The news from France during the week has been of
small im- portance. The disturbances at Grenoble are not only at an end, but the memory of them is fast passing away. The reports of in- tended barricades and resistance to the return of the troops, have turned out to be no better than such reports usually are. Because the people of France have accomplished two revolutions in the course of forty years, foolish people look in future for a revolution once a year. It is not every breeze that will lay a kingdom on its side. The steady determination of the Government to enforce the laws, is gradually generating that degree of wholesome fear which is the true preventive of crime. The Opposition journals are in the mean time more violent than ever; and from this very violence the state of general peace may not unsafely be predicated : shallow waters•make the most noise. It is the strong desire of attracting attention, the earnest longing after subscribers, that produces those bitter criminations of public men and private, with which obscure journals in Paris, as in London, so commonly abound. Are the English assailants of the French Government more to be dreaded?
LAROCHEJACQUELIN is said to have been of late in Provence, for the purpose of ramifying his plans for the restoration of CHARLES the Tenth : it is even stated that the Duchess passed lately three days in Paris. We do not think to cast any doubt over this report. The Chamber of Deputies was engagetl on Monday inditeussing .an amendment in the law which prohibits the intermarriages of brothers and sisters in law, and uncles and nieces. The Xing is in future to have a dispensing power, unless where the parties have been divorced. There was a debate on Tuesday on the naval division of the Budget, which was chiefly remarkable for the 'manly language of Admiral DE R1GNY respecting England. A reduction of line-of-battle ships, and the construction of frigates instead of them, having been recommended, on the ground that frigates would be found more useful,—in proof of which, the speaker cited the great success. of the American frigates in the late war with this country,—the hero of Navarino replied— "At that time, it is forgotten that sixty-eight French ships held in check several of the English squadrons; and that the Americans were thus able, with -Borne frigates, to tight with advantage the English frigates opposed to them. It -was then that the Americans, in order to attain a superiority in these sorts of ,sencounters, put to sea frigates of greater dimensions than any vessels hitherto -employed as frigates, and therefore having an advantage over them."
The French Navy estimates amount to no more than 2,500,0001. There is now no question of the cholera being in Paris. Ten fatal -cases have occurred in the Hfitel Dieu ; and the appearance of the bodies, on dissection, was such as to convince all the medical men present—thirty-six in number—of the existence of the epidemic. It is stated by the Journal des Debats, that the French troops -will not be withdrawn from Ancona until " the Legations shall be :constituted on the basis conformable to the engagements made by the Pontifical Government itself, and in such a manner as to re- move all fears of new troubles."
