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We are by no means certain that we should he

justified in deducing from the language of the Gazette de France that Prince POLIGNAC will

have recourse to any violent measures even to preserve his Ministry.

The Gazette says, that if the Chambers will not support the Prince, he Will appeal to the electoral colleges. There is nothing wrong nor un-

tOnstitutional in such a process. It has always been acted on here, when it could be successfully ; and from the peculiarities of our system of election, it is almost necessarily successful. But in France, rotten boroughs are unknown; family influence is almost a nonentity ; the Minister must be popular if he look for a majority ; and what reason

is there to suppose, that a Minister who is unpopular with the present Chamber, decidedly the most freely chosen that ever met in France,will rewire support from their constituents ? But the Gazette argues, that it was chosen during a panic arising out of the exaggerated reports of VILLELE'S intentions. Granted—but has the panic ceased? We say nothing of its justice or reasonableness, but is there a whit less dread of Prince POLIGNAC'S intentions than there was of M. de VILLELE'S ? Would not a dissolution of the Chambers confirm them? As to anarchy and disorganization, what motive has any leading man in France to wish for either ? There is no head under which rebellion, were it attempted, could rally. The race who grew up during the Imperial reign, are fast receding from the scene ; those who were nurtured in the Revolution have mostly departed. France is now filled with men who wish for the honest and impartial administration of the laws, and for nothing more, and who are not prepared to accept of any thing less. But, as we said, we do not trust to the representations of the Gazette. The experience we have of our own journals, and of the value of their assertions, forbids us to suppose that its clamour is more than the straw thrown up to see how blows the said—the outbreaking of zeal, wh:ch, though of the same kind, is by no means to be regarded as existing in the same degree as that of its patrons. We think Prince POLIGNAC will face the Chambers fairly; that if the Opposition may be soothed or subdued, he will do the one or the other ; and if not, ere long, he will either modify his Ministry, or retire altogether. If he do otherwise, we rather think he will but pull an old house on his head. The Journal des Debats contained last week the report for 1828 on the Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence of France, which the Keeper of the Seals has just submitted to the King. From this report, it appears, among other matters, that the crimes of the press and of the book- trade amounted in that year, in Paris and its departments, to 162. Of these cases, 116 were tried. There were 90 convictions ; 28 were fined, 62 fined and imprisoned. It is stated in the. Morning Chronicle, that Lord STUART DE kornsalr, the British Ambassador at Paris, has dismissed from his establishment every individual implicated in the most remote degree Vail the late smuggling transaction.