6 JANUARY 1844, Page 13
The Paris Tribunal of First Instance, to whom the claim
of "Prince" Louis Napoleon against the public Treasury for the sum of 1,800,000 francs, grounded on a senatus-consulte of 1810, was referred, declared on Wednesday, that it was incompetent to decide a question on which the Administrative authority could alone pronounce.
An article in the National of Thursday pretends that the Govern- ment had directed that a strict blockade be kept up along the coast of Normandy, in anticipation of a descent (ci /a Louis Bonaparte) by the Duke of Bordeaux.