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Frercz.—Towards the end of last week, the rumours which have late- ly been prevalent of a Ministerial crisis gained greater consistency. The journals in the interest of the Elyse() every day made bolder attacks on the law of May 31, which disfranchised three millions of voters ; and the organs of the Parliamentary majority, and of the Ministry, grew fiercer but less confident in its defence. It became at last notorious that the President had repented of the consent which he gave to that law, and had come to see that the terms offered him for that consent—the support of the Monarchists to the prolongation of his power—were insincere. He had therefore determined to insist that his Ministers should consent to the abrogation or modification of that law, or break with him altogether. Dr. Toro; in the Constitutionnel, reports a conference between the President and M. Leon Faucher, the ablest and most obstinate champion of the law of May ; in the course of which Louis Napoleon used these words—
"It is not for me a question of eventualities more or less favourable, but a question of principles. There exist only two principles, that of inheritance and that of the national sovereignty. No good whatsoever can ever be done
with a quitsi:ligitimacy: I do not understand how GO many distinguiahed statesmen could entertain a contrary hope under Louis Philippe. My power having issued without restriction from the national will, is a true legiti- maCy ; and I cannot consent to become the younger branch of universal suf- frage."
Meanwhile, M. Girardin in La Presse was daily using all the power of his vigorous pea on the side of the President, and was daily making new converts against the law : one of his articles concluded with the brief as- sertion, that if the law be not " repealed"—not modified merely—the only alternative is ," civil war." The first stage of the crisis was com- plete on .Inesday : after a Cabinet Council on that day, the whole of.the Ministry resigned. The Moniteur of Wednesday announced that the President had accepted all the resignations, including that of the Prefect of Police, M. Carlier. The resignation of M. Carlier had been thought doubtful; the quondam Orleanist being attached to office, and a skilful watcher of the times. It is now thought significant that he is ready to leave the President's camp and join that of Changarnier.
. Speculation as to the succeeding Ministry is very vague. De Lamar- tine is prominently mentioned ; Girardin is frequently at the Elysee as ' an adviser, but most people scarcely believe as a probable Minister ; and M. Billault is said to have been "sent for." M. Persigny is also spoken of. The leadingqinines of no party are yet mentioned. The present Ministers remaiir in office ad interim; and it is not likely that the President will hurry himself in his selection of their successors; as he has to deliver his message to the Assembly in the next ten or twelve days, and he will prefer to mature that document before determining ultimately on his Ministry. The Constitutionnel of Thursday was "au- thorized to give the following intimation" respecting the message- " First, the President will lay down in -very distinct terms the complete abrogation of the law of May 31. Secondly, he will express with equal firm- ness his irrevocable resolution to maintain the policy of order, conservation, and authority, inaugurated the 10th December, and to make no concession to anarchical ideas, under whatever flag or name they shelter themselves."
The Committee of Permanence held an extraordinary meeting on Wed- nesday ; and, after receiving explanations from M. Leon Faucher, unani- mously rejected a motion to anticipate the day at present fixed for the reopening of the Assembly.
Graimiorr.—Early in the week, a private letter from Frankfurt, re- ceived by the Paris correspondent of the Times, stated that Count Thun, the President of the Diet, had brought under the notice of that body Loid Palmerston's note calling attention to Mr. Gladstone's pamphlet on the prisons of Naples, and inviting the organ of the Confederation to take steps which might induce the Neapolitan Government to renounce its present policy ; that Count Thun had moved a resolution in the Diet, expressing to Lord Cowley, the British Ambassador at Frankfort, the astonishment of the Diet that such a communication should have been made to it ; and that the Diet had unanimously adopted that resolution. These reports have not been confirmed through any more immediate channel, but the London Globe has assumed them to be true, in an article of severe comment on them; and the Frankfort Journal corroborates them by stating that Russia has replied to Lord Palmerston's note, in a tone and style similar to that held by the Germanic Diet. The Diet has resolved that the annexation of the Prussian Polish pro- vinces to the Confederation, some two years since, was illegal and void. This resolution has been procured by Prussia herself; and it will strengthen the Prussian case against the admission of the non-German lands of Austria. into the Confederation.
The Diet has also laid its Di.nd on the internal affairs of Hanover, and determined to "take into V,sideration" the claims of the Ritter party to have the abolition of tl r nobility privileges revoked. This abolition was effected during tl into revolutionary times, but it was done in a perfectly legal manner, with the consent of all the branches of the Legis- lature.
HANOVER.—The Hanover Gazette of the 11th instant contains the fol- lowing bulletin of the King's health-
" The King was obliged to keep his bed for some days towards the end of last month, in consequence of a severe cold ; but for some days he has been so convalescent that the doctors entertain good hopes of his recovery. Yes- terday his Majesty rose from his bed for a part of the day, has passed a good night, and his strength is evidently increased."
Ausvrie.—If any Ministerial crisis was the cause of the Emperor's sudden retreat from Lombardy, that crisis was considered to have passed away on the 11th ; when the whole of the Ministers took the oath to the Emperor, under the new definition of their duties and responsibilities to himself only as their absolute monarch, promulgated in the late decrees. The recent visit to Lombardy has been followed by an act—somewhat meagre—of Imperial grace : the Milan Gazette of the 8th instant an- nounced, that " all persons undergoing punishment for political transgres- sions of minor importance, owing to the state of siege, shall receive a free pardon, provided their punishments do not exceed a year of simple mili- tary arrest." The Emperor set out from Vienna on the 11th, for Cracow ; and tele- graphic despatches since received communicate his safe arrival amidst enthusiastic demonstrations."
INDIA.—The overland mail from Bombay, of the 17th September, ar- rived at Trieste on the 13th instant ; and a brief note of the chief items of news is sent forward by the electric telegraph. The frontier was un- disturbed. The troops in the Punjaub were suffering to an " unpre- cedented extent " from fever. A fanatic outbreak in Malabar had caused a great loss of life. The death of the Khan of Herat had set Persia and Dost Mohammed Khan in active motion. " Dost Mohammed was in- triguing for the possession of Kandahar; but Persian troops had already occupied Herat.'
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