We noticed in the Postscript of our last Number, a
plot which had been got up at Paris on the previous Wednesday, with the wild, and apparently hopeless object, of =king an attack on the Tuileries during a bail given there. The Paris journals since received are more copious in their description of the conspirators than of the causes or prospects of the conspiracy. The Constitu- tionnel. which enters most fully into all the particulars of the case, gives the following account. In the hegira-ling of last week, a party went to the house of a publican in the Rue des Prouvaires, to inquire if he could furnish a supper for two hundred. The publican, whose roof had never contained so large a company, he- sitated to efigage with them. On Wednesday, however, on the - question being. again put, and on a liberal advance being made- 1,000 francs; it is mentioned in one account—he consented. About ten o'clock, the company began to assemble; and before midnight the two hundred had arrived. At midnight a cart halted at the door, and a quantity of arms were handed into the house; the guns and pistols were loaded, and each of the guests took a piece. It appears that the municipal authorities had been fully informed of the plot, some days before, as well as of the place of assembling, which it is not unlikely some of these moutons might suggest ; and hardly had the arms been distributed, when the public-house was surrounded, and a police-officer delivered to the company a summons to surrender. One PONCELET fired a pistol at the officer, and wounded him severely in the head; on which the rest of the police immediately dashed into the room. Several shots were exchanged, and blows (riven ; and one of the conspira- tors is said to have been killed. Ultimately the whole band were captured, with all their papers, money, arms, and every thing they had with them. About the same hour, there was an assemblage of rioters, three or four hundred in number, at the Bastile; forty of them were seized, the rest escaped; another band were induced by the ruse of a peace-officer to march to the Place St. Michel, where they were surrounded mid arrested; and se- veral individuals were seized while endeavouring to pass the bridges. About half-past two o'clock, a certain Sieur KERSAUSIE was captured in the Rue de Dragon; Sieur KERSAUSIE calls himself a half-pay captain. There are also a M. DELAUNAY, and three others, of the club of Les Amis du Peuple, a nephew of M. MANGIN, the late Prefect of Police, four ci-decant cooks of the Duchess de BERRI, and four ex-officers, including KERSAUSIE, known Bonapartists. The whole Conspiracy seems to have been as strange a mixture of Carlists, Benapartists, Republicans, and tag-rag, as ever was mixed up ; and .could it have been by any miracle successful for even an hour, it must have broken into pieces the next. The affair, as we stated last week, made no im- pression on the Funds ; and if it made any on the Ministers, it was of a favourable kind.
The Chamber of Deputies was on Friday last week the scene of one of those exhibitions of -tumult that the present Opposition there seem singularly fond of. The Opposition were anxious to push an amendment on one of the divisions of the Budget to a vote, and the Ministers were anxious on adjourning the question till next day, • the hour of adjournment having arrived. The tumult continued without interruption for a couple of hours.
The strange story of a brigade of three thousand men being about to embark for Ancona, which we noticed in our last Number, is contradicted by authority.
The only other incident of interest in the Chamber of Deputies,. occurred on Tuesday. On the sum of 20,000 francs being' moved as pension to the widow of NEY, there was a general cry that no one would oppose or criticise that grant. M. LAFITTE said, that he only spoke the genuine sentiments of Madame NEY, when he declared that she would willingly resign her pension to obtain a reversal of the sentence by virtue of which her husband was assassinated. The Keeper of the Seals admitted, that Marshal NEY was put to death in the face of an express capitulation. A petition had been presented to Government, which had been the subject of the most religious consideration, and a decision would shortly be come to. The only doubt was, whether-the-law autho- rized the reversal sought. A M. CORCELI;ES here hawled out,
that the Ministry feared the Holy Alliance. The Minister rebuked the interruption; and proceeded to say, that no consideration would induce Ministers to break the laws, but all that the law allowed would be done.
