The news from France this week is not of much
importance in itself, and it sinks into insignificance when compared with the great events that press upon us at home. The notable attempt of the 30th April, at Marseilles, seems to have been planned by the Duchess DE BERRI, after the precedent of the landing at An- tibes previous to the Hundred Days; and its execution was pretty nearly in the ratio of the intellect of a pitiful little Italian intriguante and that of NAPOLEON. On the 1st May, there was a midnight assault on one of the forts at Marseilles, by one ladder and five men: of this forlorn hope of' the Carlists, one ,man was shot, and the remaining four retreated in good order; the ladder was taken prisoner. On the 3d, the Duchess DE BERRI herself as captured, off Ciotat, a port in Les Bouches du Rhone, in the Charles Albert steam-boat, in which she had left Leghorn on the 27th, with a view by her presence to stimulate the exertions of her brave five soldiers. Adverse tides and winds had delayed her approach until the assault was over. She was immediately sent to Corsica, to be forwarded thence to the Firth of Forth; where she will in future employ herself more becomingly in fricaseeing the sparrows which her father-in-law may shoot, and making pinafores for HENRY the Little. A few of her friends have been arrested; and among them, a Count KERGORLAY, who figured in the newspapers at the period of the late Revolution. CASIMIR PERIER is still in life, and it is said out of danger; but it is not supposed he will ever be able to resume office.
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