The French journals supply this week but few points for
chronicle or discussion. The Chambers have been occupied in examining and voting the law respecting the National Guard. The law of election has not yet been returned from the bureaux, in which all projets receive a preliminary examination. There seem doubts of its passing, small as is the extension of the franchise that it offers. The number of electors under the new law will only amount to about 300,000,—which, in a population of thirty millions, can hardly be looked on as very dangerous even. bythose who consider every extension of popular rights as hazardous The newspapers of the week have talked a great deal about the electoral sense: whether this be the sense of the translators at the London Post-office, we know not—it seems very much like nonsense ; but we suppose the electoral census is meant. LAFAYETTE has addressed a long letter to the National Guard, in which he goes over nearly the same ground that he did in his speech in the Chambers on Monday last week. The Artillery of the National Guard, whose loyalty was suspected, and which had been broken up in consequence, is reorganizing.
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