2 NOVEMBER 1839, Page 2

Of French news, properly so called, there is little in

the Paris newspapers received in London : the latest dates, however, are Tuesday's, the boisterous weather in the Channel having prevented the regular arrival of the packets. The greater number of prisoners arrested on charges of' being implicated in the May riots had been discharged. About sixty still remained in durance.

The accounts from the French army in Africa give a deplorable description of sickness among the soldiers. The deaths at Phi- lippeville were 13 or 14 daily ; and 600 sick had been conveyed in merchant-vessels from Philipperille to Algiers by direction of the Duke of 0a.r.E:Axs. Hostile demonstrations by ABDEL KAI/ER oc- casioned sonic uneasiness.