10 MAY 1845, Page 11

The Paris papers of Thursday report, that on the previous

day the Chamber of Deputies adopted, by 227 to 144, the first article of the Fortifications Bill, grant- ing the credit of 14,130,000 francs for...the requisite materiel. On that day there was some alarming personal altercation: M. Thiers, the originator of the measure, treated with " contempt " the " calumnious " remarks of M. Lamartine; and the political poet fiercely resented the ex-Minister's expressions. But on Thursday the President stated that the quarrel had been amicably settled.