Lord Granville is stated to have had, of late, very
frequent inter- course with M. Tillers. fin Monday, his Lordship remained a long time in conference with him. Rumour stated that the long-talked-of commercial treaty was the subject of this last-mentioned interview.
The booksellers of Paris have united to recommend to the Ministry to adopt a measure acknowledging the copyright of foreign as well as native authors, and fori,idding fitreign or clandestine editions.
The petitions of the butchers of Paris, Lyons, and Strasburg, for a re- duction in the import-duly on foreign cattle were rejected by the Chamber of Deputies on Monday. This duty, suddenly raised in 1822 from 3 francs to 55 francs per head of oxen, under pretence of en- couraging agriculture, has failed to promote the extension of the do- mestic races. Hitherto the measure has produced uo other effect than that of placing butcher's meat, the most wholesome, nourishing, and substantial food, beyond the reach of the htbouving classes. Complaints of the price and quality of the butcher's meat brought to the Paris market are s,■ loud and so gemmd, however, that it is difficult to believe that the existing prohibitory import-ditties on cattle can be long maintained.
The Cepscnr leons thus describes the misery of the labouring classes in that city. " All the resources of the operatives are now ex- hausted; they have sold at a low price their utensils and looms, which they will have to repurchase at a dear rate when work shall become abundant. All the clothes and other articles which the pawnbrokers consented to accept have been pledetel for trilling stuns, on which they are oblieed to pay the enormous ititevest of I a per cont. Bankers have declined giving any more credit. f ir they see no end to the commercial crisis; so that the unhappy w..e.!.7,:g classes are reduced to the most pitiful condition."
The Totdome/Ls of the lath inv tont brings intelligence from Algiers of the 6th. The Carnival hail been celebrated in that city by balls and masquerades, as if the etiemy NV Pre not it its gates; but Marshal Vallk had refused to authorize tit prtenentele of a holy:yros, " as such an exhibition," observes the currespondent of the Tendon Journal, " would have proved too gross a satire on our misery, paying, as we do, for butcher's meat 2.; ens per pound." Ileavy rains had fallen during several days, anti remised the roads impracticable through the plain. Small parties of Arabs showed themselves occasionally in the Meddle, and carried off a number of settlers.
The Augsburg Gazette of the 13th instant publishes a letter from Rome, dated the 25th minim, , w !deli states that the Duke de Bordeaux having applied to the Emperor of Russia for permission to reside in his domittions, hi; Majesty Lad returned the Prince a most flattering an-
swer in the affirmative, allowing him to fix his abode in any city of the empire, St. Petersburg only excepted. The Belgian Ministry resigned on Saturday, in consequence of a defeat in the Chamber of Deputies. The Opposition, by a vote of*. to 38, struck the name of General Van Der Smissen from the list of half-pay, on which he had been placed by the King. The General was odious as a deserter from the Liberal party.
Mr. Joseph Sturge has addressed a forcible letter to " the Christian Public of Great Britain " on the iniquity of the war against China. On Monday, Mr. O'Connell was entertained at a public dinner in Galway ; and on Thursday he was to meet his constituents, and con- cert measures for confirming the recent advantages of the Liberals in the Dublin Registration Courts,
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