POSTSCRI PT.
SATURDAY.
The French papers are bare of interesting matter. In Paris, an approaching election for the First Arrondissement causes a stir. The Ministerial candidate is General JACQUE:MINOT ; and he will be op. posed by the united party of THIERS and Barium'. The General is popular with many citizens, in consequence of occasional bursts of independence ; though his usual course is that of obsequiousness to the Court.
The Temps states that 20,000 signatures have been attached to the National Guards petition for an extension of the electoral suffrage.
The conductor of the National has been summoned to ajapear before the Tribunal of Correctional Police, at the instance of the two sons of CASIMIR PEKIER, who complain that their father's memory was libelled in a recent article of the National, respecting the affair of' Gisaurr and the musket contract, in which PERIER was undoubtedly implicated. The damages are laid at 100,000 francs (4,000!. sterling). The Na- tional protests against the proceeding, which would forbid journalists and historians to judge the dead. We are familiar with a precedent for such a proceeding in this country, where the Spectator was prose- cuted for alleged disrespect to a dead Duke of Beaerowr ; and we hope that, following out that precedent, our Paris contemporary will succeed, as we did, in defeating the assailant. Unhappily, however, he will he judged by the Police, not by a Jury.
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