12 SEPTEMBER 1846, Page 11

The Paris papers of Thursday contain several items of foreign

gossip. The municipal elections in France are reported to have run strongly against Ministers—most disastrously so; but the returns are by no means complete.

- A letter has been published in the Semaphore de Marseilles, giving an account of the visit of the Prince de Joinville to Rome; where he appears to have been very well received by the Pope.

The Journal des Debats states, that the fears which were entertained relative to the safety of the potato crop throughout France have been dispelled.

A Parisian bank, much engaged in railroad speculation, was understood to have suspended its payments. Its liabilities are estimated at 10,000,000 francs.

The Moniteur Akbien of the 5th instant announces a combined movement to crush Abd- el-Kader. The Emperor of Morocco, alarmed at the influence daily acquiring by Abd-el-Kader over the minds of the Moors, had ordered his son_, Mule), Mohammed, to place himself at the head of an army, and to advance with that force from Taza, m order to check the Emir' 's progress and restore order among the tribes. The Governor of the Rif had been instructed to collect all the contingents of the tribes residing within his government, and effect a junction with the cousin of the Emperor, Maley Ibrahim, who was encamped to the East Of the Rif.

The recently-reported defeat and expulsion of the French from Tahiti is con- tradicted in the Moniteur, on the authority of a letter dated the 11th July, from M. Dnbouzet, commanding the corvette La Brillante, at Callao.

Letters from Genoa, of the 5th instant, announce that great preparations were making for the Scientific Congress, which was to assemble there on the 14th.

The Aix la Chapelle Gazette, of the 8th instant, states that the King of Prussia has commanded that the trials of the numerous individuals compromised by the late events in Poland are to take place publicly, the proceedings to be pub- hshed in the journals. The trials are expected to last six months. The prepa- rations are already commenced.