The Paris papers state that an army of 40,000 men
has been or- dered to march to the Northern frontier, in consequence of the un- settled state of the Dutch and Belgian question. The Commerce says that there is no necessity for this warlike display, but that the Ministers wish to make a show of activity for the opening of the Chambers. It is rumoured that LOUIS PHILIP applied to Lord PALMERSTON, to kilow whether, if a French army entered Bel- gium to resist the attempt of Prussia to enforce the fulfilment of the Twenty•f iur Articles. England would pledge herself t rate with France; and that Lord PALMERSTON answered the ap- plication with a flat negative. Much excitement has been occasii nett in Paris by the dithieos.f a citizen, who was shot by a sentinel on guard at the Tie The man was passing along a footpath that runs parallel with the garden : the sentinel ordered liiin to walk on the opposite side of the street ; and the command not being immediately obeyed, the soldier shot him through the body. The soldier wig be tried by a court-martial. A pamphlet by M. DUVERGIER oz HAIM:ANNE, C011laitlittg an attack on the Ministry and the Court, and written in a Dect 'Maim spit it, has given Louts PHILIP touch annoyance. The Paris correspondent of the Courier says that the King spoke wa:inl■ on the subject to GUI70T- I am to he pitied, much to be ohservel the King of the F rock r " my oldest, and, as I imagined, m y stanchest frieutk, are the inveterate is -s of my dyna.ty." " Sire," replied the Doctrinaire leader, "you ought ta neve fmesecn this result. These own, whom you now reproach av:th the Gauche, sacrificed their popularity tut inerly for ■ our inter caia ; and wh,:i they had done so, you turned to the Gauche yourself, and cheered that icrrly on against them To-day, Site, they are taking their rerunehe ; and all icy efforts to 'email, them are unsvailltig."
The Council of State is occupied with an important cerise, in which the pecuniary interests of the BONAPARTE family are im- plicated. The case of the plantirs is thus stated in the Paris papers- " On the %lib of March 1815, eight millions of fianes were due to the Em- peror Napoleon fut his civil list, and about for millions to his family four al !ears of endowments. As the army wagon the eve of the battle of Waterloo. it • neces- sities were pressing. Napoleon and his brothers left the specie in the cuff •.4 of the state. and received their payments ia assignments upon the forests if ate, treasury hills negotiable by endorsement. Atter the dissaters of the ca.t.,.aigy, an nolonnarice was issued by Louis XVIII., four days after his [elm n to Mt:Luang the assignments null 4tal void; so th,t the twelve Mill re. maincd in the treasury, and are still due. It is against this urdonti owe, as illegal and unconstitutional, that the family of Napoleon has appealed."
The Minister of Justice presides over the deliberations of the
Council of State, 'e" IWAr.
