Paris has been in a very perturbed state for the

last week. The immediate cause of the riots has been the fall of Warsaw, intelli- gence of which reached Paris on the 15th, and which has produced grievous discontent among the restless spirits who would fain have forced the Ministry into a war, first with Austria for the purpose of succouring the Italians, secondly with Prussia in defence of the Netherlands, and lastly with Russia in defence of the Poles. In the evening of the 15th, groups of idle and disorderly persons assembled on the Boulevards, chanting aplein -osier, the " Mar- seilloise" and the " Parisienne," and bawling " War with Russia! Poland for ever ! " They broke some of SEBASTIANI'S windows, tore up a part of the railing before his hotel, and smashed some lamps. The National Guards were called out, and the crowd at once dispersed. The riots thus repressed seem to have broken out afresh on Monday ; when a large party beset the Chamber of De- puties,—without, however, atttempting to interrupt the members in their progress to the House. In the course of the day, the King found it necessary to address a few words to the crowd who were assembled in front of the Palais Royal, which were received by loud cries of " Long live the Kine.!" At a later hour these cries were changed to `, DoVrn with the King!" which so irritated the troops of the Line on duty, that they immediately charged through the seditious masses, and in the crush a number of per- sons -were seriously hurt. There was a rumour that the National Guard had refused to actin these disturbances ; but this seems to be unfounded. On the contrary, General LOBAU has published an order of the day in which he highly commends their conduct. It appears that the order to " move on" had been pretty rigidly executed during these riots, for in one case a group of Deputies were charged, and one of them taken captive. The principal features in the transactions of the Chamber of Deputies during the week have been the report of the Committee on the law of the Peerage, and a statement, by the Foreign Se- cretary, of the negotiations respecting Poland. The report recom- mends an amendment of the following tenor on the 23rd article of the Charter.

" The nomination of the members of the Chamber of Peers is vested in

the King. ' No persons can be raised to the dignity of Peers except- `° The Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies and other legislative as-

semblies ; " Deputies having been elected three times, or having sat six years in • the Chamber ; " Marshals and Admirals of France ; " Lieutenant-Generals and Vice-Admirals of the land and sea forces ; " Cabinet Ministers ; " Ambassadors, after three years' service ; " Counsellors of State, after ten years' service ; " Prefects of Departments and Maritime Prefects, after ten years' ser- vice " Governors of Colonies, after five years' service ; " Members of the Conseils-Generaux Electifs, after three elections to the Presidency ; " Mayors of towns containing 30,000 inhabitants and upwards, chosen from the Elective Municipal Councils, after five years' service ; " Presidents of the Court of Cassation and the Court of Accounts;

" Procureurs-General attached to either of the above Courts, after five

years' service in that capacity;

" Counsellors of the Court of Cassation, and Conseillers-Maitres of

the Court of Accounts, after five years' service ; " First Presidents of the Royal Courts, after having sat five years in those Courts as magistrates; " Procureurs-General of those Courts, after ten years' service ; " Members of the four Academies of the Institute ; ." Citizens, who by law, and on account of eminent services, shall have been expressly decreed to be entitled to a national recompense;

"Landed and other proprietors, heads of manufactories, and commer-

cial and banking establishments, paying 5,000 francs per annum direct taxes for five years; " These qualifications for admission into the Peerage may be modified by a future law. • ' The ordonnance of nomination shall state the qualification in virtue of which each Peer is chosen.

" The number of Peers is unlimited. The dignity is conferred for life, and is not transmissible by right of inheritance. The Peers are to take rank amongst each other according to seniority of nomination." This sensible scheme of a Peerage was presented on Monday.

and it was agreed that it should be...considered as soon as the Budget had.heen discussed. The report disposed of, M. MAUGUIN rose to demand of Minis- ters an explanation of their conduct towards Poland. He asked if they might not, without hazard of a general war, have inter- fered between Russia and Poland ?—whether secret assistance might not have been given to the latter, or open assistance by fleets in the Baltic and the Black Sea, where, by operating a diver- sion, the march of the Russians might have been retarded or prevented ? They might have demanded explanations of Prus- sia; instead of recalling M. GHILLEMINOT, for his endeavour to

engage Turkey against Russia, they might. have favoured his plans. He repeated the words made use of by General SEBASTIANI when

lie announced the intelligence of the fall of Warsaw, " L'ordre ligne dans Varsovie." He then adverted to Belgium, where, he said, Ministers had seriously compromised France by permitting

an English Prince to mount the throne. M..MAuou IN went on to make some statements respecting the prospects and power of France : they-had, he said, only thirteen regiments of infantry and Tour of cavalry on the frontier of Besancon, while Austria had 200,000 men within a few miles of Lyons.

.General SEBASTIANI replied to these statements. He pointed out the causes of the Polish disasters—the smallness of the popu- lation—the want of sea-ports--the level nature of the country, which afforded no positions. He went on to state, that overtures had been niade to Russia • that the Cabinet of St. Petersburg bad pledged itself that the kingdom of Poland should be preserved, and that this pledge had, on a recent occasion, been repeated. He read a despatch from St. Petersburg, dated 31st August, in which, after explaining that the rejoicing in that capital on the successes of the Dutch arose solely from the fact of the Royal Families of Holland and Russia being united, it was stated that the Duke de MORTEMART had received the most express assurances that the treaties of 1814 would be preserved inviolate. In another document, dated 2nd September, Count NESSELRODE expressed, in the name of the Prussian Government, its determination to use all its efforts to effect the independence of Poland in terms of the treaties agreed to by the Allied Sovereigns. The Minister went on to deny that France had ever made any promises to Poland, or had ever advised the Poles to abandon offensive warfare, or at all interfered with their plans. He justified the recal of M. GCILLE- MINOT, on the ground that in presenting a note to the Turkish Divan, calling on them to take up arms against Russia, he had departed from his instructions. The General denied that an ac- knowledgment of the Poles could have in any respect served their cause, though it might have seriously compromised the in- terests of France. As to the Austrian forces, they did not ex- ceed 80,000 men, and these not within twenty days' march of .Lyons, instead of a few miles. SEBASTIANI'S speech seems to have given great satisfaction to the Chamber. The absurd and causeless riots which all the sen- sible and well-disposed part of the community disown and discoun- tenance, seem to have confirmed the Ministry, rather than shaken them, as it was at first supposed they would.

There have been some seizures of papers at the Post-office ; among which were the Revolution, the National, and the Tribune. The manuscripts of the last newspaper were also seized on the 18th. There have been no riots since Monday ; but there has been a good deal of angry discussion in the Chamber, and some repres- sive measures have been threatened,—which, however, will proba- bly be allowed to drop with the alarms on which they were sought lobe founded.