The Consiitutionnel of ThursdaT mentions that the upper part of
the carriage in which the King and the Royal I really were riding when fired upon by Lecomte was brought to Paris on Wednesday, and deposited in the Palace of the Luxem- bourg. It is pierced with two bullets, and is intended to serve as an evidence at the trial. The Chancellor had sent an artist to Fontainebleau to draw an accurate plan of the spot where the crime was committed. The Times correspondent states theta telegraphic order vras sent on Wednesday to Brest for the immediate departure of a ship of war for the Gallician coast of Spain, to protect, and if necessary receive on board, the French inhabitants of Vigo or other towns in possession of the insurgents.
Madrid papers of the 24th April mention the dismissal of General Balboa, the Captain-General of Burgos. The presumed cause is a suspicion that the General is in secret communication with l'farvaez. "The Directing Junta of the National Movement" had issued an address to the army, calling upon the soldiers to join the revolt.
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