17 SEPTEMBER 1836, Page 1

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

THE new French Ministry seems to be composed of rather dis- cordant materials. MOLE and GUIZOT have not been a fortnight in office together, and yet it is discovered that they " pull different Whys." GUIZOT is accused of being too grasping. We have no doubt that he is resolved to be second only to the King. In mental energy and oratorical power, he is incomparably first in the Cabinet ; and to suppose that he would take orders from the feeble Count MOLE, were an absurdity. It is, however, by no means unlikely that MOLE may feel uncomfortable in his nominal Premiership, and strive to grasp actual authority, which it is understood between Louts PHILIP and GUIZOT that he is not to have. If lie prove restive, the Cabinet must fall to pieces ; and then we shall have another illustration of the difficulty in working Louis PHILIP'S system of government. Men of superior talents, and conscious of possessing them, will not consent to be mere tools in the hands of the King, with the responsibility (which the fate of POLIGNAC proves to be not altogether a farce in France) of an independent Minister; and persons of MOLE'S stamp can- not command the respect due to the Premier's office. Hence must arise frequent ruptures and continual distrust. It is symptomatic of the weakness of the Ministry, that men to whom power must be gratifying and profitable refuse to join it. Thus, Soma. has positively declined the War Department; which was offered successively, but in vain, to Marshal MOLITOR, Ge- neral Done DE LA BRUNERIE, and M. DE CAUX—the two latter very unimportant personages. M. MARTIN du Nord refused the Ministry of Commerce, but accepted that of Public Works. MARTIN du Nord is a lawyer ; and his selection for his present office proves that the sphere of Ministerial supporters must be circumscribed. Who would think of making Sir JoHts CAMP- BELL Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests ? The Prefec- ture of Police has been accepted by M. GABRIEL DELESSERT. The policy of the French King is as crooked as ever. He has resolved to send an Ambassador to Madrid, thereby recognizing the Spanish Constitution of 1812, and General GUILLEMINOT is said to have received the appointment; but at the same time, it is avowed that the Army of Cooperation is to be disbanded, and that of Observation increased. Why is cooperation refused ? The Quadruple Treaty authorizes it; and the British armament under Lord JOHN HAY gives active assistance, whenever a naval force can be of use, to the Queen's troops. The Journal des Debate is very angry at the inferences drawn by the Morning Chronicle from the dismissal of THIERS, and the disbanding of the Army of Cooperation ; and asserts that it is absurd to suppose that Louts Prime wishes to shirk his share of the Quadruple Treaty, or to eonnect himself more closely with the Northern despots. The De- bate, however, dares not speak out, and avoids, in common with the rest of the gagged press of Paris, any explanation of the cause of THIERS' dismissal. The reply of the Morning Chronicle to the .bats is crushing and conclusive- firtanca prepares an army—it is raised and ready on the very brow of the Pyrenees; the Spanish Government provides the necessary funds ; a French General is appointed, and accepts the command. An order—a word—is want- ing to allow this army to fall upon Don Carlos, and in conjunction with the British Legion, drive him from Navarre. At this critical moment, when the expedition is prepared, expectation raised throughout Western Europe, and when hope is at the highest in Madrid, the Minister finds himself suddenly checked ; he is informed que le Rol s'avisera ; the despatch which he had sent to Pau—the Dads knows the fact—is countermanded by an uncommunicated telegraph from his Sovereign. Mark—at this moment the Queen was in full possession, according to the strictest interpretation, of her prerogative • and we doubt not but that the entrance of the French army into Navarre would have kept her so. But no, this must not be. With some one it was an object that Dun Carlos should not be crushed : this some one steps in, and the cause of time Queen is put in the most iinmineut peril. So we read it—so we persist in reading it ; and the article of the Debuts, so much less remarkable for what it says than for what it leaves unsaid, but confirms our conviction."

The Chronicle also cuts the noble and intriguing editor of the Doctrinaire organ very severely in the follewing passage—

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" What dues the .19arnal des Dawls mean when it unblushingly talks of public liberty acquired by the Revolution of July, and intrusted to the King's keeping?' The extent of that liberty we can well appreciate, from a glance at the Paris journals Mine us, the Debuts included. Not one of them dares to state the well-known cause of Thiers' dismissal. No ! Persil and his infamous laws of September are bethre them. The Courrier Francais avows it must hold its tongue; and the Natioua/ with its boldness must be content with the bitter irony, that the opinions of the English press are so just that they must not dare to publish them ! ' In tha very at tick in the Journal des D,'1,ais upon which we are commenting, it dares not enter upon the only point at issue of the slightest consideration—by whom and why was cooperation refused ?"

It is in vain for the partisans of the French Ministry or the' tools of the King to attempt to disguise the duplicity which recent events have thoroughly exposed. Nobody puts faith in Louis PHILIP. He degrades and disgraces the gallant people over whom he reigns, by fraud and shuffling ; and instead of being the arbiter of the Continent, which he might be if lie sought and won the respect and affections of his subjects, he is for ever on the watch to elude difficulties, and sneak out of a dilemma, satisfied with the reputation of being a sly fellow.

Arrests still continue in Paris ; but many prisoners have been released, without examination. The chief cause of alarm is the jealousy with which the soldiery are watched by their officers to prevent attempts to tamper with them. There is an evident sus- picion that they are ready to join in a revolt.

The King of Bavaria and King OTHO of Greece are expectedi Paris; the latter, it is said, has a matrimonial speculation in view. The reigning Duke of Brunswick is also supposed to be anxhlus to marry one of the Princesses of Orleans. No doubt, two or three millions of francs would be acceptable to both the fortune- hunters. THIERS and his lady have taken their departure for Italy.