POSTSCRIPT • SATURDAY NIGHT. IT appears from the Paris papers
and letters of Thursday, that Bil- boa still holds Out; although Count D'APPONY, the Austrian Ambas- sador, had despatched a special messenger to Vienna with the joyful intelligence that Don CARLOS was at length master of one consider- able town. It is said that the Emperor of Austria has resolved to recognize CARLOS as King of Spain, as soon as he can succeed in es- tablishing his court in some fortified place larger than a village. The rumour of differences between the Austrian and French Cabinets con- tinued to gain ground. Count D'APFONY and his attaches had put on mourning for CHARLES the Tenth ; although the other members of the diplomatic body in Paris had abstained from this insult to the Orleans dynasty. The Arabs in Africa are likely to give the French a good deal of trouble. As soon as their chieftain, ABDEL KADER, ascertained that CLAUSEL had marched towards Constantine, he collected a numerous band to attack Algiers itself, to the very walls of which he advanced. General RAPATF.L marched out of Algiers and defeated him, but not without very serious loss to his own force. The regular army in Algiers is so scanty, that CLAUSEL organized a kind of National Guard for the defence of the place during his absence. There is much dis. satisfaction in Paris on account of the niggardliness of the Govern- ment in their supplies of troops and the necessaries of war to CLAUSE'. But then, as LOUIS PHILIP knows, his subjects, though fond of glory, dislike paying the price of it ; and would grumble at an increase in the War Minister's budget.
The Messager desChambres says, that as money grows scarce in Lon- don, it becomes more plentiful in Paris ; the "reserve" of the Bank of France having been increased within a few days from 96,000,000 to 99,000,000 of francs in coin ; there is also 12,000,000 in ingots.
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