The Paris papers of Thursday report an event of some
Parliamentary importance. At a meeting of the Opposition Deputies, on Wednesday evening, in the salon of M. Billault, that gentleman and M. Dufaure de- termined" to separate themselves from M. Thiers, and renounce the petty warfare of intrigue which had brought the Constitutional Opposition into so much disrepute."
Count Mold has been appointed President, and M. Barthe Reporter, to the Commission of the Chamber of Peers charged with the duty of drawing up the address in reply to the King's speech.
The reply of Prince Metternich to the French protest against the annex- ation of Cracow has been received in Paris, but its purport is the subject of very conflicting accounts. All agree that it is brief; and according to the most probable description, "the answer, while maintaining the divergence of ()pinion existing between the three Northern Courts and the Court of France as to the interpretation of the treaties, so far as they relate to the inde- pendence of Cracow, expresses a hope that this difference in interpretation will not cause any change in anterior relations ". It concludes with a pro- testation in favour of the respect due to treaties.
The King and Queen of the Belgians were to leave Paris on Thursday for Brussels, by a special train of the Northern Railroad.
, The first grand ball of the season, at the Chateau of the Tuileries, was given on Wednesday night: 7,500 persons were invited, and of those it was estimated that 6,000 were present.
The Commerce announces that the Bank of France has decided on rais- ing the rate of discount to 5 per cent. The reserve of bullion is rapidly diminishing: it amounted at the last report to no more than 57,000,000 francs.
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