France. (From the Sunday Times, June 4.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 250, 21 October 1848, Page 3

France. (From the Sunday Times, June 4.

Paris was on Saturday evening troubled with the aipect of preparation against some movement, the nature ot which was matter of vague but anxious guesswork. The troops we.c nil under aims, the National Assembly vta< guarded with horse, foot, and artillery. The Hotel de Ville w*s likewise protected : so was the Prefecture of Police; and towaids beven o'cl ck the rappel v.-ai beaten for the Ist Legion of National Guards to turn out. It was said Unit the workmen employed in the national ateliers had revolted, and were about to make a manilCitatii n. In the As*embiy M. Leon Fauener grounded a motion for the application of \Q, 000,00') francs to useful tai.w tys woiks, on the assumption that the ateliers were hot-beds of idleness and ssdtthm, and thit it would be do ng a public service to have the men scattered and <et to useful laboui. Ihe peisuns who have poured in from the country find it pleasanter to soend the day chatting and amusing their imagination wi'h pic ures ol turbulence and new revolutions th m to ut irn to field labour, tor which there is. unfortunately, very htile ta^iein Fiance. It is a well-known fact tint wlnld the towns are gorged with workmen, and every husiuets over sucked, the udi land in ihe neighbour'

hood is famishing for want of hands, so much so that the surplus lfUxrar of the town ha» to be tempted away by extravagant payments, waves lor agiictiliural labourers beiug in some places as high as four francs a day. The celebrated Fi^..'' 1 " historian Mienet, for having given his opinion in favour of Lombardy accepting Charles Albert, in a letter toafii^nd in Traly, published in an Italian journal, has been dismissed fiom his office of Keeper of the Archives of the Foreign Office. The republic does indeed respect liberty of opinion, nest cepas ! The apartments preparing at the Luxembourg for the rpception of their Excellencies the member* of the Executive Committee, and the Secretary-Oeneral, will soon be leady.