The Demetian Mirror

(From the Times.) The Paris papers of Saturday have reached us by express. They continue to be occupied almost ex- clusively with the affairs of the east, the treaty of the 15th of July, and the probabilities which they pre- tended to perceive of a general war; but the tone of the greater number of them has become much modi- fied. The very distinguished reception" which the letters from London of Thursday stated had been accorded to M. GUIZOT at Windsor had also, at the commencement of business on the Bourse, a favor- able effect; but it will be seen that towards the con- clusion of business a reaction took place, and prices fell below those of the preceding day. Our private letters stated that the departure of Prince METTERNICH from Koenigswirth for Dresden before the arrival of Count ST. AULAIRE had occasioned some apprehension that it was with the intention to avoid the interview the latter sought with him but that that circumstance was accounted for by the pressing invitation of the King of PRUSSIA to the Prince to meet him at Dres- den, and that the Prince left that city on the 15th, for Koenigswirth, where he would meet not only Count ST. AULAIRE but also Lord BEAUVALE and Prince ALTIERI. The German papers state that before the departure of Prince METTERNICH for Dresden the Prussian Ge- nerals GROLLMANN and DUMOULIN, the Ambassador LIEBERMANN, the Saxon Minister, Count DENOSTITZ, Countess NESSELRODE, and Count CHOTEK, visited him at the castle of Koenigswirth. In the mean while preparations for war are stated by the French journals to be pushed with activity. The Constitutionnel, in adverting to the possibility that France might be engaged in hostilities, states that she has at her disposal a million of soldiers- that is, in addition to the standing army of 350,000 men, "a reserve of 700,000 men who had served since 1830, and who are still susceptible of being called into service." A Lyons paper states, that 400 seamen (from the Merchant service) had been or- dered to join the Royal navy (at Toulon). The provincial journals, particularly those on the north eastern frontier of France, had caught the tone of their Paris brethren, and were preaching war in the most inflammatory language. Among other very sage cautions they give the people is one which unfortunately the Government would not counte- nance_namely, that instead of vesting their money in the savings banks, they purchase muskets with it. The Administration of the Marine in Bordeaux had ordered the enlistment of a number of anchor- smiths now wanted in the harbour of Rochefort. In Havre, a number of operatives of every description, required by the navy department, were to have em- barked for Brest on Saturday. On the whole, we nevertheless repeat, appearances were on Saturday deemed more favorable for the continuance of peace than on any day of the last week. We have a long communication on the subject of Louis NAPOLEON, but for which we have not room to-day. The Government was using all possible exertions to bring him to trial in the course of the month of October. The Courrier Francaise publishes a letter from M. CROUY CHANELEL, contradicting the assertion that he had received 250,000f. from Louis BONAPARTE, but in such an indefinite manner, that the journalist asserts that it amounts to an admission that his hands are not perfectly clean. The Temps announces, that la Belle Poule and la Favorite arrived at Madeira on the 24th ult., and left for St. Helena on the 26th. The Duke of ORLEANS had returned to Paris from the Chateau d'Eu. The Paris corn-market declined considerably on Friday, in consequence of the favourable reports of the harvest received from the provinces.

LOUIS PHILIPPE AND ROMEO COATES. Louis PHILIPPE has gone to Boulogne, to visit the scene of Monsieur le Maire's triumph. Louis PHILIPPE in this has shown himself the clever fellow that we always took him for. He proves to the French that their shooting at him once a month has not made him afraid of them yet, and that he is still too strong for Jacobins, Revolutionists, and the bones of BONAPARTE. All this is prodigiously unlike one of the "grande nationbut Louis PHILIPPE was half- a-dozen years in England—he learned common sense among us—and the lessons which he got in Twickenham have made him fit to master the Tuilleries. His late little expedition to Boulogne was a gallant affair. Setting off at night from his chateau at Havre, he faced the tempest up Channel' However, he must have learned that French captains are not the happiest of all navigators; when he found that his steam-packet could not get into Boulogne, where the little English packet ran every day. He must also have learned the additional lesson of the nature of French pier-building, by seeing the whole of the new pier at Calais demolished by a single brush of the Veloce's keel; and his experience not being yet complete, we presume that he must have been charmed with a sense of the national naval tactics, when he found his ship run upon the sands, with her broadside to the surge, and the MAJESTY of France glad to escape how he might from the government vessel. We should have been very apt, in such a succession of blunders, to have cashiered the captain, sent the pilot on board a man-of-war, and apprenticed the crews to the first English collier that would teach them their business. Still, all this was no fault of Louis PHILIPPE. He made his way to the field of glory" at last, made some very suitable speeches to the troops, the National Guards, and the people, and went off, after pleasing every body. All this is of a different order from poor Lord MELBOURNE'S tours of state-his precipitate drives from Buckin- gham Palace to Windsor, and from Windsor to Buckingham Palace again, exactly in time for din- ner. In one picture we see a clever, strong-minded, and active man, always ready to fly to the spot where his presence is required, and always leaving an im- pression of his intelligence and manliness behind him in the other, only the dandy of sixty, yawning through public business, and alive only among a circle of foolish and gossiping females, as foolish and gossiping as any of them all, devoured with ennui wherever he is, and even at the royal table reduced to the last extremity of a worn out anecdote mon- ger. But another figure has turned up. Circumstances show men. We had thought that ROMEO COATES was dead and buried ten years ago; but that illustrious individual was only hiding his beams, and he has started into light in Boulogne. His apartments in the Hotel du Nord were loyally lent by him to the Kirg, and he received the monarch on the stairs with a confusion of French, and an eloquence of alarm, which must have nearly overthrown Louis .PHILIPPE'S centre of gravity. However, if the lan- guage was bad grammar, the sentiment was good sense. Its translation being Long live the King! No war with England." We do not venture to give the French in which this was spoken, but it was pro- bably as classic as any LORD PALMERSTON is capa- ble of speaking, and the sentiment is fifty-fold more rational than any that he has ever spoken on the subject. We think that ROMEO would be a happy substitute in the Foreign Affairs." Britannia. PLEASUSES OF WAR.-The moment for arousing at the bivouac is never amusing. You have slept because you were fatigued; but when you rise, your limbs feel stiff; your mustaches, like tufts of clover, are impearled, every hair of them, with dew drops; the teeth are clenched, and you must rub the gums for a considerable time to restore the circulation. These little inconveniences are continually happening even when the weather is fine, but when it is rainy or cold, the situation is a great deal worse, and hence it is that heroes have the gout and rheumatism.— Lights and shades of Military life. It was considered a fair ground of reproach among the Romans when he could not swim. "He can neither read nor swim was the expression used to signify one thoroughly ignorant." STATE OF TRADE AT BIRMINGHAM.—We are happy to hear, on pretty good authority, that some of the merchants have more orders, and things are in some degree looking up, though as yet but very little.- Birmingham Advertiser. In the Irish Gardeners' Magazine it is stated that not only decoction of the leaves of the Camomile will destroy insects, but that nothing contributes so much to the health of a garden as a number of camomile plants dispersed through it. DR. SOUTHEY We regret to learn, that the deli- cate health of the Poet Laureate has obliged him, for the present, to abstain from all literary labour.- Salopian Journal.