The Opposition papers of Paris have not intermitted nor mitigated
their hostility to the Ministry of Prince Polignac, but there is little novelty in their bitterness. The Duke de Laval Montmorency has been appointed Ambassador to the British Court; and Viscount de Marcellus has been made Under Secretary of State for Foreign. Affairs. Both appointments are received by the Parisians as fresh in- dications of the influence of the English. The progress of the Rus- sians will perhaps soften them down ; or, if the change of Ministry was made with a view to oppose the Czar, it must now be evident that it has not succeeded. A new theory of the change has been started: the Emperor of Austria was, it is said, alarmed at the progress of liberal opinions among the subjects of Charles the Tenth, and threatened, that if Charles did- not exert himself to restiain them, young Napoleon would be let loose to assert his rights to the empire, with Maria Louisa as his guide! It would be a singular sample of his own opinions, were the Emperor of Austria to give his countenance to a plan which would place the on of an usurper on the throne of the Bourbons. Of the permanence of Prince Polignac's power, we can hardly hazard a con- jecture. His enemies are numerous, strong, and active - and his friends are few, feeble, and slothful. The countenance of the King is, however, a tower of strength; and he probably will not be deceived in so estimating it.
