14 APRIL 1838, Page 1

There is both variety and interest in the foreign intelligence

this week.

The French Ministers have defeated the united opposition of GUIZOT, THIERS, BARROT, LAFFITTE, and BERRYKR. on the ques- tion of an additional grant of four millions of franca for the War Department. The amount of the vote was a secondary considera- tion. The motion derived interest from the circumstance of Count MOLE having staked his Ministerial existence upon it. The Committee, to whom the subject was referred, reported against the grant; and every person of eminence in the Chamber, without exception, took the same side; but when the question was put by ballot, the numbers were—for the grant 221, against it 177, majority 4.1. Count Mout therefore has a majority over the coalesced Opposition—Doctrinaire, Tiers Peril, Liberal, and Carlist. This is considered a decisive vote. There are 70 or 80 members of the Chamber, who, like some Whig-Radicals, talk of patriotism and independence, and frequently boast them in the vein of Pistol, but who slink away into the majority of the Court and the Ministry when their votes are really wanted. Louts PHILIP himself is known to be the real and active agent in de- feating the Opposition. He has a subservient Ministry; and is zittte resolved to show the great orators of the Chamber t App,;atlf, not necessary to him, as they had vainly hoped. t t i . 'Sante time, we can easily credit the assertion of the Pariii'i Oiliondent of the Times, that many people of foresight vievOlitis extreme uneasiness the struggle %%Inch is going on betvrsen the King's personal system and the Parliamentary prerogative: they believe that it exposes the monarchy itself to the greatest peril. _.

Reinforcements to the French troops in Africa are continually sent from Toulon.