The French Ministry, though triumphant upon great questions, have experienced
defeats in the Chamber of Deputies on matters of less importance. A proposition to grant a pension to the widow of General DAUMESNIL, who commanded the garrison of the castle of Vincennes at the two Restorations, was rejected upon the trial by ballot, although it had been previously agreed to when the vote was taken openly. The King has since promised to pay the pension out of the Civil List. The Chamber also refused to vote eighteen millions of francs (about 720,0001.) for completing the connexion between the Louvre and the Tuileries by a gallery, to which it is intended to remove the Royal Library from the Rue Richelieu, where it is at present deposited. The reason for the rejection of this last vote is stated to be the suspicion, that the King, who would have the disposal of the money, would appropriate part of it to his own private purposes,—in other words, that he would swindle the nation out of it; a suspicion highly creditable, certainly, to Louis PHILIP! This last defeat was sustained by the French Ministers on the same day that our Ministry was outvoted in the House of Lords, and the majority against them was the same-12. SAVARY, Duke of Rovigo, and late Governor of Algiers, died in Paris on Saturday last, of a cancer in the throat.
