The French Papers have been occupied with debates in the_
Chamber of Peers on the law relating to the state of siege. -The French people, it is said, feel very little interest in the subject. A large number of amendments have been referred to la -ebintnitt6e to be reduced to some intelligible form, and the • debate is for 6, time suspended. It is reported that the Ministers will probably withdraw it after all.
„ The_Pariscorrespondent,of the Times asserts positively that=the, Dti taiga :bi-Bientis with 'child ; that ,every possible exertion. has been made by the Carlists to procure her relea16';.' and- that,:baVing. failed in their attempts, they are driven to declare that .sheia'rfiar- ried—though the name of her husband is -not, known-. It is • said that the sister of Louis PHILIP and the Duke of ORLEANS wish to brino. the Dutehess to-trial, and to punish her. for high treason; and that M. TntEus declares that course . has. become indis- pensable. It .is a curious circumstance, that the Jew named DEUTZ, Who betrayed the Dutehess, has refused his reward ; and the motive of his treachery is said to have been jealousy. The specimens of the morals of absolute .Princes and Princesses which occasionally came before the public are truly edifying.
The -proceedings in the British Parliament with 'regard to Ire- land are watched with great. interest in Paris; and many shrewd and unpleasant remarks are made in the journals upon the state of affairs in that part of our dominions—that conquered and op:- pressed province, as they term our Sister Isle.
