The discussion of the bills for coercing the French Press
was com- menced in the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday. The first speaker, SCHONEN, who is known to be friendly to Louis PHILIP, and gene- rally to his Government, protested against the bills. It is also expected that ErCPIN and others of the Tiers Parti will vote against them; but the Ministers calculate on being supported by a large majority. The King and his family are described as being very uneasy, and distrustful of all around them-as well they may. A general offi- mereennected with the King's Stuff, and several members of the house- heal, have been arrested. It is said that Louis PHILIP intends to remodel the whole of his domestic establishment.
On Thursday, the Court of Peers sentenced seven of the Lyonnese rioters to transportation; two to twenty years' imprisonment, three to fifteen, three to ten years', and five others to shorter periods of confine- ment; nine were acquitted. The prisoners sentenced to more than be years' imprisonment are also to remain under the surveillance of the Police for the remainder of their lives.
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