There is certainly a great stir making among the Carlists
in the South of France. We find the following account of some of their proceedings in the correspondence of the Times.
" The motions of the Carlists in the Southern and Western provinces con- tinue to occupy attention, and to give rise to extraordinary measures on the part of the Government,wherever there is any danger of any thing serious being attempted by them. Letters from Toulon of the 23d say, that all the officers of the Na- tional Guards have received notice to be ready to act in case of a landing of the Dutchess de Berri. The whole garrison of that place was in motion, the posts were doubled, and the officers enjoined not to quit the corps-de-garde. At Mar- seilles, bands of Carlists had been formed on the 23d ; when, as well as on the following day, the public peace was disturbed by their appearance.
" It was reputed in Marseilles, that three of the Dutchess de Berti's most active agents and most faithful friends, Messrs. IlUnars, Kergorlay, and Sala, had arrived in that city, for the purpose of concerting with the leaders of the party the mode of landing of the Dutchess. The strictest search was making by the Police for these three persons ; but at the last date of the letters, the place of their abode had not been discovered ; nor was it, in fact, ascertained that they had really come to Marseilles.
" According to letters from Geneva, all the diligences going from Switzer- land to Lyons and Grenoble had been, during the previous fortnight, filled with Carlist emigrants of 1830 ; all of whom bad suddenly taken it into their heads to return to France, and were directing their steps towards the provinces of the
South."
Contradictory accounts are given of the movements of the Dutchess DE BERRI ; who is reported to have gone to Venice, to Vienna, and to Prague. These stories are inserted in the Carlist papers, with the shallow design, it is supposed, of diverting attention from her actual motions.
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