The policy and prospects of Louis PHILIP'S new Ministry con-
tinue to supply the French journalists with ample matter for discussion. The general impression seems to be that it cannot stand. Internal dissensions, it is said, will hasten its downfal. The Paris correspondent of the Times says— "Messrs. Mole and Guizot have already had together several contentions about the Presidency of the Council. The former, however, will not consent to be the mere titular of that office; and proved his determination to maintain his preponderance in the case of General Bernard, whom he caused to be in- vested with the War Department, in opposition to M. Guizot, who proposed General Schramm as his candidate for that post. The Doctrinaires keep M. Mold in utter ignorance of their plans and intrigues, and act as if they were in the exclusive possession of the Government. They feel, however, that it will be impossible for them to maintain their ground before the Chambers without the assistance of M. Thiers ; and they have accordingly attempted to bring about a rapprochement between him and M. Guizot, which the former posi- tively declines. M. Mole finds himself in a shnilar predicament, and now regrets that he did not enter the Cabinet with M. Thiers. It may conse- quently be anticipated, that, at no very distant period, the intrigues of both parties to insure the powerful accession of the late President of the Council will occasion a new dissolution of the Cabinet. The King has a personal aver- sion to M. Guizot, whom he only accepted as a weessite, and will cast him off the moment he perceives a chance of forming an Administration more congenial to his sympathies aud views. So that, ere the session commences, it is not unlikely that Messrs. Mole and Thiers will be called upon to organize a new Ministry." On the other hand, GUIZOT has declared that nothing but the refusal of the Chamber to grant the supplies shall turn him out of office ; and we perceive that an intelligent Paris correspondent of the Courier thinks that to this extremity the Chambers will not proceed- " Their stability seems to me to be very doubtful; they have, as all know, many enemies both in the Chamber and the country. The first acts of the Chamber will, I doubt not, be hostile to them ; but they will seem not to un- derstand it unless thev are refused the necessary supplie., which will not, I think, be the case. It' they succeed in weathering the first storm, they will come forward with Liberal measures, the conversion of the R .ntes for instance, and others of a similar character, to which the Chambers have already declared themselves favourable. This conduct, joined to an indisposition on the part of the National Representatives to unsettle the Government again, may perhaps enable the Ministers to keep their places. If the Chamber prove violently hostile, a dissolution will not take place. M. Guizot will, I have reason to be- lieve, in that event retire honourably from office, as he did before." The same temperate and dispassionate writer seems to think, that whatever changes of Ministry may take place, the throne of Louis PHILIP is safe. The reasons he gives for this opinion aro worthy the attention of Englishmea. After admitting that, since the Republican party have ceased to make war openly against tbs Government, there has been to a considerable extent a reunion of the middle classes with the Republicans, and that if there were any great popular grievance to lay hold of, that reunion would be very dangerous, he observes- ." Fortunately for the peace and repose of France, there exist no grievances of this sort. There is not, perhaps, a country in the world more exempt from them: and this explains why, with a press opposed to the Government, and two powerful parties labouring ring to effect its overthrow, it has hitherto withstood all their efforts. What grievances can be pointed out in France? An aristo- cracy pulling against the people, and insulting by their discourses and actions, portion of the empire ?— There is nothing of the sort. The French people, who are accused of being supine, have handled that class so roughly, and after such a truly Radical fashion, that you would hardly find a Frenchman to- day willing to avow himself in public one of the aristocracy. Call a French. man an aristocrat, and his answer will be a blow ; it is the greatest insult you could possibly offer him. There are other respects in which the superiority of the people of this country over the English is painfully manifest. I need but allude to the Church, to establish this proposition. When I compare the hum- ble cure, passing rich with forty pounds a year,' the servant, or rather the slave of his Rock, to the well.fed apostle of the Irish Church Militant, who inculcates the truths of Protestantism at the point of the sword, and wrests from a starving peasantry their wretched pittance by way of convincing them of the truth of his arguments,—when I compare these, my feelings are those of shame, that I belong to a country in which there are persons found to advocate such a state of things."
This is all very true, and the Orleans dynasty may nevertheless be far from secure. It was not any " material " grievance—no unwonted influx of distress—which stimulated the men of the Barricades. It was political tyranny of the same description as that which, if Gut ZOT does not advocate, Louis PHILIP enforces.
There is a rumour that the Duke of ORLEANS iS to be made Commander-in-Chief, with the same powers that the Duke of Amooueesse held with the same title. The King, Queen, and the young branches of the Royal Family,left Neuilly for the camp of Compiegne on Tuesday, and were expected to remain there till to-morrow.
The unlucky discovery in Switzerland, of the spy CONSEIL, is likely to give further annoyance. The requisite number of Can- tons have authorized the Directory to make a formal communica- tion to the French Government of all the facts connected with the discovery of Commit.; and in language, too, highly offensive to the Duke DE MONTEBELLO, who is directly charged with falsi- fying passports—an infamous crime in the French code. From the tone of GUIZOT'S paper, La Paix, the Ministers would seem much enraged at the insolence of the Swiss Republicans : they are threatened with the vengeance of France, to be exhibited in "hermetically blockading" Switzerland in conjunction with Austria. The less that is said in France about this affair, the better : it is in every point of view disgraceful to her Govern- ment,-.-detected in treacherously plotting against a friendly power, and now seeking to bully her. It is said that the Duke DE Mon- SMELL° had received instructions to quit Switzerland within twenty-four hours after the adoption of the report on CONSEIL by a majority of the Cantons, and that the Ministers of Russia, Prussia, and Austria, would follow his example. No account of the departure of any of them had been received in Paris on Wed- nesday; but it was expected. There have been rumours of a Diplomatic Congress in Paris, to consider the state of Europe with a view to the repression of the revolutionary mania, which was said to have manifested itself in Italy as well as in the Peninsula. The Despots appear to have plenty of work on hand.
