Letters from Paris, received this day by express, state that
the unpopularity of Louis PHILIP is gaining ground rapidly. His love of money and the reported misappropriations of the Civil List had become disgustingly notorious. As if to show how mean a sovereign pos
• sessed of such enormous wealth can be, he has recently sold the château in which his mother died, to a speculator, for only 8,000/. DECAZES has positively refused to join the Ministry, if the King does not relinquish the Presidency ; and in order to make himself popular, has stipulated that the plan of the intended fortifications of Paris shall be abandoned; it having been proved that they were devised, not for the purpose of protecting Paris against foreigners, but for keeping down -the inhabitants.