, besides the trials of parricides, fraticides, in- fanticides, &c. with which you will perceive that the tribunals are en- gaged, you will find the horrifying details of several suicides and mur- ders. In one paper before me are given the particulars of' two recent cases of assassination, done, as usual, with the knife, either of which, if we are to judge of what happened in the cases of Thurtelland Greenaere, would have occupied the newspaper press of Great Britain. for many months ; and yet these are every-day occurrence! here. The cases I speak of are those of the Mayor of Chollet, killed on Saturday morning last, in his own room, in the Hue Mazarine, and of M. Basin, an apothecary of St. Cloud, whose body was found in the Seine on the smile day, with a dreadful knife wound in the lower part of the stomach. No later than yesterday the Attorney-General re. ceived notice, that at Pontoise, distance about ten leagues from Po!! on the preceding day, a young man, to possess himself of 100f. . (gr sterling) murdered his grandfather. —Letter from Paris in the TIMM _ A curious illustration of the state of the law on imprisonment for debt in France is mentioned in the Gazette des Tribunaux of Saturday. Count Leon (an illegitimate son of the Emperor Napoleon, and who, it will be recollected, in a duel arising out of a gambling transaction. killed an Englishman, Captain Hesse, about three years ago,) iv! arrested some months since on an unpaid bill of exchange, into prison, where he has ever since remained. Within these few ays; his creditor formally acknowledged that he had no legal title to.t.cb. bill upon which he had arrested the Count ; notwithstanding nhi declaration, the Court refused an application of the pri!mier s couns 1 and thdrown to discharge him, " nothing appearing in the laws to justify it."
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