The Government of Lours PHILIP has been alarmed by the
discovery of an extensive conspiracy to assassinate the King, and the members of the Royal Family who were to accompany him at the grand review in celebration of the Three Days of July. It is stated that a number of disaffected persons, belonging to a so- ciety called " La Famine," had assembled in Paris by appoint- ment—many of them being deputed by secret Republican asso- ciations in the provinces ; that they had provided themselves with dresses similar to those worn by the National Guards, and with the connivance of certain traitorous guardsmen were to mix in their ranks; that others were to wear the costume of NAPO- LEON'S veterans ; and all were to get as near the King as pos- sible, when he arrived at the triumphal arch of the Etoile. Sedi- tious shouts were to be raised, and a tumult created ; in the midst of which, inflammable balls were to be thrown among the persons immediately surrounding the King, and a rush made upon the Royal Family. How this plot was discovered, does not appear; but the Police seized 2000 uniforms of the National Guard and 5000 counterfeit tickets, which were to admit the bearers within the circle allotted to NAPOLEON'S veterans. Meetings of the Society of the Rights of Man, which still exists, were ascertained to have been held ; and much vapouring about revenging ALI- BAUD was heard in the public-houses by Police spies. Several hundred persons have been arrested at Paris and at Lyons. The ramifications of the conspiracy are said to extend to Italy and Switzerland. It is certain that the Duke DE MONTEBELLO, the French Minister, has required the Swiss Confederation to expel political refugees from its territory ; and this demand was se- conded (though 'not officially) by Mr. MOICIER, the British Minis- ter, on the ground that the Swiss territory was made the theatre for plots against the French Government.
Though the correctness of the above particulars cannot be gua- ranteed, it is undoubted that the conspiracy was of a very formi- dable nature. The grand review is not to take place, as the life of the King is not considered safe even among the National Guards and regular troops, and with every precaution to keep off suspected persons.
Another event has produced much regret in Paris. The cele- brated editor of the Republican journal the National, ARMAND CARREL, was severely wounded in a duel with EMILE GIRARDIN, editor of another paper called the Presse, on Saturday ; and died, after suffering acutely, on Sunday morning. GIRARDIN was him- self wounded in the thigh by CARREL'S ball. The quarrel arose from some trifling difference, not fully explained. CARREL was delirious during the greater portion of the interval between the duel and his death. Occasionally, however, he conversed with his usual acuteness and brilliancy. Frenchman-like, almost his last words were—"I die in the faith of Constant, Manuel, and Liberty." The duel took place at St. Rlaude, near Paris; and the Police deemed it prudent to refuse admission to the funeral pro- cession into Paris: so that CARREL was interred at St. Maude, BER ANGER and CHATEAUBRIANO standing on opposite sides of the coffin, among numerous Deputies and persons of eminence who assembled to pay respect to his remains. Men of all par- ties express high esteem for the deceased Republican, and admi- ration for his talents as a writer.
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