The French elections commenced on Tuesday. We described them last
week as already commenced ; , a proof, as a Brighton contemporary pleasantly remarks, of our early intelligence. The Republicans are straining every nerve, and so are the Ministers. The hater, having given up the peerage question, will, it is supposed, have a decided majority ; but in the system by ballot, it is, of course, by no means easy to tell before the event what may be its complexion.
The celebration of the approaching anniversary of' the " Fight of the Three Days" causes, as may be supposed, no small excitement among the old women of the French capital, and their reflectors, the correspondents of the English newspapers. • Louis PHILIP has, it is said, ordered thirty thousand troops to march on Paris ; for what purpose, the authors of the rumour would be puzzled to explain. Were lie so foolish as to meditate any design against freedom, he need not assemble so many bayonets to defeat it.
The journey of the Duchess de BERRI still remains a subject for ingenious speculation to work upon. Her attendants are described by eye-witnesses as few and unwarlilie. The Parisians laugh at the whole story. Medals struck in honour of the little boy, have been seen in England ; and our -Post is in raptures at the prospect of his restoration,-or rather, the advertising friends of the Post are, for we cannot suppose our contemporary cares the price of a medal about him. One thing is evident -if Mr. Roniscnii.n did pay the Duchess's expenses, in consideration of the fall of French Threes to which it would lead, he must have sold pretty largely to
clear himself.
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