FRANCE. [From the Melbourne Argus, March 25.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 805, 20 April 1853, Page 3

FRANCE. [From the Melbourne Argus, March 25.]

Prince Napoleon, son of Jerome, ex-king of Westphalia, who, it is now pretty certain, will have the place and title of Lieutenant of the Emperor in Algeria, is already occupied in forming the personnel of the administration. The Moniteur has officially announced that there is a deficit of 40,000,000 francs in the budget of the year 1852. The French papers are foil of particulars of the Emperor's arrival and reception atCreil and Compeigne. The yellow fever has broke out on board her Majesty's ship Dauntless, at Barbadoes, and nine officers and twenty-six seamen and marines have died. The King of Spain recently lost the star of the order of Charles 111., which is set in diamonds, and of the value of 3,000,000 reals (£750,000.) Tt was picked up by a poor man named Caballer, who restored it to his Majesty and was liberally rewarded. The Orleans Family: Sale of their Property — The forests of Breteuil, belonging to the successors of King Louis Philippe, have been sold in Paris for 3,810,000 francs. The i fine forest and estate of St. Dizier have been also adjudicated to a wealthy capitalist of Rheims. The domains of Arc and ChateauI villan, the property of Prince de Joinville, and that of Randan, bequeathed by Princess Adelaide to the Duke of Montpensier, will shortly be disposed of. A company of proprietors, ! wood merchants, and sportsmen are now in treaty for the first ; and a foreigner who possesses a large fortune in France, has made offers for the second. Thus will the Orleans family have executed the decree of the 22nd January, which obliged them to sell all their property in the course of a year, without even awaiting the expiration of the delay.