POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY NIGHT.
The news from France is interesting. A formidable spirit of re-
sistance to the A ssociat. Law is beginning to manifest itself. The solemn speech of M. PAGES, of Arriege (not the Republican GAR- NIER PAriss), in the Chamber of Deputies, has produced a great sen- sation in the capital. M. Paca:s is described as being an austere, re- ligious, and resolute man ; he always writes his speeches ; and his solemn denunciation of the law, and declaration that he was determined to disobey it, is said to have made the Ministers very uneasy. Geueral LAFAYETTE, who was prevented by illness from attending to speak and vote against the law, convoked a meeting of the " Union of July" at his house, which was to take place yesterday, to consider the proper measures to be adopted at the present crisis. The venerable patriot has addressed a strong protest against the law to the Paris journals. The French correspondent, of the Standard also states that " M. 'ligroin, one of the 'west moderate men of the Opposition, and the best- informed diplomatist in Fiance on the Liberal side of the question, has suggested the idea of forming one vast national association, with ramifications all through the country, in every•town, city, village, and comnume, to he entitled, National Association for the Defence of t! e Charter and the Revolution of July.'" The Tribune was tried on the Nth, for publishing an mu tide of a violent Republican tendency : it affirmed that " the days of the Roy- alty of Louis Philip were numbered, and that its fall was at hand.' The Jury acquitted the Tribune. The Journal des Debuts, a Ministerial paper, surges the Ministers to put the Associations Law into force in spite of all opposition.
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